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“Alright class, today is a special day.” The teacher said to the whole class. He was walking around in the front explaining the news before taking Nate's attention at one specific news; “also, we have a new student in our class, Miss Doll, you may introduce yourself.” He finished off with a tall girl, maybe 6f2 (188cm), standing up and going to the front.
Nate knew the moment he looked at her that it was love. Never have he felt something so deep while looking at someone, not even Valeria made him react this way. The girl started speaking with a thick russian accent which makes the whole thing even more pleasing to hear; she looked so beautiful with her whitish blond hair, she even added a little tint of purple at the tip. Her green eyes were looking everywhere with confidence, heck, she screamed confidence with just her presence.
Something that Nate lacked. a. lot! He has a severe self-esteem issue and also a lack of confidence in himself, he also has unstable emotional response and very unstable relationships thanks to his Borderline personality. He's clingy and afraid of being abandoned… “that's what happened with Valeria though…” NO! Not now, she might have betrayed his trust… and he might have overreacted…. Ok he did overreact about it, she was just not interested anymore, but he was too selfish to see that so he lashed out and that's how he lost one his best friend…
Anyway! The girl was done with her speech and class was rolling like usual: Uzi was doing her normal shenanigans, Jane was being smart, Lizzy was trying to get The new girls attention (with little success) and of course, he was too focus on his own mind that he didn't have time to hear her name… so all he got is Dana.
“Doll…” he thought, the name had a ring to it. It was… he doesn't know but he loves it, that's for sure.
Then came recess.
During recess, he likes to avoid social interaction. Yes due to his shy nature but also he doesn't trust his explosive nature… especially after Valeria, he hasn't been doing great since then. He started seeing a therapist and he was diagnosed with BPD, or at least a very mild BPD but enough for him to be quite explosive, like Bipolar but with personality and in very quick succession. That would explain his severe low self-esteem-issue or all it's friend that comes with it: low self-onfidence, worthlessness, lack of appreciation, etc.
So what he does is go to the library and read a dog's book. He loves dog books, he reads them in many languages too! Despite not really understanding the language at all; (that's because he doesn't read them, he looks at the images!). The current book was in Russian. It was weirdly coincidental, not that he really saw… right there was a golden retriever, his favorite. That's how Valeria liked to call him, a golden retriever, not that it fits him anymore. The following one was a German Shepherd, these dogs look confident in their posture, they also have a look and a flare, that's why they're used to sniff stuff and search for drugs. The next one was an Alaskan Malamute, he really loves those fluffy boys! They look really cute and have the same temperament of a husky! The one aside is a Siberian Husky actually, they look so cut-
“We have a lot of those in Russia, they really are cute!” Suddenly, cutting Nate's thought, The new girl is right aside him looking in the book as well. “When did she get here?!” His mind thought, his mouth unable to perform any sound. He's just there, frozen, close to the new girl.
“You okay?” She simply asked, seeing the frozen nature of the taller boy; he was about 6f7(cm), if she's right.
After a moment, Nate just responded with a slow nod, to which the girl smiled with reassurance, she kinda scared of maybe having the boy fear her. She can be pretty scary to some.
“Oh! Not a speaker much?” She wondered, he nodded. He wasn't really a quiet person in nature but right now, being quiet was the best for him. “That's fine, I have lots of friend's that are quiet and I'm usually the one who leads the discussion anyway, haha.” she laughed at the situation before continuing “I see you were reading a book about dogs, didn't expect you to read Russian.” She said, with expectations of being able to maybe have a Russian buddie.
To Nate though, it was kinda scary.. he gave off the wrong vibe and not only was giving off wrong ideas about him being able to read Russian… “quick, fix this, fix this, fix this!!”
“Hahaha, ha… ha…. Y-yeah, I… I do r-read a little bit of Russian… just a tad bit…. I'm still at the very beginning though… hehe he….” He quickly stuttered out a sentence brimmed with lies… he never considered learning Russian nor did he know Russian at all…. He doesn't even know how to read the Cyrillic.
“Congrats Nate Elliot… you fucked yourself quite hard this time…”
“Круто! If you ever need help, you can call me.” To which she simply wrote a number on a paper and gave it to him.
“Alright, see you around!" she said before standing up and walking aways, leaving Nate's with a flabbergasted look. “Did she just give me her number… Like that?!” He couldn't believe it! The girl he got a huge crush on at first sight just gave him her number…. But, she did say If he needed help with Russian…
Alright, he has to learn Russian and asap, or else he will disappoint her and she might leave him like Valeria did… he doesn't want that so tonight he will learn the Cyrillic alphabet and he will learn Russian so he doesn't disappoint the new girl…. God darn it and forgot to ask for her name again…
“‘Sigh’ might as well take the book.”
He took the book, got up and went to the lady to take out the book before continuing his day.