Still don't own Hetalia and probably never will or would, because I'd make it so… unhistorical, if that is even a word…..
~kolkolkolkolkolkolkol~
Matthew was up bright and early unlike Alfred who was in their room, snoozing away like he tended to in the morning. Today would be their first week at the new school, and they had a lot to catch up on if they'd want to pass for the year. Not that he minded at all, poor Alfred though, would no doubt need help keeping up with homework, School, and his long evening shifts. Still, as he poured batter into a buttered pan, he kept humming to himself as he made their breakfast. They were still growing boys, and if there was one thing he learned from Ivan's older sister, the motherly figure to them till she eloped one day with a supposed love of her life, was that they needed to eat a proper three meals a day at least, and if he knew Alfred, the male would insist they both eat, especially Matt with his thin figure tending to flux up and down in weight often.
It was about ten minutes later of cooking till he went to wake up Alfred from the rock hard sleep the other had. " Alfred… Alfie, wakey wakey~" He poked the other playfully and got the short hair blond groaning and mumbling about five more minutes. "Can't do that, you need to get up and get ready for school, I made pancakes." "I'm up!" And just like that Alfred had rose from the bed in which they shared and walked like a zombie to the kitchen in which he could smell the food from. Matthew couldn't help but laugh at the other's actions and sighed as he followed, grabbing an outfit for Alfred to wear to school, thank the heavens for no uniform, or they'd have to spend even more money that they really couldn't afford quite yet to be spending.
"You even made me coffee, and the way I like, Oh Matthew, you really do love me." The other leaned over and kissed the giggling violet-eye boy. Matthew found himself propping himself up onto a seat and quietly ate his own breakfast as the other ranted slightly about his night yesterday at work and how some person there was trying to outdo him in terms of how awesome he was. "Oh but Alfred, you'll always be the most amazing hero in the world to me." And for once it was Alfred who was blushing and looking shy, though he recovered quickly and scoffed "Well duh! I'm the hero! The ONLY hero in this town!" "super-powered anyways" " Well yeah, I'm not quite like doctors or firefighters." They laughed together and enjoyed the rest of their morning chat before Alfred left to take a quick shower and Matthew went into the bathroom as well to brush his teeth and brush his now air-dried and slightly wavy long blond hair, pulling it back into a messy ponytail, the shorter of the two left the bathroom and got his booksack and supplies they had bought neatly together and put the bag on his shoulder after fixing Alfred's bag for him.
Matthew was just about to call and ask Alfred if he was almost done when the boy exited the bathroom in the pair of jeans and T-shirt with sewn on underneath long sleeves on and some black and white sneakers with white socks to match his outfit. Glasses on his face, he frowned " I think you have my glasses Mattie, this are a bit small…" It was then Matthew realized he was right and laughed some exchanging glasses " Oops, next time I'll put mine somewhere besides next to yours." And Alfred nodded with a smile and thanks for the packed booksack and handed it to the boy. "Your lunch money is in the front compartment by the way." Matthew added as they walked out the door of their apartment to head to the bus stop, locking it behind him. "Alrighty, and I'll see you at lunch?" "Of course, unless someone manages to drag me all over campus I'll probably just sit wherever no one else is." " Mmkay~"
And so with in the next thirty minutes, after waiting for the bus and getting to their next stop they walked the next 3 blocks to their new school, holding hands, it wasn't until they entered the main building did they let go of each other's hands. " Well this is where we part ways. I got Art first hour, so I'll be heading that way." "Yeah, I got P.E., what a great way to start the morning, talk to you later." Alfred hugged his boyfriend before he jogged off and headed to class a bit early, as did Matthew. Though as he got to the door, a familiar white hair and red-eyed male stood next to the door with a smirk to greet him. "So I see you finally decided to join us here after registering, Matt, right? Welcome to Hell!" He laughed an odd laugh, something like " Keseses" but Matthew was sure he heard the boy wrong. " Y-y-you remembered my name?" He asked the other shyly sinking a bit into his red and white hoodie, Gilbert laughed and a hand went to ruffling blond hair. "You act like I'd forget it, of course I know your name, I never forget people's names!" This had Matthew wince at the friendly gesture but smile brightly to the other. " w-well, at my old school, no one even noticed me." "That's cause they were blind by your great smile, like they are blinded by my awesomeness here!""Peep!" Matthew's head tilted at the odd sound he heard till he saw a chick jump from inside Gilbert's shirt to on his shoulder, making Gilbert freak slightly, trying to hide the little birdy, Matt could help but shake his head and smile as the other ask him not to speak of the bird, and he simply nodded as his response before letting the albino traited male to escort him into class.
