Elskendes Feud – 09

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Lukas and Mathine didn't do much that lunchtime, she just carried on holding him and comforting him. Despite the great urges to, Lukas refused to cry. He was grateful that Mathine was doing this, he really was, somehow him being in her lap make him calm down immensely.
"Lukas, the bell's about to go"
"I know"
There was a few seconds of silence, Mathine ran her fingers slowly through Lukas's hair. When she and Berwald were kids her mom used to force them to hug when they had a fight, since then Mathine hasn't hugged many people, but it definitely seemed different with Lukas.
"Lukas..."
"Yeah?"
Mathine looked at him, and almost felt like fainting. There was a ghost of a smile on Lukas's lips. "Y-you're smiling..."
He raised an eyebrow, the faint smile this in place, now with a light blush. "And?" he asked, standing up from Mathine's lap. "It's PSHE now, come on." He picked up his bag, swinging it over his shoulder and waiting for the Dane.
She gave him a wide smile and jumped up, picking up her bag and following him cheerfully to their next lesson. They both walked together, discussing what lesson they were having next.
"What topic do you think it will be?" Lukas asked
"Hopefully something fun."
"Nothing fun happens in PSHE" he dead panned, although it was true.
She shrugged as they continued to walk to their next lesson, which was with the headteacher Mr. Vargas.

"Welcome welcome! Now everyone, sit down, sit down!" The Roman chanted, Lukas and Mathine had just entered the room and sat in the corner next to each other. Mr. Vargas remembered how the two used to fight and argue, and looked at them rather suspiciously as they sat next to each other, wondering how their relationship has transformed so far.
Lukas looked at Mathine, of course he was no longer smiling, he wasn't hit on the head with a large rock or something and suddenly turned nice. Mathine, however, gave him a wide smile back, and leaned back in her chair to listen to whatever Mr. Vargas was going on about.
"We're doing Sex education"
Lukas's eyes widened as the class all did a groan, as well as a few audible giggles; Mathine being one of those people giggling.
"Hehe, Sex-ed~ This will be funny."
Lukas nodded, not really listening and gave a sarcastic response, "Yeah, totally funny..."

After having put up with the torture that is Mr. Vargas explaining sex and how to put on a condom, the students were all either dying of boredom, or the immature ones were giggling. Eventually, Mr. Vargas stopped going on and went in the cupboard to retrieve something. There was a massive box, the students all looked on in wonder at what could possibly be inside it. Mr. Vargas reached in an pulled out an object, a banana by the looks of it.
"Okay now, I will hand every one of you a banana and a condom. When I tell you, I want you all to place the condom on the banana, and then wait a few minutes and pull it off again."
A few more bursts of giggles went around the room before Mr. Vargas started handing out all of the bananas and condoms. Eventually he handed them all out, and Mathine couldn't help but wonder how Tiina and Berwald would react to such a lessons, since (she's assuming) they would have done the real action many a times before.
"How can this get worse..." Lukas groaned, leaning back in his seat. Mathine laughed.
"It's only sex-ed. Could be worse."
"What's worse than sex education!"
She paused for a moment, trying to think. "...I give up"
They were soon both presented with a banana each, and a condom still in the wrapper. Mathine tried not to laugh at Lukas's expression he gave the objects now in his hands.
"They're not evil, you know"
"I know I know..." he sighed, playing with the little packet.
"Okay, now start!" Mr. Vargas chanted as he went and sat at his desk, watching over the students as they all opened up their condoms.
Lukas tore open his little packet quickly, simply taking out the condom and slipping it easily over the banana. Looking over at Mathine he wanted to hit her around the head, watching her chew open the packet and spit part of it out.
"Bleh, tastes weird."
"You're not supposed to eat it..."
Mathine's face bore a cheeky grin, "But putting it in your mouth is alright~" Lukas tried not to hit her. Mathine touched the condom and was extremely tempted to fling it across the table, and emitted a high squeal. "EWW! Ew ew ew ew ew! It's so gross and slimy!" she whined, touching it a few times and then eventually having the nerve to put it on her banana.
Lukas tried not to snicker, the whole of the class had now placed their condoms on their bananas, so then of course Mr. Vargas gave the class a bunch of lectures about how to remove it, ect, no one was really listening.

