The metals and magnets that don't mix. [Mathias]

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

As Mathias started up the car and pulled out of the parking lot, he moved back to the Estonian’s question of his laptop, “Well um… you see, I was doing science homework… you know, one of those lab things? And well when I was looking up one of the answers cause I was getting mad that it wasn’t in the textbook, the screen starting spazzing out. Like half of it became these weird line things, and I couldn’t see it, and it only made me even madder… So the screen started getting even worse! So then I picked up the laptop, and I chucked it against the wall… and one of the hinges broke... so half of the screen is duck taped to the bottom half. I don’t really use it though. One hinge isn’t very helpful in these situations...” Not that not having a computer was really a big deal in his opinion. All they did was provide something for him to type up essays on and do research. But even then the library seemed to serve that purpose just as well most of the time.

Mathias pulled his seatbelt on as he drove out of the parking lot, and made sure to look both ways as he pulled out onto the main street and started heading for the town. One good thing about Math’s driving was that he always drove the speed limit. He never drove too much under or too much over because he hated speeding, and for the most part hated speeders as well. It wasn’t that hard to drive a certain speed so you didn’t die was it? Or at least that was how he looked at it. But then again, he shouldn’t really be getting mad at people who disobeyed the speeding laws when he himself had taken a younger student away from the school in a borrowed car…

He began to scan the streets for a store that wasn’t the main electronics store but… was smaller or something? He didn’t even know what he was supposed to be looking for. He did know where the large one was, but of course his new acquaintance was going to make it challenging for him… trying to feign down his agitation, he swallowed deeply, and gripped the steering wheel more tightly. It was the least he could do for the kid… try to find some smaller electronics store so he didn’t make things explode.

Well... it sounded like a similar situation to his. But then again, Mathias could probably make things explode no matter what size the store was… so that was why he quickly shifted his mind from the fact that they passed the larger electronics store.

“Are you sure this place exists?” Mathias laughed uneasily, peering out the front driver’s window, “I don- Oh there it is...” The place was located in a small strip mall, and he probably would’ve missed it if he didn’t have the good vision that he did.

He pulled into the parking lot and turned carefully into the closest available spot open for him. He then let out a deep breath of air, and turned with a grin towards Eduard, “Is this the place you were talking about? I’ve never been here before.” He pulled the key out of the ignition and slipped it into his pocket, “If it isn’t then you can tell me and we’ll just go somewhere else.” He really hoped it was, because this place was so easy to find, and knowing his luck on his bad days, he probably would have a hard time finding the real place if this wasn’t it.

[eesti]

As Mathias started to recount the tale of his laptop, Eduard looked pretty horrified. How could someone.. even fathom treating computers like that? Sure, sometimes not finding the right answers for homework could be an absolute wreck to have to do...

No reason to take it out on the poor computer! Any sort of thoughts that the Estonian had just been thinking, about how lucky he was to be out with a senior, how surely now maybe he was a bit socially cool, how handsome that honey blonde hair was.... It all flew out of the window. But throwing it against the wall?! And... and using duct tape to try and fix it? That was just barbaric! It was abuse! It was... it was downright abuse!

"You... You threw it... against the wall!?"

That was... there were absolutely no words that the Estonian could come up with to express his disbelief. He rested his elbow against the arm rest, placed his face in his palm while nudging his glasses upward. There was a part of him that even felt just having the cell phone in his pocket right now was putting it in danger... but oh, God, what if he made the car crash?!

Mathias seemed to be the type to speed, and Eduard could feel he wasn't doing that so far...

The Estonian just might have kept a slight hold over the car as well... after all, cars were just large moving instances of technology, and every year, people were putting more electronics in to them anyways. He was absolutely nervous, ready to stop it, ready to do anything he had to... but surprisingly, nothing seemed to come up. Eduard was left waiting, nervous, on absolute edge over nothing that was happening.

"Y-yeah, I'm certain it exists."

Rubbing at his eyes, he pulled his hand away, looking around out of the windshield. Thankfully Mathias had caught on to the right place, and as the Estonian checked the time just once more, he wanted to get it over with. There was no way that he would be late for his next class, he'd never been late to a class in his life. Waiting for the Dane to decide on a parking spot, he was very impressed and relieved that they hadn't crashed, burned, and died a fiery terrible death.

