oblivious // ivantill

VIII.

Ivan POV — tw -violence//

3 weeks later — June 17

I've noticed recently that Till's been acting differently, I mean it seems he found out the hard way about Mizi and Sua. Well it makes me happy that Till is going to move on from Mizi but at the same time — it's really a shame.

Besides all that, Till's birthday was coming up — and I needed to get him something. I always got him something for his birthday — maybe I should go all out this time.. but i'm not sure where it crosses the line.

Orchestra practice is on a pause right now at the moment, the director is on a one-month trip so nothing major will be going on until the meantime. I would go home but since then, I've been finding myself being able to walk with Till and sometimes he'd wait for me!

Till didn't have practice today and I didn't see him leave or anything so I waited patiently — It was starting to get late though — I decided to start looking for him.

I walked through the long halls of the school and roamed around, maybe Till went home early.. that's what I thought at least once I heard an aggressive voice.

"I'll take you on, GO AHEAD!"

I quickly rushed to see what was happening and I couldn't believe it...

Till was throwing punches at the other individual, he kicked them and managed to leave some blue bruises — both of them were bleeding due to the tough impact, though it seemed like Till could handle himself — he immediately got knocked off by his feet and punched by the face pretty hard... the individual and their group just laughed at him and ran off.

Once they were all gone I ran towards Till, helping him up but he tried pushing me away. He still let me help him either way — He looked frustrated and just sighed.

"Why'd you fight them?!"

"... they pissed me off."

"Let's go to the nurse's office."

"..."

I held Till's hand, I wanted to intertwine our fingers but I'm sure he'd pull away if I did such a thing. Holding his hand though was better than nothing — they felt pretty sweaty, bloody and rough. We made it to the nurse's office only to find out she wasn't there — well.. I can always just take care of Till myself ~

I told Till to sit on one of the nursing beds and that'll I patch him up, he reluctantly agreed.

"You don't have to do this you know.. I can do it myself.."

"I WANT to do this, allow me."

Till just felt embarrassed, I could see his face turn red — I just chucked as I took out the nearby supplies and started to use some gauze for the open wounds, medicine alcohol and etc.
I placed some bandages on his arms and then... one on his face.

We made eye contact , it was quite long and I wondered if Till felt the tension too... this made me want to lean in but I had self-restraint. I gently cleaned the minor cut on his cheek then placed the bandage so slowly.

"You're so weird Ivan.."

Till laughed, that made the butterflies in my stomach swarm eagerly.

"If i'm weird then you're perfect."

I whispered, luckily Till didn't hear me as he fiddled with his bandages wrapped on his arms. I just waited outside the door for him and he eventually walked out the room.

"Well.. let's get going."

"Yeah."

Me and Till walked out the school gates and into the streets, I wanted to hang out more with him.