Ezra's POV
Iris and I are sitting in the living room.
"Ok?" Iris exclaims. "Ok? That's what you say?" She continues. "Yes." I respond.
"We all know that at some point you'll be running back-" I cut her off. "No I won't." I say. "Surrreee." She nods.
"I'm not kidding." I say. "Ok." She nods.
"I'm serious." I sigh. "I believe you."
"I have a date." I say. "Ezra I said- wait what?"
"You? You have a date?" She questions. "I missed something... sense when did you have a date." I tilts her head. "You. Ezra. Have a date?"
"Well ya." I nod. "With who... I didn't know you were looking for som- I'm confused." She tilts her head.
"It's called a dating app." I shrug. "Sense when were you using that?" She questions. "Sense this morning." I shrug. "And you already found a match? That was fast." She shrugs. "I'm hot... what did you expect?" She
"Ok who is this guy?" She asks. "Armando." I reply. She burst out in laughter. "Armando... you're going out with someone named Armando." She laughs. "I'm sorry that's hilarious."
"If he has a nice personality I don't care about the name." I shrug. "That's real beautiful Ezra and very wholesome of you.... But what's his last name?" She asks as I stand up. "I'm not telling you his last name."
"It's can't be as bad as Armando." She jokes. "You could have a hot last name." She pauses. "Like Vincenzo." She nods. "Or I can keep my last name.... Ferrari." I smile.
"I won't be here for dinner, I'll be with." I pause. "Armando." I say with an accent. "Huh sounds better with the accent." I shrug. "No it doesn't." She responds.
I roll my eyes and walk out the living room and up to my room.
I lay down on my bed and put on the tv.
A few seconds later I hear a knock on my door.
"Come in." I say.
Roman walks in. "Ok." He stands in front of me. "I need to tell you something." He continues as I sit up. "Yes."
"You have to promise not to tell anyone." He says. "I promise." I respond as he lifts up his pinky. "Pinky promise me right now." I lift up my pinky. "I pinky promise I won't tell anyone." We intertwine pinky's.
Why am I still doing pinky promises.
He stands there having a mind conversation.
Uh ok... is he not going to tell me.
"Ok." He nods to himself. "Ok, come here." He pulls me off the bed.
He walks he over to my closet. He walks in. "Uh no, it's dirty in-" ok he shut the door. Well that's awkward I have like bras and underwear all over the place. He opens the door and walks over to me. I look up at him. "Did you seriously get me out of bed so you show me you can walk in and out of a closet."
He stares at me blankly. "I thought you were telling me something." I say. "Ya I did." He crosses his arms. "No you didn't. You did something. There was no telling involved." I cross my arms. "Your brain is a brick." He sighs.
That's mean.
"I walked out of the closet." He points at the closet. "Ya." I nod. "I was right here." I continue.
"Ezra." He puts his hands on my shoulders. "Sweetheart." He continues. "I know this may be a big word for you." He sighs. "But me, as in Rom-" I cut him off. "Get to the point... sweetheart." I roll my eyes.
"I kinda sorta like men." He stares at me. "Ohhhh that's why you went out of the closet." I nod as he nods along with me. "Makes sense- wait what." I say. "Ya I also have a boyfriend." He continues. "Wait what?" I say again.
"I wanna meet him now." I smile. "No." He shakes his head. "What why?" I question. "Because you and my mom are the only ones that know... oh and Luca." He says.
"You told Luca but not Killian." I raise my eyebrows. "Have you met Killian." He exclaims. "I've met both of them actually." I nod.
"Than you should know Luca is easier to talk to than Killian. Also he's nicer." He says. "So you think Killian just wont support you?" I question. "Well no." He sighs as he walks over to my bed and sits down.
I sit down beside him. "Than?" I question. "I don't want him to think of me differently." He shrugs. "I can promise you he won't. He's your brother." I smile at him. "Ya and him being my brother makes everything worst cause what if he hates me." He says. "He won't... if he does I'll chop off his dick so he can't have any more kids." Also Aurora would just disown him.
"Also I'd be more worried for your boyfriend meeting Killian." I shrug.
"Oh also... I know he's not a going after me for money." He points out. "What? Did you ask him?" I joke. "No, I pulled a you and didn't tell him my last name. Thank you for the inspo." He gives me a thumbs up.
Imma about to throw hands.
"Did you not learn anything from your 'inspo'." I roll my eyes. "Actually I did. I didn't wait for a massive shoot out to break out to tell him who I am." He responds. "I told him... on a date like a normal person." Well apparently I'm not normal.
"Oh I also told him I'm a godfather." I look at him and laugh. "You told him." I say. "Well ya I didn't want Lily to pop out of no where like a little gremlin and say." He pauses. "He's my godfather." Ya she'd be the person to do that.
"Also I'm going on a date tonight." I say. "WHAT?" he exclaims. "With who?" He asks. "I don't know." I shrug. "Oooo it's a mystery." Well for you.
Few hours later
My door opens.
"YOUR GOING ON A DATE AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME."
I turn around and see Lily glaring at me.
"Soooo who's the guy?" She suddenly smiles.
"Armando." I say. "Ar- Ar- Armando?" She questions still with a smile on her face. "Get your laughs out now." I sigh. "No no no. It's a- it's really- I mean- we'll uh you know." She moves her hands around. "It's... unique." She gives me the thumbs up.
