Chapter 8

Miranda was so concentrated in her work on her laptop that she almost made a jump out of her chair when Feliciano suddenly stood next to her and spoke what he was reading she was typing.

"Target one lives with Target two and…" When she heard him next to her she slammed her laptop closed and turned around to him in a move of panic. She felt caught since she didn't want anyone to see any of her notes or personal things on her laptop. Clearly confused by her panic Feliciano backed off a little bit. He held his hands with his palms in front of his face, waving them slightly to the sides as he starts smiling.

"I'm really sorry I didn't mean to scare you but I was really curious about what you were writing. It seems to be a really interesting story you are working on. I didn't know that you like to write stories. Do you think I can read it later maybe when you are done?" Relieved by his reaction she started to calm down again. She was glad that he thought of it as a story. Whatever she wrote on her laptop was not meant to be seen by anyone else than her and the person who told her to take notes. When she finally was herself again she smiled at him and patted the chair next to her to give him the sign to sit down next to her. As he sat down next to her he grabbed both of her hands and holds them tight. His eyes were sparkling and full of joy as he spoke with his high pitch cheery voice.

"I have so good news and I'm about to explode because of it but I want to go celebrating first before I say anything. Since I promised it before that we will go to a karaoke bar but I never had time, we will do it today. And after that we all will go eat and just celebrate. It will be me, you, Romano, Antonio, Francis and Gilbert. That will be so much fun." He was so caught in his dreams that he didn't notice that Miranda's expression changed from happy to slightly worried. She wasn't sure if she should like the idea of the whole band together celebrating with them. It just sounded like trouble to her since they didn't seem to be the sort of people which act according to their age. But instead of saying anything she just nodded with her head, trying not to disappoint Feliciano. With her approvment he got up from his chair and grabbed his phone, making calls to everyone. Miranda watch's Feliciano walking around with his phone pressed against his ears and decides then that her work for today would be done. She closes her laptop and walks into Romano's room to grab some different clothes. While she goes through her suitcase she can't get rid of the feeling of being watched. She turns to Romano which is sitting at his desk and working on something. When she looks down to her suitcase again she suddenly sees that Romano is watching her but turns around as soon as she looks at him.

"Is something the matter? Do I have something on my face?" she asks as she walks to Romano. He doesn't even turn around to look at her anymore. Instead he just keeps writing something and replies.

"No it's nothing, I was just wondering why you are changing clothes again. It's also annoying me when you make all the time some noises with your suitcase so I was just looking to see if you are done already. So if you don't mind I would like to keep working." He raises his left hand and gives her a gesture for her to go. As she started pouting about his behavior she grabbed his arm gently.

"Don't worry there's a good reason for me to change my clothes. And you should too since we all are going out today." When he turned around his head to see her face he saw her evil grin.

"Where are we going and who are we?" His voice began to shake because he had a slight idea of what was going to happen next. But everything went so fast. She started to pull his arm, pulling him close to her and then pushing him on his bed. When he tried to catch some breath to complain about what she was doing she threw some of his clothes on his lap. He started growling and pouting as he saw that she was going through his dresser choosing the clothes he would wear. By the time she was done choosing his clothes he was about to explode. By the look on her face when she turned around to him she didn't seem to care about how he feels about it. Instead she took his clothes, pulled him up with all her power and shoved him to the bathroom and waited in front of the bathroom door.

"You better get dressed in there otherwise you will be in there all day!" she informed him as she was waiting. Still a little bit overwhelmed by what just happened he realized that he better gets dressed since she seemed to be way to stubborn to just let him out. When he was done getting dressed he knocked at the bathroom door and yelled.

"You better let me out now otherwise I will show you that I can be even more…" Before he was able to finish his sentence the bathroom door opened and in front of him was Antonio staring at Romano.

"You sure took some time in there; we are waiting only for you!" He stepped away from the door and let Romano out. With a bad feeling in his stomach Romano walked out of the Bathroom to see his whole band, Miranda and Feliciano sitting in the living room clearly waiting for him.

"Don't tell me we all are going out together?!" yelled Romano. Now Feliciano walked over to Romano and put his hands on his shoulder, trying to calm him down.

"I invited them Romano. Don't be mad but I wanted us to celebrate something but I can't tell it yet so please come with us. Please do me the favor today and join us." As Romano saw Feliciano´s eyes sparkling like he was about to cry he just accepted it. He didn't like to see his brother cry and mostly not because of him. So the group walked out of the apartment and made their way to a karaoke bar which was close by. When they arrived there they all ordered some alcoholic drinks and sat down while they looked through a list of songs.

