Journey To the Past [ Romanovs x Reader] 🇺🇸

Heart and Brain, Good and Bad

Third Person POV

" Excuse me?!" Hanna wasn't exactly happy about the invitation. " No way! I'm not going!"
" Aw, come on! My aunt and uncle would love to meet you, and my brother too~"
" No! I'm not going on any date with your brother!"
" I've never said anything about a date, have I~? I see you're hoping for that, however ~"
" I'm not!" Hanna blushed.

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She put a tray with the tea onto the table.

Hanna: I stick with real things. Usually facts and figures. When information's in its place, I minimize the guessing game... Guess what...

[Y/N]: What?

Hanna: I don't like guessing games or when I feel things before I know the feelings. How am I supposed to operate, if I'm just tossed around by fate?  Like on an unexpected date!
With a stranger who might talk to fast, or he can ask me questions about myself  before I've decided that he can ask me questions about myself!  He might sit too close, or he can wrongly spell my first name, or have ugly nose!

[Y/N] looked at her weirdly. She reflected.

Hanna: Well maybe not if you're a lot like him... But what scares me the most.. What scares me the most..

Is, what if when he sees me, what if he doesn't like it? What if he turns the other way and I can't hide from it...?! What happens then... If when he knows me, he's only disappointed... What if give myself away to only get it given back...?

The last thing [Y/N] understood even too well... That's what she was scared of, before confessing to Alexei... If things didn't turn out the way they did...

Hanna: How could I live with that..?

[Y/N]: I couldn't live with that...

Seeing that she's been understood, Hanna smiled softly at her friend.

Hanna: So I'm just fine... Inside my shell, shaped- mind... This way I get the best view... So then when he sees me, I want him to —

[Y/N] raised her hand slightly. " Hanna.. Don't you think you're being a little, just a little bit..." She was cut off in the middle of the sentence...

Hanna: I'm NOT defensive!

" Yeah... Totally not..." [Y/N] thought sarcastically.

Hanna: I'm simply being cautious! I can't risk reckless meetings due to my miscalculating while! I still have lots duties of mine!
And I've read novels about the love and romance. You CANNOT be to careful when a man appears in your life! I could end up a miserable wife!

" Whoa, that escalated fast! She hasn't even met him yet and already thinks about a wedding..." [Y/N] shook her head in disbelief. " Hopeless romantic, for sure..."

" That has no sense at all! He's a count, I am a maid." Hanna exclaimed.

Hanna: My social status will never let me be among the girls, who might have with him the slightest chance! Why would he anyway would like to me in very first place.
And I'm afraid that in fact he could be less than kind, or even worse...