Elskendes Feud – 07.
(( For some reason I wanted a chapter to go on about Tiina and Berwald's relationship a bit, so that explains why there is more detail than usual to them in this chapter.
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Tiina wasn't back the next day either. She huddled in her tightly wrapped up blankets and sipped her hot chocolate slowly. "Ah!" she exclaimed as the hot liquid burned the tip of her tongue, she therefore ended up dropping her drink and spilling it everywhere. The Finn jumped up at the shock and looked around the small living room and sighed. Her parents were both at work, but they had left her a million and one different ways to contact them, Tiina appreciated that they cared for her, but she didn't want to worry them...or spill their new carpet. Quickly she ran up to get the mop and desperately started wiping where the chocolatey drink has stained the floor. Luckily for her the carpet was a deep red colour and therefore the brown didn't show up much, she was now happy that she didn't have an almost completely white house; like Mathine had. Mathine usually complained about the boringness of her house, it's not like she really had a choice from her parents though. Tiina sighed again, sometimes she felt quite bad for her best friend, Mathine really didn't have much of a say in her life. People would normally think if you had money then you could always be happy and have fun, Tiina thought this definitely wasn't the case for Mathine, even though Mathine was brilliant at always appearing happy. Deciding that the mess was nearly cleaned up enough, Tiina hobbled over to the kitchen to make herself a new drink, since she oh so cleverly ruined the last one. Before she could do this, however, she heard a loud banging at the door.
"T'na it's me" the deep voice of Berwald, her boyfriend, boomed through the door. He knew that Tiina's parents wouldn't be home, and Tiina knew that he knew this.
"It's open" she replied, her voice weak from the amount of coughing and throwing up she's had recently; oh and the sore throat, don't forget the sore throat.
Within seconds the Swede was in the house and at his girlfriend's side.
"Y'u look t'rrible" he told her plainly.
Tiina only let out a weak laugh before bursting into a violent cough, "Thanks" she replied sarcastically,
"I didn't m'an it 'n a b'd way"
"I know, I know" Tiina replied, wrapping her arms around his large but muscular body.
"N'w, I'm st'yin' here, to l'k after y'u"
"What? You can't be-" she burst into more violent coughs before she could finish her sentence. A look of worry spread over Berwald's face. Of course, he'd never let anyone else see this side of him, the caring, weaker side. He took her hand and gently led her back to the sofa,
"N'w, stay here. I'll c'll M'thine to t'll her to g't a diff'rent r'de"
Tiina could only nod slowly. No matter how selfless she was, there were times where she was almost begging to be looked after. Tiina was always the friend to help everyone else out, never got any help in return. It was lovely having her boyfriend do this for her, so she simply let him do it, without trying to stop him.
Within 10 minutes, Tiina was lying on the sofa, the mess completely cleaned up, and Berwald was handing her a new mug of hot chocolate, "M'ke sure to bl'w b'fore you s'p this t'me" he warned, Tiina only smiled.
"I know, love." she told him, and noted the slight shade of red he went when she called him 'love'. "I wonder what Mathine will do at school, since neither of us are there." she thought outloud.
"I d'dn't see h'r y'sterday. I th'nk she w'nt to the l'brary" he explained.
"Really?" Tiina asked, an eyebrow raising. Mathine normally hated the library.
"En'gh talk ab'ut her, let's c'ddle." the Swede held out his arms and Tiina couldn't resist. She moved up so she was in her man's grip, and he happily held her in his embrace.
"Jag älskar dig" he muttered in his own language, he knew that Tiina knew what it meant. I love you.
"I love you too" she replied happily, and continued to hold him close. They had been dating for almost two years now, and they were as close as ever. The lovers held a special bond, one which Tiina couldn't help but be proud of. Berwald gave a rare smile and got up to leave Tiina to rest on the sofa. "Oh wait" Tiina called weakly to Berwald, who left to go to the kitchen to get a hot water bottle, "Call Mathine"
He nodded and took out his mobile while going into the small room to collect Tiina's hot water bottle which was in the shape of a heart. After hearing the distinctive ring, a booming loud, but almost muted voice was heard from the other end of the phone, to which Berwald replied. "H'j, just thought I'd s'y that T'na is still ill, and I'm t'king c're of h'r...I kn'w...she'll be b'ck by M'nday...Okej, bye." he hung up, putting the phone back in his pocket and placing the hot water bottle by Tiina. "She s'ys she'll be f'ne and she h'pes y'u get b'tter" he told her. Tiina nodded and took a sip of her drink, savouring the taste of the rich drink.
