There was a surreal smell of alcohol in the air. Matthias loved this bar, and Lukas had to admit, the furniture and hygiene of the place was pretty breath-taking. The only downside to this place was that slightly-insane Swedish bar-owner whom Matthias fought with every time he saw him.

"Then I thought I could totally punch him in the face, but I remembered that he's my boss and decided against it, but then I thought..so I….but then.." Lukas stared at Matthias, he zoned out most of his rambling, trying to think. Matthias was on the borderline of yelling, moving his beer around, smiling like a madman. Hard to believe just yesterday he had trouble getting up.

"You know, maybe you should lower your voice a bit?" Lukas asked calmly, which just caused the Dane to laugh quite obnoxiously, as he put his arm around the Norwegian and dragged him towards him.

"Oh come on Babe! Why don't you have a drink for a change?" Matthias said as he placed his jug of beer in front of Lukas' face, offering him a drink. Alcohol was never really his thing, the smell, the intoxication, it all seemed a bit much, after all, his alcohol tolerance was quite poor. He rarely drank, only a couple times per year. Matthias on the other hand adored the stuff, it was his bread and butter. It may seem childish, but alcohol sort of made him feel mature and stronger.

"First, don't call me 'babe'" Lukas said 'babe' with disgust, they may be together but that was hardly a valid excuse for such cliched honourifics. "Second of all, you know I don't drink" Lukas said as He swatted the drink offered to him.

"Please? Just this once?" He begged, his voice sounded so whiney. Lukas decided to accept a little sip, which seemed to excite the Dane to the point of cheering.

"So, what do you think?" He asked enthusiastically. Lukas tried to avoid making a face of disgust when he took the sip, and decided that he should at least lie a bit, seeing how it's Matthias' favourite beer. Lukas was trying to be more compliant considering the events that transpired last night.

"Uh, good, I guess." The Norwegian said. He hesitated a bit, looking at Matthias for a while before the Dane jumped out of his seat and danced a bit before taking another large sip of his beer. Lukas decided that Matthias may have drank a bit too much, and dragged him to the car, listening to the Dane's intoxicated statements.

"But like, I was, thinking about it, and then, that thing with the thing, told me not to, but then…" Lukas noticed that Matthias seemed to have fell asleep..Great. Just bloody perfect, how is he expected to carry him? After a minute of thinking, Lukas improvised a bit and dragged him to their home. He threw him on the bed and collapsed near him, panting. It wasn't that Matthias was fat or anything, he was quite easy to carry, on the contrary, it was him. He was too slim and rather out of touch with his athletic side to be capable of carrying anything, let alone anyone. So he changed his and Matthew's clothes, and had to fight back his urge to look anywhere…inappropriate. Though, to be fair, if Matthias was awake, he'd probably try to be as inappropriate as possible. He finished and jumped into bed again.

Lukas looked to his side to see Matthias sleeping. Then suddenly, he saw the dane move his hand around him, and wrap his arms and legs around him. It seemed as if he was asleep. Lukas didn't appreciate being treated like his doll, but granted, it did feel a little good..

"Ughh" Matthias groaned. Lukas opened his eyes, he saw Matthias with a troubled look plastered where his grin should be. He held on tighter and tighter to the Norwegian, Lukas was beginning to notice a pattern.

"Matthias, wake up." He said, and waited for a response. He eventually got too tired and just punched him in the stomach. That seemed to wake him up. When he woke up he seemed confused as evident by him looking around as if he was in a test lab.

"Nightmare?"

"Ahuh"

"Ok that's it." Lukas said. He sat up angrily and scowled at the Dane. "Listen, whatever it is that's bothering you, you need to tell me, remember how you spent months trying to ask me out? Remember how I said yes? Well good, because that's good enough reason to tell me what's been bothering you."

Matthias looked at him for a while, trying to find the proper response.

"I'm sorry..I can't..I just.." Matthew avoided looking into Lukas' eyes, and tried to feign happiness, but Lukas caught on. However, he tried not to be offended when he rejected telling him, but he couldn't help it. Though, he didn't show it of course, he was the master of masking his emotions.

