DISCLAIMER: I don’t own Tatu, blah de blah… however, a few of the characters are based on real people who I’ve asked permission and they’ve said it was ok. And I did get the idea for the story based on an experience I had. Email your comments to Neshe86@aol.com, I could always use some ideas. I’d like to thank Icer, for her help and I hope y’all enjoy!
Ch. 1
~Yulia~
It was Yulia Volkova's first day as an exchange student at Bethel High School. She decided to become an exchange student for two reasons: 1) her friend Sasha told her it was a great experience… so great, that Sasha was now attending an American university and 2) She wanted to get out of Moscow. She wanted to make something out of herself and they say America is the land of opportunity don't they? Well, from what she figured, America had more to offer than Russia.
Yulia sat anxiously at the first assembly of the year. Her ice blue eyes scanned the room while she waited. They always introduced the exchange students towards the end and she knew she would have to stand up when her name was called. She was a little hesitant to do so since there were so many people. Bethel's Senior class, which Yulia was a part of, was 500+ students. Yulia was sitting next to a girl who looked like a Senior, but she wasn't entirely sure.
"Now kids, it's time to introduce to you some new international faces," said the M.C. with enthusiasm. "Please welcome to Bethel, Yulia Volkova from Moscow, Russia…" he said. Yulia stood up during the applause and sat right back down. She wiped the sweat off of her forehead from being nervous and turned slightly to the left and the girl next to her had a slight smile on her face.
"Hi. I'm Sofranes Carter and welcome to Bethel," the girl said. Her smile was contagious and moreover, Yulia was intrigued because she wasn't white. It wasn't that Yulia had never seen any other races of people before, but she had never known anyone that wasn't Russian and white. Sofranes had a complexion that was like a glowing bronze color and she had light brown eyes and curly, jet black hair.
"Thank you. I am Yulia Volkova," Yulia said her gaze transfixed on this friendly fascinating girl.
"So where ya from, in Russia I mean?" asked Sofranes.
"Moscow."
"Cool. I heard it was cold down there," stated Sofranes, her eyes locked on this dark haired Russian beauty. 'Wow, two Russians in two years...' Sofranes thought.
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Ch. 2
~Sofranes~
This was Sofranes Carter's last year at Bethel. She had become pretty popular with everyone in the school. Teachers loved her, and her peers respected her. It's not that she was one of the "popular" kids, who were stuck up and thought they were better than everyone else, but Sofranes had a way about her that was just intriguing. It could have been her looks: she was a bronze goddess and boys and girls alike thought so. It could have been her wit: she had a great sense of humor and she was very intelligent, being in the top 1% of the school with her GPA. She always had strong opinions and was always honest but in a way that it was impossible to become offended. And her smile was contagious. She didn't smile often but when she did, everyone else would also.
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"Hey, I want to introduce you to Lena. She's been my best friend ever since we met Junior year, and coincidentally, she hails from St. Petersburg, Russia," Sofranes said with excitement. 'This will be awesome, Lena's been dying to speak Russian and now she'll get to talk to someone who actually gets it, and she's hot too,' thought Sofranes.
"That would be great, Sofranes!" Yulia said feeling a little more relaxed since learning of Lena.
"Call me Sophie, we're cool now," Sofranes said with a smile.
"Okay, cool."
"Yeah, cool."
The girls both talked and laughed together throughout the remainder of the assembly.
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Ch. 3
~Lena~
Lena Katina was hanging out in the library during the assembly. She knew it was the first one of the year, but she never really liked assemblies that much and she was also caught up in a book she had been reading all summer and wanted to finish it before lunch. Lena was a Senior at Bethel. She had first stepped foot in the building the year before, when her family moved from St. Petersburg to the States when her father received an executive position at a company in Seattle. Bethel High School was situated just outside the city.
Lena was a gorgeous girl. She had long, flowing auburn curls and skin like porcelain. Her eyes were a shade of green that were unique with a hint of gray in them. She was smart and hung out with the "honors" clique. That's how she met Sophie Carter. Lena remembered how nice Sophie was to her the first day… and how kissable she was. 'Man, still can't believe we dated,' she thought smiling at that fact.
Yes indeed, Sofranes Carter and Lena Katina were quite the couple for about 4 months during Junior year. Everyone thought they looked great together and could not figure out why they had stopped dating. Sophie and Lena were just much better friends than lovers, and they were amazing lovers so that just showed that they were even better as friends. They were like sisters now and on everyone's radar. When they would walk down the hallway together, people just stared. Girls, boys, teachers, everyone was just in awe.
There was no one at Bethel who did not lust after one or both of them at some point in time.
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Ch. 4
**Lunch Time!**
Sophie and Yulia walked down to the cafeteria. They were conversing about cultural differences when they heard Sophie’s name being called loudly from behind them.
“SOOOPHIIEEE!!” three voices in unison exclaimed. As they turned, they saw three people acting retarded as usual.
“Hey Yul, those are my friends over there. Wanna say hi?” before she even had time to respond, Sophie was dragging Yulia over anyway.
“Hey boy and gurls!” Sophie said. Yulia just looked nervous and out of place while all three of Sofranes’ friends were checking her out.
