Prompt - Childhood

"Are you ready Gilbert," Grandpa says pushing me towards the entrance of the new primary school. The building looks all modern and boring and un-awesome but at least the playgrounds big and there's a sandpit too!

"Yes, Grandpa," I say dutifully but truthfully I can't stop fidgeting. I want to start playing! Not wait for Grandpa to speak to my new teacher.

"Just stay still for a moment Gilbert," Grandpa sighs.

"But I wanna go play Grandpa!" I whine. There are lots of other kids running about and I want to join in on all the fun. Just because I'm new. That's just plain mean.

"In a moment Gilbert, I just want to introduce you to Mr Fritz you're new teacher." Grandpa says taking a tighter hold on my hand as he senses me tugging away.

Grandpa's boring.

"Ah, Mr Fritz," Grandpa says and I look up hopefully.

"Nice to meet you Mr Beilschmit, and this is Gilbert?" the old man says peering down at me. And I mean he's probably not that old, definitely not as old as Grandpa. But he's still an adult so he's still old.

"Yes, Mr Fritz," Grandpa says too formally.

"Well it's nice to meet you Gilbert," Fritz says bending down to my level, "Now you know who I am why don't you go off and join in the play while I speak to your granddad? If there's anything you want to know or if you need help you can come to me okay?"

Finally.

I nod eagerly and let go of grandpa's hand running off quickly. I don't know how long it is until we have to go inside but I want to go play in the sandpit!

Sandpit's are the greatest and most awesome thing ever. You can build castles, and fortresses, and kingdoms and wage awesome battles and at the end you can stomp it all down to the ground ready to play again!

But there's already another kid playing in the sandpit I realise as I draw closer and I stop outside the box. I'm… not so good at getting on with other kids. It's not my fault! They just can't compare to the awesome me!

The kid in the box turns around with a spade in hand and looks at me curiously. They're slighter shorter than me I think with brown hair just long enough to pull into a small ponytail at the back.

"Are you new?" He asks openly standing up straight and swinging the spade over his shoulder.

"Yes," I answer glancing to the ground. It doesn't matter what they say. I'm awesome.

"Cool. What's your name?" He asks.

"Cool?" Nobody's ever told me that.

"Very funny, what's your name," He demands again.

"I'm Gilbert. Gilbert the Awesome Beilschmit," I say puffing up with more confidence.

He raises an eyebrow, "If you say so, I'm Elizabeta, nice to meet you or whatever Mum would tell me to say.

I wrinkle my nose up, "Eliza-what? That's too hard! And it's a girl's name~" I tease sticking out my tongue.

"It's not too hard! I can even write it out properly! And I am a girl so there!" She shouts chucking sand at me.

Pwelh, I stick my tongue out further and try to wipe the sand off, this stuff is disgusting!

She peers over at me and watches me attempt to remove the sand with interest. "Does it taste like Sandwiches?" She asks tone changing completely.

"Of course not," I answer, like this could ever taste as awesome as a sandwich.

"Okay. Do you want to build a sandcastle with me? You can have the special castle-shaped bucket if you want as a sorry." She asks holding out a hand.

"Sure," I say grabbing hold of her hand, she's turning out to pretty cool too even if she's not awesome yet. "But you're gonna have to be Lizzie or something, I can't say Eliza-whatever."

"Deal, Gil," She says passing me the bucket. "Want to build a whole kingdom before the bell rings?"

We only manage five castles before the bell rings but we look at the small set proudly and resolve to rush out here as quickly as possible at break.

"I'll show you to the classroom," Lizzie says, "There's a seat next to me you can have."

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Fritz introduces me before I can sit down but as soon as he asks someone to be my partner Lizzie's hand shoots straight up with a broad grin covering her face.

Fritz glances somewhat critically at the trail of sand we'd dragged into the classroom between us before shrugging his shoulders and giving me the seat next to Lizzie.

He starts teaching as I shuffle to get my books and pens but once I'm settled Lizzie's hand sneaks under the desk and gives mine with a silent promise of being best friends.

The start of PruHun week! To be honest I struggled a bit with this first prompt as you can probably tell from the mix of child language and grown-up language. I really be better at that, it's not like I study it or anything. But yeah, PruHun is a really awesome dynamic so I'm looking forward to this week! I've got most of the other prompts planned so please stick with them!

Gilbert's Grandpa is Germania but I couldn't think of a name for him so I literally just left him as grandpa. But Germania always looks so stoic in the anime that he turned out really formal in my writing! Fritz on the other hand is Old Fritz the Prussian King, I see him as taking a fatherly role to Gilbert so it seemed suitable to make him the teacher.

And sandpits are awesome, I just know that Gilbert and Elizabeta would love them. They're probably around six in this fic I think?

Hope you liked this one :) - Sekaira