Mathias decided to stop for some food on his way home, since Luka had probably already made dinner and it was most likely eaten by now. Just as he was turning the corner he got ran down and hit the ground, flat on his butt. When he looked to see who hit him, he recognized the beautiful silver and purple haired girl from earlier, what was her name? N-Natalya? That was it! He thought to himself, just as he was about to say something she sat up quickly and wiped her eyes. Was she crying? He looked at her and opened his mouth, "N-Natalya? Right?" Her eyes opened in slight surprise to see who said her name, her empty eyes now red and swollen, "y-yes?" She sniffed. "Hi, um it's me, um Mathias Kohler, I'm the reporter who came to visit you today," he started, but she cut him off, "I know who you are." She sniffed and wiped her eye with one hand as she held what looked like a medium sized dog. "Who's this little guy?" He smiled and pet the ball of fur lovingly, Natalya's eyes softened slightly at the with of him being so kind to Koda. "What's it's name?" He asked glancing up at her. "Koda, but his original name is Titan, but Koda is his nickname," she stared back. "Well," he thought for a moment remembering her crying eyes not to long ago, "would you mind if I bought you some lunch?" "No need I'm not hungry," her stomach growled and she blushed. "Yea yea," he grabbed her arm, "let's go get some food and get warm," he said in a rather excited tone; shockingly, Natalya went with him with no struggle. They came up to a small cafe, the Dane looked at his new Belarusian companion.
"Still hungry?"
"Yea, but I'd better hide Koda, bear cubs aren't normally aloud in"
"W-wait, that's not a dog?"
"No...?"
"Why on earth do you have a bear?!"
"My boy-" Natalya's empty eyes clouded over, "my ex got him for me from his brother."
"Ah ha! That's so Awsome!"
She simply rolled her eyes and put him in her ballet bag and walked inside. They both sat down at a table across from each other as Bela snuck Koda back onto her lap, petting him until he fell asleep. Mathias stared at her, she was such a labyrinth of a person, it's like she never stays a consistent shade of personality. The waitress then came and took their orders and they started talking again, "so what's it like being a ballerina?" Mat asked, looking into her eyes desperately looking for a glimmer of something to spark in those empty pools, but nothing changed, they remained empty as she answered him, "that depends heavily."
"On what?"
"Is this an interview or do you genuinely wish to know?"
"When I really do wish to know, you just seem so interesting I can't help it"
She blushed a slight pink, "w-well, I do my best to prove myself to all of the other girls in my class; you see, I'm not well liked among them, I'm unsure why," she felt tears well up again, "I-it doesn't matter." Their food arrived, and they began to eat, "ya know," Mathias began, "I understand you want to keep your ballet pure, but you won't ever have to go very deep and personal into this interview, hell you could make up your story if you want, but, I-I would like to continue seeing you, there's just something about you that just pulls me in," he blushed, admitting his fascination with her. "I will think about it," Mathias never looked up to see the surprised blush that brightened Natalya's face.
Later they finished and were walking out. "Hey, you know, you seem like you'd be scary, but you're pretty nice," he said to the girl. "Well people are like glaciers; they have a visible surface but a deeper side that's only visible to some," she answered back having to look up at him because of height difference. "Well, may I walk you home miss Bela?"
"You may", and they began their walk to her apartment talking and laughing with each other until she was at her door. Mathias was starting to love the smile and giggle she showed him. Natalya loved how he made her laugh, he made her feel special again. Standing in the doorway she looked at him. " well thank you for today," she hid the blush that she felt creep on her cheek and absent mindedly pet her bear. "No, it was my pleasure, I had a great time, well I guess this is bye for now?" He answered not wanting to leave. "Well I'll see you tomorrow at the studio how about?"
"So you'll do the interview?"
"Yea, I will"
"W-well thanks Bela that's great!"
"Y-yea"
Before he knew it he leaned down wanting to add something in, but she hesitated, then swiftly pecked his cheek and stepped inside quickly hiding her blush. Mathias stood there in surprise touching the warmed spot where her soft lips had touched and tried to sort out his thoughts.
