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Chapter 3 - The Past Never Leaves

It was the middle of the week when Peter came home after school really happy. He threw his school bag on the floor and ran to the kitchen. He was starving. Two slices of bread with some cheese and ham did the job before dinner. He ran up the stairs, holding something in his hand that looked kind of like a sandwich, that one was for his brother that fell ill during the weekend. Alexander stayed in his room, on his like he always did. Peter came into the room with the thing that was supposed to be a sandwich and a glass of orange juice.

"Here you go" said Peter smiling brightly as he put the sandwich on Alex's computer desk, glass with the juice right next to it. "What you up to?" He asked while he looked at the screen of his brother's computer.

"Thanks" said the younger boy, looking at the sandwich. "Just some... Research" he answered in a very monotonous tone.

"Oh, okay..." said the older boy as he left the room. "Have fun!" Peter ran downstairs, realising he's still hungry and went to the kitchen to make himself anothersandwich.

A few hours have passed before Desiré came home. Peter was in the living room, watching TV with his papa, while Alexander was still in his bedroom, he hasn't came out even once since Peter's visit. Desiré didn't look too happy already, so Peter hesitated slightly with the question his papa already answered. As always, Berwald wouldn't really let his sons do anything without Desiré's approval. Peter fumbled with the blanket he covered himself with and thought of how to correctly for the question so that his mother agrees what he was going to ask for. After about twenty long minutes, once Desiré was back downstairs after getting changed into her house clothes, Peter worked up the courage to ask.

"Mom~?" Said Peter slowly, wondering if she'll agree or not, or weather it's even worth touching on the subject.

"What is it?" She asked, looking quite relaxed but also tired. Desiré walked into the kitchen to make something quick for dinner, it would probably be frozen pizza again.

"Can i ask you something?" Peter hesitated a little.

"Yeah sure, go on."

"Um.. so basically... I just wanted to ask you.. well..." The boy wasn't sure anymore if he wanted to ask her or not.

"For God's sake Peter, spit it out..." she sighed, sounding quite annoyed as she said it.

"Would you mind if Raivis came over tomorrow?" he didn't look her way, not wanting to see her reaction.

"Yeah sure why not..." She was too tired to argue about it, not really minding him coming over that much either way though.

"For the night...?" He finished his question.

There was a long silent pause before Desiré came out from the kitchen into the living room. "I do mind... He's not staying for the night" she stated, looking quite irritated.

"But why? We're not gonna do anything... just cuddle..." Peter had the expression of a kicked puppy.

"I said no! End of story!"

"Why are you always like this!? Papa never minds my friends coming over!"

"Yes, but Raivis is your boyfriend! I do mind that!"

"But papa doesn't!"

"I have the final word in this house!"

"But-" he tried once more but got interrupted by his mother.

"NO BUTS! NO! END OF STORY! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD ABOUT THIS!" Desiré was really pissed off at this point, not appreciating her son back chatting.

By now Peter had tears in his eyes, he really wasn't planning to do anything with Raivis apart from cuddling and kissing a little. "I FUCKING HATE YOU!" He screamed as he ran upstairs.

"PETER! COME BACK HERE AT ONCE!" she wouldn't allow her son to swear at her.

Desiré was just about to run after him as Berwald grabbed her hand. "St'y" he said in a firm tone, he was getting really tired of his wife's bullshit. "W'll done, great par'ntin'."

She gave him a glare and sat down. "I won't let his boyfriend stay over for a night until he's sixteen" she said, inhaling the air slowly, trying to calm down.

"A'right I'll go t'lk to him" said Berwald as he got up from the couch, letting go of his wife's hand.

Meanwhile, Peter sat on Alexander's bed, crying his eyes out. Alexander did nothing, just looked at his brother and went back to his computer and whatever he was doing on it. The room was dark, the only light coming from Alexander's computer screen, and it began getting cold, seems like Desiré must have forgotten to turn the heating on. Peter shivered a little and pulled his knees to his chest, hugging them. The only thing that Peter could see and hear was his younger brother taping on this keyboard, looking extremely occupied and concentrated with whatever "research" he claimed he was doing. After a couple of minutes, when Peter was starting to fall asleep, Alexander gasped so loudly and suddenly that he startled his brother and make his scream a little.

"Alex! What the hell? Have you saw a ghost or something?" Asked Peter, obviously annoyed.

Alexander looked at him and shook his head, then looked back at his screen. "No, sorry" he apologised, actually meaning it for once. "Come, look at this" he beckoned him to come over to his desk.

Peter did so and looked at the screen. "Wow" was all he could say for the moment. He kept glaring at the screen, not knowing what to make of what he was seeing. "This is weird... really weird. You think we should tell papa?" Peter asked as he looked at Alex.

The younger boy just shrugged. "Dunno" he wasn't sure if it was a good idea to tell him, but also, not telling him could be worse.

At that moment, Berwald walked into Alexander's room and turned the light on. "Hey... Wh't are ya doin' guys?" He asked casually, seeing that Peter have calmed down by now. Bewald walked slowly to the computer desc at which Alexander and Peter were at. He took one glance at the screen and froze. Alexander had only one tab opened, it was Facebook, and on it was a picture from a little more than a decade ago. "Wh'n did ya find th's?" Tears started clouding his eyes, he blinked and wiped them away, looking outside the window, not wanting to look at the screen anymore. "Send it to me Al'x, alr'ght?" The boy nodded and did as he was told by his dad, sending the photo to him. The Swede turned around and left the room, walking slowly into his own bedroom, feeling quite sick, his stomach was turning inside out from both anger and hurt.

Alexander closed the tab and decided it was time for bed, feeling quite bad himself for making this father feel this way, but he also felt really lost and sad, wondering if he still belonged in this family. Peter left the room and went to his own, no one said a single word after Berwald left. Desiré stayed downstairs for another hour or two before she turned everything off and went to her and Berwald's bedroom, by then her husband and sons were asleep. She went to bed quietly and fell asleep too, blissfully unaware of what have happened and the hell that will start in her life very soon.

Author Notes~

Hey everyone...

Please don't hit me... *hides in a corner*

Alright, so~ I owe you all a huge apology for being away for so long, well over a year actually. So many things have happened in my life that I don't even know where to begin with excusing myself for the massive delay.

So, maybe lets start with the fact that when I updated my last chapter I was coming onto my second year of college, but it turned out that I didn't pass and had to change a college to start over and repeat the year. Meanwhile I was in a long distance relationship, I also got a cat which died 5 months later, my relationship ended after a year, I got a new cat, I passed this year of college and started the second year now... and~ now I'm also moving houses, in between all this I also had my day to day struggles and mild depression which is kinda hitting me again.

If you got this far into reading the author notes, thank you. I'm really sorry for not being around for so long, but I will finish this story and at some point upload a OS Spamano, most likely after I finish this story though.

Please review you like the chapter and feel free to rant about how annoyed you are about the delay.

I can't promise exactly when but I'll see you all soon~ I promise ;)

~Alexandrite-Raven