Well I got more ninja-readers adding alerts and favorite story, so I'm going to assume that people like this once again. Though I did get more reviews this time around, so yay 3 This chapter may come off as confusing, hopefully not. It's going to be Arthur's pov and Alfred's pov in this chapter. For reasons that will become clear.

Warning: Suicide mentioned by guest speaker

And so here we go:


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Arthur groaned as his alarm clock started going off. Student council had so many problems come up, and most of them submitted by the same person, he had made a mental note to hit the certain student over the head, but ended up completely forgetting about it. And then OF COURSE the same person would have to show up knocking on the window at 2 AM wanting a study session. And being the gentleman he was, Arthur wasn't going to slam the window shut.

But now he suffered for it. Arthur slammed the top of the clock and forced himself upright, blinking blearily at his surroundings. He dimly remembered Alfred leaving the room around 4…or was it 5? Either way, two hours was not enough sleep for someone in high school. Especially not someone who had to stay awake for an assembly due to take place that morning. In less than two hours. Arthur shook his head and stumbled from his bedroom, wandering over to the bathroom.

Promptly, sticking his head under the faucet, he let cold water run over the back of his head in an attempt to wake himself up. It worked. Sort of. Arthur stumbled back across to his bedroom, and yanked open a dresser drawer to find an outfit for the day. He hit his forehead on the top of his dresser and just stood in one spot, half tempted in just curling back up in bed to get more sleep. "Roderich would never let me hear the end of it…" Arthur sighed before pulling out a random shirt and jeans.

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Alfred had ended up staying up the whole night, so he was completely energetic and bouncing around the house. "Come on, Mattie! Let's go let's go!"

"Shut up…" Matthew wandered into the kitchen, rubbing his head with a sleepy expression, "Since when are you so energetic in the morning…"

"Pulled an all-nighter, I got energy to spare!" Alfred pumped his fist in the air before handing Matthew a plate of pancakes…a plate of green pancakes.

Matthew clapped a hand over his mouth at the gag reflex and promptly threw them in the trashcan when Alfred's back was turned, plate and all, "Thanks Alfred."

"No problem! Let's go!" Alfred bounced out of the room, completely oblivious to what his brother had done with the breakfast.

"Yeah sure." Matthew sighed, grabbing his backpack and walking out of the house after his brother.

"You ate that fast." Alfred looked over his shoulder, at the end of the sidewalk already.

Matthew just shrugged and walked past him without saying anything.

"Dude you must be super hungry in the morning~ You eat your breakfast before the rest of us even turn around!" Alfred skipped along behind him, "…you are eating it right?"

"Yes Alfred." Matthew sighed heavily.

Alfred tilted his head slightly in concern, "Your ribs still hurt? I can still take you to the hospital!" It would be totally heroic to escort his brother to the hospital!

"NO, AND NO." Matthew snapped.

"Aw, man, seriously. . ." Alfred pouted but let the subject drop after that.

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Arthur arrived at school, dropping his backpack into his locker without a second thought. "What time is that assembly…"

"Now." Roderich said flatly, appearing beside him.

"Oh of course it is. We're not sitting with our first class?" Arthur asked, shutting his locker door and following along.

"No. It doesn't much matter where we sit. As long as we fill in all the seats and don't leave empty spaces." Roderich commented, he sounded like a teacher.

Arthur just let out a sigh and walked into the already dark auditorium, "Ugh. How are we supposed to bloody see?"

"Just walk down the aisle." Roderich grumbled.

Arthur ended up finding two seats at the end of a row near the front and plopped down in one. Roderich sat next to him, crossing his arms, "This had better be good."

"It didn't say what the subject was, did it?" Arthur asked, ignoring the inane chatter of the students around him.

"No."

Arthur looked back front again, watching as students milled in around them to claim empty seats.

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"Oh man, assembly! Hurry up Mattie!" Alfred dragged Matthew along behind him to the auditorium.

"Slow down!" Matthew sighed, "You don't have to be in such a hurry!"

"I wanna get a good seat! It might be something totally awesome!" Alfred grinned.

"And it might be something totally boring." Matthew grumbled, but tried to quicken his pace to match his brother's long strides.

Alfred found them two seats near the front and sat down, bouncing up and down in his seat like a child would, "This is gonna be awesome! We get out of class! Hey if it takes long enough, maybe I won't have to worry about that test after all!"

"That's why you were up all night." Matthew slapped a hand to his forehead, "You went over to Arthur's house again, didn't you?"

"Well yeah. He's got notes from every single day, well except for yesterday, but no big deal on that! I don't think we covered anything important." Alfred shrugged it off.

