Long Distance

Chapter 1: Laurance and Cake

Gonna jump right in!

Garroth's POV:

"Hey! Garroth!" I heard someone behind me say. I turned around and saw Aphmau running up to me with Zane and Vylad in tow.

"Hey, Aph! What's up?" I asked her.

"I just got a call from a few friends of mine!" she replied excitedly. "I met them when I went on vacation this summer! They finally got internet in their town, so they want to video chat!"

"Okay, why do you want us then?" Zane asked.

"I want you to meet them!" she said excitedly.

I shrugged. "I wouldn't mind meeting new people," I said. I looked at my brothers.

"I'm fine with it," Zane said.

Well. That's a first. He doesn't usually like meeting people. He must be in a good mood. (Italics are thoughts, BTW.)

"Yay! New people! Let's do it!" Vylad yelled. I chuckled at how over-enthusiastic he is about everything. We went to Aph's house and into her room. She logged onto EyeText (I made it up!) and almost immediately, the video chat icon started to flash.

"They're already calling? Wow!" Aph said before she clicked the accept call button.

At first, the screen was dark, and we could hear people arguing. They seemed to be arguing about who was better at flirting. After a few seconds of this, a guy with brown hair and light blue eyes appeared on the screen. "Hey, Aph!" the guy said.

"Hey, Laurance! What's all that noise about?" Aph replied.

Laurance sighed. "That's just Travis and Dante being idiots. As usual. I sometimes wonder why I'm friends with them," he said. Then he leaned back in his chair, turned his head and yelled, "Travis! Dante! Stop fighting and get in here!"

"Coming!" two voices yelled. Laurance turned back toward the screen and rolled his eyes.

Two people came through the door behind Laurance. One of them had navy blue hair and blue eyes, and the other had snow white hair and emerald green eyes. "Okay, now that everyone's here, who are these people you want us to meet?" Laurance asked.

"Oh!" Aphmau said. "I'll introduce you! The blondie is Garroth," I waved, "the one who's on his phone, being the fat little nugget he is, is Zane." Zane just grunted. "Don't worry, he isn't this grumpy all the time," Aph assured the other boys. "And the last one is... where did he go?" Aph asked in confusion. Zane and I shrugged. "I'm going to go look for him," Aph said as she got up and left the room.

"Soooo... Aph told us that you three are brothers," the blue-haired guy said. "Is that true?"

I opened my mouth to reply, but Zane beat me to it. "Sadly, yes," he said.

"Zane! Stop being grumpy! It's not a very good first impression!" I scolded him.

I heard the white-haired guy laugh. "Don't worry. It's actually kind of funny," he said.

Zane stared at him. "You think. That me. Being grumpy. Is funny?" he asked in disbelief. The guy just nodded and smiled. Zane and I looked at each other.

"Found him!" Aph said as she dragged Vylad into the room. "Mom was letting him eat cake."

"Seriously Vylad?" I asked.

"What can I say? I like cake," he said as he flopped down on Aphmau's bed. Zane rolled his eyes.

"Anyways," Aph said. "The cake eating monster over there is Vylad."

"Hey! I'm not a monster!" Vylad protested.

"We've seen you eat cake, Vylad. We can say you're a monster," Zane replied. Aph giggled. Vylad pretended to cry.

"Why do you have to be so mean?" he cried. I tackled him in a hug and shot a glare at Zane and Aphmau. Then I glanced at Vylad. We shared a look and he grinned. I turned my attention back to Zane and Aphmau.

"How dare you make our baby brother cry! You shall pay!" I shouted as I tackled Zane and Vylad started to tickle Aphmau. I could hear the three guys on the other side of the call laughing.

"Mercy!" Aph finally managed to yell, and Vylad and I let them go.