Alfred being not so, well, perceptive or really, not paying attention had stopped by his locker just a tad to long and was almost late to P.E. when he bumped into what he'd assume to be underclassman, Asian boy, to whom he uttered an apology before the older brother, or so he assumed, of said boy retorted "Watch where you're going jerk, aru!" Alfred stopped and raised a brow to this but apologized once more and jogged back to the smaller Asian whom's brother was asking if he was alright. " Hey, I'm sorry, didn't mean to bump into you, sorry if I hurt you somehow, but I have to get to class. Bye!" He apologized once more to the boy not getting a good look at either seeing as how his glasses were falling from him running and turning constantly, he skidded into the gym barley on time as the bell rang right after he slid into class, a long brown hair female raising a brow to him. "You're eager to be on time." The girl stated as if she couldn't understand why anyone would want to be to P.E. class on time. Alfred offered her a clumsy smile "Yeah, I'm a new student." And with that, the next thing he knew he was seeing white lashes and blinking in a rather confused manner before his vision returned to him and felt his hand being shook by said girl. "I'm Elizaveta, I'm on the school newspaper, pleasure to meet you." Alfred gave her a rather stupid look before returning the shake and giving his one-of-a-kind smile to her. "I'm Alfred, Alfred Jones, nice to meet you too. Next time warn me when you want to take a picture, I'll be sure to strike a pose." They both laughed at this and Elizaveta smiled brightly to him. "I'll try to remember that."
Gilbert was slowly but surely identifying ever member of the Art class to Matthew. "That's Mariah, she has basically no friends, and she likes to keep it that way, never ask her for an opinion if you're not ready for the blunt and honest truth, she will tear you down and beat you down to size, possibly the meanest and scariest female naturally, no one has ever seen her mad, and no one wants to. She is blunt and ruthless with anything, so don't ask for help or homework, she will tear you a new one, once again." Matthew giggled at the other's description as he looked over the girl. She really didn't look that mean, she was a bit chubby, kind of short, blue eyes, pitch black hair, and a miserable frown, that's what she seemed to him. Miserable and it's like that old saying goes. "One miserable being seeks out another miserable being, equally as miserable, and then, they are happy." Or something along those lines. Following his eyes to the next victim of his descriptions were two long haired Asians who sat next to each other, though one had very characteristically different eyebrows, not that it bothered Matthew, they reminded him of Alfred's dad's brows, but, not as defined, close to it though. "That's Yao and Hui Wang, they are brothers, though, Hui supposedly is only his half brother, after a long time of hatred towards Hui, Yao became more protective over the past year and doesn't particularly care for people picking on him, still, he seems to act like he doesn't care about him, or the fact Hui right there is totally in love with Im Yong Soo, one of the school's most beloved student's because he is friendly, usually, kind-hearted, and a bit of a spazz, but in a good way. He was a really serious guy until Hui came around and then bam, he was nicer, they totally have the hots for each other, but will they admit it, noooo~" Gilbert had to make a face that got Matthew giggling only for a tall and muscular man come over to their table. "I know you love talking Gilbert, but let's try not to get the new kid in trouble on his first day here, please."
Gilbert sank in his place some and mumble a "Sorry ." Though as soon as the man turned he made some insulting hand gesture to him Matthew had only seen in movies, and when pointed it out despite not even being turned around to see it, Gilbert groaned as the other said they'd have a conference later. Later into class when they actually started working, drawing a basic room, Gilbert began whispering to Matthew again while they both sketched on their paper. " has two relative going to school here, we aren't sure if they are grandchildren, nephews, or his own sons, but they are Twins named Romano and Feliciano. Feliciano is pretty nice and a bit of, a well, okay, he isn't all there if you ask me, but my little brother likes him enough. Romano on the other hand has a serious attitude problem and tends to hang out with Antonio, despite his constant loud statements of supposedly hating him, we all know they are good friends, Romano just can't admit it." Matthew smiled as he listened. "This school is quite colorful, isn't it?" he asked and Gilbert smirked and nodded. " Yeah, but you learn to love it and the versatility or else we'd be boring and not nearly as enterta-" " Gilbert!" The teacher turned and glared at the constantly chattering albino boy. " Hush!" and Gilbert frowned and mumbled his back talk before rolling his eyes and going back to his art.
