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{mornings & maybes}

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❝...but my mind, all it desires is you.❞
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THE BRIGHT SUN illuminated the room as crisp morning air filled it from the cracked window. timothée squinted his eyes open his the sun shined and his eyes but his vision was partially blocked by something dark.

pulling his head back to take in his surroundings. he saw a head full of dark brown hair sprawled across white pillows like spilled water. laid next to him was selene. her skin glowing in the light of the morning, her bare body covered by her white sheets.

he smiled to himself. the girl looked content. at ease and peace. timothée leaned down and pushing her hair aside, he gave her a kiss on the cheek.

he stood and tugged on his pants and put his white undershirt on. shooting sebastian a quick message that he would be home sometime soon. he creeped out of the room as quietly as possible with a quest to find the bathroom.

he found one white door cracked open but was met with the sight of grey walls and a bed with messy red sheets. he strolled pass knowing that wasn't the bathroom.

a noise was coming from behind one door and it sounded like a shower. timothée had completely forgotten about selene's roomates. he wanted to wait until selene awoke and decided if it was okay to met them or not.

however that plan flew right through the roof when he made his way to see if there was a downstairs bathroom but was met with piercing blue eyes.

"holy shit! dude you scared me! if you're one of nico's one night stands we don't do bed and breakfast so sorry but you're in the wrong place." the blonde girl said a bit of bitterness laced in her voice at the mention of a one-night stand.

"i-uhm nico?" timothée said running a hand through his already messy hair.

"wait...you're not here with nico?" brigetta asked moving closer to the knife holder just in case.

"n-no i'm not i'm actually um looking for th-the bathroom." timothée said easing a little.

"in my house. who are you hear wi-" brigetta started but was cut off by loud footsteps coming down the steps.

"morning faccia di rospo" nicolas said making his way into the kitchen whilst grabbing and apple and taking a bite out of it.

he looked at brigetta's stance and the knife she now held in her hand along with the pale face of the already pale boy.

"who's this?" nicolas questions cautiously.

"i'm timothée i'm here with sele-" it was timothée's turn to now get cut off by a noise from the stairs.

a loud yawn was heard as selene emerged from the staircase. she wore timothée's yellow button he had wore the night before. her hair was pulled up into a ponytail. loose strands still flying about as she walked.

"woah woah. well what a good morning! brig please don't kill timmy this early in the morning." selene said casually waking over to the cabinet and pulling out a glass to pour herself peach juice.

the trio stared at the girl in shock as she made her way over to the thin closet next to the down stairs bathroom door.

"he's with me. don't worry. here's a toothbrush tim, bathroom is roght there." the tan girl said using the still packaged toothbrush to point to the bathroom door before handing it over to him.

"alright. sorry for giving you a uhm scare and all." timothée said tucking some of his very messy hair behind his ear and making his way towards the bathroom.

brigetta put the knife back next to the other knives in the knife holder and timothée closed the bathroom door and nicolas stood like a deer in headlights. a bitten apple still in his hand.

"ok so we're just not gonna talk about mr. curly sue over there?!" brigetta said trotting after selene who began making her way to the couch.

" he's a...person i know." selene said smirking before going to flick through the channels on the tv.

"yea a person that you know and have sleepovers with, wake up with messy hair with, and lend an extra toothbrush from the extra toothbrush box with." nicolas came plopping on the couch as well laying his body across the two girls.

" yea well he's a cool person i know then." selene said playing with nicolas' brown locks and brigetta played with his fingers.

"oh my god. oh. my. god. oh my god! is he the boy you were going out to seethe other day?!" brigetta exclaims bouncing a little.

"oooo the one you refused to tell us about?!" nicolas' voice chirped from her lap as selene flustered in embarrassment.

"maybeeee" she dragged out as she dropped the remote that was picked up by nicolas as she pulled herself from underneath the boy's weight making his head plop onto the couch suddenly.

"hey i'm not done with you missy!" brigetta calls after the girl who was in the kitchen eating grapes.

brigetta goes to pull herself from nicolas but notices their hands and how it felt so normal the two didn't squirm away from each other like they were filled with diseases. pushing her thoughts aside she wiggles from under him making her way to the kitchen.

"sure. i wasn't comfortable at all." nicolas mumbles to himself as he continues to flick through the channels mindlessly.

"does selie have a crushhh!" brigetta taunted.

"do you wanna be any louder?" selene asked her eyes wide.