"It's not really hot and mysterious it's more like... weird." She shrugs. "Just weird." She continues.
"Thought you said it was unique." I put on some rings. "Ya that was until I repeated the name in my head multiple times... it's just weird."
"Armando." She says with an accent. "Hey it sounds better with the accent." She nods. "It's doesn't." I sigh. "Ya I know." She nods.
"Well when are you leaving." She asks as I look on my phone. "Now." I respond.
I walk passed her.
I look beside me expecting her to be there next to me... but she isn't.
"Are you not coming?" I turn around and see her looking at the floor.
"What's wrong?" I ask as she looks up. "Nothing." She shakes her head. "Are you sure." I tilt my head. "Ya." She nods.
"Ok let's go." We walk out of my room and down to the living room.
I open the door and turn to her. "You sure your ok." I say. "I'm fine mom I promise. Now go." She nods outside.
"If you're not fine I'll stay we can reschedule-" she cuts me off. "If you don't leave right now... I'll push you out of this house." She smiles.
"Ok." I sigh. "Bye love you." I kiss her cheek. "Love you too." She responds.
I walk down the stairs.
"I want all the details when you get home FYI." She yells to me.
At the restaurant
Five minutes late... he's five minutes late.
Of course.
Oh there he is.
Wow he definitely is... something.
Different.
"Ezra?" He questions. "Yup." I respond. "Sorry for being late, there was traffic." He sits down across from me. "It's fine." I shrug. It's not.
I could have had Aurora's home cooked meal by now. But you know I was waiting for Armando.
"So." I say. "Where did you come from?" I ask. "Work." He responds. "Oh." I nod. "Where do you work?" I question. "At an enterprise, office job." He responds. "Ahhh. I see." I look down at my menu.
So awkward.
"And where do you work?" He asks. "Well I live in Milan, I work for my dad as a secretary, but right now I'm spending a few months in France as a vacation." I shrug.
"By your accent I can tell your not from here." I raise my eyebrows. "I'm from Puerto Rico." He responds. "Long way from home." I say. "It is, France just had better job opportunities." He responds.
20 minutes later
And he's already downing his third drink. I really hope he's just nervous and he normally doesn't drink like this.
I look down at my phone... I should probably check on Lily. She seemed off before I left.
"I'm sorry, I have to text my daughter real quick." I say going on my phone. "You have a daughter?" He questions as I click on Lily's name. "I do." I respond. "How old?" He asks. "Sixteen." I answer as I hit send on the text.
I look up at him when he doesn't say anything else.
"Is there a problem?" I question. "No, no, of course not." He shakes his head. "What's her name?" He asks. "Lily." I respond. "Beautiful name." He takes a sip of his fourth glass of beer. "Thank you, she was named after my grandmother."
—————————-Luca's POV——————
We're all at the dinner table.
"Where's Ezra?" My mom asks. "On a date." Iris answers and is attempting not to laugh.
What?
"Oh, with who?" My mom questions. "With mystery man." Roman wiggles his fingers. "So we don't know who she's with?" My dad questions.
"She's with... an Armando." Iris laughs as Lily leans back in her seat. "It's not that funny." I hear her mumble as she rolls her eyes.
Roman chokes on his food. "Armando?" Killian question. "Why an Armando?" He continues. "Out of all the names in the dictionary... Armando."
"I'm Armando and I'm scared of nothing." Roman says in an accent as Sofia laughs. "It's Hernando, not Armando." Lily scoffs. "I'm Jorge and I make the spackle." Roman ignores her.
"What are you saying?" My dad stares at him. "Encanto." Roman does jazz hands as Sofia laughs. "Oh right, right, right... Encanto." My dad nods. "What's that?" He questions. "A Disney movie." Iris answers.
"I wanna meet this Armando." Roman says. "He better be decent looking." Iris adds on. "He's probably gross." Lily shrugs.
"Are you ok Lil?" Iris asks. "I'm fine." She responds. "Just eating food." She sticks up her fork.
After dinner
I'm sitting in the living room on my phone.
I hear someone walk in.
They sit beside me.
"I have a plan."
I look beside me and see Lily. "A plan? For what?" I question.
"What if they're going on a second date and then there's a third, fourth, fifth-" I cut her off. "Than that's good." I respond. Well for Ezra, that's good.
"No it's not." She shakes her head. "We're going to break them up." She smiles. "No, we aren't." I respond. "You want them to be together?" She asks. "No, but we're not breaking them up. If she's happy why break them up." I say.
"Well I don't trust him." She crossed her arms. "Do you know him?" I question. "Well no." She sighs.
"But what if, he tries to take her away from me. I want her happy but I don't want her to leave me." She leans her back against the couch. "She won't leave you."
"Why are you encouraging them being together." She looks over at me. "I want her to be happy." I say. "And you think she'll be happy with Armando." She raises her eyebrows. "You never know." I shrug.
"I thought you wanted to be my dad?" She says. Of course I want to be here father. I just don't know how to do that. "I'm manipulating you into breaking them up." She whispers. "You don't usually tell people that." I whisper back.
She stares at the door for a moment before almost giving herself whiplash. She turns to face me.
"Your not even gonna fight a little?" She questions. "Why would I?" I look at her. "I don't want to interfere with her life." I say. "I just want her to be happy." I continue. "Oh." She says quietly as she looks down.
"Why do you want me in your life... even after what happened?" I ask.
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