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After what had happened I ran until I collapsed from hunger. I had injuries everywhere from where I would get caught on thorns, branches, or fall. I dreamed that it was all just a dream that Mattie was still alive and we were living happily. "Hey!" I heard the loud voice startled me awake.

"Hmm?" I asked.

"Are you okay?" he asked me.

"Fine, just leave me be." I replied annoyed.

"You don't look like it." he remarked. I glared at him weakly. My stomach chose that moment to growl. He looked at me and raised a fine white eyebrow. "You're fine hmm?" he asked snidely. I went blushed red and turned my head in embarrassment.

"Maybe not so fine." I admitted.

"You don't say." he remarked. "So what's your name?" he asked me.

"Alfred, what's yours?" I replied.

"Gilbert." was his simple answer. He reached into his jacket and pulled out some bread. I assumed he was just going to eat it infront of me. He held it out to me. I looked into his eyes questionly, but still took it and ate it. "Here," he held out his hand to me. At first I was confused. Then I thought of something. I grabbed his hand. He took me to his house and took care of me. Once I was well enough I went out to the harbor. I stand out of character. I am as quiet as my brother. I look at the dark blue calm sea. I hold my brother's cloak around my shoulders. My tears silently fall and land into the ocean. I make a habit of doing that. Going out to the harbor just so that I can cry. One day before I go out Gilbert begins a chat with me.

"Alfred?" he asked with his mouth full of the snack I made.

"What?" I asked, of course I was no better.

"Well the other day I was out by the harbor and I seen a boy that looked like you, but you were inside." Gilbert told me. I looked at him startled.

"Really, you probably seen the ghost of my younger twin brother then." I told him with a small frown.

"Tell me about him." he declared curiously.

"Well he was kind, polite, quiet, my exact oppoite. We were twins. I miss him." I told him with tears in my eyes as I remembered our memories.

"What happened?" he asked me.

"I-I-I can't tell you." I sobbed. I really did want to tell him, but I didn't want to lose my friend.

"Why?" he asked me. I could hear the hurt in his voice.

"You wouldn't understand." I told him. It was true he really wouldn't understand. He dropped it. I went out to the harbor after that. I remember a time when the two of us were about 5 and 1/2 or so.

"Mattie why would I do that? I don't get it." I complained.

"Well don't you have any wish you want to be granted?" he asked me.

"But won't you make any wish I have come true?" I asked with a childish air.

"I don't think I could make all your wishes come true." Mattie smiled at me.

"Fine I will." I finally gave in.

'I wish that my twin brother Matthew and I could be together forever.' That was what I had sent out to sea. "What was your wish Mattie?" I asked my twin.

"I can't tell you or it won't come true." Mattie answered.

"Okay." I replied. We then broke into a giggle fit as we watched our bottles float out to sea. I feel like I'm such a horrid brother. I made him get his hands all bloody. My sweet kind innocent brother. He always did anything I asked no matter how troublesome. I was a selfish brother that hurt him for so long. Noone really was kind to me, but him. I hate how he took the death penalty in my place. I remeber the sea grants wishes. I run inside and grab a bottle, a paper, and a pencil. On the paper I write, 'I wish Mattie and I could be reborn again and togther.' I run back out to sea and catch my breath by the harbor. I throw the bottle out to the sea. I am full of regret over what I did and I have finally seen how I sinned. "If only we could be reborn together..." I whisper out to the sea. I walked back inside as the sunset. Gilbert looked at me curiously, but we didn't really talk over dinner. I made up my mind that I would tell him tomorrow. We went to bed and I dreamed of Mattie again. I walked down to the kitchen. Gilbert already had the food done. I went and took my seat. "Gilbert..." I began. He looked at me. "Do you still want to know what happened, why I am here?" I asked.

"If you're gonna tell me." he replied. I nodded.

"Truth is I was the king of the yellow kingdom, but I was raised to be the way I was. Mattie was my younger twin and my most loyal servant. He was also my best friend. Our kingdom had started to crumble and he made me switch places with him. He made me live while he died. That was more a punishment than death if you ask me. I'm sorry." I told Gilbert. He looked at me.

"So Mattie was the kinder twin." I nodded.

"I wish I could have given him the throne." I whispered. Gilbert looked at me with pity in his eyes.

"What's done is done. No sense crying over past mistakes. Fix them in the future." Gilbert told me. I nodded. We broke and went our separate ways. I went out to the harbor and cried again.

"Ru ri ra. Ru ri ra." I sang to the sea with tears in my eyes.

~~~~~~~~Time travel~~~~~~~~~

"Yo Mattie what ya reading?" I asked my younger brother Matthew Williams or Canada.

"A sad true story." he answered with tears in his eyes. I held him in an embrace. He cried into my shoulder.


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