"...It won't come off."
"What do you mean, Lukas?" Mathine leaned over him, a bit too close for Lukas's liking, and looked at his banana. Mathine had already removed her condom and had it in the middle of the table.
"I just said...it won't come off." Lukas held the banana in one hand, trying to pull off the condom with the other. "It's stuck!"
Mathine stared at him for a few seconds before bursting into a fit of laughter. "Oh God! Lukas!" she couldn't stop herself, Lukas was struggling to simply get a condom off. His face turned a dark shade of red.
"H-hey! It'll come off" he tried again, even putting the banana in his mouth to try and take it off that way (of course, getting much more laughter from the inconsiderate Dane next to him, why did he even sit with her?) It seems that all sadness from earlier had been abolished between the two.
"Miss. Densen!" Mr. Vargas exclaimed, giving her a puzzling look. "Why are you laughing?"
She turned to Lukas and pointed at him, who was still struggling with the condom, "He can't get it off."
Mr. Vargas stared at him for a few seconds, his face contorting into strange positions to refrain from bursting out into laughter himself. As a teacher it would be rude, right? Although he still let the corners of his mouth twitch up a little. "Mr. Bondevik, need any help?"
"No sir!" he replied a little too quickly, making Mathine laugh more. By now the other children had had this incident brought to their attention and were all watching with amused faces.
"Lukas, you sure?" Mathine asked in between laughs.
"I'm fine..." he replied, still trying to get the condom off.
"Here!" Mathine exclaimed, reaching over and taking the banana out of his hands and slipping the condom herself, the small piece of plastic falling off easily.
Lukas hesitated, "Takk..." he muttered, taking the banana from her, and while looking down, putting it on the table. "Done, sir," he kept his head held down so that no one could see how embarrassed he was.
Despite that, the two still left the lesson together, both laughing (well Mathine did at least) over the lesson's events. They both had last lesson together (which was art) where not much happened and straight after they both had their practice, so they thought might as well walk there together.

"Cancelled? What do you mean 'cancelled'?" Mathine asked Mr. Adnan, who was sitting in the drama room where Mr. Karpusi should be. Why Mr. Adnan was there, she wasn't even going to ask (rumours have spread around about them far too much, it's better not to ask).
"Mr. Karpusi's sick, I came here to tell you weird drama nerds that he's not available," the Turk reached out and pulled out a magazine to start reading. By the perverse grins on Mr. Adnan's face, the two could tell that the covers were probably something completely different to what is actually inside the magazine. Rather than not finding out, the two just sigh and turn out, walking out of the drama room and towards the exit of the school.
"Well that sucks..." Lukas muttered, "I'll have to stay here and do work then for an hour."
"Why can't you go home?" Mathine asked,
"I told my parents I'd be home late to study, if rehearsals is cancelled then I can't just like...cancel studying, it'll get suspicious."
"Oh..." the Dane tapped her finger against her chin a few times, thinking about what a solution could be, "Hang around with us."
"By 'us' you mean you, Tiina and Berwald?" he asked, he had never hung around with a group (the drive to Tiina's house didn't count) so he was slightly unsure about it. "...sure" he eventually concluded.
Mathine cheered in her head, but her face still kept her usual grin. "Okay! I'll just text Tiina to tell her we'll be over. We can take the bus there, I think the next one leaves in a few minutes," she quickly got out her phone and sent a quick text to Tiina and Berwald, once she got the reply saying OK from her, Mathine nodded and turned to Lukas. "She said it's okay."
Lukas nodded, they quickly reached the bus stop where the bus was already there waiting for them, they both got on and paid their fares and sat at the back of the bus. Spending most of the time chatting and watching the rest of the population on the bus go about their daily routines, the stop for Tiina's house eventually arrived, and the two were more than happy to get off.

