So first starters, I passed my German test! (whoo!) second off, I jammed my finger doing something stupid T-T typing has never been harder! A word for all the cheerleaders out there: if you haven't thrown a round off back handspring in about a year and a half, don't do it! Get a spot! *trying to relive the glory days T-T*

Once again, Natalia was rifling through her backpack trying to find her car keys. She always made a mental note to put them on a lanyard, but she always forgot when she got home. She sighed and put her backpack on the top of her car. But as she looked up, she caught a glimpse of Matthias waving to a group of girls and walking towards his car. Natalia looked at the car now in front of her. It was Matthias's car.

Her search for her keys became even more desperate, she didn't want Matthias to know that she was hurt beyond belief about Lukas, and that everyone had abandoned her. It truly is a sad when you wake up and realize that everyone is over you, and you're not quite over them. Natalia was feeling the effects of that realization all too much today, and she just wanted to get away. But of course, Matthias walked up before she could find her elusive keys.

"Hey Natalia," Matthias cheerfully waved at her as he neared his car. He was greeted with an icy glare of Natalia.

"What's wrong Natalia?" Matthias seemingly innocently asked, although he knew damned well what was wrong. Natalia said nothing, but kept glaring.

Matthias put a hand on the back of his neck and rubbed it uneasily, "Aw, don't tell me you're upset about Lukas and his new girlfriend!"

Natalia shook her head incredulously and she returned to her now frantic search for her keys. If she dropped them somewhere, she would walk home and get them tomorrow. Matthias wasn't even worth it anymore.

Matthias walked to her car and leaned over the top to meet Natalia's face. He held out a pair of keys, "Looking for these?" he faked a smile and kept his ominous cheery manor.

Natalia lunged over the top of her car and grabbed for the keys, but Matthias pulled them back and held them next to him. He wagged his index finger, "Whoa, not so fast. You dropped these and I was just returning them to you. After we have a chat of course," his stupid smile was still plastered to his face. Natalia looked around at her surroundings and realized that her dropping her keys wasn't a very likely story, and that it seemed all too convenient that Matthias would park right next to her when the parking lot was rarely ever full.

"Bullshit," she challenged, staring at her keys then turning to give him a challenging glare.

"Hey, hey, let's not use foul language okay?" Matthias shook the keys as if to show Natalia that he now had her stuck, and she had to listen to whatever he said.

"What the fuck do you want?" Natalia purposefully used foul language as if to provoke him, and Matthias's ever present smile faltered a bit.

"Didn't I just say—" Matthias sighed and dropped the keys to his side. He couldn't keep this up any longer, and once again he'd piss Natalia off with his words. He leaned against her car; Natalia scrunched her nose in distaste at his body pressed up against her car.

"Listen, don't come near Lukas anymore," he said with all seriousness.

"Done," Natalia quickly replied, she reached vainly for her keys in his grubby little hands.

Matthias wagged his finger again, "I thought you had more patience than that Natalia,"

"I don't have patience for bastards trying to keep girls from leaving," she crossed her arms and tapped her foot.

"Once again with the name calling," Matthias muttered through a sigh. "Okay, so I guess we have to do this the hard way," he leaned over the car and came close to her face.

"I know about you and Alfred's fake relationship. If you interfere with Lukas and his girlfriend's relationship, I will tell everyone that you threw yourself at Alfred and begged to be his girlfriend," Matthias threatened in a hushed tone. Natalia was taken aback at his threat, not because Alfred would be exposed and she couldn't protect him anymore, but because he so cleverly added in the last bit about begging to be Alfred's girlfriend, and it brought back memories from her last school year.

"Go to hell," Natalia told him once she came to her senses. She now decided that she would not listen to Matthias's threat, and that she would call his bluff, if he were bluffing at all.

Matthias shook his head, "If I were you, I'd listen to my warning, but it's not my choice. Just know that you'll be sorry if you don't," he tossed her her keys and she just barely caught them. He turned away and opened his car door, just as he was getting in Natalia finally found her voice.

"Hey," Natalia called. Matthias looked up at her expectantly. "Fuck you," she spit with venom.

Matthias smiled and waved, "It was nice talking to you Natalia! I hope we can do it again sometime," he said mostly for show, so as to not raise any suspicion of anyone around.

Natalia made a face at him and when he backed out and pulled away she stuck her middle finger high in the air after him. He caught her on the wrong day and she really wasn't in the mood for his empty threats. She unlocked her car and got into the driver's seat. She knew exactly where she was going, and it wasn't to her home.

She knocked on the door, not once, but twice. The person inside either seemed to be asleep, not home, or lazy. But Natalia knew this person, and it was probably a mixture of both. She shoved the toe of her Ugg boot into the door and kicked it hard three times, patience wearing thin.