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Tiina had soon fell asleep on the sofa and Berwald had got up to tend to his homework. He thought he might as well get it done early, since he hoped he'd be doing something other than homework that weekend with Tiina. The Swede spent about an hour clearing up and doing all of the work he had, then he took Tiina's school bag and went through her books. She happened to wake to see this, "What are you doing honey?" she asked, still in a sleepy trance.
He grunted, picking out several books and placing them on the table, "I'm g'in to wr'te up the w'rk you m'ssed" he explained, already getting out his book and writing out into one of hers.
"Thank you" she replied, smiling and reaching her hand out, even though Berwald was on the other side of the living room. "Come here"
He nodded, "Y'u know I sh'uld continue w'th this" he told her, but he didn't care. He'd take any excuse to be able to be close to her. The Finn patted the sofa and sat up,
"I want you to cuddle with me, you can write the work later" she whined, reaching her arms out and pulling Berwald into a deep kiss. He sat down now, pulling his girlfriend to his lap and running his tongue over her lip, asking for entrance.
Tiina ran her hands down Berwald's bare chest. Their clothes were scattered on the floor and they held each other in their warm embrace from what they had been doing the last few hours.
"T'na" Berwald purred, holding her close, "That w's great"
Tiina laughed lightly, running her fingers down the muscles on her boyfriend's chest, feeling the moist skin there, "We should really take a shower and clean up before my parents return" she explained, although she was sad to say that. The Finn would much prefer staying in the embrace of her lover for the whole day.
Tiina was just about to lean in and give a quick kiss to Berwald's lips when they heard a loud crash and the sound of a door opening. This shortly replied by a loud feminine gasp, which was unusual considering who their guest was.
"Oh- wow! I'm so sorry!" Mathine exclaimed, holding her hands to her red face, "I didn't know- I only came to check up on you guys!"
Tiina buried her head in Berwald's chest and grabbed a pillow for him to put over his crotch, she then grabbed the closest piece of clothing which was Berwald's shirt. Once she got it on she peered over the couch, her face matching a similar shade to the Dane's, "It's okay, y-you didn't know!"
"I know, but still!" Mathine flailed, still hiding her face, "You two weren't doing anything when I walked in were you?" she asked shakily,
"N'j, we h'd finish'd by th'n" Berwald calmly replied, both females looked at him, to which he only shrugged.
"That's a bit better, should I go now?" she asked, before she could finish Berwald had answered,
"Ja"
Tiina hit him lightly on the shoulder and quickly slid on her trousers which were discarded, and jumped up to hug Mathine. "I'm better now, sweetie. I'll call you later, okay?" she smiled at her, Mathine laughed.
"Ja, see you then. You'll have to give all the details-"
"Th's wasn't our f'rst time, M'thine" Berwald interrupted.
A look of pure shock went over Mathine's face as she nodded slowly, "Oh, I see. Ja, okay then." she laughed nervously, "either way, you better be back by Monday, my school schedule has been knocked way off!" she nodded and opened the door again, "Sorry for barging in" she explained.
Tiina sighed, "It's okay, really Mathine." her signature smile was constantly on her face, "call later. Bye"
"Bye Tiina" Mathine grinned, then looked over at Berwald and nodded before exiting the house and leaving the two in peace.
"F'nally got r'd of her" Berwald muttered while pulling off his shirt from the Finn, Tiina worked on the trousers.
"That's rude, she didn't mean it" she replied, going to pick up the rest of the clothes and putting them in the washing machine, "Set up the shower, sweetie?" she asked.
