Lilac

Chap 23: Tongue-tied

Aila's world was flipped upside down, with such simple words. She was speechless, her voice wouldn't come out. But she responded when a loud sob escaped Brian's lips. The lips she has kissed for six years didn't belong to her. She went up to him and hugged him tight.

"Corazón, why are you crying? I don't understand?" Brian tried to answer her question but his words were all jumbled together.

"Ok I need you to breath and calm down. Stop overthinking this. Remember things always happen for a reason. So I need you to be strong. This is not the end of the world. You met your soulmate! Your soul amor, why aren't you happy?"

"Because I love you so much it hurts to think about being with someone else, soulmate or not." How are they going to fix this.

"Tell me what happened."

Brian went into the story of what happened after she left for the concert. His cousin and his girl were fucking and were being really loud. He didn't feel like listening to them so he looked up restaurants to go eat. He found a cafe, about a 20 minute drive from where they are staying. The cafe looked so relaxing he wanted to go see it. He thought he could take a few photos of the place and the part of town looked cool.

Something was telling him to go there. He called over an Uber, made it to the place and sat down to enjoy himself in peace and quiet. The cafe had this Italian theme to it. Brian explain he felt absolutely at home when he felt this weird sensation in his body. Like his pressure on his chest and his pulse picked up like crazy. He started to look around when this guy came and stood in front of his table. The moment he looked up and made eye contact with the stranger he saw how his vision shifted and felt this need to go and hug him. The guy actually stared to cry and just jumped on him.

"Aila I didn't know what to feel. I felt comfortable with this stranger. He just jumped on me and I let him. His arms felt so good around me. He smelled so good and that's when I panicked. He's a man. Aila I'm not gay!! I don't like men. I never have! What am I supposed to do?"

"Well what happened next?"

"He felt me panicking so he got off me. He apologize and begged me not to leave, said he could explain everything. Then he turned around and spoke in Italian to someone that was making drinks. Next thing I know, there was this fancy drink in front of me with a piece of red velvet cake."

"Wait was the cake good?"

"It was fucking delicious Aila." She laughs at this, which caused him to finally laugh too. She always knew how to make him feel better.

"So, what happened next?"

"His name is Vannozzo Giovanni de Rossi."

"Shit! That sounds fancy as fuck. I think I just came from hearing his name." Brian smacked Aila's arm.

"Ahh, why you do that for. I bet he's sexy too." Another smack. Dammmm. Aila just rubbed her arm and decided to shut up.

"Turns out he's the owner of the cafe, well he's the owner of many other business. He's 34 yrs old. And I'm the last piece to the puzzle. We are 2 guys and 3 girls. A five piece soulmate. But I'm not the youngest. One of the girls is 28."

"He told me he's the oldest. He's from Italy. He met Nyala Mazza, Ethiopian, mid 2012. Which is the year my eyes started to mess up. It looks like his family has money, businesses or some shit like that." Aila whistle at that.

"Damn baby, he's Italian with a badass name and he's fucking rich, with an Ethiopian girl. Baby, Ethiopian girls a fucking beautiful. If you don't tap that ass I will."

Brian turned to glare at Aila.

"Sorry, continue."

"He traveled here to close some business deal and ran into Antônia Belmira Santos, Brazilian, who was bonded to Maria Baltazar, Honduran."