"Okay, dude! If you're gonna work for me and crash at my place, you gotta know some basic American facts. It's a green-card thing, ya know!" Alfred explained boisterously, a huge grin on his face and a sparkle in the eyes which hid behind Texas.
A timid Toris nodded quickly as he scribbled down what the blond said in his small notepad. "O-Okay, American facts," he repeated with a nervous green gaze.
Alfred nodded. "Yeah, exactly! So, I'm gonna teach you some stuff, and then you'll take an oral test, and I'll tell ya if you passed! If ya pass, you can crash at my place!"
Toris repeated his process of nodding and scribbling. "B-But what if I don't pass the test?" he asked nervously.
Alfred just laughed out loud. "Ah? Don't worry about that, man! I'm a great teacher!" he assured, and before Toris had the time to write that down, he hooked his arm under the thin brunet's and pulled him upright with a sudden jerk. "Come on, man! Let's go do some studying!"
Toris let out a little cry as he staggered and tried to keep his balance from the tug. "O-Okay! L-Lead the way!" he said quickly, tucking his notepad away with shaky hands.

~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~

"Okay, dude, you think you're ready for your test?" Alfred asked, leaning in his red white and blue beanbag chair to get closer to the Lithuanian sitting across from him.
"N-No, not really," Toris stammered, busying himself with drowning in his own beanbag chair.
Alfred "lightly patted" his shoulder in a comforting gesture. "Dude, you'll totally do great! You had me as a teacher after all! And I'm the hero!"
Toris flushed a little and looked away with a shy, awkward chuckle. "Y-Yes, you are the hero," he agreed quietly. Alfred certainly liked that answer.
"Yeah, man, totally! Okay Toris, your first question! Who was the first president of the United States of awesomeness—and by awesomeness I mean me, America of course! Hahaha!"
Toris broke into a nervous sweat. What was his name?! "G-George...Washington?" he guessed, praying to every god possible that he was right.
Alfred beamed and flashed him two thumbs-up. "Perfect, man! Okay, question two; where was good ol' Georgie from?"
Toris' spirits sunk. That hadn't been in the lesson! How was he supposed to answer? "U-Um, c-can I look at my notes?" he asked quietly.
At Toris' reaction to the question, Alfred paled a bit. 'Shit, man, don't freak him out like that! You gotta remember he isn't from here,' he told himself in his head.
His smile returned, albeit not wide and brash, but apologetic and warm. "Hah, sorry, Toris; I forgot that this is the first time you've heard the guy's name before," he apologized, rubbing the back of his neck. "How about another question?"
Toris' eyes widened a little in both weary shock and confusion. He had never seen Alfred be so considerate before...Then he remembered that he had been asked a question, and with a deeper blush he nodded.
Alfred smiled a little bit. The smaller male was being pretty damned adorable. "Alright, so what was Manifest Destiny all about?" he asked more quietly now, feeling himself settle into a calmer disposition.
"U-Um, it was A-America's—I-I mean, yours—belief that it was God's will that Americans should settle all the way to the c-coast of the A-Atlantic Ocean?" he tried, attempting to repeat Alfred's definition word by word.
The blond smiled at his efforts. "It was actually the Pacific Ocean," he said to him. Toris looked ready to faint or cry, something that Alfred hadn't expected. Did he really need him that badly? "Dude, Toris, don't sweat it; I won't count that one since it was really hard," he offered to him.
Toris' forest green eyes went wide, but relief flooded through them. "A-Are you sure?" he asked.
Alfred nodded. "Totally man; I'm proud of ya for only missing the name of the ocean. And I bet you could have known it of it was in Lithuanian, right?"
Toris smiled wearily. "Ramusis vandenynas," he said quietly.
Alfred blanched. "Dude, that's what Lithuanian sounds like?"
"Y-Yes, isn't it pretty?" Toris asked with a sheepish nod.
