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I stared at the place that my brother had been standing. Mattie never yelled at me, never I was in complete and utter shock. I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do. But suddenly the shock and hurt that filled my chest were met with a third feeling, anger. Why the hell was he so pissed at me? How could he be so angry when all I wanted to know was what was going on with m y little brother. It's not as if I didn't trust him I just wanted to make sure he wasn't going to get hurt! And if he couldn't understand that then he was the one at fault here and not I. It was the sound of other voices that broke my concentration. "Hnh" I pushed out of the backroom pasting a smile on my face, I didn't want any questions. Mattie refused to look at me as I came back into the cooking room. I ignored the worried looks that Francis kept tossing between me and Mattie. Whenever he would try to prod Mattie my brother would just brush his hand off. 'So it seems like he hasn't told Francis anything. Good because there is no reason that he needs to know what is going on between us. Brother stuff only dude!' I sat down in my seat shoving my backpack underneath the table. I turned and looked over at my lab partner. She was a short light haired brunette that was always smiling and friendly. I had known her for a good long while. She turned to me and smiled immediately launching into a conversation. I nodded and smiled as I half listened to her. The rest of the class passed by in a similar fashion, she talked and I ignored Mathew as we baked the period away...It was the bell once again that had my classmates and I pushing back out into the hallway. I once again walked with my lab partner, we both had our next class together, world literature. She talked about how excited she was that our cookies had come out perfect and that she was so estatic for the waffles that we would be making next week. I laughed at this, she had been so excited ever since she had learned that we would be making them. Now that I thought about it...I hadn't had waffles since jr. high...when they had been on fire.

FLASHBACK:

I sat back in my chair flirting with the girls that sat behind me. Two cute red headed sisters that definitely had a thing for me. They were cute and funny, they also thought that I was funny because any joke or flirt I could pull out of my sleeve.

"Honestly Alfred will you turn around and pay attention for once git!?" a agitated voiced sounded from beside me. Looking to the side I saw an infuriated Arthur glaring at me over an instruction sheet. "We are supposed to be making this" he waved the paper "Waffles, remember Alfred, our grade" he scowled.

"Alright, alright Jeez dude don't get your boxers in a twist" I sighed and spun back around in mt seat with a wink at the girls.

"My name is Arthur, not dude" he protested placing the paper down with much more force than necessary.

(FLASHBACK)

I followed her into the room for our next class and plopped down in my seating dropping my bag onto the desk. I began to zone out as she continued to talk. My mind was busy as I went over everything that had happened that day. Everything this morning had been normal, until I went outside this morning and my bike was missing. I continued to nod and smile as I vaguely listened to her talk.

"Oh Arthur is so cute and organized! Jealous!" she suddenly sighed.

"Huh?" I snapped to attention at this statement and looked to where Arthur sat, the seat was empty. I frowned and looked over to find her smirking at me.

"Well that finally got your attention Alfred" she smirked dropping her chin into her hand. "But Arthur has always gotten your attention"

"Uh what? No." I protested feeling my cheeks light up.

"Oh shut up Alfred. I have known you since elementary school. Arthur has always gotten your attention. So obvious that you like him!" she whispered giggling.

"Ah come on Bella no it isnt!" I protested with a frown. She just looked at me arching her eyebrow.

"Your really going to deny it Alfred?" she smirked again.

"...no" I looked at her with a sigh of defeat. Bella and I had known each-other for a long time indeed. Fifth grade to be exact, she had transferred here from the country of Belgium with her mother and her Step-father and Step-brother from the Netherlands.

"Ha." she smiled leaning back and crossing her arms "I can easily tell if someone is in love"

"How can you say that you know so much about love? Your not married" I said smugly. At this she rolled her eyes.

"ill tell you if you can keep a secret Al"

"Of course, Hero's keep secrets"

"Well" she whispered "I got engaged this summer"

"WHAT!" I shouted. At this everyone turned around to look at us and she glared at me. I laughed sheepishly and rubbed the back of my neck. Everyone turned back around not really surprised at my behavior.

