Elskendes Feud – 11

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(( A special thanks to Forever-Awesome94 for giving me the idea for the art class room scene in this chapter. You rock! Sorry this chapter took some time, hopefully you guys will like this one!))

Tiina stared at her friend for a few seconds, raising an eyebrow at her question, but otherwise not really doing anything. "Hey, sweetie, how about you sit down? I'll explain in a minute. You look a bit...shaken up." Mathine only nodded quickly to this, following the Finn to the sofa and looking at her, waiting for an explanation.
"So...how did you know?" she asked, looking at the petite blonde sat by her.
"I don't know if that's so simple, Math..." she trailed off, noticing the desperate expression on the Dane and soon continued, "I started liking him and well uhh... I wanted to be with him lots, I found myself thinking about him. I got embarrassed if our hands touched, and every time I was with him I felt happier than I ever had before~" a light blush had gone on Tiina's face, and she simply laughed it off. "I sound so cheesy right now, why...do you like someone~?"
Mathine glared at the painfully smug grin on her best friend's face, "I'm asking you...what do you think, I don't know." she tried to sound angry, but it came out more like a little kitten looking for its mama.
Tiina was grinning so widely, not even taking a second to reply. "You like someone" she was fairly certain who, but she wanted to see Mathine's blush first. Upon seeing the Dane go bright red and fidget, trying to glare at the other, Tiina looked at her friend and continued, "It's Lukas, isn't it?"
Mathine's face resembled the colour of the flag of the very country she was from, she looked away, trying to calm herself down at the mention of the other's name. "Tiina..." she grumbled, looking away from her best friend, who she could tell was smirking at her.
"You like Lukas~" she chimed loudly, wrapping her arms around the taller female and pulling her into a massive hug on the sofa.
Mathine tried to get away, stuttering and all flustered, "Nej! I don't! Tiina, stop it! Ack-" she was cut off with Tiina tightening the hug.
"I won't let go until you tell me, Mathine!"
Tiina then proceeded to start tickling Mathine, knowing it would drive her to admit the truth. Between fits and giggles Mathine eventually spoke up, "I..don't...know! Let me go and we'll talk!" she squealed again, trying to get away from Tiina's grasp.
Eventually after a lot of tossing and turning, the two girls let go of each other and sat on the sofa, panting from so much tickling and laughter.
"Tell me about how you and Berwald got together." Mathine ordered, giving Tiina a blank look.
"Stop looking at me like that, it doesn't suit you. Just 'cause you're in love-" she was cut off by having a couch cushion thrown to her face. She looked at Mathine who was now smiling widely as per usual. "Fine." The next few hours were spent talking about how Tiina found out she liked Berwald, and how they got together. Tiina made sure to tell Mathine every last detail, knowing she'll probably need it soon. But not once did Mathine even mention Lukas, he was the last person she thought she should be thinking about. It was their last year of school, after the play they wouldn't need to talk to each other ever again. She wasn't even one hundred percent sure why she came running to Tiina, whatever was up with her would soon pass over, she hoped.

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The next day Mathine didn't have much to do, she was thinking too much about the conversation she had with Tiina, and thinking too much always made her mind twirl with obscure ideas and thoughts which would bend the truth. Because of this, she tried not to think about anything too much, but she needed a distraction. Her parents were no nope, Tiina was out with her family, Berwald...Berwald was never entertaining; so that left her one choice, Lukas. She picked up her phone and pressed the little green button once she reached Lukas's number in her contacts list. The phone rang three times before there was an answer,
"Hallo?"
"Lukas!" she exclaimed, maybe a bit too loudly, and soon softened her voice, "Want to hang out?"
"Huh? Sure," he was sat on his bed in his room, staring up at the ceiling. He fiddled with the blankets while holding the phone with his other hand, they had been hanging out pretty much every day now, it's not like he minded, so the question didn't faze him. "Where do you want to go?"
"The bar."
"Bar?!" that caused him to sit up on his bed, he realised he had spoken too loudly and continued whispering. "We're only seventeen, Mathine"
"I know! But hear me out. I know ways to get in."
"...You're going to bribe them, aren't you?"
Both families had a lot of money, Mathine could easily bribe the barmen into allowing her and Lukas to drink even though they're under age.
"Maybe..." Mathine chimed, "Just come on, it'll be fine. We won't get in trouble."
He listened on his end, contemplating what he thought they should do. After thinking for a few minutes (and having the Dane beg him non stop in her annoyingly loud voice) he eventually gave in.
"Fine." he replied, "Come pick me up, I'll be in the normal spot." and with that he hung up.

