"Good morning, miss. I'm Eduard von Bock, starting today i will be your private teacher." I smiled and offered my hand for a handshake.
"Nice to meet you, sir. I'm Tiina Väinämöinen." She said cheerfully, shaking my hand and released it afterwards.
I taught her as i should, making sure that my teaching style did not doubt anyone. She was a fast learner, a really curious one, she liked to ask. I was not this passionate in my school year, i googled everything that confused me in the class instead, i was quiet and shy back then. But i got good marks nontheless.
"It's break time, fifteen minutes, okay?" I stood up from the chair.
"Okay!" She went out of her room, probably getting some snacks.
I got to have some free time, but i did not let myself look around the house for the treasure, that would be so suspicous. I decided to go out of the room and talked with her mother, nothing special, it was about her learning progress. Even though i just taught her since two hours ago.
I saw her sitting alone on the garden bench just staring at the flowers, so i walked closer, and made her stop her daydream.
"I thought you were having a snack, miss. Aren't you hungry? We just studied math."
"Ah, Well.. i'm on a diet."
Typical teenage girls, always on a diet even though they look fine. Do not tell me i will see her eating pizza and diet coke during lunch.
"Diet? You don't need diet at all." I chuckled.
"Well, people said i'm chubby.." She looked a bit sad with being insecure. I took some candies from my pocket and offered her one, it was a blueberry flavored bubble gum.
"For you." I said. At first she hesitate to accept it, but she did.
"Well, just one candy is okay, i guess.. kiitos.." She blushed a bit, probably because i just tried to break her diet. She opened the wrap and ate it, it seemed she enjoyed it and it was probably her favorite flavor. She said she was on a diet but now i want to laugh, imagine if someone offers her a big portion of beef stew, she would probably accept it.
I chuckled seeing how she chewed, she looked at me and turned her head away. "I only will take one bubble gum today!" She said bashfully, how cute.
"And then you will eat two bubble gums tomorrow, i'm going to bring more of them, you like blueberry flavor, right?"
"No!" She lightly punched my arm as i laughed, she was quite fun to be teased.
I continued teaching her, she said she wanted to finish all the lesson she missed after her last private teacher resigned, the lesson ended at 4 pm. She was quite a hard worker.
In the evening i went back to my boss to tell him about today so far, he told me that i had to keep an eye on how she behaves and her habit to make it easier to persuade her when it was the time as we planned.
Things went normal that week, and got to figure out the way as i knew who she was little by little. I also knew how her family was, they were nice, it would be bad if they know something bad is going to happen to their happy family.
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It had been a month and a half, i was getting ready to go to her house. That day she requested to have the lessons at evening because she was not feeling well in the morning. That would help our plan to run smoothly, it was the due date anyway.
"Come on, ed! You never play aren't you?" Again, they were trying to drag me to the gambling.
"Wait until i get my 1 million euro." I said.
"That's they point! You are going to get 1 million euro anyway! Come on!"
"Stop it."
"Come on guys, he will never play." Said another man.
We have Leonid Braginsky with us here getting ready for the operation, it was the first time i saw him, he was a tall man and has a pretty big nose, he would visit the house in the evening. We discussed the plan, he knew where the treasure was kept. The guys that would attack the mansion were also getting ready with their weapons, they were told too attack the mansion, acting to attack me. Then they would make them faint, Leonid Braginsky will pretend to fight them. They would and up in the hospital.
I would try hard not to be identified as one of them, we would make it seems like it is real.
I called a taxi to her house, those guys would come along after me in the night. She welcomed me to teach her as always, and Leonid Braginsky came about two hours after i came, he was talking in the garden with her parents.
She started to look like she was thinking about something else when sudying. It seemed like her mind wandered off to another place, she was staring outside the window of her room. Then i realized something else, her face looked a bit pale.
"Tiina? Are you okay?" I asked as i looked at her closely, and yes i called her informally.
"Uh.. huh? Did you just say something?" She turned her head to look at me, her attention was off.
"Are you okay? Are you feeling a bit sick?" I asked her again.
"Ei.. i just, have a bad feeling about something.." Bad feeling? Is it normal for her face to turn pale when she was worrying about something? I felt like she had predicted what we were going to do.
"Bad feeling?" I made myself look concerned about her.
