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At lunch:
"Have somebody seen Si?" Jeanette asked worried.
"He isn't here?" Alvin teased, looking up from his pudding. Brittany gave him an elbow in his side. "Ouw! C'mon, I'm just joking! But no... I haven't seen him yet"
Jeanette sighed. "Where can he be?"
"Don't worry "Brittany tried to calm her down. "Nothing's wrong, he did probably just forgot the time, and is studying on the library or something"
"Yeah" Jeanette said and took a bite of her apple.
Simon slowly walked over to his 5 friends. He sat beside Jeanette. "Sorry I'm late" he mumbled.
"What's wrong?" Alvin asked confused.
"Nothing!" Simon answered very quickly. "I-I mean... I... I just forgot the time.. I was.. Studying at... At the library" he lied. He hated when he lied to his family and the girls. It just felt so wrong.
"Told you so!" Brittany said loudly. Alvin rolled his eyes and kept eating his pudding.
"Anyway, I thought about-"
"You? Thinking? Ahaha!" Brittany interrupted, laughing.
"Britt! Seriously?" Alvin snapped. She just smirked. "But I thought about, the song we're going to sing and, what if we shared the verses up? Like we used to do?" Alvin asked. Jeanette nodded.
"Great" Theodore said with a cute smile.
"Agree!" Eleanor said.
"Fine with me" Brittany said. Alvin looked over at Simon, who was the last one to answer.
"What do you think?" Alvin asked. Simon looked nervous at his big brother.
"uhmm.. well uhh.. I- I don't want a solo.." Simon muttered. He looked kinda sadly down at his salad.
"Why?" Alvin asked confused.
"I umm... I- I don't care about that... Well, you can take it"
"No! And if you don't care, why don't just take the solo?"
"Because...Because..." Simon couldn't say why. He didn't saw the problem in it.
"Why? Tell us! And why haven't you even got a solo for years?"
"...Alvin it's none of your business!" Simon snapped. Alvin looked kinda surprised at Simon.
"And why, isn't it? Have your voice changed?"
"No!"
"Then why? Tell us!"
"I said NO!" Simon hissed. There was a moment with silence.
"...Why?" Alvin tried again.
Simon glared at him. "Why do you even want to know? Do you even care?"
"Uh, yeah?"
"Yeaah... Right.." Simon muttered sarcastically. Brittany cut herself in.
"Sorry, but now I'm with Alvin. Why don't you have gotten some solo's? That's weird" Brittany said, looking at her nails. Now, Simon glared at her. "What?" she asked.
"Please just stay out of this, it's my problem" Simon muttered, looking down at his salad again.
Alvin looking confused at him. "Which problem?". Simon eyes widened, when he realized what he just said. "Uhm, Si, what are you talking about?" Alvin asked again. Simon didn't answer. He kept staring at his salad with big eyes. "SIMON! hallo?" Alvin called. No response. He kinda had a flashback.
"What's wrong with him?" Brittany whispered to Alvin.
"I don't know"
Suddenly Simon looked up in shock. He stared at them, who stared again. Alvin looked confused, Brittany too. Jeanette looked worried, also Theodore. Ellie just stared at him, like she didn't understood it. Simon didn't say something. But the flashback kept staying inside his mind. How he got pushed and how they called him names. How they couldn't make him feel he didn't want to live any longer. 'Should I tell them? What will happen? What shall I do? Simon, your jerk!' he thought to himself.
"...Simon.. Ar-are you ok?" Jeanette spoke up, and put her hand on her shoulder. But Simon didn't respond. Suddenly the bell rang.
"Oh! Theo, well get late for woodwork!" Ellie said, breaking the silence. Theodore took her hand carefully, and they walked back in their woodwork-room.
"Britt, we're going to have Biology, do you come?" Jeanette asked with a cute smile.
"Sure" She replied, trying to ignore what just happened. That left Alvin and Simon back together, alone. The redheaded teen kept staring at his little brother. Simon looked down at his un-finished salad again. He looked embarrassed. Alvin sighed before he said: "Simon what's the matter? Why can't you tell us? Or why not even me... or Jeanette? What bothering you?". Simon was a bit surprised by the fact, that his 'cool' big brother was showing his caring side.
"It's nothing" Simon mumbled sadly. Alvin sighed again.
"Simon... Please tell me. I can keep a secret, if it's that!"