Mathine was sat in her car, texting Lukas to tell him where she was. She had quickly ran out her house (not even having to explain to her parents where she was going) and went to her car to drive to Lukas's house. She waited for her friend, idly tapping at her phone screen. It wasn't until she heard her passenger door open that she looked up.
"Oh! Hej Lukas." she greeted him, putting down her phone and giving him a wide smile. Thought of her conversation from yesterday filled her mind, but luckily she was good at suppressing what they had talked about.
Lukas had sat down, buckled up his seat belt and got ready to go, all without saying a word. After a minute or so he spoke up, "Hei. If we get in trouble then I will regret my decision not to have sliced you into a million pieces during that cooking lesson."
Mathine raised an eyebrow, and hoped her expression didn't show how shocked she was at hearing Lukas say that. Neither of them had brought up that incident since they started...hanging out. Mathine assumed that part of their relationship was behind them. "Er..." she said awkwardly, not deciding to finish her sentence. Lukas just leant back and watched her drive them to the bar, wondering if he should say something but decided to keep his mouth shut.

Once the car was parked and the teens were out of the vehicle, Mathine reached in her pocket and pulled out several handfuls of money. To both of them this wasn't too much (you'd probably wince at how much money they have) but Mathine (and even Lukas) knew that any normal barman would be extremely tempted to give in for that kind of money.
"I'm not paying anything since this is your stupid idea," Lukas informed her, walking behind her into the large bar. It smelt of old beer, but had a warm homely feel. Mathine loved bars, she felt it sad that she didn't go to them often (she liked drinking with other people, and she never had anyone to drink with; Tiina and Berwald were too "goody" to disobey the law like that).
"That's fine with me," Mathine replied, going up to the counter and giving the barman a large drink. Danish beers were her favourite, obviously, her personal favourite being Tuborg, but she suspected that there would be a larger chance of having Carlsberg, so she asked for that instead.
The barman raised an eyebrow, "Can I see your I.D, Miss? You look to be under age"
Mathine gave him a sly grin and took out all of the money she brought for bribing purposes, she had more in case he said no and threatened to tell someone, then she'd use it for shut up money. "Will this help you decide~?"
He eyed the money cautiously, Mathine took out a note from the pile to show him it was a 1000 krone note, the highest you can get. The man, realising the amount of money in there must be a very large amount, takes the pile and skims through it, making sure it looked real.
"How does someone so young get such mon-" he cuts himself off when he sees Lukas, "Aren't you that Bondevik boy?" he asked.
"Ja, I am."
The man assumed that's why they could afford the money, since he did not know who Mathine was, he assumed that the money belonged to Lukas's family. "So this is your money?"
Lukas was about to reply yes when Mathine butted in, "Ja. I'm just a friend~" he gave her a confused glance, and she tried to mouth 'I'm with you' meaning that if they knew a Bondevik and a Densen were hanging our then their parents could easily find out, so it was better that they thought Mathine was just some ordinary girl.

The barman took the money and brought back their beers, he then walked off. Mathine then explained to Lukas as to why she told him she was just a friend and not the Densen's kid.
"It sucks that we have to hide this, doesn't it?" he said, taking a sip of his beer. He liked beer, not as much as Mathine, but he still liked beer. They had never drunk together before.
Mathine downed over half her glass in one go, causing Lukas to stare at her bewildered, "What? I like my beer." she said and gave him a hearty laugh. Lukas sipped slowly at his drink, "And about what you said, Lukas, it does suck. I like hanging with you though, so some stupid family rule ain't gonna stop me!"
That made Lukas feel happy, he sat back and watched her, a slightly amused look on her face as she blabbered on and drank her beer in great quantities, within seconds already ordering her second one.

