Friedrich is standing at the door of his place with Alexander.
Mom just opened and seems is caught off guard.
Especially Alexander is still full of blood.

Can he stay this night?

Uhm... I don't know.

Please. It's a special evening.

Hmm... okay.
But both of you have to get in the bathroom first.
You look terrible!

Okay, sure.
Oh, and Daniel will come as well.
I guess he isn't here yet?

What!?! No he isn't here, but...

Mom is already annoyed by her son.
But it shouldn't make a difference to her if he invites only one or even two boys.
Most of the time they'll just stay in his room anyway.

Is something wrong?

No, everything is fine.

They go inside. It already smells delicious.
Mom really must have prepared dinner already.

Then let's go!

Friedrich starts moving towards the bathroom, Alexander follows him and they enter together.

Friedrich already starts to get naked.

Oh, that's really embarrassing.
Do I really have to?

Of course! Look at your body!
You're so dirty! Even worse than me!

Friedrich just gets into the shower and already starts to clean himself.
He is also embarrassed, but if he was prude, it would only take longer.

After Alexander finally got naked, too, he just enters the shower as well.
Friedrich isn't pleased.

I didn't tell you I wanted to shower together with you.

Oh, sorry.
I just wanted to get over it as quickly as possible.
Should I go out again?

It's fine. Let's just get over it.

After they finished showering, they take a towel each and get dry.

What should I take on now?
All my clothes are dirty.
Maybe I can at least put on my underwear again.

Don't put these socks on again!!!
They already smell from the distance.
I really wonder how Daniel could tickle you there.

I guess he just doesn't mind such things.

Friedrich isn't sure about that.

Besides that, he really gets into such plays.
He almost acts as if they were real.

Yeah, that must be the reason...

But underpants are okay?

Just leave everything here.
You can put all your clothes in the basket.
Mom will soon wash everything anyway.
In my room, you can have one of my pajamas.

But...

We have towels. Mom won't see anything.

Okay...

They leave the bathroom and go to the bedroom.
There Friedrich gives Alexander one of his pajamas and both of them get dressed.

Then they just get comfortable between pillows on the floor.

So how did you like slaughtering piglets yourself for the first time?

Yeah, it wasn't bad.
I just expected something else...

So you're disappointed?

No, it really helped my imagination.

Oh, what do you mean?

I really like to imagine life as a piglet.
Being born just to be eaten soon.
Then my balls would be cut off.
I'd feel a boy like you touching them and cutting them off.
It would be so much pain, but there's nothing I could do.

Yeah, to them that's reality.
That's just how it is.

Suddenly Mom calls.
Sounds like dinner is ready.
So they get up and go to the kitchen.

It's okay if Alexander joins in, right?

Sure. That's why I called you.

The three of them sit down at the table.
Dad isn't at home yet.
He will probably come back late today as usual.

It's a soup with meat.
Mom and Friedrich start eating.
Alexander still hesitates.
Even if he knew what meat is made of, he can't stop thinking about earlier, when he slaughtered these cute little piglets.

But it really smells great.
So he just starts eating.
It must be delicious.

When they finished eating, they keep sitting at the table talking.

Suddenly somebody knocks.
Friedrich opens and Daniel is standing at the door.

Oh, it's you. Come in!

Daniel comes in and sees Alexander and mom sitting at the table.

I hope I'm not too late.

No, you're still in time for dinner.

So do you want some, too?

No, I already ate at home.
So, that's the piglets you slaughtered today?

No, they aren't prepared yet.

Oh, okay...

Then let's go back to my room I guess.
Come on, Alexander!

Okay!

Alexander gets up and the tree boys go to their sleeping place together.

Daniel notices the pillows on the floor.

Oh, looks like you already got yourself comfortable.

Yeah, it's pretty nice, right?

Daniel nods.

Friedrich and Alexander already get comfortable on the pillows again.

Daniel just undresses in front of them and takes on his own pajamas.
Then he sits down between them.

You really aren't shy about getting naked in front of us.

Yeah, I had to run around at least almost naked all the time.
And when changing, I often didn't have a place to hide, so I got used to it.

Alexander giggles.

Uhm, something else.
Before we were wondering about something.
How could you even touch these smelly socks?

Oh, I had to touch and smell worse things in the forest.
But now that you say it... I didn't even realize it.
On my way back home I even picked some fruit and ate it without washing my hands...

Daniel is really disgusted when thinking about this now.

Yeah, your time in forest must have changed you a lot.
Did anything else happen?

Sure, but nothing too interesting I guess.

Oh, nothing?

I met someone from the city there.
He had a cool weapon.

That sounds exciting. Did you go hunting?

No. I'm not even sure if they eat meat there.

Oh, that's boring.

But using such a powerful weapon was still pretty exciting.
So I already know my next destination.

The city I guess?
Can I join?

Sure. I think you'd like it there.
At least as long as your parents allow it...

Alexander is sad. His parents wouldn't ever allow it.

Oh, and did you know Alexander wants to be reborn as a piglet to be slaughtered?

Oh, okay... No, I didn't know.
I knew he was...
But I din't know he was that...

Don't just randomly tell him everything I told you in private!

I heard there were tribes in the forest, where they slaughter humans. So it might not be that weird.
And I assume, there must be places where humans are slaughtered in the city, too.
There's all kind of weird shit in the city after all.
So if you want to try...

Daniel giggles.
Hopefully Alexander doesn't take it too seriously.
Daniel doesn't want to lose a friend like this.

No, I'd only want it if I was reborn. I don't want to waste my life if I don't even know I'm being reborn.
Besides that my parents won't allow me to join you anyway.

You're just trying to find excuses.
To me it sounds like you've been seriously thinking about it.

Daniel laughs. Alexander is annoyed.

I think, I'll rather sleep at home.
Daniel is just making fun of me today.

Alexander gets up and walks towards the door.

So see you!

Did I say anything wrong?
I'm sorry. I might have gone too far.

But your clothes haven't been cleaned yet.

It's not that far. Your pajamas will be enough.

Alexander leaves the room.
Friedrich and Daniel are sitting there together and look at each other.

Should one of us go after him?

I won't. You?

No, it's fine. Only the two of us will be more fun anyway.
When being only two people nobody will be excluded when talking.

Yeah. Has he gone away already?

They get up and look outside the window.
He is really going home like this.

Did you already hear the newest rumor about Alexander?

I think so. You're talking about that man, right?

No, he got a girlfriend, didn't he?

I don't know. I only heard he has been spending time with that weird man. You know what that means, right?

Really? Oh... I didn't expect that of him.

But don't tell him that I told you. He already is mad enough at us.

Yeah, I guess that's better...

Would you like to go to the city with me?

When?

Maybe in a week?

Oh, I thought you were talking about the future. At least a few years.

So I guess you don't want to?

No. But I'd really like to use some modern weapon to hunt animals myself for once.

Maybe I can get you one when I come back.

That would be nice.

Remind me when I leave, so I won't forget.

Of course I will.

They keep sitting there. Nobody has to say anything anymore.
It's really quiet now.

It's getting late. Let's just go to bed.

That's what I've been waiting for.

They go to bed together and cuddle.

I still think it's weird how you cuddle me.
But I also don't have a girlfriend yet, so...

Daniel grins as he snuggles up to Friedrich.
Friedrich doesn't even notice it.

But just lying next to each other isn't that bad.
They don't need to talk to each other to be good friends.