*WARNING*

I DO NOT OWN HETALIA

"Hey, Lukas?" Matthias asked, looking up at Lukas. It had been a few days since they first met, and Lukas learned something quite important about Matthias. He was annoying as heck when he wanted to be. He also learned the best way to get him to go away was to ignore him.

"Lukas? Can ya hear me?" Be quiet, he'll get bored eventually.

"Lukas? Lukas? Lukas?" Don't talk. Just keep reading.

"Luuuuukasssss?" Oh my god just shut. Up.

"HAVE YOU GONE DEAF OR SOMETHING?!" Matthias shouted into his ear. Lukas looked up from his textbook angrily.

"What do you want?!" Matthias put his hands up in surrender, as if he wasn't doing anything wrong.

"Sheesh, I just wanted to talk to you."

"And I want to study. Shut up."

Matthias nodded and went quiet for a long time. An astounding 4.5 seconds.

"Hey, what are you studying anyway?" Lukas groaned and looked up from his book again. Matthias was really determined today.

"History. That's what I'm majoring in." He replied, showing Matthias the cover of the book. The Dane 'hmm'ed in response and nodded.

"History.. never really been my thing. I've always found it painfully boring. Like, cool, someone died. A war happened here and there." Lukas raised an eyebrow at him.

"How could you possibly find it boring? It's so interesting! I'm especially interested in Scandinavian history, for obvious reasons. It's so fascinating how Norway was kind of Europe's punching bag. ..And also really annoying." He ended on a somewhat sad note.

"Well, us Danes were the kings of Scandinavia!~ That makes us super awesome!"

"Whatever. What are you majoring in, anyway? Shouldn't you be studying for that instead of asking me stupid questions?" Matthias' eyes seemed to light up at that.

"Well, studying is super duper boring! But my major isn't! It's architecture!"

"Architecture, huh? I didn't see that coming." Matthias shrugged.

"Most people don't. But when I was little, I used to play with legos all the time! I mean, I still do, just not as much anymore! I remember I used to try building landmarks but they always turned into a multicoloured mess." Lukas nodded, before shrugging.

"I've never found architecture that interesting. To me, they're just buildings." Matthias looked highly offended at this.

"What?! They are not just buildings! They're.. they're art! C'mon, I'll show you!" And before even waiting for a reaction, be jumped up and grabbed Lukas' hand, running out of the dorm.

"What are you doing, idiot?! Slow down, you'll run into something!" Lukas yelled from behind him, trying to keep up with how fast Matthias was moving but occasionally stumbled here or there.

Matthias didn't answer though, he just kept running at full speed, past all the dorms and students wandering the halls. When they made it outside, Matthias led Lukas to the plaza before coming to a complete stop. Lukas didn't stop fast enough and bumped into him.

"Look at these buildings, Luke! Aren't they amazing?" He asked, gazing at all the old gothic-style buildings around them.

"Don't call me that. ..But yeah, I guess they're okay." Lukas replied, looking at them all. After taking a close look at the buildings now and seeing all the finer details, he could understand why Matthias loved this stuff so much. It really was beautiful.

Lukas looked down when he felt Matthias' grip on his hand get tighter. It didn't look like the Dane noticed at all, actually. He seemed completely mesmerized by the buildings, taking in every detail. Maybe that was just a sign of him enjoying himself? Lukas shrugged and went back to examining the buildings himself. It was quite calming, actually.

~uwu~

After a while, Matthias sighed contentedly and looked down at Lukas with a big grin.

"Now do you see why I love buildings so much?" Lukas looked up at him and sighed with a small smile.

"Yeah. They're pretty nice, I've decided." Matthias' grin somehow got even bigger at that.

"Hooray! You agree with me! Hey, this is the first time I've seen you smile, come to think of it."

"There's no way this is the first time. You're probably just really inattentive." Matthias shook his head.

"Nope, this is definitely the first time. Your smile is pretty awesome, you should do it more!" Lukas froze for a second, before rolling his eyes.

"I'll think about your offer. Come with me." He said, walking off somewhere. Matthias followed behind him quickly.

