Elskendes Feud – 14

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(( Again I'm so sorry for taking so long with writing this, and again it's not as great as I hoped. I guess I'm just busy, or getting distracted. Again, sorry for the long wait, thank you guys for sticking with this fic for so long, I love you all! I really hope that the next chapter won't take so long, I can't apologise enough for the wait... ))

Lukas's birthday came by quite quickly. His family didn't plan anything major for the day, and luckily his birthday happened to fall on a Sunday which therefore meant no school on that day. He woke up at around eight in the morning after having a fairly early night, so he slept in a long time. Breakfast, however, was fully prepared for the Norwegian before he woke up by none other than his sister and step-father. His mother was out for the morning doing important work for the business, apparently so important that she couldn't spend the day home with her son for his birthday, although it's not like he really minded anyway. He tried to walk down quietly, as to not be noticed because he wasn't really looking forward to having his parents wish him a happy birthday and make him open presents that will most likely not be that good anyway, if you're rich then what can you get someone? Something sentimental? Lukas couldn't think of anything he wanted. Well...maybe spending the day with his friends, but he couldn't ask his parents that without them wanting to invite them over, and they obviously couldn't invite Mathine over. Lukas had somehow made it all the way to the kitchen before having his sister and step-father yell "Gratulerer med dagen!" down his ear. He shrugged and made way to the table which was already set,
"Ja. Good morning." he said plainly, taking a bite of the brown bread with brown cheese that was on the table for him.
"Lukas, so what do you want to do today?" his step-father asked,
Lukas shrugged, munching on the food in his mouth and washing it down with some coffee, "Stay in my room?"
"You can't do that, for starters you need presents!" in a dash his father was off, grabbing a few boxes and retuning back into the kitchen to present Lukas with his gifts.

That morning was tiring for Lukas to say the least, not that it was physically tiring but the action of having to sit through two hours of opening worthless presents that would soon be forgotten was just tiring for the young man. That reminded him, it was his eighteenth birthday, he was officially an adult. He was finally excused from the presents and family taught at around three pm and he finally retreated back to his room. His step-father said he was going out for a bit, probably to buy his cake or something, and that left Lukas alone, or so he thought.
Mathine took her phone and biting her lip she eventually got up the nerve to call him. She had wanted to call first thing in the morning but didn't want to just in case he was busy with his birthday or anything. She didn't know how birthdays worked in the Bondevik household. After not even one full ring he picked up, hearing the deep, plain tone Mathine grinned.
"Hallo Lukas, uhm...happy birthday"
He almost smiled. Almost. "Thank you."
"What have you gotten today?"
"Nothing much really...or I haven't been bothered to remember"
Mathine took her keys to her car and nodded, walking to the door. "Oh? Well...I got you something."
"You did?" that immediately sparked his attention, he sat up on his bed. "What is it?"
"I can't tell you. Are your parents home?"
Lukas looked around at the items in his room from his birthday, "No, actually"
That made Mathine's plan easier, "Good. I'll call you in a few minutes, don't leave your room."
She hung up on him, leaving Lukas to stare blankly at the device for a few seconds before shrugging and going back to reading.

