Upheaval: Day 9

Word Count: 54,023

Summary of Events:

Leon's class turned out to be highly frustrating, as some of his classmates were upset at their having already been eliminated from the competition. When he left class it was actually the mother of an eliminated student who seemed okay with her elimination who got upset at him to the point that she actually followed him until he lost her in a nearby grocery store. That night, after warmup, Yuri took Leon to a dressing room and nearly choked him, after getting his air back Leon went to talk to Mr. Chekov, forgetting Mr. Chekov wasn't in his office, and so snooped in Mr. Chekov's desk, where he found files of information on each of the competitors . . .

Excerpt of the Day:

Returning the file, he looked around some more before he found another one that looked like it might belong to someone he knew: Артемий Богомолов.

Aside from the P the first five letters looked to make Artem, the Ns appeared to be representing the I at the end of the first name; for the surname, as in English, every other letter was an O, and there was an M in the right spot, not to mention he knew from Maeve that the B represented V, in English, it read Artemi Bogomolov.

Opening it, he found his class photo, featuring him in a black business suit that was made for dancing in — unlike most, naturally — with a bright yellow shirt, black tie, a yellow flower in the lapel, and a yellow triangle of cloth in the breast pocket of the coat, all finished off with a black top hat that had a bright yellow band around it where the brim and hat joined.

Miss Corrine had let them have a little bit of fun last year, although she'd managed to keep the performance still a serious show of ballet, even if the music had been upbeat and lighthearted.

Leon was surprised to find the photocopy of his form filled out in Russian with English translations in parenthesis, such as Artemi 'Leon' Bogomolov written above his name, Sept. written above the Russian word presumably for the same month, and many more.

Again, more notes in Russian were behind that, but even though there were a lot of notes on him compared to Rhoenne and Maeve, there was also more papers behind that which were typed up with official letterheads that featured the word Россия, which Leon recognised from seeing photos of Olympic coverage, especially the hockey, where that word was on the front of the Russian teams' jerseys.

Leon saw 913 a few times, which he knew as his house number; more frequently appeared Богомолов, not always immediately following after Артемий, as sometimes it followed after Милана, Валентина, or Анисим.

Stealing the documents — especially considering Mr. Chekov had a handgun in his desk and Yuri had already tried to kill him — was out of the question. Leon wished he had his iPod so that he could take pictures of some of this and maybe once he got his hands on some Russian language books he could translate what it said and figure out what it was all saying about him.

Hearing footsteps, Leon quickly put the file back and closed the drawer before hiding under the desk until the footsteps receded. He needed to probably get over to the wings before even Yuri got to wondering where he was at.

Pronunciations:

Rhoenne: rowehn

Милана: Milana

Анисим: Anisim