The Feel of My Knife
I gazed over at her during the World Meeting. She was so beautiful, possibly the most beautiful girl in the world, even while she sat there torturing the poor little country of Latvia.
Her name was Natalia Arlovskaya; she was the most amazing girl I have ever met. I even had the amazing treat of meeting her in my human life. We had gone to the same middle school before being chosen as countries. Most people thought she was weird. She was a new student from Russia. She didn't talk that much; in fact, most people were convinced that she didn't even speak English. While most girls spent lunch talking to their friends and catching up on the latest gossip, Natalia didn't, instead she simply ate her lunch, and read once she was finished, she sat at a table all by herself, and whenever anybody came over to talk to them, she glared at them as if they had insulted her. She was seen as the weird one at school.
I was seen as the opposite. I was the cool kid. Everyone loved me, even the teachers. I was invited to everything, and was often the topic of many conversations. I was captain of the football team and always seemed to ace my tests whether I studied or not, and every other week I had a girl confessing her love to me. I could get any girl I laid my eyes on, and I knew it.
I was also the schools biggest dare devil. I didn't care what the dare was, I would get it done, within reason, of course, that was probably one of the reasons I was loved so much. Nobody messed with me, until one day somebody thought they got me beat.
It was a dude named Mathias, his family moved from Denmark about two years ago, and thought he was big and bad, so big and bad that one day he thought he could try and steal my title.
"Huh, so you're Alfred Jones?" he said looking me over.
"Yeah, who wants to know?" I said looking him back, he had an interesting style, but he wasn't anything impressive, everyone says that he liked to stare at that Norwegian guy, Lukas. Psh, kind of figures that this guy was gay; I could kind of tell it by looking at him.
"It would seem that everyone in this school says that you're the king of dares around here?" he said.
"Hell yeah I am," I said, smiling at the recognitions. The nearby girls all giggled, I winked at them.
"Seriously?" he asked, laughing.
"Hell yeah," I said accepting his challenge.
"Prove it," he said. "See that girl." He pointed to Natalia.
"Yeah, weird girl?" I asked referring to the name everyone called her, not very creative, but it was easier to pronounce than her real name.
"Well I dare you to go out with her for three months," he said, an evil smile on his face. All the guys around me began to laugh excitedly; even they thought I was done for. This was like social suicide. Natalya and her entire family were freaks.
"Psh, what are we in second grade?" I said trying to drop the subject.
"Hey if you can't do it…" Mathias said trailing off.
"Please," I said walking towards her. "There is a reason why they call me the king."
I walked over to Natalia from where I stood, leaving the small group of chuckling and snickering kids behind me. Natalia was a lot different from how she is today. She was very shy and quite, and a huge loner. She didn't talk to anyone and spent her entire day reading. She dressed in very plain clothes, if it wasn't for her long platinum hair, she could probably be confused for a boy. She had two older siblings, Ivan and Katsuyasha, but it seemed that even they did not want to acknowledge her; they would occasionally help her out if anyone made fun of her, but for the most part they also ignored her. They didn't sit with her a lunch, because they had their own group to sit with. It wasn't like they were being mean though, I mean I had a brother too, but I didn't sit with him, and he was my twin.
"Hey," I said smiling my Hollywood smile. "How's it going?" I saw her blush; she averted her eyes, embarrassed.
"W-what do you want?" she asked, her voice breaking twice. Her voice was very quiet, but at the same time girly, not like you would expect from her appearance. She still had an accent from her homeland. She played with hair after putting her book down.
"Well, I just noticed you sitting here by yourself, and I thought you might like some company?" I said sitting at her table.
"N-no, you don't have to," she said. "I like being alone." She starred at the table, but something in her voice told me she didn't want me to go. I didn't move.
"So…what's up?" I asked after a few moments of awkward silence.
"N-nothing much…" she said still staring at the table.
"So you're new here right?" I asked. "Well, you came here last month, right?"
"Y-yes?" She said her face becoming the color of rose petals.
"So, I don't think we have ever really met, what's your name, where are you from, you know, what's up?" I asked bored.
"M-my name is Natalia Arlovskaya, my family and I are f-from Russia. We moved here because some family friends are taking my siblings and me in." she said. Her voice sounded sad, but I couldn't see her expression because she was hiding behind her bangs. I used this as my time to strike.
I scooted over so I was in the seat next to her. I placed my hand on her chin and lifted her face so I could see it. Her face went completely red and she swatted my hand away. I placed my hand back and continued to lift her face; I used my other hand to move the hair so that I could see it clearer.
"You are really beautiful," I said. "You shouldn't hide that."
She blushed, as I began to really look at her face. She had really pretty faire, platinum blonde hair, and beautiful, dark, sapphire eyes, she had very few flaws with acne and stuff, which was rare to see with teenagers, but all in all she had a really pretty face. "I'm Alfred Jones," I continued. "It's really nice to meet you." She continued to look away blushing.
"I-I know, you are in my math class," she responded. I chuckled a little embarrassed that she had called me out on that.
"Well, uh, I was just wondering, I mean I know we don't really know each other, and all that, well uh if…maybe you want to, uh, go out with me?" I tried to fake nervousness, to comfort her a little more. I knew the others were probably at my table laughing their butts off but, whatever, whether I was asking weird girl out or not, I was still the king of dares, and right now I was only further proving the idea that I could get any girl I wanted.
Natalia looked at me, meeting my eyes for the first time. She gasped shocked. There was a pause where for a moment the entire lunchroom seemed to go silent, and then she answered.
"Y-yes," she answered, and I looked back at her a bit shocked. I knew I made her nervous and stuff, and that all the girls couldn't say no to me, and everything, but I didn't expect her to give in so easily. "Yes, I will go out with you."
