Something I forgot to mention last chapter: Brian no longer has a nose, just a scar where it used to be. The same is true for Steve, although the way I was planning to write the previous chapter, we would only know for sure that Brian's nose was gone.

I have a week off from school, and my only homework is something self-assigned for art, which will only take a minute or two. So my goal is to post a chapter a day. Of course, I never said it specifically had to be a chapter of this story, and I have all sorts of ideas, so I've got something up on Wattpad where I can add pictures, and there may be more stories appearing either there or here. If you want to check out what I've got up on Wattpad, my username there is HopeRoseDawnfire.

I still do not own Minecraft.

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"Alex, it's time for you to get up," Oliver said.

The little girl blinked blearily up at him and sat up in bed.

"Good morning, Oli-" her greeting was cut off by a yawn.

"Good morning, Alex. Now, why don't you get yourself ready for school, and I'll have breakfast waiting for you when you come out," Oliver told her, and then left the room.

Alexandra grabbed her brown tunic and grey boots from the chest beside her bed. She pulled them on, then turned back to the chest, gathering up a couple of things she thought she might want at school: her diary, a bit of ink and a quill to draw in it with (since she didn't know how to write yet), a pale green cap she put on immediately, and a dried poppy just because it was pretty. Stuffing the stuff in a bag, she walked out to join Oliver.

As Alex entered the room, she saw Oliver cutting a watermelon at the table. He pointed her towards a chair, and as she sat down he set a slice of melon on the table in front of her, along with the pumpkin pie that was already there.

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Steve, Brian, and Jacquie were the first kids in the classroom. This was because the woman taking care of them while they were in Westmore was worried that Brian would have trouble getting to school with his blurry eyesight, and so had made them leave early. Brian's blurry vision did not wind up slowing them down at all, and so they had arrived early as well.

They waited for a while, the twins sitting and talking to each other and Jacquie chatting with the teacher. Eventually, other kids started arriving. The looks on most of their faces, when they saw the brothers' scars where their noses should be and Brian's white eyes, weren't particularly nice. Steve hoped somebody would be friendlier.

There! The girl who had just come in got a look of pity, rather than disgust, when she saw Steve and Brian. Her nose was weirdly tiny, and she was getting some of the same looks that Steve and Brian were. When she noticed her face grew confused. Since nobody else seemed friendly, she wandered over to join Steve, Brian, and Jacquie.

"Hi," she said, "I'm Alex. Who are you?"

"I'm Steve," Steve gestured at Brian, "and this is my twin."

"I'm Brian," his brother added.

"And I'm their friend Jacqueline." Jacquie smiled at the other girl.

The girl- Alex, her name was Alex- smiled back, then switched to a more serious expression, and asked, "What happened to your noses and Brian's eyes?"

"A balcony collapsed onto us a couple years ago," Brian explained. "Jacquie warned us, but we weren't able to escape it entirely. Chunks of stone hit both of us in the nose, and my eyes got filled with dust. And then the doctor wasn't very helpful. We probably would have been fine given time to heal, but he decided to remove our noses, and put something on my eyes that made them turn white and turned my vision permanently blurry."

Alex nodded, saying "Yeah, that doesn't sound like a very helpful doctor."

"I didn't trust him much before that, and I haven't trusted him at all since," Steve added. "Brian and me try to keep from getting hurt or sick so we don't have to go see him."

After that, the conversation turned to less serious things, until class started.

"Hello, students," the teacher said once she had their attention. "I'm Teagan Laron. Please call me Teagan or Teacher. Today we'll be getting to know each other a bit, and then tomorrow we will start learning."

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Yes, I know "Brian and me" should really be "Brian and I." I wrote the mistake in there on purpose, I mean it's their first ever day of school, they can't possibly all have perfect grammar.

A response to Laner's latest review: It is indeed a new twist to Herobrine's story, and what I have planned for the progression (in mindset, he's already pretty much Herobrine in looks) from Brian to Herobrine is, I think, fairly unique as well. I'm glad you also think my story is original, there are such a lot of Minecraft fanfics out there and it feels good knowing that I'm not just creating another version of a cliche. Thank you.