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Anthony's POV
Charlotte comes back with our food and I have a t-shirt and sweatpants on, like Teddy asked of me while he has his pajama pants on along with my sweatshirt. We eat at the dining table with Charlotte, and its surprisingly civil. 
"Okay embarrassing conversation time," Charlotte says once she's finished her food. 
"Oh my god," Teddy groans putting his head in his arms on the table sheilding his already red face. 
"Don't give me that. I'm okay with you guys having sex, but please don't do it when I'm here, and please, please be safe," Charlotte tells us making me a little embarrassed. 
"We are, I promise," I say after giving it a moment, before I add, "We will be more considerate and not do things while you're here." 
"Thank you, I'm going to go to my room to lay down, and then I'm going to call my boyfriend," Charlotte says getting up. 
"I can take care of your stuff for you, its the least I could do, what with you buying me dinner," I say, "Another peace offering." 
Charlotte looks at me, nods, and then walks away. She tries hard not to like me, but I can tell the idea of me is growing on her, well I hope that's what I can tell. As promised I take care of her trash and then Teddy and I go to the living area and cuddle on the couch while watching Avatar the last airbender. 
"Ant," he whispers positioning his chin on my chest so he can look at my face. 
"Yeah Teddy?" I ask bringing my head to look at him. 
"You should stay the night," He mumbles. 
"I can't baby, my mom wants me home and its a school night," I respond watching him frown. 
"But I want your cuddles," He pouts, making me chuckle. 
"You can keep my hoodie, it'll be like a cuddle. Plus you'll be able to smell me," I suggest. 
"I guess, it's not the same though," He sighs turning his head back to the tv, I do the same. 
I spend another hour at his house before I drive myself home. When I finally arrive home mama is in the kitchen washing dishes, and humming along with her Russian Chanson music. 
"Anthony please help your brother with his math homework, Katya is helping with a project," Mama tells me. 
"Okay mama, anything else before I help Tomas?" I ask hanging my keys on their hook. 
"Not right now, thank you for asking," Mama responds before turning back to the sink. 
I'm about to leave but then I tell myself, there's no better time for it. So I turn myself back around and start speaking. 
"Mama, I'm Bisexual," I say my throat closing with my nerves. 
"Okay. Be safe, wear a condom, or make your partner wear one. Or don't have sex, those are your three options," mama responds, completely unfazed. 
"I will mama, alright, now I really am going to help Tomas," I say heading up the stairs. 
"Hey Tomas mama said you needed help with your math homework?" I say coming. My little brother is in third grade, my youngest sister is in fifth, my second youngest brother is in eighth, and Katya is in tenth.
"Russian," His tiny voice responds. 
"Sorry bud, dad's rule, you have to learn english for school, you barely passed second grade," I deadpan. 
"English h-hard," he stutters. 
"I know buddy, but Russian is just as difficult, you have to know english for school," I reply. 
"I-I don't know h-how!" He says and bursts into tears. 
"Tomas, hey, hey, don't cry," I say rushing over to him, and pulling him into a hug.
"School i-is so hard I h-hate it!" he cries into my chest, making me squeeze him tighter. 
"I know, I can help you with english if you want, instead of math," I say, trying to make him feel better. 
"S-sure," he whimpers. 
We spend three hours working on English, and now he feels comfortable enough to go to school, I'm going to tell papa about it, and I'm going to mention to mama that she should start learning more english so that way Tomas doesn't have to rely on our first language as much. I put Tomas to bed and tuck him in. Then I head to my parents bedroom. 
"Papa?" I ask lightly knocking on the door, I hear his gruff 'come in' and head inside. 
"Tomas is struggling in school because of speaking in English, he doesn't know that much and I helped him with a lot of words but I think you should try to teach him more, it's not right to have him struggle in school and then struggle at home too," I tell him. 
"I know, I know, it's just that we're all so busy and I don't know what he knows and doesn't know," papa says. 
"I can help, he can come to one of my tutoring sessions and talk with a first language english speaker," I offer. 
"Good idea, I know it's hard for him because Viktoria doesn't speak english so I will try to teach her some, would you try as well?" 
"Definitely," I respond before saying goodnight and heading to my bedroom. 
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On Thursday I tell Teddy that my youngest brother will be joining the tutor session so he can learn more english. He replied by saying he was excited. After school Teddy meets me at my car and we head to my house. 
"Tomas! Come downstairs and meet Theo!" I shout up to his bedroom. I look over at Teddy and note his blush, He really likes when I speak in Russian huh? I decide to mess with him a little. 
"Teddy come here," I say opening my arms in a gesture meaning I want a hug. He gladly wraps himself up in my arms and I take the chance to brush my lips to his ear and whisper something in his ear, already knowing it would fluster him because he likes when I talk in Russian, but also because he'll ask what I said. 
"Stop you have no idea what that does to me. What did you even say?" he asks covering his red face. He slaps me on my shoulder when I tell him. 
"What you know you want to," I reason laughing when he splutters. 
"Anthony?" Tomas says hopping down the steps. 
"Introduce yourself to Theo, as best you can," I tell him, unwrapping one arm from Teddy. 
"Hi I'm Tomas, it nice to uh m-meet you Theo," He introduces. 
"Hi Tomas, I'm Theo, it's nice to meet you," Teddy says with a smile, I watch as Tomas' eyes go wide when he realizes that Teddy can speak great english. I mean of course he can, he's known the language since he was born. 
"Woah! Anthony he's amazing!" Tomas says. 
"He is Tommy, why don't you tell him."
"Th-Theo you're a-awesome," Tomas stutters. 
"Thank you Tomas, is it okay if Anthony and I work on some high school math?" Teddy asks, and I can tell Tomas couldn't understand part of it so I translate and he nods before running back to his room. 
"He's sweet, okay lets go to your room and work on some stuff," Teddy says. 
"Then do something else, great idea baby," I say winking and pulling him upstairs to my room. 
"I did not say that, Mr flirt my pants off," Teddy defends grumbling as we enter my room, I sit on the bed and he sits at the desk. 
"Oh I am definitely trying babe," I joke. 
"Not hard enough, my pants are still very much on," Teddy retorts slapping a page marked with numbers and symbols.