Break me out! {{Zander}}

[Mel Kucharski]

The last thing Friderick expected was to receive a call from Mel while driving on the highway towards home. Let alone a distressed and tearful one. He flipped in on the wireless and Mel's stressed voice flooded the car. "Frid? Oh god, you have to help me out!"

The older boy recognized the sadness in his baby brother's voice. "Aleksy? If that you? mój Boże! Is everything alright?"

There was a sniffle from the other line "No.. listen. You're in Colorado, right? You have to help me,"

Now Friderick was worried, he hadn't spoke to his brother for almost a year. If he was calling him right now then something big had to be happening. "Uhm, yeah? Where are you? I'll come over as fast as I can.. okay?"

Mel rattled off the address of Zander's home. Twice. Until he knew that Friderick had it memorized, the man had a mind like a steel bear trap. He flipped his phone shut and snatched his computer up. Wiping the back of his hand over his eyes to clear any tears that might obscure his vision. He sent a quick message to Zander, informing him that he should begin packing. Frid would just have to deal with the fact that Zander was going too. After all, leaving Zander behind would be the absolute worst thing to do. He feared that he might not ever return to Shifter Academy. Even the thought made Mel want to break out in sobs all over again. What would he do? Just slink back to the island, disgraced and ashamed? Doomed to never come to satisfactory closure with Zander?

He simply couldn't let it happen. It appeared Zander agreed. He took a deep breath to compose himself. What a mess this was. He had no idea that Zander would just.. "come out" so abruptly to his mother. Of course, Mel was found out. He didn't know what to think of it. He was afraid for Zander, but also afraid for himself.

He spread his packing out over the next hour and a half, to avoid suspicion. When the time finally came he walked over to the window and pushed it open. He felt conviction in leaving, what would Zander's mother think of him? But he couldn't stay there, and neither could Zander from what Mel understood. He shook his head and eased his way out into the fresh afternoon air. Keeping clear of windows. Once he got out to the street he was immediately snatched up from behind. Dropping his bags, he screamed aloud and began to struggle, only to realize it was Friderick giving his a monster of a hug. "Frid! You scared me!!"

The man shook his head, "I don't care. You're scaring me. Now, get in the car." He hadn't let hi brother down, and was still holding him up off the ground, with every intention of just loading him into the car and driving away.

Mel's eyes widened, "No! We have to wait for someone!"

Friderick dropped Mel, "What?"

Mel swallowed, this was going to be more difficult than he first thought. But once Zander came around Mel could explain everything.

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notes: Friderick's playby is David Engle and the bird on his shoulder is named Ferris. He is am albino cockatiel.
outfit: Mel and Frid

[Zander Alesnia]

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Zander sat on his bed, his lap top laid out in front of him. What had he done? He’d hurt the man of his life, and his mother. He was so stupid, he told his mom. God, what if she hurt Mel. No, she would never do that, would she? Mel got on the chat, thank goodness. He tried to talk to Mel but, Mel was clearly upset with him. What if Mel hated him? No! He couldn’t bare the thought so he signed off. He cried it off for a while. Missy would of understood, she would of calmed mom down. She would of come in and hugged him. Where was his baby sister when he needed her. After crying it off for a little while he signed back into the chat and tried to talk to Mel, it worked better this time. Then, his mother walked in and wanted to chat so Zander had to sign to away.

”Zander Alesnia, how-how could you do this to your mother?” she asked, rhetorically. Zander looked down at the bed. ”Mom, I love him, why can’t you just be happy with me being happy?” he asked, choking back tears. He could see her swallow down her anger. ”Because being gay is against what god likes to see in a person.” she said sitting tall on the end of his bed. ”If god thought being gay was wrong he would of done something about it by now.” he said, anger hinting at his voice. ”NO!” she shouted hitting him across the face. For as small as she was, she was strong. The smack was powerful enough to make his head turn fast. She had never hit him before, this made him wonder if she ever hit Missy while he was gone. No, she would never hit Missy. ”Oh, Zander, I’m so sorry.” she whispered. There was clearly a mark on his face. “Go book flights for tomorrow, I’ll go make lunch.” she said and disappeared from the room.