Berwald grunted and slowly walked up the stairs and to the bathroom to turn on the water. Tiina set up the washing machine and shortly joined her boyfriend in the bathroom, Berwald was already in the shower, lathering his fine body with the soap. Tiina hopped in behind him and got her own bar of soap and started lathering her own body, "Thanks" she told him, "For coming here today for me" she then gave him a quick kiss to the cheek. Berwald then turned around and gave her a peck on the lips before rinsing himself off and moving back a step so Tiina could rinse off. Once they were both rinsed they worked on washing their hair and Berwald exited as quickly as he entered, picking up his towel and already starting to dry off before Tiina has even turned off the shower. Both of them quickly dried up and got dressed, then went back downstairs so that they could continue resting in hopes of Tiina getting better (she was already seeming to improve after their...experience).
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By the time Mathine had got back to school, lunch was about to end. She had left (After getting a pass at the office) at lunch to check up on her friends, only to walk in on them just after they had...been doing the dirty. After spending about half an hour going around town and buying herself some food, while trying to get the image of Berwald naked out of her head, she walked back to the school. She quickly went to the library only to notice it almost completely full, except for the one seat by Lukas, just her luck. She slowly walked in and took the spare seat, Lukas heard the noise of the chair moving and immediately looked up.
His face kept its usual flat expression when he saw her, "So, where were you?"
Mathine's eyes widened, if she still wasn't traumatised she would have come up with a comeback asking if he was worried, but instead she shrugged. "Went to check on Tiina."
He nodded and looked back down at what he was reading, well listening to. He had earplugs in, and Mathine could see him holding the script. He was listening to a recording of Romeo and Juliet, to help with his pronunciation, Mathine smiled at this and got out her own script and read her lines in her head.
"Going to the rehearsals tonight?" she asked him, she received a grunt in response which meant yes for Lukas.
"Ja, I'm assuming you are?" he asked her, taking out one of the earplugs.
"I've got nothing better to do" Mathine shrugged, that comment was probably true. She was a bit wary to go see Tiina and Berwald for now, since what happened earlier.
They didn't really do anything else that lunch, Lukas continued to listen to his audio, and Mathine memorised more of her lines. The bell rang only a few minutes later, Mathine and Lukas both jumped slightly, as both had been so into the activities they were doing.
"What lesson is it next?" Mathine asked,
Lukas sighed, "Biology."
Since they had that together, Mathine suggested they walk together, to which Lukas rudely refused by walking away quickly and not saying anything.
When Mathine got to her Biology lesson only a few students were in there, Lukas had gone faster than her and was already in his seat at the front of the room. She took her place at the complete other end, and looked around at the few students. Normally, Tiina would be there to make the lesson less boring, but of course she knew that Tiina was up to nothing like that at that point in time. The Dane tapped her pencil on the desk and actually listened to the teacher for once. Mrs. Braginskaya was giving the class a delightful lesson on how cell respiration works, while Mathine could barely understand any of it she still wrote it down. She wasn't the best at science, you could say. Lukas, on the other hand, was easily comprehending the difficult topic and writing down notes like nothing. He glanced back to see Mathine obviously struggling, but he knew he would miss out if he helped her, and therefore just shrugged and continued taking the notes their Ukrainian teacher was giving them.
Once that lesson was over, Lukas quickly packed up and headed off to his next lesson which was Technology. He sighed when he heard Mathine talking to another student and it reminded him of how many lessons they actually did share in a week. Far too many in his opinion. Mathine quickly overtook him, running in her excited way to the far away technology room. She entered quickly and immediately gave their teacher, Mr. Beilschmidt, a high five. No, that's not the same Mr. Beilschmidt which was torturing Lukas and Berwald in the beginning, it was the P.E teacher's older brother, instead. He was a lot more laid back than his younger brother, and told the kids to call him Gilbert, (or Mr. Awesome) instead of his last name, he grinned at seeing Mathine.
"Hallo, how're you? I heard you're actually going to those rehearsal things" he said flatly, going to his desk. Mathine was the first student to arrive there.
Just as she was about to answer, Lukas walked in. The two stared at each other for a few seconds before Mathine turned back to Gilbert, "Ja, If I'm forced to do the play, may as well not make an ass out of myself"
He only shrugged, "Well, good for you! Good luck!" he then winked and turned to the class, who had all entered by now. "Now class, you can continue with your projects from last time, making model cars!" he announced, "I don't need to tell you what to do, just get on with it" he was then back at his turning chair and listening to music in his headphones, typical Gilbert.
