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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="b256752e80cc88278d21a5c4574287b2"Mathias raised an eyebrow at his friend. "Am I that annoying?"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2b1ce99898bef9e725b22268eb96fc16"Instead, Mathias saw Emil, Lukas' younger brother, appear to their side, rucksack lazily slung over one shoulder, box-of-violin tucked under his free arm./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="09ef155cae678e2dc88361b95e5be9d9""I swear, if you ever go me through the plot of any of those damned books again, I will personally poke your eyes out with my bow, so you can never read any of them ever again." Emil seemed up to take that joke to the next level as he waved his violin box at him./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="dfef8fef2f44bf8cc9796e72eeec4657""Hey, Emil, wanna hear this one?" Leon asked. His actual name was Wang Jia Long, but most people just called him Leon, since that was how he always introduced himself./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="397c43c58a295788ac4666030219d909"Emil eyed him suspiciously. "What's it this time?" he asked. Leon positioned himself to Emil's right and grinned at him while reciting his new pick-up line./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="dd94a43c3ee51bee462134712d5484eb""If you were a pirate," he began, "would you rather keep your parrot on this shoulder -" He placed his left hand on Emil's right shoulder. "- or on this shoulder." With that, he dropped his hand on Emil's left shoulder, thereby basically slinging his arm around the latter one./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2209caf4dc92000ac7d901847d66e193"Emil's pale features turned a fiery red and he dropped his face into his hands as he tried to hide his embarrassment, Leon's arm still around him./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="8f7d8f9ef1c556ca7841c47b29d8652a""Smooth," Mathias complimented smirking. Lukas slapped his arm, but he too had a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="f5af5fa6b20219517d5898eae51cdcd5""M-hm, platonic attraction," Mathias said sarcastically. Lukas slapped his arm again and the four parted ways to go to their classes, as the school bell rang./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="36289b29ae2d6a80e0db1e68d7766030"~*~*~/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="ce36d5852ab296fa1f36a3cf1fc6cc70"Mathias suppressed a sigh of relief. They had talked about plate tectonics for the past few weeks and he had skimmed through the chapter in his geography book just the evening before, so the question wasn't about anything new he could have missed while reading during the dead boring lesson./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2bacf7a0581fbf9925c436f00373c10e""Convection currents are currents that occur in the liquid material inside the earth's mantle. They're caused by temperature difference and result into movement of the tectonic plates," Mathias explained. Mr Wicks didn't even so much as look at him, as he let out a few "m-hm"s and slowly nodded, his nose inside the geography book. After what felt like an eternity, the teacher finally looked up and gave an agreeing "yup" towards Mathias, then went on to question other students about things they were supposed to learn during his boring - there was no other word that described them better - classes./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="f10f8fe8d8ac3f7662db2667ea193093"The rest of the lesson went on in its usual, agonisingly slow rhythm, while Mathias sank back into the comfort of his book. He tried to pay at least a little bit of attention to the lesson to avoid incidents like the one before from happening again, but it was hard to concentrate when Berwald Oxenstierna and his partner-slash-best-friend Timo Väinämöinen were fighting an army of cyborgs. The thing Mathias found most terrifying and exciting about the book, was that the cyborgs weren't just a bunch of mindless puppets in the hands of the writer. They were human – at least partly – and they were depicted that way. The book showed so many facets of the human nature that Mathias could barely grasp them all and shove them into one and the same picture. The author painted the emotions of every single scene so vividly and described the action taking place in such ways that the reader would get slung into the story in no time and experience it as if it were their own.../p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="6fd245ecf03bfe9f0913e1739d9f4739"Lukas shook Mathias awake when the bell rang and the latter one didn't even hear it./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="37b0eb3dae88da60d93edba5e5ffb488""C'mon, let's go," Lukas said, gesturing to the classroom door. Mathias looked around, surprised that the lesson was actually over. He shoved his bookmark between pages 358 and 359, slipped his things into his school bag, slung his jacket over one arm and followed his friend out into the hallway./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="81b78589de41d08bacfc3152e137cc4f"Well, that was about how far he had gotten during the geography lesson. And he really wanted to know how it would continue./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2eb591d142228595157b06d7d5006e72"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"A/N: Hi, guys! This is my story emFictional/em. I am uploading it on here from Wattpad and I hope you like it :)/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2eb591d142228595157b06d7d5006e72"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Before you dive in head-first, I would like to clarify that while the relationship between Mathias and Berwald is why I'm actually writing the story, I do not wish to rush it and the focus will be on the individual characters at the beginning of the story./span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2eb591d142228595157b06d7d5006e72"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Anyway, have a nice day! :D/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="a903a4c76a97f38957c3d94fabaee0c2""Trust me, Mathias, I know."