I wake up slowly to an overflow of peppered kisses all over me... 

From my forehead all the way down my cheeks.

And I've officially decided it's the best way to wake up.

Giggling lightly as he plants kisses on my ticklish spots and repeatedly moving back to them, "What's gotten into you this morning?" I ask gasping for air from my laughter.

"Nothing... I just love you." He states kissing me on the lips sweetly.

"Is that so?" I ask an eyebrow quirked up testing him.

"It is so and I'll never get tired of loving you..." He retorts pulling my body off the bed and twirling me in the air as I wrap my limps around him tightly.

"I love you Luca, so much." I whisper into his curly locks, hiding my face, smiling contently. 

He begins to walk and opens the bathroom door, "What are you doing?" I question.

"Saving water..." He states a smirk obviously on his beautiful face.

"No we aren't because I'm not showering with you!" I say defiantly escaping his grasp and crawling back underneath the covers, hiding from him.

"Come on princess, please?" He pouts and I raise my eyebrows at him.

"Nope... Now go shower bad boy!" I say and he throws me one last sad smile and closes the door.

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After we both finally showered and got ready we headed to school, which of course, I was dreading beyond measure . 

"Please don't make me go in there..." I pouted in the passenger seat of his truck.

"Yeah please don't make us go in there..." Marco added making a puppy dog face from the backseat making me giggle slightly.

"Sorry guys... I would've said yes if princess here would've saved water with me this morning." He stayed smirking as my cheeks heated up and I smacked his shoulder as Graham and Marco tried to contain their laughter.

"Shut up..." I mumbled as he kissed my forehead.

"Come on princess, don't be mad..." He retorted before leaning close to me, "I love you." He whispers and basically melts my heart.

"Fine but only because I love you too." I stay pointedly grabbing his hand and getting out of the truck.

"Fuck hold up... Did you guys just say that you love each other?" Graham asks slightly smiling.

"Yes..." I say confused a bit.

"The ship has sailed!" Graham exclaimed into the parking lot and people's head whipped towards us as Luca shoved Graham playfully as his cheeks became a rosy pink.

We begin start walking before Marco clasps DeLuca in the back, "I told you she had you whipped the first day you met her." He says grinning ear to ear in triumph.

Hm... I guess he did.

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"I'll be right back... I forgot my book in my locker." I whisper to DeLuca as I stand up and scurry out the door quickly.

As soon I reach my locker I sigh, because of the people surrounding it.

"Oh perfect!" Leigh exclaims while Jess and May smile fakely at me and I stare back confused as ever as she shoves her phone in my face making me go slightly crosseyed from the proximity. 

"Make him take it down..." She states as a demand as I stare at a post on Luca's Instagram and smile.

The photos he took of the both of us graces the screen with the words, I love you, as the caption.

"No." I retort firmly, my eyebrows most likely stitched together.

"Yes you will... because he doesn't love you. You're not good enough, someone like you isn't supposed to be with him... what fantasy are you living in? Because you sure as hell aren't in my world... boys like him don't fall in love with girls like you." She seethes at me as tears prick at my eyes and my stomach feels beyond sick.

It's like getting hit by a car. The disgust and hatred behind her words are raw and real. Each syllable stinging and stabbing into me like daggers. 

"Stop." I whisper out.

"No. It's the truth you're not just not pretty enough but you're also the wrong color... and I think you know that." She states as hot tears roll down my cheeks quickly.

"You don't mean that. The world isn't like that." I try to state as confidently as I can.

And truthfully, I don't even believe myself... It is supposed to be the girls like her who always win. She is what I wished to be as a kid when I looked in the mirror... Her blonde hair, blue eyes and small, short frame is what almost every guy wants. 

"It is though, you're just too naive to see it... you're trying live a life that only exists in your dreams." She shouts making me flinch backwards as her friends eyes turn from ice to something different.

"Leigh I think you should stop..." May says quietly looking down at her feet, knotting her fingers together uncomfortably, as a crowd begins to slowly gather, heads turning our direction. 

