gift / mattia polibio

stairs

Nona woke up this morning at 7, as usual. She put on some clothes, grabbed her breakfast bar and her guitar and headed out to school.

Nona lives alone now. Her mom died at birth and her dad stayed at home while Nona moved in her new apartment. She loved to be alone.

She walked her 10 minute walk and arrived at school. All her classmates were allready there when she walked in. A few people said goodmorning. Nona gave them a little smile and sat down at her desk.

When it was finally lunchbreak, Nona took her lunch out and headed to the staircase where no one ever came. She just found out about the place and she loves to eat there. She walked up the stairs so she could sit on the platform between the two stairs. She put down her guitar and opened her lunchbox. She was peacefully eating when the door at the foot of the stairs swung open.

A tall boy with black hair and brown eyes came trough the door. He also had a guitar on his back. When he saw Nona he just stood there and stared, shocked he saw someone. Same for Nona, she froze and stared for a second.

"Hey uhm what are you doing here?" mattia said.

Nona stayed silent.

"Hello?" mattia said in confusion.

"Eating" Nona finally said.

"Okay just so you know this is my secret place where is sleep, i'm asking you once to walk out because i'm going to sleep now." mattia said bossy.

"Do you play guitar?" Nona said

Mattia widened his eyes. Did she just ignore me?

"Don't ignore me!!" mattia said frustrated.

"Could you please teach me?" Nona asked calmly.

"WHAT? NO! GO AWAY!" Mattia said more frustrated than before.

That's when they heard the bell. Nona closed her lunchbox calmly, threw her guitar on her back and walked away. Mattia looked at her in shock. "what.the.hell just happened?" he thought in himself.