Mathine walked up to the front door, Lukas right behind her, and knocked on it loudly. When they were greeted with the similar light blonde hair of the young Finnish girl, Mathine greeted her with a big hug. "Thanks for this, we sort of had no where to go."
"So...what are we going to do?" Lukas asked quietly, despite his lack in volume he was still clearly heard by the others.
"I wanted to go out shopping, and then maybe eat somewhere?" Tiina suggested, already getting her shoes and coat on.
"Okay! That sounds great!" Mathine took her bag off her shoulder and grabbed Lukas's bag and placed them by the stairs in Tiina's house. "Are we going to go now?"
"Sure" Berwald replied, taking Tiina's hand and grabbing his keys to go over and unlock his car for the group to get in so he can drive them.
The group then all walked up to the car, and got in in the same positions as they had the day before, Berwald and Tiina in the front with Mathine and Lukas squished in in the back. The drive wasn't long to the shopping centre, it was one of the largest and most expensive shopping centres around, fortunately all four teenagers came from rich families. Berwald parked the car right by the shopping centre, and the four of them agreed to split to astonishingly high parking bill.
"Where shall we go first?" Tiina chirped to the rest of the group, linking her arm with Berwald's. Mathine and Lukas both shrugged simultaneously, neither of them really cared where they went as long as they had fun.
The group ended up going around the shopping centre, going to various places, watching a film, and generally just enjoying each other's company. Eventually, though, they all grew bored of the shopping centre, and needed somewhere else to go. They all texted their parents, telling them they'd be late (so the same incident didn't occur again where Mathine's parents had no idea where she was). After a while of debating, they all agreed to drive off to the local McDonald's in order to get a delicious unhealthy snack.

Eyríður walked along the path, she wasn't sure where she was going, but she had nothing else to do. Maybe she'd visit the library? Check out some more good books? She wondered if she should call Lukas to see if there's anything he'd want her to check out for him at the library. Speaking of that, she thought he brother had been acting strange recently. The Icelander flicked her short hair out of her face and sighed, she never was one to have a group of friends, and normally she'd be doing homework, but for some reason she had none. Holding her purse in her hands tightly, she pursed her lips together, getting angry at her teachers or her parents for not supplying anything for her to do. Eyríður was only 15, two years younger than her brother, and in a different school, so they had no way to ever meet during the day, and recently he's been out all of the time after school. Eyríður wasn't even going to bother trying to figure out what he's doing, she'd rather not know, she thinks. Still heading towards the library, she passed many various shops of all kinds and sorts. She was in the lesser posh area of the city, she could tell because of the graffiti and the types of shops she would pass. However, something interesting caught her eye when she was walking along.
"Lukas?" she asked, looking into the large window of the fast food restaurant, she swore she could see her brother, sitting with three other students. At first she didn't recognise any of them, but after a while she seemed to see the familiar face of the last person she'd expect to ever see her brother with. Mathine Densen. Why would Lukas, of all people, be sitting with a Densen? She didn't recognise the other two students, maybe they were just friends of theirs, but when she saw the Dane wrap an arm around Lukas's shoulders that was enough to get weary.
The Icelander started running, she wasn't sure where, but she ran as far as she could. She didn't even know what was running through her head, all she knows is that her whole life all of her mother's family had been brought up to hate the Densens. Why was Lukas with her? What had they been doing? How long had this gone on? She had so many questions, but not the nerve to ask any of them.
When she reached the house again, panting for breath she staggered up the stairs and immediately to her room. Taking the purple silk bound book out of her cupboard drawer, she quickly put it on the table, grabbed a pen, and started writing in it.
I have no idea what's just happened. This is my first time writing in this, but I have no where else to go. I've seen my brother with a girl who we shouldn't even be talking to, yet alone being friends with. What if they're something more? Why hadn't he told me? I knew Lukas had been acting weird, but I just..I don't know what to do. If our parents find out, they'll be mad. I think I'll see what's happening between them two, and I'll continue writing in here as I find out more information. All they were doing today was sat at McDonald's with two other kids (whose names I am yet to know) and laughing and just having fun. Mathine wrapped her arms around Lukas, and he barely responded. He never lets people hug him. I promise I'll find out more on this.
The adolescent shut the book and sighed, putting the small lock on it and throwing it back in her drawer she slumped onto her bed, only to continue wondering about what events she had just witnessed.

