A Year At The Opera

Chapter 19: Things To Look Forward To

A/N: Sorry this took a week longer than expected, I was having trouble getting the tone and common theme down, especially because there is a new character POV here (whom I hope y'all like lol). But I hope you enjoy this! It's a short one but the next one will probably be fairly long bc it's covering a bunch of topics so I hope this tides y'all over until then. Expect that one sometime in the next 3 weeks!

WC: 4000 words

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Boris

Boris found Ivana sitting in her room, earphones in, scrolling through her phone. He had a lot of questions to ask her about but the main one was about who he saw her in the cafeteria with during lunch yesterday. She had seemed to be getting quite cozy with the dudes that had hit his car and Boris wanted to know exactly what was going on there and if he needed to step in.

He grabbed her right earbud and yanked it out. Ivana looked up at him, annoyed. "What do you want?"

"Who were you eating lunch with yesterday?" He asked plainly.

"What do you mean?"

"It's a simple question. Where were you sitting during lunch yesterday?"

"Can you just ask me what you wanna know? This is stupid and exhausting."

"The boy who beat me up and scratched up my car. What were you doing with him?"

"I was just talking to them, relax."

"What about?"

"I don't see how it's relevant but I overheard one of the girls saying stuff about them so I just passed the information to them, to do with as they see fit." She went back to scrolling on her phone.

"There's something you're not telling me." Boris said, lifting her face up with his finger on her chin.

"Dude, it's too long to get into and I just wanna listen to some music in peace, can you leave me alone?" She smacked his finger away and put her eyes back on her phone.

"Look, all I wanna know is, are you interested in that boy?" Boris asked. "Because I don't know how I feel about you dating someone so weak."

She took a deep breath, put her phone down, and turned to face him. "First off, the two of them are literally dating. So, no. And second, even if I was, what's it to you? Go bother someone else."

"I can't promise I'll be around to save you all the time, Iv." Boris knelt down and took her hand.

"Ew, gross." She yanked her hand back, "Go away." She grabbed her earphone and put it back in her ear, turning her music up to max.

"I'm just trying to look out for you!"

No response.

Boris sighed and walked out of the room.

Aaron and Svetlana

"And he just keeps all the caps still?" Aaron stifled a laugh to try and get the sentence out without laughing too hard in the library. "Even after he almost died?"

"Mmhm." Svetlana nodded, smiling ear to ear. "And he just has almost a truckload of them. He keeps insisting they bring him good luck but yeah, it does not work out for him."

"That's definitely one hell of a story." Aaron sat up a little. He'd slid so far down his chair he would fall over if he moved another inch forward.