The bell rang signaling that lunch was over, I was ready to get out of that awkward situation as soon as possible so I quickly turned around and said "awesome, see ya after school." The rest of the day went rather slow for a Friday, the teacher was babbling 'bout some crap that I didn't care about and was happy when the bell rang. I was getting my stuff out of my locker when I was met by a smiling Antonio.

"So mi amigo, where are you taking little nerd boy to?" he says not taking his eyes off of me.

"Ugh" I grunted as I shoved my head into the locker "I forgot about the dare"

"Well there's your chance" he says as he points to the end of the hallway were Mathew was getting his stuff ready. "Good luck and remember, 3 weeks"

"Ja ja" I closed my locker "see ya Monday"

"Adios go to go catch up to Lovi" he ran in the opposite direction where a dark haired boy with a strange curl on the side of his head was walking by. "Lovi" I could hear him say as Lovino shouted profanities at the other. I made my way to the blonde and shoved his locker close.

"Sup Mattie, the awesome me is here" what can I say I'm a good actor. He jumped when I closed the locker and turned to look at me. I caught myself staring into those eyes again so I mentally slapped myself. "So where do you wanna go?"

I could tell he was nervous. Who wouldn't? I'm awesome! "Umm…I-I really d-don't mind…actually"

That means I can chose so I'll just go somewhere people don't recognize me, this was going well so far. "Well then, let's go"

ooooOOOoooo

We were walking down the street not really talking so I decided to try to strike a conversation but the kid didn't talk much. I didn't know where to go, but I got hungry so I decided to get ice cream. There was awkward

Silence for a while, with was not awesome, until my bird popped from my hair. Thank god.

"umm…why do you have a bird on your head?"

"This is my awesome bird Gilbird" he was obviously named after the awesome me.

"can I hold him?" I started laughing witch obviously surprised him.

"kesesesese, sorry but Gilbird never lets anyone grab him other than…" I was cut off when I saw Gilbird fly into Mathew's hands then into his head and start making a nest in his hair.

"…me." It surprised me that Gilbird did that he, didn't even do that to my brother. "guess he likes you" he blushed a little and turned his head, he actually looked really cute and… NO, NO stop thinking like that it will ruin your reputation. we got to the ice cream shop and I ordered chocolate but they had ran out so we both got vanilla, how unawesome. We sat down on a bench and I saw Mathew pull out a small bottle with a weird looking liquid in it and poured it on his ice cream. "What's that?"

"Maple syrup" he said not taking his eyes off his ice cream.

"Never tried it" he suddenly looked at me wide eyed.

"You've never tried it!" he yelled. I was slightly taken back by the sudden outburst of the shy teen "how have you not tried it!" he yelled getting closer to my face.

"Wow dude chill, I'll try it ok? I poured it on my ice cream trying to figure out what could be so great about this thing. I liked my ice cream and my eyes widened. "mein gott birdie this is awesome!" I suddenly froze, realizing what I just said.

"What?"

"what, what?" I said, maybe he didn't hear me so I won't say it again.

"N-no nothing, never mind" good, he didn't hear me.

The weather was nice around this time, I noticed the wind was blowing and it made Mathews hair wave. I noticed the weird curl on his head, I noticed it last time but I though his hair was just messed up because he got tripped. "hey Mattie"

"yea, what is it?"

"why do you have that weird curl in front of your face?" his face got red, almost as red as Lovino's when he is mad at Antonio. Now I was really curious.

"Eh, i-its n-nothing"

"That doesn't look like nothing" I said getting closer.

"R-really G-Gilbert i-it's n-nothing" his stuttering really suited him he looks so cut- damnit stop, don't you dare finish that word.

"umm…Gil…" I suddenly realized how close our faces were, so I baked up. There was now awkward silence. "it's getting late I should probably be heading home"

"where do you live" what the hell did I just ask?

"not far, my house is two blocks away"

"awesome mine too, let's go" we started walking making little conversation, when we got there I noticed that he lived not far from my house. When he opened the door to his house I remembered something. "hey do you think I could have some syrup?"

"sure, I think I have an extra bottle. You can come in while I go look for it"

I closed the door behind be, he had a nice house. While I was looking around I suddenly found myself face to face with the floor, I looked around and saw a white furry thing behind me. Mattie still owned stuffed animals?

"are you ok Gilbert?" Mathew was in front of me holding a bottle of maple syrup.

"yea I'm ok" I was about to ask him why he still had teddy bears when I was cut off.

"who are you?"

"what the hell? Did that thing just talk?"

"it's a polar bear" he said as thought that was the most normal thing in the world.

"who are you?" the thing asked again.

"I'm the awesome Gilbert" the polar bear looked at me, then at his owner.

"who are you?" Mathew sighted, it seemed they have gone through this before.

"I'm Mathew, your owner" the bear looked at him for a moment then said "hungry"

"I'll feed you in a minute" he said handing me the bottle. I thanked him and headed for the door.

"I'll see ya tomorrow" what the hell did I just say!?

"really"

I was gonna say Monday, not tomorrow. Ok just fix it. "sure, I'll pass by tomorrow" damnit what the hell is wrong with me!?

"ok sounds fun" my inner fight suddenly stopped, he was smiling. i mentally slapped myself and went outside closing the door behind me, what the hell was that?