It didn't take Mathine long to get drunk. And by drunk, I mean really drunk. She was almost sliding off her seat, Lukas had to keep her held up. He called over the barman,
"Hey, here's some money for the drinks." Even though he said he wouldn't pay, he wasn't going to go through Mathine's pockets to get the money, so he just took out his own. He probably gave a tip twice the price of the actual drinks, but it's not like he cared, he had plenty of money to spare.
"Hey, Mathine, you're drunk." he informed her, then remembered, how the hell was he going to get her home. He couldn't drive and it's not like he could call Mathine's parents. Mathine didn't reply, instead she wrapped her arms around Lukas's body. He tried to break free, he wasn't one for much physical contact, but he felt his face heating up slightly. "Mathine! You're drunk!"
"And you're sexy~" she replied, slurring heavily.
If Lukas was a little bit red at the contact then he looked like a strawberry at the comment on his looks. He tried to tell himself that she was drunk and only blabbering, but it didn't help. "Come on Mathine, let's get out of here." He tried leading her out by the hand, but when she almost fell on him he wrapped an arm around her waist and almost carried her out. "Dammit, you get drunk easily. I hope you're really badly hungover tomorrow," he had had a few drinks but no where the amount as his female companion had had (he had lost count in her amount of drinks, actually, the barman probably did too).
Once he had her outside he walked her over to the car and sat her in the back seat, he took her phone from her pocket (she surprisingly didn't stop him) and looked through the contacts. That's when he saw who could help, he picked Tiina's contact and pressed the call button.
"Haloo?"
"Tiina. It's Lukas," he thought he could hear a small gasp from the other end,
"Where's Mathine? Is she okay?!"
"She's fine. Just drunk. I can't think of where to take her apart from to you. Can Berwald drive her and pick her up?"
Tiina sighed, both in relief and annoyance and called over her boyfriend and told him to go out, he knew what bar she'd be at, since Mathine always liked to go to the same bar. "I've just sent him, thanks for called me, he should be there soon. Do you mind waiting with her for a bit?"
"Sure, can I ask one more thing?"
"Yeah, what?"
"Can he drive me back home? I can't drive."
"Sure! I'll get him to do that! See you at school tomorrow~"
"See you." And with that the phone call ended.

Berwald didn't come that long later, Lukas was sat in Mathine's driver's seat while she was sprawled out on the passenger's seat. The Swede came over and grunted, "I'm here to pick up Mathine..."
Lukas nodded, getting out of the car, "Ja...okay. Mathine, get up!" he tapped her on the shoulder. She only grumbled and looked up at him.
"Only if you carry me."
Berwald had an amused look on his face, Lukas sent him a quick glare before grabbing Mathine by the wrists and pulling her out of the car.
"Put her in the back seat" Berwald told him, Lukas only nodded and did as told. However when he did this Mathine grabbed his arms and pulled him in the back with her. Luckily for him he didn't land on her, but still, he was surprised.
"Hey! Let me go, I'm sitting in the front!"
"Nej you're not~" she made sure he would stay in the back and called up to Berwald. "Are you taking me to Tiina's?"
"Ja. Now just get buckled up."
The two did as told and it was merely a few minutes before Mathine was fast asleep in the car. Few words were exchanged between Lukas and Berwald in the drive to the Finn's house. "Give Mathine these when she's in Tiina's" Lukas told Berwald, handing him the keys to the car once he had stopped at his girlfriend's house. Berwald nodded and took them, then proceeded to drag Mathine out the car and into her best friend's house where he'd leave Tiina to have to deal with her and calling her parents.
After that Berwald ended up taking Lukas home, neither of them really saying goodbye when the Norwegian boy got out of the car and walked slowly towards his house. He sighed, knowing his parents would probably smell the beer on him, he hadn't had much, but he had enough to be able to smell it, in his opinion.
Lukas had told his parents before that he was going out, so they wouldn't have been worried, only his sister was downstairs when he entered though, he gave her a quick wave before heading straight upstairs. She gave him a wave back and watched him, before going back to writing her story in her book, she also made notes that Lukas was out for the day, and that she would make sure to find out more eventually.

