Solitude: Chapter One – How Many Times?

Crescent High School - December 15th, 2010

The sophomores packed up for their month long Christmas Break. They had been given a month after Ivan Braginski had some words with the principle about having to be in class on January 7th, his Christmas. There had been quite a few kols involved from what the whole school had heard.

"Ai ya, Ivan," Wang Yao said to his boyfriend as they waited for the lunch bell to signal their dismissal. "We're now stuck here for a month with no work to do because of you, aru."

Ivan hummed and kissed Yao's cheek, ignoring the glares they received, his sister, Natalya Arlovskaya being the leader of them.

Raivis Galante hurried in. "C-C-Candy Grams are h-h-here." He began to pass them out in alphabetical order by last name. Natalya received two, one from her sister, Yekaterina Braginskaya and the other from Toris Laurinaitis.

The Beilschmidt brothers received four total, Gilbert had three from Francis Bonnefoy, Antonio Carriedo and Matthew Williams and Ludwig had one from Feliciano Vargas.

Francis received many, including one from Arthur Kirkland, whom he hugged happily.

Yekaterina received two from Natalya and Ivan.

Ivan received four. "T-this one is from K-Katyusha, t-this one is from N-N-Natalya, t-this one is from Y-Yao and t-t-this one had n-n-no n-n-name."

Ivan placed a hand on Raivis's head. "Why are you so short?"

"B-B-Because of y-y-you, I-I-I mean b-b-because I didn't receive the dominant genes d-d-determining my height."

Ivan let him go when Yao removed his hand. Antonio received four from Gilbert, Francis, Feliciano and Romano Vargas. Raivis kept going until he had to give a whole box to Alfred F. Jones like he had to Francis. He himself had five, from Toris, Eduard von Bock, Peter Kirkland, Tino Väinämöinen and to his delight, Ivan.

The rest had been passed out when the bell rang and Ivan walked out thinking about the bag from nobody.

"Who could have sent it, aru?" Yao asked.

"Hm, I do not know, da."

Natalya walked up to them. "Brother, do you want me to find out for you?"

"Nyet, thank you, though, sister," Ivan said nervously.

"I'll find out and tell you as soon as I know."

Ooh. Ivan has a secret admirer. I have ten chapters of this written so far, I'll be uploading daily, or I'll try. ;)

I have two cats as some of you now, but Friday we became down to one.

So, is this AU or not?