Oliver already felt intimidated by Azelea. "Well, not particularly. I can't deal with the burning in my mouth so my family never makes spicy stuff. They all love it though, I don't know why I don't." He looked up ahead at the crowd of teens, the two of them weren't behind, but they were in the back.
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"Well…did you know that the burning sensation in your mouth caused by spicy things is because it's actually an allergic reaction. Though some people are less allergic than others. That's how they can handle it better. either that or they're crazy."
She says with a smile on her face. Proud of herself for remembering.
Oliver nodded his head slightly. "That's so cool! I guess I must be super allergic to spice." He said with a little laugh. "So, now to figure out if you're crazy or less allergic…" A smile appeared on his face.
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(Wait, i don't understand what he just said????)
(He was just replying to Azalea's comment. Um yeah idk how else to explain it lol)
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(Uhm….okay)
Azelea laughed a bit, then continued to put her hair up in a ponytail as they walked. "So, you like it here so far?" She asks him as she turns around to look at him.
(I just want to clear things up, what confused you? I can explain better if you want. Also sorry that this is so late.)
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(Oh, no it's fine, I was confused at the time but now looking back at it, I understand. I might've been tired lol. And it's totally fine! You have a life outside of notebook and I'm not gonna get back at you or anything if you're late XD)
(Thank you so much!!)
Oliver nodded with a smile. "Yeah, it's great so far, considering we went straight to the hotel and didn't do any sightseeing beforehand." The group started across a street. They were a bit too far behind the group to catch up with the group unless they run. "We should catch up to them." He said slightly concerned.
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"You're probably right," She says with a little laugh. She grabbed his hand and ran toward the group, leading him right behind her. She was always careless about what people thought when she did things like this. She was an extremely carefree person, which wasnt what most people liked. But she didn't even care about that.
So screw what he thought of her if she just dragged him down the street holding his hand. A girl that he just met and he had from what she thought, just called her crazy. That was her thought process at the moment.
Ollie gripped onto Azelea's hand as she pulled him to the group as they crossed the road. He hadn't expected it at all. Once they caught up to the group, he stopped gripping her hand for dear life. He felt slightly strange holding her hand, but it wasn't bad. For some reason, the very tips of his ears gain some color and he could feel their warmth.
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She kept holding onto his hand when she found a giant rock with carvings in it that's the school had stopped at. She ran up to it, dragging Oliver along with her.
"Wow, look at this! I wonder what it says"
Olliver followed Azelea, almost falling over at first. He grabbed back onto her hand and studied the rock once they came up to it. "Hmm… I'm not sure." Ollie got a little closer to it, as close as he could possibly get to it. "Yeah, I'm not sure…"
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She looked at him when he got really close to the rock and let out a little laugh. "Darnit. If only i knew…." She looked back at the words, then back at him. "Yeah nevermind, i dint even know what language this is in." She says with a shrug.
"Well, it's probably either Italian or Latin, since we're in Italy. But I don't know either of them." Oliver decided. He smiled at Azelea and backed up a bit. Their hands were still together, and frankly, Ollie didn't mind it.
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She laughed a bit and looked around them. The class started to move again. She, once again quickly pulled him along with her. They soon arrived at the gift shops. They sold from jewelry to sunglasses, to stuffed animals, rocks, and a ton more weird unique things. Luckily, Azelea brought a TON of money. Though she was smart enough to not spend it all here.
Oliver looked around the gift shops. Nothing had interested him since this was one of the tourist trap gift shops. He still stayed with Azelea and joked around with some of the unique types of gift shop items.
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Azelea found a mask type thing made of wood and quickly strapped it to Olivers face before he had time to react. SHe backed away with a little laugh. "you look Nacho Libre!" She says laughing, pushing braids of hair out of her face. It was actually pretty fun to have someone to hang out during all of this. ANd Oliver was pretty fun to.
Oliver laughed slightly before quickly taking the mask off. He smiled at Azelea shyly and handed it back to her. He was so glad to have met someone this fun just in the beginning, and they still had all summer left, who knows what could happen.
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"I'm guessing you don't like it huh?" She says leaning against the wall next to him, crossing her arms after putting the mask back.
"Do you want anything? I could buy you something?" She says with a smile, looking around the shop.
She didn't usually do that though, so she didn't know if it was weird or not to do something like that. But she wasnt going to care.
"It's not my favorite, yeah." Oliver smiled at her offer but he shook his head. "Thank you for the offer, but nothing here is interesting me. Maybe somewhere else?" He looked behind him and saw the classes starting to head out, plastic bags in their hands. "Should we start heading out with the class?"
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"ugh, how lame" She tilts her head back with a sigh, then she pushed herself up off of the wall and walked out of the store, punching him on the arm playfully how she always does. "Im hoping to get a knife of sorts. Any weapon really. Anyway, lets go then"
Oliver nodded as they walked out with the class. "I mean, it's probably not that hard to find something of that sort…" He smiled and looked around, absentmindedly following the class.
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"well yeah…that's true but, the problem is getting it through the airports. Though somehow I did manage to sneak a few knives. BUt I'm really aiming for a gun" She says with a little laugh. "Hey, do you get it. aiming for a gun." She says turning to him and punching him in the arm.
Oliver smiled and started laughing a bit. "Yeah, I got it the instant you said it!" He was a sucker for 'bad' jokes like that, he was definitely going to be that dad. "But how did you manage that? They stopped me once because I had colored pencils next to my Nintendo DS…"
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"Finally! Nobody gets my jokes! And nobody has ever been interested in my ways. Though its a secret" She winked at him then laughed a little bit before looking up to the sky. They said it was supposed to rain today. Hopefully, that was the case. Azelea couldn't wait to stand in the rain. Cherish it every moment she did.
A little droplet fell onto her cheek, a small smile appearing on her face as she felt that.
Oliver smiled, winking back almost out of habit. He also felt as a few more drops of rain fell. He sighed, yes, he liked rain but he wasn't a fan of being in it.
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"Hey, look up there! You can see the moon!" She pointed up to the clouds with a light smile. She looked back at him, lowered her hand and putting it in her pocket. A dark cloud covered the faint picture of the moon and droplets started coming down.
A shiver went down her spine as a cool wind swept over the huge bundle of people.
She felt like running away as she did back home. Running away to the middle of nowhere.
Oliver looked to where Azelea pointed. He saw the moon as well, smiling. "That's always cool. I like the moon, it's so beautiful…" He said with a smaller voice and a satisfied sigh at the end. He saw Azelea's shiver and he looked around for something to hide under from the rain. He saw the overhang of a roof and he looped his arm through her's and he ran under the overhang.
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She was suddenly jolted to the side by her arm, interrupted her thoughts. She looked at Oliver and laughed. "Hey! What was that for!?" She says through a big smile.
