I never knew you were the someone waiting for me

Chapter 6

Chapter 6 /or/ about crushes, ice and taking pictures

Many things have changed since Luna Valente happened in Matteo's life. It's not like he admits they did, but according to his best friends there's something going on there and for them it's clear that they aren't wrong. It's been two months since Luna bumped into him in Blake and he has not moved his eyes to other girl for longer than three seconds; this is first alarm he heard loudly in his head. The second one is ringing every single time they are touching because he's not sure anymore if it's this pulling or just their own choice. Third signal tells him there is something bad happening to him because of a fact he doesn't even want to know what the weird pullingis.

He actually doesn't care about its name or its cause anymore. Matteo grew to be fine with it itself and if Luna tells him, he'd be very nice with the knowledge but he doesn't have to know. That's probably the worst out of all. It was the surest thing that Matteo Balsano always knows what's going on, always has known and always will. Yet little, sweet Luna Valente crashed into his life and with her small, pretty hand crossed out the word always from his dictionary, because nothing is like always with her.

She is sitting in front of him by the table, talking about something. Two minutes ago it was about her last physics test, she whined because she was certain that she didn't do well and then Matteo zoned out thinking of her hair. Does it always curl like this? Is it how her hair is naturally? Or maybe she does something for it to be wavy this way?

He perfectly knows he looks stupid and hopeless yet he can't really stop himself from touching her hair. His hand goes towards her face and he moves one curl behind her ear as softly as he is able to. Luna stops in half of the word just to grin at him blushing slightly and takes his hand with both of hers. Matteo can feel some shiver going down his spine when she starts her story again playing with his fingers and he just keeps watching her, his elbow on the table as he supports his chin on it.

It's probably obvious as hell that he is staring, probably with this unconscious face and Matteo is sure he can see in the corner of his eye that Gastón is taking a picture. As long as Matteo gets this photo he doesn't even mind and it looks like his friends are right. He has a crush on Luna Valente and it feels super weird; Matteo has never had a crush on anyone, maybe except his Spanish teacher during first year in Blake (she was hot, okay?) but it is different now. He wants to keep her close and make her smile, listen to her laugh and when he's watching her like this he wouldn't really be against looking at her for the rest of his life.

"Matteo, are you listening to me?" Luna giggles at him pulling his fingers as he wakes up, blinking confused.

He smiles. "No, I'm sorry. You distracted me a little."

She blushes at him more looking down and he doesn't even hesitate to take her hand and start playing with one of her rings. "I didn't distract you." Luna mumbles biting her lower lip and he sighs.

"At least I know it wasn't intentionally. You are too pretty not to be distracted, little lady."

Luna pouts but small smile appears on her face. "You are being cheesy." Matteo chuckles and leans closer to her over the table.

"But you like me being cheesy. And you generally like me."

She wants to answer but universe hates her, or maybe likes too much, and she can feel something pushing her towards him. Before she can blink her forehead collides with his with big force sending waves of pain as she takes sharp breath and Matteo curses. It was actually hard hit and Luna can feel how her forehead keeps pulsing when for a few seconds her sight gets almost black. They both can hear loud laugh from the tables near the stage as Gastón can't contain his giggles.