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Diaz' kitchen !!

HES MAKING BREAKFAST

It smells good ngl

Well at least things are normal

Unless he's never made breakfast before

No he did

Once

It was bad

Whatd he make 😭

Some DISGUSTING grape pancakes

Never eating a purple grape again.

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"Breakfast is served." Miguel placed down plates for his family.

Carmen smiled, "This is so sweet. Ellie, mi amor, put down your phone please."

Eliana turned off her phone and looked to the food, then at Miguel. "No pancakes, smart. No grapes, right?" She narrowed her eyes.

He laughed dryly, "No. Never again."

His sister nodded her head as their Abuela stood and kissed his cheek. "Querida, te amo tanto. No puedo soportarlo. ¡Qué maravilloso!"(My dear, I love you so much. I can't handle this. How wonderful!)

"Oh, para, mamá.(Oh, stop, Mom.) He'll think he can just run away, come back and get all the love he wants."

"Uh, sí. Él puede."(Uh, yeah. He can.)

"Don't worry. I'm never doing something like that again. I'm sorry."

"Good," They all looked to Eliana. "You should at least give us a warning or invite us to go with you." She took a bite of the food and Carmen held up her hands.

"Now, now, I should be the one apologizing," She turned to Miguel. "I should've told you the truth about how I left your father."

"You did it for me. I understand that now."

They hugged and Maria turned to Eliana. "¡Oh, cómo puedes seguir enojada con él? ¡No puedes!"(Oh, how can you stay mad at him? You just can't!)

They sat down and Jonny walked in through the front door. "Oh, sorry I'm late. Graffiti's a bitch to clean off. You should see my van," He sat down beside Eliana. "Should be illegal to deface someone else's property."

Carmen nodded her head. "It is."

Johnny looked at her in slight disbelief while the teen next to him laughed at his cluelessness. "Study the law sometime, dude."

Johnny noticed the new dish in front of him. "Well, this looks different."

"Yeah," Miguel smiled proudly. "I made it. Oh, I forgot the orange juice. Uh, one second." He quickly grabbed a gallon of juice from the fridge while Carmen and Johnny chatted. Eliana checked her phone as discreetly as she could, but Maria caught her.

"Okay, orange juice." Eliana held up her cup with both her hands and he poured it a little past halfway.

"Oh, Miguel, ¿vas a visitar a tu novia?" Maria eyed her grandson. "Apuesto a que te extraña." (Oh, Miguel, Are you going to visit your girlfriend? I bet she misses you.)

"Yeah." Miguel's tone was lower than before. "I think I need to make an apology meal for Sam too."

"Can I come?" The sudden, loud request surprised Miguel and his face contorted as he thought.

"Sure, you never visited the LaRussos while I was gone?"

"No. I was busy."

He chuckled, as if it was a bit unbelievable. "With what?"

She paused. "Things."

All of a sudden, Carmen hurriedly ran to the bathroom to throw up.

"Maybe you guys should order in instead."

"Yeah."

"Yeah, I wasn't gonna say anything, but it's not too much better than the pancakes, Miggy." Eliana chuckled pitifully and he laughed back.

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Tattoo shop !!

Eliana doom-scrolled on her phone, waiting for the boys to finish talking. She's been spending more and more time with Miguel, no matter what it is they're doing.

"How've you been, Ellie?" She looked up to see Demetri and Eli waiting for her to answer.

"...Good." She nodded her head and glanced around the room, keeping her responses small. "I've been, good."

Miguel's phone chimed and he scrambled to grab ahold of it.

"Is that Sam? She finally text back?"

"Yeah. Says she wants to, uh, talk tonight." His friends hissed, which confused him.

Eli tried to calm himself and Demetri down before they overreacted. "What did she say exactly?"

Miguel looked at his phone to make sure he got it right. "'We should talk tonight?' What?"

"It says, 'We should talk?' Oh, brother, you're in deep." Demetri sighed for Miguel.

Eliana rolled her eyes. "I mean, she's right. We should talk. Last time we spoke, we had a fight."

