Luciano Ribeiro
“I’m not missing out on much, for all I care he can keep avoiding me.” Aline lifted her head at this, a smile curving her lips. “Ooh yeah, you aren’t. He’s the one missing out on having the awesomest son ever." She bumped his shoulder with her own, laughing slightly. “But yeah he sucks, and you’re better off without him.” Luciano watched this with a small smile on his face, relishing in the familiar feeling of happiness he got from seeing Aline get on so well with Gio. He may not have been with him anymore, but there was still the same sort of good feeling, as Gio would always be someone important to him, no matter if there was something more between them or not.
“I’ll let her know. And that sounds really nice, maybe we could make that work sometimes." She beamed, the happiness pretty much vibrating in the air around her. He couldn’t help but laugh quietly to himself. “Okay, and, with your birthday coming up, I did promise you the best day so remember that.” Aline lifted an eyebrow, grinning. “It’ll be very fun, promise.”
Aline dipped and Luciano embarrassed himself, though lucky enough for him that Gio hadn’t commented on it, allowing the conversation to move past his flounder. Gio agreed to going someplace quieter, and so the two of them walked away from all the business of the hall. “I feel like if I’ll end up getting lost here somewhere,” Gio said, to which Lui laughed a little at. “I honestly don’t know how anyone can not get lost in here.”
He followed him into a greenhouse, which, even for a greenhouse, was very luxurious and had embellishments that he wouldn’t’ve even have thought they’d have. The plants seemed to be flourishing though, so all this money obviously was worth it. It was peaceful in here, nothing but the silent sound of plants just doing that plant thing. Lui leaned against a column adorned with vines and mosses, glancing up at Gio as he waited for him to begin. He hadn’t been entirely sure of where this conversation was going to go, but he definitely wasn’t surprised that it went back to their relationship. Gio didn’t even remember their relationship and yet he still missed it… well, that was somewhat comforting. That sentence though, Gio saying, “Losing your memory sucks, but honestly from what I do know, the one thing that sucks the most is knowing that I lost… well, us.” That was like a knife to the heart, because really, it was Luciano’s fault that they had ended up in this whole situation to begin with.
“And that my odds are probably low… but I’ll still say that I’m willing to make an effort somehow, I know it’s super complicated and nothing is the same, but maybe… a fresh start? I don’t know… that, if you want…” That was all he wanted, really, he wanted nothing more than to be able to put the past behind him and just start anew… but despite the hope bubbling up, as he looked at Gio, he could feel the guilt pressing it down too. It wasn’t fair for Gio to go into a relationship with him when he didn’t even know the whole story.
“I…” He breathed out, taking a moment to gather his thoughts before he smiled slightly, though it was tinged with sadness. “G, I’m not gonna lie, of course I want a fresh start with you, that’s… the one thing I want more than anything. But you don’t even…” Lui sighed, looking down at his hands. He paused, pushing off of the column and wandering over to a low barrier that bordered a man-made pond in the greenhouse, sitting down on the flat top of it. “The day of… your accident, I was meeting with an ex I had from Brazil,” he started, watching his fingers drum out a beat on his thigh. "That relationship, it ended… badly, and I guess I was still looking for closure when he DMed me so when he came to Beryl, I… I agreed to meet with him.
“I really didn’t think that it would be anything more than just a brief conversation, but he had a different idea of what it was going to be. Aline… she saw that, but I just, I wouldn’t listen to her. And she thought that you should know, but I wouldn’t-” He shook his head, his brows furrowing. “I don’t know why I wouldn’t tell you,” he murmured softly to himself. If he had, that whole day, it would’ve all gone so differently. “But Aline, she took you to the cafe I was meeting him 'cause she didn’t want to lie to you and at the time, I remember feeling so betrayed, like how could she go behind my back like that-? But no… she was just being your friend. I should’ve–” His eyes fluttered closed briefly, the flashes of the day running across his mind.
“He kissed me,” Luciano said, his eyes opening to meet Gio’s for the first time since he began. “I agreed to dance with him because I thought it’d be a good end to that part of my life, but he kissed me and then you and Ali walked in and-” His voice broke, and he looked away again, hunching over to stare at the ground. “You said to me, ‘I should’ve known it was too good to be true.’ And then you were gone, and then you got into that crash and I-” He swallowed back a sob, wiping away a tear that had escaped the hold of his lids. “So yeah, you lost your memory, but you didn’t lose us.” Lui spoke in a low tone. “I did enough of a job doing that myself.”
oh this got long BAHAHA oops
@CerealKiller woah this is random but when did you stop centering your posts