7

as soon as we got home i locked myself in my room and started texting rosia.

eleanor

OH MY GOD! you will not believe what happened today..

rosia

WHAT? WHAT IS IT?? please tell me you and my brother got together 🙏

eleanor

no - well i wish but - something else happened today. me my mum and my sister eliza went out y'know that's casual until i bumped into joão!! my mum asked me if he was my boyfriend and i told her that it wasn't omg it was soo embarrassing 🫣 but anyway mum asked if me and him would look after liz while she went shopping. so yeah i was mad cause he was teasing me for stuttering but he made a good point that he should be there cause idk where everything is - he took us to this park and we sat down on a bench while liz played and then OMG he intertwined our hands and i was seriously blushing SO hard. then liz started crying cause a boy wouldn't let her go on the slide and joão handled it - honestly it was so damn attractive that he was good with kids. he held my hand again and we were talking about how you and my brother had started dating- he started laughing so i asked him why and he said 'nothing, you're just really pretty' and istg i folded so hard. i looked at him after he said that and we made strong eye contact, he was biting his lip and looking at my lips and omg my heart was racing; we started to lean in for a kiss BUT then my mum disturbed us, man it was so awkward he literally said bye and walked off omg i was so embarrassed

rosia

damn girl; that's a LONG paragraph give me a sec to read it..

3 minutes later:

rosia

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH OMGGG YOU ALMOST KISSED?! OH MY GOD IMAGINE YOUR MUM DIDNT DISTURB YOU GUYS YOU WOULD OF ACTUALLY KISSED HIM- SORRY IM FREAKING OUT

eleanor

i knowww i'm just scared that it'll be awkward between us when we see each other again ☹️

rosia

don't worry! it'll only awkward if you make it awkward 😉  i gotta go now, antònio's with me 😏😏

eleanor

eww wtf 🤢🤢 enjoy i guess?? see u later ✌🏼

i put my phone down and took of my makeup, it was 3pm so i decided to take a long shower and then nap but the only thing that was in my mind was him.

-

i woke up even tired than i was before, it was dark outside so i yawned and checked my phone. it was 7pm - wow i slept for 4 hours, i must of been very tired

i wasn't bothered to eat dinner today so i closed my eyes and slept some more.

-

the next morning i felt very energetic. i checked the time and it was 8am, that was probably a record for me being the earliest time I ever woke up at.

i checked my messages. one was at 6 am, sent by joão??

joão

i miss you. do you want to come round at 10? i'll come pick you up.

eleanor

of course! :)

i smiled excitedly, he said he missed me.

i stayed in bed for about another hour watching tiktok before actually getting out of bed

i brushed my teeth, brushed my hair and put some natural makeup on (again)

i wore his jumper (also again) and wore comfortable joggers.

nobody was awake except for my mum in the kitchen

"where are you going?" she asked.

"to joão's house, he invited me." i smiled.

"oh your boyfriends house? be careful." she winked

"mum!" i blushed and ate my breakfast. "we haven't even kissed yet, and he's NOT my boyfriend."

"i know but i don't want grandchildren this early." she sighs

"i promise you i will NOT be having any children soon." i facepalmed myself embarrassingly.

i watched tv for a while until it was 9:55, i said bye to my mum as she winked at me and i rolled my eyes. i walked outside and spotting his car, i jumped in.

"hi, you look pretty today," he complimented, smiling at me.

"thank you.." i blushed

"are you not going to say anything about me?" he smirks.

i sighed and smiled. "no because you look good everyday,"

he blushed and said, "thank you," before driving.

he wasn't mentioning what almost happened yesterday, so i didn't either.

he played the song "sure thing by miguel" and my face lit up.

"this is my favourite song,"

"i know" he smiled.

"how do you know??"

"i asked your brother."

"oh.."

then there was a silence, but it wasn't an awkward silence. it was comfortable with him.

a few minutes passed and we finally reached his house. he opened my door before i could.

"such a gentleman." i joked

"only for you," he winked.

the butterflies came back in my stomach when he said that. i tried to ignore them once he had unlocked the door with his keys.

"nobodies home except for my mother, i think my sister and your brother have gone on a date." he said.

then his mother came rushing out of the kitchen, her eyes lit up once she saw me.

"eleanor! it's so nice to see you again!!" she exclaimed, hugging me gently.

i smiled back at her and said "the same,"

his mother then looked at him more sternly and saying something in portuguese that i couldn't understand.

(I am using google translate for this, so I am so sorry if it's not correct !)

"espero que você não vá fazer nada com ela no seu quarto!" (i hope your not going to do anything with her in your room!)

instantly his face blushed red.

"mãe! por que faríamos isso?" he groaned. (mother! why would we do that?)

"apenas me prometa que você não vai" she replied. (just promise me that you won't )

"tudo bem, tudo bem, eu prometo." he said. (fine, fine i promise)

she then smiled again and turned to me, "sorry, dear. you can go now. and remember what i said joão!" she walked away.

joão gestured at me to follow him up the stairs, on the way to his room i asked what his mother said.

"it's better if you didn't know," he chuckled.

i think i had an idea of what she was saying so i didn't want to ask him again.

once we were in his room i followed him onto his bed were we laid down. he got the tv remote and turned it on.

"what movie do you wanna watch?" he said.

"uh, i have no idea you can choose-"

joão put on a movie which was called 'smile' and it was another horror movie. i guess he really loves horror movies.

throughout the movie, i noticed how he kept on staring at me continuously. i ended up falling asleep in the middle of it, he smiled and pushed me gently so that i was sleeping on him.

-

joão's pov:

she had fallen asleep on me, again.

even when she was sleeping she looked cute, i decided to take a picture on my phone of her and i smiled. she was the most prettiest girl i had ever met.. i paused the movie so it wouldn't wake her up and i started to text antònio.

joão

hey how's your date?

antònio

so good so far 😀 we got ice cream and then we went shopping, god she's so cute. what r u doing?

joão

sounds nice, i am currently texting you while el is sleeping on me, she's so cute when she's asleep.

antònio

ayoo i swear if you guys do anything innapropriate i will kill you no joke

joão

chill out,my mother and now you, wow. i wasn't even planning to in the first place 🙄anyway gotta go she's waking up ❤️

antònio

cya

i turned off my phone as she started to wake up. when she saw that she was on me she immediately got up.

"i'm sorry-" she apologised.

"no" i said as i pulled her back onto me "don't apologise."

she smiled warmly at me. that smile that makes me fall every time.

i also intertwined our hands together and rubbed her thumb with mine. i did this because i knew she liked it.

in that moment i knew my feelings towards her. i was purely in love but i was scared.

scared of rejection, scared that she would laugh at me if I told her.

and i wanted to kiss her. i really wanted to kiss her but last time we were interrupted.

i loved it when she did things or said things that make me nervous. like that night when she kissed my cheek. i loved it when i got butterflies in my stomach. i hope she did too.

and every second of the day she was on my mind. just her. a girl that's making me act like a fool. when she said i was just a friend i was a tiny bit disappointed. but i understood why she said that, because of her mum was there, but what if she actually meant that we were only friends and she had no feelings towards me? but then yesterday we almost kissed. why would she kiss me if she didn't like me? and why wouldn't she kiss me if she did like me?

i knew i was overthinking, and it was a bad habit of mine that i needed to drop.

i told myself that i was making this more difficult than it sounds. and that helped me stop thinking too much.

i looked at her again and she suddenly moved closer to me, her head on my chest. i played with her hair and smiled before she started to fall asleep again.