"Yeah, but 'We should talk.' is code for 'I want to break up.'"

"What? It is?"

"Demetri, how many break ups have you had?" Eliana tilted her head to him.

"Uh, none?"

"Okay, take it from a girl." She made air quotations with her hands. "'We should talk.' Doesn't always mean to break up."

"Exactly." Eli emphasized to Demetri, "Moon is really big on communication, maybe Sam does just wanna talk?"

"No, no. We need more information." Demetri snatched Miguel's phone as of it was his own. "Uh, we should send a trial balloon. Something that puts the ball in her court." He spoke fast and erratically. "Uh, 'Can't wait to see you tonight.' Um, 'How are you?'"

"That's good."

"Right?"

"Not too bad, you could calm down a bit though." Eliana smiled sarcastically at Demetri and opened her phone to text someone.

She stared at her contacts, Juno or Anthony? Will Anthony even answer? Does he even have his phone back? She shook her head gently and put her phone in her back pocket.

"Miggy, can't we just visit their house, say, in the next hour?"

The phone chimed again and the boys all groaned. "Dude, that's bad. There's not even an emoji."

"Yeah, man, she is not okay."

Eliana sighed and sat back down while they panicked over a text and made some dumb sounding plan. She continued scrolling on her phone, pulling her legs up to sit more comfortably on the chair.

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LaRusso residence !!

"Alright, Ellie, we're here."

Eliana looked up and out the window of the car. "What?"

Miguel turned around to see her, "You obviously wanted to visit more than me so, you just stay here while we go out and I... uh, y'know, save my relationship."

She chuckled and grabbed her bag that she took everywhere with her. "Alrighty then, I guess I'll see you later?"

"Yep. Have fun."

She stepped out of the car and walked up to the front door. She looked behind her to see the car waiting for her to enter the house. She knocked on the door hesitantly and waited for it to open.

"Hello?" Amanda opened the door, surprised to see Eliana. "What are you doing here?" She smiled, indicating she was still welcome.

She shrugged. "Um, just, uh, wanted to see how you guys were doing."

Amanda nodded her head. "We're good, thanks for the concern. Would you like to come in?"

"Yes, please." Amanda widened the entrance to let her in and the teen looked around, obviously searching for something.

"So, uh, Sam's actually not here but—"

"Oh, I'm not here for Sam." She spun on her heel to face Amanda, avoiding eye contact after she realized she accidentally interrupted the woman.

Amanda's lips curled into a knowing smirk. "Anthony's in his room." Eliana nodded awkwardly before making her way up the room.

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Anthony's bedroom !!

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Anthony jumped at the soft knocking on his door. "Not hungry, Mom."

"I don't have kids."

He smiled at the sound of Eliana's voice, quickly standing up and opening his door. "Hey, Lana."

"Hi." She laughed nervously. "How've you been?"

"Good, uh," Anthony scratched his neck lightly. "I barely got my stuff back today, so."

The girl mouthed an 'Oh.' swaying herself back and fourth. "So, what'cha doing?"

"Nothing. I mean, I was, um, was just about to text you." He was stuttering more than she remembered he usually did. She was hoping it was because she made him nervous, in the good way, but she feared reading into things.

"Oh, cool," She kept herself from smiling, although she found it hard. His hair looks good.

They stood in silence for an hour, at least that's what it felt like. Soon enough Anthony stepped aside to let Eliana in, which she immediately made herself comfortable on his bed. She obviously untied her shoes and took them off, then scooted back to lay on the bed.

Anthony scrunched his nose and furrowed his eyebrows after closing the door behind him. "Thanks for leaving some space. Thoughtful.

Eliana turned to make her bubble smaller, leaving more room for her friend. He thanked her and plopped onto the bed right next to her. They looked to each other, smiling in the silence, comfortable silence.

Eliana observed the boy in front of her, she noticed his cheeks turning pink. That's when she could feel her own cheeks heating up and they both looked away. Anthony, in addition, pushed himself up to sit.

