A Disneyland Adventure
Chapter 3
We had only just gotten outside of St Petersburg and I was already board. You see with car journeys, I was just like my brother, irritable, idiotic and immature. I shuffled around in my seat and sighed heavily.
"Maddie? Are you ok?" Natty asked raising a platinum eyebrow at me.
"I'm bored!" I whined, causing everyone to stare at me in shock, "I want some Maple Pancakes!"
"I honestly thought I'd never say this but, Maddie; you're acting like your brother." Natalya stated blankly.
"It's not my fault! Hey are we there yet?" I pestered the Russian in the driver's seat.
"We're not even out of the western boarder of Russia yet, Maddie." He sighed, "We have only been driving for ten minutes, Da?" I pouted and looked out the window… nothing much, just a loooooot of snow.
"Well, are we there yet?" I moaned, earning an exasperated huff from Natty.
"No Maddie, we're still not there yet, as we told you five seconds ago." She stated cynically, rolling her eyes as I stuck my tongue out at her.
*** Time Skip ***
"Are we there yet?" I asked, we had been in the car for over two hours now, I could tell the journey was getting to everyone. (No Maddie, it's your incessant whining -.-)
"Canada, please don't ask that question again, Da?" Ivan pleaded, massaging his temple with one hand.
"But there's nothing to do! It's so tedious!" I groaned, slumping down in the seat.
"You're tedious." He muttered, "Alright, it's about lunch time, why don't we stop and the next service station, Da?"
"Yay!" I chimed, clapping my hands like an excited school girl on Christmas, earning more weirded-out looks from the others.
"Jeez Maddie, what the heck is wrong with you?" Belarus questioned, snorting as I looked at her brother innocently.
"Dude, did I do something to upset Bela, or something?" I asked ingenuously, blinking at the Russian's blank look.
"You are acting like Amerika, Da?" his eyes narrowed and his tone had an edge of annoyance to it, "Now, try to stop, Da? It is getting on my nerves."
"But, Dude, I honestly have no idea what you're on about!" I giggled.
"You just said 'Dude', you never say 'Dude'." His whisper was deadly quiet, I instantly shut up. I looked up at him, his face.
My god he's beautiful! As soon as I'd processed my thought I felt my cheeks burn. I couldn't stop myself from staring at him, his chiselled features so focused, so defined it was almost like he was carved by angles. His angelic orbs captivatingly gorgeous, I started to count the colours in his eyes. Wow, I never thought a shade of violet could be so fascinating. I don't think this passenger seat has ever looked so good to me. I tell myself, as I think about his personality. Sweetly misunderstood. Everyone says opposites attract, right?
He's misunderstood, I'm invisible. He's violent, I hate fighting. He's Russia, I'm Canada. I guess we are opposites- wait, what the hell? Why would I even think that? I almost screamed right there, right then. But I didn't. The car suddenly stopped, jerking me from my thoughts. I got out and stretched, shivering as the cold Russian winds nipped at my bare arms.
"Maddie, you are ok now, Da?" I furrowed my brows at his comment.
"What do you mean?" I raised a brow as he frowned slightly.
"You were acting a lot like your brother earlier, Da? You did not notice?" he questioned, a confused look spread across his face as he adjusted is scarf around his neck.
"What was I doing?" I groaned, putting my head in my hands, "This has happened before, whenever I'm on a road-trip I act like Alfred, maybe it's 'cause the first road-trip I was ever on I was with Alfred."
"You were whining a lot, saying that infuriating word of his and being quite innocent, Da." He smiled and walked to the service station, after a few seconds I followed him.
Natalya's POV (WOW MIND BLOWN!)
Katy's phone vibrated in her pocket and she looked at me apologetically.
"Sorry, Nat! Do you mind?" I shook my head and smiled, gesturing for her to take the call, "Hey Sadiq! Yeah, on my way to Vegas then Disneyland with everyone!"
I sat at an old fast-food restaurant table, watching from the window as Canada and Big Brother got out the car. I don't know why I was drifting so far away from him; he is everything I could want! He's strong, courageous, kind, handsome… I sighed heavily and frowned as I felt my eyes water.
"Miss N-Natalya?" a soft voice asked, I looked up at Toris blankly, "Are you ok, you seem… distant."
"Yes well that's none of your business." I snapped, my heart skipping a beat as he flashed me a small smile.
"You can always talk to me, Natalya." He sat down next to me and fiddled with his fingers, I felt the corners of my mouth lift and my cheeks heat up slightly.
"I know…" I whispered so quietly that he wouldn't hear. I could see Liene and Eduard in the shop looking at music and books, whilst Maddie and Ivan looked at colouring books?
