Marchetti’s Obsession – Chapter 2
Mia Lennox
-Mia, Ashley, the flight leaves in six hours and you’re still lying around like orangutans,” my beautiful mother complains.
I listen as she shuffles her feet around the room and then the darkness that was flooding the room is replaced by sunlight, I groan and cover my head with the quilts, I don’t understand why she’s being so over the top, it’s not like we’re going to miss the flight.
ice water from the depths of the fridge.
ting for the second call? -questions my best friend with mockery
rattle like one of those crunchy cheetos.
ced that we would be travelling to Europe and best of all my best friend is also included in this trip.
at the modeling agency, my mother and her mother from that moment on we were
e and speaks in such an elegant way?
ask.
e Italian class.
translating from a mobile phone is the easiest thing of all,” I remind him. -And knowing you, th
he complains.
ail and get out of bed.
nally get to see what it feels like to be with a guy,” I can’t help
going to enjoy this week in Venice and let fate take over my life,” I tell him as I walk to th
in fate! -he shouts.
I smile.
forge our own destiny with the choices we make. Although it is obvious that there will come situations that can change your future to somet
the final say in what you decide to do with your life.
(…)
rom the trip, I don’t feel like eating, they give me the key to the room that I will share with Ashley and we go up
re the area.
(…)
the other hand, is very active in
en leave the hotel room, I have no idea where the dining room is so I go straight to the reception.
orning,” I greet.
can I help you? -he asks with k
that corridor and
and to my good fortune I catch a glimpse of my mother.
she smiles at me.
ons to one of the waiters so he can take my order. -An American breakfast and orange juice,” she writes down my order and leaves.
.
question.
t,” I nod.
er the idea of moving us to this country.
though she loves my dad, she’s very stubborn.
to cause a family disaster.
, she has asked me several times about the career I want to choose. It’s a complicated situation because I love the United States and my whole childhood is there, I don’t even know Italian, but it’s time to explore other horizons.
pting my thoughts.
rry, what were you saying?
he dress you want to wear for your birthday,” I lo
t it now?
ou might want to go t
r thought turning nineteen
(…)
nice is a beautiful place, no doubt about it.
, but not what I’m looking for for my party.
,” my mother fans her face trying to harmonise and soothe the burning in her skin from the sun’s rays.
ted easily and end up crashing into a wall.
at the sight of that blue suit stained by my ice cream and realising that the wall is a person.
which is thick and raspy.
hear him say other things in Italian and I can’
ssment.
past me and I can only watch as he gets lost in the crowd, I thank life that he didn’t make a fuss and make me pay him for ruining his
” my mother scolds me the moment she reaches my side.
alk to the ice cream shop and when we get there, she takes a seat next to my best friend. -Stay here, I’ll go to the shop in front,” we nodded.
xclaimed, covering my face.
se is stained? -he asks.
” I say. -I ran into the body of a huge Italian and for a moment I thought it was a wall, until I heard him shout something at me that I didn’t understand,” she arches her eyebrows
s he ha
didn’t even notice that.
.
-Fear?
so hard and icy, it gave me a horrible terror,” I tell her and Ashley doesn’t a
we go to the hotel while I can’t help but get that feeling that someone is watc