"Holy crap you're tall!" Alfred exclaimed to the senior known as Berwald who looked a bit shocked at the exclamation and had Elizaveta giggling to herself at the expression on the quiet senior's face. "Ummm...Thank you?" "That is so awesome!" Alfred exclaimed again to the male who was at least a good head taller than him, not that the other minded, it was almost as bad as Ivan though, that boy was taller than the Eifel Tower, okay, not that tall, but you get the point. Blue eyes sparkled as the two dressed out boys were waiting for the coach to blow the whistle for them to start their laps. Another blond haired male smiled cheerfully to Alfred and waved. "Don't mind Berwald's quietness, he can be that way around d new people. I'm Tino, what's your name?" "Alfred, Alfred Jones." Tino nodded to him as the whistle blew and they began their 3 minute running time for their laps. The girls running after them, Elizaveta waved to the new kid with a smile before turning to find a certain music prodigy she had been dating for a few weeks appear next to her. "New kid?" He asked curiously and Elizaveta nodded. "Yup, he just came here with his best friend Matthew." She explained vaguely and Roderich nodded slightly. " I see. He's in good shape, keeping up with Berwald and the other boys." "It would seem so, though he has already told me he eats much more than someone his size should be able to consume." Roderich chuckled slightly, not feeling a huge need to be so strict or reserved around his girlfriend, arms wrapping around her waist from behind he nuzzled her. "We know several people like that, and you use to be that way." "And I had the weight to show it when I was. Thank god for diets and exercise." They laughed lightly together as they watched the others run.
Around lunchtime, Alfred managed to find Matthew sitting with two guys, two guys who were much too close to his Matthew for him like. Walking over to them, he also noticed a rather lively crowd consisting of a set of twins, Italian in origin and in his history class, and then there were the Asians whom he had a bad start with, and the two sitting on either side of him, that annoying albino boy from the other day and some tan guy whose bright green eyes really stood out against his complexion. Blue eyes narrowing only for a moment, he sauntered over to Matthew and used his index fingers to jab both of his sides and gain a very loud yelp from the other of his name.
"Alfred!" He growled lightly and turned around with one of those glares Ivan had taught him to use, making the short hair blond slink back a little. "Hey~ you were suppose to com sit with me, and it's not like I'm hard to find." He said with a slightly hurt look as realization seemed to dawn upon Matthew who apologized while his growing group of friends and acquaintances grew larger through each class. "I'm so sorry Alfred, it totally slipped my mind, what with me hanging out with Gilbert and Antonio all day, I kind of forgot on accident, really, I just sat down with them."
"Uh-huh" Alfred gave him a rather disapproving glance before the long haired Asian, Yao as Matthew knew him, spoke. "You know him Matthew,aru?" "Aru?" Alfred questioned with a tilt of his head before Matthew nodded and was cut off before he spoke. "Yeah, he knows me. I'm his roommate at our apartment. We've been good friends most of our lives." Matthew raised a brow at the other not stating that they were boyfriends, since before hand, when they were back in the hellhole Matthew use to call home, he told everyone, but he obviously didn't want the others knowing. "And your parents are where?" piped in the meaner of the two Italian twins, Romano. "My father is in England and my mother is 6 feet under as of two years ago if you must know. Matthew's father is MIA as far as we know and his mother is off being a hoe with some horrible men." Matthew winced at how brutally he put it on both parts, but it wasn't completely untrue.
"That's so sad, ve~ your families sound kind of broken, but that's okay, we already brought you into ours, right guys?" The sweeter twin interjected into the conversation. Antonio and Gilbert nodded, though both had yet to really speak, though Gilbert had a spot opened next to him. "Yeah, so you could come and sit here with us, we just so happen to have an open seat." The albino grinned and patted the seat next to him. Matthew, along with the rest of the table who happened to have encountered Alfred earlier in the day, knew this would not be a good place to seat him, if it stayed that way every day, simply because, they both though they were the most awesome people in the world, and this meant a fight on who is more awesome, was bound to happen.
Still Alfred thanked them and sat down, and directly across from him was a boy named Kiku, th one he ran into earlier that day, who shifted slightly in his seat, and when Alfred noticed he reached his hand out across the table to shake with the other. " Hey, sorry about earlier today, was really ina hurry, I do apologize, no hard feelings?" he asked giving that heartwarming smile he pulled out on almost everyone as the other sank back just a little more before hesitantly shaking hands with him. "N-no hard feelings, just be more careful, please." "Of course!" Alfred assured the other in a chirpy voice.
