You know what? Because last chapter was so late, here's an early chapter! [And thank you to the two people who gave me reviews~] Holy crap. This entire story [which is almost finished, I've got about two more chapters to write, (nine in all) and upload them all...] takes up twenty pages! o_O Anyway, I think this is the first story I will have ever finished...

Enjoy~

We ended up staying at the café for another hour. I really wanted to leave, after that revenge comment, but I stayed. The wonderful taste of the coffee took me prisoner, and some part of me, deep down, wanted to stay. Gil and I had made this guy's life hell, and apparently he was going through stuff at home, too, and I felt guilty for it. Believe it or not, there were a couple of years in high school where he didn't smile so much. One year, I'm pretty sure I never saw a single smile on his face. But we never stopped.

"Ivan?"

"Da?"

"About what Toris said before... what was wrong with Natalya?" Instantly he looks uncomfortable, and... sad?

"I-I..." he says with a slight grimace. "I almost lost- I would rather not talk about it. It's in the past. No need to think any more of it," he says hurriedly. He shakes his head, as if to remove an image from his mind, and plasters a smile on his face again. It's weaker and not as bright as his previous ones.

"Well... I... uh... I think I'm going to go home now, I say, standing up and stretching. "Geez, it's almost six o'clock already?!" Oh crap. I didn't bring my car... It was so nice before, so I decided to walk, but it started getting cloudy about half an hour ago.

Ivan waves goodbye to Toris, who nervously waves back, and we head out. Ivan starts walking towards the library, probably where he left his car. I start heading in the opposite direction, towards home, with my laptop bag slung over my shoulder. It's about a twenty minute walk. "Erzsébet?" he calls. "Where are you going?"

"Home!" I call back. "I didn't bring my car." He jogs the five or so metres over to me, and grabs my hand- forcefully but gently, if that's even possible. He starts pulling me back to the library.

"Come, I'll drive you. It looks like it's going to rain," he sings happily, as if he hadn't just invaded my personal space.

"B-but you don't know the way-"

"Da, I do~"

"WHAT?!"

He laughs. "I'm kidding~ You can tell me how to get there." He leads me to a small, beat up car. It looks a lot worse off than mine... Smiling, he opens the passenger side door for me. Is this a good idea...? But I can't let my laptop get wet... aaand there's a raindrop. Giving in, I get into the car, and he closes the door behind me. He looks uncomfortable when he gets in the driver's side, and he has to bend over slightly, so that his head doesn't hit the roof of the car. There's a little enamel sunflower charm hanging from the rear-view mirror. Maybe this is his sister's car. There's no way a big guy like him would own such a tiny car. "You can turn the radio on if you like," he says, starting up the car.

"It's alright." I never find good music on the radio, and they never play Hungarian music... but there's always those crappy boy bands (two in particular... one from Britain and one from Australia...) whose music makes my head hurt, and dubstep. Although, once, I did hear a Bad Touch Trio song... I give Ivan the directions as we go, and we end up at the apartment complex without getting lost. He takes my laptop bag for me and follows me up the stairs to mine and Bella's apartment. Something Gil never did... Oh... Stop thinking about that! "Well... here's home..." There's really nothing else I could say.

"It's very nice," he says, still smiling, and checks his watch. "I should probably get home now. Call me if you need anything, or... or if you don't want to be alone, with what just happened..." He hands me a folded up napkin, with two numbers on it, obviously his mobile and home phone numbers. When the hell did he write that?! I take it anyway, and he lifts both his arms slightly- oh God, does he want a hug or something?!- before dropping them, and giving his hand out for a handshake, face slightly red. After standing there for a second, I shake it, and he leaves, saying "Do svidaniya."

If that wasn't the epitome of awkwardness, I don't know what is. I though the napkin on the table, and flop down on the couch. I need to think about things. About Gilbert. I can't believe he did that... Cheated on me, someone who's loved him for years, and has never once thought about going with another guy (Okay, well, maybe once I thought about going out with Roderich, but only for less than a day!)

Actually...

With Gilbert gone, and after what just happened... I'm starting to realise how much of a jerk he was... Always staring at other girls, never helping me pay for anything, even when I needed it, never taking me anywhere nice, when I did that for him... Sure, he doesn't have a job, and the BTT get tons of money, especially now, with this tour... Urrrgghhhh... I'm so confused... I hate him, but at the same time, I still love him. I think. I don't know. I used to get butterflies whenever I saw him, but... those stopped a few years ago. Ivan's comment about revenge comes to mind... (Also the fact that now he knows where I live. Crap.)

I can't just let Gilbert do this to me, and get away with it. Ivan's right. Revenge will be fun. But what could I do...?

Ludwig would never let me destroy any of Gil's stuff... hmm... Well... I guess I could give him some of his own medicine. I could go out with someone else. Someone he hates.

There's Roderich- oh, but he's engaged to Toni's cousin Isabel. And besides, I don't think he likes me. Not in that way, anyway.

