Well thanks to Thea I finally found the courage to ask Anna out!  It was a very lovely day, much warmer than I had anticipated.  Right after school my father and I transported my piano to the river bend so that I could play some music for Anna.  Of coarse I didn't tell my father the actual reason why we had to carry a very heavy piano over to the river, I don't think I am quiet ready for my family to intervene in my personal life.  Well anyway Anna arrived shortly after my father left.  It was rather hot but luckily my Mother had made fresh lemonade.  I started to become nervous at the sight of her and stumbled across my words.  I could hardly get hello out.  Sensing my discomfort she sat down next to me on the bench and looked out at the shadows that curved a portrait of a willow over the grass and river.  Turning to face me with her brilliant smile and her hair flowing over the keys, Anna asked me in her angelic voice, "What did you want to ask me, Georg?"
I looked down toward my own callous hands and knew that I couldn't possibly say what I wanted to without sounding like the awkward little boy that I am.  I took in a deep breath and just when I was about to croak out that faithful phrase I had been practicing for the past three days her voice like Apollo's lyre rang out.  She started singing the original score for La Mort d'Ophélie from Tristia, the first song I ever taught her at our lessons.  Happy at the instigation I accompanied her on the piano.  When the song finished, Anna gasped and stood up racing towards the rivers edge.  At first I panicked, I thought she was going to leave but then I noticed a small kitten drinking the water.  Anna was so excited by the kitten.  It was grey with white paws, Anna named her Gaia after the greek god of the earth.  While she was cooing over the kitten I softly played parts of Die Kunst der Fuge by Bach.  Soon she gravitated towards me and sat with the kitten in her arms humming along to the music.
When I stopped she continued to hum a tune of her own.  I turned to her and squeaked out and literally squeaked since my voice cracked, "I wrote this for you"  I played her the song I have been writing for a few weeks.  I called it, "Meine liebliche Blume".

She hugged me when I was finished and said that it was the most beautiful thing she has ever heard.  She also declared that she will write a vocal part so that we can play/sing this song together.  And well after that I wasn't feeling too nervous and I finally asked her to be my girlfriend.  And the crazy thing about it is that she said yes!  We spent the next hour or so under the shade playing with Gaia and talking.

Well I have to get going to Hanschen's house for the manly sleepover!