I'm Not England

Chapter 3

Disclaimer: I do not own Hetalia.

It was in the mid afternoon on the second day of having Gilbert live with him (the first day being the day he got him) that Arthur realized that he didn't really know much the white haired male. He knew that he thinks he's awesome and that he likes his pet Gilbird, but other than that Arthur knew nothing.

'Well he likes to sleep in late I know that.' Arthur thought as he finished making lunch.

It was 1 o'clock and the guy had yet to wake up. Not that Arthur could really complain he was a night owl by nature and he had a bad habit of sleeping in whenever he could as well. Arthur started to wonder if he should just go to the red eyed unit's room and wake him up, but he was saved the trouble when he saw Gilbert stumble into the room. Gilbert was dressed up in some of the cloths that Arthur had bought him yesterday and Arthur could see the little yellow puffball that was Gilbird sitting on top of Gilbert's snow white hair.

"Morning…" Gilbert grumbled out as he sat down at the kitchen table.

"Gilbert it's one in the afternoon." Arthur said as he sat a bowl of beef stew in front of the Prussian nation.

"It's morning to me." Gilbert said as he grabbed the spoon out of the bowl and started to eat the stew.

Arthur just rolled his eyes, but he said nothing. He just grabbed his own bowl and sat down at the table across from Gilbert. The room was quite for awhile with the only sound being the spoons occasionally clacking against the bowls.

"This stuff is pretty good." Gilbert said.

"Thanks I was afraid I may have added to much salt when I was making it."Arthur said.

Arthur then heard a loud clang of a spoon dropping into a bowl and when he looked up at Gilbert he just saw the guy looking at him with wide eyes and his spoon had been dropped into his empty bowl.

"You made this?" Gilbert asked.

"Yeah…." Arthur said slowly.

"But it's actually edible!" Gilbert shouted out.

"What the heck do you mean it's actually…" Arthur started saying before he slowly realized what Gilbert was babbling about.

England couldn't cook in Hetalia so Gilbert must have been running off of that. Actually now that Arthur thought about it didn't Prussia once try England's food only to get really sick or something? Arthur just shook his head and sighed before he stood up and grabbed his bowl and Gilbert's bowl and put them in the dishwasher.

"I'm not England so I know when I food is burnt to oblivion and you know the whole English people can't cook thing is just a stereotype. Also, I used this wonderful thing called a cookbook." Arthur said as he started up the dishwasher.

Gilbert was quite for a few minutes and Arthur just sighed before he walked over to his junk drawer that was near the stove and started digging through it.

"If it helps any when I don't have a cookbook the only thing I can really make is a grilled cheese sandwich and I'm not good at complicated recipes even when I do have a cookbook."

Arthur continued to dig through the drawer before he pulled out a stack of white index cards and two pens. He walked back over to the kitchen table and sat down in his seat before he took some cards from the stack and pushed them over to Gilbert along with one of the pens.

"Why are you giving this stuff to me?" Gilbert asked as he picked up the pen.

"Today I realized that I don't really know you and you don't really know me so with these items are going to help. Well we just write down random facts about each other on the cards and then we take turns slapping the cards down onto the table and say the fact." Arthur said.

"Where did you get that idea from?" Gilbert asked.

"I had a high school teacher who made us do it as an ice breaker during the first day of school. Just write down your facts ok?"

"Fine, but one of the facts have to be embarrassing ok?" Gilbert said with a grin.

"Ok fine, but the same goes for you." Arthur said.

Gilbert just nodded his head and with that done the two boys started to write down their facts on the cards. After about ten minutes had passed by they finally finished writing their facts down.

"So who goes first?" Gilbert asked.

"I'll go first and then we will just go back and forth between each other. Sounds good?" Arthur asked.

Gilbert just nodded his head and taking that as his cue Arthur grabbed a card and slammed it down onto the table.

Bam!

"I was born in Ormskirk, England." Arthur said.

Bam!

"I'm awesome!" Gilbert said.

"That's not a fact." Arthur said.

"It is now." Gilbert said with a smirk.

Arthur just rolled his eyes and continued with the game.

Bam!

"I have an older sister named Emily." Arthur said.

"You have a sister? No brothers?" Gilbert asked.

"I just have a sister she's older than me by five years. I never had any brothers, but I had always wanted a younger sibling." Arthur said.

"That's funny England had a few older brothers, but he didn't have a sister." Gilbert said.

"Brothers? You mean Scotland, Ireland, Sealand, and Wales?" Arthur asked.

"Yeah that's who they are!"

"What are they like?" Arthur asked.

Gilbert just shrugged his shoulders before he said "I'm not sure I never really got to spend a whole lot of time with them. Ireland is pretty fun to go out drinking with though…"

"Ok then it's your turn…." Arthur said.

Bam!

