Sorry that i made you guys wait but writing 3,000 long chapters take some time... i drew the new cover if you didn't notice and i'm fairly proud of it. TO THE REVIEWS!

KittKaz: awwww...thank you and i found this picture when i was looking for pictures to base Arthur off of and it said, i like my men like i like my tea, hot and british, it made my week and i will forever keep that in mind as for "Paint it White" i've noticed that it can used as an anti-racism thing. White people are privileged in society but suddenly once everything actually starts turning white, they have a problem...

silverfang493: pursue Canada's affection Maddy...you know you want to... XD

DreamEnder54: It's so early in the story...i wasn't trying to make it like this!

englandvs. france: no she's not and Maddy saw the review...but i'm trying to keep this how we would actually react and that's just how she is

iloveamerica: i take it you ship it...America and Brittany

tigergirl: and you ship England and Brittany

snowdrop: don't take her book away, i did that once and did not end well...*laughs* pursue his affections? i would have never thought of that and she told me that in the book someone almost almost died and put herself in suspense just so she could read the reviews...i laughed a lot when reading yours XD

crystaldragon275: at least you have the laptop...that's a necessity...

TO THE STORY!

Chapter 3: Some time outside

The afternoon after that was fairly uneventful. Alfred went back to being his bubbly, full of himself, cheery personality while I paid more attention to what Arthur was saying. I surprised that no one else came but then again right as Arthur was finished, the doorbell went off.

"I got it!" Alfred ran out of the room like a mad man. 'I guess he was really bored.'

I shrugged and stood up. "Who do you think it is?"

"Matty!" Alfred screamed. I sighed. "Never mind."

Maddy grinned and got out of her chair. "Imma go say hi!"

I rolled my eyes. "Now you decided to be social."

Maddy sent me a small glare. "I hate you."

I grinned." Nah! I know you love me!"

"Whatever." Maddy left the room that now only Arthur and I were in.

I turned to him as he was putting his stuff away. "Did I already say thank you for helping us?"

He nodded. "I believe you did."

I bit my lip. 'Got to avoid awkward silence somehow.' "Do you need help with anything?"

Arthur shook his head. "Not really, just some peace and quiet."

I winced. 'Ouch…I don't know what I did but….I'll just play it off.' "Ok then, go distract Alfred! Got it!

I left the room in low spirits. "Crap…"

I met the others by the door who were chatting happily with Canada. "Hi Canada!"

He turned to me and smiled. "It's Matthew."

"Ohhh! Now I know why Alfred called you Matty…" I looked back up at him. "I'll try to remember that!"

"Try?"

"I'm horrible with names." I sighed.

"Hey Matty-"

"Matthew." He cut off Alfred but the second didn't care and continued talking anyway. "I have some gloves and a few base balls! Wanna play some catch dude!?"

Maddy and I stood there awkwardly as Matthew tried to weigh his options. His polar bear that hung limply in his arms suddenly sprung to life and out of Matthew's arms. "I-I guess I can play."

"Yeah man! It'll be fun, don't worry about it!"

I whispered under my breath. "Famous last words."

"Brittany!" Maddy slightly pushed me. 'I guess she heard me'

I laughed and slightly pushed her back. My attention was directed to Alfred who came back with 2 gloves and a baseball. "Hey Alfred, is it ok if I watched? I don't be inside all day."

"Sure dudette!" Alfred opened the door and let Matthew pass him.

I nodded. "I'll catch up with you guys, just give me a sec!" I then turned to Maddy. "You commin'?"

She shrugged. "I don't really want to."

I pouted. "Please Maddy! I don't want to be alone! And besides it's not like we're going tobe doing something anyway, it's just being outside."

Maddy groaned. "Fine! Let me find my book then."

I fist pumped. "Yes! I win…Imma go tell Arthur so he doesn't think we ditched him."

I ran into the kitchen where Arthur was. When I entered it appeared that he had finished putting his things away. "Hey…ummmm Arthur?"

"Yes? Oh, hello Brittany!" He sent me a charming smile. "Did you need something?"

I smiled back, glad that he didn't seem mad anymore and shook my head. "No but the others and I were going to hang outside for a while and I was wondering if you would like to join us."

"What exactly would we be doing?" Arthur raised an eyebrow.

