Elskendes Feud – 05.

(( Oh and Me1anch0lich0lic requested a staring contest between Berwald and Lukas, I thought at first I'd have to wait ages, but then I got an idea so I fit it in here. Sorry it's not as epic as you might have liked. ))

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Not much happened over the next week or so, Mathine went back to wearing trousers, Lukas had to get notes to get out of P.E because of his hands, and Tiina and Berwald...well of course they were good as usual. Mathine and Lukas both didn't go to the rehearsals, but neither knew that the other had also quit, since they never talk to each other. They had no more incidents in their classes involving each other, and they tried to live out life normal again.

The word tried being the main point there. It was Friday, and Lukas had just had P.E, straight after that was English. He walked up slowly to Mr. Kirkland's room, of course knowing that he was the only one there, but Mr. Kirkland had other students in his class from the lesson before, so Lukas had to wait. He just leaned against the wall, with his bag over his shoulder. The bell rang a few minutes later and more students in his English class came up, at first they looked a bit surprised to see Lukas there but then they soon realised that Mr. Kirkland hadn't let out his previous class yet, which explained why Lukas wasn't in his seat and already doing work. After about 10 minutes of the lesson wasted, eventually Mr. Kirkland opened the class door and the previous lesson's students all exited, all of them having agitated looks on their faces. Their English teacher just gave the class a stern eye and told them to enter.

The lesson in itself was quite boring, of course, but it was near the end of the lesson when anything remotely interesting happened. Mr. Kirkland told the class to take out their copies of Blood Brothers and to turn to a certain page. Since English involved a lot of writing and reading, Lukas felt as if his hands were on fire. They had been hurting even worse than they had when he got the cuts, he had stitches on both hands and some bandages (but not too many) but for some reason they still managed to be incredibly sore and tender. When he turned to the requested page though, Lukas had had enough of the pain and he grabbed his sore hand, emitting a high pitched (but not too loud) song of pain. Of course this caused the whole class to look at him, and when the teacher did his mouth dropped.
"Your hands, they look terrible. Are you okay?" Mr. Kirkland asked, an obvious tone of shock in his voice.
Tiina looked at Mathine from her desk, and Mathine looked back with a sign of guilt on her face. Of course, Lukas deserved to have his hands ruined, Mathine has a massive gash on her face, which will probably turn into a massive ugly scar.
Lukas shook his head slowly, finally showing defeat. He had to breathe deeply in order to calm himself, and Mr. Kirkland looked at Berwald, who was sat at the desk behind him.
"Berwald, can you take Lukas to the office to get his parents called in and him sent to hospital?" Of course Berwald didn't really have a choice, but he nodded none the less and looked at the Norwegian. Lukas stared back with his usual blank stare, both of them lightly glaring at each other for some time. After both of them had looked at each other for what seemed like hours eventually Mr. Kirkland butted in, "Can both of you just go already?" he asked, obviously wanting the boy with the bleeding hands to be out of his room.
Berwald only grunted and got up from his desk, taking Lukas's stuff with him and walking with the Norwegian down to the office. Of course no words were exchanged between the two while they did this, when they were gone Mr. Kirkland called down to the office to explain the situation.

Lukas sat in the large comfy office chair, sighing shakily to himself and looking at his damaged hands. Berwald was still there carrying his stuff and eventually after a long 7 minutes of doing nothing, Lukas spoke up.
"Thanks for taking these down" he said quietly in his flat voice, "You should go back up to English now" he never once lifted his head from looking at his hands, Berwald gave an understanding nod and a short grunt of acknowledgement before placing Lukas' bag next to him and going back up to his lesson. Lukas just sat down in the chair waiting for his mother to arrive, since the school told him that she was called. He felt a horribly nausea run through his body, but maybe that was just nerves.
Not more than 15 minutes later, Mrs. Bondevik ran into the school building, seeming distraught. Upon seeing her son she gasped and ran up to him, asking him a million and one questions.
"Come on, let's take you to the hospital sweetie!" she said eventually after spending over half an hour freaking out over him. He only nodded slowly,
"Ja, I'd like that please." he replied shakily and stood slowly. His mother thanked the school for telling her, although she was incredibly angry that it was the school's fault he was injured in the first place. Once in the car she sighed and looked at him,
"What did you do to it?" she asked, and grabbed his right wrist to get a closer look.
"I did nothing" he replied, "It just really really hurts..."
"Well let's see what the hospital says" she muttered, putting on her seatbelt and starting the car. Lukas fastened himself up and looked out the window, not really wanting to look his mother in the eye while he was in such a state. Mrs. Bondevik quickly drove her son to the hospital.

