Madilta watched Alfred eat his lunch rather loudly, trying to talk while eating and while trying to drink his soda. It always amazed the Canadian how he was able to do such a thing with even a little bit of success in the end.

"Um...Al?" She ventured to ask, causing the American to take a large gulp of his food and turn to her.

"Yeah Maddie?" Matilda squinted her eyes closed as some little bits of hamburger hit her glasses and cheeks. Alfred laughed at the sight, causing her to quickly wipe the food off her and fling it back to Alfred, who simply ended up putting it back in his mouth.

"Still good! Safe!" Alfred threw his hands up while saying the last part while grinning before taking another sip of his soda. Matilda rolled her eyes while slightly smiling, then poked the side of Alfred's cheek.

"You're so gross, you know that? I mean, what if that stuff had hit the ground or something?" Alfred shrugged.

"It would still be good to me! Hamburgers are the best thing EVER, so even if a little thing like some dirt got on it, it wouldn't stop me from eating it." Matilda gagged abit before munching on her lunch as well. Alfred grinned and poked her head.

"Ya know, maybe if you stopped eating those cookies and sweets all the time, then maybe you wouldn't be so chubby." Matilda stopped eating and slid her violet-blue eyes over to him in a glare before shoving her lunch back into her lunchbox and slamming it shut with a scrowl.

"Says the boy who eats McDonald's and Donkin's all the time."

"So what," She thought, "If I'm not 90 pounds! I'm not fat..." Her eyebrows scrunched together abit. "Am I?"

Alfred started to worry abit; They teased eachother on their weight all the time, so why was Maddie getting all mad over it today? It wasn't that she was overweight, but she was just chubby. Not ugly chubby or anything but it was cute on her none the less.

"Maddie, I was just kidding! I'm just joking-" Matilda pinched his cheek before he could continue.

"Hehe, looks like your cheeks are getting chubby!" She grinned and drew her hand back before opening her lunch back up and began to eat again. Alfred mentally sighed in relief. He didn't want to hurt her feelings or anything! They were childhood friends and he didn't want to change that or make her hate him...But he didn't know why he felt so strongly about that. Hmm.

Just then, Alice Kirkland, another childhood friend of the two, came over and sat across Alfred, who stared as she moved her hips to sit down and stared at her chest; While it wasn't that big, Alfred was still looking at it just because. Matilda watched Alfred watch Alice with such perverted intents and couldn't help but wonder what she lacked that Alice had. Was it the long blond pigtails? Matilda thought that her own short, fluffy, wavy blond hair was good enough, but what if it really wasn't?

"It has to be her body. And maybe her hair. Guys like girls with long hair, don't they? She's so thin...Even her glasses are better than mine. Guys talk about her all the time..."

Alice was, indeed, rather popular with the guys. She was rather pretty, but her harsh personality and toughness made alot of the guys not try anything with her. In fact, just the other day, Francis Bonnefoy, who was the biggest flirt in school, got his hand broken from trying to touch her. She was scary.

"Maddie?" Alice's voice made Matilda snap back from thinking.

"Y-Yeah? Anyway, I have a question." Alice opened her bottle of Lipton tea and looked at the Canadian girl.

"What is it?" Matilda fidgeted abit before replying.

"How long did it take you to grow your hair out?" Alice paused to think.

"Hmm...It took me about 6 months or so. If you're thinking of growing your hair out, don't, because I don't think it would look good on you." Matilda bit her lip and began to eat again.

"Right...Alice is blunt...I guess she's right..."

"Hey, don't say that. If Maddie wants to grow her hair out let her." Alfred crossed his arms while saying so to give off a powerful feeling. Alice just rolled her emerald-eyes and sighed as polite as she could.

"Oh, shut it you git. Just eat." Matilda secretly respected Alice for being able to be so blunt and agressive; One day she wished to be like that, only not mean with it like Alice was. But Matilda didn't do much to make that wish come true because she didn't think that would suit her. Just then Matilda noticed that Alice gave a quick, sorta bashful look at Alfred, but couldn't quite place what it was. Alice had a tendency to blush whenever, so it wasn't anything new at the least. Just then Alfred grabbed both of Matilda's boobs with his hands and squeezed them.

"Lovely boobs you have there. Yep, yep, just the right size-" Alfred was interrupted by Alice smacked him on the head with her bottle, and by Matilda smacking his hands off.

"You bloody pervert! Don't go touching her chest like that!"

"Alfred, I told you to stop doing that!" Matilda flailed slightly while blushing, then proceeded to covering her chest with her arms. So what if she was a C cup that was near a D? It didn't give men the right to go touching them! Alfed rubbed his head while grinning and laughed abit before crying from Alice punching him over and over. That girl had strength when she wanted to!

"Shud up you git! God, do you have any sense of decency? Do I have to smack you so hard that you're little brain will fall out of your ear?"

"God, Alice, stop, STOP! COME ON! OWW! TEACHER, TEACHER, I'M GETTING RAPED!" Alice stopped before the teacher that was watching over the court yard would actually come over. She already had two strikes against that man and wasn't about to get a third and another trip to the principal's office. Matilda sniffled a laugh and was about to finish her lunch when the whistle to get to class was blown. Everyone seemed to groan and began to leave.