Ivan... It's kinda obvious that Ivan still likes me. And... if today proves anything... he's not that bad, I guess... I can handle being around him, for a while, until Gil gets back, and gets as hurt as much as he hurt me. So... I guess I'll just act like I like him, too, and then maybe he'll ask me out on a date, and I can try and keep it going until Gil gets back, show Gil how happy I am with Ivan, and then leave Ivan when Gil sees, and I will never have to worry about the two of them again.

I don't care what it takes. I'm going to get back at Gil no matter what. I've decided that I've had enough of his crap.

I call Lili about half an hour later, when I've fully thought out my plan. She probably won't approve of it, seeing as she's, well, Lili, but I also need to tell her what happened with Gil.

"Hallo? Who is this?" answers a male voice. Vash.

"Hi Vash! It's Erzsi. Erm... where's Lili?"

"Oh. Hello, Erzsébet. Lili's right here." There's a few seconds pause, and then Lili answers.

"Sorry about that, Erzsi. You know what big brother is like. How was your day off?"

"It was... pretty bad. At first. And then just plain weird."

"What happened?"

"I told you I was going to call Gil, right?"

"Ja..."

"Well, um... I caught him... 'with' someone else..." Despite how much I've thought about it, and decided not to care about Gil anymore, it's still hard to say it. Of course, Lili is sympathetic.

"Oh, goodness! Are you alright?! When did this happen?!"

"Igen, I'm fine."

She pauses for a moment. "Was this at the library?" she asks, thoughtfully.

"Igen..." Where's she going with this?

"Around four o'clock?"

"Igen... why...?"

"So you're the person Vanya told me about."

"Vanya...?"

"Oh- sorry. Do you remember Ivan Braginsky? From high school?"

"..." Well... I definitely can't tell Lili about my plan now. She'll never let it go, and she'd probably tell me how wrong it is- she'd probably do that regardless if she knew Ivan or not, but it'll be worse, because she's his best friend- and she'd probably warn him.

Lili and Ivan have been close friends since high school, and that year that I never saw him smile, I never saw him without her. Even when I pressured her, she refused to tell me what was up with him, why he'd turned all gloomy all of a sudden.

"Erzsi?"

"Oh, sorry. Yeah, I remember. He treated me to a coffee at Feliks' café today."

"Ja, he said that. He didn't say it was you though. I was wondering who he'd be having coffee with..."

"...When exactly did he tell you this?"

"I just got off the phone with him about five minutes ago. That's why big brother answered. He sounded so happy. I'm guessing that was the 'weird' part of your day?"

"Igen. He said some... strange things." 'Revenge is always fun...' "And he dragged me along, and acted like it was nothing."

"Mm, he does that sometimes. You just need to make it clear to him that he's invading your personal space, and he'll apologize." Not saying anything about the strange things he says...?

"I did, when he had his hand on my shoulder, when- after I caught Gil."

"Comforting someone and dragging someone along are two different things... Where was he dragging you to?"

"Out of the library, and then back to the library, after the café. Well... it wasn't really dragging, more like gently pulling."

"Well, he's forgotten about personal space... I'm not going to get into why... but someone's behaviour has rubbed off on him, after years... and he likes to be close to people."

"'Someone'?"

"Natalya, his little sister. She's... nice." Lili would call anybody nice. She was the only one person who would call Ivan 'nice' when no one else would.

"You sure know a lot about him."

"I talk to him a lot, so he doesn't feel too lonely. There's not much about him that I don't know." I can practically hear her smiling. I know what she's referring to. This conversation is making me feel more and more awkward by the second.

"I'm going to have to go, Lili, I need to make another call and I'm running out of credit." I feel terrible for lying to her, but I can't just hang up. "See you tomorrow."

"Alright. Guten nacht, Erzsi." After I hang up, I dial Bella's number. I'm not going to call Gil, or the other two, because they'll probably put me on to him, and I do not want to go through that at the moment. Plus, Gil hasn't made any effort to get back to me... he never does.

"Hi Erzsi!" Bella says happily, once she picks up.

"Hi, Bella! How's things?"

"Oh, they're going great! London is so beautiful! I asked Toni, and we'll be stopping at Brussels! I can see my grandparents again!"

"That's great! And... how's Gil...?" Woops. That slipped out. But... I guess part of me still wants to know...

She pauses. "Gil's... great. Haha, that's... what's the term called?" she laughs nervously. "When you use the same sound at the start of each word...?"

"I don't know," I reply, in a flat tone. We continue to talk for about fifteen minutes, then I really do have to go and put my phone on charge.

[XD 'Before He Cheats' by Carrie Underwood came on while I was re-typing this... XDXD]

Do I need to put any translations here...? I think everyone knows that 'Do svidaniya' is goodbye... And, if you don't know, Brussels is the capital of Belgium.

I wasn't really sure how to write how Erzsébet would feel... I've never had a boyfriend, let alone be cheated on...

Sorry if this chapter dragon on a bit. WHAT?! Dragged. God. Dragged on a bit. I only got three hours of sleep last night, okay? (Yeah... that's why there may be mistakes... please tell me if there are.) I guess it's sorta a filler...

Oh and look who's going on about nothing. Whoops.

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