Milan looked up to his fellow American talking with a KGB member. Their division was undercover in Russia, pretending to be KGB agents to gather Intel for the American government and so far they were doing pretty good. He heard the Russian next to him ask him something and he turned towards the man.
" Chto? “He asked as he looked at his ‘partner’. “YA sprosil , mozhete li vy peredat’ mne kofe tovarishcha.“ The man replied rather annoyed and Milan had to concentrate to hear what he was saying. He let out an Oh and looked rather sheepish when he realized that the man just wanted some coffee and handed the man the pot with the black brew.
He looked around him and wondered what had happened to the world in the fifty years he had lived. In His opinion it had gone down to the dogs, but then again it had been doing that since before he was born. So perhaps it wasn’t such a new thing after all. He was pulled out of his thoughts by a shove to the shoulder and an amused Russian who was asking him if he had a girlfriend because he spaced out all the time. Milan laughed at the mans joke and shook his head when the man made a humping gesture into the air and pointed to him. “Net, u menya net devushki .“ He explained but he could tell that the man didn’t really believe him.
If he were completely honest with himself he hadn’t ever had a real girlfriend. One could hardly call the nurse in the second world war a girlfriend. A one night stand perhaps, for her hadn’t seen her since. She had disappeared when he woke up the next morning. Not even a note on his pillow.
The KGB soldier just shook his head in amusement and sat back down on his wooden crate. Pulling the furs around his body closer. Damn Russia for being this cold, and St.Petersburg seemed to be one of the coldest placest he’d been to.
But at least it was better than being in a country were he had nothing left. As much as he loved Belgium, he couldn’t go back and the only way now was forward.