Chapter 3: Brothers stick together

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Feliciano:

"Alright, another day, another plates of pasta for breakfast." I said as I ate a plate of pasta at my work desk. Suddenly, there was a knock at the classroom door. "Come in!" My brother Lovino walked inside. "Ciao Lovi! It's so nice to see you away from the tomatoes and farmlands! What brings you to my classroom?" I said, running up and hugging him. "I came to see if I could stay with you for a while."
"Huh?" I said, letting go. "Why? You love the farmland, and Antonio. Did you guys fight?" Lovi nodded slowly and looked up at me, almost in tears. "What happened?" I said, leading him towards a desk he could sit down at.
"We were talking about this new fertilizer that came out, that would help the tomatoes grow bigger and redder, but just in a few weeks time, like a normal tomato. Antonio was all up for it, anything to make our tomatoes sell more. But I looked at the side affects. The fertilizer gets into the water, and has affects on the people who would drink the water like if they had drank, smoked pot and sniffed crack all night long. But it lasts for days." I looked at my brother in disbelief. "I could never think anything would have an effect on people like that." I said, very concerned.
"Yeah, me neither. So I tried to get him to not buy it, and we fought about it for a while... And...." He stayed silent for a few moments. "What is it Fratello? You know you can tell me anything." He looked at the ground for smoking, and stood up. He lifted up his shirt and turned around. I gasped. There were bruises and whip marks, along with stitches and scratches. "Oh fratello." I said, putting my hand up to touch, but dropped it when he turned around to sit down.
"I woke up this morning in the basement, with the different baskets and boxes of tomatoes. I could tell just by the smell that he had used the fertilizer, and so I ran. I don't want to be apart of that. He's going to get sued, because they always find where the water came from, and there going to basically kill him for using that fertilizer." I sighed. Fratello got into a lot of trouble before he met Antonio. Drug dealing, drinking, stealing, started working for a big crime boss in southern Italy before we moved even.
"Alright." I got up and pulled open a drawer of my desk. "Here are the keys to my apartment. It's a one bedroom apartment, but you can sleep in my room. I usually get home late, and sometimes won't come home at all. Just be ready if you here someone at the door to look through the eye hole before you open the door. If it's someone you don't know, don't open the door." I gave him the key. "My apartment is very easy to find. And you can walk from here."
"Grazi fratello." He said, and then left the building.

Ludwig:

Why do I even let this man near me? Were the thoughts going through my head on the bus ride to school. "Hey West! Maybe I'll get laid this year! I did last year! It was that Elizabeta girl, and oh is she fine!" I sighed and stood up at a stop to sit somewhere else. I spotted Kiku ahead of me and walked towards him.
"Morning Kiku."
"Oh, konichiwa Ludwig-san." Suddenly the bus stopped and we were at school. "I'll see you in art Kiku." I stood up and exited the bus. This morning I wanted to go talk to Mr. Vargas about some art lessons I could try. Gilbert was right, I can't draw. All I had on my paper were some erase marks from past attempts of drawing my face.
I walking into the school building and turned right, towards the art room. A man who looked like Mr. Vargas walked by, a stern look on his face and his brows furrowed. He wasn't him though, I could tell. His hair curl was on the opposite side of the head and his eyes were green. I shook my head. How could I tell the difference?!
I walked into the classroom to Mr. Vargas reading, again, something very very long, and eating a plate of angel hair pasta. He turned towards me.
"Oh Ludwig! So nice to see you this morning!" He said as he stood up and walked over to me. "So,what brings you here?"
"Uh, I was wondering if-"
"WEST! COME HERE! I HAVR FOUBD THW MOST AMAZING THING YOU COULD EVER BESTOW ON THIS EARTH!" I looked over at where the noise was coming from, then back at Mr. Vargas. I never ever wanted to leave the room without him. It just felt, nice, being alone with him. But what was I saying? I'm a student, and he's my teacher. "Eh, I'm sorry. It's my bruder, Gilbert. I'll talk to you later." I turned and ran out of the room. I mean, bruder have to stick together. If it weren't for Gilbert, I wouldn't be alive.

(Sorry for not updating in a while! Family stuff, you know? Anyway, hope ya guys enjoy! And I would love it if you guys suggested this to friends, family, and maybe even other loved ones, ya know what I mean.)

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