Simon sighed too. "I gotta go to class" he muttered. "And by the way... No you can't..". He left Alvin sitting there with his totally finished chocolate pudding.
"Simon wait!" Alvin shouted to his little brother. He ran up to him. He gently grabbed him on the shoulder, but Simon shook him away. "C'mon!". Alvin looked at him, kinda hurt that his little brother didn't trust him. Ok, once Alvin maybe did tell some of his secrets... Alvin stopped up, looking at his fast walking, curly headed, little brother. He sighed. Alvin kept looking at his little brother. He got further and further away from himself.
"Who's that?" Alvin said to himself, when he saw someone coming closer to his little brother.
"Hey nerd! Yeah you." Ryan said to Simon. He sighed.
"What do you want now? I'm kinda busy!" Simon hissed, but froze when he thought about what he just said to the bully. Ryan pulled Simon up with his hand grabbing Simon's shirt, up on a wall. Simon couldn't breathe that good. The fact that he was born with only one lung, didn't help very well.
"Listen, your ugly geek! You better keep your mouth shut!" Ryan hissed, pushing even harder. "Wanna know what I want?!" Simon nodded weakly. Ryan smirked and kept talking. "Well, I actually don't like math, so I truant from that class. So just to entertain myself, I would find you".
Simon looked at him. "Me? why?" Simon asked with a weak and scared voice.
"Well, the football training is canceled. I mean.. I need to find some training. And then... I was thinking it could be you" Ryan said with a evil smirk.
"Me... Really?... Wait.. You don't mean that you're gonna-" Simon got cut off, by Ryan who threw him down at the floor, with a really hard push. Simon looked surprised at Ryan's move.
"Hah, are you thinking about dropping out of school? That would be an idea if your want more confidence. Wait.. You don't even have some!" Ryan teased, kicking Simon in the stomach with his foot. "Well, if I was just as ugly, nerdy and boring as you, I would probably just move out of the country!". Ryan punched Simon in his eye with his fist, so his glasses fell of. When they did, He punched even harder into his eye. "Aww. It's just a shame for the little nerd, huh?" Ryan said sarcastically with a smirk.
Simon laid on the floor, kinda curled in like a ball, waiting for some more punched. It hurt all over his body. Why did he have to be abused?
He waited. When there weren't more kicks, he carefully looked up. Nothing. There was no Ryan. He stood up and brushed his clothes. His eye, head and stomach did hurt. Simon thought it was finally over, but he was knocked down from behind. He fell onto the floor. Ryan made a evilly grin.
"Thanks for training, geek" he said.
Alvin eyes were widened. He hid behind some lockers, to watch it. He saw his brother laying down on the floor, hurt. It actually broke his heart. Why didn't he do anything?
Alvin was shocked by the attack. And then, it was even from his friend, Ryan! How long had it been going on? Had Simon always got bullied, or was it a new thing? was he ok? Why?
The questions walked through his mind. But then he finally woke up, and realized that he just stood there, and did nothing. His brother just got bullied, for God's sake!
"Hey Alvin, why aren't you coming to class?" Brittany shouted, Jeanette stod beside her. She noticed that Alvin didn't respond, so they walked up to him. "Alvin what are you looking at?" Brittany looked over where Alvin looked. Jeanette joined them.
Jeanette gasped. "What happened?" she cried. Brittany and Jeanette looked over at Alvin, who didn't respond. He just glared at his little brother in shock.
Simon got him. He hadn't noticed Alvin, Brittany and Jeanette. Simon brushed him again. he felt weak, and just wanted to go home.
Alvin couldn't take it any longer. "Simon!" He cried. He ran over to his curly headed little brother. Simon was shocked, but he tried to play it cool.
"Oh, hi Alvin" Simon replied, with a fake, calm smile. He quickly dried his eyes for tears.
"Don't 'oh hey Alvin' me! I saw it!" Alvin yelled. Not that he was angry. Simon looked at his big brother in shock. He didn't respond. Simon tried very hard to hold his tears back.
Alvin kept looking at him. He tried to pull Simon into a hug, but Simon pulled quickly away. "Please don't tell the others. Or Dave" Simon said, low and sadly. Alvin glared at him.
"Don't tell?... DON'T TELL?!" Alvin yelled again. Brittany and Jeanette walked over to Alvin and Simon.
