Time to Hang Out! (I want Belarus and Spain;n;)

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

Water droplets smacked into Mathias' face, arm and legs as he made the trek from his sparring class
back to the dorms. Why late classes weren't cancelled today was completely beyond him, but mark his words, if he was going to blow away, he was going to throw a tantrum. Or at least, get mad or something. Yeah...!

And he wasn't wearing a coat!! He should've known better! Why did the school even offer late courses? It wasn't like this place was a university! Sparing was so exhausting too. Especially when he was up against the overly motivated younger students that were all too eager to run around in circles around him and jab punches- rather painful ones- right into his ribcage. All it took was one knockout blow for him to get back at them.

But it didn't stop him from still getting exhausted by it all. And tonight with the rain... Man and today had been such a lovely day too!

A loud crackling boom sounded over the sky and the Dane found himself glancing upwards with apprehension. Seemed like they were in for a pretty crazy storm hunh? He tightened his arms around himself and picked up his pace, flinging himself through the double doors of the boy's dorm. A slight chill crept over him and he shivered, his body not really enjoying being both wet and cold at once.

Mathias stood in place a moment, wiping the water off of himself to the best of his ability, knowing that he’d need to change his clothes. He was literally drenched from head to toe. He could only hope that the other kids in his class made it back better than he had. He hadn’t even seen them leave. Maybe he was just too eager to get back to his friends or something. But whatever, he was inside now! He just needed to get some dry clothes on and he would be good to go.

He quickly bounded back to his dorm, tugging off his shoes as he unlocked the door the lazy man’s way (via his powers) and moved towards his dresser. He wasted no time and pulling off his clothes and slipping into his pajamas. (Which just so happened to be a pair of shorts and an old t-shirt.) He then pushed his wet clothes into the hamper and plopped onto his bed, crossing his legs Indian style.

What was he supposed to do next? And where on earth was Antonio? He thought of calling the Spaniard, or dropping him a text, but like himself, Antonio never really answered his text messages, and when he did it was pretty clear to Mathias that the guy hardly even knew how to use the thing. Antonio was probably the only person alive anymore who was worse at technology than himself. So he could only just sit and wait and hope that Antonio wasn’t sleeping alone in some classroom, not realizing that class ended hours ago. It certainly seemed like something that he would do.

Maybe he could just… He slipped his phone into his fingers and flipped it open, using the tiny keyboard to open a new message.

hey nata cone to our dorm its stormt and im lonely:D

Okay so there was a typo or two in there. He couldn’t help that it was exceedingly hard to type when you had to click the button like three times before you got to the letter you wanted. A lot of the other students seemed to have fancy phones with computer keyboards but… he wasn’t sure if he wanted to get used to another phone… especially if it was some kind of weirdo high-tech one.

He laughed to himself, setting his phone right in front of him, waiting with anticipation for a reply from her, but it wasn’t more than twenty seconds later that he found himself flopping onto his back and starting at the ceiling. They were already taking much too long for him.

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Homework, much to the lament of pretty much everyone, doesn’t do itself. And today, Natalia had been given an entire buttload of homework. Homework that she was currently doing in the library building, all by herself since it was her free period anyways. Being alone in the library was considerably less depressing than being alone in her room, so she didn’t mind too, too much.

She didn’t notice that classes had ended, though, and continued working and working.

There was a crackling boom, causing her to go rigid, her pen slipping from her fingers. Only thunder, she told herself. Not something to be afraid of.

She leaned down to pick her pen, glancing up at the windows to see the rain start to fall. She should have known this was coming, and yet she foolishly didn’t bring an umbrella or anything more than just her sweater. That was something Mathias would do. The thought made her wrinkle her nose, but she couldn’t stop the small grin that flashed for only a second.

Enough of this; time to resume work. I still have this essay to complete.

Her phone went off, making her inhale sharply (which was a far better reaction than jumping and screaming) and drop her pencil again. She frowned at the utensil on the ground as she took out her phone, silently chiding herself for not turning it off before she came in the library. How foolish.

{ hey nata cone to our dorm its stormt and im lonely:D }

She rolled her eyes at the typos, considered her options.

She still had work to do.

She was lonely, though. And so was Mathias.

She wasn’t even going to kid herself into thinking she could finish if she went; he’d just drag her away with something childish and dumb (that she would secretly enjoy far more than she’d ever admit).

With a sigh, she responded.

{ Mathias I have work to do
What about Antonio }

Even as she typed it, however, she checked the time, noting it’d been quite a while of working. Maybe she would head over, regardless. Her essay wasn’t due for a week, and everything else was finished.

{ Fine
I will be there shortly }

She packed her things, swooping down to grab her pencil, then stood up and left the library, making her way to the boys’ dorms.

