The perfect first day

‘Hi everyone! This is our new apartment! Can you see it? Is my phone camera filming properly?’

‘Come on Alby, put down that phone and help us unpack…’

‘Thomas, let him be! He is just having fun.’

‘Alessio, you definitely understand me! Becoming an internet celebrity is tough nowadays!’

Alberto, Thomas and Alessio were really different from each other, yet the three of them decided to live together.

The house was rather small and dimly lit, the multitude of boxes filled every corner, preventing passage.

The good looking Thomas was the oldest boy among the three and also the most conscientious. His hair was dark and thick, styled by his friend Alessio. His olive green eyes, however, continued to scan the surroundings crying for help. He began to unwrap the packages by himself. ‘Excuse me, who owns these?’ He pulled out of the box a pair of purple underwear, waving them to attract the attention of the other two, but Alberto was too busy filming the house, and Alessio followed him like a pet.

He sighed, he wondered if he had made a good choice to live with them since he came from a wealthy family and could certainly have lived in a better house. ‘I'm not asking too much, just a little cooperation’.

'Thomas, you are so boring! I'm live streaming right now.' Alberto brought his big face even closer to the camera, his nasal voice was almost irritating to those who listened to him.

‘I know... but besides your parents, who is watching you?’ Thomas replied sarcastically.

‘Come on, I'll help you’. Alessio stretched out his hands to grab the purple underwear which later turned out to be his. ‘You already know that Alberto is still a small and innocent creature who believes in dreams, we are career men’.

The three boys were born and raised in the same neighborhood and, frequenting the same playground, they became friends. Thomas, however, had always been a rather serious boy because of the family he came from, the entire neighborhood had nicknamed him ‘rich kid’.

After spending the entire afternoon emptying boxes, Thomas lay down on the only bed in the house, a double bed for three.

In front of the bed there was a desk and a computer where Alberto had placed all his junk: various gadgets of video game characters, a dirty milk cup left there since the morning, and finally an opened and emptied pack of cheese crisps.

Alessio lay down on the bed next to Thomas, his gaze turned towards his cell phone.

‘Who are you chatting with?’ Thomas asked curiously, trying to peek at the phone screen.

«There's this girl who's been flirting with me for a while, she comes to the salon every week and yesterday she asked me for my phone number...» Alessio explained with a hint of hesitation in his voice.

‘You don't seem very happy about it.’

‘At first I gave her the wrong number, but then she asked me to repeat it and obviously I had already forgotten it! So I had to give her the right one…’

‘You're still the same idiot’. Thomas chuckled.

‘Sorry, not to interrupt your lively conversation, but I remind you that I'm live streaming and the doorbell just rang if you didn't notice. Could you please go and open the door? Thank you’. Alberto snorted for a second, then went back to being funny in front of the camera.

‘I’m going’. Thomas got up from the bed casting a cold look at Alessio. ‘Please don't bother yourself’.

The doorbell kept ringing insistently.

Thomas' patience began to waver when he tried to peek through the peephole in the door to see who the disturber was, but there was no light on in the landing.

He slowly opened the door, arms in front of his face to defend himself.

‘I'm sorry, is Alessio at home?’ a small, delicate voice lowered Thomas's guard, and he let his arms fall to his sides.

«Yes, Alessio is at home. But who are you?" he couldn't see her well because of the darkness.

'I apologize for not introducing myself. I am Aurora' the girl finally turned on the light, a small and slender figure emerged from the shadows.

‘Ah... nice to meet you. I'm Thomas, a friend of his. Please, come in’ the boy was perplexed, of course she had introduced herself, she had told him her name, but he still hadn't understood who she was and what she wanted.

‘Thank you’ Aurora entered the house with small and quick steps, she was wearing a very long beige jacket that covered half of her body. Her forehead was covered entirely by a messy fringe, a sprinkling of freckles on her face. Her hair was tied in a chocolate-colored braid and her ears were slightly protruding, adorned on the lobes with very heavy, large gold-colored hoops.

Alessio was blissfully lying on the bed with his cell phone in his hand, looking at himself in the front camera.

'Alessio, there's a visitor for you' Thomas announced.

Alessio almost fell out of bed in amazement when he saw Aurora. 'You? How did you find me?' his expression was a mixture of amazement and agitation.

'So you remember me, huh?' the girl's face suddenly changed expression, she was no longer docile, but resembled that of an angry dog. 'How dare you treat me like that the other night?'

'I don't know what you're talking about...' Alessio tried to take his time, he stuttered.

'Then I'll refresh your memory!' Aurora began to rail against Alessio, Thomas held her by the coat. 'Let me go, this asshole has to pay!'

Alberto, who was still in the room but no one had noticed him, began to scream as well. 'Do you want to be quiet?'

'Alessio, what did you do to this young lady?' Thomas asked, still holding her coat. 'Don't tell me you hooked up with her and then dumped her...'

'So, do you want to let me go, yes or yes?' Aurora also began to rant against Thomas, who finally let her go, exasperated.

The girl approached Alessio and with a loud slap on the face she crowned the three friends' perfect first evening in their new house.

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