Author's Note: I hope you guys are liking the story so far! I hope none of ya'll are like, "When is the AmericaxJapan stuff going to start? WOMAN I AM GETTING TIRED OF YOU STALLING!" It will happen soon! Like a few chapter's soon! I have the tendency to write long stories so if it seems like it's taking forever, my bad. If you don't know this or not, but this is going to be a long story. I'm not even sure how many chapter's they'll be to tell you the truth! Isn't that exciting? *dumb happy face and clapping like an idiot*

Also, if you don't know this or not, there will be no yaoi. (And now I just lost half of the people reading this. JK, that was offensive... D: ) There will be a romance thing, but I just had those stories where it's all sad and stuff then SEX! It's like, you're emotionally unstable and stuff, but you have the time to have sex suddenly. I don't know, it gets on my nerves. :/ Not to mention I'm not at that point in my writing to where I can write stuff like that.

Enjoy!

"…"

"See? I'm fine. I ate what you told me to, and I'm not having a nervous breakdown."

"I…I guess I was wrong then,"

"Now can we please stop this and have a good time?"

"I guess…just don't lose any more weight okay?"

"Fine," Alfred sighed, "What time is it anyways?"

"About 5 p.m., why?"

"Wanna go see a movie? There's this awesome one out with robots and destruction—it's awesome. AND it's in 3D!"

"Sure, why not?"

Later that night Arthur and Alfred went to see the movie. They got a small popcorn and Alfred surprisingly ate most of it leaving barley any left for Arthur. Alfred loved every second of the movie while Arthur sat there like it was the dumbest thing he'd ever seen. As they got out of the theater Alfred started babbling about his favorite parts about the movie.

"Do you remember that one part when that guy totally destroyed all that stuff? Wasn't it awesome? And then the other part where that guy was like, 'I'll kill you,' and the other guy was like, 'Yeah right,' and they had that awesome fight with the guns that robot showed up and killed them both! Holy shit I didn't see that coming. Robots are great aren't they?"

"Yeah I guess…"

"…Iggy are you about to go off on how that movie was stupid and random violence is stupid and how I'm stupid?"

"What? No, I was just off in my own thoughts."

"Oh, well do you want to do anything else?"

"Not really, I'm actually kind of tired,"

"Come on old man, let's do something!"

"Stop calling me old! I'm not old!"

"Then let's do something!"

"Fine fine. How about…Laser Tag?"

"Now you're talking!"

Arthur and Alfred got to the Laser Tag place and played three games worth. Since it was a Saturday night, there were a bunch of people there too. They were put on opposite teams so every time a new game started they went after each other. The kids were easy targets, but sometimes old veterans got in the way and would get them if they weren't paying attention. When the scores came out Alfred came in 1st place and did the most embarrassing victory dance in front of England that made everyone else laugh. Afterwards they were both tired so they drove back to Alfred's place.

"You didn't have to gloat in front of the whole place Alfred. You really embarrassed me!"

"But it was so awesome that I won! I just had to rub it in your face," Alfred laughed.

"Alfred pay attention to your driving! Your laughter almost ran us off the road!"

"Okay, mom," Alfred laughed even harder, "Or should I say mum,"

"Fuck you; I'm just trying to get us not killed,"

"Hahaha. I had a great time tonight Iggy, we should do this more often."

"To tell you the truth, I actually had a nice time too,"

For the rest of the drive, there was no conversation and Alfred was blasting pop music while Arthur was thinking (or trying to think. It's kind of hard to think with Ke$ha blasting in your ears). Seeing Alfred this happy worried him. He had a breakdown hours ago saying that he hated himself, yet with that idiot grin on his face didn't ever give you the impression that he hated himself. Before Arthur knew it they came up to Alfred's driveway. Alfred shut off the car and was about to get out but noticed Arthur had a worried look on his face.

"Hey Iggy," Arthur didn't answer, "Iggy!"

"Huh? Yes?"

"Are you okay?"

"Oh, yes, I just was in my thoughts again."

"You've been doing that a lot tonight, are you sure you're alright?"

"…"

"Iggy?"

"It's just…I was thinking about earlier when you blew up at me saying that you hated yourself….is that really how you feel about yourself?"

Alfred didn't say anything and just got out of the car.

"Shit, what have I've done, Alfred wait," Arthur said getting out of the car running up to Alfred, "I didn't mean to bring it up again I just—"

"Don't I meant what I said and I said what I meant," and he unlocked the door and went in.

"…Isn't that from a Dr. Sues book?"

"Yeah, what of it?"

That was a weird way of putting it, but Alfred is still pretty much saying that he hates himself.

"…you don't want to talk about it or anything?"

"No, I'd rather not," Alfred said in a serious tone.

"….."

"Well, I'm tired, so I think I'm going to go to bed."

"But its 10:30…don't you usually watch Saturday Night Live right now?"

"I would, but lately I've been going to sleep real early, it's weird, so I'd probably just fall asleep while watching it. Night!"

"Good Night," Arthur said as Alfred went upstairs.

As Alfred went upstairs he changed into his boxers alone and got into bed. He pulled out his journal from under his mattress and began to write.

Tonight turned out to be a really fun time! Iggy and I went to see a movie and then play Laser Tag! I (of course) won and did an awesome gloat dance that really embarrassed him. But the car ride home got awkward when he asked me if I really did hate myself. I avoided the question because I'm not even sure myself. I mean, I've gotten to the point where I look back at the thing I've done and it makes me realize why so many people hate me. I mean a monkey could've made better choices than me! Now I'm trying to get my shit together, but it's a lot harder than I thought. I forgot how much effort you have to do to change things. It's going to take forever to change them, and the process of doing it won't really help how I feel about myself currently. The worst part is that none of the countries probably feel sorry for (besides Iggy, but I bet deep down inside he's glad I'm suffering) me. They're probably like, "That's what he gets for being an idiot," or something like that. Especially Matthew, I know he's my brother and all, but he likes to show that I'm wrong, and all of this will just make his day. I just thought I was helping the world when I was really ruining it.

Alfred could feel the tears coming down on his face and closed his journal. He put the journal back under his mattress and turned off the light as he cried in the darkness to sleep.