Alfred- Sophomore
Arthur- Junior
"I think you might be taking this a little too far, Arthur."
"He was being a git."
Matthew continued to lazily follow the pacing Brit with his eyes, watching as he compulsively cleaned his already clean bedroom in a fit of anger. From his place on the bed, he could just make out Kiku standing nervously in the doorframe, obviously itching to voice what they were both thinking but being far too polite.
"He's always a git," Matthew offered. Arthur scoffed and tossed a dirty pair of socks a little too roughly into his laundry hamper. "Maybe kicking him out of the apartment is a little extreme?"
Arthur slammed the lid of his hamper down, and spun around to glare at Matthew. "He called my scones slabs of concrete!"
"In his defense, they did kind of resemble concrete," Kiku muttered. Matthew and Arthur glared in response.
"Not the point!" Arthur exclaimed, resuming his obsessive tidying.
Matthew and Kiku exchanged weary looks, Matthew running a hand through his hair and sighing heavily. "I know you don't usually believe in the whole twin connection thing, but seriously Arthur, Alfred is crazy about you. I know this for a fact."
Arthur continued to violently adjust the sheets on his bed as an unsuccessful attempt to hide his blushing. "Enough. You're only trying to make me feel better."
"But he is not," Kiku interjected. "Alfred...he..." he paused and blinked. "Does anyone else hear music?" The three boys froze, straining their ears. Sure enough, the unmistakable sound of music was floating faintly into the room.
"It doesn't sound like Roderich's practicing." Matthew narrowed his eyes, trying to listen harder. "And it doesn't sound like it's coming from downstairs, so I don't think it's Yao."
"It sounds like it's coming from outside," Kiku muttered, walking into the room and leaning over Arthur's bed to join Matthew in the window.
Arthur scoffed, crossing his arms across his chest and storming towards the window as well. "Honestly, if it's those prats at the football house, I'll-" he pulled back the curtain and froze.
Alfred was standing in the middle of the lawn, an obnoxiously large boom box held over his head. He stared, unblinkingly up at Arthur's window as students passing on the sidewalk behind him pointed and giggled. Arthur's face turned a ghostly white.
Finally getting over his shock, Matthew groaned miserably and yanked the window open. The boys could finally hear what song was playing clearly.
"I guess now it's time for me to give up, I feel it's time. Got a picture of you beside me, got your lipstick mark still on your coffee cup."
"Alfred!" Matthew exclaimed. "What the hell are you doing, eh?"
Alfred didn't move a muscle. He simply continued to stare up at the window, the blush on his cheeks evident even from the third floor.
"Got a fist of pure emotion, got a head of shattered dreams. Gotta leave it, gotta leave it all behind, now..."
Arthur pulled himself together, pushing Matthew out of the window and sticking his wildly blushing head out of it. "ALFRED," he cried. "YOU STOP THIS NONSENCE THIS MOMENT!"
Alfred reached up to the boom box and turned up the volume as the chorus started.
"Whatever I said, whatever I did, I didn't mean it, I just want you back for good. Whenever I'm wrong just tell me the song and I'll sing it, you'll be right and understood. Want you back, want you back, want you back for good!"
"Oh bloody hell!" Arthur cried, spinning away from the window and speeding across the room, his hand held over his flushing cheeks. Kiku pursed his lips and turned back to watch Alfred.
"I think he is trying to apologize, Arthur."
Matthew rubbed his temples. "What made him think this was a good idea?"
"Whenever I'm wrong, just tell me the song and I'll sing it, you'll be right and understood. Want you back, want you back, want you back for good. I want you back for good!"
Arthur had successfully paced in a full circle around his room, ending at the window once again. After a short pause, he poked his head out the window again. "Alfred Jones, you get your arse out of here! People are staring!"
Kiku cocked his head to the side between Arthur and Matthew, holding his chin pensively. "I think that is Elizabeta down there taking pictures, as well," he mused.
"Of course she is," Matt sighed.
"Unaware but underlined, I figured out this story, It wasn't good. Yet in a corner of my mind, I celebrated glory, but that was not to be."
Kiku wrapped his arms around himself, obviously very uncomfortable with such a blatant display of public affection. "This is really embarrassing."
"For once," Matthew agreed, "I'm really happy no one ever mistakes me for Al."
"In the twist of separation, you excelled at being free. Can't you find a little room inside for me?"
To everyone's amusement, Alfred had actually moved very little since they had been watching him. To see the normally energetic young man standing so seriously still for so long was quite a spectacle and it was obviously getting around campus, as more and more people were showing up to get a glimpse.
"I'm surprised his arm's aren't tired," Matthew mumbled.
Kiku nodded. "It is amazing what someone can accomplish with the right determination."
Alfred's eyes narrowed and his blush darkened. He reached up and turned the volume up even louder.
"Whatever I said, whatever I did, I didn't mean it, I just want you back for good. Want you back, want you back, want you back for good..."
"Well," Matthew said with a weak smile, "Should I go down and grab him and ruin this humiliation once and for all or- Uh, Arthur? You okay?"
Arthur, who had remained uncharacteristically quiet for last few minutes, was still kneeling on his bed in front of the window, biting his lip, his face red, and his hands clenched over his heart. His eyes were wide and so focused on Alfred, an alien species could have been destroying the city and he wouldn't have batted an eyelash.
Matthew groaned, holding his head in his hands. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me."
"Whenever I'm wrong, just tell me the song and I'll sing it, you'll be right and understood. Want you back, want you back, want you back for good. I want you back for good!"
Finally, Arthur let out a frustrated, muted cry and tore out of the room, just barely remembering to grab his lanyard from the hook next to his door on the way out. Matthew and Kiku exchanged surprised glances, before instantly jumping back to their places in front of the window. Below, Alfred was understandably a little surprised at the sudden disappearance of Arthur but continued to stand there with the boom box above his head, anyway.
And then, in far less time than it would normally take someone to run down three flights of stairs and out to the middle of the lawn, Arthur was running out to Alfred and throwing his arm's around him so fiercely, the boom box was almost sent flying to the ground, if not for a lucky catch from Alfred.
The onlookers applauded and cheered at the reunion, moving on with knowing smiles once Arthur started whacking Alfred in the head repeatedly, noting thing things finally back to normal and going on with their lives. From up above, Kiku and Matthew sighed.
"That really shouldn't have worked," Kiku decided.
"Don't question it," Matthew sighed, as the two down below entered the building together, the boom box left forgotten on the ground. "Don't ever question it."
"And we'll be together, this time is forever, we'll be fighting, yes forever we will be. So complete in our love, we will never be uncovered again."
This chapter was kinda pointless and stupid, but I got the idea and it WOULD NOT LEAVE MY MIND, so I wrote it and ya'll have to deal with it. XD The song is called "Back for Good" by the band Take That, which is very very British and very very 90's. XD It's a good song though, so shut up. XD
Anyway, he next chapter will be less pointless, I promise. XD I'll try to get it up this week, but I have a college friend visiting me for a week, so I dunno how much time I'm going to have to write. I'LL TRY THOUGH! :D
Oh, and about their living arrangement. Alfred's freshman year and Arthur's sophomore year, they live in the dorms and are roommates, for the next two years, they move into on-campus apartments for four people, where they live with Matt and Kiku. They each have their own room, two bathrooms, and a kitchen/living room area. You'll see the apartment more as the story goes on. XD HOPE YOU LIKED! :D -Car