Book Title: The Italian Kiss Short Story
Summory:
Fifteen-year-old Lilly Shetlar just wanted to spend the summer online, but her cheerfully clueless, middle-class parents had other plans: a month-long, forced "cultural immersion" across Europe with her annoying five-year-old brother, Freddie. The adventure begins in disastrous fashion in cold, judgmental Paris, where frustrating language barriers and a crushing digital blackout send Lilly into a spiraling existential crisis.
The family's strained journey finds a temporary reprieve in Spain, offering warmer weather, friendlier locals, and a tenuous lifeline of slow Wi-Fi. But it's in sparkling Italy that Lilly’s entire perspective shifts. Granted the sanctuary of a private hotel room and blessed with high-speed internet, she is finally free-and then she meets Marco. Charming, charismatic, and cruising on a vintage Vespa, the Italian boy utterly captivates Lilly's heart.
Their whirlwind three days together, sealed with a tender kiss and promises of forever, transforms the trip from a prison sentence into the best month of her life. Back home and completely smitten, Lilly is obsessed with bridging the Atlantic divide, only for her newly "relaxed" parents to drop one last bombshell: Mom is pregnant. Lilly's life just went from chaotic to completely uncontrollable, and all she can think about is Marco.
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Book Title: The Italian Kiss Short Story
Author: Warren M. Walker
Publisher: V & W Publishing
https://publishing.irishknights.co.za/the-italian-kiss-short-story/
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