Beginnings

The sun was high in the light blue sky, the warm afternoon air echoing with the giggles and squeals from the small children. It was a typical summer afternoon in suburbia.

"Alfie… I-I don't wanna climb trees today…" A meek voice whispered out, as a small hand reached down to a bandaged cover knee from the last tree climbing adventure the two had been on. "Can we play in the sandbox instead?" The light blond child looked up as the other grabbed on to a tree branch.

"Mattie! I don't wanna play on in the dumb, lame sandbox." The child known as Alfie said as he glanced over to the sandbox. There sat another boy around their age, he wore a black long sleeved shirt and jeans with a black baseball cap with a yellow chick pin on it. Alfred scowled somewhat, "Besides, that weird kid that always smells like sunscreen is over there." Pulling himself up with a laugh Alfred started to climb the oak tree.

Matthew glanced over to the sandbox, curiously; he had never spoken to the other kid and he was always too busy playing hero or some other game with Alfred and their other friends. Matthew picked up the small polar bear plush that sat by his feet and walked over to the sandbox.

The small child climbed into the sandbox and sat across from the other boy, he set the plush bear down in the sand and smiled as he started to scoop up sand with his hands. "Let's build a castle, Kuma!" He said excitedly to the plush bear, not noticing the redish-brown eyes on him. Matthew blinked as suddenly a yellow sand shovel was held out in front of him; he glanced up at the other boy and smiled taking it. "Thanks!"

Matthew hummed as he started to dig in the sand, he glanced up at the other boy and tilted his head; "What's your name?"

The other boy stopped filling his bucket with sand looked at him for a long moment. "Gilbert."

Matthew smiled brightly at him, "I'm Matthew, but Alfie calls me Mattie, you can too… if you want!" Matthew chirped out.

"Mattie? That's pretty awesome, not as awesome as Gilbert, though." The other said with a grin as he turned his bucket over making a small sand tower.

"What's awesome mean?"

Gilbert blinked and pondered for a moment, "It means… like when some is better than anything in the whole world!"

"Ooooooh! So Kuma is awesome!" Matthew said as he picked up the well loved plush bear and giggled.

Gilbert nodded his head and pointed to the chick pin on his hat, "And chicks are awesome! I guess you're pretty awesome too." Gilbert laughed and nodded his head as Matthew placed a leaf on top of the sand tower.

"Thanks, Gilbert." Matthew said with a smile, he blinked and looked at the other boy. "You should play with Alfie and me some time! It would be a lot of fun!"

Gilbert glanced over to the tree as he watched the somewhat chubby kid that he seen with Matthew a lot of the time, fall from the tree, assuming it was this 'Alfie'. "I dunno, only if he is as awesome as you."

Little do both of these boys know that this would in fact be the start of a beautifully, complicated relationship.

Hey everyone,

Thanks for reading the first chapter in my series of one shots!

This is based around some themes from the 100 theme challenges, I will be asking for some story ideas from you guys as well; frankly I don't like most of the prompts in the challenge.

The first three will be:

Beginning

Middle

End

The forth I will be asking for a prompt from you guys, you can either pm it to me, or place it in a review. Whatever one jumps out at me, I will do that one.

So some of these will take place in the same AU, I will let you know which do.

So that is it, again thank you for reading! Review if you like, if you notice any spelling/grammar mistakes, let me know. I am trying my best to fix all of that.

- Tash