"I'm not human. I'm an alien from the planet Bossatronia, my twin is a spirit, and I-I need to go back home." He swallowed and looked away, nervously biting the tip of his thumb. He then took a deep breath and continued, "I- I know it sounds weird and crazy, but ya have'ta believe me! I'm from another planet, which I escaped as a child thanks to my mother, after an attack from a 'neighboring' civilization. I-"

"Jack, Jack hold up," Mark said, his head tilting and his hands up, "What you're saying is crazy. Aliens don't exist, as much as I would love them too, they just don't."

Jack swallowed, looking down with a light blush of shame. How could he make them believe him? He didn't think they'd believe Andy, not through a screen, nor from his phone. He's got some good editing skills and the internet, they might think he was playing some sort of video, no matter how improbable it was.

"Soooo... was this your way of hiding the fact that you're gay?" Felix asked, a smile obvious in his tone, "Called it," he whispered. Mark chuckled and started some big speech on how he shouldn't have been afraid to tell them and didn't need to fabricate some story about it.

Felix had started singing quietly to himself during Mark's speech, "Jack is ga-ay, Jack is ga-ay, I ca-alled it, I ca-alled it," like a child. It probably earned him a good stinkeye from Mark, but Jack wasn't sure because Felix was still singing and Mark was still talking and Robin was adding in some comments to Mark and they wouldn't believe him and-

"ENOUGH!" he shouted, frustrated tears in his eyes, "I'm not gay, Felix! You called nothing! I'm not lying to you!" he sucked in a breath, his eyes widening as he stared at his friends shocked faces through watery eyes.

Sean... calm down. They won't believe you without proof. Bring them over, show them the pod and the book and me, in the mirror. If they don't believe you then... well, then I'm sorry...

Jack swallowed, and held back from nodding. Instead he whispered out an okay, his eyes quickly darting to his phone as he did so, where he could see Andy smiling at him. He let a small smile fall upon his own lips, eyes turning back to his friends. He took in a deep breath.

"Come over. I know, I know it's a lot, especially for you Mark. I can- I can pay for your flight, a-and you two who don't live around here can stay at my place," he said, a hint of desperation in his voice, "I can prove that what I'm telling you is real."

...

Jack was nervous, it had been a few days since he'd invited his three closest friends over, two of which had agreed to staying in his home. He had cleaned, posting some premade videos so that he had time to clean up and get the spare rooms ready.

The two would be arriving that day, and now he was nervously drinking his third cup of coffee in the bathroom, Andy watching him from the mirror. He was scared, what if they still didn't believe him? Thought he really was crazy... I'm not, I'm not crazy. He's right there, I have proof, other people who've seen... a book! I have a book, a-and a pod!

Sean, calm down... if they don't believe you they suck. I don't see why they wouldn't believe you anyway... But, uh... if they believe you what are you going to do with them? Send them home?

"U-uh... well... I could maybe get Mark to help reconstruct the-the pod? H-he's got engineering knowledge, right? S-so..."

Hm, yes... Mark Fischbach... quadrant P3P3, born June 28, 1989... and Felix Kjellberg, born in quadrant 1K3A, October 24, 1989, now living in quadrant 9H4N... and Robin Torkar, also from quadrant 1K3A, moved to your quadrant, quadrant 8E3R, a few years ago*...

"Okay, how do you know that?"

The mainframe and the internet. I'm not dumb, ya know.

"...I knew that."

Mhm, sure.

"Shut up."

Nah. Now get ready for your Swedish meatballs and, uh... American boy?

"Please stop."

Or are they your Swedish fish and your American nerd?

"I'm leaving you."

Swedish berries and American dick?

"Goodbye."

...

Seeeeaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnn, don't leeeeaaave meeeeeeee.

"Andy, I hafta go pick them up, and I want them to believe me, so mirror talks only. No phone, they wouldn't believe it."

But Seeeaaaannnn-

"Don't 'but Sean' me, mister. You'll get your chance to meet them soon enough."

Fine.

Aaaand now he's pouting. Great. Jack sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose, staring at his phone with a roll of his eyes. He sighed and dropped his hand that was rubbing his face, his head tilting back with a groan.

"Fiiiiine, you can come. But no talking to them."

YESSSSS- I-I mean, okay!

"You're lucky I like you."

Wha- you don't love me? Andy's hands came up to dramatically fall on his forehead and heart, gasping loudly. Some fake tears came to his eyes and he let out a soft, Oh my goodness gracious me.

"Shut up," he mumbled, "I'm putting the phone away now."

Noooooooooooooooooooo! Andy yelled dramatically, shaking the phone and letting out a loud deep burp afterward. Jack laughed loudly, setting the phone on the counter so he didn't drop it.

"Oh my- you actually- oh my- oh my god!" Jack said between laughs, bending over. He could hear Andy laughing too, a slight echo following it, "You just burped after a dramatic- oh my god..!"

That was awesome...

"Yeah. That was- OH SHIT, we gotta go! They're gonna be here soon!" Jack said, stuffing his phone in his pocket and running out the door. He was glad he'd pre-called a taxi, and apologized for making him wait. Soon enough, they were on their way to the airport.