"See ya Ali-Wally, but I gotta go to gym with Maddie. Another class that you DON'T have with us!" Alfred was still rubbing it in Alice's face that she was wrong; Alice had been sure that all three of them would have all classes together, but she only had math and lunch with the two; They had every class together, much to Alice's dismay. She didn't want Alfred making any advances or even try to develop anything for Matilda! Alice loved her as a sister, yes, but she'd do anything she felt she had to do if Matilda got in the way of her perfect Romance. Alice grunted and stomped off while the other two made their way to the gym. While on the way there, Alfred began to ask Matilda questions that made her wonder if he liked a girl...

"Hey Maddie?"

"Yeah?"

"What do girls like? Where do they like to go on dates, I mean."

"Dates? Simple: Eat somewhere nice. Not at a fastfood place. Or the park on a nice day." Alfred paused and nodded.

"Kay." Matilda thought if she should ask, and then decided to.

"Do you like someone?" Alfred blushed abit.

"Yeah. She's really pretty and smart. And she has a really pretty smile, and, and, she can do alot of things, and she helps me, and, and,-" Although Matilda was listening to him at first, she began to drift off and line up the things he was saying about the girl with herself: Everything matched! Her cheeks began to turn a light red. She liked him for a while: Since 5th grade actually. Most people would be impressed with the fact that she still liked him, even though they were now in the 11th grade. One would not call that a simple "crush" anymore. Alfred grinned when he finished.

"And you know what I've never seen her wear?"

"What?"

"A dress. I think she'd look really pretty in it!"

"A dress? Now that I think about it, I haven't worn one since a was a baby...Maybe I should get one. No-Not just for him of course!"

So after school and after the three had gone their seperate ways home, Matilda decided to ask her Father to get her a dress.

"Maplekins, why would you want one? You're getting a new cellphone and we're low on money now."

"Pleeeeeaaassee Daddy? I'd even be willing to use my cellphone money for it!" Her dad looked at her in shock; Matilda had been wanting this cellphone for MONTHS and she'd give it up for a dress?

"Well...If you really want one..."

"Thank you, thank you!" Matilda hugged him and kissed him on the cheek. 10 minutes later her dad took her to the mall to buy a dress. Walking into a store her dad stayed close to her and kept a close look at the price tags. Matilda, even after searching through most of the large store couldn't find on that she wanted. Most of them were too flashy and the one's that did interest her didn't have her size.

"Gosh, is everyone a size 1 these days? Jeebus!" Just then she saw a dress that caught her eye: It was long-sleeved, stopped at above the knees, and had a turtle-neck-like collar. It was a very pretty, warm, red color.

"Dad, I found the one I want!" And, just being her luck, there was her size in the rack! Her dad looked over the price and nodded while thinking.

"Yes, this'd be ok. It's only 20 dollars, so you'd still have money for your cellphone." Matilda grinned and brought the dress up to the counter, bought it, and took it home. She smiled at the thought of wearing it the next day! She'd never really been into dress-up or anything since she was little, but now she had a newfound love for it.

When she wore it the next day, one could say that she was very pretty, much more than usual. Although she was actually quite cute and quite pretty the guys never really noticed her, but that day it seemed as if they did. In fact, the color of the beautiful dress brought out her violet-blue eyes. Seeing Alfred and Alice at the usual spot they met at outside, she rushed towards them but stopped alittle bit away from them since it seemed as though they were talking about something private. She listened in.

"Hey Alice?"

For some reason Matilda's throat seemed to tighten up.

"What?"

"Do you...I mean..."

Her heart seemed like it was stopping.

"What? Get on with it."

"I like you! So, huh, go on a date with me?" Alice paused when she saw that Matilda was watching, then, what look to Alfred as a cute smile but was actually a taunt at the Canadian, she simpily answered "Yes," and kissed him.

She felt like crashing down. Alice knew that Matilda liked him, even promised her that she wouldn't interfer or anything! Matilda clunched her dress with her hands and felt tears well up in the corner of her eyes, felt her face turn red, felt as if her heart would fall and break right there. Shaking violently, she fast walked away and went to go find Francis, her brother.

Francis was taken by surprise when Matilda had ran to him and clung to him while crying. Hugging her and stroking her hair, he was eventually able to calm her down to the point of being able to talk.

"What happened?"

"Ali-Alice...She-Sh-She broke it! She promised and she broke it! Broke it!" Francis instantly knew what she was talking about and hugged his little sister again.

"She always does this! When I want something she takes it from me! Always!" She began to sob again, causing Francis to try and stop her again.

"Maddie, calm down, you'll hyperventilate! Maddie, stop!" But she couldn't even though she tried and sure enough she began to feel like she couldn't breathe. She tried talking between coughs but it didn't work and soon she began to break out into a coughing fit. Francis noticed that Gilbert had his lunch in a paperbag; He dumped the lunch and gave it to Matilda, who began to breathe into it for about 5 minutes until she was alright again. Gilbert rubbed her back as Francis sat down on the ground with her.

"Birdie, did she really do that?" He sat next to her and put his arm around her.

