Ninth Embarrassment

bGUSTAV:/b

Nora was awesome. No other words to really describe it.

She was a lot more shy in person, but after a little bit she started to open up a little more to me. Her hunched up posture started to straighten out, and she began to get better at making eye-contact with me. But, throughout the entire time we talked(or should I say, I talked. She didn't really say much...) her face was flushed. BUt, she always had this small smile on her face.

After some time, we decided to leave my smelly apartment and go for a walk. After all, she iwas/i a visitor here in Germany. Might as well show her around. We grabbed our coats and such, and once I had locked up I followed her outside.

"So," I started, and she looked up at me. "Why German?" I asked her, and she smiled.

"Well, you see," she started, but yelped as her foot caught on one of the ruts in the sidewalk. I saw her body begin to fall, and I caught her arm. I pulled her back up to safety, and I let out the breath I didn't know I was holding.

"Careful," I breathed, and she gave a small laugh.

"S-sorry," she stammered, and I smiled. "Anyway, um, German.. My dad is German, and we used to have relatives here somewhere. So when it was time for me to learn a language at school I thought it would be cool to do German because my dad spoke it... so yeah, he helped me, and so on." I saw her smile softly at the thought of her dad, and I couldn't help but smile with her.

"That would explain why your almost fluent, you had an inside influence," I commented, and she nodded.

"Yeah. It was something that brought us closer together, you know? My little sister is learning it too, and my mom knows little bits and parts... enough to get around, you know?"

"How old is your sister?" I ask, and she smiles again.

"The youngest is 10... the middle is 15, and then there's me... I'm 20." I said, and I nodded.

"Thats cool. I have a younger sister, too. She's 18," I tell her, and she smiles.

"That makes sense," she says, and I looked at her confused.

"What do you mean by that?" I ask, and she shrugs.

"You just seem like the older brother type." I pondered this, still confused.

"And what does that look like?" I asked her.

"Umm, I'm not really sure. Protective, I guess, but other than that... I don't really know," she says, and I could tell that I had confused her as well. She turned her head down to the ground, to look out for more ruts on the ground as we walked. I kicked the rock that was in front of me, and it rolled, bouncing off into a puddle on the side.

We walked in silence for awhile, and I surprisingly found it comfortable. I thought about all the things that we could do during her visit, all the things that we could visit. I wondered if I should introduce her to the band, and I contemplated not doing that: who knows if I would ever hear the end of it from the twins. My mind was pretty much made up, though, when I rounded the corner and met the mischievous brown eyes of Bill and Tom Kaulitz. I groaned as they waved me down, jogging over to where we were.

"Gustav, what are you doing out of your hermit hole?" Bill calls out, and I feel the urge to punch the stupidity out of him, if that was possible. Bill shifts his gaze to Nora beside me, and he smiles. "Hey! You must be Nora!" he shouts, and I feel dread begin to knot itself in my stomach. iOh no, come on.../i I beg Bill, though I doubt he heard my desperate calls.

"Hey there, Bill," I mutter, and I glance at Nora. She seemed to be in shock again. I was praying that she wasn't going to faint on my again. I touch her arm, to let her know that I'm here, and she looks up at me with those huge baby deer eyes.

"Is that..." she starts, and I nod my head.

"Yeah, thats Bill. The lead singer. The guy next to him is Tom... you spoke to him once online, remember?" I ask, and she nods. Then, she smiles.

"So, these are you band members?" she asks me, and I nod my head, a little surprised. No fainting? No stuttering or running away in a frenzied panic? By now, Bill has reached Nora and I.

"Hey there, you must be Nora," he says again, and she blushes. iThere we go.../i I think to myself, happy that I wasn't the only one she reacted to. "My name is Bill, and this i my brother Tom," he said, holding his hand out to her. She gingerly took it, nodding her head in a cute daze.

"H-Hi, my n-name is Nora," she stutters, and I hold back my laughter. "It's very nice to meet you." By now, Tom had joined his brother, and he gives a genuine Tom smile at Nora. I give him a warning glare, but I doubt that he saw it.

"Hey there cutie," he says, and I hear Nora squeak. I glare at Tom, who is laughing at Nora's beet red face. I wrap my arm around Nora's shoulders, and I pull her back the way we came.

"See you later, Tom," I growl, and he snickers at me. I can hear Bill laughing with his brother, and I do my bet to keep my cool. iCome on, Gustav. It's just Tom. He does that to everyone... but this is different. She's not anyone, she's Nora. He should know that by now./i I continue to grumble to myself, and I hadn't noticed that I still had my arm around Nora's shoulders. Realizing this, I quickly withdrew. "Oh crap, I'm sorry Nora," I muttered, and I felt my face go red. What was I doing?1 I was messing everything up! She looks up at me, her blue eyes smiling.

"N-No, you were fine," she stammers again, and I feel my frustration and irritation towards Tom melt away. I smile at her, and she blushes again.

"Okay... well, I apologize for my band members rudeness. I'm sure we'll meet up with them again..." As if on cue, I felt my phone vibrate, and I reached into my pocket. I pursed my lips as I saw that it was a text from, yeah you guessed it, Tom.

iHey lover boy, you going to bring her back over? I wanna talk to her. ;)/i I closed my phone and put it back in my pocket, not bothering to reply to Tom. He could wait. I sigh.

"Well, let' head back to my apartment and get some lunch. We can figure out what we want to do then. Deal?" I asked her. With a bashful smile, she eagerly agreed. Trotting up next to me, her brown hair bounced all over the place, her red hat bouncing along with it. With her next to me, I felt lighter.

Lighter than I have in awhile.

bW/bhat bO/bbscure bW/borlds!~Ninth Embarrassment, END

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