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Mathine woke up the next morning lying in her bed with a splitting headache. Groaning, she leant up in her bed and looked at her clock, 6:57. She groaned again, slowly standing up, she was about to go downstairs when she remembered that she had school. The Dane slowly got dressed, peeling off her outfit from the day before (she hadn't changed into her pyjamas so she was still in her clothes from yesterday) and jumping in the shower quickly. Once she was done with that she put on her clothes and slumped downstairs.
"Good morning, Mathine." Her mother said from the kitchen table. Mathine raised an eyebrow, it was rare that her parents were awake before she left for school.
"Hello...mother" she replied uneasily, yawning and going to their coffee maker to brew some of the much needed drink.
"You were drunk when Tiina brought you back yesterday." Her mother informed her with a blank tone.
"I know." Mathine hoped that Tiina hadn't spilled who she was with. The coffee was finished after the long pauses of silence between mother and daughter, so Mathine quickly poured her drink and leant against the counter, sipping slowly.
"I told you to watch yourself when you drink, although luckily you don't seem the type to get violent.."
Mathine wasn't really listening she just nodded and sipped her coffee. Her head still hurt and she really didn't want to go into school, she didn't even remember much from the day before anyway, for all she knew she could've said something stupid. She was with Lukas, wasn't she? He hasn't called since, but that was probably because Mathine was asleep. Wait, how did she get home? She'd have to ask her friends these questions when she got to school. The coffee was soon gone, and the clock showed quarter past seven. Dammit, Mathine still had half an hour to kill. She sighed, giving up and making her self some breakfast, she sat down at the table with her mother and they idly chatted about useless stuff (they never seemed to talk any more, it amazed Mathine at how little her own mother knew her, but she didn't really mind much).

Luckily she was saved by the bell, the door bell. Tiina was stood there with her wide grin.
"Hello Mrs. Densen" she greeted when she saw Mathine's mother stood behind her.
"Good morning, Tiina. Thank you for bringing her home yesterday."
Tiina giggled lightly, "My pleasure", she looked at Mathine, "Ready to go?"
"Ja!" Mathine nodded and waved her mother goodbye before grabbing her bag and almost running out of the house to Berwald's car. "How much did I drink yesterday?"
"You'll have to ask Lukas. He was the one who went drinking with you."
Mathine nodded, getting in the back of the Swede's car (not bothering to greet Berwald) and buckling up. During the drive to school she asked about what had happened, and Tiina told her as much as she knew (about how Mathine got home) but she said she knew that she couldn't have done anything too stupid, because Lukas still let her hug him when she was in a drunken state. Tiina was smirking at this, oh if she wasn't Mathine's best friend she would've punched her in the face.
When they got to the school, Mathine and Tiina walked off together to P.E, while Berwald went to the boy's P.E section. Their lesson was fairly relaxed, but Mathine really wasn't in the mood for spots, she felt like crap (blame the alcohol!). After that struggle they then had Chemistry with the "evil" teacher Mr. Braginski.

"Oh, you're here today." Lukas greeted Mathine when he saw the blonde take a seat behind him.
"Mmm...ja, I had to come."
"How are you?"
she grunted, "Good, I guess..."
"You were so wasted yesterday"
Mathine nodded, and rested her head on the desk, "Do you think I can get away with sleeping this lesson?"
"I think not"
"Mhm..."
Laura and Yong Soo were watching them, over the weeks they had gradually noticed the improvement of relationship between the two, as did most of their year. Most of the people they knew had seen the two hanging out together at some point. After a few minutes Mr. Braginski calmed the class and told them that they were doing book work. Everyone turned to the right pages and started, the class mostly quiet apart from whispering and talking here and there.
Lukas was leaning close to Laura, she had asked for help on one of the questions. Mathine watched them from behind, staring at them. "Hm." she muttered, for some reason feeling anger boil over her. Why are you getting angry?, she wondered to herself. She grabbed her pen and held it in each hand, almost glaring as Laura would giggle and converse with Lukas. She even saw him almost smile and-
She had snapped her pen in half. This caused Laura and Lukas to jump a bit and look back.
"What did you d-" Lukas was cut off by Yong Soo.
"Hey, are you alright? Here, use one of my pens." in a few seconds he had already shoved a pen into her hand. She gave him a small smile and nodded, more surprised at her own actions than anything. Lukas watched them and frowned more than usual, now what was he getting jealous over?! He wanted to smash his head in his book and moved his seat further away form Laura and decided to try and work alone on his class work, not talking to anybody.