Waiting for the other to park, he nervously adjusted his glasses. Good, the other could park without hitting anyone... Always a plus. When he stopped and the Estonian looked up, he could see Mathias grinning, speaking as he took the key from the ignition.

"This is the place, jah." He muttered softly, arching his back and resting his head against the headrest for a moment. With a sigh, he unbuckled, and with a burst of sudden energy, he headed out of the car, shutting the door loudly behind him.

"I was nearly certain you were going to kill us." If those were the ways he normally acted, without a second thought before breaking other people's belongings, what really was there that could stop him from getting mad at something or other and crashing the car from anger? Even if Eduard didn't know him that well, already he could tell that the other seemed like he needed some anger management therapy badly.

Once out of the car, he scrambled over to Mathias' side. Impatiently, he opened the boy's door for him, grabbing his hand and ready to yank him out of he had to. A quick usage of his powers let him lock the doors, the clack of the mechanisms almost loud like a warning as he stared at the Dane.

"We should really just get this over with and head back to school quickly, yes?"

No way could a laptop-and-camera-and-random-electronics killing guy ever be trusted.

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

Blinking in amazement at how quickly the weird lanky boy moved, Mathias grinned back up at him and gave in to his pulling. Maybe this was just some kind of payback for him holding the door open for him. Not like he could help it. It was more a habit than anything…

….Hey! Just because he got angry easily and had tendencies to explode and misbehave, didn’t mean he lacked manners! Even if they were a bit outdated and somewhat chivalrous. He couldn’t help it that this kid was somewhat feminine and more attached to his frigging computer than a mother to her child… Even if it was somewhat cute to watch, old habits were hard to break okay?

Speaking of being attached to computers…

“And yes I threw it against a wall. I’m sorry if it’s against your beliefs or whatever…” He decided to use the other man’s hand to pull himself from the car and onto the pavement of the parking lot, glad it was a particularly cool day today. That meant he was able to wear his hoodie without sweating nearly to death. It also meant that he didn’t have to make a mad dash from the car to shop.

But then he realized… although he did want to take his time, the other kid didn’t seem to want to… in fact Eduard seemed like he was in a rush to get back! He seriously wondered how anyone could ever WANT to go back to school, but it was apparent that this kid liked school quite a bit.

…Which meant that it was probably a better idea to get the kid back to school as quickly as he could. It was probably a good idea to not get someone pissed off of at him anyways.

“Yeah, we’ll get back as quickly as I can manage okay?” He began to take the lead, pulling Eduard in the same manner as he had done back at the school. If he was in such a rush he going to have to deal with Math’s tugging around anyway. Yes, Eduard had his own feet. No he didn’t really care.

Once they were in the small electronics store, Math still found himself gripping onto Eduard’s hand stupidly. He honestly had no idea what he was looking for. Was there even a camera section in a place this small? Did all electronic stores have camera sections?

He pulled the camera out of his pocket, wondering why in the hell no one had come over to help them yet. Didn’t they know he actually did need their help for once? Were they that incompetent!? Why didn’t they just—

The sound of a televison screen that had once been playing a nice TV program about rabbits or something suddenly began to fritz, and he could feel his anger ebb a bit as he backed away from the television in the hopes that his new friend didn’t notice and have another reason to refer to him as a “monster”.

But he still decided that he wasn’t going to release Eduard from his grips just yet… Because not only was the other boys hand actually kind of warm, but he had to admit that being in a store filled with nothing but extremely expensive items that he had tendencies to make explode made him kind of nervous. Well he didn’t have to admit, because he’d never voice his fears in the first place, but he did hope he wasn’t doing anything weird like making funny faces at people or squeezing the life out of Eduard’s hand, because if he was, he definitely didn’t notice he was. Or wasn’t acknowledging that he was…

Looking up from the camera again and back to Eduard, he flashed a weak grin, “S-So just find something that looks like this camera and I’ll pay for it okay?” Just take me with you whatever you do and don’t leave me standing here like an idiottt..