Lukas's phone rang around fifteen minutes later, picking it up he answered it almost immediately,
"What are you doing?" he asked without even hearing his girlfriend speak,
Mathine laughed, "Look outside your balcony!"
Lukas raised an eyebrow but stood up from his bed nonetheless and behold underneath where the balcony hung he saw the figure of Mathine Densen beaming up at him.
"Happy Birthday! I decided to come down here to bring this to you."
Okay, now he let himself smile and hung up his phone, since it was no longer needed. "You came here"
Mathine nodded, looking up at her boyfriend. "You know, this is sort of reversed!"
It took Lukas a while to understand the Romeo and Juliet reference before shaking his head, "Do you want me to let you in?"
Mathine shook her head, "Nej. I can get up myself" and just like that she grabbed a hold of the fencing and climbed up slowly. She was strong for a girl and eventually she reached the balcony that lead to Lukas's bedroom. He helped her up and looked at the present in her hand, curiosity etching at his skin. "Here" she handed the surprisingly neatly wrapped present to him. He almost expected it to have been wrapped by her mother or something, but that was not very likely.
He walked back with Mathine into his bedroom and on his bed, she looked around at everything in here. Not surprisingly it was Mathine's first time in the Bondevik house, and most likely the first time any Densen has entered it for a long time. After a few minutes of saying nothing, Lukas finally spoke up, "I should open this, shouldn't I?"
That snapped Mathine out of her gaze at his bookshelf, "Ja, you should~" he sat down next to her and slowly picked at the paper, peeling it off carefully as to not rip it. He didn't really like ripping paper, it got it everywhere and that last thing he wants is his parents finding an extra present, as they would constantly pester him as to who got it for him. When unwrapping he found a squishy teddy in it, when turning it around he saw it was an elf holding a heart. That surprised Lukas and it took him a few seconds of staring to finally react and pull Mathine in for a small hug, he still wasn't used to hugging people so openly,
"Thank you Mathine" he told her, pecking her on the cheek. It wasn't that he thought the present was amazing, okay, he would probably still keep it on his bed for when he sleeps but there were much better presents he could've gotten. Mathine only grinned at him and handed him another present, this one being much smaller. It was a small purple box, made of silk and felt brilliant, you could rub it against your cheek all day and not get bored of it. Lukas ran his fingers over it before opening the small box. He looked inside, and inside that box was a small gold looking object. When picking it up he noticed it was a small cross shaped pin, on the back it had Lukas Bondevik lightly engraved into it. The teenager gently took it in his hand before reaching to his hair. His hair had been getting in his face recently and whilst it wasn't something major he did like the idea of clipping it back. Lukas clipped his gold hair clip in and looked at Mathine, who had a massive grin on her face.
"Do you like it?" she asked, her smile only getting wider.
Lukas nodded, bringing her in for an even bigger hug than before. He really like enjoy his presents, especially since he was so used to not having any at all and only accustomed to having the boring ones by his parents, this hair clip he could've easily bought but it was the thought and consideration that counted, and honestly he thought it suited him perfectly.

Mathine stayed over for as long as Lukas's mother was out, which was most of the day. They stayed in Lukas's bedroom, but he had showed Mathine all of his presents and the general layout of his bedroom. Mathine found it quite humble, but surprisingly messy (and to her shock it was actually quite a bit smaller than her bedroom). The room was overall quite colourful, mostly in primary colours which didn't suit each other at all. Mathine's room on the contrary was mostly white (which didn't match her personality at all). She then noticed his bookshelf, Mathine wasn't a massive reader, but nothing could compare to the vast amount of books Lukas had just in his bedroom. It almost hurt Mathine's head to think of how many he may have stored somewhere else, after all their house is also extremely large much like her own (her bedroom is mostly empty).

Lukas patted the bed next to him, which soon drew Mathine's attention away from the books. She sat next to him and saw his hand was held out for her to take. Gingerly, Mathine took the hand in her own and squeezed it tightly. Lukas wanted to show his thanks for her present so he gently pressed his lips against Mathine's.
"Thanks again, I've never really gotten a present so useful"
Mathine smiled and pressed her forehead to his, "It's alright, it's what girlfriends do~" the word still felt strange on her tongue to say. Lukas just nodded and pecked her on the lips again, he liked the feel of it, okay? Mathine kissed back quickly, not exactly sure how kissing even worked, but she felt sparks in her lips and reaching her fingertips, not erotic or anything, it just felt nice.

