Heyo lovelies! Here's a story about Canada Day! I'm sorry Mattie! OTL I can't believe I didn't make you one! QnQ This is a PruCan by the way . . kinda xD
Well sad to say I don't really like this one D: *ashamed* yes yes. . . And it's shorter too! orz I have let you down Mattie. . .
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of Hetalia or Hetalia itself, they belong to Himaruya-Sensei! :)
Gilbert was frantically calling a bunch of Nations, trying to organize a meeting. What was the purpose of Gilbert trying to organize something? It was Matthew's birthday of course! He knew well that all the nations never remembered his poor Birdie, so he decided to make a surprise birthday party for him. In a matter of fifteen minutes, everyone had arrived wondering what in the world possessed Gilbert to call everyone for a meeting. Yes, Gilbert had to even call Alfred. As much as Gilbert hated the American's guts, he was still Matthew's older brother so it was only common sense for him to know about it. It was kind of a pain in the ass to get him to come.
Gilbert called the house that Matthew shared with Alfred, hoping that Alfred would pick up and not his Birdie. After all, since he and Alfred hated each other it would be weird to ask for him; that would just be suspicious.
"Hello?"
He sighed internally with relief.
"Hallo?"
"What do you want you bastard? Mattie's not here."
"Perfect, I need you to come to my house. I have something to talk about."
"What? I'm not going to your house you creepy pervert!"
Gilbert snorted, "Che, I wouldn't waste my awesome time trying to be perverted towards you, that's Franny's job. And for your information it's about Mattie you idiot. I'm calling the other nations too, so it's not only you."
". . .Fine I'll be there in a few minutes."
The two hung up and Gilbert set upon calling more people.
Ludwig walked in and froze at all the nations in his living room, why were they here? Was there an emergency world meeting or something? " Bruder!"
Ludwig's eyes flashed to Gilbert's, "What's going on? Why is everyone in my living room?"
Gilbert motioned for his brother to sit, watching as Feliciano waved animatedly for Ludwig to sit by him. After seeing everyone present he cleared his voice, "Alright, so you guys are probably wondering why someone as awesome as myself would call all you to mein and mein bruder's house. Well I have a plan, today is July first, ja? And today also happens to be Matthew's birthday!"
Silence stayed in the living room until someone raised a hand, "Who's Matthew?"
Many heads shook in agreement and Gilbert sighed in frustration, "Alfred's little brother?"
Silence set once again until it finally clicked in their heads, "Oh, that's his name." "Oh that's him?"
Gilbert facepalmed himself, "Anyways, what I was saying was that since it's his birthday we should throw him a birthday party! This isn't a choice by the way!"
He chimed the last part, seeing as how many of them nodded in agreement it was all good right now. After all, they mostly had nothing to do, and after they helped they could party; Gilbert felt excited. Now all they needed to do was get the party ready without anyone spilling the potatoes to Matthew. "Okay, so now we need to give jobs! "
Gilbert thought for a moment, "Feli, you and your bruder can do the artwork; so banners and stuff."
"Franny, you and Toni will be our kitchen staff."
Francis groaned, " Don't call me Franny, mon ami…"
Gilbert snickered, "Whatever you say Franny." Earning a sigh.
"Erm, Eliza you can pick a few people to help decorate."
"I'll be the decoy so you guys can do whatever. Text me about everything going on, and when you're all ready I'll bring Mattie."
After assigning the rest of the jobs, Gilbert stressed that most of the designs and decorations should be maple related or Canadian oriented but yet still have the birthday feel. He also advised that if they happen to see Matthew anywhere before he found him, to not give away anything. Seeing that everyone understood, he figured an awesome party needed an awesome operation name. " Okay! Let Operation Maple Birthday begin!"
Gilbert shooed everyone out of his house as he went to go find Matthew, hopefully he wasn't so difficult to find.
