My alarm goes off for the 20th time and I finally just turn it off instead of snoozing. I look at the time and jump out of bed waking up Molly. "Dude get up they'll be here in an hour." As I ran to the shower, I heard her growling in bed. We were not morning people. And I know 9 am is not that early, but yesterday or should I say today we ended up talking in bed until like 3 am so for us it's way too early.
I get out of the shower and see Molly still in bed just sitting on her phone. "You can go now, I'm all done." I tell her so she can go get ready herself. I look at the weather forecast and see that it's going to be a pretty hot day today, so I rummage through my clothes and pick this out:
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After I got dressed I got a text from Daniel
Ocean blue eyes Good morning, so I forgot to ask you for your location 😅
Kaira 🙈 Morning, oh my gosh I totally forgot [insert random address in Italy]
Ocean blue eyes Thanks we'll be there in 15
"Hurry up they'll be here in 15 minutes." I yell to Molly who is still in the bathroom getting ready.
After like 5 minutes she comes out. "Calm down if something they'll just have to wait a bit." She says in a relaxed tone. She got dressed we both packed our bags and just in time I got another text from Daniel.
Ocean blue eyes We're here
Kaira 🙈
Okay, we'll be down in a few
We lock the door and head downstairs. Walking out the hotel I see Daniel leaning against a car that I'm guessing is a rental. And another guy next to him who's probably his brother Christian. We walk to the car and Daniel introduces us to his brother. "Hi so this is my brother Christian." We both say hi and introduce ourselves. "So should we get going?" I ask. We all get into the car I sat in the front with Daniel and Molly was in the back with Christian.
Daniel gave me the aux and I just put on some random playlist since Molly and Christian were having a conversation and we decided to chat as well. "So where are you from" he started the conversation. "Well, I was born in Vancouver, but when I was five, we moved to New York. So, it feels like I've lived there my whole life. How about you?" I asked. "Well, I'm also from Vancouver, but recently moved to LA." "Can I ask why?" "Well, it's for my job or career you could say, it's just a lot better to live in LA since most of my work is there." "Your work ha? So, what is it are you like a youtuber?" I ask genuinely interested. "No, I'm in a band, I'm a singer and can play some instruments." From the back of the car Christian says "Yeah some, more like all of them. He's really talented, just doesn't like to brag about it." Then turns back to Molly. I wonder what they're talking about. I'll have to ask her when we're alone.
"So, you're in a boyband, what's it called?" "First of it's a man band and second it's called why don't we" I laugh when he says man band, but quickly stop myself. I decide to look them up, so I checked Instagram and to my surprise they were really popular. "How have I not heard of you before? You're like famous, sorry I know you probably don't like that word." I correct myself. "Yeah, we don't like the f word."
After that we exchanged a few more words and it got quiet in the car. Molly was so tired she fell asleep, and I couldn't help but notice Christian stare at her. I just rested my head on the window and looked at the beautiful view ahead. The trip from Milan to Polignano a Mare was at least 4 and a half hours so for most of it I either slept or gazed out the window. God this was amazing, I couldn't believe I was here.
A few hours later
We were almost there, and I my eyes were fixated on the sea in front of us. "Like the view?" Daniel asked and that's when I noticed that it looked like I was looking at him. "Well, the sea is beautiful, however there's this huge mountain in the way." I said trying to tease him. "Okay I'm sorry for being in the way of this beautiful view you speak of." We both laugh and I catch myself looking at his smile. Why am I so mesmerized by this boy?
We finally found a place to park the car and before getting out we took a look at restaurants we could go to. Since we were really hungry, we just found the nearest one and were now on our way there. When we got there, we found the best table to sit at. It had a view of the sea and had an umbrella to cover us from the sun.
We sat down girls on one side, boys on the other. When the waiter came to give us the menus Molly and I exchanged look of wow this guy is the cutest guy we've ever seen. So, all of us just smiled at one another and thanked him for the menus. While picking out what we were going to eat Molly and I couldn't shut up about the waiter. "What's so interesting about him anyway?" Daniel asked us. "Did you see him, like whoa AND he is Italian." Molly explained. "So, were Italian and you aren't talking about us like that." Wait wait, hold up. What? They're Italian. "Well, it's because you're sitting right here. Why would we talk about you while you're right next to us?" I try to manage the situation. "So, you do talk about us?" Daniel said smirking at me. Shit that's not what I was trying to do.
But thankfully we got interrupted by the waiter coming back. We ordered our food and went back to our conversations. Neither of them brought it up again, so at least that's out of the way.
After eating and paying for our food we decided to go here:
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Since we didn't bring our swimsuits, we couldn't swim but we found a nice place to just sit and enjoy the view.
"So, tell me more about yourself." Daniel said to me. "Well, my name is Kiara Alexander, I'm 18, my current place of living is New York, but hopefully if I get accepted to the university I have always dreamt of I can move to Toronto. Other than that, I love to eat, listen to music, hike and hang out with my friends. What about you?" I return the question. "Well, I'm Daniel Seavey, I'm 21, I live in Los Angeles, I actually really like it there and I have my brother as a roommate so that's really cool. I love singing, playing instruments, traveling and sometimes I try to cook, and it doesn't turn out to be that bad." We just kept on sharing stories and also both of us noticed that Christian was trying not to embarrass himself in front of Molly, so we embarrassed him ourselves. The stories Daniel had, dang.
The rest of the day we just walked around, saw some more sights and headed back to our hotel. Driving back Molly and I fell asleep but woke up in our beds.
"Hey, was I just dreaming or is it the next day?" I ask Molly. "No, you were out yesterday, and we couldn't wake you up so Daniel carried you to bed. That's why your fully clothed you idiot."
I look at my phone to check if I had any new notifications and found a text from Daniel.
