April, 1956-ish, London, England

Arthur sat in the living room/kitchen of his small flat, opening letters sent to him by Ralph. Ralph had sent the letter from Australia. A few months ago (or was it a year? Arthur couldn't remember) Ralph had received a package in the mail (how the senders got his current address Ralph still hasn't figured out). Inside was a large pile of photos and an envelope. The pictures were of a small girl who looked about two with brown curly hair, thick eyebrows and green eyes. In most of the pictures, she was holding a paint splattered piece of paper that vaguely made out the shape of a person. Now, this didn't make much sense to Ralph until he'd read the message within the envelope.

The letter informed him that his parents had had another child. The girl in the photos was his little sister. His parents wrote that she desperately wanted to meet her brother and they hoped that he would consider coming back to Australia to live with them.

Of course Ralph had proceeded to tell them to fuck off, but after much persuasion on Arthur's part, Ralph decided that he'd have to meet his sister some time, so he'd get it out of the way and come back to England after a few weeks. Weeks turned into months and he and his little sister were now as thick as thieves.

Back to Arthur, Ralph's letter was telling him of how he intended to get on the next plane/boat back to London.

Now, you may be wondering, 'What's Arthur doing in London instead of wherever it was before?' and that's a good question. Arthur moved out of the orphanage with Ralph a few months after Lukas, Mathias and Emil left with a lovely Finnish man called Tino, and a few months before everyone else in the orphanage went their separate ways. Most went back to their respective countries (save for the Germans, Italians and Kiku who are in London somewhere). Alvise decided it would be in everyone's best interest to move out. Alvise never specified why, but Arthur speculated that he probably wasn't legally allowed to live in England or look after children or something like that.

Arthur sat is his armchair and reminisced about the short time he'd spent at the orphanage. Sipping his tea, he remembered Vlad. And the promise. He was turning twenty-three soon. Very soon. Shitshitshitshitshit.

What was he getting worked up about? A promise he'd made with a crazy person ten years ago? Haha…

Arthur decided to contact with his only current friend. He picked up the phone and dialled the number "Hello, Kiku? I was wondering if you'd like to come over for some tea." Arthur said into the phone

"This is rather sudden Arthur-san..."

"We'll talk when you arrive, please just hurry"

"Okay…See you soon then" The line went dead

Arthur decided to listen to the radio and maybe do some reading to calm his nerves. He wasn't really one to worry, but he'd learned from experience that Vampires were very persistent.

At about six pm there was a knock at the door, Arthur jumped at the sound and opened the door slowly.

"Hello Arthur-san, are you well?" Asked Kiku

Arthur breathed a sigh of relief "I'm glad it's you" Arthur realised how his words must've sounded and blushed a little.

Kiku coughed as he walked to the living room and sat in his armchair "Why so skittish, Arthur-san?" he said after his blush had faded.

"Oh, no reason, Did you know it's been ten years since we left the orphanage? I wonder how everyone is doing." Said Arthur, changing the topic.

"They're all very well. Feliciano-san and Lovino-san still talk about you sometimes. Maybe we should try to get into contact with everyone"

Arthur was happy. People hardly ever spoke to him let alone about him (not to say that wasn't a good thing, alone time is always good). "That's a grand idea. Should we invite the ones in other countries too?"

"I don't see why we shouldn't try"

"Lovely" Arthur smiled. He only ever smiled around Kiku, everyone at his work (a large tailoring store) treated him rather badly. Especially some very, very Irish twins who Arthur went drinking with sometimes despite how mean they could be.

After a few phone calls and a little bit of searching, somehow Kiku had gotten the phone numbers and addresses of most of the kids from the orphanage and a few of the ones from school.

Arthur just stared at Kiku in amazement "How did you do that?"

"Kiku dokidoki magic"

"…what?"

The two young men continued talking like they usually did on nights like these. Arthur had completely forgotten about his vampire problem and fallen asleep. Kiku carried Arthur to his room and attempted to place him on his bed but Arthur wouldn't let go, so Kiku decided something along the lines of 'screw it; I want to sleep here with him so I will'.

Arthur awoke to a hug from his best friend, but was half asleep so he was all 'cool' and went back to sleep.

I finally did the time skip. It was forced and unnatural, but I think it's pretty good for something thrown together at 12 am

I'm pretty sure I aced my maths exam, btw.