No One's POV:

The next day, the sky was cleared and the practice field was good to work on. Alfred and his team were sent a text to get to the field by 6:30 am for early morning exercise.

When they got there, their coach started giving them instructions, and they were off.

By 8:00 am, they finished their practices and exercises and were free to go since the soccer team had to use the field too.

Antonio and Alfred high-fived each other when they passed, Ludwig gave him a nod, but Berwald remained silent.

The alpha was one of the oldest students in the academy, his age being 29. Mainly because he was working for a Doctorate, but was there with a soccer-scholarship like the others. He was also mated to someone, Tino? Was it Tino? Alfred didn't know. He just knew that the omega was a student at the other academy. The same one Arthur went to. Maybe they know each other?

Alfred shrugged off the thought and went to the on-store-campus. He walked into the candy isle and decided to get Arthur some more chocolates, making sure they didn't have peanuts.

Suddenly, the comment Gilbert made after the second day came into his mind.

'That omega would kill a man for chocolates!'

Alfred smiled and decided to get him a variety.

'Maybe I can get Mom to send me some from California.' He thought to himself as he grabbed six packs off the shelf. There was this candy store only native to southern California and not found anywhere else in the world. Their chocolates were so good though, and they had such a large variety it was usually hard to pick just one.

The fellow student at the counter didn't blink an eye at what he bought and wished him a good day in a monotonous voice. Alfred nodded back, knowing the 'dead-inside' voice very well.

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It was a beautiful day outside.

Alfred watched as the birds flew from one tree to another, singing and chirping happy tunes.

He decided to walk to Arthur's place instead of driving and stayed at a steady pace instead of sprinting to the gates. It was nice, feeling the cool breeze and smelling the flowers. He spotted a wild patch of roses on the forest-y side of the road and his thoughts immediately went to his mother. He loved roses, they were his favorite flowers. Now they're...Camellia Japonica? Something like that.

He passed by them, taking a final glance from the corner of his eye before moving on to look at something else. Mainly the forest that resided next to the academy. It was large and hundreds of years old. He's heard plenty of stories about it: werewolves, serial killers, faeries, even that sirens resided in a hidden lake in the forest and the people who hear them drown. Of course, they were just stories. Alfred had walked inside the forest plenty of times and never seen any of that ridiculous stuff. He always shrugged them off as campfire stories that held no meaning other than 'You're not allowed in there, stay out'.

Eventually, forest turned into a wall, and wall into gate.

The moment Alfred got to the gate, he spotted Arthur further inside, close by to the front garden. He was with someone else. Another alpha.

Alfred frowned at this. Not because he was jealous or anything, Alfred had plenty of omega friends with alpha boy/girlfriends, but it was the way Arthur looked.

He looked uncomfortable, like he wanted to leave the conversation but couldn't.

The alpha had Arthur almost inside a rose bush, with little room for Arthur to move away. He was sorta leaning in and Arthur was leaning back. Arthur was frowning a bit and had made multiple attempts to leave, but the alpha wouldn't let him.

Alfred frowned more when the alpha seemed to lean in for a kiss but Arthur pushed him away.

He took that as his sign to step in so Alfred walked over to them and sorta shoved the other guy away to be in front of Arthur, smiling at him.

"Hey Artie! Thanks for meeting me here like we planned. Sorry I took a long time to get here, I decided to get you a gift."

Arthur was giving him a confused look, but after a wink, Arthur nodded and gave him a pout.

"I know I know, but my gift will make up for it, promise!" Alfred wrapped an arm around the omega's shoulders and gave him an award winning smile. Arthur leaned against him and buried his face in his side, smiling back.

"Ahem." Alfred looked over at the other alpha, who was glaring at him.

"Yeah? What do you want?" Alfred raised an eyebrow at him.

"I was here first buddy. You can find someone else." The other alpha bared his teeth, an old animal instinct alphas still held.

Alfred moved in front of Arthur protectively and gave the alpha another smile. "Buddy, you must have your head on backwards. Artie and I have been together for months, so if anyone should leave, it's you."

He's never been happier about his height than now. Being 6"5', he was half a foot taller than the other guy and could look down at him. And his athletic build made him look bigger too. The other guy scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"Whatever, he's not that cute anyways." He grumbled and walked off. Alfred glared at his retreating back and turned back to Arthur.

"You okay Artie? You seemed kinda spooked. Do you know that guy? Did he do anything?"

