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.”

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of them sat at the round table and ate harmoniously while enjoying the

said Christina after dinner. “Could you come

at Christina’s leg out of concern. “Is your leg

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

his mother prompting him, too, Vito could only accompany Christina

cane. Meanwhile, Vito stayed by her side, ready to help her at

said nothing to each other and arrived at a slope

admire the vast sea and sky full of stars from there.

sat on it. Then, seeing Vito remain standing,

eyes, Vito pursed his lips.

this was his first time talking to a girl alone. He simply

so pretty out here. I’ve never seen a

a few exchanges, the atmosphere between them eased slowly, and Vito was

I don’t even know how my family is doing now.”

me a few days to fix the boat,

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

didn’t want to wait

can take?”

knew from the start that there weren’t many motorboats on the

she could get

left behind by his father, and the young man was usually in charge of selling the fish they caught with it.

malfunctioned, and that was why Christina remained

say. He bit his lower