Life Like Reality

8 - Are you waiting 'till the time is right?

Nika pov:
Jesse kept his promise and so we went to explore the city. It was really nice and after some time we sat down on the stairs in front of the famous "Bean" by Zaha Hadid. Each of us had some Ice Cream and while Jesse told me more about Chicago my mind drifted away. In Innsbruck a city near my hometown we had a ski jumping redoubt which was also built by Zaha Hadid. The "Bean" remembered me of everything I left behind and that I had to go back there pretty soon.
Jesse snapped me out of my thoughts by stealing my ice cream. "Hey! Des is meinige! Du host dei eigene, du Oaschkeiwe!" I yelled at him and when we realized that he didn't understand anything I said, we both laughed. "Well I promised you a german lesson so shall we start?" I asked with a devilish grin. "Ahh... Okay, but don't go too hard on me." He answered, lightly nervous. "So: basics first. Ich heiße Nika und bin 16 Jahre alt." I said and looked at Jesse as he tried to copy. German pronunciation was really difficult for Americans so he had a pretty bad time. I laughed. "Look. The I is pronounced like an E. E and I together is pronounced like the english I. And when you say CH you make a sound in your throat like wind is blowing." I tried to explain but Jesse just shook his head. "That's impossible to speak! How can you do that?" He asked with confusion. "Well I grew up with it. For me it's completely normal. I speak German, English, French, a little bit Italian and some words of Slavik Languages and Greek." My brother looked like he saw a ghost. "What?! How can you speak so many languages? I only speak one, maybe some words of spanish but nothing more!" I laughed at his confusion. "In europe you speak so many different languages. It's easier to communicate with people from different countries and you learn at least two different additional languages in school." I explained. "But I can't understand why people want to learn Latin. I mean it is dead." I ranted. Jesse shook his head in disbelieve. I will never understand Europeans." For a few moments we both remained silent. My eyes wandered around and I inhaled the fresh and cold spring air. I noticed that Jesse did nearly the same, obviously hanging after his thoughts and I pulled out my phone. Normally I hated phone cameras but right now it was all I had. I took a picture of my brother and looked at it. It became a pretty good one and I started editing it a bit. "Did you took that right now?" Jesse shouted as he finally realized what was going on. I nodded. "Photography is one of my favorite hobbies, remember?" I said with a shy laugh. "But I didn't know you were THAT good! Can you send me the picture?" He asked. Although I didn't think it was my best pic ever, I sent it to him. I looked at my brother. I knew that something was on his mind but he just hestitated. "Come on spit it out. What is it?"

Jesse pov:
She knew. Of course she knew. Even if we knew each other just three days she's my sister. I didn't know how to tell her. But it was her decision to make. "So you know that I'm an actor and that brings some fans along. They don't know about you and press also doesn't know anything. It's your choice if we tell the public about you or if you don't want to show your face. When a little fame hits you, your privacy is mostly gone. It's up to you." I explained the situation and immediately felt relieved. I looked at my sister. On one side I wanted to protect her at any cost of anything that could harm her and press was definitely such a thing. On the other side I wanted her to be officially my sister and a part of my life. Nika looked contemplative. Then she turned her head in my direction. "We know each other only three days and that's not much but I know that you want to protect me at any cost. I'm sure that's why you don't want the public to know me and I don't need to be famous but you accepting me as your sister and telling everyone would mean so much to me. I would be honored and it would show me that you are serious about us." After Nika ended we stayed quiet for some time. I wasn't fully happy with it but if she wanted it like that I wanted it too. "Okay, let's do it then. Later we are gonna post the picture you took and explain everything." I suggested and Nika nodded. "Great!"

We did like we said. After we had dinner at Hard Rock Cafe we had gone home and we wrote the Instagram post. "Are you sure?" I asked one last time before Nika pressed 'post' with a certain nod. "Now all we can do is wait and see how they react." I said. Nika nodded in agreement and went to her room. A few moments later she came back with a stack of play-cards. "Time must be used wisely." With these words she gave me some cards and taught me an austrian game called 'watten'.