Italy [boyxboy] ON HOLD

10.

Luca Bianco

"You care about Mia a lot, don't you?" I ask Matt and he nods with a little smile.

"We've been friends forever, the four of us."

"It's obvious that you like her." I tell him and he chuckles.

"Is it really?" He looks at me.

"Kinda." I chuckle too. "But she doesn't know, right?"

"Nah, she thinks I've never fallen in love." He sighs. "But I prefer it that way, you know? I don't want to ruin our friendship because of my feelings for her."

"I don't think you would ruin it, Mia looks like a really accepting girl." I say. "I've been really impressed by her tonight."

"Yeah, she's amazing." He smiles thinking about the girl he loves. "And what about you? Any crush? Boyfriend?"

"Nothing at all." I say.

"Really? I though I would call you Romeo just like I call Nick."

"What's the matter with him though? Why is he dating Sofia? She's kind of a bitch."

"Thank God I'm not the only one who thinks that. I don't really know why they are together. I mean, I was the one to tell Nick that he should be with her, but still."

"Why?" I ask a bit confused.

"Because I thought he would confess that he's gay, but he didn't."

"Wait, Nicola is gay?" I say and my brain feels like it just exploded.

"Maybe not gay, but he definitely has a thing for guys, maybe girls too, but I doubt it."

"Wow." It's the only thing that I'm able to say. Nicola? Gay?

"He thinks I don't know, but his sister told me that he had something going on with a guy back in Phoenix."

"That's a lot to handle at once. Why don't you tell him that you know?"

"Because I would like him to tell me himself, we're best friends, we're supposed to tell each other everything."

"Maybe if you stopped settting him up with girls he would be more honest about it." I say and Matt shoves my arm in a friendly way. "Hey, don't you think that Mia is taking too long?"

"For how long have we been waiting?"

"Twenty minutes." I say once I check the time in my phone. "Maybe she's fixing her makeup or something."

"She wasn't wearing makeup." He says after thinking for a couple of seconds. "Let's go get her."

"Sure." I nod and we stand up from the sofa heading to the stairs. On the way, I glance over to see Nicola and Sofia already as drunk as Fred. That means they're good at beer pong I guess.

Matt and I get in the second floor and I follow him until we reach the bathroom.

"Mia?" Matt says while knocking in the door, but he gets no response.

"Do you want me to get inside?" I ask him and he nods.

I get my hand on the door knob and I get inside, immediately seeing Mia there. She was sitting on the floor with a hand over her forehead.

"Hey you." Matt calls for her and she waves her hand to let us know that she acknowledges us. "You okay? We've been waiting for you."

"My head hurts like crazy." She mumbles. "This is the only place in the house where I can barely hear the music."

I look at Matt and then I take a seat in front of her.

"Well, looks like we'll have our own little party here." I say and she smiles at me while Matteo gets a seat beside her, Mia inmediately resting her head on the guy's shoulder.