"Simon! You're getting bullied?" Brittany asked. Simon had a nervous expression on his face.
"Uh, no..." he lied, with a low tone.
"Well, What do you wanna call that?" Alvin hissed. Simon sniffled and shrugged.
"What happened?!" Brittany said.
"Well, Simon got-"
"ALVIN!" Simon cut his big brother off. "Please just stay out of this!". Simon sounded angry.
"But, We-"
"No! I don't want help being cool or awesome or WHATEVER you want me to be! I'm just a background singer and I'm fine with that!" Simon yelled.
"No, Simon don't say that." Jeanette said calmly, trying to calm her best friend down. "You're one out of us. We're a team, you know. No one's only a background singer"
Simon kept looking down at the floor.
"Simon, will you please tell us how all this started?" Alvin asked.
"When did it start? Who is it" Jeanette asked.
"Why? Does anyone else know it?"
"Have you always been abused?"
"Does it hurt?"
"Does your solo have something to do about this?"
The questions were too much for Simon. He stormed over to the exit and sprinted out of the school. Tears fell violently down his cheeks. He ran as fast as he could, home. His body did hurt a lot, but he didn't care. All he wanted right know, was to be alone in his own room and cry. He had never felt he wanted to cry. Well, that was a new emotion.
Alvin, Brittany and Jeanette glared over where Simon had ran. There was a long silence, before Jeanette said "Poor Simon! What happened Alvin?" She looking over at Alvin. He was just as shocked as she was.
"W-well... Ryan.. He-he kinda.. Kicked and punched him! There wasn't even a reason! Well, I don't think there was a reason. But I don't know." Alvin answered his little brothers' secretly-not-so-secretly crush.
"Should we go after him?" Jeanette asked Alvin and Brittany.
"I think we should, shouldn't we?" Brittany said, looking over at Alvin.
"No" he simply answered. "I think we should give him some time" Alvin looked down at his feet. He felt guilty for not doing something, when his brother finally needed him.
Simon finally got over to their house. He opened the door, and slammed it again. He didn't noticed Dave were home.
"Hey fellas. Already home from school?" Dave yelled from the kitchen. Simon didn't respond. He raced upstairs and slammed his door as hard as he could. He locked it, and then, he threw himself down at his bed, and buried himself in his coldly blanket. Simon cried and right now, he didn't care about it.
The other 5 teens just got off from school, and rushed home.
"Can't we... Just have.. 5 minutes.. break.." Theodore said breathless.
"No Theo! I need to get home to see Simon!" Alvin hissed and walked even faster.
"Alvin, calm down! Simon is just upset, he'll be fine" Eleanor said with her positive smile. Alvin rolled his eyes.
"No, I can't calm down! Don't try to play positive! What if it doesn't going to be fine?"
Britt laid her hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry Alvin. It's Simon we're talking about. You know, the smart and responsible one. Actually, I haven't seen Simon cry. Never! I mean... He's not that type of a guy who shows his feelings for others"
Alvin shrugged. "Sorry guys.. I'm just... kinda.. you know.."
"Sensitive?" the other four kids said in unison.
Alvin gave them a weird look. "What? No, Alvin Seville is not sensitive! - I'm just... caring for Simon! Did one of you know he had been bullied?" They all shook their heads. Alvin sighed. "Almost home" he said, under his breathe.
When they came inside their house, they saw Simon's shoes, jacket and schoolbag were just thrown on the floor. Dave came in to them. "Where have you been? I thought you guys already were home?" Dave said confused. They all looked nervous. Should they tell Dave?
"Uhm... Simon got off school earlier than us, and uhh.. I said that he could just go home. He didn't felt well, so yeah" Alvin said. Dave raised his eyebrows.
"What? I'll go up to him, to ask if his ok" Dave said, and walked toward the stairs.
"NO!" the five teens shouted in unison. Dave gave them a weird look.
"And why?"
"Uhmm.. He's probably asleep.. You wouldn't awake him, huh? Anyway, I'll go talk with him later" Alvin said with one of his cutest fake smiles.
"Ok, fellas" Dave said awkwardly, and walked into the living room again.
"Phew!" Brittany said.
"Wait..." Theodore looked like he thought about something. "Why can't we just tell Dave the truth?" he asked confused.
"Because Theo.." Alvin sighed. "I don't think Simon want us to tell Dave this. I mean... He didn't even want to tell me it."
