I do not own hetalia.
Just a little short something to try getting me back to writing. Must…not…play…guitar… Man that thing is dirty…*plays it anyway*
You may hate on the style it is written in. It wasted quite a bit of space. Even I am hating on the style right now. *hates*
I heard 4th season of hetalia was announced~! I read it on ANN somewhere.
There was nothing to do. Out of all the things that Matthew Williams thought he would encounter during college life; boredom was not one of them. The thought of being in college makes people think about the lessons and lectures they have to go through, projects and research, even on the social side, it would be parties and late nights out, although, he wouldn't ever go to one.
Matthew however had completed everything he was assigned to do already. Lessons were a breeze for him, leaving him with less work to do, and he didn't have any interest in the societies and clubs. He couldn't join a sports clubs either, since he couldn't keep up with them and even if he could sometimes, it was difficult for him to stay at their level. Making friends wasn't one of Matthew's strong points either.
It was a summer day. There was plenty of sunlight streaming in through the windows. The heat wasn't too intense, but Matthew opened a window to let some breeze in. It would have been a perfect day to be out to do any activities and to hang out with any friends.
"Too bad I don't have many friends…" Matthew sighed as he leaned back on his sofa.
The house was a spacious one. The only other person living with him was his brother Alfred, but even then, Alfred didn't even live at house; he preferred the dorms at his college. Matthew wished that he had gone to the same college as his brother, because then, he would have at least one person to speak to when he was lonely. There were hobbies which Matthew found fun sometimes, but he didn't feel that they were "special" at the moment. At times he would be really into it, but then ignore another hobby he had previously and eventaully switch it around, but there wasn't anything anymore.
The few things which he didn't get tired of was reading books and watching TV. Occasionally, MAtthew would use his laptop for something other than school work to look for something interesting to read online. From where MAtthew sat, he could see a red laptop was sitting quietly on a cool wooden desk, waiting to be used. Matthew stared at it before heaving himself up from his comfortable position to go get it and sit back down.
Maybe going on the laptop will kill a few hours… Matthew thought to himself as he waited for it to turn on and load up.
Thinking about it, Matthew hadn't really checked his personal e-mail's inbox recently. He had a few old friends who would occasionally send him some mail, but it was usually on his birthday or something of the sort. The e-mail account he usually used was the one he made for academic purposes to send in work to teachers and such.
When the laptop was turned on and loaded, Matthew signed into his personal email account. As expected, there wasn't much there. However, there was one email.
"Wow. I actually have mail. It's from Al." Matthew thought outloud as he clicked on it to open it.
It had no subject and was sent one day before he checked the account. When he opened it, he was quickly engrossed in what his brother had to say. It was a small update on how things were going down his end and such, which made Matthew happy to hear that things are fine with his brother. As he was near the end of the e-mail, something interesting caught his eye.
Lately, I've been on this website… we're like a little community. It's fun to hang out on when you have nothing to do. I can't really explain it well. It would be great if you joined it! We're kinda new… here's the link:
http:/_.xxx
Also, the password is:
APH/WSH28910
It's invite only, so… don't go posting that around everywhere!
Well, I've got to go now, bye!
PS: my username is America.
Matthew was curious about the website his brother was on and wondered how it managed to entertain him. It was something that his brother said that it was good to go on when you have nothing to do. It was worth checking out since that was exactly what he needed.
Matthew clicked the link his brother gave him and looked at the front page. It asked for the password that Alfred had just sent him. Matthew typed it into the bar and then hit enter. When he got into the main website, it wasn't too exciting, had a pleasant layout. It was a light colour scheme of white and light blue, which was gentle on the eyes. Matthew checked out the rest of the site- he liked it so far. The banner stated that they were called "APH" but the meaning was somewhere which Matthew couldn't be bothered to look at. The only parts he seemed interested in were the boards and the online chat.
"Hmm… I think I might join." Matthew decided as he clicked the register button.