"Well…Maddy plans on reading her book, I would find something to do and Alfred and…Matthew? Is his name Matthew?"

"Are you talking about Canada?" Arthur offered, seeing my struggle.

"Yes! Don't tell him I said this but what's his name?"

"Matthew Williams."

I nodded. "Ok, I'm getting better, anyway! Alfred and Matthew are playing catch. What do you think? Are you going to stay here?"

Arthur looked back at his stuff. "I think…I'll join you."

"Yay!" I cheered. "Come on, the others are already outside!"

"Give me a moment." He said.

"Ok, I'll wait."

That looked like it took Arthur by surprise but he simply took out a book and we walked out of the mansion together. It was beautiful.

There was a lake with a small dock, green grass and the sun set reflecting off of the lake pulled it all together. Maddy was sitting down on one of the rolling hills reading her book intensely in front of Alfred and Matthew who were already playing catch.

I was filled with joy, I had to contain myself from running around and looking like an idiot. "Wow…"

"You're not going to stay by the door, are you?" Arthur smirked.

I shook myself out of the trance. "I didn't think Alfred would live next to such a beautiful place….don't tell him I said that please." I blushed and looked at the ground as I stepped away from the mansion. "God! I sound like such an idiot sometimes!"

Arthur put a hand on my shoulder. I looked up at him and blushed even harder. "You're not an idiot and besides, it is a beautiful view."

I walked with him until we were next to Maddy and I sat down hugging my knees to my chest. "Reminds me of home."

"Really?" Arthur sat down next to me.

I nodded still staring at the scenery. With a small smile, I let my knees go and motioned to the back of the whole thing. "All it needs is the Rocky Mountains in the background and it would look just like a place used to visit when I was younger with my family."

Arthur didn't say anything but I heard him open his book. I sighed happily and rested against the soft grass. Suddenly Matthew yelled out. "Not everything's about world domination Alfred!"

I looked over to Maddy who put her book down and chuckled at the scene. Arthur couldn't care less as he continued to read. I sat up, my rest having been short lived and watched as Matthew raged on. 'Canadian rage…I thought it was just a myth.'

"Come on Matthew! Try to live in the fast lane once in your life!" Alfred put his hands on his hips.

"Well if you're going to be like that then I'm not going to play anymore!" Matthew threw the glove on the ground and stomped over to where we were. He sat next to Maddy who seemed flustered enough to not say anything.

"Matty!" Alfred whined. "Don't be like that!"

Matthew crossed his arms. "I should have known better than to play any sort of game with you."

"You really should have." Maddy smiled and put her book aside.

Matthew glanced at her before sighed and shaking his head. I found myself nodding in agreement with my friend. Arthur glanced up from his book before calmly returning to it.

"Matthew! Come on! At least catch this!" Alfred cried out.

I turned my head to look at him. Alfred threw the ball at us, aiming for Matthew but he missed by so little that it was actually heading toward me. Before I could get hit in the head with the ball, I put my arms over my head and jumped to my left. I screamed in fright but it only missed by an inch or two. Maddy yelped as well only because of how close it came to her.

I opened my eyes and found myself significantly closer to Arthur (as in I was hiding aginst him). "You bloody wanker!" Arthur yelled. "Are you trying to get us killed?!"

Alfred came running toward us. "Dudette! I'm so sorry!"

I let go of Arthur and put a hand over my heart. "Geeze Alfred! You could at least give a decent warning!"

I looked over to Maddy who was closer to Matthew. 'M and M, Matthew and Maddison, Matty and Maddy….how am I going to get them together if I know that neither of them is going to make the first move?'

"Alfred you idiot! You could of gotten them killed!" Matthew stood protectively over Maddy.

I looked at them with amusement. 'It's so obvious…but I don't want Maddy to get hurt…..physically or emotionally…I need a plan.'

"I said I was sorry!"

"And if you managed to knock them out, then what?" Arthur stood up now, Maddy sent me a worried glance.

I sighed. "We're fine! Thank you for asking!"

MY annoyance went unnoticed. "I just wanted to play some catch!" Alfred had his glove off and started fighting with the other 'men'.

"Look where that got us! No one is going to play now!" Matthew fumed.

I stood up and put a hand on his shoulder. "I know I'm a nobody but you of all people should know what it's like to be ignored. And frankly…" I placed my hand over my heart. "Ouch!"

