Memories In Italy

Chapter 38

a few minutes later

We had explained everything to Piero and Sofia about 'project Ignazio'.
"Why didn't you tell me that earlier?" Piero said upset but then he luckily smiled. "What's the plan?" he asked. "Right now?" Gianluca asked. "We wanted to know if he liked that girl, what's she called again...Mila?"
"Ah, that one, she seemed very nice indeed!" Piero said. "I saw her looking to Ignazio and..."
"What? You saw her looking to him?" I shouted. But of course she looked to him. She probably looked to Piero and Gianluca as well. "Yeah, she seemed impressed by him, I guess."
"Oh, really! That's so good!" I said. Gianluca nodded. "But what now?" Gianluca and I said at the same time. "We can't tell Ignazio what we are talking about," Piero said. "I don't know, maybe..." he continued but Gianluca already interrupted him. "Oh come on, let's do this," he said and he walked towards the exit. We all followed him, not sure what he was going to do. He walked very fastly through the corridors of the building. "There she is!" he said as he pointed to her. 

"Hey girls!" he said, when he arrived. "I was wondering if you wanted to hang out with us tonight?" What was he doing? Not that it was bad, I only didn't expect him to address them so directly. "Eh...I don't know what to say!" Mila said. She looked quite intimitated by all of us standing around her. "Of course!" the other girl said quickly. "Cool, you can follow us!" Gianluca said. He walked back to the dressing room. We all followed him, a bit unsure what his plan was. But it seemed he knew exactly what he was doing. I was so happy to see him revive after all the bad things that happened last weeks. This little project really helped him to forget it. Ignazio just walked out of the dressing room. "Hi guys, where were you all? Oh..." he said when he saw the two Ilvolovers. "We invited them to join us to the 'afterparty'!" Piero said. "Afterparty? Is there an afterparty?" Ignazio asked confused. "Yeah there is!" Gianluca said. "Since we met these awesome girls!" He winked smiled to them like he was flirting with them. A normal person wouldn't like that if her boyfriend flirted with other girls, but I knew he only really loved me. He was just charming to everybody. I also was happy to see him doing that because it meant he was confident enough again. He was a bit more 'the old Gianluca' again.

Ignazio seemed still a bit confused but he immediately said hello to the girls. "Where are we going then?" Ignazio asked. "Maybe to the hotel?" I suggested, thinking about what the first thing was, that Gianluca and I did together. Because I suddenly realized what he was doing. Inviting the girls to hang out with them after a show? That sounded exactly like the beginning of our story.

4 hours later

"That was such a nice evening!" Ignazio said enthusiastically. "It was!" Gianluca said, "and it seemed like you and Mila could really get along very well!" It made Ignazio blush. Now it was obvious he really liked her. And we all had seen she liked him too. Letizia, the other girl, was really nice too of course. She could be a great friend of mine, just like Mila. 

I was so happy it turned out the way we wanted, otherwise I would feel a bit ashamed. And then all the efforts would have been for nothing. Gianluca did a great job too. I was actually proud of him. If he wasn't there, Ignazio would still be lonely and unhappy. "Great job!" Piero said as he high fived Gianluca. It caught Ignazio's attention. "Wait a bit...do you guys have to do something with it?"

"Eh...well..." Piero said, looking to me because he didn't know if he could tell Ignazio the truth. Gianluca did the same.
"I told them!" I then said quickly. "What?" Ignazio said in shock. "You mean...that I was..."
I nodded to him. "Ow...I'm sorry Gia..."
"You don't have to feel sorry Igna! I found it kinda funny actually!"
"Oh, really?" Ignazio said confused. "I actually hope that WE don't need to say sorry! You know...because of Mila..."
"Don't even think about feeling guilty!" Ignazio said. "I had the best time ever...I mean since a long time," he said trying to make his enthusiasm a bit less obvious. "Glad to hear that!" Gianluca said when he gave Ignazio a pat on his shoulder.