Eyríður was sat downstairs watching T.V, she had given Lukas his present for the day so had nothing to do now. She assumed he probably called his friends or something, or maybe tried to sneak out like he had before to see them. She didn't really pay attention to anything until she heard a light bang. At first she thought nothing, but usually Lukas would call down to make sure everything is okay if he heard something. Eyríður didn't know that that bang was caused by Mathine climbing onto the balcony outside Lukas's room. She waited a few minutes but heard nothing.
"Lukas!" she called up, and again no reply. Maybe something was wrong, she thought, so she ran up the stairs and stood outside his bedroom door.
Eyríður stood outside the bedroom door, waiting if she could hear anything. When she deemed it safe to walk in she knocked on the door and opened it. However, she hadn't left much time in between the knock and the enter, which meant that Lukas and Mathine hadn't finished their kissing session by the time Eyríður opened the bedroom door. Of course, as soon as the door opened Lukas and Mathine broke apart and what could only be described as a look of horror ran over their faces. Eyríður now knew that Lukas knew that she knew of their relationship. Would this change something? She didn't know, as soon as she saw them she ran off back to her room, locking the door and grabbing out her diary that she had become accustomed to writing in now.

Dear diary,
I walked in on him kissing! It's Lukas's birthday and somehow that Densen girl got in. I wonder how, anyway I just saw it with my own eyes and now Lukas knows that I know! I hope he tells me more about it. Ah, Lukas is knocking on my door now, asking me to let him in. He better not yell at me, it's his fault for bringing her in anyway. Now he's yelling, he sounds...scared almost. Maybe he just doesn't want me to say anything. I'll go answer the door now, I'll write more later.

Lukas was just about to barge into the door when he heard the soft sound of the lock move, signalling that Eyríður was letting him in. Mathine watched from outside of Lukas's bedroom door, worried about what Eyríður would do. Maybe she was calling Lukas's mother now? She knew that they'd tell Mathine's parents and then they'd all be dead. As soon as the door started to open, Lukas pushed himself in and pinned Eyríður against the wall. He was glad that it appeared she hadn't called their parents on him, but he still needed to speak to his little sister.
"Ey, please do not tell our parents about this!"
She tried to wriggle away from him, but struggled against her big brother's force against the wall, "I promise! Just tell me what's going on!"
By now Mathine had entered the room, but barely, as she was lingering around the open door.
"First you have to promise that they'll never find out, do you know what this could mean?!"
"She's the Densen's kid, isn't she?"
Eyríður shot a glance at Mathine who nodded slowly, taking a step closer.
"Ja, I am. Lukas, let her go, and Eyríður, I think we probably need to talk..."
The younger girl nodded and glared at Lukas for him to let her go. This worked and all Eyríður did was walk up and lock her bedroom door. She pointed to the bed,
"Tell me everything."

Of course, Eyríður didn't really need to be told everything, but she may as well hear it from her brother's mouth. Both of them described to her the events at school, hanging around secretly, them starting to date, their first date and everything in between. She nodded and walked over to her desk,
"Since you guys just told me a bunch of secrets, here's mine"
she handed over the leather book that she'd written her diary entries in. Eyríður only hoped that Lukas didn't find it creepy, and only saw the positives in it. The two of them read it together, and Eyríður noted their expressions at each point. After a few minutes of reading the entries Lukas handed the book back to her. He didn't look angry or disappointed, although he never really looked anything to be honest.
"Those are sweet. You could've just asked though."
Eyríður was sure that the answer wouldn't have been the same if it had actually happened, she's sure that Lukas wouldn't have been as nice about it. But that doesn't matter because that was how it went.
"I also started writing a book...kind of inspired by what I'd seen"
This of course made Lukas perk up, he knew that she was writing something, but didn't know it was partially based on real life. He had asked her before to read it and she said no, it was probably because she didn't want Lukas knowing that she knew of him and Mathine. Or maybe he would've thought it was coincidental, but he can't say what he would've thought, only what he actually did think.
"Can I read it?" Mathine asked quietly. Usually she wasn't like this but she felt she needed to have a good first impression on Eyríður as she was one: Lukas's sister and two: she had the power to rat Lukas and Mathine out to their parents and she really didn't want that.
"How about when it's done?" Eyríður asked, giving Mathine the tiniest of smiles. It honestly did make her happy that Lukas was with the Densen girl, as she had never seen her brother happier.
This made Mathine nod, "I'd love to~"