The rest of lunch was spent with the whole table chitter and chatting about anything in general and tons of laughs all around, minus Ludwig who often seemed to be a bit slow on jokes, too serious for the humor his brother and their family of good friends shared. And once the bell rang, they went their separate ways when it was required, Kiku, the Twins, Alfred, and Ludwig all had to go to Algebra 2 next, While Matthew, Antonio, Yao, Hui, and Elizaveta whom Matthew met through Alfred, walked to the study hall class they all had together, in which much chaos had ensued. To put it short, elizaveta should never be given a camera and left in a classroom without a teacher and tons of unsuspecting students put into compromising positions by her, no thanks to the devious Antonio who was all too willing to help her.
At 7th hour, Mathew and Alfred had been reunited in Chemistry class, as well as Gilbert, Antonio, the Twins, and Ludwig who was trying to keep his brother from conducting unwarranted and definitely unadvised experiments in the class just because they had the formulas in a book he bought, and proper tools to carry them out, not to mention Gilbert enjoyed attempting to set the chemicals on fire and blow up the Chemistry lab. Towards the end of the hour, both Antonio and Romano had been kicked out of class, soon followed by Gilbert, and then lastly Vash, whom had been threatening to shoot Gilbert if he didn't chill out.
As the bell rang, Matthew exited the classroom giggling as Alfred was making some sort of remark about the group of people kicked out. Gilbert and Vash fighting up until red eyes spotted the long hair blond and he pushed the other down before walking over to him. " Hey Matthe- Gah!" Vash was certainly not one to be under estimated as he shoved Gilbert forward harshly and huffed before gathering his things and stomping off, ignoring the curses being given to him by Gilbert, whom Matthew had grabbed onto so the other would not pursue the shorter one of the group. "Breathe Gilbert, breathe." He told him calmly as Alfred started ranting about how he should pick on someone his own size and some other bull that a teacher might offer a student or a parent to a child.
Antonio on the other hand was simply letting Romano bitch to him and throw a mini-tantrum, arm around the smaller one's shoulders, he simply listened to the other intently, yet, also knowing the other so well , he could tell when the other truly meant what he said and when h didn't. Feliciano was happily attached to a rather tired looking Ludwig before asking Matthew "So what are you doing after school today?" Matthew looked to Alfred and they both responded. "Nothing today, but we have work tomorrow after school." The Italian smiled a big toothy one, while his brother was about to stop his invitation. "You wanna come hang out our place today? It could totally be like a welcome to the family party. Since that's what our group of friends is like, a big happy family." "Since when was this family happy and including them?" Romano butted in and everyone but him rolled their eyes.
"I don't see why not, but won't your parents get mad if you just bring home all your friends?" "Not really, dad is rarely home, mom is at work today, and grandpa is pretty friendly." Gilbert listened intently as they walked out the front door together and decided maybe this weekend would still be better, since then they could have a party with all their friends and just enjoy the whole day together, not just a few hours, and with that, they began to part ways.
On the city's bus ride home, Kiku sat next to Alfred and they had what seemed to be a grand time on the way home as they joked back and forth and planned on actually hanging out together, though Yao didn't seemed pleased by this, still, the Asian older brother sat next to Matthew. "Matthew, I know you just came here and all, but, you wouldn't happen to have an older brother by chance, would you? You remind me of a good friend I once had, aru." Matthew jumped a bit at the question and seemed to literally debate on if he should answer. "Y-yeah. I do, and I miss him a lot too. His name... it's Ivan. But we are only half brothers, my father is totally different from his, though we got the same eyes." "So then you two are related, that's a relief. You have the same glare as him." "That's cause he taught it to me when I was little, or really, I picked it up from him." They laughed lightly. "Well your brother and I never met in person, we started off as penpal, and then we discovered the magic of a webcam. Though, he never told me he had a little brother, aru." "He hates our family, and I don't blame him." Matthew stated looking down to the notebook in his lap. "So I have heard. He tells me they are not the best of people. Your roommate Alfred seems to have a similar thought about them as well." The long haired blond sighed loudly and ran a hand through his golden hair. "Well it's not a lie exactly, but mom used to be very sweet and kind hearted, then my dad left and she lost it. She went after the worst of guys and brought them home. Our sisters left and went with Ivan's dad and they stay there, and I and Ivan stayed with mom. After awhile though, I couldn't stand it any longer and me and Alfred left. So here we are."
