Elskendes Feud – 04.
(( Just in case of any confusion: Alexsandar Balakov = Bulgaria, Emilie Bonnefoy = Monaco, Abel Van Slyk = Netherlands, Felicja Łukasiewicz = Fem!Poland, Xiao Mei = Taiwan, Laura Van Slyk = Belgium.))
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Their first day of practice came quickly for the two Nordics. Mathine sluggishly walked with Tiina to the drama block for her first practice.
"I really don't want to do this..." the Dane groaned. Tiina thought that this would be good for them, and once hearing about the knife incident she was happy that they were both punished this way! The incident was only a few days ago, so Mathine's cut was still quite horrid to look at. Tiina decided not to reply to Mathine's complaint.
When they reached the door, Mathine nodded at Tiina and took a shaky breath. She really appreciated Tiina walking with her to the building and agreeing to wait in the library for her when she was done, instead of just going home with Berwald.
"Wish me luck" Mathine told her.
Tiina couldn't keep her silence and smiled lightly at her friend, "Good luck."
Upon entering the room, Mathine saw many students sat around in a circle. The teacher, Mr. Karpusi, stood up and walked over to shake her hand.
"Our Juliet is here!" he cheered, and brought her to sit in the circle with them all. Lukas wasn't there yet, which surprised Mathine, but she didn't let that show on her face. Mr. Karpusi turned around to get the register (after having to move one of his many pet cats that was sat on the register) and started to call the names of all of the people. When he got to Lukas the whole group looked around before hearing the door open. Said Norwegian entered silently and took a place in the circle, as far away from Mathine as possible.
"Well, now that everyone's here. Let's hand out the scripts." Mr Karpusi quickly passed around many large booklets, which were obviously the scripts.
"Now, I want you all to practice these at home. But first, let's all go over everyone and their parts."
"We have Lukas Bondevik playing as Romeo Montague!" Mr Karpusi announced, that caused a small clap go through the group we had. He continued to read off the names, "Mathine Densen as Juliet Capulet! Alexsandar Balakov as Mercutio, Feliciano Vargas as Benvolio, Raivis Galante as Montague, Emilie Bonnefoy as Lady Montague. Alfred F Jones as Tybalt, Brett Kirkland as Paris, Im Yong Soo as the Friar, Abel Van Slyk as Capulet, Felicja Łukasiewicz as Lady Capulet and Mei Xiao as Juliet's Nurse!" When he finished reading out the names there was a cheer that went around the room. It seemed that everyone was more focused on this than Mathine and Lukas were, although they did have to point out that everyone else actually auditioned to be in this ridiculous play.
Although they didn't do much actual play rehearsal, more just being told the background of the play and given a timetable for their meetings, Lukas and Mathine still found the whole thing a drag. Even the teacher was asleep by the end of the rehearsal! Although that was fairly common for Mr. Karpusi, he usually slept in his lessons and just gave everyone high grades since he never remembers what their work was like.
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Mathine almost ran out of the room when the rehearsal was over, once she reached the library she say Tiina happily sat there doing homework. "Hey..." she muttered, sitting by the Finn.
"Hi! How did it go?" Tiina asked cheerfully, a bright smile on her face as usual.
"Boring..Mr. Karpusi fell asleep, the parts are terrible. This play sucks!" she groaned, leaning on the table.
This only caused a light chuckle from the other girl, and she stood up and started collecting her stuff. "Well think about it this way, at least you two wont be getting in fights any more~"
"I wouldn't count on that" was the reply.
Mathine helped Tiina collect her stuff and they soon walked to the bus stop together. Mathine had told her parents that she was forced to go to the first meeting, which they weren't that happy about. Tiina and Mathine had to wait for the bus for about 15 minutes, which they spent that time discussing the rehearsal (Although there wasn't much to discuss).
When Mathine got home she was immediately bombarded with a million and one questions by her parents. They immediately decided that they would complain to the school, they refused to accept that their daughter was going to be forced into doing a play.
