Dear Diary,

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Dear Diary, I haven't felt this happy for a long time. I know I only met with Antonio once properly, but just being able to feel that free is amazing. We're meeting up again tomorrow night which is sadly the last time we can meet late at night because my parents come home the day after :( . These two weeks have gone way too fast and I'm so nervous for my parents to come home. 12:34 pm.

It's currently Thursday, my parents come home on Saturday at like... two in the morning. So I could meet with Antonio again but it'd be a huge risk. I haven't seen Lance very much to be honest, but it's good though because I don't really like him anyway.

"Nat do you wanna come play Xbox with me?"Kaleb comes into my room and sits on the edge of my bed. I nod and lock my phone, then follow him into his room. "So, who've you been going out to meet recently?" he asks, a few minutes into playing Minecraft.

My cheeks redden rapidly. "Someone I met at that party I went to." I don't mind telling Kaleb  these things because I know he won't tell Lydia or my dad. "Uh huh, a boy perhaps?" he teases. I flash him a cheeky grin and nod my head.

"Ah I see! Well are you gonna tell mom or your dad?" the smile fades from my face quicker than it came. "Probably not because they'll probably find something bad about him or make some stupid reason up for me not to see him again."

Kaleb sighs deeply, he knows about everything that his mom and my dad put me through, how they treat me like shit. It sucks, they always say they treat all the kids the same but that's really not true. Even my dad prefers the boys to me.

"Maybe if you tell them when they're in a good mood?" he suggest,  I hum in consideration. "Maybe, but I don't know. I'm going to meet with him again tomorrow." I inform  my brother. He nods, "OK, do you know what time?"

"No, I'm gonna text him later." I check my phone, checking if he's messaged me. Nope. "What's his name?" Oh yes I haven't even told him ha ha. "Antonio, he's Italian." A blush creeps onto my face even just thinking about him. We have been talking a lot recently, getting to know each other a lot more.

"I bet mom will kick up a fuss about him then if he's not from here." Kaleb jokes, I  chuckle lightly and nod my head in agreement. "Yeah probably," Lydia doesn't have anything against people from foreign countries, just when I'm talking to them.

Well, even if I speak to someone from our own country she'll throw a fit. I continued to play on my brothers Xbox with him for a while until the sky turns to an ashy deep blue colour. I begin to yawn uncontrollably, "I think I'm gonna go get some sleep before going out." I tell my brother.

"I thought you were meeting him tomorrow?" he replies, a flash of confusion registers on his face. "It will be tomorrow, I'm meeting him at like 2:30 am." I explain as I get up then go back to my room.

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'You still coming tonight Natalia?' A text from Antonio pings through on my phone and scares me half to death. 'yes duh,'  I reply back. I don't know why but I'm really excited to see him again, I wonder what he has planned for us tonight. He said he's going to meet me outside my house.

It's 1:59 am right now. I've been texting Antonio all night, I was supposed to sleep but I couldn't. Well, I did sleep for an hour but I guess that doesn't really count.

I begin to change into some warm clothes since it's almost 53 degrees out and then I decide to sit on my bed until Antonio comes. I've almost drifted off to sleep when my phone buzzes, causing me to sit up in bed and scan my room in a wild manner.

'I'm here sweetheart.'  A shiver travels up my spine from just thinking about seeing him, ugh I don't understand why I feel like this all of a sudden. 'Coming.'  I send a quick message back.  I fumble around my dark bedroom to find my shoes and then slip them on.