Mathine laughed, ruffling up Lukas's hair. "Isn't this great?" she asked, taking a sip of her chocolate milkshake.
Tiina nodded, "It is, we should all hang around together more often. How about on the days you two don't have rehearsals? You two know a lot of your words, do you need more practice?"
The two looked at each other, "How about every Friday we do this?" Lukas asked,
"Don't you have practice on a Friday?" Berwald questioned,
Lukas nodded, "Ja. But still, nothing ever happens on Fridays, Friday can be hang out day." he suggested. There were looks passed among the whole group before Mathine nodded enthusiastically.
"I like the idea, I saw we all hang out every Friday."
Tiina and Berwald nodded, Lukas just looked blankly at her. "Sounds good to me" he said.
The conversations they had that night took on several topics, laughing and having fun together, this was one of the best moments in Lukas's lift, as before he was always restricted to staying inside where his only company was his younger sister. Having grown up without many friends, he was having a lot of fun, of course his stoic expression would never show any hints of pleasure in their conversations.
Unfortunately, all great things have to come to an end, and it started to get dark outside. Deciding this meant that the group should split up, Berwald offered to drive everyone home, much to Lukas and Mathine's joy (as neither of them really enjoyed bus rides). All of them piled up into the Swede's car (which Lukas noted was a Saab) and one by one were dropped off, first Tiina, then Lukas, and then finally Mathine before Berwald drove back to his place to finally get some much needed rest.

Lukas entered his house many hours later, he had told his parents he would be out late, so they were not worried as to where he was.
"Lukas? Is that you?" his mother called from the kitchen,
he sighed, now remembering the events from that morning, and walked slowly into the kitchen. How could a group of people like the ones he was just hanging around with possibly help him forget about the death of his favourite uncle? He soon felt his heart go to his throat, remembering how he felt that morning, but soon calmed himself. He tried to think positively. "Hello mor" he said as he walked up next to her.
She smiled at him, "You seem well"
he nodded, "I am"
"Are you sure you're okay about-"
"Mom, let's just drop it, okay?" he asked, going to the fridge and taking out some leftover pizza and taking it with him to the living room.
"Fine sweetie" she replied, not bothering to ask him why studying took him so long. Maybe he was just upset so he wanted to be alone? That must be it.
Eyríður was in the living room, watching T.V, Lukas's step-father was probably upstairs working as usual. The Norwegian took a seat next to his younger sister and looked at her. "Hei" he said.
"Hello..." she muttered, Lukas immediately noticed something was off with her reactions. He assumed it must have been because of what happened last night, so he excused it without asking her anything.
"How are you?"
"I'm fine" Eyríður then quickly stood up, "I'm going upstairs..." she said quietly before quickly walking over to the stairs and up to her bedroom. Lukas just watched, still confused, but decided he'd just continue eating then go up to his room and do his homework (it was probably the latest he's ever done his homework).

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Things seemed to go a little easier now in the Bondevik house, while still grieving, the family did eventually get over the death of their close relative. Over the weeks they started forming into a natural pattern, Lukas would spend Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays practising (Eyríður soon found this out on Thursday when she saw him and Mathine walking to the drama block together) and he would spend Fridays afterwards with the other three, either going to Tiina or Berwald's house, or spending their time outside. Either way, Eyríður always kept journal entries on where they were, she had pieced together most of what happened, but she still refused to tell Lukas that she knew of his practices and meetings with the others, she knew he would find it creepy and probably hate her for it.
It was a Wednesday, around mid-April time. The play wasn't until the beginning of June, right before the end of the ear, and Mathine and Lukas already knew their words, which meant that they mostly just had to practise their expressions. They also knew that shortly they would get their costumes, which the both of them had already expressed to each other about how much they will dislike having to prance around in Shakespearian costumes. On Wednesday the two had all their lessons together, a fact that both of them used to strongly dislike, however now, they both would secretly look forward to Wednesdays. Mathine spent less and less time around Tiina and Berwald (except on Fridays, and weekends) and spent more time with Lukas.