The three of them got on better than expected, they mostly talked about Mathine and Lukas's relationship, their friends, how the play is going and all the general stuff like that. Eyríður then piped up a question that she surprisingly hadn't asked yet,
"Why is Mathine here?"
At first Lukas gave her a look of confusion until Mathine answered, "I came here to give him his present, obviously".
Lukas then nodded, "Ja. She got me a cute little toy elf with a heart, and this," he turned his head so Eyríður could see the gold pin in his hair. She nodded and reached up to feel it, to see if it was real. Of course it was real.
"That's really nice, Mathine. It's probably more useful than the junk our parents bought."
"Ja, they only get me money. But we already have loads so it's not like I need any."
Mathine all too well knew the feeling also, she had of course experienced many bad presents. Although luckily Tiina (and Berwald, although Mathine knew that Tiina bought all the presents from Berwald anyway) always got her something decent. She agreed with Lukas and the three of them continued to this.
This was, of course, until they heard the distinct sound of the front door opening. Mathine and Lukas looked panicked, and Eyríður quickly pushed them out her room and into Lukas's. He was sure that once his mother brought in her shopping (she always went shopping) that she would probably go upstairs to see the birthday boy.
"You should go now, and quickly before my mom comes up"
Mathine nodded, leaning in to give him one last quick kiss before slowly climbing off of the balcony and down the way she came.

It was only a few minutes later when Lukas heard his mom knock on his door. Reluctantly he opened it only to be faces with yet again more bad presents. It's as if his own mother didn't know him, but he knew she was trying at least. She looked distressed, however, and told him of her day. Firstly, it had started raining as soon as she got to her business meeting (which was in Sweden for some reason, but that's not too far away) and then she had found out the resent sales statistics. The Densens had beat them. Lukas obviously didn't mind but he had to pretend in order to keep his mother happy. He might've cared if they had lost money (he doubted it though) but that didn't even happen. They just gained less money than the Densens. His mother then gave him lectures on how to run the business when he's older, he really wasn't looking forward to that by the way. He doubted he could get out of it though.

Meanwhile, Mathine had safely got down from the balcony, but then she was in the Bondeviks' garden. She stealthily crawled along, almost knocking over a bin, and made it out into the streets. By the sounds of it, no one saw her as she hadn't heard or seem anyone staring at her, wondering why the Densen girl was around with the Bondeviks. It didn't take Mathine long to get to her car and drive home. She was quite tired already even though it wasn't even nine pm, since most other days she was up until two or three am, this was probably her body catching up with her. Her parents didn't notice her come home, she wondered if they were even in for a second. Mathine grabbed a quick bun from the side of the kitchen counter (failing to see a piece of paper there with "Mathine, we need to speak to you. Mom & Dad" written on it) and walked back upstairs. Almost as soon as she ate her bun, she collapsed onto her bed and drifted off into a deep sleep.

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Lukas woke up the next morning feeling quite good. He had slept well and even though it was Monday and that meant school he still was happy with his birthday. He also now knew that he could go to Eyríður without being afraid if her knowing about him and Mathine. It was a great relief and he knew he could trust his little sister with this. When he woke up he almost felt like smiling, almost. He had a quick shower and woke up quite early only to be noticed by Eyríður already sitting at the kitchen table with some coffee made and another mug waiting for Lukas. He nodded at his younger sister and took his place next to her and took a sip of the steaming, bitter drink.
"Good morning lillesøster"
She grumbled, "morning Luk. Enjoy your coffee, did Mathine get home safely? I wouldn't have wanted our parents to find her and try to hurt her"
Lukas nodded, Mathine had texted him when she got in the car saying that she was alright and was on the way home. He walked to the toaster and put in some bread, waiting to make some toast whilst slowly sipping his drink and having broken conversation with Eyríður.
"Hey Luk, can I ask you something?"
He was, at that point, half way through taking a bite of his toast with jam, but nodded nonetheless.
"Can I hang around with your little group today or something?"
Lukas thought for a moment, he couldn't think of anything wrong with that. Tiina would probably like her too much but he thought that ultimately if anyone annoyed Eyríður then she would either walk away, or inflict some of her bitchy personality onto them. "Sure, I don't mind. After school I'll come here and get you, we'll probably eat out and then go to Tiina's"
Eyríður nodded several times and grinned with excitement, she could now meet their friends too! She didn't have many friends (which was probably obvious by how easily engrossed she had been in Lukas's story) so now she could hang around with Lukas's, it sounded great.
"I can't wait!" she cheered excitedly to Lukas, finishing off her coffee and walking upstairs to get ready for her fun day after school.