"is that his?" brigetta asked following selene around the counter tugging at the end of the yellow shirt that fit much bigger on the girl.

" no it's nico's!" selene said sarcastically.

"it's not. yellow doesn't look good on him. i told him when we were-. ehem ehem. um but do you like him?" brigetta let's out.

skipping over the first part of brigetta's sentence selene replies,

"i don't know. it's-its complicated. but i think i do. i just need more time." selene says looking the blonde in the eyes.

"if that ain't the cutest shit. whew my eyes might just sweat." nicolas says walking over to the girls making them both roll their eyes.

"what he means is, it's okay to be confused my love. love is confusing. but there's a difference between confused and scared. don't push it away because you don't know. learn." brigetta says holding selene's face in her hands.

"yea darling. fall but fall with caution." nicolas says sending the girl a sweet smile.

"awe you guys. bring it in." selene says initiating the group hug.

all three pull together. nicolas wrapping both arms around the girls as they hug each other and latch onto his waist.

"okay answer one question tho...what was it like?" brigetta asks with a big smirk.

"what was what like?" selene asks eyebrows pulling together in confusion.

"well we all know you two did it so what was it like? was a big? small? that's okay. vanilla?" brigetta asks with a "duh" face.

"oh nope not my type of conversation." nicolas says raising his arms and walking back over to the couch and throwing himself on it.

"i'm not telling!" selene says releasing the blonde from the hug.

"but-but-" brigetta was cut off by the bathroom door opening and timothée walking out.

" oh hello curly sue!" the blonde called making timothée and selene chuckle.

"sorry for giving you a scare earlier." timothée apologized.

"it's fine, i think you scared nico more than me." brigetta said laughing.

"you didn't." nicolas yelled from the couch making the trio laugh.

"so you're the famous timothée huh?" nicolas questioned making his way into the kitchen and throwing his arm around brigetta her cheeks turning pink making selene smile.

" i wouldn't say famous." timothée says with a hearty laugh.

"but he is a talented actor and i have much faith in him being in the hearts of millions around the world someday!" selene says smiling up at the boy causing him to give her a kiss on the cheek.

"well aren't you two like cotton candy. sweet and soft." brigetta says eating a cheez-it from its respective box.

"ha ha ha very funny." selene says with an eye roll as she wraps her arms around timothée's waist and him putting his arm around her shoulder.

"you should come out to La Peiretá with us tonight. you can bring some friends too." nicolas states stealing cheez-it's from the box brigetta was holding.

"what's that?" timothée questions in confusion.

"it's a club my american boy." selene laughed at the boys cluelessness.

"oh then yea sure! i should probably go and tell my friends." timothée says heading towards upstairs to gather his belongings.

"oh um...sel my shirt." timothée says turning and rubbing the back of his neck.

"oh yea!" selene says jogging after him up the steps to return it.

"they're cute." brigetta says looking after the pair.

"you're cute." nicolas says looking down at the blonde.

"oh shut up!" brigetta says swatting his shoulder but the blush on her cheeks began to rise as well as nicolas' rising feelings.

upstairs selene is sitting on her windowsill looking down at her songbook as timothée fixes his shirt.

" can you tell me how this sounds timmy?" the girl asks as the boy nods his head.

" i was reading Slim Aarons and i got to thinking that i thought. maybe i'd get less stressed if i was tested less like all of these debutantes. smiling for miles in pink dresses and high heels on white yachts. but i'm not, baby, i'm not. no, i'm not, that, i'm not" the girl sings softly her voice gentle.

"it was beautiful. i felt it. like i really felt it." timothée said looking in the girls eyes with sincerity.

"i've been working on it and still am but it's very dear to me and i want it to be as perfect as can be." selene says a small smile on her face.

"i have faith it will be the most beautiful symphony heard in a while." he says pecking the tip of her nose.

she smiles back at him and her eyes fall to the yellow shirt that hung on her body not to long ago. timothée notices.

"i would let you keep it but i don't want to walk around in just a tank top. you did look much better in it than i ever could." timothée speaks walking over and placing his head on selene's shoulder.

"i like you in just a tank top." selene says caressing the boys jawline.

"oh yea? just a tank top." timothée says turning to look at her.

"maybe less occasionally." the girl says smirking and turning to look at him.

"if you keep that look i may never leave." the curly haired boy says with a grin.

