~Present time~

Madeline's P.O.V

All I remember that when I woke up this morning I heard crying outside my bed room and when to investigate and saw my brother, Alfred, and my friend standing at my doorway in tears. Of course I asked them what was wrong and they just stared at me like I had said that I'm suicidal. Alfred recovers faster than my friend and said to me that we'd talk about it later. I was about to question him when he shot me a look and I closed my mouth.

My friend just watched all of this until I snapped my fingers in front of his face and yelled his name at him.

"Hey! Gilbert! Are you alive in there?" Well, tried to yell... It came out more as a whisper scream (I didn't know those even existed until now) because I always seemed to have a quiet voice much to my doom.

His head snapped up at me when I yelled at him and he quickly stood up and said he had to leave then left our house. I looked at the door in confusion and then walked to the kitchen to get some food for breakfast. When I heard someone scream and I dropped the items I was holding and ran out side to see Francis, my papa, screaming how his clothes that Arthur, my dad, picked out for him didn't mach. I then proceeded to walk back to the kitchen and try to get my food again a bit annoyed that he was so freaked out about clothes that he decided to go and scare the whole neighborhood.

I then sat down at the table and started to eat my breakfast when Arthur came in and sat next to me and I looked at him and he seemed to been crying recently.

"Hey dad?" I asked.

He looked up surprised, "Yes Madeline?"

"Why were Alfred and Gilbert so sad?" Once I asked that he shot up in his seat and looked surprised.

"Why would you ask that?" he said trying to act calm but we all know he is as bad at acting as he is cooking.

"They were crying outside of my door this morning." I wasn't going to candy coat it because I was kinda annoyed at them.

"Are you sure you want to know?" he asked worried.

"Yes I do. It's like you guys trying to not tell me about those pictures of a man that looks like Alfred." as I said that, he winced.

"Well... It's about that man you're talking about..." he sighs.

"Oh... did he die...?" I asked.

Arthur's eyes got all misty then I think I saw a couple or tears fall and hit the table then I realize I'm not imagining, and there really are tears falling out of his eyes.

"Y-you could s-say that..." he said, his voice breaking.

"W-what happened...?" she asked now somewhat afraid she'd make Arthur break out crying again.

"He was my brother." a voice said and we both whipped around to see Alfred in the doorway and I was about to say something when he cut me off, "He was one of the nicest, caring, protective brother you could ever have."

Arthur looked at Alfred and they seemed to have a silent conversation with each other for awhile until Alfred continued, "He was never noticed though... Not much by Arthur, Francis, and I... And if we didn't ever notice him, no one else could..."

"One day in 2013, Ivan declared war on him, but no one knows why. Not even now in the year of 2123..." Arthur said as I continued to stare at him, "America finally got everything ready two years after the war started, but it was too late for the representative though... Even though his country was still strong, he wasn't... They never knew how he died..."

"What was his country?" I asked and they both looked at me sadly.

"It was Canada." Alfred said and I felt my jaw drop as I stared in surprise.

"S-so... he was technically my brother too...?" I asked.

"Yeah, he was..." Alfred said sadly as Francis came in and looked at all of us with a confused face.

"What's ze matter here?" he asked somewhat worried.

"We're talking about Matthew." Arthur said bluntly.

"M-my Matthew...?" he asked surprised.

"Our Matthew you wanker!" Arthur yelled angrily, "He was our family too!"

"W-who's Matthew...?" I asked confused.

"My bro..." Alfred said sadly. "And today is his birthday..."

"I-it is..?" I asked. It seemed like a regular day..." I said with sadness trailing into my voice.

"Yeah, July 1st* is his birthday..."

"So a-are we going to do something in memory of him...?" I asked wondering.

"Yeah, we're having a world meeting.." Francis said.

"W-what's a world meeting...?" I never have heard of those before...

"It's were all the country's representatives come and talk about matters... But we haven't had one in so long..." Arthur said.

"How long?"

"Since you were born." he said.

I stared in shock because I was born about 110 years ago.

"R-really...?" I asked.

"Well it was mostly because we weren't ready to... But now we are." Arthur said looking on towards something invisible.

"Will you come Mattie?" Alfred said.

"Why do you call me Mattie instead of..." After I started to say that, I realized that the old Canadian representative was named Matthew.

"Madeline, do you think you can come?" Arthur asked.

"Y-yeah... I think so..." I said still trying to soak everything in.

"Let's get ready to go, our flight leaves in an hour." Alfred said.

We all walked out the door but I couldn't help think of all of them differently. Alfred always seemed to be faking his happiness around me and always seemed depressed but the photos of him and Matthew suggested otherwise. Like that he was always hyper and energetic, and well... Happy... Arthur was always distant and somewhat shy of me, but I could see him as one that could of smiled a lot a while ago... And Francis... He didn't seem much different... Just not a cheery as when Matthew was alive...

I was also nervous about the other countries too. What if they hated me? I really couldn't handle any more stress... I just hope this meeting goes all right...

*I'm exactly sure if Matthew's birthday is the 1st, so if you have another birthday or if you think it is the 1st, please review so I can change it or not. Thanks!