"Romeo, your boyfriend's here!"

"Okay!"

The Italian quickly gathered all his books and threw them in his bag and dashed out of the house.

"Morning," he greeted, sliding into the passenger's seat, landing a quick peck on his cheek. "You two ready for school?"

"Yes, Mr. Vargas." Wendy scoffed. "Geez, you have to get back in the role of being a teacher again. I'm your pupil, remember?"

"But we're not in school. The school term hasn't started yet." he replied, Wendy pouting in the backseat.

Jett shoved her away, and he leaned over the seat. "Hey, Mr.- Rom... What do we call you? As your Andrew's boyfriend..."

"You can just call me Romeo."

"Okay. Anyway, how clumsy is Andrew around you?"

"Why is that a relevant question?!" No one paid attention to him.

"Extremely, why?"

"Ah. So it isn't just an 'us' thing." he nodded, leaning back in his seat.

"Oh, so he also runs into walls with you as well?" Romeo was surprised.

"Err, no. Keep wishing though. He's just the normal sort of clumsiness with us." Wendy informed, and he pouted in annoyance.

Andrew dropped off Jett at his school. He noticed that he tripped over the curb as he ran over to his friend.

"Do you reckon there's something he's not telling us?" Wendy raised her eyebrow. "Because you two are pretty alike."

"What makes you say that?"

"Maybe because he legit almost fell over the instant he got out of this car?"

Romeo listened intently as the two began to argue, and before he knew it Andrew was driving up to their school.

"Goodbye, have fun!"

"Of course. Let's go, Wendy!"

Andrew watched as his boyfriend and his sister walked into the building, Wendy lecturing him for some reason.


"Hey, Andrew?"

The adult woke up mid-snore and looked up to see Kaelin staring down at him.

"What is it?"

He sighed and sat down next to him on the couch.

"I think I'm asexual."

"Hm?" He had not been expecting that.

Kaelin played with his sleeve. "Like..."

"Oh, I know what it means." Andrew exclaimed. "It's just that I'm still waking up and trying to process it, hang on..."

They sat in tense silence for a few minutes.

"Oh. OH." He stared at his brother. "That's cool!"

"You're- You're fine with it?"

Obviously this was on his shoulders for a while as he slumped and let out a shaky laugh.

"Of course, you're my brother!" Andrew cried out. "I'm cool with whatever!"

They sat in silence for a bit longer.

"So how did you come to that conclusion?" he burst out.

"I don't actually know... I just know I have always been disgusted by... that..." he gagged internally. "And all my uni friends are talking about doing it, and I thought it was weird that I was the only one who didn't like it, so I searched it up and..." he shrugged. "Yeah."

Andrew smiled and patted his head. "There's nothing wrong with that. Will you tell the others?"

He snorted. "No. Wendy's still twelve and Jett's barely fifteen. That age is so ridiculous." he scoffed, crossing his arms over his chest.

"It's not our parents' fault they couldn't have any more children." he laughed.

"But still! Nine years between me and Jett! That's so much! And you and Wendy are what? Sixteen years?" he complained.

"But don't you like them in your lives?"

"Huh? Well, yes BUT-"

At that very moment the phone rang, cutting Kaelin's rant off halfway (to Andrew's relief). He got up and dashed to the device and picked it up. "Hello?"

"So you are at home, Andrew."

"Romeo?!"

"I was just wondering if you told the other teachers about us dating..."

"Why would I tell them? I would've asked for your permission first."

"Oh, okay. Because they keep exchanging looks and that's the only thing I could think of..."

"You. Have. Brothers." he hissed through his teeth.

There was silence on the other side of the line. "I forgot about them."

"Yeah, I could tell."

"I'm going to hang up now."

"Okay, see you later."

At the school, Romeo put down the phone and covered his face with his hands. What an idiot he was. He should've known it was his brothers.

"I can hear you, you know."

Lilli laughed as she patted his shoulder. "That conversation was hilarious."

"Go away!" he groaned, shoving her gently into the staff room. "We're never talking about that ever again!"

"I won't... but everyone else overheard too."

Romeo stared at the other teachers were all smirking in unison at him.

"Gee, thanks guys."

"No worries." Elizabeta replied, eating her food.

"That was sarcastic, you know."

"We know." Tino sat down next to her.

"You guys are the worst."

They all just laughed at him.


Andrew drove into his driveway after picking up his siblings and Romeo from school. "Okay, this is where you two get off."

Wendy and Jett exchanged looks and stared at him. "But we're home?"

"I'm going to Romeo's."

The two smirked. "OoOoooh! Really?" Wendy successfully managed to wriggle her eyebrows.

"SHUT UP!" he roared, blushing while Romeo had to turn his face away as he struggled not to laugh.

They ran into the house before he could do anything (not that he could as he still had his seatbelt on) and tumbled inside.

"What are you doing?" Kaelin raised his eyebrow as they burst out laughing.

"Nothing," she wheezed. "Well, okay. We embarrassed Andrew."

"I... Congratulations." There was nothing else to say to that. "Jett, get away from the fridge."

"Aww, but I'm hungry!"

"It's not dinner yet. And you still have to do your homework."

"That's boring!"

"I don't care. You too, Wendy."

She groaned.

Kaelin took one look at their faces, realising they were about to probably blow down the building with excessive screaming (all in order to annoy him). He rubbed his forehead.

