Florida | Gabriela Gonzalez and Kay Cook

one ★ i'm a huge fan

MAY
twenty-twenty

isabella visone and her family just exited security in JFK international airport. with the covid-19 virus, her family decided they would be quarantining in sarasota, florida.

the family of five was making their way over to the waiting area where they would sit until they boarded their flight.

edward, nicolas, and danielle decided to go get some food seeing as the family had about thirty minutes until boarding time and were all very hungry.

gabriela gonzalez sat in the seat in front of the visone family, her one year old daughter in her arms.

isabella noticed those curls from anywhere. she knew that the girl sitting in front of her was her idol and her baby, so excited as ever, the fifteen year old gently tapped gabriela's shoulder, who turned around to see a green eyed girl and her half asleep mother next to her.

isabella was sitting on the edge of her chair when her celebrity crush looked at her. "hi, i'm bella. i'm a huge fan."

gabriela's face immediately lit up as she smiled, loving meeting her supporters. "i'm gabriela, and this is lavender."

"i bought the cultivate kindness shirt the day it came out. it's in my suitcase." the younger girl blurted out, excited to meet her idol.

gabriela let out a chuckle at the girl's adorableness. "tweet me the photos when you wear it!"

the younger of the two then nodded vigorously before asking, "gabbie, why are you going to sarasota?" having realized that her idol was going to the same part of florida as her.

"well, um, i was originally going to quarantine in los angeles, but me and my boyfriend broke up & the whole reason i was there in the first place was so that lavender could see her dad as often as possible. then i went to new york to stay with christina for as long as possible but, we ended up booking a flight here especially now with how bad the coronavirus got. how about you?"

"we have an apartment in sarasota and my mom loves the beach, so she'd much rather quarantine in sarasota on the beach than in new york." the strawberry blonde happily shared.

gabriela smiled. "is it just you and your mom?"

"no; my dad, brother, and sister are here too. they're just getting food. is it just you and lavy?"

"for now, yes. my mom, sam, and rachel have a flight tomorrow from california to come stay with me." gabbie smiled.

"awhhh." isabella smiled, looking at gabbie and then lavender.

"hey, what apartment complex are you staying in?" gabriela asked curiously, wanting to know if she would see a familiar face on the beach in the days that she would spend here.

"cityside apartments. why?" the short girl asked, her eyebrows furrowing.

gabriela's face broke out into a huge smile. "me too!"

isabella's face then turned bright red in excitement that she would most likely be seeing her celebrity crush every single day for the next few months.

"what room? i mean, i know that's personal-"

isabella cut gabriela off with a closed-lip smile. "let me ask my mom." at that, the strawberry blonde turned to her tired mother. "mamma?"

raffaella nodded.

"la mia cotta per idolo / celebrità è di fronte a noi e si trova nello stesso complesso di appartamenti. posso per favore dirle il numero della stanza così posso vederla spesso?"

"yes, bella. it's fine."

isabella then smiled and turned back to the gonzalez girl. "room a70."

"no way. i'm a71." gabriela smiled, glad that she had a friend now. "what's your plane seat?"

isabella handed her plane ticket to gabriela, whose smile only grew. "my seat is right in front of you and raffaella, who is your mom, i think?"

"yeah! maybe we can ask my mom if you can sit with us since it's three seats."

"yeah, i'd rather sit with you guys than some people who are totally strangers." gabriela chucked. "i'm assuming your brother, dad, and sister are sitting together?"

"yeah, they're sitting across the aisle from us." bella then turned to her mother again. "mom, can gabbie and her baby sit with us?"

"bell-"

bella then gave her mother puppy dog eyes, making gabriela giggle. raffaella sighed and looked at her daughter and her new friend. "alright. i'm raffaella."

"i'm gabriela." gabbie smiled.

"oh hey look! dad, dani, and nick are back with the hotdogs and sodas!" bella squealed pointing to her family.

edward, nicolas, and danielle made their way over to isabella and raffaella, sitting down.

nicolas and danielle looked at their youngest sister knowingly, seeing her celebrity crush right next to her.

bella's face heated up upon her siblings looks.

edward politely smiled at his daughter and gabriela. "who's this?"

"a friend. her name is gabbie and her baby is lavender." isabella spoke to her father.

gabbie smiled at the fact that isabella already considered them friends.

"hi gabbie. i'm ed." the man warmly smiled at the girl that his daughter seemed to admire.

"nice to meet you, ed." gabriela returned his smile before turning to the youngest visone. "i'm gonna go get a hotdog of my own. is it alright if you hold lavender?"

"i would love to." bella smiled, before taking the toddler from the curly haired girl's arms.

lavender immediately felt safe with the visone girl and nuzzled herself into the girl's arms.

a few minutes later, gabriela got back but the plane was already boarding.

the gonzalez girl sighed and threw out her hotdog. she looked over to see isabella with lavender asleep in her arms and a backpack on now.

gabriela got her suitcase and walked over to the family she met earlier, deciding to leave lavender in bella's arms, knowing that if she took the baby, she would wake up and cry.

isabella saw gabriela and smiled at her new friend.

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