"Fine. Will you go back to sleep then?" He asked, and was met with a nod. Lukas pretended to ignore it, however, he wasn't about to give up that easily. The first thing he'd do when he woke up would be pay Matthias' family and friends a visit, he'd find out everything that's bothering him and try to put an end to this. He was supposed to be smiling, he should've hugged him trying to get in his pants and laugh it off when Lukas wouldn't be in the mood. That was the perverted, happy-go-lucky Matthias he knew.

That settles it. He had to know, he just had to. If it's anything he said..wait, could it be something he said? Yes, granted, Lukas did insult Matthias quite often, but he assumed that both of them knew that he didn't really mean it, right? He'd known Matthias ever since he was 9. He should've..no, it couldn't be his fault. It just couldn't. But if it was..could he ever forgive himself?

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"Listen, Matthias. I'm going out today, I have to go shopping" Lukas said, putting on his raincoat. The snow was getting worse. They probably needed to get some food and supplies in case they get snowed in.

"Aww, do you have to? I thought since it was all snowing we could watch a move and be all romantic and stuff" Matthias said hopefully, he knew full-well of the consequences of arguing with Lukas.

"Unless you'd rather starve to death, sure, why not?" Lukas assumed that it would be the end of that conversation and grabbed the keys, but was stopped when the Dane began speaking.

"If it's with you I'll be OK" Lukas blushed a bit. He rarely got complimented, the only person who ever showered him with compliments was Matthias, which is why this was all new to him.

"What-" Lukas' voice was a little affected by Matthias' previous statement, so he coughed a bit, hoping to shake it off. "Whatever. Goodbye then" With that he left. He didn't really lie, he did have a lot of shopping to do, but he was planning to spend at least an hour or two in his parents' place to at try and figure out what was going on in peace.

The shopping took a bit longer than expected, Lukas got a bit stalled at the cash register. Some annoying guy with a cat was chatting with the cashier. Lukas got pretty annoyed at him. But some other black-haired guy behind him seemed like he was about to stab someone. After he finished his shopping, he dropped everything off at home, oh, his old home. He visited his parents every week or two, they lived close by, so it wasn't that much of a hassle. When Lukas entered, he was met with the stoic glare of his younger brother. Emil.

"Hey"

"Hey.."

Emil and Lukas stared at each other, almost like they were trying to set each other on fire. This was a common feature of Lukas' family. They were all stoic, emotionless most of the time, and relatively serious. However, out of all the people he was related to, the one person that was practically identical to him was Emil. Which is why they barely had to say anything to each other, they knew what the other was thinking.

"So, what's new?" Emil asked, looking up at his 'big' brother. Emil was 8 years younger than Lukas, he was his half-brother, but Emil probably could pass off as his fraternal twin if he got a bit taller.

"Nothing, I just need to make some calls, work a bit."

"So, what'd he do this time?" Emil asked, most likely referring to Matthias. Emil didn't exactly like him, hell, if anything he despised him, but he never said anything about it. Whenever Lukas would come home for some work when Matthias had something to do, he'd always jump to conclusions and assumed he dumped him.

"Nothing, I just need to work a bit." That sentence seemed to disappoint him. "Are Mom and Dad home?" Lukas asked, sounding slightly annoyed. He tried as best as he could to get Emil to talk to or at least tolerate Matthias, but every attempt ended in failure. So he just decided to keep the two apart for now.

"Nope, I have homework, will you help me?" Emil asked, he went and grabbed his notebooks a couple seconds before I could even say 'yes', which led him back to that whole twins theory.

"How about you finish your Math homework first?" Lukas said, looking at his huge Math book underneath everything. Emil was quite the little prodigy when it came to Math, he never needed any help. "I'll help you when you get to science." Emil sighed and sat over at the couch. Now with such a divine talent something else had to be taken from Emil. That was his common sense in science. Which was-surprisingly-Lukas' favourite subject. So he'd help him out whenever he could, but until Emil could finish that huge load of worksheets, Lukas can work on Matthias' problem a bit. But where to start…Where to start..Family. Yes, this'll be a difficult one. But that's a good place to look for problems in Matthias' life.

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Ok, so, what do you think so far? I'm going to upload one chapter everyday, I'll try to keep them all around 2000 words, or higher.