"Fine. Bring your homework to the coffee table. I'll help you."

They cheered while he rolled his eyes.

Jett pulled out his maths homework and Wendy took her geography work and they sat on either side of Kaelin. Wendy managed to do her work silently, but it was Jett who was struggling.

"I don't get it..." He banged his head on the table.

"Don't do that." he replied on instinct. "And let me see."

He handed the textbook over to him, who skimmed the question. "Ah. Algebra."

Algebra was Kaelin's best aspect in maths, but not with Jett. Actually, all areas of maths sucked for him, but algebra was the worst.

"Okay, so 2(3p + 7). You have to times whatever is in the brackets-"

He managed to explain the subject slowly and soon Jett was able to finish the questions by himself.

Wendy threw her geography work across the room. "What do you think Andrew's going right now?" she asked.

Kaelin just stared at her. "I don't know. Stop throwing your homework."

She didn't reply to him and focused her attention on Jett. "What do you think he's doing?"

He put down his pen and thought for a moment. "I think Angs is currently walking into every wall the house has to offer. And tripping."

"You mean, like you?"

He spluttered. "What are you talking about?"

Wendy glanced over at Kaelin, who realised that the only reason for this discussion was to expose Jett.

She puffed out her chest proudly. "I saw you trip pathetically over the curb. Like when Andrew does when he sees Romeo."

He screamed. "That! That means nothing!"

"I knew it!" Wendy squealed. "You like someone!"

"No! I don't!"

"You can tell us. We won't make fun of you." Kaelin covered his smile with the palm of his hand.

He pouted. "Fine." he sighed. "So there's this guy-"

"You're gay as well!"

"I'm not done yet!" Jett's face was turning red. He paused. "WAIT, WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'AS WELL'?!"

Wendy rolled her eyes. "Gay like Andrew, duh!"

"So there's this guy called Raivis in my class-"

"WAIT, RAIVIS?!" Kaelin interupted.

"You know him?"

"Andrew's his dentist!"

"HE IS?!"

Jett stood up in a rush. "Why didn't he tell me?!"

"Did you ever ask?"

He sat back down, seeing the truth in Kaelin's words.


It was nine o'clock and Andrew yawned, entering their house.

What he didn't expect was that they were all wide awake.

"What are you guys doing?"

The three froze in their tracks, who were shovelling cake in their mouths.

"Oh no!" Wendy cried out. "He's home!"

And they all dashed up the stairs before Andrew could ask what the hell they were doing. He assumed he was going to clean up after them.

Sighing, he started sweeping the crumbs off the table and into his hand, then proceeding into dropping them into the sink.

He walked up the stairs and opened Kaelin's bedroom door, who was licking his fingers.

"What were you guys doing?"

"Oh, just celebrating because Jett's gay now and he has a crush on Raivis."

"He's what?! And he has a crush on who?!" he gasped. "Why didn't you wait for me?!"

He just laughed as Andrew left the room and walked across into Jett's.

"Jett, why didn't you say anything?!" he cried out, jumping onto his bed.

"I don't know?!" he replied, shrugging.

"So, how close are you to him?"

He blushed, shaking his head. "Not very. We only really talk when we're put together in groups."

"Well, we're going to change that!"

Andrew realised that after telling Romeo he liked him, he was becoming steadily more reckless.

"No, it's fine! It can stay like this-"

"But would you like that?"

Jett pursed his lips. "No." he settled eventually.

"Then just go talk to him!"

"Easy for you to say!" He threw his hands in the air. "What would we even talk about?!"

Andrew faltered. "I'll ask Romeo."

"Wow."

He grabbed his cell phone and called his boyfriend. "Hey, Romeo?"

"Hm? Did you leave something here?"

"I didn't, it's okay. I just have a question."

"Ask away."

"My brother has a crush on his classmate and we don't know how to get them to talk."

"Who's this kid?"

"Raivis Galante."

"Oh, him!"

"You... You know him?" Andrew and Jett exchanged looks of shock. They did not expect that at all.

"Yeah, I met him when I was buying the bear. He works there. So you're in the same class?"

"Mhm." Jett grumbled.

"The thing is... I told Raivis about me and Andrew-"

"You did?!"

"This was before we got together. I was telling him how I liked him and he told me..." he fall silent. "Did you tell him you liked me?"

"Yeah, when he came for his check-up, why?"

"That explains a lot. Anyway, Jett you there?"

"Of course."

"You can tell him that we have gotten together. He was probably thirdwheeling for a while now. And I don't think he'll want to wait until he goes back for his dentist appointment to find out whether we're together yet."

"But is that even something you bring up to someone you've barely talked to?"

"You can make it work."

"ON YOUR PHONE ALREADY?!"

"Sorry guys, that's Lovino. I better go. Good luck!" He hung up.

The two brothers looked at each other. "Well, that was interesting." Andrew commented, putting his phone back in his pocket.

"Sure, but that's a really random topic to talk about!"

"You can just tell him I told you to tell him." he shrugged.

Jett thought. "Okay. Okay, I can do that."

He fought the urge to smirk. "I'm leaving now."

"Go do that." he replied, absentmindedly.

Andrew left his room and burst into laughter, making Wendy open her door in annoyance. "Can you stop being so loud?"

"Sorry, sorry." he apologised and headed to his room, smiling.