"How do you get to school, Luk?" Eyríður asked, she knew that he used to walk, but now he always took a different direction, so either he found a different way or he went by another means.
"Mathine drives me every day now."
The girl nodded, she was walking with Lukas. He told her that she can go with him if she wanted, so that just meant another stop before going to his and Mathine's school (Eyríður's school was very close by though). They turned another car and soon enough they saw Mathine's Zenvo parked up where it usually is. He had texted Mathine earlier if it was okay, the car only had four seats (the back two were very small though, it would be a tough squeeze) but Mathine said yes, so she had already pulled Lukas's seat forward so that Eyríður could get in after him.
Eyríður's school was on the way to Lukas and Mathine's, so luckily it was easy to drop her off before they went along; the group mostly talked about the day before, or Eyríður was asking Mathine and Lukas random things about their relationship. When they pulled up at the younger girl's school Lukas told her that he'd call later to pick her up before they would all hang out together later. Eyríður nodded and skipped off, holding her diary close to her, no doubt she'll write in it when they're hanging out later that day.
"You're sister's adorable~" Mathine chimed as soon as Eyríður was out of the car, Lukas nodded,
"She's a strange girl, but he's sweet."

Lukas was pounced on by Tiina as soon as she saw him. And by pounced, yes, that is literally.
"Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday~" she squealed and hugged him tightly, "I couldn't see you yesterday, but here, here's a present" she handed the stunned looking boy a small bag. When he opened it it was a one thousand kroner discount on kindle books coupon. "It's the best I could come up wi-" she cut herself off when she noticed the gold hair clip in Lukas's hair and squealed yet again, "You're wearing it! How adorable, how adorable! You're wearing her present to you~" Lukas tried to nod, but honestly he was being squished and was never very comfortable being squeezed to death by a strong but small Finnish girl.
"Jaja, it's great, thank you for the present. Can you let go of me now?" he asked, and Tiina nodded, laughing as she placed him back on the floor.
"Oh yes, sorry~ Come on Mathine, it's time for P.E. See you guys in Chemistry~" and with that Tiina took a hold of a confused Mathine's arms and dragged her along to their class, waving to her boyfriend whose face looked as stern as ever.

Mathine and Tiina talked about the day before, Mathine told her all about handing Lukas the presents; Eyríður walking in on them, her having to run away and everything in between. Tiina laughed, and when Mathine asked if Eyríður could join them she accepted immediately.