Mathine got up early in the morning, only to notice she had a text on her phone.
I woke up at 5 and I'm bored as hell, want to go get breakfast somewhere?
What surprised her was that it was from Lukas, not that they didn't hang out together now, but it still seemed rare that he would have texted her at 5:35 am. Instead of replying, she pressed the green call button and put her phone on speaker while she put it on the bed to get dressed.
"Hello?" the phone called,
"Hi, Lukas. I got your text." Mathine was expecting him to reply with something along the lines of 'oh yeah, I sent that to the wrong person' or 'It doesn't matter, I've eaten'.
"Okay. So do you want to go?"
Mathine froze, quickly hooking up her bra and looking at her phone for a few seconds. "You still want to?"
"Sure, I still haven't eaten, I was waiting for your reply."
For some reason, that made Mathine glad, "Okay then, where will we go?" she reached in her closet and tried to find something to wear. Why was it taking longer for her to decide?
"How about the pancake place by the bowling alley?" Mathine knew exactly which place he was talking about.
"Ja, sounds good."
"Do you have a way to get there?" he asked,
"I can drive."
Lukas sounded shocked "You can drive? Why does Berwald take you to school then?"
"Because I don't like to go alone. But I have a car, I'll come 'round and go there when I'm dressed then" it was about quarter past six, so the two had plenty of time until school started.
"Uhm...Mathine?" Lukas asked, sounding sort of nervous.
"What is it?" Mathine had eventually picked out a shirt and was putting it on, now only some trousers.
"I need you to take me there." he admitted.
Mathine stared at her phone again, gulping. A Densen having to go over to the Bondevik residence? Was Lukas stupid! "Lukas..."
"I know I know, it's difficult! But just...you know where I live, right? Just go around the corner then phone me, I'll meet you there."
She sighed, if she caught how would their parents react? Mathine was always one for taking risks though, "Fine, I'll call you when I'm about to leave for your house."
Lukas hesitated, "Okay. Thank you," he then hung up the phone.
"Lukas, you better not have gotten us in some creepy shit..." Mathine muttered as she eventually picked out the rest of her outfit.

Mathine had told her parents she was eating breakfast out with a friend, of course she didn't specify the friend; Lukas told his parents the same thing. Mathine called Lukas telling him that she had left for his house. She was obviously nervous about having to drive around that area. Mathine parked her Zenvo where Lukas had told her to park it, and got out her phone to call him again.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Lukas, I'm parked where you asked me to park. You coming?"
"Yeah, I'll be there in a few minutes."
He then hung up, Mathine sighed again, looking around. The area of residence was similar to that of her own family's, since both came from equally well off families.
Lukas called to his parents, "I'm going now!" when he got a reply from them he was satisfied, and head outside (of course remembering to bring his school bag and some money with him). What he didn't notice was his younger sister also awake, waiting for him to leave so that she could follow them.
After a few minutes, Lukas got around to the corner and Mathine waved him over from her car. The first thing Lukas thought was 'wow', Mathine's car...wasn't it worth at least 16 million kroner? He thought. "Nice car..." he said lowly as he walked over to the passenger's side door.
"It's Danish~" she replied, giving him a wide grin, "Zenvo."
He shrugged, "I know" he replied, sitting down and buckling himself up. Even he had never been in a car worth so much, but that was mostly due to him not going around in cars much (he mostly walked).
"So, do you know the address of the place?" Mathine's main fall when driving was always remembering directions, so she always remembered to bring a sat-nav with her. Lukas told her the address and Mathine slowly started driving in the direction of the pancake place. Lukas immediately noticed how wary she was of the road, and how scared she appeared to be while driving. She was surprisingly more careful than he predicted she'd be.

The two reached the pancake house quite quickly, Mathine parked up right by the front of the building, so that she could keep an eye on her car the whole time.
"Why didn't you bring a different car?" Lukas asked, "then you wouldn't have to be scared of it getting wrecked while we're inside."
"I'm only insured to drive this one, sucks I know" she got out of the vehicle and locked up the door, waiting for Lukas to walk in with her to the pancake shop. "How long until we have to go to school?" she asked, getting out her phone to text Tiina to tell her she's got another ride to school.
Lukas looked at his watch (which Mathine noted was the Norwegian flag) "Just over an hour"
"Good, plenty of time for pancakes~"
They both walked over to where there was a spare table, right by the window. Remembering to keep an eye on her car the whole time, Mathine purposely chose that seat so that if anyone dared touch her Zenvo she could catch them.
"Hello? What would you like to order?" both teens had jumped at the unexpected waitress there,
surprisingly, at almost the exact same time they both answered the same, "Chocolate pancake."
Mathine laughed lightly, "Really? You like it too?
"Ja why wouldn't I?"
The waitress had now gone to go collect their orders. Mathine looked at Lukas,
"I was never allowed to eat them when I was younger though" she sighed,
Lukas nodded, "I know, neither was I,"
"My parents only wanted me to eat healthily, so no chocolate pancakes."
"Same here, they didn't want their only heir to die young."
"Only heir?" Mathine asked, the waitress had now brought them both a cup each and pointed to the filling stations for the drinks, "Don't you have a sister?"
"Yes, but she's not my real sister, she's not entitled anything."
"I did not know that..." Mathine mused, bringing the straw to her lips, despite there being no liquid in her cup, "Come on, let's get something to drink."
The two got up from their seats, and both went for the exact same drink, the diet Dr. Pepper.
"You drink this stuff too?" Lukas asked, he found it strange they both picked the same thing.
"Ja, how ironic~."

