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mine’s, so I know where we are and how to get back to college afterwards.
    "We are here," I say as I park in front of the small brown wooden house. I feel proud of myself considering I managed to do it in just two perfect shunting; it makes me feel happy as I hate driving and everything about it.
    "I’ll take your stuff," Theo offers with such a nice tone of voice, which made me die of tenderness on my insides.
    "Thanks," I say shyly; he is certainly starting to affect me. It’s normal for boys to carry girls’ stuff and make them feel special, but I truly don’t know how the hell to react; am I being cold, or am I being enthusiastic? I seriously don’t know.
    I think that the fact of not having girl friends is such a big problem because I would have learned so much from them, and also, I would have had the opportunity to talk about boys stuff. Now maybe with Roth I will be able to talk about males too, but it’s still not the same, I mean, we both like boys but eventually, we are not the same gender and that completely changes the situation.
    When we approach the front door I instantly grab the keys and open it as fast as I can because I am seriously freezing. When I exhale, steam indeed comes out of my mouth. I enter first and realize that by his look, he might be wondering if it’s okay to get inside.
    "Seriously? Get in, Theodore," I take a few steps to get him and carefully grab both of his tensed arms and bring him inside with me.
    He closes the door after getting in and then places his and my stuff in the wooden floor near the warm chimney. He takes out his blue coat and only keeps his plain white t-shirt on, showing his beautiful long arms. It is hot in here, though.
    "Wow, this is great," he says with his mouth open. He seems amazed by everything –including my hideous car– and I find that completely cute; it probably means that he is pretty easy to impress.
    I had kind of forgotten how nice Roth’s place was. He has a huge entrance hall and everything matches different tones of green. The best part of it is the piano they have at a side of the room, which makes the scenery even more beautiful; I would love to play the piano, but obviously, I never had the guts to start piano lessons because I am stupid as fuck.
    "Where should we, um, go?" he asks excitable. It sounds pretty weird, to be honest; it actually seems that he is thinking the same as me because he is now smiling like he is about to laugh.
    "Roth’s room?" I doubt.
    "Seems good to me," he says confidently.
    I start walking towards the bedroom and Theo follows me in silence, I could barely hear his steps.
    Sometimes I forget why I am here, in this house and with this boy. I feel that something big is coming up, I just sense it and honestly it feels great,  I’ve never felt this way and it kind of makes me sad, but at the same time grateful that Theodore is the one who makes me feel this different.
    We both awkwardly sit on the bed, obviously far away from each other but still near enough to feel his warmth.
    "Why are we here?” I take a shot and ask him. Maybe he is wondering the same as me, who knows.
    "Because, um, I want to know you better and...”
    "You’re so cheesy," I laugh loudly.
    "Am I?" he asks with a tone of surprise. "Well, pardon me, Calypso," he adds sarcastically. We both laugh at our stupidity.
    We could certainly know one another better at college but we kind of made it more important than it actually is; I had run like crazy among the corridor just to get Roth before he got inside the class to ask him for his keys to go to his place and skip class just because Theodore and me wanted to run away from college and blah. In my opinion, it is more than just "wanting to know each other better". If you ask me, it’s just an excuse.
    "So tell me. If you aren’t cheesy like me , tell me why we’re here," Theo teases me, moving his eyebrows up and down for like three times.
    His hand is next to mine and it reminds me of those