I have returned to making a new Horton fic. vampire1031, this is for you. Hope you like it, cuz the wait is over! Sorry about the title.

Brother's Angst

by: Terrell James

Chapter 1: The New Students

In Whoville, it was a bright Friday morning and Jojo McDodd is walking on the way to Whoville High on his own, hoping that he'll have a good day there. He walks with his WhoPod and a song is played inside while he's walking on the way to school. A couple of minutes later, he got to the school and he walks around the hallways, removing his earphones and putting the WhoPod in his backpack. As he was walking, he spots Mike and Cody in the hallway lockers, right where Jojo's spot is.

Mike looked up and saw Jojo there. He smiled and said, "J-man! How's it going?"

Jojo looks at Mike and said, "Pretty good. Hey, Cody."

"Hey, Jojo! Our best buddy! How's it hanging?" asked Cody, with a smile.

"I'm fine, actually."

"So, did you hear?"

"About what?"

"We've got some new students here all the way from Whereville and they're all brothers."

"Brothers?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

"How'd you know them?"

"We saw them sitting in the principal's office and they said that they just moved in." Mike said.

"We're not sure which period these guys are gonna be in, but as soon as we meet them in one of those periods, it'll be supercool." Cody said.

"Seems cool." Jojo said.

"So, what's the haps? Any new music on your WhoPod?"

"Well, I've just got this new one from Whereamore called, 'The Only Exception' and it's really cool to hear, when you actually here the lyrics."

"Can we hear it?"

"Sure."

Jojo zips open his backpack, takes out his WhoPod and plays the song while Mike puts one earphone on his ear and another one on Cody. They start to hear the song coming in.

When I was young

I heard my daddy cry

and curse at the wind

He broke his own heart

and I watched

as he tried to reassemble it

And my mama swore

that she would never let herself forget

And that was the day that I promised

I'd never sing of love

if it does not exist

Darling, you are the only exception

You are the only exception

You are the only exception

You are the only exception

Mike looks at Cody and said, "This is completely awesome!"

"What a great song!" Cody agreed.

"You like it?" asked Jojo.

"Loved it."

Then, they heard the bell ring and they knew that it's time to head over to girst period. Cody looked at Jojo and said, "Gotta head to my first class. Don't want another tardy slip again."

"Oh, yeah. Like last time." Mike said.

"Do not remind me."

"See you guys!" Jojo said.

"Laters, dude!" they both said.

Jojo heads to his first period class and sits down on his seat, just waiting to get this over it. Suddenly, Jojo comes across this new who, about this tall, 150 pounds, 15 years old, blue eyes, wearing a brown and blue T-shirt, with some dark blue jeans and his hair was a midnight black with the bangs covering his eye. The new who looked at Jojo and turns away for some reason.

Then, the teacher comes in and said, "Good morning, class. We'd like to get started on two things-first of all, please remember to learn that parent-teacher conference is next week, so don't be anxious to tell all your parents about it. And second, we have a new student here named...Jonah Mosley."

The teacher looked at the new who and asked, "Would you like to introduce us?"

Jonah sighed heavily and walked in the front of the class, cleared his throat and said, "Hi. My name's Jonah Mosley and I live with my stepdad with my five brothers. I'm kinda the oldest, so... I think that's it."

"So, how are you liking Whoville?"

"It's okay, I guess..."

Then, he spots a scratch on Jonah's elbow and asked, "What happened to your elbow?"

Jonah looks at his elbow and made up some crappy excuse for it and said, "Well one time, I was riding my skateboard and I didn't have any protection gear on and when I tried to do a trick...I fell out of my board and landed on the pavement, where the scratch on my elbow came in."

"Well, skateboards are kinda dangerous. Well, we're glad to have you here and welcome to Whoville High, Mr. Mosley."

"Thank you."

Jonah went back to his seat, in a row next to Jojo and didn't want anyone else to know that it wasn't really the skateboarding incident. Jojo could kinda see that this was something more than that. But, he decided to keep it to himself and not let it come to mind.