It was revealed by going to the hospital that Lukas' injuries had gotten infected. He wasn't sure how, but all Lukas knew was that it meant he had to put disinfectant on his cuts, which really hurt. Oh, and he had to wear bandages on them to stop any other infections getting in there. Of course that meant that it would then become incredibly difficult to write or read or perform some other basic tasks, he could barely move his fingers. When they arrived home later that evening, Lukas was exhausted. As soon as he walked in the house he heard his step-father cooking dinner, and was welcomed by the beautiful aroma. It was home-made pizza, his favourite. Eyríður was sat at the kitchen table and simply gave her brother a wave when he entered,
"How'd it go?" she asked, her mother had phoned her father and he then told her when she came home from school.
"My cuts got infected, I have to wear bandages now" he said blankly, holding up his two bandages hands. Eyríður only nodded, not really replying with anything. Lukas went and sat on a chair by Eyríður in the kitchen, who didn't reply respond in any way.
"Well are you still up for eating some of my pizza?" Mr. Bondevik, Lukas' step-father asked. Lukas only nodded, he never really was one for talking. Neither was his sister actually, it must be hereditary. Mr. Bondevik then finished off the final touches to his famous home-made pizza and plated some up for his daughter and step-son. He gave them a weak smile and went to join his wife in the living room, probably to discuss Lukas, now that he thought about it.
"Well it's good that you're on the mend" Eyríður said quietly, gently starting to nibble at his pizza.
Lukas was more into pizza, and as soon as his wrapped up hands could get a hold of it he had taken a massive bite. Since his mouth was full he could only not and make a sound of agreement. Neither of them really spoke much to each other, they were both fine with silence, because of this both of them ate quite quickly because of having no distractions. As soon as he finished reading, Lukas got up and put his dirty plate in the sink, Eyríður soon followed. Both siblings then walked up the stairs at almost the same pace, but parted ways at the top of the stairs, since Lukas' room was on the left, and Eyríður's on the right.

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Lukas' hands healed quite quickly after that, within a month they were only minor cuts, with a lot of scarring. For the next month nothing really happened within the two families, Mathine continued to hang around with Berwald and Tiina. Lukas ended up getting a kindle and spent most of his days reading that instead of real books (since he got so accustomed to it with his injured hands). Over time though, Mathine would constantly find herself bored. She soon realised how lonely she felt when Berwald and Tiina were the only ones with her, they would constantly act like a couple, and for the first time in years Mathine started feeling like a third wheel. Of course the three of them always stayed with each other, but occasionally Mathine would glance in her bag and see her script, carefully skimming over the words. Somehow she had learnt some of the words already, even though she wasn't doing the play, it still might come in useful if they ever do Romeo and Juliet in English. Lukas on the other hand refused to touch the thing, the thought of the play never even going into his mind. He continued to live life the way he had before he had ever talked to Mathine.

Of course they could only get away with not talking for so long, even though they had spent all of the previous years of their lives not talking. It happened during break time surprisingly. Their history class had been kept behind for a 5 minute detention. History was one of the few lessons that Mathine and Lukas shared in which neither Berwald or Tiina were in. This of course made Mathine pay attention in the lesson more, as there were no distractions; so for once the detention the class was given was not due to the Dane's silly behaviour. After the detention, Mr. Wang let the class out and everyone rushed out in a hurry. During the commotion, Lukas forgot to zip up his bag, and when they were let out in a scurry (the students all desperate to have the little amount of break they have left) some of the items in Lukas' bag were knocked out. While one book happened to hit Mathine on the foot, it wasn't a large one so it didn't hurt at all, she simply picked them up and handed them back to their owner.
"Here..." she muttered, handing him his stuff.
"Thank you" he replied in the same low tone. By now the rest of the class (and the teacher) were long gone. Lukas quickly put his books in the bag and started walking to the hall, Mathine following.
"How have rehearsals been?" Mathine asked, which caused Lukas to stop walking.
"What do you mean? How would I know?"
"Because you go?"
"I don't"
"You left too?"
"What do you mean by too, did you decide not to go as well?"
Mathine only nodded, Lukas shrugged, starting to continue to walk again.
"Well it's stupid they think they can make us do this, do you even ever touch your script?" Lukas asked, looking at Mathine curiously.
"I have, since I'm sometimes left alone when I'm with Tiina and Berwald" she explained, and started telling Lukas in more detail. Subconsciously the two were walking to the library, where Lukas always went for break, but Mathine never ever had gone except to do some last minute homework she forgot.