"Oh so now you want to take her side? Fine. I don't know why I was ever friends with you." She snarls at her and my mouth reacts before I can stop it.

"You know what Leigh? I think you're the one who is lost and trying to live a fantasy... I would say I'm sorry that I moved here and ruining whatever little allusion you concocted in your brain... but I'm not. I'm far from it the only thing I'm sorry about is what I've been doing..." I take a breath and start again.

"Maybe I have been blind to people like you, the people who are stuck in the 1900's, the people who see black and white." I say taking a deep breath,  "Well guess what Leigh, the moment I was born I defied that black and white rule because I'm both. And if you think that's a problem, then it's a you problem... I'm sorry that you feel like you can beat down and brutalize anyone in your path. But most of all I'm sorry about whoever hurt you so bad that has made you this way... because I won't stop loving DeLuca just because you say so... he's the best thing that's ever happened to me. So fuck you Leigh..."

I finish turning around and my eyes widen as I hear the noise of clapping down the hall, some students smiling slightly and others whispering what seems like things in my favor.

"Yes Mila!"

"Someone has to tell the bitch!"

"Finally!"

All down the hallway people were celebrating Leigh's much needed and anticipated, dethronement.

I knew I should be feeling happiness and pride in myself, but I only felt pain and sadness for what had just happened. I've never liked conflict and I would never wish to humiliate someone no matter what they've done to me.

I'm snapped back to reality when Liza tackles me to the ground, hugging me, "You have no idea how much I love you right now!" She shrieks and I give her a weak smile.

"Don't you dare feel bad about what you just did! She's had that coming for a long time now..." She states helping me up as the crowd began to clear.

"I know but what if she's right?" I ask quietly, my second guess nature pertruding into the forefront of my mind. Was that what people thought when Luca and I walk hand in hand or share a kiss? Was it disgust that filled their spirits?

"She's not... she's just a jealous bitch who thinks she can take anything she wants. And in your case she knows you're good enough for him so she did the one she knew would hurt you, the race card." She says confidently pulling towards the doors.

"You know what you're right... Wait where are we going?" I ask as she continues to drag me out the front doors of the school.

"To get some fresh air and talk, because that Instagram post came as a big surprise to me..." She says smirking, one eyebrow raised.

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"...and then he basically floored my brother and yelled at him, which was a great show... pretty much after that I heard him talking to my brother about us and we went to church," her face changes to surprise, "I know, he actually seemed like he enjoyed it and then later that night we watched 'Fools Rush In' and we talked for a bit before he told me he loved me..." I finish smiling widely.

"Wait you got DeLuca to watch 'Fools Rush In'?" She questions, trying to withhold a smile.

"Is that all you got out of what I just said?" I asked her laughing as she tucked a piece of her short brown hair behind her ear. 

"Oh nope, the guys and I pretty much knew he was falling in love with you... Graham said he is always talking about you and any chance he gets he leaves early to get back to you." She states shrugging, "And from the way he looks at you it's pretty obvi-..."

Just as she is about to finish, a panicked and wild looking DeLuca bursts out from the front doors of the school, Graham and Marco trailing behind him trying to catch up him.

"Where could she have gone?" He almost shouts tugging at his curls, making me giggle as I look on with amusement.

"Dude she's probably with Liza or just in the bathroom..." Graham points out and Luca scowls at him.

Luca walks past us quickly, his wild brown eyes searching the front lawn and so I take my opportunity and jump onto his broad, muscular back. He immediately tenses but I lower my head and kiss his neck, "Hey bad boy..." I whisper into his ear and I can feel his heartbeat pick up.

"Oh my sweet my baby Jesus, princess I've been texting you nonstop trying to find you..." He says out of breath, still panicked.

"Oh... my phone died but here I am now." I say smiling up at him before puckering my lip for him to kiss and he gives in.

"I love you..." I mumble against them.

"I love you more."

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- littlemixedgirl