Zander whimpered a little and lifted the lap top into his lap and Mel offered to get his brother to come get them. He easily agreed with graciousness. Zander immediately went off to packing. His mother would see but, she’d figure it was for him leaving tomorrow. He opened the window in case Mel would scream to him to come. An hour and a half passed and the mark on his face had turned to a deep-purple bruise. Zander looked in the mirror at it and gently touched it, he whimpered slightly, it was tender. There was a loud scream out the window. Mel! He dove out the window, carrying his bags behind him.

As he made it down towards the street, there was Mel and a much larger male who had to of been Friderick. Zander made his way quickly to Mel, as fast as his feet could carry, dropping his luggage and lifting the boy into his arms in a great big bear hug. He dropped Mel back on his feet and stared down at him, gently stroking his cheek. ”I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.” he whispered then turned to Friderick. He nodded. ”Thank you.” Zander said, half smiling up at the much older boy.

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[Mel Kucharski]

Mel felt relief flood over him as Zander burst into the open. He was pleasantly surprised to be wrapped up in such a huge hug. "Zander!" he found himself clinging to the boy with everything he had, shaking in his grasp as he felt tears come to his eyes. His feet touched the ground again, and he moved away looking up into Zander's eyes "It's okay.. "

Friderick grunted and shifted uncomfortably. "Yeah.. uh, no problem.. Zander?" he shot a look at Mel, "Aleksy? Care to tell me what's going on and who this is?"

Mel bit his lower lip, looking guilty."I.. uh.." He glanced back at the house, worry began to fill him up. "I.. I can explain I promise! But please, the both of us need to get out of here, right now." He wrapped his arms around Friderick's midsection, giving him a pleading look, "Pleeease?"

For a moment Frid looked like he was about to speak, but then his expression fell to neutral and he went to fetch Zander's bag. Mel gave a silent sigh of relief, and grabbed Zander's hand, pulling him –rather roughly– into the blue Subaru Forester. He slipped into the middle seat and was immediately greeted with a screech. With how he jumped his head nearly hit the ceiling. Occupying the seat beside him was a bird cage, in which a tiny and indignant cockatiel sat with head crest up. Mel giggled,"Hi there, Ferris"

The bird eyed him and Zander suspiciously before turning away. With the door shut tightly and Zander next to him Mel felt a world of relief. With a sigh he leaned over and wrapped his arms around Zander. Giving him a quick peck on the neck. He pulled away to smile, but his smile dissipated. "Zander! Oh my god! What happened to your cheek?!" He broke out into tears and gently bushed his finger along the awful-looking bruise, "Oh god, this is my fault.. im so sorry! Does it hurt?"

The driver's door slammed and Mel froze, his hand still on the older boy's cheek and practically on top of him. Mel scrambled back into his seat, avoiding an unapproved look from his big brother.Friderick sat back and started up the car. There was an awkward silence for a few moments as the car pulled out until Frid said "Aleksy. Talk."

He sounded stern, Mel swallowed and grabbed Zander's hand for emotional support. "Well, Friderick. This is my boy--, my boyfr--" He bit his lip, he couldn't bring himself to say it. Bu he had to. "Zander is my boyfriend." He tightened his fingers around Zander's hand. Awaiting judgment.

Friderick was silent for a few moments before seeming to shrug it off and say, "Okay. Why are you in Colorado and with your.." He gave a heavy sigh. "Your boyfriend?"

"Because he.. invited me?"

"Okay. And why did you call me?"

Mel nudged Zander, he'd have to be the one to explain that one. But so far so good, Friderick had a stunning gift of never being fazed by anything.

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outfit: Mel and Frid

[Zander Alesnia]

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ander smiled gently at Mel and then at Mel’s brother. Mel begged his brother for them to get in the car. He tugged Zander to the car, Zander didn’t really care where they were going as long as they were going. There was a loud screech that had made Mel jump which made Zander to chuckle a little. There seemed to be a small bird, was it bad that Zander suddenly became hungry? No, it was probably his fox craving a break out. He was actually kind of surprised he didn’t shift when his mom hit him. It might have been because Mel was in the house. Ferris must have been the bird’s name, for, that is what Mel called him. Ferris was eyeing him suspiciously and Zander gave the, what are you looking at look.


