The Virgin Mafia

TVM12

"Huh?" Gianni is in a daze trying to understand what Francois just said.

The two are just staring intently until they are disturbed by a Birthday Song echoed in the open air.

One by one, they come out from their tent while singing the birthday song to Gianni. Alejandro is recording a video in his go pro and everyone walks around the bonfire while Matteo is holding the cake. Matteo secretly brought it when they arrived, hiding inside a cooler.

Gianni's eyes are wide open. He forgot his birthday already. He never gives much attention to his birthday because he doesn't celebrate it.

"H-How...." Gianni mumbled but he quickly realized it was Leandro or Matteo who had his records. Or is it Francois?

Gianni wanted to feel special by how these people around him showed so much care for him.

After singing the song, they all shout with the birthday poppers.

"SURPRISE!!!"

"Happy 21st Birthday Gianni!" They said in chorus while clapping their hands and whistling. Camillo throws the birthday poppers in the air and the glitters scattered everywhere.

Gianni looks at Francois with an imaginary question mark.

"Happy Birthday Gianni..." Francois greets him and smiles widely.

"Thank you.." Gianni smiles back at him sweetly and faces the others bowing his head.

Matteo let Francois hold the cake and face Gianni.

"Make a wish! Make a wish!"

Gianni closes his eyes with clasped hands and utters some wishes in his thoughts and when he opens his eyes, he smiles and blows the candles gently. A firework display in the night sky and they were mesmerized and kept clapping. Camillo and Angelo prepare the fireworks while Gianni is too busy collecting the stuff from the deck of the kayak.

"Woooooooooooow!!!"

When the firework display is over, they all sit on the wooden bench and extra foldable chairs and table intended for camping and they take out the warm food and cold drinks that Matteo brought through the helicopter.

While the others are busy, Gianni and Francois are busy with their world too.

"F-Francois...Frankie...thank you for this.." he shies said.

"Mn. It's my birthday present for you."

"Did you plan this?" Gianni asked, suspecting they planned the whole thing.

"Mn. Did you like it?" Francois admits it.

"No, I don't like it.." he answered.

With brows furrowed, Francois's face becomes serious.

"I love it so much, thank you."

Francois' eyes twinkled after hearing the word love and smile almost unnoticed but Gianni saw it already.

"Why are you always hiding your smile..?"

"My smile is special, only to someone I love."

"I see.." Gianni pouted and shrugged his shoulders.

There you are again, Francois. Though you gave me this kind of present, I was moved and touched but every time you are mentioning your first love, someone you love, I can't help myself but feel jealous and how I wish I am that person. Gianni speaks to his mind, feeling disappointed.

Gianni understands his feelings now. He is starting to like Francois. After two months of living together on the same roof, Gianni didn't notice at first why he always wanted Francois's attention. But when Francois speaks about his first love, after that dream earlier and the accident kiss, he just realizes he likes Francois and he is sure with his feelings. He came too late, he has someone in his heart already, he thought.

When they finished eating, they cleaned up their mess and everyone took a walk along the shore and in different directions.

Francois and Gianni saw Matteo and Giovanni keep bickering. Leandro and Enzo are walking hand in hand along the shore and the rest. Alejandro keeps asking her sister, Alessia when Roberto will return from America. Alejandro has a huge crush on Roberto but Roberto left for a business trip. Alejandro and Roberto are best friends.

"I am not sure when he will be back.." Alessia said.

"But I miss him already.."

"I miss him too. Don't worry, when we get back to the city, I will call him. Here, it's a dead spot. We cannot use the mobile here." Alessia explained.

Her brother is still childish and needs attention that is why she always brings him along every time they have an occasion like this.

Francois and Gianni are just listening to the conversation between the two. Gianni looked up at the bright night sky and saw a shooting star.

"Frankie look! A shooting star!" Gianni halted and made a wish.

Francois chuckles as he watches Gianni clasp his hands and close his eyes.

"What did you wish.." he asked, curious about it.

"I wish for your happiness, Frankie.."

"Why me? Why my happiness and not yours?" he asked, pretending he wasn't affected but his heart wanted to jump out of his chest.

He is part of Gianni's wishes.

"I made my wish already earlier, remember?" he explained.

"I see...so do you want to know what will make me happy for life?"

Gianni just shakes his head while stomping his feet to the wet soft sand on the shore.

"Frankie, see?" Gianni traces back their footprints in the wet sand and lookback forgetting Francois's question.

Francois looks back and sees their cute footprints. Francois took out his phone and made a video and traced back their footprints.

"Gianni, it's cute...the two pairs of footprints are beautiful together."

"Really?"

"Mn." Francois keeps his phone and looks at Gianni who is smiling at him with pure happiness.

Francois looked around and noticed that they were just the pair walking on the shore and saw all the tents with light except their tent.

"Do you want to walk back now?"

"Ok, let's go.." Gianni starts to run and Francois chases him. Gianni gets excited and screams.

When they reach the camping area, they brush their teeth and wash their face, and change to sleeping clothes. Gianni smiles when he sees Francois is wearing the Patrick Star pajama. He picks the clothes that Francois prepared for him and it's Spongebob Squarepants pajamas.

"Frankie...let's have a selfie.." Gianni giggles and laughs when he sees their pillows are matched with their clothes.

"Frankie, did you purposely bring them here?" Gianni can't believe Francois brought the Patrick and Spongebob pillows. He snuggled his face and sniffed it like he is molesting the lifeless characters and Francois is recording a video and clicking photos at the same time.

"Gianni look here.."

"Is that a video?"

"Yeah."

"You!" Francois chuckles and Gianni hits him with a pillow. Francois places his phone on the mini chair inside the tent and keeps the video recording. The two keep hitting each other until they feel tired.

The two forget that they have neighbors who want to sleep already. They just put on earplugs to lessen the noise they hear from Francois's tent.

Francois and Gianni lay flat on their back on the blanket and just stare at the tent roof.

"Frankie, thank you for making my day special."

Francois changed his position to face Gianni and Gianni faced him too.

Francois extended his right hand and cupped Gianni's face.

"My bunny is always special," Francois said while caressing his cheek with his thumb.

Gianni just looks at Francois without any reaction but deep inside, he wants to stumble and roll, kicking in the air and hitting Spongebob pillow. The feeling is too much to handle and his heart wanted to explode because it is an unbearable and indescribable feeling for him.

He just nods and shows a very slight smile.

"Goodnight Frankie..."

"Goodnight Gian." Francois retreated his hand and closed his eyes and began to doze off with a smile on his lips.

Gianni bit his lower lips as he feels his heartbeat is not yet calm. Still in disco partying mode. He takes a deep breath and slowly closes his eyes until he dozes off.

Leandro wanted to check Gianni and Francois early this morning and everyone agreed because of curiosity. All of them are awake already except for the two who look like they did an extreme activity last night and made them sleep like a heavy log. He signals silently counting one...two...three...

He pulled the zipper slowly and made it wide open. The two were exposed and all of them were shocked after they witnessed the sleeping position of the two.