“Guys, this is Yulia Volkova. She’s one of the exchange students.”
“Hey, I’m Nicky Kuornikova a.k.a. Ice, nice to meet you.” ‘Wow, she’s hot’ Yulia thought.
“What’s up? I’m Aleksi Rijnsburg, the pleasure is mine,” Aleksi picked up Yulia’s hand and kissed it because he thinks he’s a pimp.
“Allo. I’m Lena Katina. Nice to meet you,” As she spoke, Yulia could not help but notice how beautiful Lena was.
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Lena, Aleksi, Sophie and Nicky were all friends, all born somewhere else and all somehow connected to the school in one way or another. For instance, Lena was in the school choir, captain of the debate team and was born in St. Petersburg. Aleksi was the captain of the hockey team, played guitar in band and was born in Moscow. He didn’t really know Russian even though his family was Russian, but they had moved to the states when he was 5.
Sophie played sax in band, was the band treasurer and on the school paper. She was born in the Philippines and her family moved to the states when she was 8. And Nicky was one of the co-captains of Crimson Haze, Bethel’s hot step/dance crew plus she ran track. Nicky was born in Ukraine and her family moved when she was about 3.
The four of them were well respected and they were fondly known as “The Heartbreakers” or “HB’s” for short. And the nickname was well deserved, for all of them were damn fine! Of course everyone who lusted after Lena or Sophie also lusted after Ice or Aleksi.
Nicky a.k.a. Ice was hot as hell with that dancer’s body and she had brown hair, tan skin and green eyes. She wasn’t short but wasn’t tall. Aleksi had dimples to kill and had the build of an athelete. He was about 6 feet tall and had piercing gray eyes and neatly trimmed black hair… the ladies loved him!
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Ch. 5
**2 months later**
~Yulia~
It was a Tuesday and 2nd block had just started. One thing she didn’t get about Bethel is why they had only 4 classes and why each class was 90 minutes long. She was in her English class. Yulia did not find English enjoyable. She could speak it, and understand it fine, but when she read it, she was bored out of her mind! Luckily for her, Nicky had that same block and would tap Yul when she drifted off to sleep so she wouldn’t get into trouble.
One time before, Nicky caught Yulia sleeping and was going to tap her but hesitated. ‘Wow, she really is a beautiful girl,’ Nicky thought. ‘Man what am I thinking?! Do I like her? Damn, the girl has only been here like 2 months Nicky…’ as these crazy thoughts plagued her mind, Yulia woke up and caught Nicky in her gaze. “Hey Ice, what’s on your mind?” Yulia was still trying to spike her hair the way it was before she had napped.
“Nothing,” Ice said as she tried not to make eye contact for fear she would blush.
“C’mon, Icergirl tell me, pleeeaase?” Yulia’s pet name for Nicky was Icergirl. No one really remembers how she got that nickname from Yul, but it stuck.
“Maybe later Yulie. Pay attention!” Ice said being playful. Yulia just stuck her tongue out at her and faced forward and continued listening to Mr. Smith drone about vowels and whatnot.
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~Nicky~
It was after school and Nicky was at Crimson Haze practice. Usually she was sharp as a tack, but she wasn’t today. And she knew why. Yulia.
‘What is with me? I don’t get it… I mean I know she’s beautiful, I knew that when I first saw her with her short wild, spiky black hair, her low rider jeans and white almost see thru tank top… damn it! Stop lusting after her, Nicky! She’s your friend…’
Nicky was obviously sprung on Yulia Volkova. But she didn’t know what to do about it. Or did she?
“Maybe Lena and Sophie could help,” she mumbled under her breath while doing the dance routine.
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**Sophie’s house**
At around 5 pm almost every evening, Lena, Aleksi, Yulia, and Nicky would all hang out at Sophie’s house. She had the coolest basement! It was like their own little “Heartbreaker” paradise, plus Sophie’s mom always had a ton of snacks and good food stocked just for them.
For some reason or another they begain talking about crushes…
“Who do you like Aleksi?” asked Yulia in her most innocent tone of voice.
“Yul, Yul… wouldn’t you like to know?” he playfully remarked.
“Yes, that’s how come I asked,” as she said this, they all started laughing because Yulia still didn’t get a few jokes and didn’t understand that Aleksi was just being a smart ass.
“Hmm, actually I think Dominique, you know that blonde cheerleader, is hot. I think I’ll ask her out next week,” Aleksi said. “What about you Lena?” he asked the porcelain goddess forcing her to look up from her book.
“Well actually… you know Georgia from math?” the crew nodded in agreement. They all happen to have 4th period Calculus together. “She asked me out…”
“Georgia, really?! Yulia exclaimed, her heart nearly sinking although she wasn’t quite sure why…
“Wow, I always sorta thought that Georgia was straight,” Sophie said nonchalantly.
“Well she was… until I sorta accidentally came on to her in the bathroom…” They all laughed at this except for Yulia, who decided to get up and get a drink.
When Yulia left, Nicky saw this as the perfect opportunity to see what her friends would think of her crush.
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Ch. 6
“Hey guys, ask me who I like,” Nicky said with a hint of nervousness in her voice.