"well then maybe i should keep it." selene says moving closer so their noses are touching.

closing the gap timothée leans in and places a soft kiss on the girls lips. this time the kiss is soft and sweet. different from the one shared last night. it was like they were having a conversation through touch.

pulling away timothée smiles giving the girl one more peck before lightly skipping out the bedroom making selene laugh at the boys antics. he says his goodbyes to brigetta and nicolas before skipping down the street a feeling of glee floating above him.

reaching his hotel, he sneaks through the lobby and up to his room.

there he finds sebastian laid across his bed watching a black and white italian mafia movie. he lays taking notes in a notebook. his head shoots up at the sound of the door.

"there's lover boy! what have you been up to with your italian bambina?" sebastian asks with a taunting smile.

" i don't know. she makes me feel...i don't know...like really...like myself. you know?" timothée says falling onto the bed with a smile.

"wait a minute. are you...simping?" sebastian asks closing his books and jumping onto timothée's bed.

"shut up!" timothée says grabbing a pillow and swinging it up at his brown haired friend.

"nah nah i don't blame you. from the way you talk about her you'd be crazy not to." sebastian says plopping onto his butt.

"her roommates invited us out to a club tonight. i have to tell cassie and alex." timothée states.

"an italian club count me in! let's tell them now." sebastian says standing and going to the door.

he opens it and walks across the hall and knocks on the door. cassandra opens the door with a paintbrush in her mouth and a messy bun.

"ya?" she lets out as she grabs the paintbrush.

"tweedle dum and tweedle dee we need you in room 407 asap." sebastian says as he turns as he makes his way back into his shared room with timothée.

"okay bossy bobby." cassandra says as she rolls her eyes and motions for her brother.

soon the siblings are sitting on timothée's bed along with sebastian as timothée tells them about the plans.

"so are you guys down?" the brunette boy asks.

"a party at a club in italy. i would be dumb to say no!" alexander states.

"i'm in sure. it'll be a nice scene for photos." cassandra says.

"so tell us about her. do you like her?" cassandra asks the boy.

"yea i think i do. i just don't know how to go upon it now that we did i-" timothée starts but then stops himself.

the groups mouths go agape at their friends words.

"you guys did it?!" alexander shouts.

"that's my boy! it was safe and consented though right?" sebastian says.

"oh.my.god. how did you get an italian girl before me?!" cassandra fake pouts.

"1. yes. 2. yes of course. 3. haha take an L." timothée says sitting up slightly only to be pushed back down by cassandra.

"i say you go for it. you only live once." alexander says.

"yea! like when else are you gonna find romance in italy?" sebastian states.

"and it seems like you both really like each other so the outcome seems pretty good." cassandra adds.

"thanks losers. i really appreciate you." timothée says smiling at his trio of friends.

"yeah yeah bring it in lame-o" cassandra says opening her arms for them to join into the group hug.

"alright that's enough. i have to get ready to party in ITALYYYY!" alexander shouts as he stands and rushes back into his room across the hall.

the trio laugh and then split ways to get ready for their night out.

later on they find themselves walking into a club. the purple and blue stone light goes wild as it illuminates the many bodies dancing on the floor. the smell of alcohol and sweat fills the air but it doesn't seem to faze the party goers as they continue on with their night. the music goes through its changes from hype and loud to chill and groovy. the four friends meet up with the trio at a table brigetta managed to snag in the more put-off corner of the club.

"curly sue!" brigetta shouts over the music as she sees timothée arrive with his friends.

"woah you clean up pretty nicely." nicolas says in a joking manner about timothée's black shirt and black pants that were cuffed at the bottom and his brown-ish boot shoe.

"well i try." timothée says as he goes up to selene and kisses her on the cheek.

he admired the girl in her black spaghetti strap dress. she had her hair up in a sleek ponytail and a bang swooped over her forehead at the moment. she wore light makeup and they boy thought she looked utterly beautiful under the light. little did he know her mind was running wild with thoughts of the same thing.

"selene, nicolas, and brigetta. this is cassandra, sebastian, and alexander." timothée says introducing his friends to selene and the duo he met this morning.

an exchange of "hello"'s and "hi"'s were heard as the four people squeezed into the booth along with the three who were already present.

"well what about an icebreaker? shots?" nicolas says his arm thrown loosely around brigetta.

"it's always a yes to shots!" sebastian states.

"ooo make it tequila for me!" alexander says.

soon the shots nicolas ordered arrives and the group of seven have their arms interlinked and are counting down from three. once they hit one they all throw their heads back and down the shots. faces ranging from scrunched together in agony or eyes wide open and excited.

