Before You

Chapter 7

POINT OF VIEW OF KATERINA 

 "Катерина просыпается, вы должны пойти в колледж." (Katerina wake up, you have to go to university.) My father tried to wake me up. "Папа, еще десять минут!" (Daddy, ten minutes!) Putting the pillow over my face. "Ни в коем случае!" (We don't talk about it!)

 "ок, ок я просыпаюсь!" (ok, ok I wake up!) 

I get up, take a quick shower and get dressed in a sweater, jeans and a jacket. Here in Moscow, even in summer, the maximum temperature is 20 degrees. Yes, I am half Russian, half Italian, I know 5 languages in addition to my mother tongue: French, Spanish, Romanian, German and English. My mother is Italian, instead my father is Russian, from my mother I have the exterior: the hair, the eyes, the facial structure and the physics, from my father I have the interior: stubborn, decisive, sure of what I want. My father is blond with blue eyes, I would love those eyes so much. Instead you now wonder if Taylor is Russian, or if he has only one parent. I have the answer, my father only talks about him, no he's not Russian. He's American, he comes from New Work, he moved here to merge our parents' companies. They are actually rivals, Olga told me about this fact, she says that Jack betrayed my father. I don't know where, however, they decided to join their work, it's not a bad thing, indeed better, to forget the past and look to the future. I leave home and go to university, I'm so excited. Life will change forever! This will be the job for a lifetime, and I am very happy. I enter the university, my hands are shaking, I sweat cold, I go to a lady with blond hair, hazel eyes and ask about the class for the entrance exam. After showing me the way, I walk down the corridor. I begin to breathe with difficulty, my hands are shaking terribly. Found the class, I go in and sit in the front desk. Already in the classroom there are about 20 students, after a few seconds a professor enters, tall and thin with big glasses holding some papers in his hand, probably our exams. "Hello everyone! I am the history professor. If you have chosen this university it means that you are among the best, our university occupies the 2nd place, so whoever passes the exam must give all the effort, must fight. Having said that. , good luck." He distributes the papers to us and we begin. I am looking at the exam and it's very simple, I thought it was more difficult. I like to study, learn new things, experiment, be the best. After 3 hours of examination, I leave the classroom happy, I did everything in an hour and a half, but I checked 7 times to be sure of my answers. I send a message to my father, telling him that I have left the exam. I go home, it's not far from the university, I only do 10 minutes. During the walk, I feel watched, I quicken my pace a little, but I have the same presentiment. When I see the house, I start running, once I arrive, I see a woman in front of the door. "Sorry, does Dimitrie Petrova live here?" she asks in an unbearable voice. "Yes, who are you?" "I'm Tatiana Militov, his girlfriend." "Pleased to meet you, I'm Katerina, his daughter." "Ah, so you are !!! Dimitrie only talks about you, he loves you so much !!" she says hugging me. I already don't like this woman, she is too superficial, and then how she is dressed: with a too short blue skirt and a bra style. Suddenly the door opens. "My little ones are already making friends." my father shouts, delighted.