"I'll phone up the school for a meeting" Mr. Densen said as he reached for the phone, not after long the school picked up. "Yes, hello... It's Mr. Densen, Mathine's father... I was calling you to arrange a meeting about the school's play...yes tomorrow, that sounds greats...okay...thank you...goodbye." he quickly scribbled down the time and room for the meeting and he nodded, going upstairs to his office.
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Lukas arrived at his house promptly, and was welcomed by his sister.
"How'd it go?" Eyríður asked quietly, she was reading a book in the living room on the sofa, where she always sat.
Lukas took a place in his normal seat and shrugged, "Nothing happened really, we got our scripts and that was it-"
"LUKAS!" he was soon interrupted by his mother's loud voice. She ran down the stairs and to the room, but smiled at him none the less. "What happened?" she asked.
He explained how nothing happened for the whole of the rehearsal, but they received their scripts. His mother just nodded and called her husband down.
"Yes?" Lukas's stepfather asked, she sighed and whispered something in his ear. "Why do I have to call?" he asked.
"What are you talking about?" Lukas questioned,
"I'm getting you out of that dreadful play, deary." she told him and handed the phone to his stepfather.
He came down a few minutes later,
"The Densens also called in to have a meeting. Tomorrow at 4pm. With the headteacher" he told them flat out and handed the phone to Lukas' mother.
She nodded and told her husband to write a note about it.
Both sets of parents, no matter how much they disagreed, were horribly similar.
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Their practice days were on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Since their first practice was on a Tuesday that meant that they had no practice on the day of their meeting, which was good.
Mathine got up early for once, when she looked in her cupboard she immediately noticed the large scar on her left cheek. Running her fingers over the raised skin, which still had the needles in it to stitch it up, she winced at the harsh pain emitted. Frowning, Mathine got off her night wear and slipped on a bra and underwear, she disliked the look of her face. Her previously, almost perfect skin was now ruined. It was her fault, but she wouldn't dare admit that. Sighing shakily she got on a black skirt and a tight fitting red shirt. She knew that she'd get a lot of looks for that, (as she was famously known for always wearing trousers) and she hoped it would pry attention away from her face. Once dressed she put on some dolly shoes (again something rare for her) and brushed her hair. Her hair was short and flicked up at the sides, she tried to smile at her reflection, but to herself she looked disgusting. Also, it hurt her cheek to smile widely. The Dane then walked slowly downstairs (she still wasn't used to the shoes) and made herself some cereal. She then went to her T.V and watched it until the time came that Berwald and Tiina would arrive.
Lukas ended up being in a rush to get to school, not because he got up late though, he got up on time (which was early for most people). It took him over an hour to get dressed. He forgot that he now had many large gashes on his hands, these of course made getting dressed very difficult. He ended up dropping the clothes he was trying to wear every few seconds, but eventually be put on some brown trousers, a white button up shirt, and a black belt with the buckle being the Norwegian flag. One he had done that he only had a few minutes to get dressed and ready before leaving to go to school.
Tiina stared at Mathine, extremely shocked at her appearance.
"Mathine!" she called, jumping out of the car and rushing to her friend. She wasted no time in pressing her hand to the Dane's forehead to check her temperature.
"I'm okay..." Mathine muttered, shrugging and lifting the Finn's hand from her face.
"Are you sure? Your outfit..."
"I'm fine. Just a change, is all." she smiled slightly, but then had to stop due to her injury.
Tiina walked with Mathine back to the car, to which Berwald just looked at her as if she was an alien or something.
Mathine just huffed and told him to drive them to school.
When at school the first lesson was Chemistry. Mathine then remembered that this was the very lesson that everything started in. As soon as she entered with Tiina and Berwald she noticed Lukas was already in his seat. The Norwegian's face was looking down at his book, his hands under the desk in a loose position. Mathine slipped down next to him and caught eyes with their Russian teacher. Mr. Braginski had a horribly terrifying smile on his face as he looked at the pair. Mathine coughed awkwardly when the teacher took the register. Lukas soon looked at her, nodding slowly.
"So..." Mathine started, she was about to continue when Mr. Braginski cut them off.
"I have been told to move you two away from each other in this lesson." he announced (with a sad tone in his voice, Mathine noted.)
