November 15, 2014

Today I met with the Nordics for the first time.

I agreed to meet with them at a park near the school. It's getting colder out, so I just threw on my Captain America shirt and my bomber jacket.

What? Captain America and a bomber jacket are iconic fashion choices. At least I'm not wearing a puffer vest!

Anyways, it was kind of weird meeting the 'mature' group of the school at a place where children were screaming at their mothers to buy ice cream. I also felt awkward standing by the slide with my camera waiting on them to show up. Hey, I might be immature but at least I don't argue with children about who's turn it was on the slide (remember the story I told with Amelia last year? It did not end well).

The group showed up about 20 minutes later, after a kid had complemented me on my Captain America shirt and told me it was his favourite superhero (see? iconic). As predicted, the taller ones weren't wearing jackets, the youngest one was wearing a long sleeve shirt, and the other two were wearing light jackets. They just casually walked down the path to the park, pretending it wasn't weird for a little kid to be running in front of a group of high schoolers.

Of course I was a little shocked to see the little kid with them. Just because I know the rumours of the Nordics doesn't mean that I believed them. However, this confirmed that Veneziano was telling the truth when he said he saw the Swede with a young, blond boy. This blond boy looked a bit out of place with the group, but I suppose I did as well. He wore a shirt from a cartoon Viking show, and ran in front of the group with his toy dragon, shouting something about being toothless.

The group noticed me standing by the slide and motioned me over to one of the picnic tables near the forest line. Lukas nodded his greeting to me, his brother stood silently next to him. Mathais waved to me from the water fountain. The other two Nordics were with the little boy, probably telling him to be careful on the playground or whatever. It then dawned on me that the boy could have been Tino's kid, since he was the one speaking to him at eye-level. I know my parents did that to me when I was little, would a babysitter do that to a kid? I don't know. I tried babysitting once, it did not go well.

What if Tino did have a kid? It'd kind of explain that situation, but then it doesn't explain why Berwald was there and why he was there outside of the preschool. The kid has blond hair (could be either of them) and blue eyes (Berwald probably), but a rounded facial structure (Tino) and is short (that's probably because he's a child). It's too confusing for me right now, and I'm getting off topic.

After the kid was off happily playing in the sand box, the two others joined their group and I at the picnic table. Well, if I thought the Nordics were intimidating when I was alone with them at lunch, you won't believe how scary they are outside of school! I can't explain why, maybe it's because I knew they could beat me up without a second thought. But they wouldn't with kids around. . . right?

"Alright if we're doing this I think some introductions need to take place!" Well, Mathais hadn't lost his energetic attitude. That was kind of a relief to see. . . especially since I didn't know if there was any of the old Mathais left in him.

I took this moment to take out my camera and start filming, it was probably a good idea since they'd need to be introduced anyways.
"Hello everyone I'm Mathais, the leader of the group! I am Danish, a junior, awesome, and have the biggest LEGO collection out of all these losers!"

"Shut it Dane, you aren't the leader and you're the only one of us who has a LEGO collection."

"Oh yeah, then you go next if you think you can do better!"

"Fair enough, I'm Lukas. This is stupid, only he (meaning me) doesn't know who we are. I do not have a LEGO collection. And Emil is my little brother."

"I told you to stop saying that!" So his name was Emil! And he was Lukas's brother, but he didn't like being called that, this is useful information!

"Then you go next, little bro."

"Fine. I'm Emil. I'm a freshman. Lukas claims he is my older brother, which may or may not be true. Can I go now?"

"Not until you admit I'm your big brother." I learned today that that was Lukas's way of saying no to Emil. It's really cool, maybe I'll start using it on Amelia!

"Anyways thank you Lukas and Emil! Tino, you're up!"

"Oh, okay. I'm Tino, senior, and don't know what else to say." I was hoping Tino would say something about the kid when he spoke about himself, but I guess I'll have to ask another day.

Berwald had left sometime during the introductions, I swear that guy must be a ninja of some sort. How does a guy that huge get around so quietly?! I have no idea.

But anyways, Mathais described him as "Berwald aka Swede since he's from Sweden. He has a hard time with speaking English, but we all do to be honest. He and his wife Tino are trilingual, but he doesn't talk much."

Tino pushed Mathais down and Mathais laughed. Apparently when Berwald moved here he tried to introduce Tino as his boyfriend to his family but messed up on his translation (English, right?). Berwald accidentally introduced him as his "wife", and Mathais hasn't let it go since.

Berwald missed the commotion, since he was over in the sandbox with the kid. They were probably trying to build a sandcastle. I tried to ask who the child was, but Mathais gave me a look that said to save it for later. After Mathais finished with his introductions of everyone (which I can't remember exactly what he said), I cut the recording. The kid wasn't caught on camera, don't worry. That would violate condition #4, and I do not want to get on the Nordic's bad side.

We hung out at the park for a little while longer. Tino and Berwald stayed pretty close to the kid (I didn't know his name at the time, but I was pretty sure it was Peter). Lukas and Emil said they had to get going to meet someone. Of course my mind went to the worst places, but I have to stop doing that! How far in the project am I going to get if I have a really closed mind! It doesn't make me any better than anyone in the school.

However, this left me alone with Mathais. We tried to keep some friendly conversation, but each time it seemed to die out. He asked about Mattie, Amelia and my parents, and I answered all of his questions. I didn't mention his 'new life' or any of our previous interests. With my luck, he wasn't into anything we were in middle school.

It was about an hour later that we all left the park. The kid was fast asleep on Berwald's shoulder, and Tino carried the toy dragon he was playing with earlier. They walked ahead of Mathais and I, and I took the opportunity to ask what the kid's name was. I was pretty sure it was Peter, but I couldn't be sure.

"Oh, yeah that's Peter," he replied, "he's Berwald and Tino's son I guess. Poor guy, he's probably exhausted. He has a pretty strict schedule, and he missed his nap today. He also can't have. . ." Mathais kept talking, but I didn't hear him. So Peter (that is his name!) is both Berwald and Tino's son? How is that possible?!

Well, the rest of the day was uneventful, so I won't go into much detail about the rest of it. Besides the fact that Ludwig's older brother is coming into town next week to visit. Gilbert's pretty awesome, but not as awesome as me!

-The Awesome Hero!

A/N

And we meet the Nordics! Sorry if they're out of character, but don't worry it'll get better. This chapter and the next are pretty much fillers, but Chapter 6 is where we start to really see some backstory of some of the Nordics. Anyways, thank you so much for the continuous support, it really makes my day (even though I'm horrible at replying).
And did anyone catch my not so subtle reference to How to Train Your Dragon?