I then grinned and turned to Alfred. "I'll play some catch!"

The America seemed to have brightened up at this. "Really?"

"Yeah!" I turned around and picked up the forgotten baseball.

"Brittany!" Maddy stood up and grabbed my arm. "That's suicide!"

I shrugged. Arthur and Matthew looked at me worriedly. Grinning, I handed the ball over to Alfred. "Besides I have nothing to do anyway. Just don't kill me!"

"Are you sure you want to do that poppet?" Arthur put a hand on my shoulder.

I blushed and nodded. Matthew didn't sound to convinced though. "He can get really competitive…are you trying to get hurt?"

"Hey!" Alfred pouted. "I'm not that bad."

I giggled. "I think I'll be fine."

"Awesome! Let's go!" Alfred grabbed my hand and yanked me away from the group. I almost tripped due to the sudden movement but I ran with him anyway.

He led me to the other glove and handed it to me. "Here."

I took it and put it on my left hand. Figuring we were out of ear shot, I spoke up. "Alfred, I need your help."

"How may the hero help you?" Alfred proclaimed.

"Shhh….not so loud!" I pretended to continue getting my glove on. "I need your help with Matthew and Maddy."

Alfred then looked over my shoulder and what I assumed to be them. "What about them? It's so obvious he likes her." Alfred chuckled. "He doesn't have the balls to do anything about it though."

I blinked in surprise. "Oh! Well….then…wanna help me get them together? Maddy's not going to do anything about it either, but I think that they both need a little push."

Alfred grinned. "Sure! It's worth a try dudette!"

I held out my fist to him. "Brofist?"

Alfred punched my hand causing me to shake away the pain. "Awesome! Now go stand over there dudette!"

I ran quite the distance from him and glanced at the group. They were all watching us (mostly me). I had enough time to look back right as Alfred yelled. "Heads up!"

My reflexives brought the glove to me face and I felt the collision between the two materials. My hand stung but I caught the ball nonetheless. "You throw hard!" I called out and threw the ball back to him. "And have you ever realized that instead of heads up, it should be heads down? If it was heads down then there would be less head injuries!"

"I don't know!" Alfred threw the ball again. This time I was more prepared to catch it. "that's just how it's said!"

I threw the ball back. "Arthur! Your place practically invented the language! Why's it like that?"

"How should I know?!" He called back.

The game fell into a rhythm. I rolled my eyes and grinned. "Because you're English! It was only an assumption so it's cool if you don't know!"

"Reverse phycology!" Maddy called out, answering my question.

"Thank you!"

When Alfred threw the ball, he over shot it a little bit, so I had to chase after it. I jumped in the air to catch it but I landed on a rock. Due to my lack of balance, I fell over. "Damnit!"

"Brittany! Are you ok?" Maddy called out.

I sighed and picked myself up. "Yeah! The ball fell out of the glove! I almost had it!"

I picked up the baseball off of the ground and threw it with all my might back to Alfred. Glancing at Maddy, she "calmly" sat back down next to Matthew while they all watched. Arthur glared at Alfred. "Don't kill her!"

The latter only laughed in response and threw the ball where he thought I was (because he was too busy laughing at Arthur). I managed to return to where I originally was so when Alfred threw the ball I thought I could catch it.

I ran onto the dock and once again had to jump to catch the cursed baseball. This time, I didn't fall and I successfully threw it back. My arm/shoulder started to hurt but I figured that I just need to stop throwing it at the at distance.

On my back I suddenly got light headed and felt myself leaning to one side. 'Crap, crap, crap!' My eyes were closed in my attempt to regain stability and focus and I tried to grab anything with my arm to stop myself but as usual nothing was there. I couldn't regain balance and took a step to the side. Bad move.

I stepped on a faulty plank and started falling completely. I screamed right before I collided with the water. It was cold…no that's an understatement, it was freezing! I swam to the top as fast as I could. "Brittany!"

Alfred got to me before the others as he held out his hand for me to take. Without his help I would have to swim to shore, but I was too far in. The dock was quite the distance above the water.

"Looks like someone needs the help from the hero!" Alfred smirked.

I shivered from the cold. "Damsel in distress here!"

"Right, right…here." Alfred moved his hand farther into the lake for me to take.

