"Aaaaaalfreeeeeeed!"
"________________!"
"Can we play video games?"
"...What?" He looks at you confused.
"What?"
"You never ask to play video games, and you've never played them, according to your stories."
"Again, what?" You crossed your arms. "Why can't I at least learn how?"
"It takes a while to learn."
"Then teach me!" you yelled. He squeezed his eyes shut and covered his ears. You sighed, and turned around. You walked over to Matthew who was quietly reading a book. You bent over to read the French words, your face close to his. "Matthew,"
"Hmm?" He looked up at you and saw how close you were to his face. "_- _____.."
"Oh, sorry." You took a step back and looked at his book. "Matt, could you teach me how to play video games?"
"S- sure." he reached over to grab a bookmark when Alfred grabbed it.
"Dude, don't!" He crossed his arms, pouted, and looked away. "She asked me first."
"Aha!" You stood up. "So you are going to teach me?"
"Sure."
"But first," you added.
"Oh, come one!" he whined.
"Hey. Give back Mattie's bookmark."
"Right, right." He put the bookmark down. "Well?"
"Well, what?"
"Matt," His brother looked up at him. "Aren't you gonna play too?"
"But.. I thought you said-"
"It's okay, come on!" He held his hand out, wanting Matt to take it and stand up, that way the three of you could go to the living room.
***
"Okay, Al, how do you work this again?" You had picked the game "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" seeing that it had lots of characters on it. He
pointed at the buttons below as he explained.
"The 2 is for normal attacking, the 1 is for a more powerful attack, the B-which is the one on the bottom-is for a shield. Got it?"
"Uh, yes?"
"Okay, then let's start."
"Aaaaaalllllfred..."
"Hmm?" the two of you were in the middle of a fight, you were Toon Link, Alfred was Pikachu, and Matt was the Ice Climbers. "What is it?"
"I'm tired..." you complained.
"Here, rest on my shoulder." And you did so, and felt a little better. "Damn it, I thought you were tired!"
"I am..." you said, almost silent.
"Well, I don't think your fingers are! Wait. That sounded weird..." He stared down at the controller, as you were still attacking him.
"I'm winning!" you yelled, eyes, almost closed. The screen displayed the numbers, 5, 4, 3, 2, and then 1.
"_____ probably won." Matthew admitted.
"What? Dude, I won! The Hero always wins!" You scoffed at his remark. "What?"
"Yeah, right..." you said, your eyes closing.
"Toon Link." the screen said.
"Whaaaaaat? Dude, I should've won! You got a lot more KOs than I di-" He looked at you with a tense face, relaxing once he saw you, asleep on his shoulder. "Oh." He got third place, while Matt got second.
"Is ______ asleep?"
"Yeah, she is." He looked at you with a smile, then put your head down on the couch.
"Alfred, what are you doing?" He got up to follow his brother, where he had taken a permanent marker from his desk.
"What should I draw on her? A mustache? No, that'd be something guys would do to each other. Wait-!"
"Hmm? What is it, Al?" Matt asked.
"I know exactly what I should draw."
***
"Al...?" You looked around, expecting to still be in the living room, but you were in the bedroom. "Oh." You got up to look for Alfred and
Matthew, and you found them in the kitchen.
"_____, you're awake!"
"Good evening." Matthew greeted with a smile.
"Hi. Soooo, whatcha eating?"
"Same as usual." Alfred must've gone out and bought dinner, because they were eating poutine.
"Oh. Save some for me?"
"Plenty." You took a seat and grabbed a fry with your left hand, noticing a black stripe around your ring finger. "Huh?"
Damn, she noticed it already? "What is it?" Alfred asked, trying to act like he didn't know what that was about.
"That is seriously too cute." You smiled and looked at the two of them, Matt holding a french fry in his hand, Alfred's mouth stuffed with them. He swallowed and wiped his mouth. "Which one of you...?"
"Alfred." Matthew blurted.
"Oh, come on!"
