The Following is a True Story

...Only the names, the places and all of the events have been changed.

so there's that!...

Previously...

*DING DING*, the beginning of Round 15.

The final round has begun, Luca and Marciano get into position, meanwhile Alberto puts his plan into action... "C'mon everyone, cheer him on!, LU-CA, LU-CA, LU-CA!", slowly but surely everyone starts shouting, with Alberto putting his hand to his ear, "That's more like it!", Luca, hearing everyone chant his name, becomes more than energized enough to fight on, he throws a right hook at Marciano's left cheek, Marciano responded with a powerful punch to Luca's head, but just then, he turned his head back around, smiles and launches at Marciano with every move in the book, right hook, left hook, uppercut, left jab, right jab, just then, Marciano fell down flat on his face onto the already blood and sweat covered canvas, Luca also had some standing trouble but he tried his best to keep standing.

"1, 2, 3, 4," the ref counted just as Marciano tried to get up on the ropes, but he couldn't take his grip any longer, thus he fell down once again, "5, 6, 7, 8!, 9! 10!, It's Over!" the ref yelled, all the while Luca stood for as long as he can before collapsing on the ground, but still with a smile on his face, "For the first time ever, Marciano Ferrari has been defeated! Ladies and Gentlemen, we got a new champion!" the announcer proceeds to pick up the unconscious Luca and declare him the winner, "LUCA PAGURO!".

Meanwhile, Alberto, Giulia, her mom and dad and Luca's family all rejoiced and celebrated his victory, the crowd were going wild and people of the press were entering the ring to get some photos just as Alberto and Giulia entered the ring themselves, with Alberto giving Luca a one sided hug, and then Giulia gave him a long embrace, with Luca smiling all while being covered from head to toe, in blood. everyone was having the greatest night anyone can remember...

End of Rocky Recap.

The Following Morning, Luca was released from the Local Hospital with only a couple of bandages and an eye patch to cover one of his still healing black eye, to his surprise he saw news cameramen and paparazzi taking pictures and wanting their scoop, "Mr. Paguro, how did you manage to defeat Ferrari?" one of them said, to which he replied "Well, I think it was just pure luck", hiding the fact Luca was really unleashing his inner sea monster, fearing saying so would get the Italian Government interested. "I just wanna go home... I need a rest", just then a group of fangirls appear out of nowhere, "WE LOVE YOU LUCA!", "YOU'RE THE BEST!" and so forth, this caused Luca to run as fast as he can in fear, fortunately Giulia and her mother was just waiting for Luca, he got in just in the nick of time before the fangirls could get him. "Say Luca, why were you running so fast?", the mother asked, "Oh... just continuing my exercise to stay shape...", he replied, even though it was obvious that there's an army of fangirls coming after him.

a day later, Luca, fully healed, was ready to go back into school, still fearing there could be fangirls afoot, he put on a hat and trench coat in an attempt to look unrecognizable, this worked as so far nobody seemed to suddenly run after him. after safely going to school, he took off his thinly veiled disguise, much to his surprise however...

"SURPRISE!"

All the students, even the bully from Chapter 1, gave Luca a congratulations party, "Way to go Luca!", "We'd knew you make it!", "You're the best!", many of them said, "Aww guys, you shouldn't have...", Luca replied, "Say, do you ever plan to box again?", one of the kids said, to which Luca said "When I feel like it, but now is not the time... can I just get to class?". with that, every student carried Luca all the way to Miss Lorissa's.

"Ah, Luca, my favorite student, how was winning the fight against the brutal Marciano Ferrari?" she asked, "Great... I guess", Luca replied, "I just wanna get back to studying", "Oh right, sorry if you feel like you're getting too much attention...". after the class came in as scheduled, Miss Lorissa made an announcement to the class, "Boys and Girls, with our most brightest student Mario Svengali going on a goodwill trip across the world, we're getting what we call a foreign exchange student from the place known as "Messico", "Oh boy, is it gonna be Zorro?" said one kid, "Don't be silly, Zorro isn't really from Mexico but Old California when it was under Mexican rule" replied another, "Now now children, we don't wanna make exaggerated suggestions..." *hears walking sounds* "I think he's coming, places everyone...".

After which, everyone was excited to see who this new kid is, as the door opened, he appeared complete with a guitar case, he had a black mop-top type hair, a mole on his nose and a dimple on only one side of his mouth, "Hola" the new kid said, "Ciao!" replied the others, "His name is Miguel Rivera, he's plays guitar and is the great-grandson of the late Hector Rivera", Lorissa said to the students, after which, Miguel was looking for a seat, to which he found one that just happened to be next to Luca's.

"Ciao Miguel!", Luca said, "Hola, you must be Luca, right?" Miguel asked, "Yes, indeed I am", "Why the bandages?" the Mexican boy replied, "Oh... uh, I hit a pole?", however Miguel, having read the news about Luca's fights said "Is it because of Boxing?", "Oh... uh, scusa for lying", "Esta bien, that means That's okay in Spanish".

After the class, Luca was walking down the halls to get a drink of water, when he saw Miguel getting a lot of attention from the same girls who Luca met early, he ran all the way to see, "Wow Miguel, people are really liking you", however one of the girls turned around and said "This isn't the place for you Luca, we found a new idol...", "Che cosa?", Luca was confused, all a sudden the attention was going more towards Miguel, whatever he felt, he walked away.

TO BE CONTINUED
Next chapter, the rivalry intensifies