Give Me Your Love

Comparison pt. 2

I snort slightly and continue drinking in silence

Anthony: Are you okay?
Grace: Let me guess, you're drunk and you don't know what's going on
Anthony: That's right!
Grace: Don't scream
Anthony: Sorry... That guy who called you, telling you that bullshit, did he bother you?
Grace: Yeah, I almost beat him up
Anthony: Great
Grace: I have one thing to ask you
Anthony: I'm listening
Grace: That guy said you like me
Anthony: He pointed wrongly
Grace: Top
Anthony: Why?
Grace: That would be weird for you, I mean, you hate me
Anthony: Who said that
Grace: No one, but in these three years you've made me understand
Anthony: I don't hate you
Grace: Yes of course, and I'm Winnie the Pooh
Anthony: Seriously, I don't hate you

I turn to him and sit down with my back against the rock, then I continue drinking the beer

Anthony: I was a piece of shit treating you badly in front of everyone, and your family will have the reason to hate me, but now I'm realizing what you've been through because of me
Grace: Who did you bet on to talk to me?
Anthony: Again?! No one knows that we're talking

He said we're talking, why do I feel shivers all over my body?

Grace: Continue
Anthony: You probably won't believe me, and you have your reasons, but this year I swear I don't intend to make you live through hell.  And if Alex were to dare to do it, I'll ruin it
Grace: the first day of school I made a mistake or for a moment you defended me from your friend
Anthony: it seems strange but yes
Grace: then the only thing I can say to you is thank you
Anthony: can I have some beer?
Grace: You're drunk
Anthony: You're not, so let me finish it, so you can stay clear
Grace: But people will think you're an alcoholic
Anthony: And you're a snob who hates alcohol
Grace: I don't follow you
Anthony: I'll look like a fool, not you

I look at the beer and take a big sip, I pass him the bottle and he finishes it, he passes it to me and I throw it into the sea

Anthony: What a throw
Grace: Thanks
Anthony: I have bad aim
Grace: What a piece of shit

I get a call from my phone and I see it's my brother

Grace: Tell me everything
Theo: James, Anastasia and I are already in the car, we're waiting for you
Grace: Do we have to go home?
Theo: Yes, I have to take James home
Grace: What if I asked you to stay another five minutes instead?
Theo: okay, but hurry up

I end the call and start putting on my shorts and sweatshirt, in the meantime Anthony is confused

Anthony: what happened
Grace: my brother, can I tell you something anyway?
Anthony: let me guess, no one has to know that we talked?
Grace: besides that, sometimes you make fun of me, so that no one understands anything
Anthony: okay boss

We laugh a little and then I put on my backpack holding my shoes by the hand

Grace: who goes down first?
Anthony: you, I have to recover first
Grace: so let's do this, we go down together and you go to your friends
Anthony: sure?
Grace: yes
Anthony: okay

We get up to go down and he does everything by falling, I start laughing and in the meantime I try to catch him, but in the end he comes down

Grace: but how the fuck do you do it
Anthony: I told you to go down first
Grace: you can't stand up
Anthony: that's something

Grace: come on Miller, give me a hand
Anthony: leave me here, I'm sleepy
Grace: but shut up and get up

I help him up and he holds on to me, I take him to his friends and they are amazed

Alex: what did you do to him
Anthony: she didn't do anything, I'm the one who drank so much and ended up like this
Grace: goodnight
Anthony: goodnight

I'm going to go to Theo and then I'll clean my feet quickly

Theo: what were you doing with Anthony
Grace: first of all nothing happened, secondly,  I explain everything in the car

I put my shoes on and get in the front, while James and Anastasia are in the back

Grace: I was basically on top doing my own thing with a bottle of beer and I felt him falling but he ended up getting in, I asked him why he got in and it was because he needed to be alone, he did too, so we stayed silent and I finished my beer
Anastasia: You guys were silent all this time?
Grace: apparently yes
Anastasia: strange
James: anyway they were two beers, I saw you throw them into the sea
Grace: okay
Theo: but it doesn't look like you drank
Grace: I know

We'll take James to his house and then we'll go home, Anastasia and I will shower together and put on our pajamas, tidy up and go to my room to sleep, or at least, we'll try

Anastasia: impossible that you were silent the whole time
Grace: and I can swear to you, if you want on Monday you can approach him aside and ask him
Anastasia: no need, I trust you...