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="a75cf9e7a5dd44be511b0859f0ea489e"The two teens strolled down the school's main hallway as Mathias continued pressing Lukas about the former one's favourite book./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="f955cb1baaabb56d8c0c692712286326""I can't help it," Mathias whined, "The book is so awesome."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="54489d35c808399bd7df3040e3835f7f""Yes, I am aware of how much you love Vykings," Lukas noted, "In fact, you state that so often, I bet all of England knows by now."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="b256752e80cc88278d21a5c4574287b2"Mathias raised an eyebrow at his friend. "Am I that annoying?"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2b1ce99898bef9e725b22268eb96fc16"Instead, Mathias saw Emil, Lukas' younger brother, appear to their side, rucksack lazily slung over one shoulder, box-of-violin tucked under his free arm./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="09ef155cae678e2dc88361b95e5be9d9""I swear, if you ever go me through the plot of any of those damned books again, I will personally poke your eyes out with my bow, so you can never read any of them ever again." Emil seemed up to take that joke to the next level as he waved his violin box at him./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="1790e199b535d85b110737a97f3446d8"The "youngling", as Mathias liked to call him, didn't look like he would give up so easily. "I could play such fales notes that your eardrums-"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="abb2247c97066088bc1b3bedb6b5bc2d"Emil was interrupted by someone calling his name. A very specific someone with long, brown bangs, gold-brown eyes and a new, ridiculous pick-up line on his mind, judging from the grin on his face./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="dfef8fef2f44bf8cc9796e72eeec4657""Hey, Emil, wanna hear this one?" Leon asked. His actual name was Wang Jia Long, but most people just called him Leon, since that was how he always introduced himself./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="397c43c58a295788ac4666030219d909"Emil eyed him suspiciously. "What's it this time?" he asked. Leon positioned himself to Emil's right and grinned at him while reciting his new pick-up line./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2bacf7a0581fbf9925c436f00373c10e""Convection currents are currents that occur in the liquid material inside the earth's mantle. They're caused by temperature difference and result into movement of the tectonic plates," Mathias explained. Mr Wicks didn't even so much as look at him, as he let out a few "m-hm"s and slowly nodded, his nose inside the geography book. After what felt like an eternity, the teacher finally looked up and gave an agreeing "yup" towards Mathias, then went on to question other students about things they were supposed to learn during his boring - there was no other word that described them better - classes./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="f10f8fe8d8ac3f7662db2667ea193093"The rest of the lesson went on in its usual, agonisingly slow rhythm, while Mathias sank back into the comfort of his book. He tried to pay at least a little bit of attention to the lesson to avoid incidents like the one before from happening again, but it was hard to concentrate when Berwald Oxenstierna and his partner-slash-best-friend Timo Väinämöinen were fighting an army of cyborgs. The thing Mathias found most terrifying and exciting about the book, was that the cyborgs weren't just a bunch of mindless puppets in the hands of the writer. They were human – at least partly – and they were depicted that way. The book showed so many facets of the human nature that Mathias could barely grasp them all and shove them into one and the same picture. The author painted the emotions of every single scene so vividly and described the action taking place in such ways that the reader would get slung into the story in no time and experience it as if it were their own.../p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="37b0eb3dae88da60d93edba5e5ffb488""C'mon, let's go," Lukas said, gesturing to the classroom door. Mathias looked around, surprised that the lesson was actually over. He shoved his bookmark between pages 358 and 359, slipped his things into his school bag, slung his jacket over one arm and followed his friend out into the hallway./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2eb591d142228595157b06d7d5006e72"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"Anyway, have a nice day! :D/span/p