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Roman awoke to a continuous banging on his bedroom door
“Yeah?” The knocking stopped abruptly
“Dad get up we're going to be late!” Roman leapt out of bed and promptly fell face first onto the floor. Slowly untangling himself from the sheets that held him captive he mentally scolded himself for sleeping through all 7 of his alarms and having to be woken up by Logan again.
“I’ll be out in a second Lo can you make sure that your brothers ready?”
“Already done Dad he’s just watching Winnie the Pooh again” Roman again thanks all the gods for the absolute wonders that are his sons.
“Alright tell him to get in the car I’m coming now, you don't want to be late for your first day of Middle School ” Roman caught Logan roll his eyes but continued to make his way down to the car.
“Whatever you say Dad”
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The car ride was as loud as ever as his father sang his heart out to the entire Disney anthology and Patton talked excitedly about all the new friends he's going to make this year. Logan sighed and stared out the window preparing himself to be constantly ignored by his classmates again for the entire year not that he minded, he thought all of his peers were mind numbingly boring and not to mention extremely shallow, only befriending people who were deemed ‘cool’. He noticed that it was unusually quiet for this car and he looked up to see both his brother and father staring expectantly at him.
“Uh I’m very sorry I didn't quite hear what you asked me”
“I asked how you're feeling about going into 2nd Grade my Royal Advisor?”
“I am excited to learn more”
“Is that all you're excited about Lo? Think about all the new people we might meet, and we get to see all of our friends we haven't seen since break!” Patton announced pretty much leaping out of his seat as he got progressively more excited about the coming school year.
“As you don't seem to remember Patton you were really the only one with friends last year or any of the years before that as well” Logan sat back firmly against his seat as a sign that he didn't want to talk about this anymore but of course his father tries his best to try and cheer him up.
“Well maybe a new school will be the solution Logan maybe there will be someone here who realises just how cool you are like we do”
“Sure Dad whatever you say, I guess” Logan returned to staring out the window not wanting to keep talking about it and hoping that at least this time his family got the hint.
***
Virgil stood at the front of the room surveying the group of children he’d be responsible for, for the next year and once again began to regret the decision to be an elementary school teacher like he had done on the first day of school every year for the last 3 years.
“Okay guys welcome back” Virgil called out only to be met with almost 20 or so 7-8 year olds groaning in frustration which he expected, what he had not was two very similar looking faces staring at such different thing in absolute awe. One was looking at the wall made up entire of different books Virgil had collected over time and thought my interest the kids and the other seemed to be fascinated by the other students around him and looked alarmingly eager to start talking to and interacting with them all.
“So today I thought we’d just relax and get to know each other for now and we'll get to the learning either tomorrow” at least this was met by cheers from most of the class but once again Virgil found himself surprised as the student he saw longingly staring at the bookshelves huffed in annoyance and tried to shift further away from the other kids surrounding him. His attention was ripped away when he heard his name being called.
“Hey Mr S. can we start now?” considering that was followed by a chorus of excited “Yeahs” and “Can we?” ‘Mr S.’ adjusted his mental class plan to include introductions right off the bat.
“Alright guys today we're going to go around the room and say our favourite colour and animal. Does everyone know what they're going to say?” after most of the kids had nodded Virgil decided to just pick one of them at random so that none of them really felt pressured. His eyes once again fell on the two kids he was pretty sure were twins and decided that the more hyper one would most likely love to start off all the introductions. He pointed at the kid and just kind of hoped….
“Um would you like to start….?”
“Oh I’m Patton! My favourite colour is blue and I just absolutely adore both cats and dogs I really just can't decide” He looked to his left at who Virgil still isn't sure if they're eben related at all let alone twins.
“My name is Logan. I suppose if I had to pick one colour that I enjoy most it would also be blue, but definitely a darker shade than most, and I'd say that the animal that I have learnt the most about have to be snakes specifically the genus Crotalus or as they're more commonly known rattlesnakes” Virgil watched as the boy seemed to visibly deflate as the other students whispers of ‘nerd’ and ‘know it all’ finally reached his ears, and as the other children introduced themselves and their interests Virgil vowed that he’d make sure that Logan made at least one good friend that year.
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Patton looked back at his brother after a few minutes of talking with his new friends and saw that he was sitting all by himself like usual.
“Hey guys hold on I'm just going to invite my brother Logan over to play with-” Patton found himself interrupted by one of the other students
“We already asked him and he said he didn't care and to leave him alone” Patton didn't quite believe the other kid but Logan did seem to be in a bit of a bad mood this morning so maybe It was best to just leave him alone for now and just talk to him about all their classmates later at home.
“Okay then, I guess let's go”