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- Authors: Sabrina Fedel
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Rome is sweltering as it waits patiently for the sun to set over the
Spanish Steps. It’s the kind of vapid heat that makes me wonder how
the lions had the energy to leave their cages, let alone maul anyone.
I’m in John Keats’s bedroom, the room he died in, overlooking the
sprawling steps below. Horses sweat in the middle of Piazza di Spagna as
they wait to give carriage rides, immovable in the small throng of late-May
tourists. Most of the passersby don’t even know this was Keats’s house,
despite the enormous crimson plaque on the side of it. They come here for
selfies on the famous steps and never give John’s shrine more than a
careless glance. For me, the Keats-Shelley House is the best part of the
neighborhood. I wonder if he stood exactly here, watching the people
outside the way I do.
Anna Maria comes and stands beside me. “It’s closing time, Story,” she
says in Italian. “No more people-watching today.”
“Mmmm.”
She follows my gaze to a cluster of kids my age, dressed like
conspicuous American teenagers. They’ve stopped at the bottom of the
steps. A group of tourists in matching red T-shirts flows around them like a
school of minnows sliced apart.
“Wait,” she says, “is that the infamous Dip Squad?”
I purse my lips and nod. They’re all there: Kelsey, Guin, Alicia, and the
twins, Patrick and Jack. We’re the kids of the American diplomatic corps
stationed in Rome, but I’ve called them the Dip Squad since last fall when
they welcomed me with one prank after another to show me how things
work here. They thought I was stuck-up because I keep to myself so much.
The worst was when they convinced me a stray cat near the embassy
belonged to a cute Marine assigned to guard duty. They told me the cat had
been lost for days, so I brought it to him. He thinks I made the whole thing
up to hit on him. He still smirks every time I visit my mom at work.
“Which one is the dark-haired boy?”
“That’s Jack.”
“But Patrick is the mean one, sì?”
“Sì.”
“Jack is pretty cute.” She elbows me.
I scrunch my nose, and she laughs.
“You should stand up to them. They don’t seem worth being miserable
over.”
“They’re not. But I’ll be out of here soon. Jack is the only one I’ll ever
have to see again.”
“He’s the one going to Princeton with you?”
“Sì.”
“Story, don’t let other people keep you from living the life you want,”
she says, poking my arm. “Come on, I have to get home. I have an exam
tomorrow.” Anna Maria is in her second year at Università di Roma. She
works two afternoons a week at the Keats-Shelley House, where I spend
more time than is normal for a seventeen-year-old girl, even one as nerdy as
me.
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