Both students tried to hide their happiness, as the teacher quickly looked over at his plan.
"We'll move Mathine back a place" he said, and soon the Dane got up from her own seat and stood at the desk behind them. "And... Laura come up to sit by Lukas. So Mathine is now by Im Yong Soo" Laura quickly got up from her seat, giving Mathine a quick smile before going up to sit by Lukas. Mathine took her place right behind her and next to the South Korean boy.
The rest of the lesson was pretty uneventful, Mathine and Lukas now had no reason to talk to each other, at all, except in their rehearsals. After Chemistry they had ICT, with Mr. Von Bock. Their ICT teacher was very laid back, and very good with computers. He let the class call him by his first name, Eduard, and they never really did any work. Mathine would even slide around on her chair, going around to talk to random other members of the class. She was sat by Lukas but she never ever needed to talk to him. Surprisingly enough, he was the one to talk first.
"Your face...looks bad" was what he muttered.
Mathine was about to come up with a harsh comeback but bit her tongue and nodded. "Ja...how are your hands?" she asked.
He shrugged. "Fine. Looking forward to the meeting?"
"Neutral. I want to get out of that play though so badly."
"Me too."
That was all their conversation led them that lesson.
Break time came and fell quickly, Mathine just hung around with Tiina and Berwald. Lukas just went to the field and read a good book on Norse mythology, only to realise how much it hurt to turn the pages and he just sat there and people-watched. Once they were done with they had two more lessons then lunch. Lunch was a bit more interesting. Every lunch Lukas sat in his little isolated corner of the hall and ate his packed lunch quietly. It took him longer than usual, having to work with his injured hands. Mathine went to the cantine with Tiina and Berwald and they got their lunch. The school cooked lunches were terrible, as always. Even worse, Mathine could swear she saw mould on her carrots, so she refused to touch them (which gave her a few weird looks by her friends). By the time Lukas finished his lunch he had just enough time to go to the bathroom and head off to his next lesson in order to be early as per usual.
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Both sets of parents found themselves back in the familiar headteacher's office again. Although they were sat on the opposite sides of the room, both parents were for once agreeing on something.
"I think it's ridiculous that you can try to force our children into this!" Mrs. Bondevik pleaded, all while her husband blankly watched on. Eyríður had to come too, and she should stop herself to keep staring at Mathine's gash on her cheek, to which Mathine would try to ignore.
"Now, we are trying more than anything to get this school in a peaceful environment. As you can tell from our last...issue, we need some serious resolving. We think that this is the best thing for your children, and they are no matter what performing in this play."
With another hour and a half of back and forth arguments from both parties, the meeting went no where. Mr. Vargas was not budging at all, and his message was final. Neither family was happy about this news, obviously, and both stormed off with their children confusingly following.
When Mathine got in the car her mother and father both exclaimed angrily at how the school (and the Bondeviks) were at fault. They suggested many things in the car, moving schools, suing, never going back; the final thing decided however was that she must never go to any rehearsals again. Mathine just sighed and said, "whatever". She didn't want to leave the school, because of Berwald and Tiina, but no matter what she wanted to get out of that damn play.
Lukas's family didn't really talk until they got home. Eyríður was still think of Mathine's scars, and wondered if it was Lukas who caused them. Lukas didn't care with whatever solution his parents came up with, even if it involved moving school, he just wanted to keep his high grades and stay at the same point he was at. Although he thought that, he didn't like change, so when his parents suggested moving to Trondheim he immediately dismissed the idea.
"Why don't you just stop going to the meetings, or whatever?" Eyríður suggested, while staring blankly at the television.
"You know, that just might be the most sense anyone has made tonight" their mother replied.
When she had left the room and Eyríður and Lukas were left alone, the younger sibling spent almost no time in asking her brother "Did you cause that cut to her face?"
Lukas sighed shakily and nodded, but held up his hands. "She did this to me though, don't think I'm the bad guy in this."
Although his sister gave him an unconvinced nod, it was good enough for Lukas and he simply got up and went to his room to stare at his ceiling (since he can barely read now) he then wondered if that new kindle thing would work out for him.