...

"Potatooooooo!"

"Meeeeeatbaaaaaaalllllllll!"

...

"JACKABOI!"

"MARKIMOOOOO!"

"FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELIX!"

...

Jack chuckled at his friends, enjoying fooling around with them and earning stares. At least they ignored the elephant in the room, for now. He couldn't help but chuckle back at them calling each others names at the airport.

Felix had arrived first, them calling each other stereotypical food products, Potato and Meatball. Then came Mark, the two shouting their respective nicknames to each other, Jackaboi and Markimoo. Felix was left out on the calling of names, so he just shouted his , they had gone out, Jack getting the taxi man to take them back to his place to drop off bags, before taking them to lunch. Jack invited him in, paying for his lunch, as a sort of payment for getting the guy to take them everywhere like a chauffeur.

And now, they had returned to his home, after picking up Robin on the way back, and they were all sitting in his living room. Surprisingly, it was quite cozy with so many people, but perhaps that was just because he liked having other people nearby, and usually lived swallowed as he looked around his small group of super close friends. He didn't know what to say. So, he just sat there in silence a moment, letting awkward tension fill the room. He knew they weren't going to ignore it any longer, it was the reason the four of them sat in his living room. Staring at him with expectant eyes.

His shoulders sagged and he looked up at them through his green fringe. He took a deep breath and blew it out, looking away again. He knew he should say something, the awkwardness in the room was starting to kill him.

"I- look, I know you guys don't believe me... But, I have proof, okay?" He looked up at them again, his eyes wide and pleading with them to understand, "I have a-a book that I got from a doctor, all about Bossatronia, a-and I have... my dad has the escape pod I c-came in. And I have Andy! I-I can show you Andy!" his voice had a tinge of desperation to it, and all his friends were giving him pitying looks.

He scrambled off the couch as they stayed there, grabbing the book from Doctor O'Daniel off the counter before rushing back with a sort of smile on his face. He thrust the book out towards his friends, "See?! I-I have a book! It's got notes and sketches!" He opened the book, showing them showed them the sketch he'd shown Andy, of Sidurbis. He showed them a couple other big places, like Nosteomus*, which was a beautiful countryside city, and Aurumocus*, a city literally built into a mountain.

He read out some notes and told them the story he was told by Doctor O'Daniel about contact between Earth and Bossatronia. He smiled as he told them, his eyes glowing in hope. Mark, Felix, and Robin all nodded along quietly, listening raptly.

"So... let's say this is real, what do we do?" Robin asked once Jack had slowed to a finish. Robin's eyes slid over to Felix and Mark, knowing they were probably wondering the same thing. The two others nodded to the question before three pairs of eyes were back on Jack.

"I-I don't know. Help? Maybe? I could use help rebuilding the-the pod, I don't understand half the blueprints... A-and maybe I could introduce you guys to Doctor O'Daniel, and you guys could help the old geezer out with tech and communications?" Jack offered, shrugging his shoulders and keeping his eyes averted.

"Well, sure, I guess. Now, besides the awesome fancy sketch slash notebook, you mentioned a brother we could speak too?" Mark said, eyes glimmering. Jack smiled, albeit a bit awkwardly, and nodded. He almost rolled his eyes as he heard Andy's reaction.

Hell yeah! Finally! Sean, Sean, get them to the bathroom. I wanna talk to these buggers! Pleeeease, Sean. Pretty, pretty please?!

"Come on, we have to get to the bathroom mirror," he said softly. He then stood up, motioning for his friends to follow. He heard a quick 'see ya in a moment' from Andy, before radio silence from his twin. Who, apparently, the more comfortable he got with you the more of a chatterbox he was.

Looking back on their time together proved that. The first couple days went by with him being quiet, probably trying to hold back since, though Andy himself had always known of Jack, Jack had never known of him. Then they had their fight, and then Andy was being 'introduced' to Jack's earthly family. And throughout all this, he was probably uncomfortable being too loud and chatty, but, if he and Jack were twins... it would make sense for him to be as loud as he, right?

Jack thought so.

He smiled when he entered the bathroom, seeing Andy once again interacting with the environment on the other side, sitting on the counter-top. He smirked as he heard the gasps of his friends behind him as they each stepped into his surprisingly large bathroom. He made his way to the far side, standing next to the toilet, before turning swiftly and dramatically to his best friends.

"May I present to you, my twin brother: Andy Spedicey!" Andy waved and glitched slightly, smiling wide and showing off his sharp teeth. His burns were hidden, so as not to scare the boys off too much just yet. And then, he opened his mouth to speak.

"Hello."


Nosteomus :
- Pronounced 'No - STEA - oh - muss'
- Latin roots 'Our' and 'Bright' and 'Country'

Aurumocus :
- Pronounced 'Our - um - OH - cuss'
- Latin roots 'Gold' and 'Place'

*I'm pretty sure Robin doesn't actually live in Ireland, but for the sake of this, go with it