Yay longer chapter! Ok guys now it's going to start getting serious soon…very soon.

Chapter 7

The sun rose higher breaking through the clouds with pink and red rays of light reflecting off the pristine snow. By the time everyone was ready, the sun had risen to the tip of the mountains and it was around mid-day.

"Reminds me of home…It's so nice out here, and it smells…fresh," Mattie said to himself. "But something feels off…Maybe it's something in the air, hmm I don't know." The Canadian said to nobody in particular, but Russia was the one who answered him back by saying

"It does feel kind of… strange, doesn't it? I live in all snow, so I should know all the conditions, and to me the air feels kind of tense. You agree da?" Ivan smiled at the Canadian man, and Mattie just stared at him. The blonde haired Canadian was about to say something back, but Gilbert yelled at him from atop a mountain and told him to turn the camera on and to record him. Since Mattie wasn't really doing anything else useful, and he wasn't skiing he did what Gil asked.

Mattie turned the camera back on, or at least he thought he did, so he turned the Camera around and looked into it and asked "Is this thing even on?" but then he noticed a red light. He then turned the camera back around and zoomed in on Gilbert who skied down that hill 'like a boss' and Japan skied right behind him and was swerving in and out in a zigzag pattern down the hill.

Afterwards he started focusing on Arthur who snowboarded by Alfred and was swerving around him trying to mess him up, but America turned his snowboard and went the other direction. He looked determined not to be made fun of so he snowboarded down the hill hitting a jump and did a 180 degree turn and landed it…but ended up going down the rest of the hill backwards and then ran right into Finland who just managed to get his left foot into a ski.

Tino and Alfred hit the ground and Sweden tensed for a minute to see if Tino was ok, but when Tino burst out laughing he knew that he was ok, and a small chuckle escaped his lips at the sight of it.

Arthur stopped his snowboard and burst out laughing at how stupid Alfred looked. Alfred just looked back at him thought and blushed a deep red and started yelling up the hill towards him.

Mathias looked over to where the commotion had come from, only to see Finland and America getting up, and snowboarded over to see if they needed any help. After finding out that they were ok, Mathias, Tino, and Berwald all snugged together on a ski lift and went up to the top of the hill.

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Yao came out a few moments later with some hot chocolate and called out for Kiku.

"Kiku! I brought you some hot chocolate if you are thirsty." And shortly after hearing his name Kiku hurriedly skied over and talked to Yao for a few minutes in the openness.

At this point in time Spain was off with Romano trying to teach the young, feisty Italian how to ski better.

"Ok, you want to move both feet in the same direction as the other because if you don't your skis will just cross over each other and you will fall." Exclaimed the friendly Spaniard.

"No shit, dumbass!" Was Romano's first response and Spain just looked at him amused.

"Ok, see now when you're going down the hill just lean your body in the direction that you want to go…" at saying this, Antonio grabbed Romano's waist and swooshed from side to side showing the shorter brownish red haired Italian man how to feel the movement and flow in his body.

"S-stop it you pervert!" Lovino glared back at him and while swapping his hands away, but Antonio could tell that he had a flush of blush spreading across his face. The lesson went on for quite a long time until Antonio thought Romano was ready to go on bigger hills.

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Ludwig came out of the bathroom with a towel draped across his shoulders and stopped in the doorway of the kitchen when he saw Italy outside making a snowman. He shoved his hands in his pockets, and watched Feli struggle with putting the head on. Germany wanted to be near him, to embrace the little Italian in his arms. He wanted to at least talk to Feli…but by the way he's been acting, he seems like he doesn't want to talk to anyone. Feli dropped the heavy ball, the Italian becoming obviously exasperated; he re-rolled it into perfection and hoisted it up again, struggling with wobbly legs to get the slippery head onto the snowman. Ludwig ran outside, his feet roughly stuffed into his shoes, hurrying to help the shorter nation.
"There." Germany said resolutely, looking at Feli. The Italian stepped away suddenly, looking up sadly.
"Ve… Do I really seem that weak to you?" Tears started welling up in his big brown eyes. A glimmer of anger flashed across his face. "Am I really that pathetic to you, that I need help making a snowman?"