"Yeah. Sniff. I guess she doesn't like me or something after all. I thought that I could make her happy so she wouldn't give me those mean looks or yell at me, so I just did my best to please her. I thought that it would stop. But then, then after awhile she tried to outdo me. She didn't even like Paramore until I told her about it: Then she bought everything from them,"

"She's so popular, and even though she can be mean, she can be so nice and alot of people like her...So I thought that...that...if I could just get on her good side then maybe I would get to be friends with more people. Her friends are so nice...But I...I can't do it anymore." Matilda brought her knees to her chest and buried her head in them. Gilbert and Francis looked at eachother.

"You stay here with Matilda. I'm gonna go have a talk with Alice..." Francis got up and began to search for the girl. Even though Francis had secretly love Alice, all the things she had done to his little sister was crossing the line! He was sure at first, maybe, Alice wasn't trying to be that bad, but maybe somewhere along the line Alice had actually begun to enjoy doing that stuff to Matilda. Finally finding Alice he pulled her aside from Alfred and into a empty area.

"What are you doing, git?" She had expected Francis to joke and smile but his face was serious and straight.

"Alice. Why did you do that to Matilda? I don't care who you go for in your love life anymore-"

""Anymore"?-"

"Don't interrupt. I don't care who you go for in your love life anymore, but you made a promise to her and you had the nerve to break it, to even hurt her like that in her face. If you hate her so much, leave her alone. I swear, if you keep on bullying her and if you hurt her one more damn time I'm going to beat your ass."

Alice was, for once in a long time, silent for just a few minutes.

"It's her fault that she didn't get him first! It's not my fault that he likes me! She should've done something! I couldn't wait forever!"

"That's because you throw yourself at him like a slut! I've seen how you move near him, I'm not blind!"

"So what? If she wants to be able to do stuff like that, maybe she should go lose weight seeing as she's fat-" Francis had punched her in the mouth before Alice could finish. Holding her mouth with her hands, she glazed her tongue over her teeth to find that he had knocked one out.

"She's not fat, you little blond cunt!" Francis stormed off; Of course Alice had tried to fight him back, but it only ended in Francis smacking her to the ground. She stayed there until he was out of sight before going to the nurse's office to get her tooth looked at. Alfred, who had just seen what happened at the last minute, grabbed Francis by the collar.

"Why the hell did you hit her?" Alfred was ready to fight him but Francis only shrugged him off and began walking away again.

"I don't have to tell you anything. It doesn't involve you personaly. Just go help your...girlfriend."

Alfred thought about beating him up but instead went to go help Alice.

"Gilbert, am I fat?" The albino stared at her, slightly shocked. He personaly thought Matilda could pull off the chubby look, but she wasn't near the fat zone.

"No, you're not. You're chubby, but it looks cute on you." Gilbert smiled and kissed her head. Matilda blushed abit and a small smile came upon her slightly red lips, from crying and biting it and all.

"Thank you. But I should stop eating sweets and things...Shouldn't I?" Gilbert smiled at her.

"If you want, but honestly, you don't need to. You're cute Birdie." Her face turned red and she looked at him through her bangs that had fallen over her eyes.

"Then you're not bad looking yourself...I mean, ah,...Yeah. Yeah, you, huh, know? Um, I'm shutting up now." Gilbert laughed and ruffled her hair and put a hand up as Francis walked back over to them.

"Well, I knocked a tooth out."

"Seriously? Front or back?" Gilbert liked hearing about fights.

"Front. I got a pretty good aim at the front." Matilda felt her own teeth hurting from hearing that.

"Um...did she do anything else?" Matilda whispered.

"She whined and crap. Just stay away from her, ok?"

"Francis...Can I hang out with you guys now?" It wasn't that Matilda never hung out with Francis and his friends, it was just that she mainly hung out with Alice and Alfred. Francis gave a soft smiled and kissed her cheek.

"Oui." Gilbert stood up, and, in the process, picked Matilda up as well, causing a small scream of surprise to come from her.

"Gil-Gilbert?" Gilbert gave a look at Francis while grinning; Francis grinned back and got Antonio, who was harassing Lovino and gathered him with them.

"Guess what we're gonna do, Birdie?" Face still red, she shrugged the best she could. Antonio began to chirp around.

"Mi Amigo, we're gonna skip!"

"Wh-What? Won't we get caught?" Gilbert winked at her and the group began to walk away from the school.

"Only if you're too loud!" She pondered whether to go or not, and decided to go with them. Making a dash towards Antonio's car, they all quickly got in and sped off before a teacher saw them.

"So," Francis turned around from the passenger seat to Matilda who was sitting in the back, "Where you wanna go first?"

Alice cursed at Francis silently while the nurse helped with her tooth. She'd make him pay! But, as she thought and thought, she traced back the beating to Matilda.

"I'll get her back."

(((*SOB* MY HAND. OOW. OWWWW. Hehe, anyway, what'd ya think? I swear, Alice wasn't supposed to act like that! It just sorta came out that way. w' So, anyone want to request where the group goes? Or Maybe what Alice should do next? Anyone? Huh? Huuuh? -SHOT-)))