She scowled at me and one everyone looked away I apologized. At that she pulled on the chain that disappeared into her blouse and pulled out a ring. "I got engaged this summer" she murmured again in happiness. I couldn't help but stare at it, my attention returning to her face as as she tucked it back into her blouse.

"Well who did-"

"Are you bothering my fiance again Alfred" a quiet voice interrupted me from behind. I turned to look at a young face from a rather short, thin pushed the stray hairs from his face that weren't held back by a barret as he looked at me seriously with eyes of indigo.

"Lukas" I breathed and looked at Bella in shock "Your with Lukas? When did you guys even date?"

"Since the 8th grade" Lukas informed me as he sat in his desk that was stationed behind mine.

"we've been keeping it on the down low" Belgium sighed pulling a notebook from her satchel "Since...well we both have eccentric brothers and all. It would be wildly blown out of proportion." she shrugged with a smile and I barley heard the grunt of agreement from behind me.

"But back to our original topic" she smirked and jerked her head over across the room. I couldn't help the flutter that disturbed my stomach as I saw that Arthur had finally settled his petite body into his desk at the front of the class. Notebook, book, pencil, eraser all set in the same impeccable order as it always was. I fought back the sigh that threatened to escape my lungs at the 'hmph' of success that the female next to me gave.

"Fine okay okay, So say that I do have a crush on him. So what?" I looked at her waiting for were this conversation was going to lead.

"Then you tell him!" she said slowly as if I as stupid.

"As if. Say if I did like him why would I even tell him?" I pulled my water bottle out of my backpack and popped open the lid.

"Because he likes you back" she smiled. At this I choked on the water, coughing violently. Hitting my chest with my fist I stared at her threw watering eyes and she laughed behind her hand. I felt my face flush as eyes trained on me. Looking up my eyes, out of habit fell upon Arthur. The small blonde and turned all the way around in his chair with a look of concern mixed with annoyance lighting up his stoic expression. I looked away quickly, settling to glare at Bella instead. I sighed mentally in relief as the coughs that racked my body faded out and by that time everyone had once again turned around in their wooden desks. At this point I couldn't decide

I slumped down in my chair looking at her as she smiled in amusement

"And why would I believe you"

"I could tell without an issue that you liked him didn't I" she ran her fingers through her hair tossing a smile at Lukas.

"Okay.." I crossed my arms "Say that he does like me back" I ignored the rapid increase of my heart in my chest.

"Then you need to tell him that!" she giggled "Get him alone and tell him that!" she pushed and I couldn't help but stare at her.

"Are you nuts?"

"No! But you'll regret it if you don't" she sniffed and turned to face the front as the professor began the lecture. However my mind was not on ancient history but on the now and the future. Propping my chin in my hand I stared at the boy who was on mind. Arthur listened diligently , his eyes either trained upon the teacher or on his paper as he took notes. I could imagine what his paper looked like covered in that elegant scroll he used for his handwriting.

I could imagine the look of concentration spreading across his face as he took the notes almost verbatim, his pen sliding quickly across the paper with ease. It looked like that notebook was almost full with notes. It was a much different contrast to my notebook which was barely a quarter way full and about half of it was filled with random doodles and mini comics. 'hm, maybe I should take more notes, my grades could be better' Scratching at inch on my forehead I looked back at Arthur and was surprised to see him looking at me from the corner of his eye. His hand hovered over the paper carefully and he looked at me with a curious expression. As his eye caught mine he stiffened and turned his sight back to the professor, his cheeks red. Arthur was blushing...he was looking at me and blushing. I looked over at Bella and as I had guessed she was staring at me and smiling.

"I told you" she mouthed and haughtily focused back on the lesson. I gave up completely on focusing on the lesson and began to doddle aimlessly keeping my head down and mouth shut. Excitement coursed through my veins, heart thudding and I could feel my cheeks filling with blood 'could it be true? Could he really like me?'