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"Daddy, why are there letters carved on the wall?" Matthew asks Arthur one late spring afternoon.

Hearing him, Arthur goes to Matthew and kneels down to look at the letters Matthew was talking about. He hums and traces his fingers on the letters.

They were carved poorly but Arthur was able to read what was written. They were names of past owners who owned the house before them. The names were properly children and underneath their names were their ages.

Arthur looks at the names and a she slowly creeps up to his face.

"Matthew, be a sea and call Alfred. I have an idea." Arthur tells him. Matthew nods and runs off to find his twin brother.

While Matthew went to get Alfred, Arthur goes to the kitchen to fetch a small knife.

The three of them form around the wall where the names were carved after Matthew brought Alfred and Arthur brought the knife.

"Okay, Alfred because your the oldest, you go first okay?" Arthur tells him. Alfred nods.

Standing by the wall with his back pressed, Arthur sits on his knees and starts to carve Alfred's name and age above Alfred's head.

When he was done, Arthur calls Matthew up. Alfred moves away and Matthew stands in the same spot as Alfred. Arthur does the same as before and carved Matthews age and name.

When he was done, both boys look at the wall.

Alfred looks at his dad and asks him, "why are our names on the wall daddy?"

"It's just a way to keep track on how tall you've both have grown." Arthur tells him. "Like for example, Matthew has grown an inch taller than you Alfred." Arthur points out.

Alfred gasps and looks at the wall. Sure enough, his father was right. Matthew was a much taller than he was.

"What? But I'm the oldest! How's Mattie taller than me?!" Alfred asks.

Arthur shrugs. "Oh I don't know Alfred. Maybe because Matthew actually eats his vegetables when he's supposed to." Arthur says. Arthur knew Alfred hated vegetables. Ever since he was able to eat regular food, Arthur has tried to get Alfred to eat vegetables. But eve since he ate it, Alfred has grown a dislike of them.

Alfred gags at the mention of vegetables. "But vegetables are gross!" Alfred shouted.

"They're not good, like burgers!"

Matthew rolls his eyes.

Arthur shrugs his shoulders again. "Well either you start eating vegetables or you stay short forever. It's your choice."

Since that day, Alfred, unfortunately started eating vegetables. Except for broccoli.


Arthur sighs when he sees the inside of the fridge. There was nothing inside except for cream cheese, half a milk carton and mayonnaise.

Arthur closes the fridge. He takes out his wallet to see if he had any money.

He had enough to last them a week. He puts his wallet away and walks to the backyard where Alfred and Matthew were playing tag.

"Alfred, Matthew, come here a sec." Arthur calls out to them.

Hearing their father, the boys stop playing and they run to their father.

"What is it daddy?" Alfred asks.

Arthur kneels down to look at them and asks them, "How would you feel about going food shopping?"


It's been a while since Arthur has actually been around other people. Ever since Marianne's death, Arthur has basically avoided people. So, when he walked down the road to the shop where they sold food Arthur was pretty nervous.

Before they left, Arthur looked around the shack to see if he could find something that'll transport them to the shop without having to walk the whole way.

Luckily he managed to find a bike with a basket on the front of it thatvwas big enough to carry stuff. It was blue and had a bit of rust on it but with a good wash, it'll look right as new.

Arthur decided to carry Matthew on his back with Alfred sitting at the front riding with him. Taking the bike to the road, Arthur tells the boys, "Be careful alright? I don't want anyone to fall."

They nodded and very slowly, Arthur rides the bike down the road.

To say the least, Alfred had fun riding the bike with his father while Matthew dozed off and fell asleep.


Once they arrived to a small flea market, Arthur parked the bike and goes inside the shop to buy food. When he got everything that he needed, he goes to the cash register to pay.

When the cashier tells him the price he needed to pay, Arthur takes his wallet out. He takes the money out and better he could give it to him, Arthur realised that after today, he was broke.