The thing is that Alfred grabbed my hand, right? He apparently thought that taking a step forward would help pull me out of the water. So, when he stepped on the edge…he slipped and fell into the lake with me. I made my way back to the surface and rolled my eyes. "My knight in shining armor."

Alfred nervously laughed. "Oops?"

By now the others were on the dock looking over us. "Brittany…" Maddy sighed. "What am I going to do with you?"

I grinned. "Heeyyy…"

"Alfred you twat! You couldn't help the lady out?!" Arthur held out his hand for me to take but before I took it he turned to Mathew. "Matthew, can you go get some towels for these two?"

He nodded and ran back in the direction of the mansion. I splashed some water in Alfred's direction and reached for Arthur's hand before he could react. In 30 seconds flat he had me out of the lake by himself. I wrapped my arms around myself and shivered while I took the glove off. It Maddy and Arthur to pull Alfred out of the lake but they managed.

"Sorry about your glove Alfred." I sneezed.

He sent me a small look of pity. "Hey…don't worry about it. I can always buy another one."

Matthew came back in record time with the towels. One for me and one for Alfred. 'Wow this guy actually has more…'

I wrapped the towel around myself. "Thanks Matthew."

"Ok!" Maddy glared at me. "What the hell possessed you to jump into the lake?!"

I moved my hair behind my ear. "I didn't jump, I fell."

"Just answer the question."

I sneezed again. "I got light headed and tripped." I managed a small smiled but I felt more embaressed than anything.

Arthur put both of his hand on my shoulders. "You're not hurt anywhere, are you poppet?"

I shook my head. "Only in my pride."

Alfred and Maddy chuckled. I sent them both a glare. Arthur rolled his eyes. "Come on, let's get you inside and dry you off before you get sick."

I nodded and made it off of the dock before I remembered a slightly important detail. I paused and groaned causing all eyes to turn to m. "I just remembered something."

"What?" Maddy raised an eyebrow.

"I only packed enough clothes for 3 days. My last outfit is for tomorrow!" I put my head in my hands.

"Damnit!" Maddy stomped to show her frustration. 'Looks like we're on the same boat…'

"I can take you guys shopping." Matthew piped up. "If it's ok with you guys that is.."

"Really?"

"Well...yeah…" Matthew blushed.

My eyes widened. "But we don't have any money…"

"I'll pay." Arthur butted in before Alfred could say anything.

I turned to him in shock. "Is this for real?"

"Well everyone needs clothes…" Alfred looked to the ground. "I'll stay behind then…orrr…I'll find something rad-tacular for you guys!"

Maddy stared at the ground as we walked. "You guys don't have to."

Arthur wrapped his arm around my shoulders. "But it would be our pleasure."

I grinned, ignoring the blush on my face. "I would totally hug you guys right now…but I'm soaking wet." I pouted…they deserved a hug.

We made it to Alfred's living space in comfortable silence. "I got an idea!" I grinned.

"Oh god, everybody run!" Maddy exaggerated.

I sent her a glare. "I really hate you sometimes."

"You're not allowed to."

"Excuse you…..since when?!"

"What's your idea Brittany?" Alfred tilted his head, interrupting my soon to be argument with Maddy .

"I was going to say…how about I make us some dinner as a thank you? I'll make a meal that I would normally eat with my family." My smile returned.

Maddy's interest peaked. "What kind of food?"

"I was just thinking of some chicken and rice but the way my mom would make it when I was younger. It's so good! And Maddy…you can make desert!"

"Sounds like a plan dudette!" Alfred grinned. "If you need anything feel free to ask!" He suddenly looked bashful. "I don't use my kitchen often..."

"We'll change that then." I nodded. "And I'll keep that in mind." Turning my attention to the others I asked. "What do you think?"

Maddy asked the first question as fast as lightning. "Will I be able to make cake?"

I shrugged. "It's your choice."

"I'm in!"

"I don't see why not." Matthre shrugged,

That only left Arthur. "Anything other than Alfred's stupid hamburgers."

"Hey!"

"Awesome!" I cheered. "Maddy you should go get started! I'm going to put on my pajamas and dry myself off, then I'll get started on making dinner!"

Arthur took his arm off of my shoulder as I ran to my room that I was currently staying in. I felt like I was cloud nine as I changed out of soaking wet clothes. 'They're such nice people…'