((If there is anything like.......... weird or off about this reply it's probably because it's one of the first times I ever spent less than two hours on a reply of this length. XDD))

[eesti]

He wasn't sure why Mathias was grinning as he pulled him, but he just rolled his eyes and continued on. The way that he talked about having broken the computer... So nonchalant, and even though Eduard had no idea why he was apologizing...

It's not that it was against his beliefs, not at all. How could Mathias even suggest such a thing? He didn't have 'beliefs' when it came to computers--well, he kind of did actually, but it was mainly just that they shouldn't be treated like useless pieces of machinery! Eduard did look rather visibly depressed just thinking of the poor fate of the laptop.

"You didn't throw it away or something, did you?"

Sad to say, but he probably wouldn't put it past Mathias to do. He just hoped for the other man's sake that the answer was a no, because he really would have gotten upset if he did. Throwing them away was never an appropriate response... Even if they couldn't be used anymore, they could be used for parts, to breath live in to other electronics that might not be up to par... Not to even mention that the batteries were full of unsafe acid that wasn't appropriate to just throw in the trash.

Really, he worried for Mathias.

So much so that he didn't realize that the other had taken the lead from him, tugging him along now, but he allowed it for now. When Mathias tried to reassure him that they'd be back at school soon, all he could do was mutter a small 'we better' in response.

At first, Eduard didn't even think twice at the fact that they were still joined by the hand. What a sight it must have been to everyone else, two teenagers--obviously truants skipping out on school--frolicking in to the store together, but he kept his mouth shut and didn't say much.

The store was rather generic, especially for being a small place. To him, it was as if everything was laid out perfectly, and there was a map in his mind that he could just tell where everything was... It was obvious that the senior wasn't feeling the same kind of ease.

Eduard could actually tell when Mathias agitated the TV. A steady wave of electricity had been flowing through it, steady and uninterrupted, just the same as everything else around them. It was really the displays that had Eduard on edge, always running, never shutting off... And then there was the jarring pull of magnets disturbing the wave, making the smaller blonde jump slightly. He noticed Mathias making a point of getting further away from the television. With their hands still connected, he tried to pull the Dane even closer.

"Hey."

He murmured it, trying to get the Dane closer to him. He squeezed the other teen's hand, not exactly knowing what he could do or say to get him to calm down, but he was trying. They couldn't exactly blow their cover that they were a couple of power wielding weirdos while everyone around them were probably normal...

"Just calm down, okay? This is no big deal, you know."

The weak grin that the other gave only worried him more about the blonde's mental state. Sure, he'd grab a camera and they could get out of there quickly, as long as Mathias wasn't about to destroy everything...

"Give it a minute."

Turning to the Dane, he placed his other hand against his cheek, turning Mathias to look down at him. Trying to muster a smile just to get him more relaxed--if Mathias could fake a smile, so could he--Eduard made sure that Mathias was looking at him as he spoke, low and soft to try and avoid people hearing.

"You don't have any powers, got it? This is a regular store, you're just a regular guy, and we'll be out of here in two seconds, so don't even think too much about it."

His pep talk was partially for himself as well. Being in the store while his powers were iffy... Well, he was just as nervous as the other.

"Now let's get you away from magnetic things, hm?"

With that, he let go of the other teen's face. Noticing their hands were still connected--and he'd been squeezing a bit tight himself--Eduard left go of his hands, turning away to try and avoid letting Mathias see how awkward he looked right now.

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

“No I didn’-” But Mathias couldn’t quite get his words out about how he wasn’t a computer murderer when he was suddenly pulled to face Eduard, rather awkwardly he would’ve added. Things seemed to be even more awkward when Eduard’s hand moved up to his cheek and he started giving him some kind of pep talk.

…Whatever Eduard was thinking earlier about them looking weird holding hands and prancing into the small electronics store like some kind of juvenile delinquents with nothing better to do must’ve paled in comparison to what Eduard was doing now. Any normal person walking by them would’ve thought that either one, Eduard was confessing his love or something, or two, they were about to start making out. Which either one would be weird to do, especially in a random place such as this, and when Eduard released his face, he was almost certain that he saw one of the workers walking by make a face at them. Oh he was so going to pay later if what Mathias saw was true.

