I'll tell you now, this is SHORT! VERY VERY SHORT! The explanation is in the end note, but for now, just enjoy this little segment of JARLOS bromance! ENJOY!
The next morning came fast, all boys feeling drained of sleep. Sluggishly, James pulled himself out of bed, slamming his fist down on his alarm clock, silencing it. Rubbing his eyes, he made his way over to Logan's bed.
"Logan," He lightly shook his shoulder, stirring the boys from his sleep, "Wake up."
Noticing the boys had been thoroughly woken, he proceeded to march up to Kendall, shaking him rougher than he did with Logan, know the boy was a heavy sleeper.
"WAKE UP KENDALL!" James yelled in his ear, finally shocking Kendall from his sleep. In doing so, he also woke Carlos from his slumber. "Get ready for school Carlos." He called over to the little boy nicely.
The four boys proceeded to have their showers, get dresses, clean their rooms and pack their bags before heading downstairs to breakfast. Mrs Knight had made pancakes for the boys – plain, blueberry, chocolate and cinnamon. She also had out a plate of cooked bacon, scrambled eggs and fresh fruit beside the maple syrup, sugar jar, butter and lemons. The whole lot looked and smelt delicious.
"Looks wonderful Jennifer, what's the special occasion?" Logan asked, staking his plate with two blueberry pancakes with maple syrup, scrambled eggs and some watermelon and grapes from the fruit bowl.
"Thank you Logan, I just thought that this weekend was a little eventful, and you all deserved a nice treat to lighten things up a bit, considering you have school today." Mrs Knight smiled cheerfully, placing a cinnamon pancake on her plate.
"Well thank you very much, it's delicious!" James smiled, mouth full bacon and eggs.
Carlos silently took a small plain pancake and placed it on his plate, starring at it for a good minute. He looked up to see his mum looking at his with a questioning glace. Carlos just gave a small smile before placing a tiny dollop of butter onto the pancake. He then poked and played with his food, not eating anything.
Mrs Knight saw the strange behaviour of her youngest child but decided against mentions it out loud, hoping to steer away from any more confrontations or arguments for a while.
Kendall ate greedily, munching his way through six pancakes, 3 strips of bacon, 2 servings of eggs and multiple dips at the fruit platter. He looked at Mrs Knight briefly, nodding slightly and leaving the table to grab his backpack.
Mrs Knight signed, when was she going to get through to that boy? Most importantly, how?
She waved her four sons off as they walked together to school, not much conversation being shared.
Carlos struggled to keep up with his bigger brothers' footsteps, starting to trial behind. James noticed this and stopped for a minute, letting him catch up. Silently, he softly took Carlos' tiny hand into his, helping him keep up with his eldest brother.
The other two went ahead, splitting up and meeting with their friends.
James saw his friends as soon as he reached the front gate, waving when they called out to him.
"Sup James!" A blonde boy high fived him.
"Hey guys." James addressed everyone, "Hey mate, who're you?" He smiled when he saw a new boy in the group.
"Name is Allister. Nice to meet you James. I just moved her on Saturday, I'm a distant friend of Sally here." Allister held his hand out politely, James shaking it with a smile.
"Nice to have you on board Allister!"
"Who's the little one?" Allister asked, noticing the tan child holding James' hand.
"That's my little brother, Carlos." James said.
"Brother?" Allister scrunched up his eye brows.
"Yeah..." James raised one of his eyebrows in question.
"Oh, it's just that... well he's Hispanic and you're not." Allister as well as a couple others in the group looked confused.
"Oh, well..." James hadn't told many people he was adopted, thinking people would judge him. That was one of the reason's he didn't hang out with his brothers – then no questions would be asked.
He signed, knowing that there was no way out of this one. "We're adopted brothers." He explained.
"Oh, that's cool! So your family adopted him?" Allister seemed quite interested.
"Ahh, not quite... We're both adopted." James looked downwards, embarrassed.
"Dude, that's so cool! Is it just the two of you and your parents?"
"No, there are four of us adopted boys. Us and our mum, Jennifer." James smiled weakly.
"Man, that is so cool! I had a friend in my old town who was adopted. A year or so older than me. When I grow up, I'm thinking of adopting too! I think it's an awesome program. Lots of nice kids." Allister smiled widely. James joined him, liking the acceptance and support.
"Well Allister, nice to talk with you, we'll have to catch up again soon. Right now though, I gotta drop Carlos off at his class. See you!" James waved as he walked Carlos to his classroom.
"Here you go..." James said softly. He had never held hands with Carlos and had never walked him to class before, so this was a first. "I better get going." He nodded to Carlos before walking off.
"Wait." A small voice mumbled. James turned around and looked at Carlos.
"Thank you." Carlos mumbled sincerely, looking down.
"That's alright," James smiled, "brother."
Carlos looked up at that, smiling. Waving as his brother left.
Yes, yes, yes, horribly short! I know! I am just really tired and with Christmas soon, I'm busy and would like to update beforehand! I'll try to get another short or medium chapter done tomorrow to make up for this, but for now, I thought I'd leave you with something little, It's better than nothing! Answer my poll, REVIEW, and give me your suggestions!
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