Sigh. "Just another day…" Matthew muttered to himself. In actuality it was his birthday today, but to everyone else who barely remembers him, let alone his birthday, it's just another day. Just another July first. Sometimes he wished that someone, just one person remembered; yes even his older brother Alfred forgot his birthday. Not completely, sure he'd remember a day before his birthday and apologize like no tomorrow for forgetting his birthday and promising to get his brother something. To Matthew it was the thought that counted, right? Now he was just getting sick of it, if only the thought would come at the right time and the right day then he'd probably feel better about himself. It was true, he'd feel better, but Matthew had been used to this for decades so he could deal with it; he was a strong Nation. He didn't have the military strength like his brother Alfred or the aggressiveness of his best friend Gilbert, but he was strong emotionally and mentally. Of course! How else do you think he would be able to handle the ball of fire called 'Alfred'? He should get a medal for that, but then again the people who carve the names would probably forget his name and either carve the wrong name or just leave it blank. Though even the best crack sometimes. Matthew sighed before he ran into something, yelping slightly.
"Yo Birdie!"
Matthew looked up a little to see blood red orbs flashing in excitement. He smiled at his best friend, "H-hey Gil, what's up?"
"Hm? Oh, we are going to hang out!" Gilbert proclaimed as he took Matthew's arm and dragged him in the direction he walked from. All he had to do was occupy his little Birdie until everything was ready, Gilbert smirked slightly 'Birdie's gonna love me! . . .Hopefully this will turn out awesome!' He felt Matthew resist a little before giving up and following him. "Where're we going Gil?"
Gilbert grinned, "To the mall! There's tons of things to do there!"
"Okay."
They walked in comfortable silence, Matthew thought that it was better to spend his once-again-forgotten-birthday with Gilbert than at home doing nothing. As they arrived at the mall, Gilbert wanted to go into an arcade to play some games, gently dragging Matthew with him. Matthew picked the first game, which happened to be a shooting game. Gilbert laughed at the fact that his Birdie actually picked a shooting game. He never took Matthew as a violent person, excluding when Hockey was in the picture, but still. He's seen Matthew in different ways other people see him, well when they do see him, but not in terms of violence.
Matthew picked a shooting game specifically because of all the frustrations that he had built up inside him, he didn't want to yell at Gil. He would feel awful since he's the only one who's really noticed him, and so when he wanted to play arcade games Matthew was relieved. Finally he could take his stress and frustration on something not living and breathing. After the game, Matthew beat Gilbert barely by a few points, resulting in a wide-eyed Gilbert. "Birdie, you actually beat me!"
"E-eh?! I did?" Looking at the screen, it was true. He did beat Gilbert, which was surprising since Gilbert used to be a warring nation. Though to be honest, Gilbert did admit to being better at using swords than guns and such but that didn't mean that he sucked at using them. Matthew looked at Gilbert as his expression of shock turned to be one of a pout, "One more game! The awesome me won't lose this time!"
Matthew chuckled as they both took up the game guns and inserted coins to play another round, though Matthew knew he would definitely lose. After playing the first game, Matthew had felt a whole lot better; it was highly likely that he won due to his frustration. His guess was confirmed when the game ended, with Gil beating him. They both laughed at the weird turn of events concerning the game, and they decided to play other games that weren't as competitive. As Gilbert watched Matthew play a game, he felt his phone buzz in his pocket; plucking the device from his pocket he had two new text messages. Gilbert clicked on it and saw it was a message from Feliciano and Francis.
From: Feli
To: Awesomeness
Ve~ Gilbert! We're almost done painting the banners and Elizabeta said she's coming back from shopping! Okay bye!
Gilbert smiled, everything was going according to plan, moving on to Francis's text.
From: Franny
To: Awesomeness
Mon ami, the cooking is getting there~! Of course the wonderful food of my Nation will always be good~! Honhonhon~ Toni says hello!
Gilbert replied, smiling as he placed his phone back in his pants pocket and paid attention to Matthew playing the game. They both laughed and had fun for an hour or so before they left the arcade to roam the mall. In a matter of another hour or so, they would head to Matthew's house for the party, oh well surprise party. Gilbert already bought Matthew's present and asked Ludwig to bring it to the house for him, he just hoped Matthew would like his gift. He'll just have to wait and see.
A/N: That's it for this chapter! :) Hope it was okay!
French:
Mon ami - my friend
German:
Bruder - brother
ja - yes