"Don't you hear a sound from the backyard just now?"
"Sound? What sound?" I did hear the sound, i pretended like i did not and was too busy teaching hear. They were coming to the mansion, they would show up in a few minutes, or maybe in a few second.
A sound of broken window could be heard, it came from the room downstair under her room.
"That! Did you hear that?" She stood up, biting her loweer lip looking panicked.
"Stay here, i will check."
I walked to the door to see what was happening, suddenly a bullet shot the door beside me, i faked my panick. Finally the time has come.
"We have to get out of this house.."
"Why does this has to happen again.." I could see her trembling and holding her hand together.
"Come on, they can break in to get you even if we are hiding here with the windows and door locked." I walked towards her and grabbed her hand, but she was still standing there, seeming to have something to say.
"Wait! I have to take the treasure, it's really important!" She looked really worried about the treasure being stolen.
"Tiina, that thing is probably something that they are after, it's too risky!" I just pretending to worry more about her.
"It has been inherited from my great-grandpa, please let me.." She begged, it was good that she cared about the family treasure so much.
"..Okay, i will cover you."
We ran to the room where the treasure was kept while dodging from the bullets flying around us. The room was located in a room a bit far from her room.
There it was, a statue of a bear head covered in diamonds. I grabbed the nearest chair for defense and to hit the intruders in the stomach to make them faint. I blocked the door with heavy things to prevent them from entering the room before we get away. I thought the balcony was best way to get out even if you have to jump from the second floor.
"Tiina, there are intruders outside the door. We have to jump from the balcony, i will jump first, then you jump and i will catch you." I ran to the balcony while the intruders were kicking the door from outside trying to break in.
"No! You can break your bones doing that!"
"No, i won't!"
I jumped from the balcony, she screamed and ran to look down the balcony to see me doing fine down there.
"Come on, Tiina. Jump!" I shouted. She seemed to trust my ability and jumped down while holding the bear head. I caught her, she was lighter than i thought. She stood and ran with me outside the house.
The intruders managed to break in and found nobody in the room. They tried to chase us with the other men, the treasure is with her, they would chase her for sure.
"Wait.. how about mom and dad?" Her eyes started to become teary as she remembered about them, she was worried about them more.
"Tiina, come on. They are coming after you! Your parents are probably outside already!" I said while running with her. She did what i said, i brought her to the roads, she was too panicked to think.
I stopped a taxi that was happening to pass by. As we got in, the taxi drove faster and the intruders stopped chasing us. I pretended to call the taxi, although i was actually calling my friend who pretended to be the policeman so she could hear the voice and believe that the police was coming to get rid of the intruders.
Tiina was crying, too scared and worried. She was panting, running out of breath after trying to save herself. I pulled her closer to me, she rested her head in my shoulder while sobbing.
"Can you call them to make sure they are alright?" She asked, referring to her parents.
"Okay.. i will call them."
I called her father, she was looking at me as i tried to connect to him. Someone picked up the phone, it was Mr. Braginsky talking in the phone.
"Is this Mr. Braginsky? Thank goodness that you are safe. Is Mr. Väinämöinen and his wife alright? Where are you?"
"Yes, they are here with me, although they have some wounds. Fortunately my men got rid of them, is the daughter alright?" He said, Tiina heard him saying that his parents were alright, she sighed and cried in a relieve.
"Yes, she is with me. Should i come to you, sir?"
"Is she bringing the treasure? They may still find and chase you here, especially she has it with her right now, they have many people spreading around the country and probably have planned this. Go as far as possible where they can't find you."
"Alright sir." I ended the call.
"They are fine, Tiina.. Now you dont have to worry about anything. Be strong, we will get through this, okay?" I stroked her hair and wiped her tears on her eyes, she nodded and smiled, although she still have something else to worry.
She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself to think about the next plan of trying to safe herself
"So.. what should we do now? Do we have to go to another country?" She asked me.
"Yes.. they have many men in this country, your family is well-known here, it will be dangerous to stay in a time like this. You should abandon your phone or they will know your location and where you are going."
She nodded, and stopped to throw away her phone before i told her where to go next.
"Now to Helsinki Airport, please.." I said to the driver, he nodded and drove us there.
Kiitos : Thank You (Finnish)
Ei : No (Finnish)