[ANTONIO FERNANDEZ CARRIEDO]

Where do birds go during storms? The question had been on Antonio's mind for a long time and now he was determined to find the answer! He had waited for a naturally occurring storm(read: a really cloudy day) to come by and just helped it along until he got the amount of rain and thunder that he needed for his experiment. There was no way the teachers could yell at him for a storm that was already there in the first place, right? Of course they couldn't.

So here he sat, watching the bird perched on the next tree over with intense curiosity. So far it wasn't doing anything different, it was almost as if the bird didn't realize the storm around it. Well, that just wouldn't do at all! Antonio wiped the rain out of his eyes and concentrated until there was a flash of lightening and a loud crack of thunder sounded. Still nothing! This bird must really not want him to know it's secrets, or it was just really dumb and didn't sense the danger it was in, being high in the trees during a storm.

Getting a bit frustrated, Antonio tried again, making the lightning strike a bit too close for comfort. That got the bird moving...too fast!! It took off farther into the trees. He was barely able to make out it's shape as he attempted to follow it, hoping that each branch he jumped to would be able to support his weight. No wait...this one was a bad choice.

The branch he was currently on bent under his weight, surprisingly weak despite how thick it looked at the time. He grabbed hold of another one just in time as it cracked and broke underneath him. However, there wasn't even time to sigh in relief when the limb he was hanging from decided to follow the example of it's neighbour and send him plummeting to the muddy ground below.

The bird got away...

He laid there for a minute, winded, and glared at the branch still in his hand. Stupid weak tree limbs and fast birds. Maybe the world was trying to keep him from knowing nature's secrets. The birds all probably went to some bird hotel or something where they all waited out the rain and traded stories of dumb humans who tried to follow them to their meeting place. Antonio didn't want to be a story that birds laughed at! He would never live down the shame.

"Man, that sucks...stupid trees!" he grumbled, breath finally catching up with him. Standing up and brushing the wet grass and bark off of his back, he looked around to see where exactly he landed. Through the trees he could make out the P.E. storage shed on the edge of the field. Maybe this hadn't been one of his better ideas...

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

Mathias jumped up in excitement when his phone went off. He knew that Natalia couldn’t say no to hanging out with him on a gloomy day like today, could she!? Especially when lightning seemed to be striking so dangerously close to everything that was close by. Mathias felt a fleeting sense of worry pass over his mind, since he hadn’t seen Antonio all day, but he figured if weather was involved, then the smiley Spaniard would be okay.

Hell, he wouldn’t be surprised if Antonio caused this weather himself for some reason or the other.

{ Mathias I have work to do
What about Antonio }

A frown formed on his face. She wasn’t supposed to say no! She was supposed to say, ‘Okay I’ll be right over!’ and then the three of them were going to hang out and play board games or something…! Mathias had always been really good at poker! Well… as good as a person could be at poker. He always seemed to be lucky enough though.

He picked up his phone to write an angry ranting reply back at her, and was just about to hit send, when he message that said, ‘NATA PLEASEEEEEEEE COME I WANT YOU HERE WITH ME AN ANTONIO DDDDDDD:’ was cut off by another message coming from Natalia. Mathias groaned as the message completely deleted his completely (and painstakingly) typed reply.

{ Fine
I will be there shortly.}

Mathias practically threw himself off of the bed in excitement. He was so happy to be able to see Natalia right away, that he dumped his phone right on his bed, and not even worrying about the fact that he was just wearing a pair of faded old cloth shorts and a holey t-shirt, he took off down the hallway to see her before she could even make it back.

He didn’t even bother to text her back. Which to be honest, happened quite a bit, as he pretty much hated using his phone and knowing that there was no point when he was just going to see her in about twenty seconds anyway. Now that he thought about it, there was only one person in the school who was worse with technology than him and that was Antonio himself.

He basically only had to run about twenty feet down the hallway in his bare feet, before he noticed Natalia walking his way. A grin spread over his face as he waved at her frantically, in an attempt to get her to notice him. Of course that didn’t stop what he did next.

“Nataliaaaa!” He yelled out her name rather loudly, before he ran towards her, practically taking it upon himself to wrap his arms around her midsection and lift her into the air in a huge hug, as if he hadn’t seen her in years, when in fact, he had seen her earlier that day, at lunch, “I didn’t even think you were really going to come!”

Not that it was ever really that hard for him to get Nata to join them. Despite being a rather work oriented person, Natalia seemed to be pretty solitary most of the time and maybe it was the thought of having someone to pull her away from her thoughts that made it somewhat easy—most of the time—to get her away from her working. Even though Mathias could remember a number of times where she absolutely refused.

“Okay, so now all we need is Antonio and we’ll be all ready to go!”