a depth of pure blue
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"I thought I heard scuffling," Massimo says at last, "Is everything alright?"
"Sí, Papá!" Giulia says, with a charming smile.
Massimo raises an eyebrow at her, then turns to Alberto, who blatantly avoids his gaze.
"Alberto?"
"Sí."
"Hmm."
Luca is having an internal crisis remembering the last time he lied to his own parents and everything that happened because of it. It takes every fiber in his body not to blurt out the truth. He has to clamp his hands down over his mouth, and doesn't look at Massimo, either, when the large man's eyes skip over to him.
"Alright," Massimo says, "If you're certain."
/ The first summer back is the hardest. Why is that?
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- Part 1 of a depth of pure blue
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"I think it would kill me," Luca says after a while, quiet but certain. Alberto can tell by his tone that he's not joking, and he props up on his elbows to listen while Luca rubs his thumbs together and stares up at the dappled sunlight that ripples over them as the waves go in and out, that warms the water all around them. "If I had to live like this all the time. Never going above the surface, never seeing anything of the world, never learning anything new, for the rest of my life? I really think it would kill me."
Alberto doesn't know what to say.
So he says, "Jeez, is that what you've been lying here thinking about?"
/ Alberto is trying so hard to move on, and to be better.
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- Part 2 of a depth of pure blue
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Alberto scoffs and says I’ve seen television, which is a clear indication that he’s being literal. He’s never sat down and actively watched anything on one before. He still climbs over the back of the sofa to sit beside her. He throws his arm behind her shoulders, and Luca leans into her side, and Giulia sighs and smiles, squashed comfortably between the two of them.
She’s going to miss this the most when she goes to London.
But even knowing that it’s going to end, she can’t wait for summer to begin.
/A culmination of some things.
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- Part 3 of a depth of pure blue