That's how the group of four ended up standing in front of Eyríður's school at the end of the day,
"I can't wait to properly meet your sister, Lukas, she sounds so adorable~"
He shook his head, "Ja, you guys tell me if you see her"
Unknown to Lukas Eyríður had snuck out and walked behind him, Mathine and the others had seen this, she all of a sudden loudly exclaimed. "Halló Luk!"
This made the boy jump and yelp, probably louder than he wanted to, which caused all of his friends to burst out laughing. "Ey, don't sneak up on me like that!" he yelled at her before turning to Tiina and Berwald, "this is my little sister, Eyríður"
Tiina gave a small laugh and held out her hand, Eyríður eyed it for a second before returning the favour and shaking it. "Pleased to meet you, I'm Tiina"
Eyríður had to stop herself from saying 'I know' as that may have sounded a bit creepy, "Eyríður"
Berwald cut in, not bothering to hold out his hand or anything, "Berwald."
Eyríður looked up at the taller man and nodded, Lukas and Mathine were telling her all about their friends the other day so she knew that Berwald wasn't really the talkative type. "Where are we going now then?" she asked, directing a look towards Tiina and Mathine.
Tiina hummed for a moment before answering, "I think we should go out somewhere to eat and then hang out at my place for a bit until it gets late"
Eyríður nodded and perked up, "Já, okay! That sounds fun. Lukas, should we call our parents to tell them?"
Lukas took out his phone and was already searching through his contacts list to find his mother's name, when he got it he called her. It took him a while to convince his mother that Eyríður was old enough to hang around with his friends and that, yes, Eyríður actually does have friends. After she agreed they all headed off for their first group adventure, or that's what Eyríður called it when she wrote in her dairy later that day.

Later on they were all sat around Tiina's bedroom again, Lukas and Tiina were sipping their coffees slowly, whilst the others all had milkshakes. Tiina looked through her movies, humming as to which one to pick, "Does anyone have a movie suggestion to choose?"
Mathine leaned over and fed a chip to Lukas, "We should let Eyríður choose,"
The group all agreed, apart from Berwald, but he never really said anything. "Okay then! Come on Eyríður, pick something~"
The young girl took a bite out of her burger, he notebook tucked under her shoulder, she eyed the large pile of DVDs, "The troll hunter?"
Lukas shook his head, "We already saw that. Tiina cried"
Tiina gasped, almost throwing the case to the floor, "I did not!"
"Did too~"
Mathine laughed, which then made Lukas smirk. "You shouldn't laugh Mathine, you almost crapped your pants"
Mathine's mouth dropped, "Hey! I wasn't expecting the troll to come at that point!"
Tiina started laughing again, "Tiina cried when Kalle died"
Tiina pouted, "I thought we'd never mention that again? I have to keep up my badass personality"
Mathine laughed, "Now come on, we need something to do. Enough making fun of sweet little Tiina~" she cooed, grinning when Tiina pouted more and stood up to sit by Berwald.
"Fine, no movie or video games."
"Then we'll make out own game" Mathine suggested, "How about a drinking game?"

They agreed that Eyríður wasn't going to play due to the fact that she was too young...and they needed someone to stay sober. The rules were decided that they would get a pack of jenga and about two thirds would have writing on. Eyríður's job was to write on them, she had to write one of three drinks on each other: Beer, vodka or akvavit.. So, two thirds of the jenga blocks had the name of a drink on it. Tiina brought out all of the drinks, bottles of beer, shot glasses for vodka, and glasses for akvavit. Whoever knocked over the jenga structure had to drink the drink written (if there was one written on their block) and one of each of the other drinks. It wouldn't surprise them if one or more ended up in hospital that night. Another rule was that if you started taking out the block then noticed it's got a word on it, you can't change your mind, even if it makes the structure fall.
So when they were all set up, Eyríður wrote out the names of the drinks on the jenga and she set up the structure, trying to place them evenly around the tower. When she was happy with it she sat back and they agreed to start, the order went Lukas, then Mathine, then Tiina, then finally Berwald.

