...Huh You say somethin? Sorry I was listening to Carrots and Sticks... I picture myself saying something similar to my brother, minus the whole marriage thing... I still love my nii-chan he. Kicks. ASS! He's the best big bro ever! 3
~Rachy :D

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Homeroom was over now, and I had to wake Ember up, which is a dangerous responsibility. I COULD DIE!

"Ve, I will wake up the Angelo Bella." Luciano told me.

"Y-you do know I u-understand I-italian r-right?"

He flashed several shades of red then turned away. "You heard none of it! Go to class!" He dramatically pointed to the door.

"L-lets go Alexander..." I sighed and put my cards away.

The crowd of girls around glared at me. I didn't really care, they do that everyday regardless, it's not even intimidating any more.

Alexander nodded at me and stood up. I straightened my glasses and headed for the hallway, Alexander right by my side.

"S-so we have g-gym today..." I told him. I heard a few girls squeak. I guess they assumed if we were playing basketball today, we might do the shirts vs. skins team division. Skins meant they didn't wear a shirt.

I blushed at the thought of Alexander, but I pushed it aside, we were in our baseball unit at school. Today was going to be batting practice.
I smiled as a distant memory was recalled.

I was eleven, and Alexander and I were playing catch in the park. Baseball was our favorite sport. We decided we would take some swings.
Alexander's swing was perfect of course he hit the ball really far away... It was my turn.

"Awesome Yuki! Turn your back foot a bit, that'll help." He told me. I hadn't done as bad as I thought I had.
I swung again, we watched the ball fly. It was getting out of sight, we started running after it.

When we finally caught up with it, we saw it had landed a little ahead of Alexander's.

"Way to go Yuki!" Alexander put a hand on top of my head and grinned down at me. Even when we were younger, he was still way taller than me.

"Yuki?" Alexander asked waving a hand in front of my face.

"Hm?" I snapped out of my thoughts and looked at him. He was staring back down at me. Hes still way taller than me.

"What are we doing exactly?" He asked me. I pointed to one of the batting cages the coaches had set up for my small gym class of twenty.

"B-batting practice." I answered quietly. I shuffled forward and picked up an Easton XL1. It was one nice bat. I handed it to Alexander, it was too heavy for me, not really good for me.

"G-go ahead, t-take some swings..." I told him stepping back a bit. He seemed to be fine off on his own, so I went to go find another bat.

Eventually I found a smaller one that was a bit better for me. I took a swing with it.

Alexander looked at me and frowned.

"Yuki what happened, you had a kick ass swing a while ago, what happened to it?"

"I-I haven't been able t-to practice in a while..." I told him.

I've been to busy running...

He said a very familiar line. I don't think he remembered that day when we were little. "Turn your back foot a bit, that'll help."

I did as he said. He frowned a little.

"No, you aren't keeping your arms up long enough."

He walked over to me. He wrapped his arms around me and positioned his hands on top of mine. He was still nice and warm. And I was still freezing.

"Like this." He gestured to where his hands were.
I was blushing madly, he was smirking again.

"A-are you d-doing this on purpose?!" I stammered looking away from him.

"Meh. I don't know. Maybe I'm just trying to be helpful." He stated flatly.

He let go of me and stepped back a bit.

"Now try." He told me. I nodded and swung.

"Good yuk-"

"ALIE~~ can you help me please~?" A girl sung from across the room.

No! He's with m-... No, he isn't don't get attached... Come on Rosa, you knew he was gonna go, just let him be happy...

Alexander walked away from me and torward the girl. "Be back in a bit Yuki."

I nodded and went right back to swinging, imagining the girls head as a baseball. It quickly helped calm down the tweaks of jealousy picking on my heart.
I almost forgot what I was mad about, Alexander even came back over, the girl looked slightly annoyed like a plan she had didn't work.

That'll teach her not to try and seduce my friend!

Across the room some jocks had stolen a smaller boys glasses. I didn't know him well, he was a new kid.

"H-hey!" I yelled running to defend him as they pushed him down. "K-knock it off!" I said stepping between them as the boy struggled to stand up.

"What are ya gonna do about it Rosie?" They asked plucking my glasses off my face.

"G-give those back! I can't see without them!" I jumped up and tried to snatch them back, they were just out of my reach. He was holding them above his head. At least that's where I assumed they were, I can't see to far without them.

"Aww, little Rosie can't se-" the guy choked mid sentence as I heard something bounce to the ground followed by a loud thud.

Footsteps were heading towards me and the boy who managed to rise to his knees.

My glasses were placed back on my face and my first sight was Alexander lowering his hands away from me. The guy had been knocked out and a baseball sized bruise was forming on the side of his head.

He turned to the other two jocks who were stepping back as he slung the bat over his shoulder.

"The fuck are you two looking at?!" He glared at them and they nearly shit themselves.

"N-nothing man! W-we were just k-kidding around man!" They sounded more like me than members of the football team.

"Get outta here you good for nothin' fucks."
And with that they turn and ran away, their dignity leaving them in the form of tears of fear and lost pride.

I knelt down next to the boy. "A-are you okay?" I asked him.

"Yeah, I'm alright... Thanks." He replied.

I turned my attention back to Alexander as he started sounding a bit more menacing.

"If you so much as stand within ten fucking feet of her, I will personally take your head and shove it up your ass! DO I FUCKING MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!" He grabbed the dazed bully by the collar of his shirt and yanked him up.

The guy nodded in fear.

Alexander punched him in the face then shoved him away. "Get the fuck out now!"

Alexander turned back to us and picked the boys glasses up from the ground.

"Here." He handed them to the boy then he looked at me. "You okay Yuki?"

"Y-yeah I'm alright..." I sighed fixing my glasses.

We went back to practice swings and eventually gym was over and we had to go back to homeroom.

I was counting my blessings! We would get to go back to the awesomeness that is MAMA BILLS!

We were walking back the hall when I heard some cursing in Italian.

"CAZZO CAZZO CAZZO! ROSA HELP! VEEEE~~" Luciano came down the hallway running faster than humanly possible and he hid behind me and Alexander cowering in fear.

Ember was running down the hall as well, only she was leaving a trail of fire and she had a murderous look on her face as well.

"W-WHAT DID YOU DO THIS TIME?!"

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End chapter...

CAZZO means fuck in Italian if you were wondering~