“I’ll try not to think too much of it…” Mathias uttered, nodding his head in agreement at the, ‘lets get away from the magnets now’ remarks. Not that he minded Eduard taking him away from them. In fact it was probably better than he was.

Oddly enough, even after being weirded out by Eduard’s rather affectionate pep talk, Mathias did in fact feel better. A lot better actually. Mathias had figured that the other boy probably would’ve found it somewhat weird that he was nervous going into an electronics store. In fact, Mathias even thought that Eduard saw him as nothing more than some kind of crazy destructive beast who went around destroying all of this stuff on purpose because he had nothing better to do with his time than destroy some poor person’s beloved cellphone. But this made him wonder if Eduard was actually feeling pretty nervous himself.

Well nervous beyond the fact that he was skipping school. He wasn’t sure if he was just imagining it or not, but it seemed like there might have been something else causing his new friend to be nervous as well. In fact Mathias found it oddly cute how nervous Eduard was that he was skipping school. It was actually kind of funny. Mathias never paid attention to how much other kids cared about school. Especially because he seriously hated it… but apparently many of the other kids were opposed to skipping it. Even for a few minutes. Mathias was actually finding himself liking Eduard a bit more than he originally intended because of it.

…Even if he was a bit odd…

…Mathias suddenly noticed that Eduard had turned around in embarrassment, and letting out a bit of a laugh, Mathias paced forward and placed his hand on Eduard’s shoulder, “Thank you!” He said ecstatically before moving to find the cameras.

Luckily for him though, the store was small enough that he managed to find the camera section rather easily… well actually all he had to do was open his eyes and turn his head a bit to see it. (He didn’t even know why he was freaking out so much… He really needed to learn to calm down…) He paced over to the section and once again pulled the camera in his pocket out, giving it a quick once over and looking for a twin camera.

But after staring at the shelf a while he couldn’t find one that looked the same, and he rolled his eyes. Stupid cameras… why couldn’t things ever just be easy?

“Hey. I can’t find it. Do you just want something else instead?” Maybe Eduard would find some camera that he liked better? Well whatever it was that he found, Mathias sincerely hoped he found it quickly. The place was still causing him to be rather uneasy.

[eesti]

"Good, good! Don't think about it. At all. Not thinking shouldn't be too terribly hard for you, should it?"

Okay, so maybe Mathias wouldn't appreciate his teasing remark... But in Eduard's defense, the other boy really did seem like one of those seniors who just did whatever they wanted, not caring about school--after all, they had already both skipped out. Still, he could hazard a guess that Mathias hadn't even applied to any colleges yet. Unless he was jumping the gun and Mathias was secretly an über studious straight A student, Eduard was fine with teasing him anyways. Not many kids got grades higher than him anyways.

When the other laughed and placed a hand on his shoulder, he tensed up considerably. Just because he didn't want Mathias to blow anything up didn't mean he was giving him permission to... to touch him, right? The pep talk wasn't something Eduard was trying to think twice about, and he didn't need Mathias laughing at him...

He didn't need the Dane thanking him, either.

As the other hurried off to look out for another camera, he stayed put. Eduard wrung his hands infront of himself nervously.

'What the hell am I even doing here? Especially with him, and... Oh, he's probably just going to leave and leave me here and I won't have any way back to school and... can I really trust him? He did break poor Riki, and--

Eduard was startled out of his thoughts by a small static sound from a speaker system near him. He hurried over to the counter, awkwardly patting the sleek black plastic on the top, fretting over it nervously.

"No, no, it's okay, I'll figure everything out." He muttered under his breath, the static dying down. He sighed and collected himself, able to look over the shelving to figure out where the other went. It was easy to spot him, considering Mathias was rather tall and had that even taller blonde hair...

He shuffled over to the Dane just in time. Noticing he had the broken camera out and was trying to find an exact copy, the Estonian smiled slightly and took it from the other teen's hands. He flipped over the camera a few times, sighing, still telling that it was irrevocably and irreplacably broken. Looking out at the selection of other cameras, he really didn't know what to think about them.

