Faustini ✔️

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Early next morning, Valentino ran frantically around his house. "Okay, Amara, Catalina-" he looked around. "Where's Elena?" He asked.

"She off went somewhere with Rita." Catalina explained. "She should be back soon."

"Really? It's not like her to just skip out on preparations- especially regarding the company." Valentino looked around.

"Don't let it distract you." Amara laughed. "You know Elena would kill you if you messed this day up."

Valentino sighed. "You're right. Have you heard from Lorenzo yet?" He asked.

"He should be on his way." Amara told him as he made his way upstairs.

Meanwhile Elena was outside of Claudio's apartment building with a steak knife in hand. "Which car is his?" Rita asked as they made their way into the garage.

"That one." She pointed to a black roofless Audi.

"Ugh, now why didn't that surprise me." Rita rolled her eyes. "It's tacky as can be!"

"Hold my bag." Elena ordered as she took it off her shoulders and held it towards Rita, Rita shrugged and did so.

Elena took the steak knife she held and stabbed at Claudio's tire until the knife fully plunged through. "You can do it!" Rita cheered her on patronisingly.

"Shut up, Rita." Elena rolled her eyes, moving to another tire. "I need to buy myself sometime-" she repeated the stabbing action, "-after all, we both know for a fact Claudio thinks too highly of himself to ride a taxi."

Elena's phone rang, Rita looked up and saw that Elena was too fixated stabbing the tires, so she took it upon herself to answer it. "Yeah, hello?"

"Oh god, it's you." Leo answered.

"Ah, greetings Leo." Rita said loudly, causing Elena to walk over and steal the phone from her. Elena handed Rita the knife, instructing her to finish her handy work.

"Leo? What do you want?" Elena asked as she felt defeated, watching Rita stab through the rest of the tires in one go.

"Wow, callus." Leo sighed. "Do you have a date for the that family thing you're doing tonight?"

"No." Elena answered, carrying out the o sound to air her suspicion.

"Now you do." Leo told her before hanging up. Elena looked up at Rita in confusion.

Lorenzo walked into the penthouse with Casper following behind him. Catalina was there to greet them both. "Hi Lorenzo!" She greeted him with a hug, she quickly backed away and looked at Casper. "You're Casper, right?" Catalina smiled. "We had something made for you. Well, he did." Catalina tilted her head towards Lorenzo.

"Aw, you did that for me? Thank you!" Casper looked at Lorenzo adoringly, Lorenzo put his head down.

Amara entered the room. "Hi, you must be Casper." Amara spoke as she grabbed his hand. "Your outfit's upstairs, here, come with me."

Lorenzo remained standing by the door with Catalina. "Aren't you coming, Lorenzo?" Casper asked, looking over his shoulder.

"I'll be with you in a minute." Lorenzo smiled.

Once Casper was away from them, Catalina spoke up. "So, did you ask him out yet?" Catalina asked excitedly, but Lorenzo remained quiet. "Why, what's wrong? Are you shy?" Catalina mused.

Lorenzo spoke quickly. "How do you know if someone's dating you for you?"

Catalina was puzzled. "I'm not sure." She scoffed. "What? You think Casper's dating you because you're rich? He's rich too, idiot!" Lorenzo remained silent as Catalina shook her head. "You know, you're the only one of us who still has their boyfriend in their life and you're willing to sabotage it with such careless thoughts."