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Giordana

March 14th- 17th (Melbourne)

I was beyond grateful that Monti and I were now home. Ten days ago, I thought I wouldn't want to leave Thailand, more importantly Bangkok; but as luck would have it, that's what happened. I knew that being home, would bring a lot of questions from my parents, especially regarding Michael. My mum saw the group shot of all of us, at the bar. The night that ruined everything.

"Welcome home girls," my mum said, as we greeted her, outside of Customs
"Hi mum," I gave her a hug
"'sup Mrs A," Monti greeted her, followed by a hug as well
"Monti, how many times have I told you to call me Maria?" My mum laughed

We were now in the car, my parents were driving us to our apartment; and that was when my mum asked me the question I knew was coming, the one I didn't want to answer, "Gia, I saw the photo from your birthday," she said, "you and Michael looked awfully cosy," Monti shot me a look as if to say, are you okay?
"What about it, mum?" I asked
"I also see you have a few new pieces of jewellery,"
"And?" I knew she would ask who got them for me
"Who got it for you?"
"Michael got me the bracelet and ring," I shrugged it off. I needed to get rid of it as soon as I got back to my apartment, put them back in their boxes and get Monti to hide them; just so I would never have to look at them again
"And the necklace?" My dad asked
"Luke,"
"So you two are on good terms now?" He asked
"I'm not really in the mood to talk about them," I said, "I didn't sleep a wink on the plane,"
"We're just interested in how our only daughter's holiday was," mum said, "we didn't hear anything about Bangkok,"
"There's a reason for that," I seethed, "I don't want to talk about it,"

We pulled up in front of the apartment around twenty minutes later. Mum stopped pressing about what happened in Bangkok. I was glad, "I saw your Instagram post from Koh Samui," mum spoke up, once we were all inside. Dad had decided to help himself to a coffee, meaning I would have to say something, as they wouldn't be leaving for at least another half an hour, "what was with the caption?"
"What photo mum?" I asked, "I think I uploaded about twenty from those five days,"
"The first one," she said, "something about drinks and numbers,"
"Song lyrics,"
"From Mikey's band?" Dad asked
"No," I was very dismissive with my answers, "you wouldn't know this band anyways, they're pretty unknown,"
"How do you know the song?" Mum asked
"The lead singer is friends with Luke, Michael, Ash and Calum," mum and dad looked at each other. They were obviously in shock that I'd used Michael's full name. I don't remember the last time I had, when speaking with them
"What happened between you and Mikey?" Mum asked, "you two looked so happy at your birthday,"
"Can you not see that I don't want to talk about it?" I asked, "I never want to hear that ass holes name again!"
"Did you and Luke get back together, and he wasn't happy about it?" Mum questioned, "I always thought you two would,"
"No mum, I would never take back a fucking cheater!" They always had a problem with me swearing, but they were more in shock of my admission, to have a go at me about my use of fowl language
"But you said he didn't cheat, that you two just broke up when they were in Melbourne last,"
"And you think that a break up, would put me in the state I was in last year?" I yelled, "do you really think that a break up would cause me to be so upset?"

No one said anything for a while, so I decided to continue, "if you must know," I continued, "I decided to forgive Luke for what he did, and Michael took it the wrong way,"
"What do you mean?" Mum asked
"Michael accused me of cheating and called me a slut!"
"How could you be cheating if you're not in a relationship?" Dad asked
"How hard is it for you to get it through your head's that Michael and I were together, why do you think I don't want to talk about him?" I was beyond furious with them, this isn't what I wanted to come home to on my first day. I didn't want to tell them what happened; but my anger got the better of me and I let it all out, "Michael asked me out the night before my birthday, and I forgave Luke the next day, and after the concert..." I trailed off, "after the concert, that's when everything happened,"
"That doesn't sound like Michael," mum said, "he wouldn't say that to you, I'm not surprised that you two got together though, but why would he say that to you?"
"Why don't you ask him?" I sighed, "can you guys just finish your coffee and leave?" I asked, "I just wanna be alone right now, and I really don't want to talk about it,"
"But Gia," dad spoke up, "we want to know what's going on, why all this happened, why you didn't tell us the real reason you and Luke broke up,"
"We would have helped you," mum said, "we wouldn't have made you go to Thailand, we wouldn't have gotten you those concert tickets,"
"Because I didn't want you to know. I'm twenty one for fucks sake!"
"I would have said something when I saw Luke at the airport on the airport a couple of days later,"
"No dad," I disagreed completely, "that would have just made everything worse,"
"Maybe he wouldn't have flaunted the new relationship in your face, if I spoke to him,"
"No! Knowing you, you would have caused a scene! And then everything would be made public! And I would have had the prying eyes of the media and the fans, and it would have been ten times worse!"
"There would have had to have been other reasons as to why you didn't tell us, it happened in October," mum said
"The relationship ended in October, two weeks after it happened," I didn't know why I was telling them all of this. It was now just spilling out, like it did when I went total word vomit on Adrian
"Then why didn't you tell us?" She asked
"I considered on taking him back okay? I loved him so fucking much and I still do,"