"I like animals a lot, but my favorite animal is my awesome Gilbird." Gilbert said. Gilbird just let out a happy chirp from his spot on Prussia's head and Arthur just smiled a little.

Bam!

"I'm more of a cat person, but I like dogs too and I have had Lady for two years now." Arthur said. At the sound of her name the big black and white dog (who had been lying on the floor the whole time) lifted her head up and started to wag her tail.

"West really likes dogs too." Gilbert said with a slight smile.

"West?" Arthur asked.

"My younger brother, Germany." Gilbert answered before he slammed a card down onto the table.

Bam!

"I like beer!" Gilbert said with a grin.

Arthur just gave him a strange look before he slammed his card down onto the table.

Bam!

"I like the show 'Who's Line Is It Anyway'."

Bam!

"I once put hair dye in Germany's shampoo and made him dye his hair green."

Arthur immediately cracked up at the mental image of Germany with green hair before he looked at the next card that he had to slap down onto the table. His smile immediately disappeared when he saw what he had to say next, but after a few secounds had passed he just sighed and slapped the card down onto the table.

Bam!

"When I was six years old I had an imaginary friend named Bosco."

Bam!

"I ha- wait what? Bosco?"

Bam!

"I actually like the Sailor Moon anime."

Bam!

"No wait go back to the Bosco thing I want to hear about that."

Bam!

"I'm not going to talk about Bosco dang it!" Arthur shouted out.

"Aww come on tell me!" Gilbert begged.

"No!" Arthur yelled as his checks flushed in embarrassment.

"Tell me damn it!"

"Never!" Arthur shouted.

Suddenly Arthur quickly got out of his seat jumped over his sleeping dog like he was a freaking gazelle and raced out of the room. Gilbert quickly chased after him all while shouting that he wanted to hear about Bosco. The rest of the afternoon was spent with Arthur avoiding Gilbert and Gilbert trying to find Arthur so he could force the blond man to tell him about Bosco. The two of them where being just loud enough that they could be heard by anyone who was outside and because the weather was beautiful outside their where a lot of people outside who heard a large majority of the noise. Needless to say that by the time Arthur's house finally went silent at night the whole neighborhood was thinking that they just heard a lover's quarrel about some love triangle between Arthur, some mystery guy, and some man named Bosco.

Arthur would be blissfully unaware of this rumor that was flying around the neighborhood, but for Gilbert's sake that will probably be a good thing…

Ok, so that's chapter 3. Info time!

Contest: So someone was able to guess to tell me what the shout out was and where it came from. The shout out was Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, one of my favorite movies and comic series. The shout out itself was the band 'Sex Bon-omb', Arthur bought their CD when he was in Hot Topic. Sex Bob-omb is the name of the band that the main character (Scott Pilgrim) belonged to. The person who guessed it right was Mix Matcher (they told me where the shout out came from in their review and what the shout out was in a PM message). Since they were able to tell me where it came from and what it is they got to choose which unit Arthur get's next.

England Couple: Please vote for who you want the England unit to end up with on the poll on my account page. So far Canada has the most votes, with America being in secound place and Germany is in third. The rest of the nations all have one vote (as I write this anyway).

Arthur can cook?: Yeah Arthur can cook which is just one of the differences between him and England. However, Arthur is only an 'ok' cook and as he said without a cookbook the only thing he can do is make a grilled cheese sandwich or use the microwave. Also, if a recipe has too many instructions (or is just overly complicated in general) then he will get overloaded and end up screwing it up.

The card thing: I never actually had any teacher do this so that's not where I got the idea from. I got the idea when I was listening to a comedian named Richard Jeni on YouTube. The comedy bit was actually called Card Table Dating and he said it like this: A man and a woman meet up at a card table, write down all their emotional problems on little cards, and take turns slapping them on the table and being honest. I made it more into a facts about themselves thing here instead of having them chatter about their emotional problems. Someone made a Hetalia video with the act and put it on YouTube so I would suggest looking it up on there. The video was called "[APH] Card Table Dating" if anyone cares to look it up.

Bosco: I got this idea from the Jeni act as well. Bosco will be popping up from time to time if this fanfic so keep your eyes out for him.

Who's Line Is It Anyway: It's a short-form improvisational comedy TV show (there was a British version of the show and an American version). The show consisted of a panel of four performers who create characters, scenes and songs on the spot, in the style of short-form improvisation games, many taken from theatresports. Topics for the games were based on either audience suggestions or predetermined prompts from the host. Both the British and the American shows ostensibly took the form of a game show with the host arbitrarily assigning points and likewise choosing a winner at the end of each episode. However, the show lacked the true stakes and competition of a game show (by design). The "game show" format was simply part of the comedy. You can find a lot of parts from the show on YouTube and I really suggest looking it up it's really good.

Anyway, I will try and get the next chapter up as soon as possible so please review and don't flame.