"Natalia, we need to slow down" Brother said, arms out to keep me away from his body. I smiled sweetly. "Does that mean you'd like to slow dance with me, Ivan?" His eyes went wide in terror. He shoved me back, and scurried towards the door, struggling to button up his oversized coat. "Nyet, you've got it backwards little sister! Goodbye!" He ran from my home, from my love. "Ivan, come back, we're going to be forever!" I called from my front porch! As his form disappeared, I whipped out my phone and dialed his number. He ignored it immediately. Dial, ignore, repeat. This sequence repeated itself nearly a hundred times before I gave up.
"I'm not one of those crazy girls, I'm not one of those crazy girls." I chanted my mantra all the way to the bus stop. I boarded and paid the driver, taking a seat at the very back. By the time the bus finally reached it's destination, the sky had turned to a lovely shade of cherry blossom pink. I called brother again, finally managing to reach his voicemail. "Ivan, I caught a bus to your side of town. Nothing will be able to stop my love for you, not Katyusha, not that stupid Alfred you're always with. You and I will be wed, and we shall be forever! I swear it! You will love me, love me, LOVE ME!" A young pair of lovers eyed me cautiously and skirted around me as I walked to Brother's home. Soon, I stood on his doorstep, the beautiful city of Los Angles as my backdrop. I rang the doorbell, knocked, and even scratched at the door maliciously. 'Damn, he isn't home ' I thought sadly. Not a problem though, I had his key copied a while back just in case.
I instantly made my way up the staircase to his room, and dove into his closet. Every last article of clothing smelled of Brother's skin. "I will never love again, Brother, I swear I'll never love again!" After a log, blissful while of cradling my brother's clothing, his bedroom door opened. Ivan entered, followed by that swine of an American, Alfred. "You see, we can be alone here, just you and I." Ivan said, lovingly, then froze up the second he saw me.
"Natalia! You shouldn't be here, sister. I am not going to marry you, I do not love you that way!" He snapped, eyes filled with terror. I scowled, but refused to leave. "Nyet, Ivan! I love you, and only you! Leave that stupid swine and come to somebody who cares about you!" It took Ivan only two seconds to scoop me up and remove me from his home, taking my spare key away. Tears threatened to fall as I curled up on his porch, glaring and snarling at every couple that dared to pass me. I began to chant my new mantra, ashy blond hair falling into my eyes as I cried. "Now I'm one of those crazy girls, now I'm one of those crazy girls, now I'm one of those crazy..."