With that sudden realization, it dawned him that he was now going to have to find that to get money.

Very hesitantly, Arthur hands the cashier the money and he leaves with the food.

On his way out, he accidentally bumps into a young women who. Arthur apologetically smiles. "Sorry ma'am."

The women shakes her head. "No it's alright."

Arthur nods and he walks to his bike. He calls Alfred and Matthew who were looking at some toys and the three of them go off to home.

The lady watches them with interest.

"Hey, Mr. Wang." The women says to a Wang Yao, a Chinese man with long hair tied back in a low ponytail and wearing a dark green shirt with sleeve too long for his arms. He exited out his shop where Arthur came out to restock.

He looks at the women. "Who is that man? I haven't seen him around before."

"Oh, that is Arthur. Tino mentioned him a while ago, aru." Wang tells her. "He is very strange." He added.

The women looks at him in confusion. "How so, eh?" She asks.

"He keeps to himself." Wang says. "Not to mention, when Tino first showed him a house away from people, he quickly took it. Also he's jumpy, aru. Very odd man. And his son is loud too." Wang shakes his head.

"Young people are so immature." He mumbles to himself and he starts to restock.

The women nods and she looks at the new, strange family.


Later that night, Arthur was taking the boys a shower before they went to bed.

Here's scrubbing Alfred's hair but he was having a difficult time trying to keep Alfred in place since he kept moving around. But right now he was focused on other things.

After he finished washing them and getting them into bed, Arthur was at the living room sitting in front of the picture of Marianne.

"I'm thinking about selling some old stuff we don't need like baby clothes and toys the boys don't need." He says. "There's a lot of things they have outgrown already and I know there's some things I need to get rid of too. But I know by now, with money running dangerously low, it's about time I start searching for a job or something." He sighs.

"But I know selling stuff isn't going to last long but what exactly can I sell that'll make a lot of money?"


A day or two passed and since the boys were getting close to becoming four, Arthur decided to take the boys out into the woods and teach them how to hunt.

"Four months after coming into the world, the wolf pup begins to hunt." Arthur reads out loud to Alfred and Matthew who were sitting on the ground.

"I want you both to go out and catch some nice or some little critters okay?"

"Okay!" Alfred shouted and without another word, Alfred turns into a wolf and runs off to catch some animals. Matthew on the other hand, stayed put.

Seeing his son, Arthur asks him, "Matthew, aren't you going to join your brother?"

Matthew shakes his head. "Why not?"

Instead of answering his father, Matthew ask him, "can we go home now?"

Arthur kneels down on one knee and asks him, "Don't you want to get in touch with your wolf side? You know hunting can be fun if you try it."

Matthew shakes his head.

Arthur sighs but nods a little.


It was raining outside some days later and Arthur had just finished drying the laundry. While he was at the living room and he was about to fold them, the twins come running to him. They looked scared.

"Someone's here!" Alfred shouted.

Arthur looks outside where he was and sure enough, there was a red small car parked in front of the house. Someone gets out and they were were holding a bag. The person, who was a women, stands by the door, waiting for someone to answer.

Arthur puts the shirt away and walks to answer the door.

Once he did, the women smiles nervously.

"H-hello...my name is Madeleine Williams." The women, Madeleine, tells Arthur. "I'm sorry to drop by unannounced but no one knew your number and I ummm..." She was blushing nervously.

Arthur nods a little. "Yeah, no, it's no problem. Please come in." Arthur moves away from the door and allows Madeleine inside.

When she did, Madeleine looks at the house in surprise. "Wow. This is amazing." She looks at Arthur. "Did you do this all on your own, eh?"

Arthur nods. "Yep."

"Amazing." She whispers in awe.

Arthur blushes. He clears his throat akwardly and asks her, "So, what brings you here?"

