A Crazy Night Novel

Night had fallen by the time Vito returned from the village chief’s house.

Standing at the door, Miriam pulled him into the woods outside the courtyard.

“How did it go at the village chief’s house?” she asked after making sure Christina wouldn’t be able to hear them.

Vito recounted everything truthfully. The village chief’s roof was severely damaged, but with everyone’s help, all the broken pieces had been cleared out. What remained was for the village chief to patch his roof with some new tiles.

Yet, Miriam didn’t care about that. Thinking about how Christina had asked about the village chief’s phone today, she fell silent for a moment before asking. “What happened to his phone?”

“It’s broken,” Vito answered.

A smile formed on Miriam’s face. Everything was going exactly as she had planned. “Let’s go. It’s time for dinner.”

While seated, Christina noticed the two return together.

“Vito,” she called out to him softly.

Hearing the woman call his name, Vito scratched the back of his head awkwardly, not knowing where to look.

Having interacted with him for the past few days, Christina was no longer surprised by his demeanor. Miriam, on the other hand, gave him a light slap on the head in frustration.

Then, Vito swiftly began scooping out the food from the pot.

“You must be starving.” Miriam served Christina’s portion of food on a plate.

The latter smiled and shook her head. “Not at all. I haven’t done a lot today, so I didn’t use much en she replied while pushing the plate toward Vito instead.

“You must be hungry, Vito. You were busy helping out at the village chief’s place all day.”

of Christina’s kind gesture,

the round table and

a walk,” said Christina after dinner. “Could you come with me,

say no, but he glanced at Christina’s leg out of concern. “Is your

fine. We won’t be so far out.” Miriam would grow suspicious if they were to wander off too much. Miriam just so happened to hear Christina’s response and agreed that the two needed to spend some time alone. “Take Christina out for a walk, Vito. Just don’t

prompting him, too, Vito could only accompany Christina on her walk outside the

to walk and could only proceed slowly with the help of a cane. Meanwhile, Vito stayed by

two said nothing to each other and arrived at

the vast sea and sky full

seeing Vito remain standing,

Vito pursed

girl alone. He simply didn’t

him. “It’s so pretty out here. I’ve never seen a night sky as lovely as this,” she exclaimed, gazing out

exchanges, the atmosphere between them eased slowly, and Vito

gaze. “I miss home. I

Vito feel upset too. “Give me a few days to fix the

that, Christina concluded that Miriam and Vito weren’t lying about

didn’t want to wait

other boat we can

knew from the start that there weren’t many motorboats on the island; most boats

could get home using the

boat had been left behind by his father, and the young man was usually in charge of selling the

that was why Christina remained stuck on this island

know what to say. He bit his lower lip and kept mum as