Alfred tossed in bed. He laid awake at 11:00 at night. He couldn't sleep. His mind swarmed with all the things that could go wrong and the worst possible scenarios. What if other kids make fun of Matthew? What if he doesn't make any friends. What if they make fun of his accent. What if the teachers don't like him. What if he blames me for everything that goes wrong tomorrow and hates me. The last two words echoed in Alfred's brain. Calm yourself Alfred. We've got this.
Alfred finally fell asleep once he got the negative thoughts out of his head.
"Wake up Alfred! Wake up!" Matthew jumped on his brother.
Matthew landed on Alfred's bladder.
"I'm up Mattie, I'm up." Alfred ran to the bathroom.
Alfred and Matthew hurried to get ready. Alfred grabbed his and Matthew's lunch then dragged Matthew out the door.
"Wait up Alfred," Matthew panted between breaths, "I can't run that fast eh."
Alfred slowed down. "Sorry dude."
They waltzed into the school. Alfred slammed the front doors open, making a dramatic entrance as usual. It was Matthew however that made people do double takes. Alfred's math teacher on loan from a school in Thailand, spit out his coffee as they walked past.
"I knew it." Alfred heard a transfer student from Singapore say. "I'm going insane here. Stupid Americans are driving me nuts."
"Excuse me Ms. Héderváry." Alfred dragged Matthew, who was shrinking under all the stares, next to him. "I would like to introduce my twin from Canada, Matthew."
Ms. Héderváry dropped the book she was holding. "Wait, what?"
Matthew looked down the long hallway nervously. He had no idea at all where he was. He just finished his fourth period class, French, while Alfred was on the other side of the building taking Japanese. He was so lost, it reminded him of the time he got outside during a blizzard. Francis had freaked out. He needed to go to lunch, where he and Alfred had planned on sitting next to each other. That is if Matthew could find the cafeteria.
"Hey Alfred!" A voice from behind called.
Just as Matthew turned a young boy crashed into him. They both fell to the ground and Matthew's glasses were knocked off his head.
"I'm so sorry." The boy handed him his glasses. "I thought you were Alfred and I wanted to thank him for getting a bully to leave me alone."
"It's fine, eh." Matthew cleaned his glasses off. "Alfred's my twin."
"Really?"
Matthew's vision focused and he could clearly see the confusion in the boy's violet eyes.
"I didn't know Alfred had a twin," said the boy,
"Neither I we until recently." Matthew helped Ravis up.
"I'm Ravis by the way," Ravis said.
"Nice to meet you Ravis, I'm Matthew," Matthew paused for a moment. "Do you know how to get to the cafeteria, eh"
"Of course I do, follow me!" Ravis took off running down the hall.
Ravis led Matthew down the labyrinth of twisting hallways. Past thousands of similar looking rooms until the cafeteria came into view.
"Thank you," Matthew said.
"No problem." Ravis smiled. "I've got to get going. Bye Matthew!"
"Bye eh."
Matthew looked around at the huge room, there was no way he could find Alfred among hundreds of screaming children.
Luckily Alfred found him.
"AYE YO MATTIE! OVER HERE!" Alfred yelled.
The people at the surrounding tables winced and covered their ears.
Matthew thought that he would cause some stares, but he wasn't the craziest person here. He caught small bits of conversation.
"Obviously Frisbeetarian is the true religion."
"Are you crazy? Frisbeetarian isn't an actual religion."
"Y'all need Doitsu."
"What the heck is a Doitsu?"
"Shine bright like a Doitsu, shine bright like a Doitsu! We're beautiful like potatoes in the sky!"
"Doitsu is love, Doitsu is life."
"Did I-a hear Doitsu? Doitsu loves pasta. PAAAAAAASTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"Shut-a up. Doitsu isn't even that good."
"Ding Dong you are wrong. Kesesesesesesesesesese."
"CHARGE! FOR DOITSU!"
"What's so good about being a vampire? You can't even eat garlic bread so what's the point?"
"First of all garlic bread sucks."
Then there was a noise that sounded like someone being strangled.
Matthew hurried past the fights that were breaking out.
"Hi Alfred." Matthew sat down.
"He Mattie." Alfred said with a mouthful of food. "It sure is hectic here."
Matthew nodded.
"One question, how did that chair get on the ceiling?"
"Looong story bro."
The rest of the week passed quickly and it was soon Thursday.
"Alfred get ready," Arthur yelled from the room over.
"Ready for what?" Alfred yelled back.
"My friend and his family are coming over for dinner." Arthur walked into the room
"Really?"
"Yes you were spying on me, you heard." Arthur fixed his tie in the mirror.
"Oh yea, now I remember." Alfred stuffed another cheese puff into his mouth.
Arthur grumbled. "Sometimes you solve college level math. Other times you think that the Hunger Games was a real life documentary."
"Should we dress fancy or dress nice?" Matthew asked.
"Dress nice please." Arthur took away Alfred's game controller.
When Matthew and Alfred were finished getting dressed they found Arthur pacing in the kitchen.
"Dude, calm yo self. You're going to leave track marks in the floor." Alfred dusted his hands off on his white shirt leaving orange marks.
"Should I make scone for them? I feel bad making them bring all the food." Arthur began to pull out ingredients for his scones.
"No. Don't make food. If you want make some tea eh," Matthew stopped the disaster from happening. In the past week he tried one of Arthur's scones. Worst decision ever.
"You're right I'm going to make some tea," Arthur said.
"Whew that was a close one."
A few minutes later Arthur resumed his pacing.
"Is he okay?" Matthew whispered to Alfred.
"I'm not entirely sure," Alfred whispered back.
The doorbell rang and Arthur shot off to get it.
Arthur retraced his steps back. "Please behave. Especially you Alfred," Arthur warned.
Arthur composed himself and went to answer the door.
"Hello Lukas. It's so nice to see you," Alfred and Matthew heard Arthur say.
"Nice to see you to I would like to introduce my little brother and these are my cousins and cousin-in-law. I'm staying with them while I'm here," Lukas said.
"Welcome to my house, I'll get you seated then I'll introduce my own," Arthur said.
Arthur led Lukas and his family to the living room where Alfred and Matthew were waiting.
When they entered the room Matthew's eyes went wide.
"Alfred," he whispered while repeatedly hitting him.
"What-oh," Alfred said as he woke up.
Standing there with Lukas was Violet and Emil.
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