Madeleine hums in confusion then she quickly remembers. "Yes, right. Well you see, I just wanted to welcome you and your sons to the neighborhood. I know moving to a new environment can be rough but I want you to know that if you need anything, please, don't hesitate to ask."

Arthur nods. "Um, thank you but that's not necessary. The boy and I are capable of handling things ourselves."

Madeleine slowly nods. She hears a sneeze behind her. Madeleine turns around and she sees Alfred and Matthew hiding behind the wall, looking at them while they talked.

Matthew was the one to sneeze so when he and his brother were caught, Matthew and Alfred run to their rooms.

"Oh, sorry about that, they're shy." Arthur says.

Madeleine shakes her head. "Not a problem."

Sighing, Madeleine says, "well it was nice to meet you but I have to go. I'm sorry." She apologized.

Arthur dismissively shakes his head. "No need to say sorry. I'm happy that you came all this way to greet my family and I. It was really sweet of you."

Madeleine smiles, her violet eyes sparking. For a split second, Arthur suddenly thought of Marianne. It was odd, now that he thought about it, Madeleine looked like Marianne. They had the same violet eyes, the same chestnut hair, only Madeleine's was a little darker, Madeleine could possibly look like a younger version of Marianne.

Arthur shakes his head thinking that the possibility of actually meeting his wife's family member was insane. As far as Marianne has told him, she lost contact with them after she graduated high school and moved to the city.

If anything, it was a coincidence that Madeleine looked like Marianne.


~Some Time Later~

"Alfred! Matthew!"

The boys ran to their father who was in the shack.

"Yeah daddy?" They asked.

Arthur looks at them and asks them, "Take that cardboard box up to your room and put clothes or toys you don't need anymore in that box okay?"

"Educate we moving again?" Alfred asks. Arthur shakes his head.

"No. We're going to start a yard sale." He tells him. "We're running out of money so its about time we start selling some old stuff." Arthur smiles at them. "Would you two like to be my little helpers?" He asks them.

Alfred and Matthew nod with huge smiles. "Yeah!" They shouted in unison.

Arthur smiles and has his sons run back home and to their rooms.


Arthur decided to put up signs around the area so he could have the neighbors know that there was a yard sale. He hoped that they would spread the word and that more people will come since he found some interesting stuff in the shack.

Arthur, who was accompanied by Alfred and Matthew, had just put a sign on Mr. Wang's shop.

Once he was taping it, he and the boys were about to leave when they encountered Madeleine.

"Hello, Arthur." She cheerfully said with a welcoming and surprised smile. "What are you doing here, eh?"

"Hello Madeleine. I'm just putting up signs about a yard sale I'm having." He tells her. "I would love to chat but I'm very busy so excuse me."

Madeleine nods and she watches Arthur and his sons walk away. After they were gone, Madeleine looks at the sign that was hanging on the wall with some other papers.

The yard sale was this Saturday. Madeleine smiles. "Maddie, what are you looking at?" A rough French accent asks her.

Madeleine turns around and smiles a little at the man who spoke to her.

"It's nothing papa. I'm just looking at this flyer for this yard sale." She explains to her father.

The man known as Madeline's father walks next to her and looks at the flyer.

It was poorly advertised and it really didn't stand out since it didn't have any color or some pictures in it. Seriously, how was anyone going to come if the flyer itself was bland?

Sensing that her father was judging the flyer, Madeleine says "Papa, maybe we should go to the yard sale." She suggested. "Who knows, they could be selling some interesting stuff." She says with a shrug.

Her father scoffs. Blowing some smoke away, he says in a bitter voice, "I highly doubt that Maddie." He takes another drag out of his cigarette and blows it out. "That man is not going to last long out here."


AN: I would have continued it but I'm trying to refrain from making these chapters long. Okay so already I have introduced China, Fem!Canda and 2P!France. Since this is my first time actually writing these characters, please tell me how I did because I feel I got their personalities wrong.

So you all know the drill and until the next chapter I will see you guys later.

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