"Mmm, I see, well, I can't say I know how you feel, because I honestly don't. But, I can say that you just need to keep your head up and things should get better. Hopefully for Ivan and you, aru." Matthew smiled to the other and nodded, though he was shocked when the asain pulled him into a hug. "You're about to cry…" He stated simply and Matthew understood it was probably something Yao was use to doing for his siblings and nodded into the other's chest and kept close to him. "Don't let Alfred see, please." Yao smiled some and patted his head. "I think he is too busy arguing with my brother over a book." They both laughed lightly. "I'm saving up though, to bring Ivan here… So maybe, before the year ends, you can finally get to meet him?" the other asked looking up to the other. "That would be nice, but I'm not gonna cross my fingers just yet.""Yeah…"
The rest of the bus ride as spent mostly in silence by the two sitting further back, most of the Asian siblings and cousins were talking amongst themselves or across the bus to each other until certain sets got off at the same stop, and then came Matthew and Alfred's stop. "Well this is where we get off. Thank you so much, Yao." The long haired boy shook his head with a small smile. "Don't mention it, and just be careful, okay aru?" Alfred and Kiku raised a brow to the exchange of words and when they both met eyes, their shoulders shrugged and they dismissed it. "See ya tomorrow Kiku!" Alfred waved to the short haired asian boy who smiled solemnly and responded "Sayonara Alfrd-san." And with that they exited the bus and it went on it's way.
"You like him,aru!" Yao exclaimed after the bus left the blond haired boy's view, leaning over the seat in front of his. Kiku turned a few shades redder than most people when he blushed and wave his hands in front himself defensively. " It's not l-like that at all!" and Yao smirked poking his brother's cheek. "It is so like that! Look at the huge blush on your face, aru! You like that idiot!" he teased Kiku whom sank in his seat and frowned before retorting "Well I'm not the one making a move on Matthew, now am I?" Yao stiffened for a moment and glared. "I am so not moving in on Matthew, I just happen to know his older brother, he's going through some hard times, aru! I was just comforting him." "I think you want to do more than comfort him and his brother, Onii-san." Now it was Yao's turn to blush as he gave his brother a slug to his upper arm. "I am not some philandering teenager unlike you. I don't play games like that and I would never!" "Then why are you blushing now?" "Because the very thought is insulting and enraging and that can make one's cheeks heat up as well, aru!" "uh-huh." Was all Kiku responded before picking up his books and walking off the bus, knowing their stop by heart, Yao quickly grabbing his things and following, ranting to the other.
Once home inside their apartment, Alfred plopped down on their shared bed and groaned some, ready to sleep. "Matthew, get me up in 2 hours, I need a nap. " "Alrighty, I'll get started on dinner and homework so I can help you in a little bit, mmkay?" " Kay…." Alfred called form the room, removing his shoes with his feet and ignoring the uncomfortable position of his glasses. He soon snuggled into the pillows and fell asleep without covering himself. Matthew on the other hand placed his stuff down in their small front room and arranged the table in front of their couch so that his homework and supplies were on one side, and the other side was free for whatever. After this was done he went to the kitchen to start getting things out for dinner, figuring that spaghetti would be alright. That and he wanted to try the new version of it he had learned from the twins. And for once in his life, he truly felt happy and accepted by all those around him, not to mention, visible, though, he did worry that it wouldn't last forever, while Alfred's secret worry, is that Matthew would regret the very moment he became visible, knowing all to well, the drama that brought into one's life.
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Sooo that is the end of chapter two. Kind of uneventful, but the story will eventually progress more. I know characters seem OOC, but they are in high school, and I don't know about you, but being there myself and still seeing it, people can be pretty different from how they eventually end up, or have temporary OOC moments if you want to apply it to real life. Especially since most of my friends who have gone to college totally went OOC after leaving, haha. So yeah, please don't murder me. And Yao is going to be the only person to really know a ton on Matt for awhile, besides Gilbert possibly.
I have never seen a China-x-Canada pairing and am not sure that would even work, but I at least plan for them to be close friends, in a odd brotherly way for sure –nods-. But umm, yeah. There is chapter two, hope to have chapter three and Mariah is a total OC, and she'll just be a drama starter or something later, thought I'd give you guys and gals a heads up.