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*Angelas POV*

« Stai bene ? » Mateo asks me.

« I don’t know Italian dumbass, » I reply noticing his purple knuckles.

« Di-Did you punch Mark ? » I ask.

« Si, my brother is e stupide, » he responds lifting my face up.

Damn I knew he looked familiar, now I see the resemblance between Mateo and Mark.

« And I asked, ‘Are you ok ?’ » he says snapping me out of my thoughts.

« Yes, I’m fine, but you didn’t have to punch him. I could have gotten him off me. » I say shaking my head out of his grip and try standing up.

« Yea, sure, » he says rolling his eyes, which is hot to be honest.

I try to get up but I fall back down. It’s probably from all my energy being drained when I was dancing on top of the bar. Mateo grabs my arm and swings it over his shoulder and says, « Let’s go back to your friends. »

We start heading in the direction my friends are at. As we get closer I notice Gabby and Eliza passed out on the bar and Ella is watching over them.

« Hey, » says Ella as Mateo sets me down on a nearby stool.

« Hello, » he replies when he’s done setting me down.

« Can we please go home, » I ask giving Ella puppy eyes.

« Yea, let’s go, » she says almost instantly and Mateo sighs.

« I’ll help you out, » says Mateo grabbing me on one side and Gabby on the other. This guy is so strong, what the fuck ? Ella took Eliza and led us outside to wait for our car. I was very tired so we all went to a nearby bench and sit down. My eyes where flickering like a light switch so I leaned my head on Mateo’s shoulder and fall asleep.

Then I feel a pair of hands lifting me bridal style. I slightly open my eyes and notice that Mateo is setting me in the passenger seat of Ella’s car. He didn’t notice that I had woken up and he whispered in my ear, « Bona Note, Bella. » Soon after I fell back asleep

During the weekend nothing really happen ; we only went grocery shopping and stayed home.

Now that the summer is over I have to finish my second to last year of college. Me, gabby and Ella go to the same school and Eliza goes to a school nearby. We all moved from Albania to get a better education so I’m studying to be a Registered Nurse, Gabby is a mechanical engineer and Ella is a surgeon and double majored in computer science. Eliza goes to a different school and studies to be a business manager.

As I walk into school for the first day, I accidently bump into someone and drop all my books on their feet. « Merda, » they say. I bend down to grab my books but so do they so i accidentally ran into. We bump heads and fall on our asses in the middle of the hall.

« I’m so sorry, » I say finally looking up to see who I ran into. The person that was sitting on his ass in front of me is Mark. He rubs his head from our impact. I notice a big, black bruise on his jaw.

« It’s alright, Tesoro. I should be the one to apologize. » He says

I stand up and walk over to him and place my hand oh his bruise and he shivers a bit under my touch. This much have been painful.

« I was drunk as hell last night and I was playing too rough. I’m sorry if I hurt you, that was not my intention. I was just trying to have some fun. I would never hurt you Tesoro, » he says with my hand still on his jaw.

« No it’s alright. You didn’t hurt me, » I reply.

« Can I at least make it up to you ? Let me take you out for lunch, » he says.

«  Yea sure but I don’t have my car with me, » I say.

« Oh that’s alright. I can drive us there, Tesoro, » Mark says handing me my books and helps me stand up. And we start heading towards my class.

We made small talk and apperantly we are going to this cafè later. As we reach my classroom Mark grabs my hand and kisses the back of it.

I try to hide my pink cheeks as I enter the room. I find a empty seat towards the back of the classroom and look around. There’s the class bitch, Melisa and her « squad. » There is also the class clown, Giovanni sitting in front of me.

I snap out of my thoughts as the teacher starts going over the syllabus. After a few minutes the door opens to reveal a dark, handsome figure.

« Thanks for joining out class today, Mr. Rossi, » says the teacher and Mateo starts heading towards the seat next to mine.

Mateo raises his hand and dismissed the teacher without turning around. Mateo’s hair is wet but slick and he is wearing a black button down shirt and black dress pants, and didn’t bring anything to class.

Mateo sits down and I was surprised he chose to sit next to me, even thought there where other seats open.

The teacher starts explaining the class work that we are going to be doing over the year.

The teacher asks us to take out a notebook to write down a few notes.

I pull my backpack from the ground and place it in my lap. I take out my pink sparkling unicorn notebook and start writing the notes down.

I look over to Mateo and notice that he has been staring at me for the past few minutes.

« Why are you staring at me, sweetheart. Do you like my notebook ? » I ask.

« Yes, it is a gorgeous for a Bella princessa, » he says smirking and I feel my blood rushing to my cheeks making me blush.

« Here I got an extra you can have, » I say handing him a purple puppy notebook.

« One, why the fuck do you have these kinds of notebooks ? And two, I am only taking it because I have nothing else to write on, » he says ripping the notebook from my hands.

« Ok, Mr.Tough-guy. And to answer your question I wanted these notebooks. Is there a problem ? » I ask throwing a pencil at him.

« Ah hell nah, you did not just do that, » he says catching the pencil before it hit him.

«  What are you going to do about it, zemer ? » I say raising my eyebrows.

« I am too fucking tired so I am not going to do shit, but consider this as a warning, » he says.

We finish our notes and I quickly leave the classroom to get to my other class of the day.