Arthur placed his hands on his shoulders and stopped him. Arthur let out a breath and looked up at Alfred, what little of his scent came out spilling relief.

Alfred nodded. "Yeah, no problem."

Arthur hugged Alfred.

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It was scary. Arthur wouldn't lie to himself. The other alpha had him trapped and kept trying to kiss him and touch him in weird places. Arthur didn't let him, always catching his hand and leaning away when he leaned in. He said he was cute, pretty even, and said he would like to mate him. Arthur wanted to leave very desperately, but being up against a thorny rose bush that can snatch your clothing and skin if you moved the wrong way wasn't the best place to escape from.

That's why when Alfred barreled in, he could have leaped into his arms from joy. He didn't immediately catch on to the story, but after the wink, he realized what was going on and played along. The pouting, the nuzzling, all part of the plan. When the other guy tried to get Alfred to leave, Arthur swallowed the lump in his throat. Why was he nervous? Alfred wouldn't leave, he knew that. Maybe it was because he thought they'd start a fight.

He saw a fight between two alphas once when he was younger at a park. It was almost the same situation, but the two alphas liked the same omega and both wanted to mate her. The male alpha killed the female alpha, the alpha who the omega chose, in the fight. Arthur was 5. It was three years before the accident. The fight made him see alpha and omega relationships differently, and he always hoped to the moon it never happened with him in the middle. Now though, now made him remember it. The anger of the male alpha when he smashed the rock against the female alpha's head over and over again, the fear of the omega and her screaming at him to stop. The sounds of an ambulance and screams of other pedestrians as they tried to help. His mother tried to hide him in her arms and lead him and his siblings away. Alister looked like he wanted to help, but his father kept him back and silent. His other brothers looked scared. Maeve, in her stroller, was asleep, and didn't witness the horror Arthur saw.

And the fear he felt when he witnessed something similar in front of him. After Alfred pushed him back to keep him protected, some of the fear vanished. Why? Was it because he felt safer with Alfred? Because the other alpha wouldn't be able to get him from behind Alfred? Whatever the reason, Arthur was grateful for it.

When the other guy left, Alfred looked at Arthur and started to ramble something, but Arthur stopped him. He was just...happy and relieved Alfred got there before anything worse happened. Thankful.

He hugged Alfred, hoping it showed just how thankful he was.

After a bit, he let go and gave a small smile to the other one.

Alfred smiled back. "I wasn't lying about that gift Artie."

He watched as the alpha took off his backpack and pulled out six packs of chocolate. Arthur stared at them.

"None of them have peanuts, I checked. Uh, do you want to head to your room for some more movies?" Alfred asked.

Arthur smiled and shook his head. He pointed to a small building off to the side. There was a rainbow painted on the doors, starting on one and ending on the other. A sun wearing sunglasses and smiling was on the left door, the right had a circle of kids holding hands and smiling.

Alfred looked back at him confused. "Um, what is that place?"

Arthur made Alfred turn around and put the chocolates back into the backpack.

He grabbed Alfred's hand and lead him to the building.

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Alfred really should have expected this. There was a circle of children on the door for the moon's sake! It was so obvious it was a daycare center!

At the moment, Alfred counted 14 kids, one of which was a baby in a crib across the room. They seemed to range from ages 1-11. The majority seemed to be girls, and the rest were boys. He couldn't tell what their signs were since the room seemed to be covered in different scents, from the fake omega scent most likely used to keep the kids calm to the smell of a dirty diaper that had to be changed.

At the sound of a door being opened and closed, some of the kids looked up at them. They gasped and ran over to them.

"ARTHUR!"

Arthur looked like he was bracing himself for impact, but was still taken down by a multitude of children. Arthur started to laugh at the kids on top of him and held his hand out to Alfred. Alfred reached down and took it, helping Arthur up and off the floor. Arthur gave the salute to the kids, and ten of them returned it. Three of them were holding one of the other kids's hand, Alfred noticed. Their eyes weren't looking anywhere in particular. Are they students?

One of the kids hugged his leg and he looked down to see Lilo. He smiled down at her and picked her up.

"Hey Lilo! You been a good girl since the last time I saw you?" He asked playfully. She nodded her head vigorously and shimmied out of Alfred's arms.

The other kids stared at Alfred, awed.

"Who are you?" One child asked. He wasn't looking at Alfred though, his eyes didn't seemed focused on anything.

