In school there's always love everywhere you look around, you see couples kissing, and hugging, while you just walk them by, the air around them it's something different from everyone else, it feels warm, you can actually feel it when they really care for each other. That's something Matthew always wondered, as he walked down the hall holding his book against his chest, his golden hair moving around with the wind as he kept passing people around him, quiet as he had always been.

The school is full of different people, some of them are very different from others, tall, small, fat, skinny, different skin colors, but Gilbert always found himself standing out of the crowd, his silver hair, and the red in his eyes always seemed to impress everyone, but that didn't stop him from being one of the members of the basketball team, although he seemed to be one problematic kid, with his many fights outside school, he was feared and respected, but still many people seemed to like being around him. As he walked down he found himself drowned in the crowd feeling suffocated, he moved to the side of the hallway to find his locker, watching all the people passing by, everyone to his eyes, appeared as they were walking by instinct, trying to pass the day without having any problems, he always found them boring when they were like that. But suddenly his eyes seemed to be caught by a small golden thread moving with the crowd.

"What is that?" He though as he tried to stand in his tiptoes trying to see what was carrying that golden thread. But his effort was useless when one of his friends pushed him by accident making him unbalance and almost falling to the crowd.

"Whoa, watch it Gil, falling right now could be dangerous." His friend said as he was holding his chest to help him get on his feet.

"Yeah I know, but I saw something interesting." Gilbert was distracted, still looking at the crow to try to find again that golden thread of hair. "Dammit…"

"Are you trying to find something?" His friend asked as he looked at the crowd again. "Was it a girl? Did you saw a hot girl, Gil?" His friend also tried to stand on his tiptoes to find what Gilbert was looking for.

"It was nothing you idiot." Gilbert smiled and gave a gentle push to his friend. "What did you want?"

"Oh yeah, just to tell you that practice today was going to be in the yard." He said as he started to walk again.

"What? Why?" Gilbert asked as he opened his locker, the crowd was already disappearing as the classes started. "Coach wants us to train our speed." His friend was already mixing himself with the crowd as he disappeared. "DON'T BE LATE!"

"Sigh… Speed again." He closed the locker and started to walk right behind the last group of people. Gilbert wasn't very fond of the basketball team, but he thought it as a good distraction, also his brother was in the football team, so their schedules were quite alright to go home together, well that's if he didn't find his two friends from the photography club. Gilbert closed his eyes thinking about the exams that were coming, he didn't like to study that much, but he gave a quick check to his notes the night before, or his brother's, and then he went to sleep. Even though he did that, his grades weren't that bad at all. He kept walking down the hallway distracted in his toughs.

Matthew on the other hand, was a the kind of student that got perfect grades, even though he seemed to be weak, because of his slim body, and his small height, he was one of the best defenses of the hockey team, many people laughed at him when they saw him in the defense line, with his helm falling, but they had a big surprise each time he threw them to the ice, some girls seemed to have given him the nickname of the "Golden Bear", for the beautiful color of his hair. If he isn't taking a coffee at the café, you could find him on the ice, practicing almost every day. Even if he changes when he plays hockey, he was quiet almost every time, he liked to sit around his friends and hear them talk, even so, he was one of the most popular guys in the school.

As he walked to the classroom he felt a cold glare on the back of his head, his body shivered as he kept walking between the crowd, his curl somehow seemed to stand out between the crowd, so he pull it down a bit blushing as he moved faster to his classroom. With his red cheeks and a bit agitated, he entered his classroom.

"Mattie? Are you okay? You're so red." A girl came close to him putting his hand on his forehead.

"Yeah I'm alright thanks." He smiled at her as he let go of his curl and shake his head to take away the hand from his forehead. "Have you seen my brother?"

"Ah, he said that he was going to do some other stuff until classes started." The girl said, as she sat down in a small group of girls in front of the classroom.

"Eeehhhh… He always does this." He took a glance at the door; he saw a couple kissing through the door's window. He blushed a bit, and turned to the window that was in the opposite side of the classroom. He started thinking, about his first kiss, how it would be to hold someone like that, or to hold someone else so close, and say that you love him. As his eyes slowly started to look at the door again to see if the couple was there, he saw something else, something red, almost like two rubies staring inside for a second as it passed along the classroom. "What was that?" Matthew held close his hand to his chest, as his heart started beating very fast for a second.

Gilbert walked down when he suddenly felt two heavy arms over both shoulders. He looked at both sides already knowing who they were. "Francis, Antonio, shouldn't you both be in the classroom already?" He said smiling at seeing his two best friends smiling widely. "Hahaha, don't joke around, you know we don't like to be locked up in that place." Said Francis, his golden hair, and his skills in soccer had won him a good place in the soccer team. "But you know it's true besides we have cooking today." Antonio spoke as he walked in front of them with that wide smile in his face as always, although his tender character, he was the second best in the judo club, so no one really liked to see him angry. "Both of you… Sigh, that's why your grades are so awful" Gilbert said as he walked a bit faster going to the classroom. "Oh yeah Gil, today it's the beginning of hockey season, want to come with us?" This was Gilbert's first year in the school since he moved from Germany, his brother in the other hand, had already been here for a year, so he knew a bit more about everything that was going on. "Oh, I have speed training today, so I think I can go, but I'll be a bit late." Gilbert said as he entered his classroom and sat down in the middle of the room, girls and boys talking, time was going fast already, October was starting and so the hockey season, he knew that it was the time when the school went crazy, more than any other sport. Gilbert liked this time, sometimes the trainer would let them go early to see the game, and so if he felt like it, maybe he would go.