The door slowly creaked open, "What?" asked a lazy voice. Alfred was rubbing the sleep out of his eyes when his eyes finally focused on Natalia.

"Bad time?" Natalia asked shifting her weight from foot to foot. She wasn't sure why she felt this nervous, probably because she saw Alfred's girlfriend last time at this very place.

"No, you're good. Come in," Alfred half-heartedly replied, still obviously dazed from slumber. Natalia walked in and took a seat on the very used and old couch, she wondered where his mother was and why she wasn't cleaning up the mess that was scattered everywhere.

"So what is it that you need?" he asked, sitting down on a beat up recliner catty corner from Natalia.

"I just came to visit, and see how you were doing," Natalia told him. But really, she wasn't sure why she was there; maybe she was just hoping to feel like Alfred liked her, even though their relationship was dubbed a fake by both parties.

Alfred cocked his head to the side, "Is that it really?" he asked. He seemed to be more alert after a nap, Natalia made a mental note of this.

She hesitated, and Alfred took this opportunity to smirk, knowing that her intentions were well past him by now.

"What's the reason Natalia?" Alfred pried, adjusting his position in his seat.

"I-I just," the words wouldn't come out, because she didn't have any. She just felt like this was the place to be, and she had to stop herself from going over to Lukas's house to tell him of all her problems. Maybe Lukas was just too kind to her, and he saw her as a charity case.

Alfred leaned forward and smirked, obviously happy with himself for backing Natalia up into a verbal corner. "Is it Lukas and his new girlfriend?"

Natalia's eyes widened when Alfred uttered those words. She apparently didn't know herself enough to know how upset she truly was about Lukas's new girlfriend, and his apparent malevolence.

Alfred smiled widely this time, "I knew it! I saw him with that other girl and I knew that you'd be mad about it,"

Natalia glared at him, "I'm not mad," she protested.

"Then jealous, whatever, point is, I was right!" Alfred beamed. Natalia had to use all of her self control not to punch him in the face at that very moment.

"I'm not jealous either," Natalia protested in vain.

"Then why did you look so sad in the library?" Alfred challenged without skipping a beat.

"I-I wasn't," Natalia replied frustrated and flustered. She turned to look at her hands and avoid eye contact with Alfred, who seemed to be very in tune with his surroundings today.

"Don't be upset Natalia, she's an underclassmen anyway," Alfred tried his hand at consoling her, but he only made things worse.

"What's that got to do with anything?" Natalia quietly asked, mainly to herself rather than Alfred. She was giving into Alfred, and he was loving it.

"Lukas can't like her if she's an underclassmen," Alfred leaned back in his chair and stretched towards the ceiling.

"Yes he can," Natalia admitted in defeat.

"Nah, I'm pretty sure Matthias had something to do with this one," Alfred absently said. It wasn't like he had anything to do with Lukas and this young girl's relationship, but he knew enough about his friend to know when a trail smelled like him.

"What do you mean?" Natalia asked with too much hope.

"Whoa, slow down. You're my girlfriend remember?" Alfred joked, he laughed at his joke, but Natalia stared at him stone cold. Once he noticed her lack of laughter, he leaned forward once again. "Anyway, I just know when something sounds like Matthias,"

Natalia sighed, she couldn't very well confront Matthias an account of a feeling. "Okay," was all she could find to say.

Alfred stood up and clapped a hand over her shoulder, "Don't worry about it Natalia. If you keep worrying about everything you're always going to be worrying," Alfred reasoned. Natalia thought on his words for a minute, and realized that there was some truth in his madness.

"You're right," she gave in. Alfred smiled, pleased with himself and Natalia's new found respect for him, or what he thought was respect.

He leaned down and kissed her cheek, "Glad you see things my way. Now if you could leave so I could continue napping, that'd be great," Alfred said with a smile. Natalia was dazzled by his kiss and yet she wanted to punch him for that last bit.

"Fine, go nap, I'll leave once I figure some things out," Natalia told him. She wasn't sure if she had the right to stay in Alfred's house after basically coming over unannounced, but Alfred just shrugged and went to his bedroom. He was asleep within minutes and Natalia could hear him snoring.

She wondered why Matthias would have anything to do with Lukas dating some stupid—and admittedly pretty—underclassmen. But maybe he could have made good on his threats as well. Natalia wasn't sure if Matthias was an evil mastermind that he was now coming into light to be, or if Alfred was completely off and Lukas really was happy with his girlfriend.

Natalia looked around at the dust in the corners and the pile of dirty dishes in Alfred's apartment. She decided to do something nice for him and clean his house while he was asleep, after all, she didn't want to feel as if she owed him anything for that kiss.

Much to her dismay, Alfred was now becoming her best ally in this war of uncertainty and series of unfortunate events.