“Hey Nicky, who do you like?” They all said in unison.
“Yulie.”
“Yulie?!” Lena said, more shocked than any other person there. Although, Lena wasn’t entirely sure why.
“Yes. What do I do about it?”
"Umm, ask her out?"Aleksi said a little disappointed HE wasn't Nicky's love interest at the moment.
"Dude, she can't just hit on Yulie. You have to make sure she wants to be hit on and you have to be romantic about it as well," Sophie stated in her most intelligent voice.
"Well HOW do you propose I go about doing all that?" Ice said deep in thought, brainstorming ways to come on to her friend.
"Dance with her," Lena chimed in, no particular emotion apparent on her face.
"Dance with her?" the three of them said in unison.
"Yes. Didn't you say there was a part of your CH performance on Friday where you pull someone on stage and dance?" Lena asked.
"Oh yeah! You could pull Yulie up there with you and grind baby! That would definitely tell you if she would be interested," Sophie said enthusiastic about a future love connection.
"What’d I miss?" Yulia walked in with a drink and about 5 bags of chips meant for all of them but apparently, someone got hungry leaving the kitchen.
"Damn, girl! How can you eat like that and not gain an ounce?" Sophie had a playful look with her question.
"Fast metabolism," Yulia said in between munching on her chips. Everyone cracked up and continued talking about life in general.
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**Friday**
Crimson Haze had performances at all three lunches to showcase their new recruits and preview some of their new moves. Lena, Aleksi, Sophie, and most importantly Yulia would all be at the final performance to root on their girl Ice.
"Excuse me, may I have your attention please?" Nicky came out in all dancer gear. She had on a b-boy style cap (which they knew she would eventually throw off as a move), a tight white tank top with a long-sleeved, black mesh shirt over it. She wore faded, tight as hell, low rider jeans with a chain hanging and of course on her feet like the rest of the CH crew, she had on Air Force Ones. CH had shirts and warm-ups just like any other team, but they didn't wear them all the time. The only thing that was a sole unifying trait of the crew, were there custom Air Force Ones which had their Crimson Haze tag and school colors, which were tastefully and stylistically done.
"Go ICE!!" The Heartbreakers yelled in unison showing love for their dancer friend. Nicky looked out into the crowed and flashed a smile before speaking back into the mic.
"Today, we're just gonna show y'all our new members, some fresh new moves and we got a little surprise at the end. Enjoy!" Entrance music began with her last word and all the members of CH came out to their spots on stage. Blazin' hip hop music began pumping through Bethel's newly acquired speakers, a product of a fundraiser that the Heartbreakers started the year before.
"One, two ready, GO!" screamed the other co-captain of CH. They all broke out into unison steps. Combinations of all styles of dance were thrown into the routine.
"Man, they're always so good," a student said to Yulia. Yulia thought about this as she had her eye on Nicky. 'Nicky, is gorgeous isn't she? And the way she moves that body of hers… wait, what the hell?! She's your friend Yul, just cause she looks damn good in those jeans and you wonder what it would be like if she weren't wearing that top… stop it! Quit lusting after her you nitwit' Yulia scolded herself mentally not paying attention until Nicky grabbed her arm and pulled her up on stage.
All the other members of CH pulled someone up with them. All the Heartbreakers were up there. And they all knew why Nicky grabbed Yulie. The part at the end had begun. They all started dancing in the most provocative way possible and each member of CH had a "solo" with their partner in which the others would stop dancing and watch what moves they would show off.
Nicky was grinding! She looked at Yulia with want in her eyes. She had her hands in, her hair on her hips… pretty much everywhere. Yulia was flushed. She was having fun especially since Nicky had been on her mind a lot lately. 'Damn, she's so good at this!' Yulia thought, feeling herself being turned on by someone who was supposed to be her friend and not an object of desire.
When it was Nicky's turn to solo, Lena, Aleksi, and Sophie were waiting as well as CH to see what fantastic moves she would use especially knowing that Nicky would have the best ones. Ice let go of where her hands were on the other girl. She stepped back turned around and said "Guys, should I show her?"
And everyone on staged chanted "Show her! Ice, ice, baby! C'mon, do ya thang, Icer GURL!!" and as the last word was said, the beat changed. Ice stepped back to Yulia grabbed her hand and spun her around. Yulia now had her back to Nicky. Nicky's moves were sexually charged… it was crazy!
Nicky made it look like she was kissing Yulia's neck but really she was whispering, "Want to?"
She pulled Yulia into a dip and then back up and Yulia whispered, "Want to what?"
Nicky spun her again and stopped it and then it looked as if she was licking Yulia's ear but instead, she asked, "Go out with me?"
Yulia was stunned. But she knew what her response was. As Ice began another move, Yulia interrupted it. CH and the Heartbreakers were certainly not expecting what happened next: Yulia grabbed both of Nicky's hands and stretched them out, leaned into her as if she were going to kiss her cheek and said "Yes." And then she locked lips with Nicky, who willingly responded, leaving the crowd to watch on in awe and amazement as Nicky and Yulia continued to kiss passionately on stage.
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