First, it was Lukas's turn to take a jenga block out of the tower. It didn't take him long to find out that would easily come out without disturbing any others. He pulled on this lightly, it slipping out easily into his hand. He saw the word "BEER" scribbled on it and sighed.
"I have beer, pass be a can Eyríður"
Eyríður was also the (by default) adjudicator of this, she had to hand out the drinks, making sure no one had any more or less. She also had a page of her diary set out to make a note of how many drinks everyone had, just for the heck of it. Tiina passed the bottle to Lukas, who opened immediately and started sipping it, watching his girlfriend pull out another easy brick only to notice that it was blank. She pouted disappointedly and watched Tiina pull our hers. Tiina's was also blank, she sighed and leaned again Berwald, who pulled out one that said "VODKA" on it. Eyríður happily passed over the small shot glass with vodka, just as Lukas was finishing up his beer.
"I have a feeling I'm going to keep getting these-" he was cut off when he pulled out his brick, only to notice it being blank. Mathine laughed,
"I want beer. Come on beer!" she cheered, pulling out another brick. It said "VODKA"on it, so she just pouted. "At least I have something, one vodka please Eyríður~"
The small girl passed over the glass, then took it back when it was promptly emptied. She smiled just thinking about how funny it will be when all of them are piss ass drunk and she'll be the only one sober.
"Ah, I got akvavit!" Tiina cheered out, reaching out for Eyríður to pass her a glass of the honey coloured liquid.

To say they got drunk quickly would be a great understatement. Even before anyone knocking the tower over (for a bunch of drunk teenagers they had a surprisingly good accuracy for picking jenga blocks without making the tower fall) they were...piss ass drunk. Eyríður stared in amazement at Berwald almost sucking Tiina's face off, and Lukas and Mathine giggling together by the bed. She couldn't ever remember hearing her brother giggle, of all things, she struggled to even remember him laughing. Next it was Berwald's turn to pick a block from the tower. He picked one near the bottom, a risky one, but it was one of the only options. He slowly started to slide it out, but he didn't notice the structure start to wobble and not even a second later the tower came crashing down to the floor. They all cheered loudly, "Berwald, drink up!" "Yay, Berwald's getting even more drunk!" "Come on Ber" and many others. The brick was a "VODKA" brick so Eyríður brought him two shots, a glass of akvavit and a bottle of beer. He downed the shots quickly and started on the akvavit. By the time he reached the beer he was swaying and appearing as if he'd pass out or throw up any second. Unfortunately he did the latter, he leaned over and threw up all over the blocks. Luckily the others all moved out the way and nothing else got affected.
Mathine yelped, "Ewww!" and stood up, almost running to the door immediately.
Tiina pouted, "awww, Ber is all sick~ How about you guys leave now~ I'll talk tomorrow Lukie and Mattie~"

It didn't take Eyríður and Lukas long to follow the Dane to the door and put their shoes on and leave the house. Although Mathine and Lukas fell over twice on the walk to the car. They were still giggling and hugging each other.
Mathine started to get into the driver's seat, before Eyríður stopped her.
"You really think you can drive right now?"
Mathine looked at her confused for a few seconds, before realising the situation and going "Ohhh. Oops, okay, you drive us then, Eyrí~"
Eyríður looked at her and then the car, and then her brother. He was stood by Mathine, holding her hand and giggling, maybe occasionally hiccuping.
"I have no idea how to drive. Firstly I'm not old enou-"
She was cut off by Mathine, "You're smart! You can do it! It's the only way you'll get home. Drive me to mine and then drive to yours, I'll pick up the car tomorrow~"
"I'm fourteen"
"And?"
"How am I supposed to-"
"Want to sleep in the car tonight?"
Eyríður was probably more scared of what Mathine and Lukas may get up to left in a car together tan she was of driving home illegally. She shook her head slowly,
"Give me those stupid keys."

Eyríðir slowly breathed in and out. Lukas and Mathine were in the back, doing lord knows what, and Eyríður was there freaking out! She turned the key, making sure they all had their seatbelts on. She was barely tall enough to see out of the car, and if the police came then she's be in deep trouble. The thought of getting a taxi didn't seem to have gone through any of the teenagers' heads. The Icelander put the car into drive and slowly pressed her foot on the pedal. It was hard to get used to, and she made sure to stay slow. Then there was a turn, she hit the curb but apart from that there was no major damage done. Eyríður made sure to drive slow enough that if any accidents were to happen then they would be very minor anyway. She was taking directions from Mathine, and very fortunately she was never stopped. Pulling in front of the Densen house, she sighed shakily.
"Thanks kid, hey, I'll come get it tomorrow okay~ Bye bye Lukas!" Mathine leaned in and gave Lukas a sloppy and deep kiss and strutted back into her house, falling against the door before remembering that she actually had to turn the door knob to get it open, whoops.
The drive to the Bondevik house was even more horrific. She had to figure out the turns herself since Lukas was too preoccupied describing to Eyríður how important pizza is for society to work, because if it disappeared then the world would explode, or something. Eyríður wasn't listening to him, instead she tried to get through the drive alive. She had to stop every few seconds, at fear of hitting someone or something.

