Gym class, was not one of Alfred's' favourites in this school. Not only did he have to undress into proper running clothes, but he also has to go through boys making fun of the extra weight he carried and putting on a brave face through it. If it wasn't for this hellish torture, he wouldn't need to go to extremities such as this now would he?

"Hey fat boy, did you gain weight suddenly? You look bigger from the last two days." He really didn't know this kid very well, hell he barely even knew his name! But his words stung and killed his self confidence just a little bit more. Gritting his teeth, he quickly changed into his t-shirt and sweats and ran out into the gym as fast as he could. Why did he have to pick on him? He hasn't done anything to deserve this.

As he entered the gym he looked down at his stomach and frowned. How was that possible? He hasn't eaten anything for the last three days! How could his stomach be getting bigger? Patting his stomach he pursed his lips trying to think of at least another way to get the fat out. 'I could try diet pills, they usually work don't they? Maybe throwing up a bit might help.' Alfred's face twisted in disgust. 'No I'm not that desperate to lose weight that way.' Sitting down on one of the benches, he looked up towards the clock. Usually they have a few extra minutes to change and then start two minutes later, so he was fairly early compared to most times.

"Ah, you're early." And there is Arthur. He through his British friend a grin and leaned back against the wall. It didn't take long till Mr. Swanson came in wearing his usual gym shorts and t-shirt. Mr. Swanson looked un amused, but that didn't really surprise him. He never did look happy, maybe that's because he hated teenagers.

"Alright, we're going to do two laps around the field and then we're going to do our push ups and sit ups. Leave through the back door and start immediately." And like sheep everyone did what they were told. This man was defiantly not one you wanted to mess with. It seemed as if he had absolutely no sense of humour at all...Plus he looked as if he would punch you in the face given the chance.

Getting up from the bench, Alfred stood up and stumbled, putting his hand on the wall for balance. His felt slightly light headed and saw black dots spot his vision. Giving himself a minute he was finally able to bring back his balance and sight.

"That means you too Jones." Alfred scowled as a few kids snickered at his misfortune. Man he feels like everyone is picking on him now, can't he get a break? Catching up with Arthur who went ahead of him, he could already feel his breath quicken. Man not only was he desperately out of shape but he also felt extremely tired as well.

Arthur looked at his best friend and quirked an eyebrow, his friend look pale and looked like he was about to pass out at any moment. His friends laboured breathing was a strange sign too, he knew his friend was slightly overweight but usually he could go through at least one lap before he started getting tired. Alfred tried to clear his eyesight from the black spots that were coming back; however the effort seemed futile as his vision was completely black and felt his body hit the ground. The last thing he heard was his best friend calling his name before he passed out completely.

NS...

It felt as if he were gone for hours. Squinting at the bright light of the nurses' office, he slowly got up and blinked trying to adjust to the sudden brightness.

"Oh good you're up." Alfred's' head turned to see a petite brunette smile at holding sheets for the bed beside the one he was on. Putting the sheets on the bed she walked up towards him, her green eyes looking into his and her hand on his forehead. She frowned as she pulled away.

"You don't have a fever, but you look extremely tired, have you been getting proper sleep?" Alfred nodded. Well that wasn't a lie, he's been probably getting more then eight hours of sleep. Her lips quirked to one side, probably trying to find out what the problem was.

"Have you been eating properly? Drinking enough water?" Aha. That's where the question lies now doesn't it? Alfred, press his lips together in a thin line. Eating properly, maybe not.

"Well I haven't been drinking as much water lately." The brunette perked up a bit, thinking that she had probably figured it out. Well, that's of course what all thought.

"And eating properly?" Oh damn. Flashing the fairly nosey nurse a smile, he of course lied through his teeth. Which of course no one believes because all is such an awful liar.

"Of course!" Elizaveta gave him a look of scepticism. Of course she wasn't stupid; she was a nurse after all. That and Alfred was a terrible liar. But she dismissed it and decided not get into it, she can't really force him to do anything that he wouldn't want to do.

