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You liked to think that you were well-versed in many things. Italian was not one of those things. That was a bit of a problem especially when your boyfriend is Italian. You would visit him constantly, but you never left his house.
You were a homebody at heart, so you were more than content to stay at his house whenever you came to visit. It was just who you were.
However, Kimi wanted to show you around. He had a larger break from Formula 2, and you were already planning to stay with him during the summer break. He wanted to take you around Bologna, his home city, and take you to all of his favorite places. This was mainly because you took him to all of your favorite places when he visited you and your home city before the season started, so he wanted to return the favor.
The first place you went to was his favorite cafe.
"But this sign says "bar," Kimi," You laughed as you reluctantly followed him to the building.
"Bar is a cafe in Italian," Kimi laughed as he led the door open for you. You walked in and, true to his word, it was a cafe. You walk up to the counter to order, but everything is in Italian.
"How am I supposed to know what's here?" You signed trying to recognize anything on the menu. "It's all Italian."
"Huh, wonder why," Kimi joked, "Just tell me what you want, and I'll order for you."
"Can I just get a coffee with cream and sugar? I feel like that's easy, right?" You asked looking around at the options, and you saw a bunch of coffee beans behind the country. Surely they'd have coffee.
"Ciao, vorresti ordinare?" The barista asked as she saw you standing there. You immediately looked over to Kimi for him to respond.
"Ciao, vorrei un cafè con latte e zucchero e un tè con latte," He said to her before turning his attention to you. "Do you want anything to eat?"
"Do they have croissants?" You asked, and he nodded, turning his attention back to the barista.
"E due croissant, per favore," He replied as he pulled out money to pay. "Grazie!"
"I'm never going to learn Italian," You groaned as you walked to a table on the outdoor patio to wait for your food. "It's difficult, and I don't even know what you ordered us."
"I could always tell you what I said," he laughed. "I bet I could also teach you."
"Please," You let up as you grabbed his hand from across the table. "Duolingo is not helping. If anything, it's making it more difficult to understand."
"You tried Duolingo before asking your Italian boyfriend to learn Italian? Mamma mia!" Just then, the barista brought out your food and drinks before heading back behind the counter. "Here, I'll help. This," he said as he gestured to your cup of coffee, "I said I would like a coffee with cream and sugar. Vorrei un cafè con latte e zucchero. Try it."
"I'm going to butcher the accents," You admitted as you tried it out, and sure enough, you messed up a little, but it was not too far off the original. That could be chalked up to the lack of an Italian accent. "Was that horrible?"
"Not at all!" He encouraged as he took a drink from his tea. "Then I said I also wanted a tea with cream. Un tè con latte. Are you seeing the resemblance?"
"So tè is tea and cafè is coffee?" You asked and were met with a nod from him. "Then latte is cream, con is with, and zucchero is sugar."
"Yes! That's all right!" He smiled as he passed you one of the croissants. "Then what would 'due croissant' mean?"
"Two croissants, I'm guessing?" You answered nervously but were met with a smile.
"Sì, you're doing great!" He praised as he brought your hand up to his lips to place a kiss on your knuckles. "Now, do you know what 'ciao', 'per favore' and 'grazie' mean?"
"Of course, I know 'ciao'! I've heard Bella Ciao before," You joked. Kimi's eyes widened as if still asking the question. "It means hi, right?"
"Yes, but what about the others?"
"'Per favore' sounds like 'please' in Spanish, so I'm assuming that," You replied, "And I bet 'grazie' is thank you. You've said that a lot, especially after the race, to your engineers."
"Corretto!" That's when he noticed you were both done with your drinks and noticed you were done, so he stood up to take the glassware back to the counter before coming back to you. "How about we go shopping? I can keep teaching you Italian while we walk around my favorite places."
"That sounds fun," You said as you stood up and followed him down the street, hand in hand. "I need a new jacket anyway."
"Io ho bisogno di una nuova giacca," he replied without missing a beat.
"Huh?"
"I need a new jacket in Italian is io ho bisogno di una nuova giacca," He laughed seeing your confused face.
"Is this going to be a new theme? Anything I say, you're going to translate it?"
"Se vuoi che lo faccia," He said, causing you to glare at him. He laughed lightly before translating, "If you want me to."
"As hot as I find your accent and you speaking Italian to me, I'd rather you not do that," You admitted. "Can we just stick to small words that I definitely already know the meaning of and small lessons here and there?"
"Well, what words do you already know?"
"Ciao, per favore, grazie-"
"Word that I did not teach you before today," He cut you off with a laugh.
"Uh, amour means love, ti amo means I love you, and um, one that's not so good willed," You chuckled nervously as you both walked by a huge group of people.
"I still want to know what it is," He pressed once everyone cleared out of the way, and he pulled you to the side in an alley for more privacy. "What is it?"
"Vaffanculo," You whispered, "It means fuck you."
"Technically, it means go fuck yourself, but close enough."
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