"woo! that never fails to wake you up" cassandra let's out her eyes wide awake.

"you can say that again!" selene says laughing along with the girl.

"it's like ice water being poured on you. but instead of water it's very very very strong liquor." brigetta says joining in on the laugh fest.

moments later the group are playing a game of never have i ever but drinking style.

" no way! so you're telling me you got so shitfaced you made out with someone cause you thought they were brad pitt?!" selene exclaimed at alexander.

"i promise if you were there you would think it was him too!" alexander said back laughing making the others at the table laugh as well.

the game continued on and the group of people began to get comfortable in the presence of the new people.

the familiar synth of a song made timothée's ears perk up. selene noticed this and looked up at the boy.

" crush a bit, little bit. roll it up, take a hit. feeling lit, feeling right. two AM, summer night" timothée mouths along with the song a gleam in his eyes.

"you know this song?" she asked slipping her hand into the boys who grasped it back automatically.

"know it? i live for this song." timothée said looking down at the girl with a smile.

"wanna dance?" selene asked with a mischievous grin on her face.

"ye-yea i do." timothée smiles leading the girl out of the booth by her hand.

the group at the table all whistle and cheer in a joking way as the duo make their way into the dance floor.

" if i fall if i die, know i lived it to the fullest. if i fall if i die, know i lived and missed some bullets"

their bodies move along to the music as selene loosely has her arms wrapped around timothée's neck and his around her waist as they swayed to the music.

" i'm on the pursuit of happiness and i know everything that shine ain't always gonna be gold"

timothée mouths to the girl in front of him with a silly face making the girl giggle rapidly.

"i'll be fine once i get it, get it in, i'll be good"

selene mouths back to him matching his silly expression.

timothée pulls the brunette girl into him gently. her hands going around his waist and his draped over her shoulder. he likes this moment. and so did she. the comfortable they shared was what made the moment so sweet and gentle. it was almost as if it were timeless but the pair both knew it wasn't. timothée was here for an acting class. selene was here cause she grew up here. but they had a connection that proved to be strong. strong that maybe some distance wouldn't break it. but maybe it appeared that was because that's how they invented it. however that bridge was to be crossed when that day came. for now this this was their moment to just hold each other.

soon the song changed and the more upbeat tone of "3 nights" by dominic fike began to play.

" three nights at the motel, under streetlights, in the city of palms"

a loud cheer was heard from the groups table as brigetta stood and made her way to the dance floor pulling cassandra and alexander along with the her the trio laughing about.

"well shall we?" sebastian asked extending his hand out to nicolas jokingly.

"why the hell not." nicolas shrugged grabing the boys hand in return of the joke as they made their way onto the dance floor.

" feel like the least of all your problems, you can reach me if you wanna, stay up tonight, stay up at night"

the group dance around with each other smiles lit on each of their faces. selene and timothée fake tango to the song laughing to each other. brigetta and nicolas dirty dance in the cleanest way possible as they sing the words to each other. cassandra, sebastian, and alexander have formed their own mini dance circle and are going back and forth between dancing in the middle.

" cause i've been up for, three nights at the motel, under streetlights, in the city of palms call me what you want, when you want, if you want. and you can call me names if you call me up."

the group shouts the words at each other as the dance around wildly together now.

these were the cherish-able moments. dancing around in a club with your friends to a groovy song content with life. when all your worries were just fragments of memories even if it was just for the moment. when you felt free, yourself, wild, and crazy. and when you felt it with all the people you love. these were the moments you captured and held dear to you. these were the moments you don't forget. the ones you didn't want to forget.

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selene's polaroid dump

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what a view to wake too <3

brigetta and nicolas xx

"all my night, you been missin' all my night still got some good nights memorized" - nights, frank ocean

nico pico de gallo hehe

bombshell brig <3

lil timmy t ;)

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nicolas' polaroid dump
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sel xx

italian girl & american boy

shitfaced.

a party scene¡

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timothée's polaroid dump
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italy at night xx

potato headass lol

cassie is a mOdel

besties <3

nighttime beauty <3

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AUTHORS NOTE:
~ thanks for reading! i hope you liked it! lmk if you see big mistakes. also it's sad but looking at my planning note this book is almost over. almost. but i hope you all are safe, hydrated, & healthy!! try to eat a little something, laugh, and use your voice for good! sending much love xx
- <3

translation.
faccia di rospo - frogface (hehe)
La Peiretá - i legit made this up lmaoo
bambina - girl/lady/woman/something of the female gender lol