"Eat healthier and no more McDonalds! It's awful for you." Alfred's lips quivered, but let himself force a smile on his face. As if his mood and self confidence couldn't go any lower, she has to point that out.

"Yup, no more McDonalds!" And with that he was dismissed from the nurses' office. Looking at the time, he realized that school was over five minutes ago. Slinging his bag over his shoulder he walked out the school in hopes that he could get the store to buy the diet pills he was hoping for. He suddenly heard his phone go off in his pocket, taking the small android phone out he saw that Mattie had called. Alfred groaned, Arthur had probably told Mattie about the fainting spell he had in gym. He will not hear the end of this.

"Hey Mattie"

"Oh my god Alfred, are you alright?" Yup, just as he thought. His brother sounded hysterical, and frankly he couldn't blame him either, if it were the other way around he could see him doing the exact same thing.

"I'm fine Mattie, no need to freak out." Mattie let out a noise of disbelief. Really is Alfred stupid? Of course he's going to freak out; his brother just fainted in gym class.

"Uh, hello. You just fainted in gym class, what do you want to be like all nonchalant? Really Alfred." Al just rolled his eyes at his brother. Man sometimes his brother can be such a woman it's a surprise no has mistaken his for one.

"Whatever, I'm fine. Oh, I'm going to head to McDicks, so I'll be a few minutes late." Alfred heard a sigh over the phone, it almost sounded like a relieved sigh, but being Mattie, you couldn't tell.

"Alright see you in ten minutes?" Alfred smiled at how easy it was to get off the topic and the phone.

"Yeah, about ten minutes." Matthew hummed on the other side as a confirmation and let out a quick bye before he hung up. Putting the phone back into his pocket he looked at his watch, making sure to be home at least somewhere near that time.

"Alrighty, off to the store we go." He said to himself as he walked to the little drugstore. How ironic that it was near McDonalds. Alfred bit his bottom lip slightly, tempted at just giving up the whole diet so he could just get a big mac and a soda. Shaking his head he went into the drugstore and coming in to get what he came for. After searching in the drug supplements for a minute he frowned at the choices, and price.

"Jesus, twenty-three dollars for diet pills!" Picking up some random box he took a few waded up paper bills and paid for his purchase. Of course, not without the cashier woman giving him a funny look. Of course Al really couldn't blame her. What kind of guy walks up and spends twenty three dollars on pills that help you lose weight? Walking out of the store, he looked at the package and read some of the instructions on the box.

"Take 3 pills of Quickslim® a day every four hours…Side effects may include Gas, oil spotting, diarrhea, gall bladder problems and muscle cramps." He mumbled to himself as he sat on a bench, continuing read the box. He sighed, as he popped the top of the box up to get the plastic container. Pressing down on the lid to unlock the child's lock, he clearly saw medium sized pills waiting to be eaten.

Now Alfred hated swallowing pills dry, they hurt going down and sometimes they trigger his gag reflex and that kind of sucks. Looking at McDonalds, he sighed as he got off the bench. Well...He could go in and get a diet coke, that sight said it was alright as long as it was diet. Walking towards his old haven, he went up to the counter and saw a blond woman at the counter. She was leaning over and had her elbow propped up on the counter while holding her head, looking incredibly bored while, of course, chewing and popping gum.

"Welcome to McDonalds may I take your order." Her voice sounded as enthusiastic as her entire demeanour did, Her patents probably wasn't very high either. So to save him and the woman the agony, he quickly ordered his diet soda.

"Is there anything else you want?" She quirked a brow, obviously hoping he wouldn't change his mind since it would be a quick purchase and she didn't have to deal with him anymore.

"No thanks." Oh that was not true at all. He pretty much was so hungry that he could eat anything and everything off of the menu. But he had to lose the blubber to actually stopped being picked on. Grabbing his wallet, he took out a dollar thirty as usual.

"That will be a dollar thirty." She said, as she pretty much shoved the drink into his hand as soon as he gave her the exact change. Sometimes these people can be real mean bitches sometimes.

