I slammed the door to my room closed and face planted onto my bed. I decided I would just lay there for a while, listening to the voices drifting up from downstairs.

"I would have been happy if I were her." Prussia said obnoxiously. "Getting your first kiss from a guy you love is pretty special."

"And how would you know, Prussia?" France said in a teasing tone of voice.

"Shut up!"

"Hey, is Italy ok? Dude? DUUUDE!" America said. I had a feeling he was waving his hand in Italy's face.

"You don't mean to say you like her back, Italy?" Prussia said, aghast.

"I…um…I like who I like!"

"I thought you liked Holy Rome!"

"That was when I was little!"

"So now you like Dakotah Island?" Austria said. "I think you should go talk to her."

"But-but-what if she doesn't want to talk to me?"

"Oh, trust me buddy, she does." Prussia said in a know-it-all fashion.

Lie. Sort of. Not really. I just don't want to see him.

Two sets of footsteps sounded on the stairs.

"Just ask to talk to her, Ita-chan." Austria whispered from outside my door.

"Um…ok… Dakotah? Can…can we talk?"

I was silent for a few moments. At length, I said "Ok. But Austria has to go away."

Italy cautiously opened the door and slid into my room, shooing Austria away downstairs. I pulled myself up into a sitting position and looked at Italy. Neither of us said anything to the other.

"I'm sorry, Italy." I said, feeling warmth creep into my cheeks. "I didn't know Prussia would do that."

"You said you liked me."

"What?"

"You said you liked me. Downstairs."

"Well, yeah."

"And I kind of like you. So maybe Prussia did us a favor."

"I guess. Maybe he's not such a bad guy after all." I looked around for a moment. "We should probably go back downstairs before they start getting ideas."

Italy nodded. I slipped my hand into his and we walked downstairs together. It was at that moment that I realized they could say whatever they wanted to about me and Italy; truth was, I didn't care.

I wish that what I just said wasn't such a load of baloney. I also wish that the epilogue I'm about to write wasn't such a load of baloney, but what must be must be.

Italy and Dakotah dated for a while, occasionally going on double dates with Canada and his girlfriend Rizu. (It's an inside thing. Go read Prussian Truth or Dare by RizuofWolves. Then you'll get it.) They eventually got married and had kids, a girl named Capri and a boy named Jaden. Capri was very interested in weapons for some reason, (Dakotah always said it was because she spent too much time with Germany when she was little,) and by age ten had her own customized pink rifle. Jaden preferred to sit inside and make white flags (Wow, didn't see that coming,).

What I just wrote is entirely fluff. *makes a sad face.* Anyway, much thanks to RizuofWolves for good piece of the inspiration for this. The link to her page is posted below, so go read her stuff. You have nothing better to do. Or do you? Yeah, I don't really care.

As much of a Jaden fangirl as I am, I had to name one of my fantasy children after him! And Capri is an Italian name…because I had to do it.

Also, I give credit to whoever owns Hetalia. Please don't send Prussia out to get me, he's actually pretty scary!

Rizu's page: .net/u/2795618/RizuofWolves

Prussian Truth or Dare: .net/s/7353888/1/Prussian_Truth_or_Dare

My computer is spazzing out and not letting me put the other stuff (it won't even let me type it!) in front of the url's for Rizu's page and story, so add it yourself, ok? Grazie!