Having spent the morning together, Lukas and Mathine seemed to have forgotten about school. They had to get there at 8, and were still in the pancake house at 8:15.
"Hey, Lukas, what time is it?" Mathine asked, wondering how much time they had left until the beginning of the day.
Lukas lazily looked at his watch, his face soon fell. "8:15..."
"What?" Mathine yelped, jumping up from the table, they had already paid for their breakfast, so the two just immediately ran out the building and to the flashy Danish sports car.
"We got distracted! Dammit!"
"At least we'll have to face lesson one together."
"What is lesson one?"
Mathine unlocked the door and jumped in, already getting her seatbelt on and starting the car, "Chemistry- Oh no! Mr. Braginski!"
"Fuck, he'll kill us..."
Mathine was already driving them towards the school, but she still made sure to keep to the speed limit and under any circumstances not wreck her car (oh how her parents would react). When the two reached the school they park in the student car park and quickly run off together to their first lesson.

"Okay so you add-" Mr. Braginski stopped talking mid sentence, hearing some running down the hall. The students all looked at him eagerly, awaiting the reason for his pause. Mathine and Lukas were outside the door, whispering lowly to each other about who opens the door. "Excuse me a second~" Mr. Braginski chimes, putting down his white board pen and walking over to open the class room door. "Nice to see you two finally here, Lukas and Mathine." The teens both swallowed hard and looked at him, petrified. Sitting in their seats, both of them looked down; the students were whispering around them, for obvious reasons. "I expect some sort of explanation later on, da?"
"Yes sir" they both replied at the same time.
The rest of the lesson went on pretty normally, although Lukas and Mathine had missed half of the lesson. At the end, as he said, Mr. Braginski pulled the two students aside, wanting to talk to them.
"Now, explain."
Mathine gave a nervous glance at Lukas, who seemed pretty calm about all this, Mathine had a feeling he wouldn't explain, so bit the bullet and talked herself. "We were out this morning, got distracted, lost track of time, we're so sorry sir."
"Were you two on a date?" Lukas and Mathine both gaped at their Russian teacher, wondering if he was being serious or not. When they concluded the Russian's seriousness the two couldn't help but both grow a bright red (of course, neither of them noticed that the other was blushing, since both of them refused to look at each other).
"After school detention today, don't be late. You can copy up work then" Mr. Braginski simply said, turning from them to write on the white board. When neither student moved, both standing stood in their spot, Mr. Braginski spoke up again. "I said go. You'll be late to your next lesson."
Having no other choice but the one they were given, Lukas and Mathine simply hung their heads low and walked together to their next lesson, ICT.

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Dear diary (is this some sort of weird diary now?)
Lukas was out with her again, but this time in the morning. I could overhear him from his room calling her up, so it was his idea? Please don't think that I'm some sort of creepy stalker, over the times I've seen them together I actually think it's kind of cute. It seems mom and dad don't know that they're seeing each other, if that's even what they're doing. When I hear them talk, or see them together, they don't seem to be dating or anything. They spend a lot of time texting to each other, I think. I see Lukas on his phone a lot, he says it's the internet, but I'm a teenage girl, I know texting when I see it (and who else's number would he have?). I wonder if her family know that they're friends, maybe her family don't care? No, that's stupid, they killed our uncle, they hate us as much as our family hate them. Ah, he's home now, I wonder if I should ask him how his day was... I'll write more in this later.