Now was as good a time as any.

Placing the broken camera in to his own pocket, Eduard placed his hand on Mathias' shoulder. With a small frown on his lips, he leaned a bit closer, head turned up toward him in a slightly apologetic look.

"Well, you see... I doubt you'd be able to find anything like Riki. Riki was from Tallinn."

Poor Riki, poor camera that he never really used that never got to see it's own prime... Was it really Eduard's fault that his phone itself had a pretty good camera on it? He felt horribly guilty for never using it now... Riki could have done so many good things, and he just let the poor dear go to waste.

"So, umn..."

He swallowed down his own breath. It was just a camera, he tried to reassure himself, there was no reason to be this saddened over it's demise! But he loved all of his electronics, they were all handpicked after Eduard had naturally spent hours slaving over blogs and reports to find the best of the best, and saving up the money and... For once, maybe, he could just let it go.

"Really, um, it's nice of you to try and do this, but... We should probably just get back to school, Mathias."

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

“Well that is hardly fair!” Mathias protested loudly, “I may get a little mad at times, but I’m not stupid or anything! I enjoy thinking, I like it!” He hardly even knew why he was defending himself so whole-heartedly against this. Maybe he was still a bit flustered. No he definitely still flustered. He was in fact QUITE flustered and Eduard’s teasing wasn’t really doing him any justice on a day where he had just made some kids camera explode out of anger… and the mere fact that he was stuck inside of an electronics store only made matters even worse.

But Mathias’ anger vanished a bit upon seeing his new friend tense up when he placed his hand on his shoulder. This kid was seriously one of the weirdest people he’d ever met. It was becoming increasingly obvious to Mathias that Eduard didn’t really hang around a lot of people, and his obsession for his technology showed for it. Heck even the way he was extremely nice and hopeful one minute and rather pessimistic the next… maybe he was just scared that Mathias would judge him badly or hurt him later or something.

Oh but that was so sad! Mathias had already decided he liked Ed, even though he was a weirdo, and he wasn’t going to judge him or make fun of him… well at least not spitefully. Eduard did seem kind of easy to tease though. So there was nothing for the poor guy to be worried about…

"Well, you see... I doubt you'd be able to find anything like Riki. Riki was from Tallinn."

When in the world did Eduard take the camera from him? He glanced over to Eduard and narrowed his eyes, “And Riki is—” The camera? Figures this other boy would name his camera. Strange kid… although the strange kid did have a point. No matter how late he was on getting the point across to Mathias.

If- if the camera was so great then it’d probably be a big pain trying to get one that was exactly like it… and the more it was brought up, the more disappointed Mathias became that he frigging took a teacher’s car all the way out to the electronics store… stayed in an electronics store… was given a very awkward pep talk in an electronics store…and was now being told that he couldn’t find an exact copy of his “special” imported camera in an electronics store.

If Eduard really didn’t want to go out THAT badly then why in all hell didn’t he tell him this earlier? After all the trouble Mathias had went through to steal a teacher’s ca- Oh...right. He’d never told his new buddy about /that/ endeavor. Maybe that was why it didn’t seem like Eduard cared about all the trouble he’d went through… but even so.

Mathias shook his head, before promptly picking out the nicest looking camera, and turning his back on Eduard rather sharply. He then waved his arm to find one of the workers of the store, who quickly unlocked the glass cabinet, handed the camera to him and walked away.

Mathias sighed, and turned back to Eduard, “Let’s go now...I gotta get you back before your next class is over…”
If Eduard gave any signs that he was going to follow him, Mathias didn’t notice because he very promptly slipped behind Eduard and started propelling him forward with the balls of his hands after he slipped the small box that contained the camera under his shoulder.

Once they reached the counter, Mathias released his hands from Eduard, paid for the camera, (Probably more than he should’ve.) and walked out of the store.

