Secrets

16

When Ludwig let go, Feliciano's face had tears and snot streaming down it. To everyone's surprise, Ludwig surged forward again and kissed the crying nation. The kiss only lasted a few seconds, but it felt like forever to the duo. Amelia clearing her throat caused the two to break their lip-locking. The two looked over at her, along with everyone else.

"I know kissing is amazing," she said with a smirk, "but we have to finish this stupid book."

Ludwig, who was already blushing, grew redder and nodded. He backed away from the shocked Italian. He sat down next to Feliciano and cleared his throat.

"Shall we continue?" he suggested.

Amelia chuckled at him and snatched the book from Feliciano. Saiska just shook her head and nodded slightly, as if giving silent permission for her daughter to do so.

"Fuck this one!" Amelia swore at the book. "Amelia feels so bad for 'letting' Arthur make himself blind because he cares for him and deep down still thinks of him like he is a big brother."

Arthur was stunned, as he obviously doesn't remember going blind, "what do you mean 'blind?'"

"Uh... during one loop, one the few that we got really close to escaping, you went blind. Y-you used to much magic. You thought you could be the hero of the story... You were selfish! And stupid to think you could beat those monsters all by yourself! How could you do that to me- to everyone!"

"I- uh- I honestly don't know how to respond to that. I don't know what I was thinking, as I honestly don't remember this. Did this really happen?"

Amelia just nodded mutely before opening the book again, not wanting to discuss this further. Arthur opened his mouth to say something but was cut off by Amelia reading; "since Feliciano died the least during the time in the mansion, he's, technically, now the oldest nation alive."

Everybody just stared at the newly crowned oldest nation. Then everybody turned to look at Amelia as she started to clap, shocked.

"Congratulations," she said softly, then noticed the crowd staring at her. "What? He survived the mansion the most, didn't he? He's the fucking hero here, not me. Without him and his fast feet, amazing fighting skills, and determination, some of us wouldn't even be alive. If he gave up after the first time, I know I wouldn't be here."

Feliciano gave a small smile to the blonde before giving a small "thank you."

"Anyhow, let's finish this section-"

"Actually," Saiska interrupted, "the rest will have to wait. I've mixed them throughout the rest of the book."

"You couldn't torture us quickly?"

"Sorry Ksikkihkíni"

Amelia rolled her eyes and read the book, smirking and chuckling a bit before reading aloud, "Arthur doesn't really see himself as European. If someone, for whatever reason, is complaining about the European nations, he'll usually join in... until they look at him funny, at which point he realizes 'oh yeah shit, they're talking about me too!'"

Arthur chuckled lightly and rubbed the back of his neck, "Just continue on, please."

Amelia shook her head in disbelief, "Fine, whatever. Oh... this one is a bit sad. Yao is, actually, upset at the "deaths" of the other ancient countries. His younger siblings know better than to talk about them. However, Feliciano, with no ill-intentions, likes to blabber about Grandpa Rome - visibly making China sad."

"I'm sorry," Feliciano apologized to the Asian nation.

Yao smiled softly and said, "You don't need to say that. It may make me sad, but it's nice to remember sometimes," then he turned to look at Amelia. "Can you please continue now?"

"Oh god... not this," Amelia moaned.

"What?" Raivis, the personification of Latvia, asked.

"Although Arthur can turn into an angel, Amelia can turn into a demon."

Arthur stared at his former colony, "did you sell your soul or something?"

"Um... maybe- look I was trying to get rid of Atticus. It didn't work, but I still had to hold up my end of the bargain. I don't own my soul, but I still have it."

"Didn't I ever tell you to not sell your soul?"

"No. I did learn it from Puritans, but that made me scared of everything- look, I just had to do it. Anyway, the next one is about Gil- Frat boys find him to be absolutely wild. Why is his alcohol tolerance so high? Why does he start speaking Latin when he's drunk? Why does he have red eyes? Why does he keep referencing World War Two? Eh, who cares, pass the guy another beer."

Everybody now turned to stare at the Prussian, who was just laughing his ass off. Amelia and Matthew joined in on the chuckling. It took them about two minutes to calm down. Leon, the personification of Hong Kong, snatched the book from Amelia and looked at the next entry.

"Listen up!" he yelled. "Toris has learned martial arts from Yao."

"You know martial arts?" Amelia asked her quiet lover.

"Uh... yeah," Toris replied, uncertain as to how that'll play out.

"That is so cool! Maybe you could teach me some?" You could tell she was flirting by the tone of her voice.

Yao rolled his eyes as Toris was completely unaware of the flirting as he just nodded.

"Ai-yah," he said, "just read the next one already."

"Fine... Arvid can hear satellites. Before he knew what they were, he used to say that he could hear the stars singing. He once freaked out the Phony Nation Table by going into a creepy monologue about how he could hear things out in space, using phrases like 'the detritus of the Space Race' and 'a belt of singing stars around the world', which lasted until Ray dumped a bucket of water over him."

"That is so cool!" Faheema exclaimed.

"Not really," Arvid told her. "Not when your parents think you're going crazy."

Now seemingly all eyes were on Berwald and Tino. The latter of the two was going red.

"We never said that," Berwald spoke up.

"Yeah," Arvid conceded, "but I know you were thinking it!"

"We'll talk about this later," Tino told his son.

"Should I continue now," Leon asked, "or are we going to continue with this nonsense?"

"Just continue," Riku, the personification of Nikoniko, told Leon.

"Alright, the next one is... oh my god, I feel this one on a personal level!"

"Just read it!" Ray yelled at Leon.

"Fine Matthew hates himself way more than any nation could ever think. He actually never recovered from the cultural shock of passing from a French colony to an English one. It makes him take decisions based on what Arthur taught him, then regrets it because it goes against the values Francis taught him and vice versa. Yeah, no. I feel that."

It was now Matthew's turn to try to hide. Amelia just stood up and grabbed him by the collar, making him stand up in front of everyone. Amelia let go, but in a split second was hugging her twin. Arthur and Francis shared a glance, and both ran up and joined the hug, apologizing profusely for causing Matthew such pain. Matthew was just stunned.

After a while, the hug ended, and it was Matthew's stomach that broke the silence. He blushed up a storm.