I shivered as I took my first step outside into the cold winter air again. After the comfortable heat of the café, this felt like the Antarctic. Jonas didn't seem that excited either since he scrunched up his nose and coughed.
"I want summer. Now." He muttered in my direction and unlocked his bike.
"I'd be content with a bit of spring but summer sounds good to me too." I pulled the scarf tighter around my neck and rearranged my hair so it laid on top of the scarf comfortably.
"We'll have to power through at least another month. If not two." Jonas pushed his bike next to me and we walked back in the direction of the school.
Kosegruppa was waiting.
We had almost forgotten the meeting since we had lost track of time at some point. Jonas and me had talked for almost two and a half hours straight, without interruptions, and I still felt like there were hundred more topics I could hold a conversation with him about. Luckily, we had only spent half of the money Jonas had won, so we had planned to go to the café sometime again this week or the next.
I smiled happily and looked down at my feet. The tips of my boots were already covered in snow and I stomped onto the pavement to get it off.
Spending time with Jonas felt good. I forgot about everything that was bothering me normally and that made me stress throughout the day. I was just there with him. In the moment. His presence calmed me in a weird way.
"Do you know who's gonna be at Kosegruppa now?" Jonas turned his head to look at me, ripping me out of my thoughts.
I glanced back at him and nodded slowly. "Vilde, Sana, Eva and Noora are definitely going to be there since it's our group. Kinda. Magnus is coming because Vilde is there and Isak and Even said they'd be there too, considering their history with Kosegruppa." I put my hands in the pockets of my coat. "I think there's also some first year people coming and Lisa from my Math class. And you." I smiled at Jonas.
"Mahdi said he'd maybe swing by."
"Serr?" I chuckled at his statement.
"He said maybe he'll find the love of his life there too. Like Isak." The boy next to me started laughing and I fell in with him.
"I have been to at least seven Kosegruppa meetings now and I haven't found the love of my life yet." I giggled and pulled my hand out of my pockets to warm up my cheeks. "I think Mahdi will be heavily disappointed today."
"Um, excuse me?" Jonas stopped walking and glared at me jokingly. "I am at this Kosegruppa meeting and I am the love of your life so..." He trailed of and I laughed again.
"Sure. It'll happen today." I mused and smiled widely.
He stayed silent, still grinning, and we continued walking.
I pulled out my phone to check if Vilde had sent me any new messages about stuff I should bring to the meeting. I knew it was a bit rude, considering I was with Jonas but I felt like we were past the point of getting hung up about the other person being on their phone for a few seconds.
Vilde hadn't texted me but there were a few new messages from Elias.
I couldn't help but smile at his idiocy and decided to let Sana know what her brother had just tried on me.
I laughed at her answer and Jonas threw me a confused look. With one movement, I locked my phone and stuck it into the back pocket of my jeans.
"Sana's reply." I explained myself to him and pulled my coat back into place.
We had reached the school by now and Jonas locked his bike near the fence before we entered the yard for the second time today.
Noora and Sana were sitting on our usual bench by the bushes and waved at us.
"Where are you guys coming from?" Noora pulled her perfectly lipstick stained lips into a smirk.
"We went to grab something to eat and drink after school." I answered and glanced at Jonas. Him already smiling down at me caught me off guard, and I quick averted my eyes back onto my other two friends.
Noora nodded. "Same here." She made a gesture towards Sana who was looking down at her phone.
Her eyes slowly lifted from the screen. "So my brother hit you up again?" She tried to hold in her laughter but I could see the corners of her mouth twitching.
"Stop." I said and groaned. "He's horrible."
Jonas' eyes jumped between the two of us and I noticed his interest perking up at the mention of Elias.
"I think he's adopted." Sana stated and creased her forehead. "His style of flirting is unacceptable."
Noora laughed at that and I rolled my eyes. "He's just joking." I glanced at my phone screen for a second. "We should get going, guys. Otherwise Vilde will have a nervous breakdown, wondering where we are."
They agreed with me and our little group of four walked towards the school entrance.
