An Italian Old Fashion Love

Chapter 18

I walked into my house and bald my eyes out and took myself to my room and undressed myself and laid in bed it was 10am I was going to go back to sleep. Everything that has happened past couple days has me stressed out, I slept another four hours. I woke up at 2:00, Brodie doesn't get off of work till seven. So I went to my art room and looked at my last painting, I needed to add one more thing to it, then it would be finished. So I started getting my paints out and my brushes and got lost in my work. Another few hours had went by and I was just wrapping everything up.

I must have lost track of time, there was a knock on my front door. I set everything down that I was doing and I went to answer it. I opened the door "Hello Beautiful" he gave me a grin and then began to laugh. "Hello, must have paint on my face" I tried to wipe it off. Brodie came in and got close to me and took his finger to wipe the paint off, then he gave me a sweet kiss. "So when do I get to see this painting that is so secretive.?" He held me closer. I looked up at him "you have to wait till the show and that is tomorrow." The rest of the day we hung out, made dinner and said goodnight to each other.

Tomorrow was already here. I went to the Bakery for breakfast and I wanted to talk to Mr. Astori about some things. I got dressed and went down to the Bakery, I was greeted by Mr. Astori and went to go sit down in my usual spot. After a few minutes Mr. Astori came to see if there was anything that he could get me I only asked for a cup of coffee. Not a moment later my coffee was in front of me and I asked Mr. Astori if I could talk to him about something. He took a seat in front of me and we started with small talk.

He looked at me " What is it that you really want to talk about Shabella?" He knew there was something deeper than just a little small talk. I looked down at my hands and then looked up to him " I don't know how to ask, but I'll just say it. How do you know if you are in-love and how soon could you fall in-love?" I asked and I am sure my face was red. Mr. Astori lit up with a smile "Ah Love, something very special". He continued to tell me "Love? love is like butterflies when you are around that person and a belly ache when that one is nowhere in sight" I smiled at him and sat there in silence, that is defiantly what I have been feeling like lately. "but there is two types of love, To love smart or to love for just stuff. You never want to love someone just for stuff, you need to love smart. Loving someone the smart way is to love them for who they are and what they are, care for them. Be silly be kind and if you love someone the smart way it will never fail if you both love that way but if you love the wrong way it won't be very well."

I sat there and let Mr. Astori explain what love was. I was tearing up and had a few tears run down my cheek, I smiled at him "You truly loved your Anna for who she was". He smiled at me and wiped my tears "Oh child you are still very young, you will know love one day". We continued to talk " How long did it take you to fall in love with Anna?" I had asked him wanting to know more. "Well, I knew Anna when we were very young. We lived in Italy and our parents had become friends and we known each other for a while before we got together, but that didn't stop me from loving her. I fell in love the first time I saw her" He took a moment to take a drink of his water. " She was wearing a pale yellow dress and she had braids in her hair" He was smiling and I think he had gone lost in the memories of his Anna.