He had never been gladder to leave a store than he was when he walked outside into the rather warm sun. The store was stifling and small, and it seemed like every corner possible was crammed with useless technology which seemed to enjoy his uneasiness around them. It was liked they wanted to take their stupid wall plugins, chargers and various other useless cords and choke them in his sleep. He felt like they were watching him. They were mad that he had trashed so many of their friends… and the fact that Eduard talked to them… only made him wonder even more if they were actually… watching him..

While waiting for Eduard to come out of the store behind him, Mathias let out a low whistle and pulled the camera out of the bag and stared at it a moment. He really was going to have to do a lot of explaining on this one. But that didn’t matter. It was after all, one less thing he’d have to worry about replacing at a later time.

He just sincerely hoped that Eduard wouldn’t mind it… he knew how weird some people were about excepting gifts… and he was hoping that he didn’t leave off the impression that he was mad at Eduard, which might’ve left Mathias with an even lower chance of Eduard actually taking it. Then this whole entire trip would’ve just been a waste… and that honestly would’ve been a big bummer.

He then slipped the camera back into the bag with a sigh. He may have been a bit disappointed that he had to do all of this only to for Eduard to tell him that his camera was some kind of special camera that was ONLY found in Tallinn. Or maybe he was a bit frustrated.. he didn’t know.. but there was one he definitely was… and that was confused. He was extremely confused by Eduard and he didn’t know why.

((Well this turned out longer than I had intended. -u- ))

[eesti]

"It was a joke, just calm down." Eduard commented, a bit flustered that the Dane immediately snapped back at him. Nevertheless he just tried to keep a small smile on his face, even as the Dane defended himself. He nudged the other's side, trying to show that he didn't hold exactly any animosity toward him--well, much animosity anyways, the guy did still make his camera explode. He was allowed to hold a little, but that didn't mean that he was going to be cruel to anyone any time soon.

When Mathias seemed like he was going to ask who Riki was, well, that did really confuse him for a moment. Hadn't he already gone over that? It was his camera's name, of course, he named everything, mostly affectionate little pet names. "Riki was my camera." He murmured. Usually he wouldn't feel any shame at all that he had named it, but for some reason, he got the distinct feeling that Mathias just found him stranger for it. For once in his life, that did actually bother him a bit.

"Maybe I should have... brought that up sooner. But I mean... In my defense... It's not like it was an Estonian brand or anything! So it was perfectly plausible to find something else, but..." He sighed softly, looking over the row of cameras himself. Nothing looked too similar, even. "I think that it was a Swedish company though... I guess Americans don't know much about those unless they're IKEA or Volvo."

How sad was it that such a multicultural country's main goal was swallowing up everything different and making it the same, one people, one nation, and all of that. He did like the country, he admired it greatly, but there was always the fact he was afraid of losing his individualism from being here that kept him back.

Before he knew it, though, Mathias was already fixing the problem himself instead. Eduard looked up to notice him waving someone over, and he quietly slunk back a few steps from the other. Just what was he doing? He'd already picked out a camera, and... How was he able to make that decision so quickly?

"Before my next class is over?"

Meekly he wondered what would happen if he just skipped out on the rest of his classes... Oh, dear, that would be absolutely terrible. What if one of the teachers decided that they'd be having a test tomorrow covering everything they went over today?! Sometimes, the sidekick teachers could be tricky like that... They depended on gadgets and gizmos and all for the benefits of the heroes. It would just be his luck to have to have a test tomorrow on something he knew nothing about!

But the Dane was already pushing him forward, and so he was left to awkwardly stumble where ever Mathias wanted him to be. He was shocked that Mathias was just so ready to pay for it. Whenever he got his own things, these were decisions that took him weeks to make, and now...

Now he just felt rather bad for Mathias.

Even as they exited the store, he still felt kind of numb. He knew that he shouldn't feel bad, really, he didn't have to! Mathias was doing the right thing in replacing it, but... He followed after Mathias, almost stuck to his heels indefinitely, staring at the bag containing the camera.

The fact that Mathias stopped and took the box out of the bag and looked it over, well... It just sort of made him feel worse. He realized he couldn't just let them continue on in silence anymore, that he had to say or do something, and it just so happened that he managed to do a combination of both.