Mathine proceeded to adding the small tyres to her car, she had almost finished, the Dane had always been good at constructing things. They had another two lessons to finish their cars before the class would move onto their next topic. She looked around the room at the other people's cars, most of them hadn't reached the stage she was at, she saw Lukas' car which was looking quite rotten. He was struggling to glue all the parts together, and Gilbert obviously wouldn't be any help. Mathine quickly connected her tyres and walked over to the Norwegian.
"Need any help?" she asked,
Lukas looked up, "No, I'm fine" he replied flatly.
Mathine tapped his car lightly and all of the main parts disconnected, "Of course you are."
Lukas stood up from his chair, glaring at her. The whole class looked at them and Gilbert jumped up from his desk, everyone was wondering if this would be yet another fight; however, Lukas just inhaled and exhaled and nodded, "Fine, help me."
Mathine smiled and picked up the glue and got to work, the glass looked on with open mouths. A few whispers erupted and Lukas could tell Mathine wanted to turn and punch them, "Don't listen to them" he whispered, she nodded and proceeded to fix his car.
Once she had done, she nodded, "Done. See you in rehearsals, Lukas."
He nodded as well, "Ja, see you."
Mathine then walked back over to her desk and painted her car red (with a white cross on it of course!).
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The end of the day, and end of the week, came shortly. Well, more like the end of the last lesson, Mathine and Lukas still had their rehearsal to go to. Mathine took her, now finished, car with her since it was completed she was now allowed to take it home. She decided to name it Rød Pølse (red sausage), yes she was childish enough to name it. Lukas still hadn't finished his, but that didn't bother him; he had a bad feeling Mathine would want to race them if he had finished his, anyway. Soon they both entered the familiar drama room to be welcomed with the same welcoming faces from the fellow peers.
"Hello you two" Mr. Karupusi greeted them, and called them over to sit in the semi circle they had made. "We are trying out the death scene this time" he told them.
Lukas and Mathine looked at each other, but neither had a readable expression on their face.
"Okay" Lukas eventually said, reaching into his bag and taking out his copy of the script, Mathine got hers out too.
"We will start from when Romeo and Paris start talking, and Romeo sees Juliet" he said.
Lukas turned to the page and started reading his lines, his English was noticeably better than it was before, the whole group could tell.
When Mathine got her lines she didn't even need her script, she had almost perfectly memorised her lines, Lukas could tell this from the way her eyes were unfocused when she was 'reading'.
The rehearsal had gone quicker than they both expected, the two concluded. Mathine quickly packed up again and went to leave when she felt a hand tug at her backpack, she looked back to see the unreadable face of Lukas Bondevik.
"Hey...er..." he started,
she blinked, "Ja?"
"We should practice more, you know. I know you know your words, but I could do with some help on mine..."
She nodded, giving him a wide grin. "Sure! When shall we do that then?" she had nothing better to do after schools, being with Lukas was better than listening to music in her house while coming up with excuses not to do her homework.
"Mondays and Wednesdays after school"
"So basically the days when there's no rehearsals?" she asked,
"Ja. The drama block is closed on a Wednesday, so we'd have to find somewhere out of school to practice."
"Tiina would let us around her house, I'm sure of it."
"It's a deal then, you'll talk to Tiina about it, right?"
"Of course"
He nodded blandly, "Okay then...see you" and walked off, just like that.
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"You mean that you want you and Lukas...to practise at me house?" The Finn asked her friend again, she was now feeling a lot better and Berwald seemed to now be coming down with a cold (yes all in the space of a few hours).
"Ja...I know it's asking much but...please?" she asked, pouting slightly at her.
Tiina laughed, "Okay. It just surprised me is all. Tell him my address and you two can practice here all you want" she told her. Mathine smiled and gave her a thumbs up.
"Tak, you're the best!" she told her
"She 's" Berwald muttered from the sofa, Mathine only gave a light laugh.
"Will I see you guys tomorrow?" Mathine asked,
"Probably not" Tiina started, "Poor Berwald needs my care~" she cooed in his ear, the Swede immediately went two shades darker of red.
Mathine went 'ew' and just walked out of the house, and head off back home to hers; she knew that her parents wouldn't even notice her enter again though, same old same old.