"My name is Alfred. I'm Arthur's friend. It's nice to meet you all." He smiled. He saw Arthur translate out of the corner of his eye. So some of these kids were deaf huh?

The baby from across the room started to cry and Arthur made his way over to it. A lady came out from the back, saw Arthur, gave him a thumbs up, then left again. Arthur picked up the baby and started to cradle it, humming under his breath. Alfred walked over to him to hear it better and recognized it as the lullaby from the recording.

He smiled at Arthur and turned back to the kids. They were facing him, all staring at him curiously.

Alfred looked back at Arthur, but Arthur was still cradling the baby, so his translator was out.

He looked back at the curious kids when a thought hit him. There was a white board on the wall, and markers. He whistled the same tune Arthur was humming and strutted over to the board, grabbed a marker, and wrote something down so the deaf kids would know what he was saying. He also said what he was writing down for the blind kids, that way they didn't feel left out.

"What are your names? What are your signs? What is your age? Deaf, mute, or blind?" He grabbed a stack of blank printing papers he found on a chair and some markers, then passed them out to the kids that could see. For the ones that couldn't, he wrote it down for them. This way, he can know their names, and whether they can hear or not. The rest were just fun-facts to get to know the kids better.

In the end, he got 14 papers back, one for each child. (Arthur made the one for the baby.)

The list went as such:
Lilo-A, 5, Mute
Abdul-O, 7, N/A
Keiasha-B, 3, Blind
Victoria-A, 8, Mute
Roshaun-O, 7, N/A
Jendayi-O, 9, Deaf
Alika-A, 6, Deaf
Naser-B, 8, Blind
Khin-O, 10, Deaf
Talia-A, 4, Mute
Elijah-O, 10, Mute
Abuya-B, 5, N/A
Qistina-B, 9, Blind
Keabetswe-O, 1, N/A

Then, after finding some tape, he taped the papers onto the backs of the kids, that way he could remember them more easily. It wasn't the best tactic, but it worked just as well. Turns out some of the kids there were children of workers and had no disabilities, but they did like to have fun with the kids in the academy. As for the baby, Arthur wrote down that she was found a month before at the front gate in a cardboard box with only a note that said her name. That was all that was the only other thing inside the box. No one knew where she had come from, or what she had. (They did run tests though, and found she was not deaf, mute, or blind. But since the place doubled as an orphanage, they're keeping her until a couple adopts her.)

Arthur had laughed at his method of remembering the children's names and bounced the baby on his knee, Keabetswe gurgling with joy at every drop. Alfred sat next to them on the couch and stared as the kids continued on with their lives as if all was normal. It was like they had been accustomed to everyone around them being different, like they were. He found peace with that, seeing how well they accepted their differences and learning to play and hang out with each other. He almost envied them.

In his lifestyle, everyone was the same. Prim, proper, fresh. Anything outside that was seen as neglecting who you really were, and throwing dirt on your family's name. He should know, he's shown up in jeans to parties multiple times for it to have an affect.

Arthur saw him spacing out and placed the baby on his lap. Alfred stared down at her and she at him, then she cooed and tried to reach for his glasses. Alfred chuckled and sat her down on his lap, not wanting to fully give in to her cuteness and let her destroy his only way to see. (Michael did that once...Alfred needs to buy more contacts.)

The daycare center is fun, and Alfred was glad Arthur brought him along.

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I'M BACK! YEET!

SO, THERE WAS A LOT OF KIDS HUH! EACH KID (EXCEPT FOR LILO) IS AN OLD ENGLISH COLONY! HERE'S THE LIST OF KIDS + WHERE THEY REPRESENT!:

(Hawaii) Lilo

(Malaysia) Abdul

(Barbados) Keiasha

(Falkland Islands) Victoria

(Cameroon) Roshaun

(Zimbabwe) Jendayi

(Mauritius) Alika

(Bahrain) Naser

(Burma) Khin

(Nauru) Talia

(Virginia) Elijah

(Kenya) Abuya

(Brunei) Qistina

(Botswana) Keabetswe

I got their names off websites from the countries that ranked the most popular apparently. I'm not 100% sure it was right but yeah. Some places are in the East Indies, Africa, South America, I chose different regions because England basically conquered the world, I'm not going to put just one place he went.

That park memory is very, very important later on. ;) Don't forget about it.

More characters are coming soon!

Thank you guys for reading and as always, please tell me what you think! Have a great day everyone! ;3