It were saturday nights like today, that made Lourdes want to quit pre-med school and just throw everything away.
The exhausting sudying and the annoying classmates were only the beginning.
But she knew, her family wasn't as normal as her parents claimed them to be.
They never talked about it, but they were pretty poor and this would be her only chance, of education and to have a flat on her own, so she wouldn't throw it away - not matter how hard it was.
Lourdes took a look at her watch, realizing that she had been studying more than three hours.
Her mom would've told her to stop two hours ago, but she wasn't here.
Lourdes had a flat on her own and nobody would take care of her when she got in trouble.
Damn, she thought and took the phone.
First, she wanted to call her parents, but she couldn't.
They would think she was weak, that she couldn't even make it through two weeks without them.
No, she couldn't call them, ran through her mind again, when Lourdes sat down on her couch in front of her TV, still holding the phone tight.
She just had to relax, yes, she would watch The Ellen Show and laugh and just forget about everything.
Well, almost everything.
She couldn't forget about her stomach, that was screaming for anything eatable.
Damn, Lourdes thought again.
She forgot to do the grocery shopping.
There was not a thing in her fridge.
Then she looked down at the phone in her hands.
She coud afford one pizza, only today.
The number of the pizza delivery was still in her memory because of the first monday in the month family pizza dinner.
Oh, how she had loved these.
"Hello, how can I serve you?", a male voice answered the phone.
It wasn't the usual old man, who normally took the oder, this man sounded much younger, almost like a teenager.
"I want to order a pizza.", she replied, only to realize that this was totally stupid.
Everybody wanted to order a pizza, that's what the pizza delivery was there for.
"Yeah, I know that, everyone does.", the guy confirmed, what Lourdes just thought.
"So, what kind of pizza? Magherita, salami,.." - " Magherita, please.", Lourdes instantly answered.
"Alright, girl. Anything else?", he asked and a no from her was the answer.
"So, what's your address?", is always was the last question.
"I live in the Harris street, the number four.", she said and just waited for the guy to arrive with her pizza.
She literally starved in here.
"Okay, the pizza should be there in about 10 minutes.", the guy seemed to write something, he talked very slow and concentrated like he would have to do two things.
"Alright, I'll wait. Bye - I love you.", Lourdes said, just out of habit, but when these words left her mouth, she knew, she just screwed it up.
"I love you too.", the pizza delivery guy instantly answered, as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
The minutes passed after this, he still was on the line, she heard him breathing and as she did, she thought about just hanging up, forgetting about this, but then he started to talk again.
"I hope you don't expect a discount because we just confessed our undying love to each other. I don't make the prizes, my boss does.", he said, making Lourdes crack up.
She didn't know, if she laughed loud, but she laughed for a longer time.
"I do not expect a discounter.", she assured him.
"Alright then, well, bye then.", he said and after a small amount of seconds he hung up.
This had been so utterly awkward but for a moment, Lourdes wished this guy would not just take the orders but deliver the pizza.
But it was stupid.
He probably though she was one of those weird kids anyway, thinking this, she put the phone aside and turned on the TV, now really watching Ellen, but still not forgetting how much she embarrassed herself.
In the end, the ten minutes felt like two because Lourdes lost herself in thinking about random things and got frightened when suddenly the door bell rang.
She got up slowly, so the pizza man pushed the door bell again.
"I'm already coming.", she said, loudly so the man could hear her.
Then she opened the door and in front of her.. he definetly was the guy from the phone and when he talked, he only confirmed it.
"One pizza Magherita for you, young Lady.", he started while giving her a grin.
"It's six dollars for you.", he ended his regular pizza man thing.
Lourdes, now completely red in the face and gave him a ten dollar bill, saying he could keep the rest.
"Here you are", he said when he gave her the pizza "and have a nice night.", again, he had a grin on his face but it slowly turned into the prettiest and cutest smile Lourdes had ever seen.
"Thanks.", she said, blushing even more than he had before and slowly closed the door when he turned around to his car.
So, this was really awkward, she thought going back to her couch, starting to eat her pizza, which she kind of couldn't enjoy anymore.
After the half she stopped, she should've taken the small size, it was way too much for her, she thought while searching for the napkins, that are part of the service.
When she found them, she made a little noise.
Did he really?
Yes, he did left her a message on one of those napkins.
Hey, I know this is kind of cheesy but you are one supreme slice.
Truely yours.
the guy you confessed your undying love to (aka Hal)
P.S.: You sound adorable, when you are flustered.
Again, Lourdes blushed.
This guy was such an idiot, but he was the cutest one she, kind of, knew and this was the most adorable thing, anyone ever did for her.