Reaching for and grabbing Mathias' wrist after he put the camera away, he stopped walking in the warm Florida sun, his gut feeling twisting itself in to knots.

"Hey, um..." He wanted the Dane to look at him, even if he was having a hard time looking up at him. "I... I'm..." He caught himself before he muttered an apology, and the Estonian teen just took a deep breath to try and figure out what to say before he sounded like a stuttering idiot. "Um, what I mean is... ...Thanks. "

There! That was good enough, right?

[MATHIAS ANDERSEN]

"Thanks?" Mathias raised an eyebrow, "Thanks for what? Replacing your camera?" He relaxed his face bit before tugging his wrist away and glancing sideways at Eduard, “Hey. It’s my fault for breaking it so I have kind of have an obligation to replace it…even if isn’t the right brand or whatever. Or if it isn’t some fancy “Swedish” camera… But it isn’t a problem. If you don’t like it or something I’m sure we can return this one and get something more like the other one online. Just tell me if you don’t like it, okay?” He placed his hand on Eduard’s shoulder and gave him one or two earnest pats before he decided that it was probably getting much past time for them to go back to school. That was, if Eduard really wanted to get back as quickly as he had been saying.

Like he had done a few times now, Mathias spun around and began to walk off without Eduard, but before he got out to the car, he realized that Eduard was probably tired of being walked away from, so he decided to double back, grab him by his arm and lead him back to the car himself. He was probably just as tired of being dragged around as he was tired of being ignored, but there was no way that Mathias’ pulling him around everywhere was worse than being given the cold shoulder.

Once Mathias had managed to tug Eduard to the car, he stopped and pushed Eduard to face him, “Listen.” He said firmly, “I really don’t know anything about technology so if I got the worst kind of camera that there is to possibly buy, I’m sorry. I’m also sorry that this happened in the first place. I sort of have a short temper sometimes.” An uneasy laugh escaped his throat, “It’s actually been a while since I’ve gotten mad enough to do that. Actually, the past few times I have gotten mad I sort of just went outside to cool off. Not that it’s that cold out here…” Oh, what was he saying? Here he went with his useless mumbling again. He seriously had no idea when to shut his mouth, “The last I broke something it was my own laptop and I didn’t even need my powers for that one… It just sort of more or less happened because I’m impatient.” And childish. He had forgotten to add childish, but that Eduard could figure out on his own time he supposed, “Just don’t worry, I’m sure it won’t happen again. If it does you have a right to…um… attack me or something. I won’t mind…” Although Mathias didn’t really see Eduard as an aggressor in the slightest, it was good to leave that option open right?

“Just don’t hit me too hard! Or else I might break down and cry!” Lovely. Now it was lame joke time. Maybe he should just shut up now. Yeah that sounded great! So in an attempt to keep Eduard from noticing his blushing and his embarrassment at his rambling, he turned around and moved swiftly into the driver’s side of the car and unlocked the rest of the car doors so that his friend could get inside. He placed the camera on the passenger seat, and started the engine, suddenly remembering that this wasn’t exactly his own car. It was his science teachers… Now he was going to have to get it back before the teacher noticed it was gone.

He just sincerely hoped that she didn’t have to run an errand to get something from it… oh he’d be in so much trouble if she did. There would probably be so many teachers and police prowling the parking lot right now! He was still much too young to get arrested! Oh crap what if he got Eduard into trouble too and they were pegged as accomplices!? Oh he’d never be able to live that down! What if Eduard was the type that would peg the blame on Mathias? Saying that Mathias was some kind of creepy villain who forced the younger kids into doing as he said then making sure that they kept their mouths closed by bribing them with cameras!

He slammed his head down on the steering wheel as soon as these thoughts began to overwhelm him. He was going to be fine and he knew it. There wasn’t going to be any teachers in the parking lot, as there never was. Teachers didn’t have time to go out and eat their lunch as they had to grade papers and all that right? Or maybe he’d be really lucky and his science teacher was teaching her class in another room and hadn’t even left since they had… Maybe he could do all of this without Eduard finding him out. In all truth, he’d never taken another student with him on one of these excursions and the thought of getting the other student in trouble worried him greatly.