Chapter 10

It was like a history book. She had written about WW2 and the Cold War. He read until the end where there was a small note. That was labeled 'First Love'. He opened the note with wonder.

"I just met a boy named Raivis today. He seems nice but I cannot be sure, we studied Science together. I think I just lived through love at first sight. Warm, Passionate, and Shy are the words that I would choose to describe him. Diary? Do you think I will have a chance? Or will he turn out to be taken? I wonder if he likes me back, he seems to shake whenever I look into his eyes so i would take that as a 'no'. In History he spoke Russian and he helped me take notes worthy of a good mark. I feel weird around him, like what humans go through "butterflies in their stomach."

I don't think this is just liking,
i'm in love."

Raivis grinned the biggest smile ever known to man as he put the note back and took out a binder, his diary, and began to go through it to find his very first entry after they had just met... He took out the page and folded it to the size of Ana's diary and slid it in. He gently hid the book under his pillow and slid his binder under his bed.
Raivis fell asleep and dreamed about Ana.

They were at a meadow, age 25, Ana laid atop his chest. Both of them, fascinated by the emotions in the other's eyes. He sat up, Ana now sitting in his lap, and pulled her into his chest. Only the sounds of the wind could be heard, Raivis placed small kisses on Ana's head, whispering calming words into her hair...

Raivis woke up, just at the good part. His stupid alarm had went off. He cursed to himself for timing the clock for 7:30 and not 7:45. After his morning routine at home and at school, he went to History class and surely Ana was there waving at him with a grin on her face. He took his seat and took out Ana's diary and gave it to her before the teacher got too much into the topic.

"Thanks Raivis..."

"I...uh..left something for you in it." Raivis said in a sheepish tone, turning his head away from embarrassment. After a few more classes it was lunch but Raivis was nowhere to be found. Ana looked around and asked some of their classmates. Near the middle of lunch, Ana found Raivis covered in bruises.

"Who did this to you." she asked harshly, practically growling.

"The school bully, Hunter." Raivis said.

"Where is he?" Ana straightened up and scanned around.

Raivis pointed to the tall and strong-built boy sitting on one of the tables, eating with his friends. Ana walked up to him and poked his shoulder.

"Hey!"

"Eh-Hey! You're that Russian girl!" Hunter said in a player voice while his hand wrapped around Ana's waist.

"Da, I...Would like to speak with you after school." Ana said, her Russian accent making it sound inappropriate. She walked back to Raivis and told him her plan. Time passed a bit and the school day had ended, Ana met up with Hunter at the school parking lot, he acted like she was a street-corner girl and he could do whatever he wanted with her. Ana pulled the boy by his collar and slapped him hard. Hunter lunged forward to grab the girl but Ana had good reflexes. She grabbed his hand and, using her strength, threw him to the ground. Ana kicked him until he was afraid to move. Ana then warned him and left. She told Raivis what had happened and they went on their way to his treehouse. They sat there and worked for their finals next week until Ana said something.

"There's a dance next week after the finals." She said as she wrote down the formula's for Math.

"Oh! Right...um...want to go togetther?" Raivis said as he was now staring at Ana with a bit of hope and worry mixed together. She looked up and nodded her head, then sat up.

"What do you wear to a dance?" she only knew the banquet style dances from the 1880s. Raivis opened his laptop and gave it to her to look up some stuff. Ana looked up a few clothes and how to dance while Raivis wasn't looking. Soon they went back to their studying and began to write out and answer the hard questions.

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It was the night before the dance and both teens were panicking.

"What do I wear?!" Ana said as she had 4 dresses in front of herself.

"I dont know which one to pick!" Raivis said as he was trying to think of what Ana was wearing so they could go together.

Raivis picked something and went over to pick up Ana. She was wearing a black slim-fit cocktail dress with small studs and details around her shoulders and hips. He was wearing a suit, not too formal though, the whole suit and shirt was jet black.

Perfect.

They went to the dance and sat down near the stage, there was live music for the beginning of the night then after the break there was going to be a DJ. Soon there was the opening speech and the live music started and people began to slow dance. Even though he didn't know how to dance Raivis wanted to dance with Ana. He took her hand and asked.

"Would you like to dance?"

Ana's answer was very clear, she got up and the two started to sway with the music. Raivis was just trying to copy the other guys when Ana whispered to him.

"You..don't know how to dance, do you?" Raivis gave a small 'yeah'. Ana pulled him closer until their bodies were touching.

"The key point is to follow the tempo, but you have to lead me since you're the guy." Ana rested her head on his shoulder as Raivis was still getting over the 'bodies touching' part.

"I have to lead? A-and why are we so close?"

"The dance is like this, guy leads, girl follows. Look around." Ana said.

Raivis lifted his head and looked around, every boy had a girl in his arms and they were dancing as if they were a part of one body. He tried his best to copy the others, he was doing pretty good actually. He mastered the swaying motion, the dip, and the move where he would wrap his arms around Ana while her back was against his chest. The dance ended and it was break time. The two went outside and Raivis started to tell Ana about the dances that the teens did. After the 15 minute break, they went back in to find most of the teens dancing. The DJ was continuing the slow dance tempo and the two danced the night away. Raivis kissed her breifly just at the end of the song.

"And that's my 21st century finale move." He said with a smirk as he pulled her close.

"Oh.." Ana managed to say as she rested her head on Raivis's shoulder.

After the dance, Raivis walked Ana to her house.

"So, thanks." Ana said with a small smile.

"Good night." Raivis said as he came closer and kissed her against the front door. Natalya heard the teens kissing on front of the door and she went and opened it, making Ana fall over with Raivis on top. They quickly recoiled and got up.

"Yeah good night." Raivis said as he ran his fingers through his hair and backed away.

"See you!" Ana shouted after him.

Natalya snickered and closed the door.

"Yekaterina is out getting more food." Natalya said with a grin plastered on her face. Ana turned around and slugged her in the arm.

"I hate you." Ana said as she went upstairs to change. She flopped on her bed and thought about Raivis's 'finale'. To be honest, that was a good touch to the romantic atmosphere. Ana took out her diary, wanting to write but a piece of paper fell out. Raivis's note.

"Today I met a Russian girl, her name is Ana. She seems scary but I don't think she is, we studied Science together and I got a high mark! I kinda like her but who doesn't, in P.E. she was incredible at dodgeball and she looked very feminine while kicking butt. Her eyes are weird, they're like reddish brown and she has really light skin, like vampire white skin.
What goes on in her head is a mystery but I realized one thing, I like her a lot."

Ana tilted her head and brought the note close to her lips and kissed it. It had his scent and feeling even though it was just paper. She sighed and got off of her bed to change. She quickly slipped into her pyjamas which consisted of a tank-top and short-shorts, and sat on her bed. If only they could get married right now, she would be the happiest girl in the world.

Ana flopped back and began to make the perfect scenarios for the future.