"Oh! I really want this song! Come Antonio and Gilbert! That's going to be our song!" announced Francis as he grabbed Gilberts and Antonio's hands. When they all stand on a platform and grabbed their microphones, Francis chose Single Ladies from Beyoncé on the machine. Gilbert didn't like Francis choice first but when the music started he just sang and danced along like his both friends did. When Miranda realized which song it is she started laughing with Feliciano really loud. Romano just watched at them in disbelief. Their dancing looked pretty close to the dancing from the music video on the TV in the background. Even though their voices were way too deep for the song their performance was pretty fitting. As the music stopped they all walked back to the sofa, sat down and drank their drinks. Feliciano gave a sign that it's his turn now and walked to the stage. He couldn't decide first which song he wants to perform but then he finally made a choice. His song was summertime from Lana Del Rey. The singing itself was not bad but his voice was way too high pitch for this song since the original singer was singing really deep in this song. The whole group was cheering for him, except Romano. He felt obviously annoyed by all the singing. As soon as Feliciano was done with his singing he jumped from the stage and ran to Romano, trying to give him the microphone. Romano wasn't really in the mood to sing yet so he pushed the microphone away. Instead Miranda took it and made her way to the stage. She chose the song Umbrella from Rihanna and started moving then a little bit. While she was performing she was acting and pointing to the group like she was singing to them. Romano wasn't sure if she was singing to him since she always looked at him and smiled whenever their eyes met. He didn't even realize that she was done as she sat down next to him.

"Hey, it's your turn now, you are the last one. Don't worry it's not that hard and the lyrics are at the little screen so you can't do that much wrong." She explained as she smiled at him and handed him the microphone. He felt kind of forced but then again he didn't want to ruin everyone's fun so he walked to the stage and looked through the songs. He didn't know most of these songs so he just took one he knew a little bit which was unspoken from the band Hurts. No one was expecting what was going to happen. Even though he wasn't moving to the music at all his voice sounded exactly like the one from the singer. He closed his eyes while he was singing so he could feel much better the emotions in the song. Instead of cheering for him the group was just staring and listening. When he was done singing they all clapped and whistled as loud as they could. Now Miranda understood what Feliciano meant about Romano's singing.

"Okay, since we are all done now how about we go eat something in the Restaurant over the street? „Announced Feliciano. Everyone got up and walked out of the Karaoke bar and crossed the street, walking to the Restaurant. Arriving there they ordered a table for six and followed the waitress to their table. Everyone got a card handed and it was silent for several minutes. They all ordered big meals and different kinds of wine. When everyone got their food and wine Feliciano stood up and raised his wine glass.

"Okay I think now is the time to tell you guys why we came here"

"I thought we came here because we are damn hungry and need something good to drink?" said Gilbert and received a slap on the back of his head from Francis. With a smile on his face Feliciano continued to speak.

"Well yeah that kind of too but there's another main reason. There's something I have thought about for many years and I never really had the courage to take things into my hand and just do what I dream of. But recently a person talked to me and gave me every hope and trust I needed to finally so what I think is right. So I decided to open a Restaurant and become the cook like I always wanted to!" He raised his glass and everyone else was cheering with him. Even though Romano was cheering for his little brother he was also a little bit sad about it. He looked to Miranda with a disappointed look, grabbed her hand and was about to whisper something in her ear as suddenly Feliciano turned to Miranda and kept going on speaking.

"But my main thanks go to this beautiful lady. She was the one who listened to me when I was most afraid and cheered me up. Also she didn't laugh about my dream like many others did before. So this thanks and wonderful evening goes to you Miranda. You are a lovely lady and I'm happy to say that I think I had a crush on you since I saw you the first time in Germany in the office." Nobody was expecting those words and mostly not Miranda. Her face became so red that she actually covered her face with her hands.

"I'm sorry but I have to use the restroom quickly!" She stood up and walked as quickly as she could to the restroom. As she arrived in front of the mirror she leaned against the sink that was in front of her. She looked into the mirror and couldn't believe what just happened. Her hands were shaking as she turned on some cold water and tried to freshen herself up a little bit. With a scared look on her face she took deep breathes. She didn't want something like this to happen. It would ruin her plan and her mission. She had to find a way to finish what she needed to do without getting too close to any people. As she stood there in front of the mirror for several minutes she realized she had do go out no matter what was going to happen so she left the restroom and was shocked what kind of scene was at their table.

Everything just got worse.