"David… David hit me!" said Ralph. He was rubbing his eyes ferociously in an attempt to somehow prevent himself from crying.
Arthur gave the small blonde boy a once over "I'm impressed. What did he do? Insult your accent or something?"
"He stole my pet sheep" said David as he glared daggers at Ralph.
"Yeah, well you kiwis are known for being sheep shaggers, I was liberating it." Ralph said.
Arthur face palmed. "I see." Arthur thought for a moment "You can do whatever you want to Ralph. He deserves it."
As the two younger boys started bickering over how to settle things, Arthur sauntered off.
Arthur sort of regretted starting a fight between Ralph and David, but only sort of.
On his way to his room, a girl with brown hair and pigtails Arthur had met at school spilled a bucket of muddy water on him.
"I'm really sorry for that! I'll make it up to you later I promise!" She apologised quickly and left before Arthur could ask what she was doing here in the first place. She didn't even take her bucket.
Upon arriving at his room, Arthur checked his closet for clean clothes. There were no clothes. At all. Anything that had any chance of fitting Arthur had been removed by an anonymous douchebag.
'No no no no no. I need to be clean!' After Arthur had freaked out, he decided to just get out of his clothes and stay in his room until he figured out a solution.
There was a knock at the door. Arthur was wearing nothing but his (thankfully still mostly dry) boxers. With hesitance, Arthur decided to answer the door. Before he could say anything, Arthur's heard was covered with a burlap sack and his hands and feet were being tied to a chair.
"What the fu-"
"Shh… there is much to do" said Francis.
"Why am I not surprised it's you?" Arthur said
"It's not just me! Elizabeta, Victoria and Lili are here too!" Francis said, presumably trying to justify his actions
"Shut up, Francis! You weren't supposed to tell him!" a voice Arthur recognised Elizabeta's said
"Since I know who you all are, can we lose the sack? It's itchy"
"…Fine." Said Elizabeta, taking away the sack
"So why have you tied me to this chair?" asked Arthur
"No reason. Look down" smiled the pigtail girl from earlier. She must've been Victoria.
Arthur did as he was told and looked down at his knees. His blue clad knees. Wait what?
"What…? How…"
"You're wearing a dress, Arthur." Said Lili
To be honest, Arthur would not have expected the nice little blonde girl to be in on this.
"But how did you get it on with my hands tied to the chair?"
"Magic~" Said Francis
"But how didn't I notice-"
"And now that you're not wearing the sack, we can put on your makeup!" said Elizabeta, grinning.
After an hour of the girls and Francis applying cosmetics to Arthur's face and placing a wig on his head, they were done. Arthur had struggled at the beginning, but the sharp objects they were holding near his face changed his mind quickly.
Arthur looked in the handheld mirror and saw a girl staring back at him. She had all the same features of Arthur, but it wasn't Arthur. It was just some girl that happened to be in the mirror. That's what Arthur tried to tell himself but it just wasn't working. They had successfully made Arthur into a fairly attractive young lady. Fuck.
"Why would you do this!?" Arthur was unhappy that he looked so convincing. He was supposed to be a manly gentleman, not a pretty girl.
"We can't tell you" said Francis
"Can you at least tell me whose idea it was?"
The three girls looked at Francis
"Of course. I suppose he was the one that took my clothes too"
"That was actually Lili" said Francis
"Yup! You have some very nice bowties Mister Arthur!"
'Mister? She's very polite, isn't she?'
"Umm… thank you?" Arthur was still tied to the chair and was thinking of ways to escape.
"Enough chit-chat! We have a job to do!" said Elizabeta
Without delay, Victoria untied Arthur.
"So you're just letting me go?"
"Yes, it's all part of the pla-" Francis covered Victora's mouth.
"There's no plan. Just go" he said
Arthur backed away from the group very slowly, afraid of getting tackled or something while his back was turned. When he reached the hallway he broke into a sprint. He needed to find some new clothes and a way to get the makeup and wig off before anyone saw him.
All rooms but Ivan's were locked. Arthur wasn't even going to try to enter that one; he was afraid of Ivan and didn't want to die for entering his room without permission.
Arthur heard something. It sounded like… no. Please no. He thought he'd heard Gilbert and Antonio laughing down the hall. He heard them again, closer this time. If he didn't go outside, he'd risk being seen by them. Arthur looked out the window. No one was in the garden. He'd have to risk it.
Now if you're wondering why he was so against letting people see him like this it's merely because, to put it delicately, most of the kids in the orphanage were dicks. They'd never let him live it down maybe Kiku would, but that's it.
"Arthur?" Said a distinctively Austrian voice
Oh shit.
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