The sign up was quick and easy. There weren't many members because it was invite only. Matthew wondered what he was going to do on the website. It seemed that it was obvious when a new member joined because there weren't many members and when one joined, there would be a tiny announcement to go greet the new user.
Matthew saw the thread at the top of all the others as "New Members –updated" and decided to click it. It was a small introduction to the website and a list of the members. It seemed most people were fine with using names, but everyone had a country name as well. Scrolling down, Matthew saw the updated part of it, shown with a star. There, his username was and a question mark. He had the feeling that his username was going to be changed to a country name like everyone else.
He went to the latest posts and found the none about him yet. The previous posts for the member before him were mainly discussing what to country to call that person. Matthew decided to refresh the page and found once post from the user America. He thought back to the email and remembered that it was Alfred. The post was just him saying that he invited Matthew which might have been a small thing they had to do each time they ivited a new member to the website. Usually, Matthew wasn't noticed much, but being a new member seemed to put someone in the spot light there. It felt good to be noticed a little bit. Even though nobody was saying anything much about Matthew, he was still on the first page being introduced.
Matthew decided to go onto the chat to see what everyone was discussing there and to greet them. When he clicked on the chat, there were 4 people online- which wasn't very much, but they were the ones who were usually online the most and got the chat moving. When Matthew entered, they were having some sort of argument.
America: …So clearly, I win.
America: Mattie… I see you online!
Japan: The new person?
Italy: Oh!
Italy: Hi hi! :D
Prussia: There's a new person…?
America: Yeah…
America: Don't you read the front page? ¬.¬
Matthew suddenly felt like the chat was moving too fast for him to be involved and felt out of the circle. It wasn't that they were talking too fast, it was just that because he was new to it all, he felt intimidated. They all already knew each other on there, but the only person he knew was his brother and Matthew didn't know what type of person he was while online. In fact, Matthew had never really gone to any sort of chat room before.
America: Yo Matt, say hi already!
Prussia: Who?
Matt: Hi…
Japan: Welcome to APH.
Italy: Welcome~
America: I invited him.
Prussia: I'm awesomness, that's all you need to know.
Japan: We need to sort out your country name now
Italy: I was about to say that! D:
America: Japan's a ninja typer!
Japan: www
Italy: Kiku…You're different when online.
Japan: Ah! The name!
Italy: Opps.
Prussia: Oi! Did you read that up there whoever you are?
Matt: Err… yes.
Prussia: Good.
Prussia: Where do you live?
America: He lives in Canada.
Prussia: There.
Prussia: Name sorted.
Japan: I'll go change it in a bit.
Italy: Yay~ You're one of us now!
Matthew thought he could keep up because he realized that he only thought that they were typing fast, but then he witnessed how fast they could all type if they wanted to. The words went by so fast and Matthew didn't even get to explain that he wasn't actually living in Canada at the time, but that he only lived there for longer than Alfred did when they were kids. It didn't seem to matter mentioning it, for the conversation moved quickly.
After a bit, they drifted away from the subject of Matthew and he just ended up reading what they were saying. He learnt about how they were and their personalities while online. In the end, he quickly faded from the spotlight and the thread on the front page quickly died, with a few people who weren't online at the time, not knowing they had a new member.
Matthew started to log in regularly and even though he wasn't included with the conversations and such, he enjoyed reading them as they were entertaining. It was fun learning how everyone was and who was friends with who. It seemed like the countries and the people seemed to relate like how they did in real life. Matthew laughed as he watched the news and then looked into chatroom, seeing the people who had the countries involved in the news pretend to be feeling the affects of the news being told.
It had been around two months since it Matthew had joined and nobody had invited anyone else since then, leaving his existence, unknown among the users of APH. If another member had joined, then the "New Members" list would have been updated and there they would see Matthew's name and realize that they had forgotten him. It didn't really matter to Matthew as he preferred to be unknown for a bit, which was unusual, since he used to want to be noticed a few months ago when he wasn't part of APH.