Pretty much running from the temptation, he got out and took out the pills that he shoved into his bag and popped out three pills, he put one pill at the far back of his throat, far enough to not trigger is gag reflex and took a sip of the diet coke, and then repeated the action twice.

"Well that wasn't so bad, except for tasting this god awful soda, it tastes like fizzy water!" He said to himself, sticking his tongue out in distaste. He preferred regular coke to diet any day. Regular had more taste to it anyway.

Looking at his watch, he bit his lip and cringed. He told Mattie ten minutes, and he had been out a half hour. Looking at his phone to see if the twin had called him at all, and he did, ten times actually before the phone died on him. Oh boy, Mattie was going to kill him.

Walking towards the townhouse he lived in, he walked in to see Mattie with a scowl on his face, tapping his face like a pissed off woman. Jesus, now he had to deal with mommy Mattie, isn't that pleasant.

"Where have you been, I thought it was ten minutes!" The blond huffed, looking a little ruffled up at his twin coming home late. Alfred just grinned sheepishly, and scratched the back of his head, feeling kind of nervous, that his brother used his weird womanly protectiveness on him.

"I kind of lost track of time." He replied nervously as he chewed on his McDonalds straw. That was another one Al's nervous habits, usually when he feels he's under pressure or just bored. Mattie, of course, saw the McDonalds logo on the cup and felt relieved. He wasn't lying at least when he said that he went to McDonalds, but Mattie still felt as if he should keep an eye on his brother, Just in case.

"Fine, I'll let you off on this one." Mattie murmured, as he went upstairs into his room. Pausing at the door way, he stuck his head out to look at Al as he remembered something.

"Oh, and I'm going to study. Don't bother me." He said as he shut his door. Leaving Al to relax and drop onto the couch as if boneless. He turned on the T.V and switched the setting to games as he switched on the ps3, deciding to play COD Black Ops for a few hours. The feeling of hunger was light enough to ignore thanks to the pills, but he knew he had to eat at least something small to keep him going a little bit. As long as he counted the calories then he should be fine.

Pausing his game, he got up and looked around the kitchen to find anything that was actually edible, but not fattening. He was slowly getting frustrated with the lack of low calorie foods in the house. Did they all really eat like pigs? Oh wait, no that's just him. Because obviously Mattie would be the exact same size wouldn't he? His blue eyes scanned the room and only one thing caught his eye, a small mandarin. But hey, it's small, healthy, and calories are low.

Going back into the living room, he switched of C.O.D, and flopped on the couch feeling the small fruit and watching T.V. Feeling, extremely more tired then he usually was, Alfred kept nodding off before he decided to switch off the television and go to his room.

'This is so hard, I feel like all the energy I usually had just disappeared. And I think Matt's starting to notice the weird behaviour, if he finds out it'll break his heart. But...This is for me; I think my happiness should come first.' It was a selfish thought, but Alfred thought maybe just once he could think about himself. And although Mattie is his top priority, he also thinks he should be able to look more exceotable to society. It's not like he'll go overboard and kill himself right?

Right?

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A/n: Hey guys! This is a really early chapter from me I know. Why? Because I'm hoping that maybe this might be a good apology for that disgraceful update I call a chapter. I didn't get very good reception, except for some who liked the bed intruder joke. Heh...Yeah, I looked back on the chapter and I could see why you guys didn't care much for it. My grammar was disgraceful. So this is to make it up to you guys and maybe a little something to share with you for the next chapter.

First off. You're going to find why Alfred dislikes Ivan so much so yeah there will be a Flash back section. I didn't like the idea of Alfred not really having a reason so I'm going to try and make it reasonable. Second of all, I think Mr. Milliard should give the boys a project for science, so at least they could have an excuse to like each other. I'm not going to make it suddenly happen, I hate that and I know most of you do too.

And I know I put OC's in this. However, most of them are teachers and have a bit of importance without have the stupid Mary-sue romance bullshit in. Anyway that is all, sorry for the long authors note, but I thought I should apologize and make it up even a little bit. I do care about what you guys think and when I do my stories and I do them for you guys to enjoy.

Thanks for reading and I'm so sorry for the last chapter.

Rawrzies~