All the couples that Alaia Repond has gotten together have stayed happily together, and at this point, she really should consider matchmaking as a profession. So when her close friend Ollie asks her to set up a friend of his, she's more than happy t...
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Alaia's awfully nervous.
One, she's never been to Argentina before, so she... has really no idea how to get around. Two, this trip was so incredibly spontaneous — she booked the flight literally yesterday, and now she was on a 16 hour flight.
Great. That phrase of people saying love makes you do crazy things really was true.
She fucked up, bad. She should've told him right then and there that she liked him. Because she did know what they were was more than 'just friends'. She regretted it the moment it slipped past her lips.
Don't be scared. You want this, she thinks. When she wants something she needs to go and get it.
She has 16 hours to think about what she's going to say to him when she sees him. Ollie had been kind enough to give her Franco's address — saying that he'd gotten it from Gabriel.
When she lands, she calls an Uber to take her to the hotel that she'd booked. Once again, another spontaneous booking.
This was ridiculous. So incredibly ridiculous, but it felt right for some reason. She has a nice conversation with the Uber driver, who asks what she's here for — visiting a friend, she replies. She leaves out the part where she's actually here to make a grand romantic gesture so her casual hookup will maybe want to turn things into something more.
She takes a shower at the hotel — after all, it was a 16 hour flight. Alaia takes a deep breath as she looks at her reflection in the mirror. Don't fuck this up again, she tells herself.
She pulls a cropped t-shirt over her head, and throws on the first pair of jeans that she takes out from her suitcase before heading out the door.
Alaia calls Ollie as she's on her way there. "Do you think he's home?"
