ShadowRose18: Hi everyone, before you kill me, let me say that I was busy yesterday…that's why I didn't get time to write this chapter. Anyway, here it is, so…yeah…. Enjoy xD

Chapter 3 – Band-aids

Sunday

'OW!' cried Tancred for the fifth time. It wasn't even noon yet.

Tancred put his left index finger in his mouth, while his mother sighed and picked up the first-aid kit that she had kept handy next to her.

Tancred took the band-aid from her and wrapped the band-aid around his finger. They were about to continue when the doorbell rang.

Tancred jumped out of his seat and ran down the stairs to the door.

Opening it, he found Lysander with his eyebrows raised.

'Um, hey?' said Lysander. Tancred laughed in response.

'What are you doing?' asked Lysander, 'I heard you from down here,'

Tancred smiled and, letting Lysander in, led him to the room which he had been spending most of his weekend at.

'Making Em's present,' replied Tancred as he opened the door. Lysander looked in to see Tancred's mother sitting at one of the two chairs, while sewing thread, a few needles and material lay all across the table.

Lysander laughed as he asked Tancred's mother, 'D-did he s-seriously ask you h-how to sew?'

Tancred's mother nodded, grinning, while Tancred smiled and shook his head.

'So how far are you?' asked Lysander, approaching the table. Now he could see some of the other things on the table. There was a drawing, Emma's obviously, of a giant bird, and a couple of little empty pouches.

Tancred grinned. 'I've finished the head, and I'm almost finished the beak,' he said proudly.

Lysander looked at Tancred in surprise. Then he turned to Tancred's mother.

'Did he really do all of it by himself?' he asked.

Tancred's mother nodded, but added, 'With a few pricks,'

When Lysander looked at her confused, Tancred held up his hands.

Lysander almost swore.

'CRUD!! Tanc!! What the hell have you been doing?!' he cried, for Tancred's fingers, especially those on his left hand, were almost completely covered in band-aids.

Tancred shrugged. 'Just making Em's present,' he grinned, but his smile faded when Lysander looked at him.

'What?'

Lysander frowned. 'If I'm worried, how much do you think everyone else is going to be? Especially Em. You know how much she worries over everyone,' replied Lysander, glancing at Tancred's fingers.

Tancred shook his head. 'She wouldn't be worried about me. And even if she was, it would only be as a friend,' said Tancred sadly, looking at his bandaged fingers.

Lysander frowned. 'I wouldn't be so sure of that,' he muttered. Tancred looked up at him confused, but Lysander just shook his head. 'Don't worry,' he said.

Tancred just shrugged and sat down to continue making his present for Emma.

Monday

'Tancred!'

Tancred turned to see Charlie.

'Hey Charlie,' said Tancred, grinning and waving. BIG mistake.

'Huh?' Charlie was beside Tancred by now, 'What happened to your hands?'

'Oops,' said Tancred, and proceeded to tell Charlie what his plan was.

'Don't tell Em, alright?' said Tancred, as he finished. Charlie nodded solemnly and moved off to meet Olivia before heading toward the forbidding building for assembly.

'Hey Tanc,' said a friendly voice and Tancred turned to see Lysander grinning at him.

'Hey,' responded Tancred, flashing a grin.

'How're you hands?' he asked, looking down at his best friend's hands.

'Okay, I guess,' replied Tancred, inspecting them himself.

'I think there are a few more,' murmured Lysander, seriously. Tancred, silently and solemnly, nodded in agreement. After moment, the two looked at each other and broke into grins before laughing and heading into Bloors' Academy for another week of torture.

ShadowRose18: this time, we're all going to say, 'Poor Tanc'. Lol xD

But to be fair, when you don't know how to sew, do you know how many times you prick your fingers? I know. I remember when I was like seven, and my mum taught me how to sew, I had at least three band-aids on me.

Anyway, I've found that boys are normally worse at sewing -.-; so yeah… the reason why Tanc had more xD

Anyway, the next chapter will be from Emma's point of view (POV) so yeah, and that'll be when she gets REALLY worried about Tancred :D

I mean come on, Tancred's hands are pretty much bandages (they're not really hands anymore xD), so she's going to be worried.

ANYWAY, please review! And I'll try really REALLY hard to get another chapter in before I go.