After what felt like two years, they pulled up outside of their house. Eyríður opened the back door and Lukas almost fell out. She helped pull him up,
"Are you sure you're okay?"
"Jaaaaaaa~ I just need to pee...and then sleep. Pee and sleep, and then pizza!"
She sighed and rolled her eyes, moving Lukas so he had his arm wrapped around her shoulder and she helped him walk to the house. In her other arm was her journal and pen. When she opened the door, her mother first thought that Lukas was injured and couldn't walk, she was about to freak out when she smelled the alcohol.
"Lukas. Are you drunk."
"Why of course not, mummyyyyy~"
She told Eyríður to go to her room and she would come and talk to her later. In the meantime she grabbed Lukas roughly by the shoulder to probably tell him off majorly. Eyríður quickly ran upstairs and listened to the whole thing. She could hear yelling, laughing, and then crying, and more yelling. She took out her book and started to write.

Today was great! Okay, well, everyone got drunk but it was pretty hilarious. I got to talk to Berwald and Tiina. Berwald didn't really speak until he was piled with alcohol, but Tiina's really really nice! She gave me her number and kept saying how adorable I was. After they all got drunk Berwald threw up and then I had to drive home...DRIVING IS SCARY AS HELL. Never do it! I have to give Mathine credit when she's sober, it seems really hard to do. But I didn't die... but Lukas might, after mor has her way with him. I can hear her yelling, and he's not even taking any of it in, since he'll forget this all tomorrow. And I know my mom will want to stop my hanging out with them... they're eighteen, surely they can do what they want? I can't wait until I'm their age.
Ah, I hear my mom banging at my door. I locked it. I should stop writing, I think I just heard a loud thump next door. Probably Lukas passing out on the bed. Anyway, mor's here, so I'm going to get yelled at now...bye bye...

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Mathine almost fell into her house, she stumbled into the kitchen and saw her mother waiting forher there. She sighed, and her father only scrunched his nose.
"She's drunk..."
"Obviously!" her mother yelled, "Mathine, we need to talk to you. Tomorrow you'll be meeting Hans."
She was wobbling on the table, using it for her best support, "Who's Hans?"
"Your cousin" her father stated.
"Okay, and why am I meeting him?"
"You're arranged marriage, we have you set up with Hans, since you were around ten months old..."
Mathine wobbled again, "Husband? What? You can't make me get married!"
"You're only seventeen, we can do what we like"
Mathine gasped, letting go and slowly walking to the stairs, again using them for support. "We'll see about that!"
"Mathine, get down here!"
"Nej! I hate you guys, you can't make me get married!" she really should've expected it, her parents were mean enough, it's the exact type of thing they'd so.
"She's drunk, she'll come round tomorrow" her father said, wrapping his arm around his wife and giving her a kiss on the cheek.
"I sure hope so."

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Mathine's head was hurting so much the next day. She barely remembered anything, her held her head in her hands, groaning and looking around the room. It was too bright, it must've been around mid-day for it to be so bright outside, or she forgot to turn off the lights when she passed out last night. She reached for her phone and it had three text messages and four miscalls, all from either Tiina or Lukas. She was thinking about calling them back, and was just about to press the red dial button when she remembered something.
Sitting up in her bed, she gasped, looking out at nothing in particular, wide eyes.
"I'm getting married!"