Matthew just gave him a blank look, "And didn't you get sent to the office yesterday during that class?"

"Well yeah. Meh. He got distracted by me and Gilbert having a totally fun time." Alfred gave Matthew a thumbs-up, "Hey! Arthur's sitting across the aisle from us!"

Matthew sighed heavily.

Alfred leaned forward, trying to catch Arthur's attention, but it seemed the green-eyed male was looking for someone in the crowd of people. Alfred pouted and leaned back again.

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"Can I have your attention?" A male speaker tapped the microphone up on the stage.

Arthur was already half-falling asleep, "About time…"

"No sleep I take it?" Roderich whispered, with an all-knowing smile.

"Shut up, git." Arthur glared at him before turning his attention forward.

Arthur leaned back in his seat, trying to find a comfortable position, hopefully whatever this was, didn't take too long and they could leave and get back to class. Where that test was waiting. He did NOT want to miss a perfectly good night's sleep for nothing.

"I understand some of you would much rather be in class right now…some of you would rather not be in school at all…some of you would do anything to get out of class…" The speaker started.

Arthur rolled his eyes and slapped a hand to his forehead, "It's speakers like these that make these things drag on. Just get to the damn point already." He could hear Roderich laughing at his comment.

"And there is a minority of you…sitting in this room at this very moment…who wouldn't want to be here or anywhere at all."

Arthur raised both eyebrows at the speaker, now slightly more alert than he had been before, "What is this about?"

Roderich just gave a heavy sigh, "This is one of those speakers, isn't it?"

Arthur looked at him in confusion, but Roderich didn't clarify.

"I know to many of you, this may seem like a big joke, but I assure you, this is no laughing matter. The teenage suicide rate has increased this past year, and there are many speakers going around to different schools to try and educate the student body to be more attentive of their surroundings."

Arthur held his head in his hands, "Oh…my…word…I missed sleep…for this."

Roderich nodded in silence, "For this."

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Alfred just listened in awed silence. He leaned forward and noticed Arthur looked like he was complaining to Roderich. Out of the corner of his eye, Alfred could see Matthew was completely focused on the speaker. Alfred turned back forward again and continued listening.

"Every single teenage suicide can be prevented. Look at your fellow students around you. How many of you talked to, on a daily basis? How many of the students around you, do you notice, but never bother to do anything about, walk by themselves to every class? Who don't have friends to talk to like you might?"

Alfred looked around him at all the different heads who were doing the same thing he was. His eyes met Arthur's briefly and he couldn't resist waving.

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Arthur rolled his eyes but did a half-wave in response and turned back to the front in annoyance.

"Would you notice, if that one person you never spoke to, stopped coming to school? If they never showed up again to class, would you wonder why?"

"Well who wouldn't?" Roderich grumbled under his breath, but still loud enough for Arthur to hear him.

Arthur looked at Roderich in silence before turning back to the front.

"How many of your classmates suffer in silence because they don't want to burden their troubles on someone else?"

Arthur held his head in his hands again, "How long must I endure this?"

Roderich shook his head with a sigh.

"You alone, can make a difference in one student's life. Just by reaching out to them and saying hello, you could change their mind for one day."

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"How many people do we gotta say hi to?" Alfred whispered to Matthew, who just looked at him in silence.

"You can prevent acts of suicide just by keeping your eyes open and staying alert to your surroundings. Report any suspicious activity of another student to a teacher. If you see someone by themselves in the hall, say hello when you pass by. Don't just ignore them. Making them feel like they don't exist is the worst thing you can do to a person."

"Preaching to the choir, dude." Alfred nodded, for reasons unknown to him, Matthew let out a long sigh.

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Arthur stretched his arms up as they were leaving the auditorium, "That damn presentation…"

"It lasted for three hours! Three! We could have been in class that entire time! What a waste!" Roderich snapped, stalking past him, "That was the worst time of my life!"

Arthur followed along behind him in silence, listening to the words echo in his head over and over. 'Suicide rate has gone up…classmates suffer in silence…' Arthur shook his head fiercely. 'I am not depressed. That's just stupid.' Arthur felt as if something heavy was falling over him and sighed as Roderich continued cursing.


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I inadvertently put Roderich in this one, when he's also going to be in Gilbert's companion fanfiction, so sorry for those of you who are reading this one and that one, it's going to kinda double up on your Roderich intake. XD Actually, to the few of you reading Matthew's companion fanfiction, you're gonna get more Alfred, too. =w=; Sorry. And sorry about the dots, wasn't sure how to make the transition between Arthur and Alfred any easier.