It's been a while since I've done a VA fic, but I'm totally excited about the film coming out in February and this idea, which actually has nothing to do with the first book, hasn't left me alone so here it is. This is just the prologue, but I'm putting the first chapter up straight away and the next one in the next few days. Here's hoping you like it :D
I'd been telling the story of how Ivan and I got together for years. Everyone asked for that story and then asked why it wasn't Dimitri with how close we are now and were back then. I usually just said something like 'he's more like a brother' or 'because he's not Ivan'. I guess now it's finally time to set the damn record straight. I'm fed up of the question and just want someone to understand.
I first met Dimka when I started St. Basil's Academy. It's in the middle of nowhere in Russia that cold until spring and summer country. It's where I met Ivan too, but this time I'm going to skip over the things that happened between us. Or even all the things that happened in mine and Dimitri's friendship. Friendships blossom and there are arguments and reconciliations and all that. You know how friendships work. You have friends, right? You know what happens day to day in friendships, so I'm not going to bore you with those after a while. Not even really at the start.
Along the way of course there are going to be other characters – friends and family members – who pop up. Whenever they do pop up, it's important. No story like mine and Dimka's can be told without other people.
Our friends say it's been me, Dimka and Ivan all the way, and then me and Dimka after that, but the other people in my life are important too. It's just that after a while I won't really need to talk about them to explain how Dimka and I are just best friends.
But Ivan will hardly be in it. Even if only for tonight, I need to tell a story without my husband being the focus. No doubt he'll crop up eventually, I can't resist all the time, but this…
This is mine and Dimka's story.