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I was already over the Kosegruppa meeting not even half an hour into it. We had played the usual terrible group games that Vilde had prepared. The problem weren't even the games. The problem was that no one was really excited to participate in them. Isak and Even were terribly touchy and cute, even worse then they normally were. Eva was texting a guy from Elvebakken the whole time, Chris had called in sick, Mahdi and Jonas were too weirded out by Vilde's suggestions to do anything and the other people followed after them. Vilde was the only one trying to keep everyone energised and happy with Sana and me supporting her in the ways we could. Magnus was the only one really participating which might be caused by the fact that he was hopelessly in love with Vilde.
"Let's split into pairs of two now, okay?" Vilde called out and a murmur ran through the crowd. "I want you guys to be with someone you feel comfortable enough talking to and yet don't know everything about!"
Of course, everyone chose one of their friends. Even paired with Isak and even Vilde chose Magnus. What a hypocrite.
Sana and me usually teamed up together but when I looked at her I saw that she had already chosen Noora.
I sighed. Jonas was seated between Mahdi and Eva on a bench and I made my way up to him.
"Don't you have a partner?" He asked me grinning up at me and I shook my head.
"Do you wanna team up with me?" I asked him and smiled, hoping for him to say yes.
He rubbed his forehead and tilted his head, his eyes apologetically widened. "Oh, nei, sorry, I'm already with Eva."
"Oh." I looked at her in surprise. She grinned at me and nodded. I hadn't even noticed that she had stopped texting.
"Mahdi still doesn't have a partner though." She pointed towards Jonas' friend.
"Ja, okay." I looked at him and he avoided to meet my eyes.
"Greit." Eva stood up and took a stance in the circle Vilde had asked us to form, Jonas following her after smiling at me.
I averted my eyes back to Mahdi. He had stood up as well and was now directly in front of me.
"Well, this is awkward. " He said and I couldn't help but grin.
"Tell me about it." I chuckled and took a deep breath. "Partner?"
"Partner." Mahdi nodded and sent me a smile. "Shall we?" He made a gesture towards the circle.
I nodded and stepped into line, Mahdi always next to me. Luckily, we hadn't been the last couple. Two girls took a stance a few seconds after us.
"We want you to go and hang out with each other a few times, or maybe just once-" Vilde added after she saw a few eye roles. "And then next week, you will hold a small presentation on your partner and their interests and everything. Afterwards we want you to say something nice that you've recently learned about them. Give them a compliment of some sort." Vilde cleared her throat before continuing. "And we'd like it to be something character-wise, not superficial. That is too easy. So ja..." She trailed off and Magnus put his arm around her waist reassuringly, smiling down at her.
"We just think that it would be a nice idea to get to know the bottom of a person's character." Noora jumped in. "Because we judge people way too easily by the way they look. And maybe you'll be able to find a person with similar interests and make a new friend."
Vilde nodded excitedly. "Ja, because that is what Kosegruppa is for. To make new friends and have a good time."
Mahdi snorted and scooted a little closer towards me. "I was having a jolly good time tonight. I specifically liked the exercise where we had to sing to each other. How about you?"
I bursted out laughing but tried to hide it by coughing a few times after seeing Vilde's furrowed eyebrows and Noora's exasperated look towards me.
"Sorry." I muttered and elbowed Mahdi to shut him up. "Wrong tube. Swallowed up."
"Ja, well." Vilde smiled at everyone one last time before concluding: "This was it for today, we'll hope to see you again next week, bring your friends and thank you for coming."
We clapped at her little goodbye speech and Even and Magnus cheered in support of Vilde. This caused her cheeks to tint pink. A proud smile spread on her face.
"We should probably schedule a time for a meeting or something to get these presentations done." Mahdi spoke up to me as everyone was shuffling around, laughing, talking and packing their bags.
I raised my eyebrow at him. "You want to return to Kosegruppa?"
"Apparently it's to make new friends and I like new friends." He shrugged and grinned, crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Alright then." I laughed and grabbed my phone and chord from the little shelf with the loudspeakers. "Just message me on Facebook about which day would be best for you."
Mahdi nodded and rearranged the reversed cap on his head. "Sounds good to me. I'll see you around then."
"Ha det." I waved at him walking off before taking my jacket and backpack of a bench by the wall and making my way towards my group of friends, standing by the door.
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