"Natalya? Have you ever… ever loved someone, other than your brother?" my face softened in confusion, someone other than Big Brother?
"Who would be so ridiculous as to suggest such a thing? Of course I haven-," I cut myself off as my eyes widened.
Symptoms of love:
1) You Catch Yourself Staring. I gazed into his eyes, wow they really were gorgeous, Mantis green eyes, hazily sparkling.
2) You will start smiling without any reason. I felt the corners of my mouth lift.
3) Every time and every moment you will be thinking of your crush. "Well, when I am near Lithuania my stomach feels weird."
I woke up to the sun on my face, an image of Toris Laurinaitis stuck permanently in my mind. My heart fluttered, nothing could remove him from my thoughts.
4) If you are in love, you will notice that your heart suddenly starts racing whenever you come across the person you love. My heart skipping a beat as he flashed me a small smile.
5) Love brings along mood swings. What's the matter with me? One minute I'm sad the next I'm happy! Earlier I felt like I wanted to kill Maddie for acting like her infuriating brother…
6) You feel like they really listen to you and respect your thoughts and opinions. You never feel afraid of telling them how you feel or what you think, which is kind of a new thing for you. "You can always talk to me, Natalya."
"I know…"
"Natalya? Natalya? Hey, Natalya? Are you ok?" I blinked rapidly as Toris waved his hand in front of my face, I felt another smile slipping itself onto my lips, it felt so right, so … perfect.
"I'm fine Toris…" I muttered, "What about you? Have you ever loved anyone?"
"O-oh well, yeah… there's someone I like." I felt my heart shatter, he loved someone else, it defiantly wasn't me, maybe he liked Feline (Fem!Poland OH MEH GAWD!) she was just right for him, they were always together.
"Oh…" my voice sounded strangled as I forced a fake smile at him, "I… You shouldn't trust people so easily…" I told him, "A few years ago, after another one of brothers' rejections, I went to Minsk and met a guy, his name was Nykolai Polatski… I guess I was in love, well what any broken-hearted girl would call love. We went out, building up the blocks to a relationship, and then he fell ill. Baring in mind this was in the 1700's so medicines for this illness weren't available. So I went to England and begged her to help him, I told her I'd do anything to save Nykolai. She, knowing what a broken heart felt like herself, helped me. But the price was horrible, the spell she cast took away the one emotion that I had never truly felt… love. He recovered, but in the time he had fallen ill he had lost his love for me, I never saw him after that." I sighed and leaned back against the chair. "Since then, I haven't let anyone know my true feelings, well that was until Madeline came into our lives…"
"Wow Natalya, I never knew…" I cut him off, smiling slightly.
"Alice is the only one who knows… not even Katyusha or Ivan know..." I told him.
"I… Natalya, you know I'd never hurt you, right?" my eye's widened, why would he ask that? We'd been friends forever, literally, ever since we'd first met! Well I ended him up in the emergency room for scaring the hell out of me, but we were basically best friends.
"I know, but…" he was inching closer towards me, my heart pounded in my chest, "We… should stop… before one of us… gets hurt…"
"Natalya!" I jerked back away from the Lithuanian and looked up to see Maddie. "Look what I got! Some pancakes for the journey and a colouring book! Wow Toris, your face is bright red!" I looked over to the brunette and gasped, he was as red (As Spain would put it) as a tomato!
"Wow Toris, have you got a fever?" I asked, pressing my hand to his forehead, he got even redder, if that was possible.
"NO! I'M FINE! Um… I mean; I'm fine." He lost his balance on his chair and fell to the ground with a painful thump. I got up and gingerly touched his head, "Ur… I'm going to go find Estonia…"
"LATVIA!" a spontaneous yell erupted from the check-outs of the Ivan and Madeline had just been in, causing the Lithuanian to flinch.
"That didn't take much finding." He chuckled, briskly walking off, I giggled at his stupidity.
"OH MY GAWD!" Maddie yelled, eyes widening as she pointed at me (Causing half of the people around us to turn and stair), "You giggled! Like a freakin' school girl Natalya! You giggled!"
"Sister, you are ok, Da?" I scowled at them both, so what I was giggling? It wasn't that strange, was it?
"As much as I am flattered by your worry, Big brother, I don't understand why it is such a big deal, and why you have to scream it to the whole canteen." I frowned, fidgeting under my sibling's watchful gaze.
"Da, you are right, sorry Little Sister. It's just different to hear you giggling. I'm glad you've found someone!" my head snapped up, 'I'm glad you've found someone!' what did he mean?
"What on earth do you mean, Big Brother?" I almost screeched, my pupils expanding with horror.
"Well it just looked like you were staring at Liet a lot, Da? I just assumed tha-," I narrowed my eyes and cut him off.