A wave of relief washed over him as the door shut, Mel and he were safe here. Mel wrapped his arms around Zander and Zander was quite glad that Mel hadn’t noticed the bruise yet. Maybe it wasn’t as bad as he thought. Oh spoke to soon. Mel noticed. He even touched it. This caused pain to course through Zander’s face. He roughly grabbed Mel’s wrist and shoved it away from the bruise, releasing his wrist. ”No, Mel do-don’t cry.” Zander said looking at him with sympathetic eyes and gently wiping the tears away. ”It is not your fault, it is anything but your fault.” he said just as Mel jumped back into his own seat.



”Alesky. Talk.” That name was going to be hard to get used to. He knew Alesky was Mel’s real name but, he hadn’t really heard anyone call him by that name. He listened to as Mel explained, stuttering the word boyfriend. Zander shrugged it off. He kind of zoned before he was nudged back to reality, ”What?, Oh, uhm, well…” He took a long pause. ”I came out to my mother and she kind of, sort of, freaked out.” he said. Not a long explanation but, it’d have to do until Zander could explain for himself. He was actually kind of surprised to how well Frid reacted to Mel calling Zander his boyfriend.

Zander gripped Mel’s hand and laced his fingers in Mel’s. He smiled down at the boy. ” Kocham cię” he whispered. It was not something he had learned from taking polish but, rather something Mel had said to him and he had remembered. Zander would of liked every moment to be like that night. It was one of the best nights of his life.
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[Mel Kucharski]

Mel held his breath and discreetly rubbed his wrist. That was surprisingly..violent of Zander. He bit back a little whimper. He supposed that Zander had a alot to deal with on his plate, coming out to his mother.. it must have been rough. Mel could hear the sounds of their argument from his room. Yelling was scary for him.

He was worried that maybe Friderick had seen, and perhaps thought that Mel had gotten himself into a bad relationships of sorts. He certainly hoped not. Friderick had seen, and was now wary of his little brother's boyfriend. Frid glanced at them in the rear-view mirror. Aleksy did look happy enough though. He snorted in spite of himself, then again, Aleksy was kind of a naive little kid. Friderick didn't really care as long as his little brother was unhurt and happy. Perhaps that's the reason the news of Mel's (official) gayness, didn't really strike a bad chord with Friderick. It was Aleksy's life, not his. Apparently Zander's mother hadn't taken it so well, by the looks of the bruise on the boy's cheek. Friderij recalled getting a few like that from his father back when he was still quite young. He still never saw the benefits in striking one's child.

He made no comment, as was his prefered method of approach, and only listened as Zander whispered something back to Mel. He instanly recognized the words, and cleared his throat, craning his head back to look at them, "Your pronunciation is off. Don't stress the vowel's so much." His eyes went back to the road.

Mel's face turned bright red, "F-Friderick! Th-that wasn't nice!"He moved closer into Zander's side, resting his head against his shoulder. "I thought i t was very sweet.." His tone was hardly above a whisper. He only wanted Zander to hear his words. His wrist still kind of hurt, but he shrugged it off. He could tend to the bruise on Zander's face later on, perhaps when they were out of this town.

He shot a sideways glance at Ferris and reclined against Zander so he could poke the cage with his foot. The birds white crest shot up and he said "You're a pretty bird" in what seemed an angry way. Mel giggled, Ferris could say phrases.

"Hey, stop torturing my bird, Al." He warned, "I just got him back from the vet."

Mel made a face, "Don't call me Al!" He stuck his tounge out at Frid and turned his attention back to Zander. Tugging the hem of Zander's hoodie he placed his head so that he could comfortable whisper into his ear, "I'll teach yuo a new one. Nie chcę Cię stracić. I don't want to lose you." He moved away and rested his head on Zander's shoulder "And I'm glad I didn't"

That was the moment Frid decided to turn up his radio. Hiding a small and knowing smile.

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outfit: Mel and Frid