"Where are we going?"

"Well, you got to show why you love architecture, let me show you why I love history."

"..I don't get it. Where are we going?" Lukas sighed.

"The library, stupid."

~uwu~

When they finally made it to the library, Lukas led Matthias to a quiet section that was filled to the brim with history books. Besides the books, it was completely empty, and looked like it had been in a while.

"Shame, it looks like nobody here appreicates history." Lukas mumbled, looking through the books.

"Well, like I told you, it's super boring," Matthias pointed out honestly. Lukas gave him an unamused look. "But- you're here to show me the ~absolute wonder~ that is history, so I may be wrong!" He added quickly.

"You are wrong, I'll tell you that. Oh, here's a good one," Lukas said, pulling a gigantic book off the shelf.

"Why is it so big?!"

"The world has been alive for hundreds of thousands of years, Matthias. There's a lot of history to go around. Of course it's big." Lukas explained, sitting down at a table and opening it up. Matthias sat down next to him, watching curiously.

Lukas started reading out loud, occasionally pointing out things he liked or disliked or adding in little facts. Matthias looked up every once in a while from the book and to Lukas, and always found it really interesting how immersed the Norwegian was into what he was saying. It was sort of like he was in a trance, Matthias noticed. It was really fascinating to the Dane, actually.

After they somehow finished that book, they moved from book to book, with Lukas trying to explain how history worked and Matthias not really understanding.

"Wait, so they were fighting over spaghetti?"

"Not spaghetti, the Battle of Gettysburg!"

"Talk about your Gettysburg nonsense all you want, it will always be Spaghettisburg to me." Matthias said with a teasing smile on his face. Lukas facepalmed, but there was a small smile on his face too.

"Sheesh, you're hopeless! I give up," He said, though his voice was a bit muffled because his face was buried into his hands. Matthias laughed.

"Aw, come on Lukas! Don't give up so easily!"

"I can and will, thank you very much." Their little argument was cut short however when a librarian told them that it was closing time and they both had to leave.

~uwu~

"Can you teach me more history soon? Pretty pretty please?" Matthias asked as they walked home. Lukas sighed.

"Fine. But only if you let me study tomorrow."

"Deal!" The Dane chirped happily, before humming in thought. "What is it with you and studying? It seems like that's all you want to do."

"If I want to get a good job, I have to study. So I do." He explained.

"But what about hanging out with friends, or taking days off?" Matthias asked. Lukas went silent for a second.

"Days off are a waste of time, and I don't really have any friends." Lukas said quietly.

"..Oh. Why not? You're an awesome person!"

"Don't know. The kids in my school always thought my obsession with magic and history was weird, they've always called me an emotionless freak, always called me 'eerily quiet' or stupid, you know." He shrugged. "I guess they were just so obsessed with their little cliques that they thought anyone different was.. well, different."

"Huh," Matthias went silent for a second, before talking again. "Doesn't that make you feel bad? You sound so chill when you say it."

"I don't really care. Besides, I have my little brother and that's enough for me."

"Wow, you handled it much better than I did." Lukas looked up at him.

"What do you mean better than you did?"

"I used to get excluded out of things a lot, too," Matthias said. "All the kids thought I talked waaay too much, and I got waaay too excited about things, so they just.. didn't talk to me, I guess. We were both the weird ones in our schools, huh?"

"Yeah, I guess we were." Lukas said, nodding. They both went quiet before Matthias spoke again, as always.

"Why don't we be each other's friends? Then we don't have to be as lonely!" Lukas stopped in front of their dorm door to unlock it, before nodding at Matthias.

"Okay then, 'friend', I accept your offer. Goodnight," He called out before walking to his room.

"Night!"

This one had a lot more talking, but I still think it's pretty dapper

I have literally no idea how college works as I'm still some idiot in junior high, but I searched it up and apparently history and architecture majors exist so that's accurate at least

I thought history was a good major for Lukas because I don't know of any colleges or universities that allow 'magic' as a major, and of course Matthias has architecture because of legos