"Ralph! What happened?" said Arthur after seeing broken glass in a hall and Gilbert standing with Ralph in the middle of it all.
"I dunno, Art. We were running down the hall when Gilbert sorta smashed into the vase or whatever it was" said Ralph. Arthur just stared at the two until Ralph spoke again "dude, what up with you and running in ta shit?"
"Language, Ralph" said Arthur, death staring the little boy who shouldn't even know these words.
"Nah, Artie, I really do run into shit too much. I have eyesight problems."
Before the conversation continued Alvise burst into the room, and from Gilbert's lack of reaction, Arthur guessed this was a normal thing.
"Gilbert!" Alvise started "We really have to do something about all the vases in the halls, don't we? I wouldn't want to risk you or the other kids getting hurt~ just try to be more careful, and I know the light hurts your eyes, but please just try your best~" he paused, looked at the broken bits of the seemingly expensive vase thingy and said "As punishment for breaking it, you and Ralph have to clean it up~" he paused again "Gilbert, you also have to be best friends with Arthur for the month" with that, Alvise um… sort of run-waddled away…
"… Was that a secondary punishment, or just a side note…?" said Arthur
"Definitely a secondary punishment!" Ralph cackled
"I dunno, but it seems now you get to spend the rest of your less awesome life with the awesome me!" said Gilbert
"He just said for the rest of the month didn't he?" said Arthur
"I've decided to be awesome bros with you forever" replied Gilbert
"No. Just the month or I'll die of listening you say 'awesome' over and over" Arthur said with a look of distaste
"Whatever you say Artie~" said Gilbert with a smile
Meanwhile, Ralph had moved away and was cackling alone in a different hallway. It had yet to dawn on any of them that Alvise had been watching them the whole time.
Arthur walked down the empty hallway looking for something to do. It was Saturday. The third and last day of his 'settling in' period so he and Ralph would start school tomorrow. He had yet to properly meet the boys he'd seen at breakfast the previous morning and had decided to go and find them today.
He didn't have to look far, because three of the blondes he'd seen the previous morning were rushing down the hallways of the dorm and eventually collided with Arthur.
"Movemovemovemovemove!" said the tall one with spikey hair before falling right on top of Arthur
"You suck, Mathias! I'ww make you pay for making fun of us!" said the shortest one with the puffin, pinning 'Mathias' to floor (with Arthur beneath them)
"Emil, I'm happy you're causing Mathias pain, but there's someone underneath him who's probably in even more pain" said the middle sized one, calmly pointing to Arthur.
"Can't…. breathe…." Wheezed Arthur, all remaining air escaping his lungs
'I'm going to die like this' Arthur suddenly felt himself being hoisted up onto his feet.
"Oh man, I'm sorry dude. Are you okay? I'm so…." Arthur didn't hear the rest of that due to the fact that he had fainted. When he awoke, Arthur was in his bed with mint bunny. The three boys and Ralph were chatting quietly, not noticing that Arthur had awoken.
"Hello?" said Arthur, interrupting their quiet chatter
"Arthur! I'm so happy you're awake! I wanted to say that I'm really sorry for falling on you, even if the doctor said you were fine, you were out for two hours and I'm really, really, really-"
"I'm sure he gets the point, stupid Dane" the middle sized one with cold, blue eyes cut off the taller blonde, giving him a death stare
"You're even worse than I am, you think trolls exist, you Norwegian fu-"
"I'm sowwy Awthurr" said the littlest one, looking up at Arthur with big, violet eyes. Arthur giggled at how cute his speech was.
"It's fine you guys. It was an accident" said Arthur
"Well then Artie, since you seem to be okay let's go out and play with Gilbert and Antonio" said Ralph, for some reason leaving Francis out of his sentence
"Not until I get these guys' names, Ralph"
"Don't worry, we're going the same way as you, we'll talk on the way. I'm Mathias"
"I'm Lukas and this is Emil" said the Norwegian, gesturing to the smaller boy
"Nice to meet you, I'm Arthur, as I'm sure Ralph has told you"
"He also told us you sleep with that green bunny every night and that you have a tea fetish and a whole lotta other things!" said Mathias
Arthur glared at Ralph, and from that moment on, our Australian friend knew that his dear cousin would have his revenge.
"I do not have a tea fetish! I just really, really like it. Drinking it, I mean"
"Sure ya do! I really like drinking beer!" said the Dane. The others drifted into their own conversation after seeing that Mathias might go on another rant about how fantastic beer is.
"How old did you say you were?"
"Fourteen. Why?"
"You're too young to drink!"
"So? I like beer."
"…Whatever, go ruin your brain with alcohol, silly boy"
"When you decide you're old enough to drink, ya have to come to the pub with me!"
"Why?"
"So I can spread the love"
"If I ever see you with alcohol, I'm taking it away from you"
"Fair enough, but you're going to have to pry it from my cold, dead hands!" said Mathias grabbing a bottle of alcohol from his coat and running away
"It's on!" said Arthur, running after him
"What just happened?" said Lukas, obviously confused
"Friendship happened, mate"
"You're so strange" said Emil
"And cheesy" added Lukas
"You two smell like fish" said Ralph deciding to get in on the action and running after Mathias with Arthur.