"C-cool," I said, trying to reclaim my calm. "How about the movies, this Friday at 7?"
She nodded.
"Alright I will see you then," I said getting up from my seat, I very awkwardly kissed her on her cheek, making the blood rush to her face, and then walked back to my table. Everyone looked like they would explode with laughter, and as soon as I sat down they all did, they could barely contain themselves.
"Wow, I didn't think you would actually do it!" Gilbert exploded.
"You poor fool," Sadık said laughing so hard he began to cry.
"I can't believe you did, you're dating creepy girl!" Arthur said practically peeing himself.
"It's hardly dating," I said. "I'm pretty sure dating implies we will both be having fun, this relationship is entirely one sided."
Little did I know that I was making the best mistake in my entire life. We started going out on dates and stuff, mostly because we did have to "go out" for three months, and I still had a reputation to uphold, I didn't want people to go around telling people that I was boring or something, and it was in that month that I really got to know Natalia. I was one of the only people she would open up to. She was a lot more interesting than the weird shy girl that everyone saw her as. She had feelings, and interests, she wasn't the shell of a girl everyone else knew.
She would tell me about her family, he brother and her sister. They were orphans, they never met their parents. She said that her older sister has taken care of both her and her older brother since they were children. That was a bit shocking to me because her older sister wasn't that much older than her, only 3 maybe 4 years older.
She told me she was close to her siblings, which made sense; they were the only ones she had. She often looked up to her sister, she told me she wanted to grow up to be as strong and pretty as her. She also loved her brother very much, he always seemed to look out for her and take care of her when her sister was busy with something else.
She told me that she loved reading because it was a way for her to escape her boring life. It was a chance for her to just leave everything behind and let her imagination take over. She dreamed about living a life like the characters in her books, to travel the world, meet that one special person, and start her own family. I loved seeing her like this, whenever she dreamed about her future she seemed to get this adorable, distant, look on her face, it was absolutely spectacular. She really inspired me.
After a few weeks I had really fallen for her, and by the time three months had passed, I was head over heels. In my mind she was the most beautiful girl in the world. She had beauty that easily surpassed any of the other girls at school, and she had a mind that put everyone else to shame, she was the most amazing girl I have ever met. I didn't care what everyone else thought, I was glad she was my girlfriend, I had claimed her before anyone else could realize just how wonderful she really is, however I was an idiot, and because of that I lost her.
We had finally been going out for three months, and the school dance was a week away. I had been planning to ask Natalia if she would go with me, but I wasn't sure if she would be interested in that sort of thing, I had worked up all of my confidence and was about to ask her when Mathias cut me off.
"Hey there, lovebirds," Mathias said, a dorky smile on his face.
"Oh, ah, hey Matt," I said awkwardly, he had his dare, couldn't he just leave us alone.
"Hello, Mathias," Nat said a friendly smile on her face, while we were going out she had really had gotten over her shyness.
"So, um, Al, it's been three months, so you know what that means," he said, excitement heavy in his voice.
"Three months since what?" Nat asked titling her head, confused.
Mathias laughed.
"Shut up!" I shouted. I wasn't going to let him ruin this. I really liked her.
"What Alfred didn't tell you?" Mathias asked, his smile growing.
"Don't say a single word!" I shouted at Mathias trying to get him to shut up.
"Tell me what?" Natalia asked now looking at me.
"Well we have been going out for three months now…" I said trailing off hoping this would quite Mathias.
"Oh yeah, it has been three months already," Nat said, smiling lovingly at me.
"And well…" I said trying to find the words to ask her to the dance.
"That means the dare is over, you really are the king of dares, dude," Mathias said elbowing me in the ribs.
"What dare?" Nat asked me confused.
Mathias laughed.
"Figures you wouldn't tell her," he said.
"It's nothing," I said. "Just ignore him."
"Well the only reason that Alfred asked you out, was because I dared him to," he said. "He had to prove he was the King of Dares by going out with weird girl for an entire three months, I have to admit, I didn't think you'd make it." He continued even though I tried to motion for him to keep his mouth shut.
The happy, open look on her face, crashed. The light that was in her eyes a few seconds ago, disappeared. Her face seemed to be frozen in a mask of shock. I saw tears fill her eyes and then run down her cheeks.
"Y-you…only…went out with me…b-because…of a dare," she said, the sadness in her voice made me want to kill myself for hurting her so badly.
"It's not like that," I tried to say, but it was already too late, that was enough confirmation for her. I pulled her aside as she began to cry, I was surprised to see that Mathias wasn't laughing as I left him behind. "It's not what you think," I began to say. "At first I was only doing this because of the dare, but after I began to get to know you, to really know you, I began to fall in love with you," I caressed her face with my free hand, while holding her tight in my other hand. I didn't want to let go of her, I didn't want her to leave.
"But if it wasn't for the dare, then we would have never met, you only asked me out because you thought it would be funny, because you thought it would prove how brave you were, you didn't actually think I was pretty, you lied, how do I know everything you said to me, wasn't just part of the lie," she said, more tears falling from her eyes.
"I'm really really really sorry, I know I did a bad thing, but just hear me out, I l…" she didn't let me finish, she pulled her hand from mine, and slapped me.
"I hate you!" she shouted, before running away from me, still crying.
"Natalia!" I called after, but she didn't turn, she did stop, she just kept running.
That was the day I got my heart broken. The day, I vowed to win her heart back.
Okay so this was just a random Idea that played in my head for awhile. I'm not sure how long I will make this story, but whatever. Also I realize that Belarus is acting extremely OCC, but I will get in to that next chapter. If you liked the story leave a review, its reviews that encourage me to update sooner.
