Chapter 2

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After dinner, I went into my room and changed into a tank top with pajama shorts.
I then walked into Mikey washing his face.
"Are you incapable of knocking?" He said.
"It's our bathroom!" I said and then pulled out my toothbrush and continued to brush my teeth.
Mikey then walked out of the bathroom without saying another word to me. 

The next morning.
I put on a red tube top with jeans and white shoes. Mia had on a tie dye halter top with jeans on.
Mia and I started walking towards downtown Venice. Everything about Italy was so gorgeous and my jaw dropped from how beautiful it looked.
"Your city is absolutely beautiful!" 
"It's alright or whatever." Mia said and then we both laughed.
We walked inside of this vintage coffee shop and sat down. There was a group of teenage boys sitting on the other side of the shop who were starting us.
"Oh gosh. Don't look now."  Mia said and then covered her face.
"Who are they?"
"Boys from my school."
One of the boys started walking our direction and Mia and I both groaned.
"Hey ladies." He said and then sat down in an empty chair.
"Hello." Mia said and then rolled her eyes.
"Who's your friend?" He said and then licked his lips. Ew.
"Uh- I'm Natalia."
"Well Natalia, do you have a boyfriend?"
"No, and I don't want one either." I said and then gave a fake smile.
He got out of his chair and muttered something in Italian and went back to his friend group.
"Boys are so stupid." Mia said and then laughed.
We spent the rest of the day shopping and did not come back to her house until 5:00.
"I'm guessing you girls had a lot of fun." The mom said laughingly.
"Yeah. We literally shopped till we dropped." I said and then held up my arms with shopping bags on them.
I threw my shopping bags against my bed and went into my bathroom and started taking a shower.  In the middle of me showering, I heard one of the doors  start to creak open. I peaked through the shower curtain to see Mikey start to brush his teeth.
"Excuse me. I'm trying to take a shower here." I said.
"When have you cared about privacy?"
"Dude. Just get out!" I yelled and then splashed water from my shower on to him.
He stepped back a little bit but then started to laugh.
He continued to brush his teeth and started to wash his face.
"I'm about to get out of the shower so you better get out!" I yelled.
He finally finished washing his face and walked out of the restroom.
"You're precious bathroom is finally free." He said and then walked out laughing.
I swear he's so weird.

Once I was out of the bathroom, I sat in my bedroom and started to listen to some music. I saw Mia peak her head through my door.
"Can I come in?" She asked.
"Of course!"
"I was thinking that tonight, we could have an Italian movie marathon!" She said while holding up a bunch of DVD's.

We watched a bunch of Italian movies until we both fell asleep in my bed.

The next morning
As I was in my bathroom getting ready, Mikey bursted through my door.
"Can you knock?!"
"Yeah yeah. I'm having some friends over so don't talk to them."
"Wasn't planning on it." I said and then rolled my eyes.
He walked out of my bathroom without even closing the door behind him.

Mia and I were sitting on the couch watching TV when we heard a knock at our door.
"Natalia, can you get it?" Mia said.
I answered the door to find 3 boys that looked around Mikey's age.
"Who are you?" One of the boys said eyeing me up and down.
"I'm Natalia, their foreign exchange student. You guys can come in, Mikey should be coming any second now." I said leading them into our house.
"I'm Leonardo. How old are you?" One of the boys asked.
"16."
"Well, I'm very single and-"
"Hey guys!" Mikey said.
"Natalia you can go now." He said and then shooed me away.
"No. Stay and hang out with us!" Leonardo said.
"I was actually watching tv with Mia, but thanks for inviting me!"
"Dude. Why would you invite her?" I heard Mikey chatter with his friends as I walked towards Mia.

Mia and I spent the rest of the day sitting on her couch while Mikey and his friends sat in his room and probably talked about how much he hated me.
I then walked back into my room and decided that I would FaceTime my best friend, Nyla, from America.
"Hey best friend!"
"Girl, I miss you so frigging much!" She said and then put her face really close to the camera.
"I miss you even more! Italy is so beautiful!"
"I bet. What is your exchange family like?"
"Well everyone's really nice except-"
"Can you shut up?! My friends and I can hear you from my room!" He bursted in and cut me off.
"I wasn't even being loud!" I shouted back.
"Well how about you do everybody a favor and just stop talking!"
"Why are you so mean to me? I didn't even do anything to you!"
Mikey and I continued to argue back and forth until Nyla yelled from my phone for us to calm down.
"Sorry Nyla." I said and then glared at Mikey.
"Geez. Y'all sound like an old married couple."
Mikey and I both made gagging noises.
"Look. Just shut up please."
I rolled my eyes and Mikey walked out of my room.
"I seriously hate him!" I said to Nyla through the phone.
"He seems like quite the catch."
"He literally hates me for no reason! I don't understand him!"

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