Stay Strong Sorellina...
Chapter 2
It was the next day and the sun was rising, birds were singing and Aqua refused to get out of bed. She had told her older brother Romano EVERYTHING just as she had promised. The blue-haired girl woke up around seven or eight o'clock in the morning and was just staring at her light violet ceiling. She was in her dark grey sweat pants wearing one of her favorite T-shirts that had a very odd design of some sort. It almost looked like symbols, but she didn't really care, she just liked the design of the damn shirt. She didn't share a room with her brothers, for obvious reasons, but the main reason was that every time she let her big brother Italy sleep in her room, she would wake up to either him breaking something or her mysteriously ending up on the floor. Either way, she was always the hardest one to get out of bed. Aqua decided to pull herself together and get out of bed. She wasn't going to sulk in her room for the rest of her life, although it sounded good to her, she refused to let her problems pull her down. She lazily got out of bed and threw on a light-blue shirt with special embroidery on it that she had designed herself. To go along with that fabulous shirt, she put on a long black skirt that reached above her knees and the same black boots from yesterday, but her big brother Italy cleaned them for her. She walked up to her mahogany dresser and fixed her short blue hair and tried to smile. The sun beams shooting through her window was making something shine brightly directly into her eyes. Aqua felt around her dresser and touch something metal and had an odd shape to it.
"What the hell… what is this?" Aqua grumbled as she picked it up and held it to her eye level. Once she got a better look at the mysterious object, tears threatened to leave her chocolate brown eyes. It was Prussia's metal cross that was so precious to him, but he decided to give it to her. She was just about to cry when there was a knock at her bedroom door. Aqua jumped up a bit and quickly wiped her eyes just in case some tears did fall. Through the door she heard her big brother Italy calling her name.
"Ve~ good morning, Aqua! Come and hurry Big brother Romano made breakfast!" Italy said happily, still tapping on the door. Aqua, getting frustrated, steadied her voice and responded to her ditzy older brother.
"Ok big brother I'll be out in a minute!" she shouted through her door. She heard Italy then bounding away to the kitchen where she could hear Romano cursing since he burnt his hand on the stove… again. Aqua then quickly pinned her teal bow on the back of her short blue hair, but before she left her room, she placed the metal cross into her back pocket. She then exited her room and entered the kitchen and smelled eggs, bacon, and French toast. Hearing someone cough, she turned around and saw her friends and older brothers, some sitting at the kitchen table and others sitting on the living room couch. These weren't any ordinary friends, these were her best friends. Germany, Russia, England, America, and Canada were all seated and staring at her like she had done something wrong.
"Uhh… hi everyone, did Italy invite you over for breakfast?" Aqua asked nervously. She saw the looks on all of her friends' and brothers' faces, they looked happy and full of suspicion. At that point she began to get a little creeped out by their ominous stares. Romano looked at Germany with a smirk and nodded. Germany stood up, walked over to Aqua, and placed a hand on her shoulder. Due to the size difference, his hand looked huge on her little shoulder. Aqua looked up and stared and her blonde German friend.
"Aqua, ve have a very big surprise for jou," He said with his crystal blue eyes full of happiness for what was coming to his blue haired friend. He took Aqua by the hand and sat her down on the couch; England then came up to her and blind-folded her. America kept snickering and laughing. Canada was looking out the window to see if the surprise was here yet. Irritated with America's continuous snickering, he finally yelled at him
"Shut up you wanker! You're going to give away the surprise!" the Brit shouted at the American while tightening her blind-fold. Aqua felt something either good or bad was going to happen, she felt a little nervous.
"Oh come on, man! I'm just building up the suspense like any awesome surprise should be bro!" America said. Italy was, as usual, bouncing around with excitement and Romano, was just sitting down eating a tomato since he had finished breakfast. Russia was smiling and patting Aqua's back, reassuring her.
"Can I take this off now?" Aqua said impatiently. Russia fixed her blind-fold and laughed.
"Of course not silly friend!" Russia said happily. Canada dashed in and clapped his hands twice as a sort of signal. All Aqua could here was the scuffling of all her friends standing in two line making a pathway to where she was sitting. Russia and Germany were standing at the end of the lines. Aqua heard Canada speaking to another person, but could not make out what he was saying since he was speaking more softly than usual. She heard the door close and then heard the sounds of footsteps approaching her. She felt a hand touch her knee as the other man knelt down on one knee and lifted her blind-fold. Aqua's eyes widened and tears welled up quickly in her eyes. She could not believe what was in front of her. Was this a dream? No, this was real life and she definitely was surprised by her friends and brothers.
