Joanne ~ Back in time

Chapter 29~ Languages

{Dianne's POV}

About 10 minutes into the lesson I saw a familiar face knock on the door. I smiled at him and he smiled back.

Joe-"Hey, Miss sent me in here to take the French test"
Teacher-"Okay take a seat next to Dianne, Dianne give him a wave so he knows who you are"

I sarcastically waved at Joe giving him a cheesy smile at the same time. Thankfully the teacher didn't notice. Joe sat down next to me and took out his test. He answered the first 4 questions with ease then got stuck from there, the problem was there were another 20 questions to go. Joe went to tick one of the boxes, I quickly pushed his pen up so he ticked a different box.

J-"What are you doing"
D-"You nearly ticked the wrong box"
J-"Oh So that's the right answer"
D-"Yes"
J-"How do you know French as well, are you fluent in it as well as Spanish and Italian"
D-"I'm just naturally good at languages and ever since I was in Primary school we learnt French I only dropped it this year and I also grew up around French people so"
J-"Oh well I've also been doing French since Primary school and I'm still terrible at it"

Joe carried on with his test. The number of times I had to redirect his pen so he would tick a different box was becoming unbelievable. Joe finished the 22nd question and then gave up. He rested his head on my shoulder and pouted.

D-"Come on you've got two questions left"
J-"Yes and they're the hardest on the paper how do you expect me to know the answers"
D-"Well I know the answers so... but if you don't want me to give you them then that's fine"
J-"Oh no I do please help me"
D-"Ok the answer for 23 is E and the answer for 24 is B"
J-"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you"
D-"Do you want to say it one more time for good measure"
J-"Yes thank you"

I laughed. Joe leant in and pecked me on the lips. He pulled away very quickly realising he was in a more formal classroom than art. Fortunately, no student saw, unfortunately, the teacher did. She walked over and bent down in front of the table so she was at eye level with us.

Teacher-"I didn't need to get Dianne to give you a wave earlier did I"
J-"Naa not really"

We all smiled awkwardly at each other until the teacher left when Joe and I burst out laughing.

D-"You seriously need to control myself"
J-"Myself"
D-"I meant yourself"

Joe just laughed at me. I was forever getting my words jumbled.

D-"I have an excuse for not being good at English"
J-"Yeah and what is that"
D-"English isn't my first language"
Joe looked confused at first but he soon realized.
J-"...Oh yeah I've never asked you that, which is your first language out of the three you speak"
D-"Spanish then Italian then French then English but I'm probably more confident at English than French"
J-"Can you speak Portuguese"
D-"I've just told you the languages I speak"
J-"I know but can you"
D-"You know what I actually can"
J-"So you're actually fluent in more than you said"
D-"Yeah"
J-"Are you joking"
D-"No"
J-"So you were lying before"
D-"No I supposed I just never really realised because when I was speaking a different language I was speaking to my family and we tended to switch in and out of a lot of languages"
J-"Isn't that hard"
D-"Yeah if you can't speak all the languages"

The teacher interrupted mine and Joe conversation "Class Dismissed" We walked out and started to walk home. The girls finished school a little later today so we had more time to ourselves.

J-"Anyway carry on"
D-"Because we could speak all the languages it was sometimes a little hard but it got easier when you do it all the time and after a while, we didn't notice so I guess I didn't realise I was speaking different languages"
J-"You are genuinely the coolest most interesting person I think I've ever met and that's a good thing"
D-"Why is it a good thing"
J-"Because I plan on spending the rest of my life with you and it's good that I've found someone who is insanely talented and interesting and fun to be around"
D-"I love you and thank you"
J-"I love you too and no problem"

{Joe's POV}

J-"So what languages do you speak"
D-"Ok, let me think"
J-"Obviously other than Spanish, Italian and English"
D-"Yeah... so I also speak Portuguese as I've already said and Greek and I suppose I also speak Russian and Latin, Yeah I think that's it"
J-"Woah"
D-"I know right"
J-"That's a lot of languages, How do you not realise that you're speaking different languages"
D-"I just don't, it's like you don't think oh I need to speak English it just comes naturally"
J-"I suppose"
D-"It's also like when you were a baby you weren't aware that you were learning English you were just learning how to speak, well it's the same for me apart from it was like that with 8 languages instead of just English"
J-"Yeah... How do you say hello in Russian"
D-"Privet"
J-"How do you say hello in Greek"
D-"geia sas"
J-"What about Portuguese"
D-"Olá"
J-"What about Italian"
D-"Ciao"
J-"Latin"
D-"Salve"
J-"..."
D-"You're actually mesmerised aren't you"
J-"Yeah it's the fact that you speak them all with such confidence"
D-"Well English isn't my first language yet ever since we've met it's pretty much the only language I've spoken"
J-"I know but... you're just amazing"

Dianne is unbelievable. She's intelligent, brave, caring, kind, beautiful honestly the list could go on and on she's just perfect.

J-"You're perfect"
D-"No I'm not"
J-"Well to me you are anyway"
D-"Well you're perfect to me and for me as well"
J-"So what's the actual order of all the languages you speak from you're first to the last language then"
D-"Now that I think about it English is a lot further down the list than I thought it was"
J-"So what's the list"
D-"First Spanish and closely followed by Portuguese, they are both similar languages but they are definitely not the same and don't ever say they are the same because I might just have to punch you in the face"
J-"Ok got the message," I said whilst laughing.
D-"Then Italian, then French, then Latin I think, then English, then Greek and finally Russian"

Wow, she's actually insane. How she speaks all of those languages I have no idea.

{Dianne's POV}

J-"How do you remember so much like you remember 8 complete languages wait can you write in them as well"
D-"Yeah"
J-"I don't know why I said wait you're not going anywhere"
D-"You're so funny"
J-"I'm glad I make you laugh"
D-"Tell me something about you"
J-"No"
D-"Please"
J-"No"
D-"Come on we've just talked for ages about me it's your turn to talk about yourself"
J-"Fine what do you want to know"
D-"What are you good at other than music and art"
J-"Nothing I'm a really boring person"
D-"No you're not, Come on work with me"
J-"Fine, I'm also good at photography and impressions"
D-"Can you do me an impression"
J-"Of What"
D-"Urm Sponge Bobs laugh"
J-"Random but ok"

Joe did his impression which was weirdly amazing.

D-"Strangely that was incredible"
J-"Thanks"
D-"What's you're favourite thing to do"
J-"Spend time with you"
D-"I mean before you met me although I do love spending time with you too"
J-"Urm probably writing songs"
D-"How many have you written"
J-"A fair few"
D-"Can you sing one to me"
J-"No"
D-"Why you have an incredible voice"
J-"Thank you but my voice doesn't stop me from becoming nervous"
D-"What if we sang one as a duet"
J-"Yeah I would love that"
D-"Ok do you have one in mind that we could sing"
J-"I do actually and we could sing it in music"
D-"That's a great idea, What's it called"
J-"Fast car"

I can't wait to sing this with Joe. I bet it's amazing. He's so talented especially when it comes to music. Argg this was going to be so fun.

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