Painting this canvas with the colors of our love

In Italy?!

The last days with Sarah had gone very well, I had met her friends and she had met mine, Blythe in particular was very impressed and was also a little angry because I had not talked to her right away but she understood when I explained how things had gone and also seemed to really get along very well with Sarah, in fact we often went out together in the evening to go dancing or just drinking in some pub with Blythe and Peter.
Lately, after introducing Sarah, I had seen Michael much more elusive and absent, he behaved strangely when Sarah was with us and at work with me he was always very competitive and distant.

"Do you think I did something wrong with Michael?" I asked Blythe taking a break from the studying.
"What... are you talking about?" She said taking off her glasses and placing them distractedly on the book.
"I mean he has been acting a little weird by now... he is always ironic, rude, sometimes he really behaves strangely and the other day I caught him while he was proposing to Professor Lowen 'to change her assistant' "I told her, raising an eyebrow questioningly.
"oh this is strange, he wanted to steal your place... But with me he doesn't behave differently or at least not in a stranger way than usual. In short, I think we have all noticed that he is a little bit of a weirdo.." she said rolling her eyes.
"But I don't get where all of this came from because I thought we were friends, we talked long before he changed..." I said in a confused tone glancing at her.
"Well maybe just talk to him and see what he says, I mean I don't think it's anything serious so just talk to him" as she finished saying we heard the keys turn and open the door.
"Hey honey! how are you doing with the study?" Sarah said stepping inside "Oh hey Blythe! I didn't know you two were studying otherwise I wouldn't have bothered you..." she said looking down embarrassed and biting her lip.
"Oh no Sar It's okay I should really go home too I'm getting late actually and you know the subject is so exciting that we did not realize the time passing" Blythe joked to Sarah collecting her things from the table.
"You can stay for dinner if you want.." I proposed her.
"Oh no actually I am going out with someone tonight..." she vaguely said.
"What? That's beautiful Blythe good luck!" Sarah said from the kitchen.
"Thank you!!" She replied excited
"Oh well thanks for telling me... who is he, or she?" I asked her curiously.
"Uhm... I don't remember you telling me the first time you went on a date with Sarah" she said defiantly.
"Uh ok we're even... now TELL ME" I said not letting her walk through the door.
"Ok you won, it's Peter, now let me go!!" She said laughing.
"OH MY GOD! You two! I hope this goes somewhere good because I think you would be cute together and you must do something for his wardrobe" I said moving from the door to let her go.
"Said the girl in her pajamas," she joked as she left the door, "bye Sarah!"
"Have fun!" Sarah shouted.
I closed the door behind her and pulled Sarah in for a hug, the first in a few weeks actually because we had been both so busy that we haven't been able to see each other for days.
"Oh I missed you so much babe!" I sighed holding her tightly.
"I missed you too baby" she said kissing me on my cheek "how was your day?"
"Nothing exciting you know I'm always studying and feeling stupid because I don't seem to fully understand what I'm doing, my back hurts and this really sucks" I complained shutting the big heavy book closed with a thud.
"It looks heavy" she watched it
"Do you wanna try?" I said in a challenging tone.
"Nope, thank you... I'm hungry actually" she bit her lip looking at me clearly begging me to stop procrastinating and feed her.
"Got it, I hope you bought something because I may have only a lemon and a bottle of water" I said and she laughed.
"Of course"
"Okay, let me see..." I examined the content of the several bags she had brought "Uhuh this is going to taste really good"
"Red or white?" She asked while i was setting things to cook.
"Red or whi.. what?" I looked up at her and she had a bottle of red wine in one hand and one of white wine in the other.
"You're incredible... Uhmm..."
"Tick tock tick tock" she joked.
"Ok white!" I finally said.
"Oh thank you, that's my favorite" she said.
She helped me a little bit in the kitchen with the easiest things trying to avoid the ones involving fire as I had a sense she was pretty distracted when cooking and my cupboard had had an experience about it.
When everything was finally ready we sat down to eat.
"How can you always make something excellent from a few basic things I buy?" She said savoring my homemade mushrooms risotto.
"I'm Italian I believe I have a specific gene for being excellent at cooking" I said and made her laugh "So... I have a few news and also a suggestion"
"I'm listening, I'm not talking because this is too good to ever leave my mouth without an immediate refill but I'm listening" she giggled.
"Ok so I said my parents and grandparents something about us... I mean something like that I'm with a woman I love a lot but I did not mention that it's you or even the fact that you are almost the same age as my parents" I told her joking.
"Oh shut up bitchy!" She said slapping me on my arm faking an angry face.
" BUT, I was about to say, they seemed happy enough and eager to meet you so they want me to invite you to spend Christmas holidays with us in Italy since a few days before Christmas is also my birthday..." I finally proposed to her.
"I-in Italy?!" She asked and also looked a little scared.
"Just if you want to come, if not it's okay but I have to go, I haven't seen my family for months" I explained her.
"Oh no no it was just happiness and surprise, I'm not scared. Well actually I am scared but just of the flight" she gulped "Anyway I can do it... it would be great to meet your family! And also visiting your hometown!" She said placing her plump lips on mine for a sweet kiss.
"Are you... serious?! Oh my god I didn't think you would have said yes! I'm so happy" I said clapping my hands like a baby.
"Why not! It could be fun" she said kissing me softly from the other side of the table "plus I would do ANYTHING for you."
"Having you with me on my birthday will be the best gift you could give me" I said.
"Ok so I want to toast to our first Christmas together... and in Italy" she said and our glasses met and tinkled "To our first Christmas together" I echoed her.

I'm posting now because I couldn't wait to post the other chapters, more is about to come!
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