"Hey, what was that in class?" Tiina almost immediately asked Mathine. She shrugged and grabbed Lukas's shoulder.
"Hey, where're you going?"
He raised an eyebrow, "What got you all bothered in Chemistry?" he wanted to smirk since he knew that the cause was him and Laura. Mathine looked away, pouting.
"Nothing."
"Didn't seem like nothi-"
"Well it was nothing. Now, are you going to sit with us at break or not?"
Lukas pretended to think about it for a few seconds, although the answer came to his head straight away. "Sure, why not."
They sat around and chatted, Tiina tried to get Lukas and Berwald to talk more, saying that the both of them needed "guy friends". Neither of them really saw the point in that, sure, it was alright being in a group but it's not like they would purposely go out of their way to spend time with each other.
Not much happened the rest of the school day, lessons went on as normal, there wasn't practice on Monday, so after school the four of them all hung out together. They were back in the park that Mathine and Lukas went to before, (they had all warned their parents they'd be out in the evening).
The four of them hung out all evening, they played games, talked, ran around like lunatics (of course, Mathine's idea), played football, had fun on the playground, ate. By the end they were lying on the grass looking at the stars. It was around nine pm and no one else was in the park.
They were all enjoying each others' company until the dreaded sound of a phone cut through it,
"Sorry. I have to take this..." Lukas muttered, pulling the phone up to his ear. "Hallo? ….Ja, I'm out with some friends...yes I have friends...oh, okay, I'll be home soon...I've eaten...no they're not pedos...oaky, okay. Mom I'll be home in a few minutes, okay?" he sighed and hung up, throwing his phone to the phone. "Well no matter how...fun it's been." he didn't fully feel comfortable admitting he actually enjoyed the company of all the others. He sometimes felt like a bit of an outsider to their group, despite having been...friends...with Mathine for a while. "Can you guys drop me off home please?"
"Sure, I should go too..." Berwald grunted, standing up and pulling his small girlfriend up with him.
"What about you Mathine?"
"Sure, I could do with a ride home"
And with that they eventually parted ways, Berwald dropping everyone off home, although they all immediately went back to their computers and Tiina and Mathine set up a group chat and they talked until the early hours of the morning (of course making sure their parents didn't know this).

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Mathine woke up at six am, rubbing her head, she sat up in her bed, looking around. She had had a strange dream, Lukas and her were running around in a clear field holding hands and dressed in their costume for the play. They weren't doing their play though, they were dancing around and singing, Mathine then took out a golden ring and handed it to Lukas, telling him it was his birthday present, however the ring looked more like a wedding ring. Then she gave him a dagger, and he gave her poison. She didn't know why she was dreaming of Lukas, or wedding rings, or props from Romeo and Juliet, but she didn't like it. She never liked dreams, she always tried to think what caused them, and sometimes (like in this case) she didn't think she wanted to know. Knowing that she wouldn't get back to bed she got up and had a shower before going downstairs and making some breakfast. At least this time her parents (well, mother) weren't awake, meaning that she could eat and relax in peace without trying to converse with her mother whom she had nothing in common with. She found that strange, the woman who she was so closely related to, and they didn't have a single thing in common. Her mother barely knew her, it was more like she was a distant member of the family. Sometimes Mathine wondered if it was bad that she didn't care more for her family, but she tried to remind herself of how if her family didn't treat her like family then she doesn't have to love them like family. She didn't want people to pity her, Mathine had friends, it's not like she desperately needed her parents. You can't miss what you never had, right? She stopped thinking of her family and Lukas and her friends and just tried to concentrate on her coffee and the boring children's T.V show she was watching. After what felt like far too long thinking, her door went and she bolted out, calling to her parents that she was leaving before running out to Berwald's car to chat with him and Tiina on the way to school.