"Oh.." Theodore said and then he smiled. But it changed again. "Poor Simon" he said, and looked down at his feet. Eleanor put her arm around him to comfort him. Well, Simon probably needed it more...
They all walked upstairs. When they came up, they didn't really know what to do. Alvin looked over at the girls.
"Maybe.. We should go first" he looked over at Theodore who nodded. Jeanette smiled weakly. Brittany shrugged and Eleanor nodded too.
"C'mon Jean and Ellie. You can help me during my nails!" Brittany cheered. Jeanette and Eleanor looked over to each other and sighed at the same time. Alvin rolled his eyes.
"Uhh.. Alvin?" Theodore asked, when the girls walked into Brittany's room.
"Yeah?"
"Shall I go with you?"
Alvin looked over at his youngest brother. "Uh.. Not if you don't want to, Theo".
"I just... Think that you can talk better to Si, than me" Theodore looked down at his feet.
"What? We're both his brothers Theo!" Alvin smiled. Theodore sighed.
"I know... But... You know..."
"I'll go in to him" Alvin said. "Oh! If you want to, you can go help the girls, making Britt's nails" he winked at the green-eyed teen. Theodore grimaced and made Alvin laugh. "Well, I wouldn't do that either"
"No.. I'll make some food!" Theodore ran downstairs. Alvin looked over at Simon's door. Sure it was closed, and he thought it was locked too. Alvin walked over, and tried slightly to open the door. Yep, he was right. It was locked. Alvin knocked at the door.
"Simon? Are you ok?". No response. Alvin tried again: "Simon, talk to me please". Still no response. "I know you're in there!". He got impatient and started to try shake to door. "Simon, open up! I want to talk with you, about that earlier! Why haven't you said anything? I'm here for you!" Alvin kinda hisses.
Simon was still in bed. His body did still hurt a lot, and he had a big head ache. "Please go Alvin" Simon muttered between some sobs. He tried to sound normal, but it was hard to do when you cried.
"Are you crying?" Alvin asked.
"...Uh, no" Simon lied. Heck, another lie!
"Simon c'mon! We both know you need help with this. You can't always handle your problems alone!"
"Alvin, just go!" Simon said with a kinda angry tone, inside on the other side of the door.
"No, I won't go, you-"
"I.. said GO!"
"but-"
"NOW, ALVIN!" Simon yelled and started crying a bit more than before. Alvin could hear it and sighed. What should you do, when your brother has troubles, and don't even wanna admit it?
"Uhm.. Maybe I could try" A low voice said. Alvin turned around and saw Jeanette standing, filled with her hair. She looked kinda nervous, but still confident. "
"Yeah.. Uh, sure.." Alvin said with a unsure tone in his voice. He decided to walk down the stairs to see how far Theodore was. When he came down, Theodore was standing with a tray of food on. "Oh Alvin! didn't see you there" Theodore said. Alvin smiled weakly. He looked at the delicious food and licked his mouth. There were some peanuts, M&M's, oranges, toasts and a pudding to each of them. There were also 6 glasses filled up with ice tea.
"Looks good, Theo" Alvin said. Theodore smiled, but stopped when he saw Alvin's sad face.
"How did it go, talking to him?" Theodore asked.
"Uhmm"
"What?"
"He didn't really wanted to talk, so yeah."
"Oh"
"But Jeanette is trying" Alvin smiled. Then Theodore smiled again.
"Let's go upstairs and eat". The two brothers walked up to Brittany's room, where she and Eleanor sat.
Jeanette stood outside of Simon's door. She could hear him sobbing and some small groans from crying. She felt sorry for him. 'How could he hide it? that poor boy! What could he have done, since he is bullied?' Jeanette thought. She finally knocked at the door. "Simon?" She asked calmly.
Simon didn't know what to say. He just said no to Alvin, but he couldn't just say no the his crush, could he? No way! "Oh! uh.. Jeanette? Uh, hi" Simon stuttered.
Jeanette giggled to herself. She loved when he was shy around her. It made him even more cute. "Simon, can I please come in?". Again Simon didn't know what to say. She couldn't see him like this! His curly brown hair was one big mess and he looked so... destroyed!
"Uh.. uhm... sure..." He mumbled. He slowly walked up the door. First he starred at it, but then he realized what he should do. He slowly turned the key, and opened the door slowly.