"Feli…" Ludwig said, anguished.

Italy wanted to talk to Ludwig and get this stupid fight over with but his brain wouldn't let him. Every time he tried to talk to Ludwig or Ludwig tried to talk to him, all these confused feelings would rush and bubble up inside his body. He really was starting to get frustrated with himself, so the Italian threw up his arms and stormed past Germany and into the cabin, slamming the door shut.

Ludwig stared at him as he passed and sighed again, then he turned his focus outside on the hills where everyone was having fun. His bruder was doing tricks on his snowboard while competing against Mathias as Matthew stood down below recording everyone, laughing at something funny Russia just told him.

Kiku was outside taking a break and talking to Yao while sipping on some hot chocolate, on a bench near the house. The long haired man was twirling his ponytail, blushing as he made the usually stoic nation laugh at something that he had said.

Alfred and Arthur seemed to be having some sort of competition, and Spain was trying to teach Romano how to ski, Tino and Berwald were skiing down the hill alongside each other, and everyone seemed to having fun all except him and Feliciano…

"Why won't he just talk to me?" Ludwig grumbled to himself while walking around, only to be spotted by his bruder the moment he came outside.

"Hey, Ludwig, you finally decided to come outside! Well come on get your gear on." Gilbert stated skiing down toward him, but the closer he got to his bruder he saw that he was still sad.

"Hey…how are you and Feli doing?" Prussia asked concerned.

"I-I didn't really get to talk to him." Germany said back.

"Oh, I see…well come on, let's take your mind off things and go skiing for a while. You have to have at least some fun on this vacation so you might as well spend it with the Awesome me! I mean everyone else is having fun so there's no reason for you to get all worked up over something. I know you wanted to spend your vacation with Feliciano but you don't have to just spend it with one person. Now, come on and have some fun with your bruder ok? Italy will come around eventually so just be patient ok? Now let's have some fun! Let's go skiing, well you'll be skiing, I'll be snowboarding, kesesesesese." Prussia laughed. Even though Prussia could be very obnoxious, Ludwig was happy to have him around in times of need. He always knew how to take his mind off things.

"Ok, I'll be right back." Ludwig said as he turned around and went inside the cabin and was back within minutes and was ready to go. He and Prussia slid on over to the ski lift and together and they went up. Higher and higher the ski lift lifted them both up and they both ascended to the top of the hill.

For once, during the whole trip, Ludwig was genuinely having fun. It was just him and his brother, nothing and no one else. It was a very peaceful experience, and Gilbert was right, it did take his mind off Feli at least for a little while.

As they both got closer to the conclusion of the mountain, Matthew spun around and recorded the last few moments of them gliding down the silky white snowy peak. Gilbert saw the camera and acted all cool and macho while Germany just laughed at how stupid his brother looked. Afterwards Mattie scanned over to Kiku and Yao, who were still talking, and zoomed in on them. Kiku looked up from his conversation and just gave a small wave, so did Yao. After they both waved Mattie scanned over to all the others and continued recording practically all day long. He didn't mind though, talking with Russia was actually quite fun! At first he was scared to talk to him, but after a while of sharing stories he really got to know Ivan. They talked about both of their pasts and things they've done, but also funny moments in life.

Gil and Ludwig took several more rounds of skiing down the hill, while Alfred and Arthur finally seemed to be ending their competition.

"Aw, you done Arthur?" Alfred stated as England just stated

"Yeah, for now. I'm kind of cold and I think I need a rest. I'm going to go inside and rest up a bit, you want to come?" England expressed out to America.

"Naw, I think I'll go a few more rounds, then come inside." Alfred stated back as Arthur nodded.

"Ok, see you later then." England said as he started smoothly swayed away.

"Ok, Bye then!" Alfred stated as he continued snowboarding. England saw Canada and glided over towards him,

"How's the video coming along?" he asked him, upon seeing the camera in his hand, and Mattie smiled.

"It's great! I've got some real good footage here." And he winked at that. Arthur smiled and started taking off his gear as he went inside into the bathroom.