Chapter 2

(A/N Notes: Something something Sardegnian Glory!)

"..." *Using his phone right above his face*

"..." *Fidget fidget*

Yasu and Cicilia were sharing a bench under a tree shade

"..." <How did we end like this!?>

"..." *Pa*

Cicilia could only shout that to herself, as Yasu accidentally dropped his phone on his face

Some time earlier

"Yasu, we'll be going to this famous winery that's open for visiting"

"Okay"

"Then we'll be going, take care"

"Okay"

His parents then left to visit the winery, they didn't ask if he wanted to go because they didn't know if they would accidentally drinking too much wine and forget about him again at a place with a bad internet signal, so instead, they decided to simply let him stay in the room of the inn they were staying at Naples, Italy of course

"..."

He was watching tv, and there was only one thing he could say

"I understand nothing of what they're saying, but it looks interesting"

And he kept watching tv without understanding anything until he felt a certain urge

"... *Sigh*"

He suddenly felt an urge for sweets, so he got up from the soft bed, picked his wallet and phone, and he left the inn room with the card to come back inside later

"... *searching for someplace that sells sweets with his phone* Found one"

He found a patisserie that was close enough for him to comfortably go there on foot

Some minutes later

"... ... ..."

Yasu was carefully looking at the sweets and their prices

"Allora cosa vuoi ordinare?"

"Ah! Sì, voglio questo, questo, questo e questo"

He made sure to remember a few words that would help him ask for things in shops, but he still mostly relied on hand gestures. The employee picked the sweets and asked

"Qui o per andare?"

"Hmm... S, sì, per andare"

He guessed the second one to be to go, and he got it right. The employee packed the sweets, and Yasu paid and thanked them for the sweets, then he left the shop. But, he was greeted by the hot summer sun

<So hot... Oh! A park>

Yasu went inside the park to escape the hot sun, and he immediately felt more cooler just by going under a tree shade

<Much better>

He walked a little more until he found a bench, so he sat on it and covered his eyes, which were hurting a little due to the sun, with his hand as he let his head fall to his back

"scusami, ma posso sedermi anche io?"

"Hm? Sì, sì"

"Grazie"

He heard a girly voice talking to him, but since he didn't really know what she said, he just yes in Italian and hoped for the best. To which now that he understood what grazie meant, he felt relieved to not have answered something weird, as he felt a person sitting down right beside him

"... *Sigh*"

Yasu then removed his hand from his eyes and went back to a more normal posture as his previous posture started to feel bad

"... Hm?... Carcano-san?"

"Huh?... Eh? Y, Yasu?"

When he looked to his left, he noticed a girl with pink hair that looked very familiar, and when he called for the surname of the girl, she answered back with his name

"So it's you"

"Cosa hai detto?"

Not knowing what the other was saying, they quickly fell into an awkward silence. Cicilia's cheeks quickly turned red, while Yasu simply picked his phone as his face kept expressionless as ever

Back to the beginning of the chapter

"... H, hmmm... Yasu?"

"?" *Rubbing his nose*

"C, cosa stai facendo qui?"

"..." *Stare*

"..." *Feeling more embarrassed*

Yasu only stared at Cicilia, as he tried to come with an answer to a question he didn't understand, so he tried to try to answer with the few words he had memorized, but all he was doing was making Cicilia more embarrassed by staring at her

"... Sei... Dolce?"

"Huh!?"

When Cicilia heard him calling her sweet, she felt very flustered

<Yeah, it should be right, when I was messing around with the translator anything that had 'you' turned into 'sei'. While dolce was written in that patisserie, yup, yup it should be sei dolce, alright>

<No, no, no... H, he must be wrong... O, or maybe not... S, since last time he said he really meant t, that I was cute> "... V, veramente?"

"Sì, sì. Sei dolce"

"..."

Cicilia's face was once again completely red from embarrassment

"G, g, grazie..."

"..."

Yasu then looked at his shopping bag and picked something from it, and handed it to Cicilia

"Huh?"

It was a strawberry cheesecake, she got slightly confused and looked at him, to which he simply nodded at her, then he got up and walked away as he waved goodbye to her, she waved back to him, then she looked at the dessert she received from him

<W, why did he gave a strawberry cheesecake?... Wait... My friends call me strawberry... And he gave a dessert containing strawberries, and he also called me sweet earlier... ... ... He is saying he loves me!?!?!?>

Her mind that wasn't working quite right from her embarrassment, managed to come with an answer that wasn't right, but since Yasu wasn't there to correct her, not that he even could in the first place. And because of the wrong conclusion, she got even more flustered and embarrassed, which only worsened her conviction that her answer was correct

"Fragola (Strawberry), what're you doing?"

"Eh!? Ah! C, C, Cina!?"

"... Why's your face all red?"

"Eh!? I, it's that obvious?"

"Yeah, did you fell for someone?"

"..." <I'm also in love with him!?!?!?>

"Ah! You have a dessert! I want to eat!"

"Huh? Ah! Well... Do you promise to stop lying if I let you eat it?"

"Yes!"

"Are you lying?"

"... No"

"..."

"..."

"Haa... Fine, you can have it"

And Cicilia gave the cheesecake to her younger sister, that immediately started eating it, giving Cicilia some time to think

"..." <... Yasu likes me, and I also like him back!?!?!?>

Think in the wrong stuff, that only got more confused for her, that only confused her more

3 years later

"..." <Now that I think about it... I really came up with a stupid conclusion back then, but I was also really confused about what I was feeling back then>

Cicilia was sitting on a chair inside a gymnasium, as she waited alongside many other students for the opening ceremony to start, and as she waited she was reminiscing about that time she met a strange boy back in her home country

<And speaking about Yasu, he looked like a Japanese person, and that he had the same age as me... Fufu, so that means he and I must be in the same grade then. But that doesn't mean we would be studying in the same classroom, and I can't even talk about it being in the same school>

"Excuse me... Sorry... Almost there..."

As Cicilia was deep in her thoughts someone was moving to the open seat right by her side, then the person sat down on that seat

"Good morning!"

"Hm? Good morning"

She turned her face to greet the person, and the person greeted her back. And when they looked at each other they both started staring at each other

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"... Carcano-san?"

"Y, Y, Yasu!?"

Cicilia got very flustered from seeing the person she was thinking about in person after three years

(A/N Notes: I'm going to be honest, I didn't really know how to end the chapter, so I decided to end like this, easier for me to make a following chapter)