The beginning of the day went fairly normally, although this day Lukas and Mathine only had three lessons together. English and Maths were normal as usual (Mathine being bored in their maths class, she had no friends to annoy, although she appreciated having a nice teacher) and at break they four of them talked about the day before, saying that they should all hang out more again, to which they all agreed. Somehow they had become a little group, Mathine appreciated having Lukas, and she noticed that since he entered that Berwald and Tiina acted more like a couple around them; it was as if they were no longer afraid of Mathine feeling left out, she now had Lukas to annoy. Only Berwald and Tiina were together for the next two lessons, but they had all agreed to meet up in the library at lunch. Lukas and Mathine decided to practice a bit, and gladly accepted any criticisms which were given to them by their audience (meaning Berwald and Tiina). After lunch Mathine and Lukas had P.D lesson, while Berwald and Tiina had Tech. Luckily that time there were no condoms and bananas that Lukas had to remove (he was still shaken up about that after last time, Mathine would still remind him of it). Nothing majorly happened until art last lesson, in which all four of them were together in.

The art department had agreed that they would help the drama department by helping to paint up some of the sets for the Romeo and Juliet scenes. Because of this pretty much all the art lessons were taken up with painting. Mathine had protested, saying that since she was acting in it she shouldn't do this too, but of course the teacher hadn't cared and told her to just paint and get over with it. Lukas and Mathine were working on the sky for the balcony scene, they were jokingly saying the lines to each other, purposely making funny accents and laughing about it every few seconds. Tiina was painting some grass on the same scene, and Berwald was helping the art teacher carve out some props (Berwald was really good at making things, Tiina was more good at designing). With one accidental slip of his brush, Lukas accidentally got some blue paint on Mathine's arm. With a fake gasp she flicked her paint brush back,
"How dare you, Mr. Bondevik?"
He smirked and flicked her again, "Oh I'm sorry Miss, I didn't notice."
She got her brush and swiped it down his arm, but instead of the blue she had dipped it in red to give him a more obvious marking. To this he responded by dipping his brush in the green and flicking it at her, causing the paint to flick onto all of her shit and neck.
"You know this means war, right?" Mathine asked, holding in laughter and flicking more paint at him, he nodded, grinning.
"Ja. I understand that. Game on, Dane."
With more laughter they continued flicking each other, paint was getting all over them and before they knew it they were on the floor tumbling and turning with each other. Most of the class had somehow not noticed them (they were in the far corner, not many people were there) however Tiina was watching them, laughing in, they were fighting but this was a good fight, right? The teacher was off with Berwald in another room, so no one came to stop them. Suddenly Mathine felt like she was pushed down as Lukas pinned her arms down above her head. He was sat on her lap and smirking down at her. Their bodies were dangerously close. Mathine's brain stopped, she was holding her paintbrush and could feel her heart beat in her face. Since when were they this close? She didn't remember Lukas pinning her to the floor, when had that happened? She felt her face feel warm, she wanted to move away but at the same time also wanted him to stay. All words she tried to say dried up much like the paint on her brush that was now no use of flicking at the Norwegian on top of her.
"Ready for me to finish you?" Lukas asked, he was grinning widely and holding the brush above her face. A few droplets of paint fell to her cheeks, but didn't do much help in hiding the colour on her face. Somehow Lukas hadn't noticed this, it seemed he hadn't figured out their situation yet. He was sat on her waist, his face just inches above hers.
"...L-Lukas~..." it came out more as a whine than anything else, Mathine looked up at him with wide eyes and a red face that would put a tomato to shame. He stared down at her for a few seconds, wondering what was wrong before finally taking in the situation. His face instantly took on a colour similar to hers as he jumped up.
"O-Oh God, sorry..." he stuttered, holding out a hand to help her up with. She took it, trying to ignore how the contact made her cheeks heat up more. She nodded.
"It's alright. S-shall we get back to painting?"
"Ja, that seems best."
The two quickly went back to work while Tiina stood there with the biggest smirk on her face that she could muster, and she was sure anyone else who watched probably felt very similar about the incident. Despite what just happened, there didn't appear to be much awkwardness between them, but most people noticed that the two hadn't stopped fully blushing until the lesson had ended, and if it weren't for the fact that she was certain she would be punched in the face, Tiina so would have teased them about it.
After the lesson ended, they all met up by the front of the art room.
"So, are we up to doing anything now?" Tiina asked them, collecting up her bag and heading towards the front door. Lukas and Mathine stopped, both were pretty paint covered from their event earlier.
"We have practice, remember?"
"Oh yeah, I forgot...sorry" Tiina laughed nervously.
"I think I'm gonna go home and relax after" Lukas explained, he wanted to think alone for a few hours without anyone. "But we can hang out tomorrow after practice, I'm sure."
"That seems great, we'll see you guys tomorrow~" Tiina waved them off and took Berwald's hand, walking out of the school while Mathine and Lukas made their ways to the drama room together.