After returning from lessons, as usual, Matthew started to lurk when he signed in. He went into the chat to see who was online and what the topic of their conversation was.
Italy: Too bad there's no Canada here…
Matthew wasn't surprised to see someone say that. He was forgotten quickly, even though Italy was there when he first signed in. If even Alfred, the person who invited him, forgot about Matthew, he didn't expect anyone else to remember either.
Japan: Hmm… That's weird.
Romano: What?
Japan: For some reason, I remember registering someone as Canada before.
France: We have a Canada?
Spain: I've never seen them before OwO
America: New APH urban legend!
Italy: Oooh.
Japan: "Hidden user Canada."
France: Someone go add that to our collection of Urban Legends!
Prussia: back
Spain: Heeeeeeyyy!
Italy: welcome back
America: We have a new urban legend! "Hidden user Canada"
Prussia: …
Prussia: I remember Canada.
Matthew's eyes widened at the boxes running down the screen, which all happened to stop at that one moment. He wasn't sure if the chat had just died how it did sometimes or if they were also shocked. While Matthew was still in shock, the user "Prussia" started the conversation again.
Prussia: Do you guys really not notice them?
Italy: Not really, no.
Romano: Do you ever notice anything? ¬.¬
Prussia: To think that you guys were saying that I didn't notice things on the front page.
America: Oh shi-
America: I forgot it's Matt! .
Prussia: He's even online at the moment, probably reading all of this now.
Matthew looked down at his untouched keyboard guiltily. He really hadn't take part in a chat after the first day. What amazed him however, was that fact that Gilbert (-Matthew had grown used to using their real names when he found them out) remembered him from that day.
Mattthew decided to quickly leave the chat, hoping that nobody else would realize, but it was obvious that they would all be looking out for his name in the updates of who was online or had just left.
When Matthew returned to the front page of APH, he saw the thread of APH Legends was at the top. Curious, he clicked the thread open and skipped to the parts which he hadn't already read before. The thread was recently revived, for legend of "The Hidden User Canada" was only a page away.
A sigh escaped from Matthew as he read the comments put up by the people who had suddenly disappeared from the chat when it went silent for a bit after Gilbert had said that he remembered the user Canada. The latest posts were along the lines of "Canada spotted in chat!" and a print screen of the update saying "Canada has left the room" as evidence. A chucked could help but escape from Matthew as well.
"What am I? A rare species?" He said to himself while laughing slightly.
After reading through a few more threads, there was a slight change in something on Matthew's screen, but he couldn't figure out what it was. He looked at the corner of his screen and saw that he had a new e-mail, and the icon for his mailbox had turned another colour, hence why he felt something was different.
Matthew double clicked the link, feeling slightly happy that he got an e-mail from someone, for they were rare with Matthew, since a lot of the people he knew probably didn't now Matthew. He was easy to forget.
While Matthew had a warm feeling in his stomach from the email, he was surpised to see that it was an alert to the fact that he received a Private Message from someone on APH. To check that he received the right email, Matthew clicked on his profile page for APH and saw that in his inbox, there really was a new message from someone.
The PM was from the user Prussia. Gilbert.
Matthew opened it and wondered what he was about to say. It was probably because of the events which had just happened in the chat. It would make someone look weird if they say that someone is online and they leave straight away, making it so that the next person to check the "Online" list wouldn't see them there.
Yo.
Just saying hi since you never talk on the chat.
-Gilbert the Awesome.
Matthew couldn't help but laugh again at the end of the email. He had seen, from being online most of the time that Gilbert was extremely arrogant and often idiotic. After Matthew stopped laughing he wondered what to reply. He wondered if he should or not. From reading what he had said before, sometimes, Gilbert was rude to people, but he seemed to be an enjoyable person to talk to.
For the first time in awhile, Matthew's fingers tapped against the keyboard.
Hi there.
-Matthew (AKA Hidden User Canada)
Message sent