Hello and welcome to the first chapter of Some Rules Must Be Broken! As you can tell by the cover and the description, this is about BajanCanadian and JeromeASF, but will it have romance? Probably not.

Will it have bromance or friend moments? Yeah. Most chapters will be in Mitch's POV. This one is in Mitch's POV. Please don't judge my writing, I've never written in a boy's point of view.

So here is the first chapter of Some Rules Must Be Broken!

"Come on Mitch, get up. Notch is making a special announcement today," a voice says. I rub my eyes to see my mom's brown eyes, staring up at me.

"Okay," I grumble and start to get out of bed. When Mom leaves, I get up out of bed, pulling the woolen blanket. It's then I realise I don't have a shirt on.

I put on some casual clothes: jeans, sneakers, white shirt and my favorite red and black hoodie. I finger my dog tag and put in under my shirt, out of view. This must be important if Notch is making the announcement.

I go into our wooden kitchen to see my mom, drinking milk. She has dark circles around her eyes and her black hair is matted and tangled. She's been fighting zombies again by the looks of it.

Mom goes out to milk the cows, and yet again I want to help. She's been down in the dumps since Dad went to the Endstone... and didn't come back.

I grab an apple and go outside to Mom, who's got a bucket. There's the chickens and also Jeffery the pig. He was given to me by my friend Jason, who named him after his own pig.

"Mom, I'm going to take a walk," I tell her. "Okay Mitch. Come back soon and don't get lost," she says and I run off, looking for something specific. I brush my blocky hand against the leaves of the nearby and soon find what I'm looking for.

Fur. Brown, soft fur.

With that I bang my hand on the trunk three times, without breaking the trunk. "JEROME!!" I yell and bang my hand on the trunk again. "It's Mitch!! Put the ladders down!!" I cry. I try not to be too loud because Mom isn't a big fan of baccas, and she's never met Jerome.

I hear the sound of leaves being moved before ladders are placed on the trunk, and I climb up. As soon as I'm up in the tree, a very fluffy animal passes me and breaks the ladders, picking them up.

"Hey Mitch," Jerome grins and gives me a quick hug. "How's your mom been holding up?" He asks and I run my hand through my hair. "Still stressed. Zombies won't stop bothering us, and she doesn't want me to fight even though I'm trying to learn," I say and sit down on one of Jerome's chairs.

"You want to practice?" Jerome asks. I grin and open the chest by Jerome's crafting table. Usually Jerome comes out to get more food, wood, cobble, ec cetera. He has an abandoned mineshaft beneath his tree. It's hidden by a bunch of redstone and it's really impressive, with tons of diamonds and even emeralds. Either he goes out, or I give some extra ores to him.

I grab the enchanted bow (it's actually my bow but I keep it at Jerome's treehouse as my mom would be cautious) and a whole bunch of arrows. "I dare you to try shoot that sheep," Jerome grins and points to a sheep in the distance.

"Okay. Sure it's not by the house?" I ask and nock an arrow. "It's not. Your house is northwest from here," Jerome says as I shoot. It hits the sheep and kills him instantaneously.

"Mitch!!" A voice yells and I look at Jerome. We both say at the same time "mom." She's right beneath the tree. "Mitch! Come on!! We need to go!!" She walks on and I hide the bow in my inventory and grab the ladders.

"I'll grab the ladders. You should come. Baccas are allowed and I can just stand next to you and pretend I don't know you," I say and Jerome nods. "Don't worry about the ladders, just jump down and hope the fall damage isn't that big," Jerome says and I pass him the ladders before jumping out of the tree.

Ouch. The fall damage was there, but it wasn't huge. I gesture for Jerome to jump out. He jumps down and when he's out, he readjustes his tie before running out of sight. Mom isn't that far away so I call "MOM!" She turns around and I jog up to her.

"Mitch! I was looking for you! I heard you yell Jerome. Who's Jerome?" She asks. "I met someone called Jerome while I was walking," I lie and we walk back to the house. Once we've got there, Mom starts saddling her house.

I have my own horse, Bacca, who has a chocolate brown coat like Jerome, except Jerome's furry and Bacca isn't. I saddle him up and give him a carrot before getting on. Mom mounts him as well and we both start at a trot, walking away.

Since our house is not too far from the town, it's a short ride. We start to see Jerome on the way.

"Mom, can I give him a ride?" I ask loudly so he can hear. She ponders the thought. "I know what to do if he attacks or something," I say. "I'll take him," Mom insists and I sigh.

She pulls up to him. "Are you going to see Notch's announcement?" She asks him and he nods. "Would you like a ride?" She asks. "Yes please," he wheezes. Jerome's not a big fan of walking, and it's a long way on foot.

He goes over to my horse, which I purposely put closest to him. He winks at me, I wink back as Jerome climbs on. He passes Mom some diamomds as payment and her eyes widen.

I ask him stuff about him, such as his name. He tells me his name is Jerome, and I tell him my name is Mitch. Mom eyes me as we pull up to the village.

It's not hard to know where Notch is because a whole ton of villagers and crafters are crowding around the doors to the town hall. We struggle to get inside and I stand next to Jerome as Notch walks onstage.

"Ladies and gentlemen!! Villagers and crafters!! I am here to make a special announcement!!" Notch announces. He's grinning. Everyone knows Notch, but I never expected him to be bald.

"Due to recent... issues, shall we say..." Notch starts and I look at Jerome, who looks at me. We make eye contact and stiffle a laugh. Notch eyes me and continues. "I have to introduce a new law."

I hope it's not a bad law. Maybe he can use his magical abilities to make diamonds more common? Or maybe the new rule will be that creepers can't spawn in the day? That would be good. Or maybe there would be a new rule for the Hunger Games!? Jerome and I really want to go into the Hunger Games, and I know we'd be an unstoppable team.

"Baccas..." Notch says and I eye Jerome.

"And crafters...." Jerome looks my way and I can see him out of the corner of my eye. Mom glares at me and I look forward.

"Cannot socialise!!"

Wait... if they can't socialise....

I can't be friends with Jerome.

No shit Mitch *fog horn*