When they got to practice, as usual Mathine and Lukas were greeted happily (and sleepily) by Mr. Karpusi. He told them that he was going to dress them up in some of their outfits again, he wanted to make sure they all looked perfect. Since he knew most of them were good on their lines, and there was about a month left until the play, most of their practice was spent doing stuff other than the lines of the play (although obviously, they still did do that). He gave both Mathine and Lukas an outfit each as soon as they entered, and told them both to change. They were wearing the outfits that they were supposed to wear when Romeo and Juliet die in the end of the play. It didn't take either of them too long, and when they met up again after going to the changing rooms (which were actually the other music practice rooms, the teacher told them not to bother walking all the way to the bathrooms) they stared at each other for a few seconds.
Lukas was still trying to train his brain to recognise that Mathine could look good in a dress. Wait, did he think she looked good? Since when did he think that? He grunted and looked at her curves through the dress. Her breasts weren't that developed but he had to appreciate the curves of her waist. And if he was going to copy the majority of the annoying people he knew he's say "Dat ass". It didn't take him long to realise he was essentially checking her out and quickly turned his head, "Er...you look nice" he mumbled.
"As do you..." she mumbled back, embarrassed by his comment. She had noticed him staring at her, but it's not like she hadn't done the same thing to him as well.
They walked together to Mr. Karpusi, who couldn't help but comment on how stunning they looked together, which of course caused them to go a deeper shade of red. What was up with all the blushing? Mathine though to herself.
"Can we just change now?" Lukas asked impatiently. Mr. Karpusi nodded and handed them both an outfit, for the balcony scene.
Lukas walked back to his changing room and got dressed rather quickly, some other students were also going through their outfits so it was quite noisy outside. When he was finished he looked at himself in the mirror and wanted to wait for Mathine, since he never really felt comfortable walking into large groups alone. He knocked on her room door, but because of the constant talking of everyone else she didn't hear him. He knocked again, and unknown to himself Mathine hadn't heard him.
"Mathine, it's Lukas. I'm coming in, okay?" he asked, and when he got no reply (again, Mathine hadn't heard him, but he didn't know this) he slowly opened the door.
He gasped when he realised he had walked in on her getting dressed, and at the worst possible point too. Her dress was hanging around her knees and she was visible in her only bra and underwear. He stared for a few seconds before yelping out and apology and quickly closing the door. He looked at the opposite wall and sat down on the floor near the door, panting heavily. When was he panting? His head was spinning, all he did was walk in on her. Her body was better than he thought, but he was certain she had never had a boyfriend before, maybe his views were biased? Why would they be biased? His mouth was open and his face was red, why was he getting so worked up. Doesn't this happen a lot? All he did was walk in on her, it was no massive deal, it could've been worse. It's just like she was wearing a swim suit. That didn't help his head any better. He didn't know how long he was there for until he heard the eventual click of the door opening and looked up to see Mathine above him. He couldn't help but when he saw her, instead of seeing her in the beautiful luxurious dress he saw her in just her bra and underwear. Get that image out of your head Lukas! He tried to tell himself.
"Hey, it was alright you know...walking in on me" Lukas saw that her face was dusted pink too. He nodded quickly a few times before slowly standing up.
"I'm sorry."
"It's fine. Come on, let's go back to Mr. Karpusi."
Lukas's head was spinning for the rest of the time, he needed air, he felt as if he was trapped. Being trapped by what? He didn't know. He didn't know why he was being affected so much, but he didn't like it. He wanted to run home and curl up on his bed, he wanted to ask someone, who was he to ask? Definitely not Tiina or Berwald, they would blab in a heartbeat. He was certain Mathine would probably tell them anyway, but it's not that that he's worried about telling them about. He never was good at pouring his emotions to anyone, he always kept things to himself. Maybe he could get a dog, talk to that. He told himself to stop being stupid and just pay attention. Half an hour and several outfits later it was eventually time to go back home. He grabbed his bad and almost ran out of the drama studio. Mathine walked with him.
"Hey, want to take the bus home?"
"Sure" he sounded distracted .He was distracted.
Mathine ignored his sudden change in behaviour and simply dubbed it "boy stuff". They waited for the bus, and fortunately only had to wait a dreadful 9 minutes of simple chatter. Lukas just wanted to get home and think, he needed to clear his head of the cloud of confusion he was in (why, he was still not sure at that time). Mathine knew she would have Tiina never shut up about the paintbrush incident, and she felt her face heat up at the thought again. What was so embarrassing about it? She asked herself, not wanting the answer. Quickly they piled onto the bus and went to their claimed places at the back, not saying a word to each other until the parted goodbyes.