A couple of hours later, it was lunchtime. Jojo sat down on one table on his own, with his lunchbag by his side. He takes out some chips, cookies, a banana, grilled cheese sandwhich and a orange soda. All of a sudden, as soon as he starts eating, in comes Jonah standing next to him. He said, "You're Jojo McDodd, right?"

Jojo turns to him and said, "Yeah, why?"

"I'm Jonah."

"I know. You were in my class, right?"

"Yeah, of course."

"So, I heard about the skateboarding incident. That must be really painful, right?"

"Yeah, I learned my lesson-never get on a skateboard without safety equipment."

"That's true. I've never actually skated before."

"Hey, guys!"

Then, Jojo turns around and sees Mike, Cody and Marcus coming in with the new students from their classes. Jojo chuckled and said, "Hey, guys. How's it hanging?"

"Well, we thought we might introduce our new friends to you." Mike said.

Then, Cody looks at Jonah and said, "Isn't that one of the new kids?"

Mike turns around and sees that it is one of them and said, "Yeah, it is! What's up, man? I see you met Jojo."

"Yeah. This is Jonah. These are my best friends, Mike, Cody and Marcus." Jojo said.

"Hey."

"What's up, dude?"

"And I see you met my brothers, Sam, Cyrus, Hawk and Travis."

"Yeah, me and Hawk and Cyrus are in Bi-whology class, Sam shares the same period as Cody in Who-literature and Travis goes to second period with Marcus in Who-English. Guys, this is Jojo McDodd." Mike said.

"How are you guys?" asked Jojo.

"Pretty good, I guess." said Sam, 14 years old, brown eyes, thick black hair, brown and grey fur, wears a black T-shirt and dark blue jeans and a little taller.

"So, how old are you guys?" Marcus.

"Well, me, Cyrus and Hawk are 15 and Sam and Travis are 14." Jonah said.

"So, you guys are..."

"Five twins. The three of us are triplets and the other two are twins."

"Nice."

"I have a feeling this is gonna be cool."

"I hope you're right."

"Do you have any friends in Whereville?" asked Cody.

"Well, we're kinda loners, so we don't make any friends often." Cyrus said, 15 years old, light dark hair, grey and black fur, wears a blue T-shirt, khaki pants and a necklace that says 'Outcasts' in it.

"So we only have each other." Sam said.

"What's the reason?"

"Well, we don't want to give this much away, because we all have the same scars as we have." Travis said, 14 years old, green eyes, midnight black hair, brown and black striped fur, wearing a white and blue T-shirt and blue jeans.

"Scars?"

"Sort of."

They all end up showing parts of their scars, bruises and cuts on their elbows, knee, ankle, leg and arm and most of those weren't considered 'accidents'. Jojo asked, "What happened to you guys?"

"It's no big deal. We get that a lot, because we don't want to tell what really happened, so we kept it to ourselves." Hawk said, 15 years old, blue eyes, black hair, grey and brown striped fur, wearing a light green T-shirt and khaki pants.

"Well, it's okay if you don't tell us." Marcus said.

"Okay, sure."

"How do you like Whoville?" asked Cody.

"I think it's pretty cool there."

"You have any parents?"

"Nah, our dad died when we were young and my mom left us before we moved here five months ago, so we're left with our stepdad." Travis said.

"How is that working for you?" asked Jojo.

"Not so good, cause he can get angry easily at us when something bad happens to him and over the little things."

"So, in other words-"

"He's kind of an angry dude."

"Sounds serious."

"Yep."

"You could meet my dad. He's not an angry guy, but sometimes he can be weird and somewhat...unusual."

"Like how unusual?"

"He's nothing like a normal father, but he tries to be."

"His dad's the mayor of Whoville." Mike said.

"Your dad's the mayor?"

"Yeah, kinda crazy, right?"

"Not even sure. Haven't even met him yet."

"You will soon." Jojo said.

How cool is this story? BTW, the song is 'The Only Exception' from Paramore. This will only get interesting! Stay tuned!