Classes passed very slowly, Gilbert was gazing at the window distracted, until the bell rang; standing up almost immediately, he took his backpack and walked out of the classroom first, trying to avoid the crowd of people again, he quickly went to the locker room, all the locker rooms were used by the other teams so it was very likely to find his brother there.

Matthew took notes of the homework for the weekend, put everything in his backpack, two girls came close to him and gave him a small token. "Here you go Matthew, it's a good luck token, from us, hope you use it and have good luck in the game today." The girl gave him a big smile and a shy wave as she walked away. "Thanks, I'll be sure to use it." He smiled taking the token and put it in his pocket, standing up and walking out to the crowd of people getting ready for the game and other almost running to get out of school for the long awaited weekend. "E-excuse me, pardon me, I have to go through!" He was saying as he pushed people to the side while making his way through, he suddenly was pulled out of the crowd with great force. "Eh?" He looked up and stared at his brother. "Ah! ALFRED! Where were you? You skipped classes again!" Mattie puffed his cheeks looking at him.

"Hahaha, I know don't worry I just had something to do before your great game! Besides it's the beginning of the season! We have to start big!" Alfred said as he looked into his bag. Alfred was a very cheerful guy, always doing stuff here and there, but always taking care of his brother too. "Aha! Here it is, you must use this!" He took out a big bear paw.

"EH? WHERE DID YOU GET THAT? W-W-W-WHAT DID YOU DO?" Matthew was trying to hide the paw from everyone else. "You know it's illegal to kill bears!"

"What are you talking about dummy? It's not real, see?" He gave a few taps on the paw, giving the sound of empty wood. "It's something I made while I had some free time!" Alfred smiled giving it to him.

"Thanks Alfred… Wait "free time"? You mean skipping classes today?" Matt glared at his brother.

"Shut up and use it! I have to go, I still need to do a few more things before the game!" Alfred spoke quickly taking his bag and running of fast, before Matthew could say something else.

At the locker room; Gilbert was taking his clothes off and putting his sport gear to train, many scars from fights, and training with his brother could be seen in his back and lower back, a giant blond man suddenly stood next to him. "Oh? For a second I though a bear sneaked inside the school, don't scare me like that."

"I'm sorry bruder, didn't mean to scare you." Ludwig was standing next to him while taking his shirt off to get his pads on.

"Sigh, I have told you before not to apologize for everything." Even though he was far taller than him, his brother was of a very kind heart, it was hard to believe that he was the star of the offensive line in the football team, also his grades were higher than his, and it was hard to believe that he was the younger brother out of the two of them. "Is your training going to be long?" Gilbert asked as he put his shirt on.

"Yeah, today may be a little longer; we are having a game soon." Ludwig said putting his other gear on. "Do you have plans for today?"

"Yes, maybe I'll go to the hockey game opening." Gilbert said closing his locker and starteing to walk outside the locker room. "Don't hurt yourself!"

"Yes bruder, don't worry about me." Ludwig gave him a gentle warm smile while he saw him walk out of the locker room.

Matthew walked closer and closer to the locker room to get ready for the game, still gazing at the wood bear paw, giving chills as he saw it, it looked so real. He gave a small look up to see if the hallway was clear. The door of the locker room opened as he slowly gazed down again, catching a small glimpse of a something red walking out of the room. He didn't react for a second, then the sudden flash of memory came to his head; it was the same red of this morning when he looked at the door. He stared up again, straight to the hallway but there was nothing there, maybe it was his eyes playing tricks on him.

At the same time while Gil was walking out of locker room and a sudden scream and someone waving at him, it was a very lively girl with big breast, and a very pale blond hair. "Oh Katyusha" Gilbert walked straight to her, by the corner of his eye he caught the glimpse of a golden hair again, he kept walking for a second, trying to stop but it was already too late. Kat took his hand and pulled him.

"Hi Gil, how are you? Are you going to train?" She asked quickly as she holds his hand, slowly letting it go.

"Yeah I do have training today, shouldn't you be at the botanic club?" Gilbert asked as he kept walking, he looked back for a bit but the locker room was already open and he just saw a small shadow behind the window. "I have to go Kat, maybe we can talk later."

"Eh! You always do this Gil, I'll tell brother that you are ignoring me again!" she puffed her cheeks looking at the German walk away.

"Sorry! Tell Ivan I'll see you guys later too." Gilbert began to ran as his practice was soon starting.