Lukas got home fairly quickly, he made sure to fast walk as soon as he had gotten off of the bus. He threw his bag to the floor by the stairs and went to the kitchen to dunk his head in the water. He was still feeling warm from earlier. He didn't hear his younger sister walk in while his head was under water.
"Lukas? How are you? Haven't seen you in ages." she greeted him, standing by the sink and watching him with an eyebrow raised. She had guessed that he was either out with his friends, or at practice. She still didn't know his practice days.
"Er, ja. I'm fine" he grabbed a towel and dried off his face, feeling the heat go away which felt nice on his skin. He still needed to lie down and think for a while though.
"Why did you do that?"
"I just felt hot as all. It's getting up towards summer, isn't it?"
Eyríður wasn't buying any of it, but she gave him a small smile anyway. "Okay. Well, have fun. You've been out with friends a lot, haven't you?"
"Ja, I have. They're good people..." he looked away, "I'm going to go up to my room now, see you later, Ey"
She nodded, "See you Lukas" she walked over to the living room and sat on the sofa, picking up her book. She had spent most of her time working on her story of the prince and princess. She was now in the point where they were in battles with each other, she tried explaining them in great detail, she spent some time at school searching up previous accounts of battles to try and make it as realistic as possible. However, she closed that book and turned to her other one, the one where she kept her diary of her brother and Mathine, what they were doing. She hadn't followed them out much because she was engrossed in her story, she was still trying to plan when to ask Lukas about it. She had a feeling they weren't dating, maybe if she could talk to their other friends...no, she pushed the thought from her head, she didn't even know their names. She got out her pen and starting writing down.

Hello again,
I haven't wrote in this in a while now. Maybe because I haven't seen much else recently. But today I walked in on Lukas dunking his head in our kitchen sink. Strange behaviour indeed, maybe he was embarrassed about something? He said he wanted to go upstairs, maybe to talk to the Densen girl? I wish I could talk to their friends, that blonde girl, the small one with the large boobs, I don't know her name, but I saw them all together a while ago. I think something happened today, I wonder if he knows that this Densen girl likes him (it seemed that way when I see them together). I'll go upstairs now to try and hear if he starts talking to himself, he's weird like that. Or maybe they'll talk on the phone, I don't know. But something seemed off about him today, he seemed weird, even for Lukas. I'm going to go upstairs and try to listen for now...I'll write more tomorrow, maybe I'll try and follow them again. If they aren't together though then I think I'll try and make them together, make a stand against our families. I'll stop writing now, I really should get back to listening and writing my story. Bye for now.

Lukas faceplanted the bed as soon as he got upstairs, stuffing his head in between his pillows (he had a double bed) and sighing loudly. He fell asleep shortly after, not even being woken up when his parents (hours later) walked into his room to check on him. He wanted to think but ended up running out of time and didn't get a proper chance alone until the next morning when he woke up at 4:30 in the morning and properly went over everything that happened that day.