"How's your brother?"

Eliana rolled onto her side. "He's good. He tried to make breakfast this morning."

"Was it good?"

She started to laugh, covering her mouth and shaking her head. "No. Not at all!"

Anthony laughed along with her, glancing her way.

"He's so bad at cooking. Almost worse than me."

He completely turned to her, hoping his cheeks were back to normal. "You can't cook either?"

"Nope."

"How do you expect to feed yourself?"

She flipped onto her right, "I'll learn. Or maybe, I'll end up living with someone that can cook for me. A boyfriend, or maybe just a roommate." She pushed herself up to sit beside Anthony just in time for him to add to the conversation.

"I can cook." He shrugged and turned her head, taking a bit too long to notice how close their faces were.

"I'll... keep you in mind." He swore he could see her eyes look down but still thought I'm definitely hallucinating. I haven't slept in hours.

"Okay." He couldn't pick a feature to focus on. "Cool."

Eliana had already felt better than she did yesterday. She spent a whole month sleeping and crying in bed all day. And when she wasn't doing that, she was eating and watching Grey's Anatomy. She hadn't even been practicing karate. It made her feel horrible about herself.

She liked being in karate, and having a hobby. Juno called her a cinephile, and at first she thought of it as a good thing. But since Eagle Fang was shut down, and all she did online was watch movies and tv shows, she realized she didn't like the fact that movies and shows were all she had. Her whole personality outside of karate was sitting on her ass and staring at a screen.

But today, Miguel was back, and she left the house. Her first time leaving the house was her 'early-back-to-school-shopping' with Carmen and Juno. Juno insisted it was because she needed new clothes, but she could tell it was their plan to get her out of her room. She appreciated the sentiment, but she didn't feel truly happy until today.

Everything felt back to normal now. She spent time with her favorite(only) brother, she ate breakfast with her whole family, she saw her friends today and, she was hanging out with Anthony LaRusso. Back to normal.

She felt her phone vibrate, only for a second, which meant it was a text directly from iMessage. The eye contact was broken so she could check her phone, it was Juno. Nothing important.

"I missed you. You should never get yourself grounded again."

"How was I supposed to avoid being grounded last time?"

Eliana faked a thinking face, "Oh, I can think of a few things."

"Okay, I know what you're gonna say. And I know I was being an asshole to Kenny."

"You were."

Anthony held up a corrective finger, "Which I feel really bad for now, might I add."

"Well, that's good."

"See? I'm improving!"

They laughed, then Anthony paused. He looked towards the door and stood up, backing away from the bed in time for Amanda to open the door.

"Hey," Eliana's posture stiffened. "I made soup, if you guys wanted some."

Anthony shrugged, "I'm good."

Eliana smiled warmly, "Yeah, I'm okay. My Yaya said she was gonna make my favorite dinner tonight, anyways." Amanda nodded her head. "She'll be mad if I eat 'cause that means I'll be too full to eat her delicious chicken alfredo."

"Oh, okay. Well then," The woman slowly closed the door, "Carry on. Have fun."

The door was closed and the teens laughed some more. Eliana was glad Miguel brought her to the house. It'd been a bit since he dropped her off and he hadn't come back. Plus, Sam wasn't even here. If he hadn't brought her to the house, or whoever thought of it did think of it, she probably would be scrolling on her phone, watching videos, or playing Subway Surfers.

But instead, she was with Anthony, and she wouldn't rather be anywhere else. Not in this moment.

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Dylan speaks !!

Finished writing this at 1:43 am. I have school tomorrow. I'm so smart. And I have to pee.

Anyways, I hope yall like this chapter, finally some interaction with Anthony. Uh I need a ship name for them.

Eliony? Antiana? LawRusso? Any of you got ideas?

Wtv but ik I should probably js keep this in my drafts until next weekend but I no no wanna so I'm publishing it and praying my mom will buy me a new cord so I can charge my phone in peace. Bc I had to finish half of this chapter on my iPad and it sucked.