AN: Anatoly is Jamie and Florence is Cathy. He talks about his conflicting love of chess and Florence. She goes to a job interview. Copyright not mine.

A MIRACLE WOULD HAPPEN/FIRST 6 GCSEs

ANATOLY

Everybody tells you that moment you've defected,
every other type of expert suddenly finds you intriguing.
Well, that's not true!
For me, it only affects the masters I always wanted to play against
but they'd have never given me the time of day before,
and now they're banging down my, well, Florence's, door
and falling to their knees.
But since they might be the press I CANNOT talk to them.
In fact, I can't even look at them.
Turn around! Turn around! Look away!
Except I'm sitting there eating my parma ham sandwich
and all of a sudden one of my childhood mentors walks by and backslaps me
and I think: "that's not fair."

And in a perfect world a miracle would happen.
and every other master would fly back east
and it'd be me and Florence and nothing else would matter.
But it's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
Of course I'm happy!
And I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
It's not a problem, it's just a challenge, just a challenge, to resist temptation.
And I have to say what exacerbates the "problem"
is that I'm the world Grandmaster, I'm the centre of attention. Je suis le grand fromage

And there they go.
"Let's get a drink." "Will you look at my attack moves?"
And showing them my Rolex to generate some excuses
and Oh, there's Florence,
because she knows, she always knows!
And there's that really awkward moment when I try to say I didn't let anything slip,
which, of course, I might have done,
and I don't want to look trounced in front of these people,
which is dumb,
I shouldn't care what they think,
since I could beat them any day!

And in a perfect world a miracle would happen
and every man would play like Trumper on crack
and it'd be me and Florence and nothing else would matter.
But it's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
They know I love her,
and it's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
It's what I wanted
and I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
It's not a problem, it's a challenge, just a challenge, to resist temptation.

FLORENCE

First each GCSE I sat and then five "A"s.
You see this woman plays hardball.
Yes, it was hard to be
the only female there
but don't you dare despair
because I didn't care at all.
Soon, I topped the class for weeks,
even better than the son of the corrupted Professor Deeks.
And once again,
I'll be so proud to practice law.
They saw the winner that I could be.

ANATOLY

I'll be there soon Florence.
I'll checkmate this prat here and be out the door.
I swear, I'll be there soon Florence.
Don't give up on me yet.
I am so proud of you Sweetheart.
You're doing what you never got to do before.
And I will be in court t cat-calling
as soon as this bastard here stops stalling.

Don't lose faith.
Don't lose hope.
Don't despair.
I'll be there.

And in a perfect world a miracle would happen
and our day would finally be here.
And it'll be me and you winning this together.
And my life with you going like I dreamed.
It'll be me and you and nothing else will matter.
We'll be fine, we're fine, we're fine,
and we're fine, we're fine, we're fine.

I'll be there soon Florence.
I swear I will.