"You shouldn't 'just assume' Big Brother! I am not a book to be read." With that I stood and walked out of the restaurant, my hair flaring around me angrily as I stalked past the small shop.
"'I'm glad you've found someone!' ugh! What does he mean by that? After Nykolai I can never love…" hot tears sprung from my lids, I shook my head as if I could shake them away but it just made them fall faster. "Why must I be so weak?" I whispered, rushing into the toilets, "Why am I crying like this? I am not hurt! I have no wounds…"
"WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ME!?" I screamed in my head.
"If there's a prize for rotten judgment,
I guess, I've already won that!
No man is worth the aggravation,
That's ancient history, been there, done that!" I told myself, suddenly I felt a voice answer me, making me jump.
"Who do you think you're kiddin'?
He's the earth and heaven to you!
Try to keep it hidden! Honey, I can see right through you,
Girl, you can't conceal it!
I know how you feel and,
Who you're thinking of!" The voice told me.
"No chance, no way!
I won't say it, no, no!" I argued.
"You swoon, you sigh!
Why deny it?"
"It's too cliché,
I won't say I'm in love! I thought my heart had learned its lesson,
It feels so good when you start out!
My head is screaming, get a grip, girl,
Unless you're dying to cry your heart out, oh!"
"You keep on denying,
Who you are and how you're feeling!
Baby, I'm not buying,
Hon, I saw you hit the ceiling! Face it like a grown up,
When you gonna own up?
That you got it bad!?"
"No chance, now way,
I won't say it, no, no!"
"Give up, give in,
Check the grin you're in love!"
"This scene won't play,
I won't say I'm in love!"
"You're doin' flips, read my lips!
You're in love!"
"You're way off base!
I won't say it,
Get off my case!
I won't say it!"
"Girl, don't be proud.
It's okay, you're in love!"
"At least out loud,
I won't say I'm in love!"
I whipped away my tears and splashed my face with water. Taking a deep breath I stepped out of the bathroom, suddenly I had fallen to the floor. I looked up to see that I was sprawled across Toris, my eyes widened and my cheeks blazed as a gasp escaped from my lips.
"N-Natalya?" he stuttered, my throat had gone dry, all I could do was lay there staring.
"Moj boh!" I whispered, "Toris, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to… I just." I scrambled off of him and stood up, Toris did the same. Just as he stood my ankle buckled sending me cascading to the floor. I waited to feel the cold hard ground but it never came, I opened my clenched eyes to gaze into a pair of Cobalt blue gems I felt, if it wasn't already, the breath disappear from my body.
"Natalya?! Are you ok?" he asked urgently, "You almost fainted."
"Just a little lightheaded." I breathed, never breaking our gaze.
"I don't think you're well enough to walk, Natalya." He swept me up bridal style and started towards the restaurant.
"W-what are you doing?" I demanded, glaring at him.
"You're to dizzy to walk and I think you twisted your ankle!" he explained.
"My ankle is fine, Toris! Seriously! Put me down!" I told him, crossing my arms over my chest.
"Please Miss. Natalya, just allow me to take you to the car, I think we're going soon." I huffed in annoyance but gave up protesting- not that I liked him carrying me or anything!
"Natty." I stated bluntly.
"Sorry?" he looked at me quizzically, a cute- urm irritating- pout on his face.
"Natalya is too long, just call me Natty." We'd reached the car and everyone was already waiting, the driver's door opened and Ivan rushed out, followed by Katy.
"Little sister! What happened?" Ivan asked franticly whilst Katyusha burst into floods of tears.
"I bumped into Toris on the way here and twisted my ankle, I also felt a little lightheaded, and so Toris carried me here." I clarified, smiling at their stupid actions.
"Thank you Toris!" Katy sobbed, "You saved our sister!"
"Um… I'm not sure about that, I just helped her really." He whispered awkwardly. "Maybe we should get to the car; it's pretty cold out here."
"Da." Ivan agreed, opening the door for us, Kat got in first, and then Toris placed me in, following after. We set off, only about four hours away from Moscow. We chatted for a while, talking about the best things at Disneyland before long I felt my eyelids get heavy. I brought my knees up to my chest, snuggling into something subconsciously as I slowly let the soft arms of sleep take me.
A/N: Nobody reviewed… that makes me very sad…. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Well actually Madam Natalya of Awesomeness did! (Sorry if you didn't want to be shouted out) THANK YOU! And Keseseseses~ Glad you picked my story! (Sorry for the Prussia laugh… IDK, Ok? ;_;*
If you were wandering the scene in last chapters was from Beauty and the Beast, when Beast has just saved Belle from the wolves and she's helping him!
This chapters' scene is pretty obvious... Yeah, props if you get it (Jks)!
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