CHAPTER 2
The first thing I could remember was the pain. Sharp, at the back of my head. Then I was falling, falling into something so cold I couldn't breathe for a moment. Cold and... wet? I sank beneath the cold then bobbed back up, then back down again, at the mercy of the wet mass which possessed me.
Then I heard something. Voices.
"Che è quello?"
They were a long way off.
"È una persona!"
I shouldn't worry about them.
"Puoi sentirmi? Ehi! Puoi sentirmi?"
But they were getting louder...
"Non risponde. "
What were they saying?
"Lascialo perdere. "
I couldn't understand.
"No! Non possiamo! "
Why couldn't I understand?
"È un uomo morto, Matteo. Lascialo perdere."
No matter. They were drifting away now. And the cold was tugging me back...
But all of a sudden I felt something new - something warm - envelop me. The voices were back, but there were too many of them, all babbling over each other. So I ignored them.
It was my turn to drift away; I drifted into darkness.
"Avresti dovuto lasciarlo affogare."
When I woke up the voices were still there, but I was much warmer than I had been. I felt distinctly comfortable in fact.
"La decisione spettava a me, non a te Angelo."
I still couldn't understand a word they were saying.
"Davvero? Non mi ricordo che tu mi abbia mai chiesto se volevo uno sconosciuto a condividere la nostra stanza."
Arguing. They were definitely arguing.
"Oh, piantala di lamentarti."
Quite loudly too.
"Io non mi sto-"
Perhaps I ought to tell them to keep it down...
"Shh! Si sta svegliando! Svelto, va a prendere un po' d'acqua!"
One of them was leaving now, though he didn't sound happy about it. Good, I could go back to sleep...
"Hello! Hello?"
Ah! Finally, something I could understand. I opened my eyes, and a man's face swam into focus above me. He smiled.
"You are English!" he exclaimed, as though nothing in the world could have made him happier. "My name is Matteo. What is your name?"
I opened my mouth and then closed it again, confused. I remembered the pain and the falling and the cold. But before that...
Nothing.
A/N - Massive thank you to I'm Nova for translating the Italian!
I'm not at all sure how often I'll be updating this - please don't be angry at me when school starts up again and I'm busy and all my stuff stops gettiing updated. Actually you can be angry, since I'm angry at that too. Stupid real life.
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