collide ➭ matthías haraldsson

LOWKEY

"take a shot, take a chance, take my hand, boy
tension so intense like an asteroid
be discreet, gotta dodge all the tabloids"

Michelle shifted in the bed as she was beginning to wake up. She fluttered her eyes closed a couple times while adjusting to the bright sunshine coming through the windows.

"You're adorable when you've just woken up"

She blushed and looked over at the smiling man next to her.

"So how long have you been watching me for?"

Matthías shrugged. "I don't know, a couple minutes"

"Creep" she muttered jokingly and cuddled up closer to him with her head resting on his chest. He played with her hair, receiving an appreciative hum.

"So what are we doing today?" Michelle asked reluctantly, wanting to just stay in that moment forever.

"We're both free until after lunch, then me and Klemens have an interview. After that we're free again until 11pm when there's the "second semi-final after party" to attend"

"Eurovision really can't get enough of parties huh?"

"Do you not wanna go? We don't have to go if you don't want to"

"No it's fine. As long as I'm with you anyways" she answered and looked up at him to give him a reassuring smile.

"Okay. Y'know it's quite late, do you wanna see what the others are doing?"

"Absolutely"

-

Ástrós was away practising and Klemens was busy facetiming his pregnant girlfriend back in Iceland. But Sólbjört, Andrean and Einar were all happy to hang out. After two hours of watching Parks And Recreation, Matthías looked at his phone to see a text from Klemens.

"Well I've gotta go to to the interview!" Matthías announced and kissed Michelle goodbye before realizing his mistake. Everybody looked at him with confusion as he started stuttering.

"Uhm, and Sólbjört of course!" he exclaimed in panic and strolled over to her, giving her a quick kiss on the lips.

"ANDREAN!" he screamed before doing the same with him.

He then approached Einar and pecked him on the head, careful not to get impaled by the spiky mask.

"Always a pleasure!" he said before finally making his way outside.

-

"So how did the interview go?"

"Just fine. Hey, I was thinking that since it's still only 2pm so there's lots of time until the party, do you maybe wanna do something?"

"Definitely! What'd you have in mind?"

"Hmm the park maybe? The one we bought ice cream in before, we could pick up some stuff from the store and have a picnic there"

"That sounds absolutely lovely"

"Well let's go then" he said and took her hand, dragging her behind him gently. As they entered the supermarket, Matthías grabbed a cart and began scanning the isles. In the end they ended up with a baguette, chips, some fresh fruit and two bottles of lemonade. And a packet of chocolate chip cookies that Michelle threw in the cart last minute. They walked the short way to the park and sat down at a bench, packing up the food on the table. Matthías smiled softly at Michelle.

"You know after the whole thing this morning, it's really nice to finally get to spend some alone time w-

"Hey you guys! What a surprise seeing you here!"

They turned around to see Klemens standing there with a big grin.

"Oh, hello Klemens" Matthías said in a monotone voice while trying to cover up his disappointment.

"Hi Klemens" Michelle said and smiled politely at him before starting to giggle at his perfect timing. Matthías gently kicked her leg under the table and slowly she started to gain some composure.

"So what are you up to?"

"You know, just picnicking and chilling"

"Ooh nice, do you mind if I join you then?"

"Ehh, we'd prefer if you didn't" Matthías answered.

"Oh...okay...is there a reason why?" Klemens said in a hurt voice.

"No! Absolutely nothing!"

"Why can't I just join you then?"

"We- uhm... I- We just don't want you to, okay?!"

"I don't get why you have to be such a jerk about it?! It's not like you were on a romantic date or something!"

"That is exactly what we were doing dumbass!"

"Oh" Klemens said in surprise.

"Well why didn't you just say so then?"

"We're just trying to keep this lowkey, nobody knows about this but you" Matthías said, making Michelle fake-cough. "Okay Sólbjört knows but nobody else so just keep quiet about this please"

"Sure man, soo...I'll just leave you two to it then... Are we still cool?"

"Of course, you know in any other circumstance you'd be more then welcome to join us"

"Great, thanks, uhm...bye then" he declared awkwardly and walked away.

"Alone time huh?" snickered Michelle.

-

The colorful lights were flickering and loud music was playing in the local, all Eurovision-songs of course.

"Do you want anything to drink?" Matthías asked Michelle.

"Yes please, a whiskey sour would be great"

Matthías walked over to the bar, and quickly returned with two drinks in his hand, offering one to her.

"Thank you, so what do you wanna do?"

"I don't know, honestly I'd rather be in our room watching Netflix"

"Wow you sure know how to party" she answered sarcastically making him frown. She took notice though of how he had said our room.

"I'm just kidding with you, truth is this party would suck without you here. But in all seriousness I'd happily be doing anything as long as it was with you"

Matthías was just about to lean forward and kiss her when they were approached by William from wiwibloggs.

"Hello Matthías, are you enjoying your evening?"

"No"

"May I ask who you're friend is? Girlfriend perhaps?" he said gesturing to Michelle.

"Oh, that's my great great grandmother Gúðrun" Matthías answered with a blank face, making William turn to Michelle while playing along.

"You look incredibly young for a great great grandma. Tell me, what is your secret?"

"Sodadream" she said simply. "Dare to dream SodaDream"

"Well what are you doing while in Tel Aviv?"

"Mostly I'm just cleaning the BDSM gear, working on the plan to end capitalism, I might even do some hate-yoga if I'm feeling frisky enough"

"Okay, thank you so much for your time" he said before wandering off to the Norwegian participants.

"You are absolutely amazing" Matthías said.

"Well I learnt from the best" she shrugged and dragged him towards the dancefloor.

authors note
so i woke up with over 700 reads on this,,,like i only started this fanfic 3 days ago?! this chapter took a while to publish cause i've been kinda sick and unproductive but anyways, stream hatrið mun sigra & remember to love before the hate prevails!