Chapter Twenty-Five: Arcade Tonight...

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In the cafeteria, I felt like I was being judged as I followed Brian through the lunch line. I kept looking over my shoulder, anticipating something terrible to happen. Brian must've noticed as he set a hand on my shoulder.

"Hey, it's alright. I'm 'ere f'er ye'," he assured me. I let out a sigh of relief, nodding a smile towards him.

"In the meantime, want some pudding? They've got h-wip cream on some of them," he informed me. We laughed our way through the line, getting back to the open table area. I was about to take my lunch over to a small, empty table when he grabbed my elbow.

"Where ye' goin'?" He asked. I nodded towards the empty table.

"Didn't think ye'd want me ta' be over there, ruinin' yer fun," I explained. He looked at me confusedly.

"Who said ye' ruin the fun?" With that, he pulled me, letting me know he wanted me to sit with him and his friends. I followed him, gaining glares from people all over the cafeteria. He sat down next to Nogla and I took the empty seat between him and Moo. He smiled at me as I sat and I smiled back at him. I ate quietly as the others talked, I commented on some game strategies here and there, every so often joking around with Brian.

I sat next to Scotty in fifth period, smiling happily. He smiled back as we took out our needed supplies for the class.

"So, you and Brian made up, huh?" He asked. I nodded.

"Yeah and I'm glad. I'm not sure how much longer I could've went without 'im with me," I answered. He looked at me confused.

"What d'you mean?" He asked.

"Well, with siblings ye' feel hurt when these things happen, but twins like Brian and I... it's different. It hurts after only a few minutes of being apart. I can handle it now because I know we're on good terms, but bef'er... it just hurt because every minute apart made us feel like we were further and further from making up," I explained. He nodded, and we focused on the teacher coming in.

"Hey, what's going on tonight?" Moo asked, walking up to my desk. I shrugged at him, not really knowing.

"Nothing real special, why?" I returned a question of my own.

"There's a cool arcade down town. It's got a lot of cool retro games. They even decorated it to look like the arcade on Black Ops III Zombies," he led on. I gave him a sympathetic look.

"I'm sorry, Brian's planning on recording with SeaNanners tonight. He said he doesn't know how long it'll take," I said. Moo's smile grew a bit bigger.

"Would you wanna come then?" Me? Why would he want me to come play video games with him?

"Uh, sure. I mean, yeah, of course!" He chuckled and continued back to his seat as Lui went back to sit next to him. Franklin came in afterwards, a bit sluggish.

"Hey buddy, what's got ye' down?" I asked him. He looked up to me with his face full of pain.

"I-I'm s-sorry," he stuttered out. I opened my mouth to speak but no sounds came out. Instead it was just confused air breathed in and out until the teacher came in.

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