Jeanette was a little bit shocked when she saw him. yes, his hair was a mess, but he was also blue around his eye. He had some bruises around his arms and neck, and his eyes, nose and cheeks were red after all the crying. "Oh, Simon..." Jeanette said. he looked embarrassed down at his feet. He felt himself blushing. Jeanette suddenly pulled him in to a close hug. And then, Simon couldn't hold it in anymore. He burst loudly out in tears and couldn't stop crying. She stroked his hair with her hand, and his back with the other hand. "Shhh.. I'm here, I'm here... It's all gonna be ok" She tried to calm him down. She didn't let go of him, either he did. They stood there for some minutes. He still couldn't stop crying. Jeanette was almost getting tears in her eyes too, by seeing the boy, she was in love with, like this. They walked in Simon's room. They sat on his bed and Jeanette did finally speak up.
Alvin took a large handful of M&M's and stuffed it into his mouth. He still looked worried, but he was bored too.
"Woow... Save something to us!" Theodore said with a little grin.
"Nahh" Alvin said with a bored tone on his voice. He also smirked. Right now, he tried to act cool and funny, like always, but it was actually hard to hide his concern about his little brother. Brittany looked up from her magazine and turned her eyes over to Alvin
"What's wrong?" she asked with a weak smirk.
"Nothing!" Alvin answered quickly. Brittany sighed.
"C'mon Alvin, you can tell us. Or are you like your brother?" Brittany smirked. Alvin glared at her. NOBODY should ever say something like that again about his brothers low confidence, and certainly not in a situation like this. Eleanor looked over at her oldest sister.
"Britt! That wasn't very nice!" she said and gave her a small glare.
"What?... can't see the problem" Brittany replied and looked down at her magazine again. Alvin kept looking at her. He stared at her with big eyes. He was kinda angry. She noticed it at sighed. "What Alvin? got a problem?" She said, with a weak grin. Well, she couldn't see the problem, with making a small joke.
Alvin was about to yell at her, but instead he coldly said: "Don't make fun out of him. I think he has a hard time right now". Now, Brittany stared at him. She was kinda shocked, by Alvin protecting his brother for once.
"Huh! What's up with you?" she laughed. He didn't laugh. Actually, he wasn't in the mood for fun right now. Theodore and Eleanor watched them
"I'm just worried"
"About what? Your brother?"
"Yes!"
"For once..." She responded. When she said that, Alvin got a little hurt. Was he really such a bad brother?. He looked down at his feet. He noticed, that some of the M&M's laid on the floor. "Alvin?" Brittany asked seriously. He looked up. She didn't smirk anymore, she looked ashamed. "I-I'm sorry.. I uhh.. I didn't thought you worried about him, that much".
" I do" Alvin simply replied. "But you don't need to be sorry, it doesn't matter. I'm just... yeah..".
Brittany walked over to him and sat beside. "Why are you sad?" she asked moving closer to him. Alvin sighed sadly.
"I'm... I'm just not a good brother!" he shouted. Theodore looked shocked, and walked over to him too.
"What do you mean, Alvin?" Theodore asked his brother. "You and Simon are the best brothers a human ever could have!". Alvin smiled at his youngest brothers words, but looked down again.
"I mean... I didn't even notice that Simon got bullied! And then, it was even from my fri- my best friend!"
"Alvin.. Maybe he didn't got bullied that long! Maybe, it was just... you know... a couple of weeks!" Brittany said, trying to make him in a better mood.
"But then, why is he so sad about it? Simon is not a person, who would show his feelings!"
"You're right, you're right... Are you sad about that with Ryan? You know, your best friend?" Brittany asked. He looked nervously over at her.
"Actually.. He wasn't even my best friend" Alvin said, with a slight, nervously grin.
"Then, who's you're best friend?"
"Uhm..."
"You don't have one, right?" Brittany smirked. First he was kinda nervous to say it, but for some reason, it felt good to tell them now.
"I do" Alvin smiled warmly.
"Who?" she asked.
"...Simon.." Alvin smiled. Brittany was a bit surprised. Theodore and Eleanor were also.
"Alvin... That's cute!" Eleanor giggled. Brittany smirked.
"Woow... I never thought you would mean that. Or at least admit it" she said.
"Oh, c'mon.." Alvin muttered and took a sip of his ice tea.
Chapter 2 is done! I'll write chapter 3 right now, I love writing!