When the bell went for the end of break, Lukas was in the middle of telling Mathine about how his hands had gotten infected. Of course Mathine felt bad about injuring him, and Lukas also felt bad about giving Mathine the large scar that covered a lot of the left side of her face.
The Norwegian simply just shut his mouth, all of a sudden the tense atmosphere that they normally had returning as the two remembered exactly who they had spent their break time talking to. Next was drama, ironically, since they had also spent a few minutes discussing the play they were supposed to star in. Lukas simply packed up his stuff and exited the library without sending a word over to Mathine; who just followed him out of the room and to their next lesson.
Once in drama, especially since they walked in together, Mr. Karpusi walked slowly over to them (he looked as if he could fall asleep any minute).
"How has your practising been going on?" the Greek asked, both Lukas and Mathine looked away.
"I told you, we're not doing that stupid play! Mathine exclaimed, frowning.
"No matter what the play is going on, and you two will star in it; wherever we have to force you ourselves" after that Mr. Karpusi sat down and called the class to sit in a circle. Since they were already stood next to each other, Mathine and Lukas didn't really have a choice apart from to sit by each other. "Now, I will split you up into pairs and you will have to do trust work today. You know that stuff where you have to make sure the other person catches you, have to do mirroring and...well let's just see where the lesson takes us! You will work with the person you're sat next to." Mathine looked over, Tiina wasn't in this lesson but Berwald was. Unfortunately the Swede was sat on the other side of the class room. To one side of Mathine there was Lukas, obviously, and to the other was Raivis Galante. She quickly counted around the room to see which person she'd be paired with, of course; it seemed as if Mr. Karpusi had planned this as Mathine soon realised she was obviously paired with Lukas. It appeared that he counted the same, considering he gave Mathine a weary look, which she returned. Mr. Karpusi continued to give the class their pairings, and one by one the group stood up with their partner. Lukas gave Mathine a usual unreadable look, which she just ignored.
"This was bound to happen. Our luck" Lukas said flatly as they sat next to each other, the class now no longer in a circle but now all sat around separately.
"Of course." she replied as the teacher told them that they need to decide a person to be person one and person two. "I'll be person two " she told the Norwegian, he just nodded in return.
Once everyone had decided, they all stood up. Mr. Karpusi told them to all do the 'trust exercise' which involved person 1 falling back and person 2 catching them. Lukas looked at Mathine at which he received a simple nod back. Lukas let his body fall back gradually, and sighed in relief as he felt himself being caught by the Dane's strong but ladylike arms. They then had to switch positions, at which Mathine was reluctant to fall, but eventually did so and jumped back up as soon as Lukas' arms held her.
The group continued to do pairing exercises for the whole lesson, for Mathine and Lukas it felt like a massive kick in the face by Mr. Karpusi as punishment for now showing up to rehearsals.

When that dreadful lesson was over, Mathine and Lukas almost ran out the room, only to be stopped by Mr. Karpusi, "You know, I hope you two have been practising your lines" he said, then gave a loud yawn and let them go. The two quickly made their way to the next lesson, which was Biology.
Their Science classes were all the same, so all four of them were in the same class for Biology as well as Chemistry (and Physics). Their Biology teacher came at the same time as their Chemistry one, and was called Mrs. Braginskaya. She was actually the older sister of Mr. Braginski (they also had a younger sister, who went to the school) , but she had a completely different personality. Unlike Mr. Braginski's personality, Mrs. Braginskaya came across as kind and sweet, as opposed to harsh and creepy. She had let them chose their seats, so when Mathine entered she took her usual place next to Tiina, right at the back; Lukas was sat at the very front on a desk by himself, just the way he liked it. In Biology all the students really did was learn about the digestive system, which half of them already knew about. At the end of the lesson Tiina immediately dragged Mathine with her and Berwald, not even questioning her on where she was at break. Although she would never admit it, Mathine found talking to Lukas in broken conversations was much more interesting than spending break watch Tiina and Berwald kiss, and the Dane actually didn't mind the aura of the library.
"Hey, I have some homework I gotta do, after we've ate can we go to the library?" she asked, Tiina only smiled and nodded.
"Of course! Now, let's get some food first."
They all ate in silence, for once, eating the poorly cooked cantine food. She couldn't help but notice a familiar blond haired boy sat in the corner eating his own packed lunch. When the three of them were done they all walked up to the library together. For Berwald and Tiina the library wasn't that rare a place for them to go, but Mathine usually forbade them to go there with her. Luckily she had some homework that she could do, but she also knew that Berwald and Tiina would end up talking to each other and letting Mathine do her own thing anyway.

By the time it was half way through lunch the inevitable had happened, Berwald and Tiina were making out in the corner of the library, and Mathine was skimming through her script. Lukas had entered to see this spectacle and raised a confused eyebrow. It seemed that Mathine wasn't lying when she said that she had read the script before. Since there was no where else to sit, he sat on the same table as her, but on the other side of it. Mathine looked up from her script and saw him there, giving him a small nod.
"Hello" she sighed, letting go of the script and putting it on the table.
"Hi" was the short reply. Lukas looked over at her script, seeing how Mathine had highlighted all of her lines. "Want to practice?" he asked.
Mathine's eyes widened but she nodded nonetheless. That's how they ended up spending that lunch time going through their lines, no one ended up noticing, especially Berwald and Tiina.