It was Italy's birthday today. When he woke up he quickly dressed and ran to Germany's house, its was a fairly warm March day. The sun was shining brightly as the Italian ran short cut to reach his favorite friend for his sure to be birthday surprise.
"Veeeee~ Germany~~~!" He yelled running up the steps to his friends house. He opened the door excitedly, not realizing he hadn't even knocked.
"Ve Germany~! I'm here!" He said grinning as he ran up and hugged the tall blonde man in the living room. He heard a yell that sounded foreign too him.
"Italy, vat are you doing!?" Germany yelled, Italy raised his head to find himself hugging a stranger.
"Oh, sorry~" Italy said cheerfully as he skipped over to Germany and hugged him. He pushed him off and walked over to the stranger speaking a series of words in german. The stranger had just yelled something and stormed out of the house. Germany turned to Italy looking quite furious.
"Ve, what's wrong?" Italy asked not understanding the anger in his friends face. Germany just glared at him, silence filling the room. A coocoo clock sounded once to indicate 11:30 a.m.
"Vy did you have to come?" Germany's tone wasn't loud at all. It was deep and serious, the sun beamed threw the windows onto their faces.
"Who was that Germany?" Italy felt strange, normally Germany would just scream his lungs out at a time like this, why not now?
"Zat was the man who vas going to me out of debt vith everone I owed." His voice was steady and low. Italy remembered that it was only a few months after the war and he was left completely broke.
"Ve, Germany, I'm sorry." Italy pleaded. "I didn't know..." He looked at his feet remembering that he's the reason the war was lost in the first place.
"If you would have looked you could clearly see he vas not me!" He raised his voice for the first time, making Italy crindge with fear.
"V-ve, Germany.. You know you scare me when you yell."
"Ja? And you know I hate it vhen you mess zings up, are you struggling to survive? Watching your people starve? Are you finally finding a vay to save millions just to let ze idiocy of another screw it all up!?" He yelled, Italy by now was reduced to tears.
"V-ve... I'm sorry Germany..." He goes to hug him but Germany pushes him away, stopping himself from wailing on him.
"I've had enough of your stupidity, you vill be ze death of me." He scowled. Italy looked at the time. 11:59.
"Ve... I'm sorry Germany for being stupid.." The clock struck noon, the bird coming in and out twelve times, chirping each time. 'Nows when i was born..' Italy thought, closing his eyes he made a birthday wish as the last bird and chirp came.