"Totally, dude," the blond said quietly, sort of in awe of it for a moment. Then he blinked. 'Get a grip on yourself, hero man,' he told himself. Then he shrugged it off. "Okay, so, I guess next we'll try the states!"
Toris nodded. 'I already know a few of these, so this might be easier,' he thought to himself.
He didn't know how wrong he could be.
"Come on, man, what's after California?" Alfred pushed.
"I-I don't know!" he squeaked. "I'm sorry! I'm not yet ready to be crashing at your place yet!"
Alfred couldn't help but laugh; Toris sounded so weird when he said that. "Colorado, dude. What's next?" he continued, not holding his failure to comply against him; it was the effort that really counted in Alfred's eyes. Toris was trying so hard to learn this stuff in like an hour just so he could live with him and work for him.
Toris sat in quiet panic for a moment. "C-Connecticut."
"Next?"
"...Delaware?"
"Florida."
"Geor...gia? Georgia? Is that how you say it?"
"Ha—Hawaii?"
"Idaho?"
"I-Illinoise...I think..."
"Indiana; I heard of that one!"
This process of slowly naming the states continued, and America was extremely impressed. Until...
"Wermont."
"...What?"
"Wermont...Th-That's next, right?" Toris asked slowly, beginning to panic.
Alfred didn't know what to think. "Eh, well, kind of...it's Vermont," he enunciated.
Toris was confused now, his brow furrowing. Hadn't he said that? "O-Okay," he said slowly, just going with it.
Alfred nodded. "Next?"
"Wirginia."
Alfred nearly did a double take. "You're kidding."
"Wh-What? What did I do?" Toris asked nervously, seriously freaking out now. He couldn't go back to Felicks, that guy was crazy!
"You're just saying the beginnings wrong, that's it," Alfred assured him quickly, "but why? You haven't really pronounced anything else wrong...except Illinois..."
"I-I'm sorry," Toris said quietly.
"No, no! That isn't bad, dude, that's okay!" he said quickly. "A hell of a lot of people do that, and they're even American, too!"
Toris nodded slowly. "O-Okay..."
Alfred picked at his brain. What in the world was going on? "Um, okay, what's next?" he asked, wondering how his response would sound.
"Washington."
He stared at the brunet for a moment. "Next?" he asked slowly.
"V-Vest Wirginia."
Then it clicked. Alfred was seeing a pattern. "It's just V."
"Wh-What?" Toris asked; now he was the confused one.
"It's just your accent, isn't it? On the letter V you say W," Alfred explained further, trying to make sense of it.
Toris thought for a moment. "Um...I think so...We don't really hawe that letter in Lithuania," he said quietly.
Alfred grinned. "You said 'have' differently, too."
Toris blushed and nervously looked away. "I-I'm sorry...I-I can use your letter if I hawe to in order to pass the test..."
"Wait, wait, wait. Are you really still worried about being able to stay with me?" Alfred asked, both floored and touched.
"A-A little bit, yes," Toris admitted sheepishly. "I-I don't hawe anywhere to go..."
Alfred frowned, and then he made a decision. He rose to his feet, and when Toris looked up at him curiously he offered the thinner male his hand. "Time to be the hero again; you can stay here," he said quietly with a smile.
Toris was overjoyed. "R-Really? Ewen though I didn't pass the test?" he asked, taking Alfred's hand in both of his and then shakily pulled himself up with Alfred's assistance.
The blond laughed now. "Dude, even if you failed the test, I was always gonna let you stay with me," he said with a teasing wink. "I just wanted to see how determined you were."
Toris flushed more, and he nodded silently. Then Alfred put an arm around the Lithuanian's shoulders and led him toward the kitchen. "So, can you teach me how to say 'I'm the hero' in Lithuanian?" he asked eagerly.
Toris giggled quietly. "Jūs esate gražus ir natūra," he said softly.
Alfred beamed. "Dude, it's so long and awesome! I like it!"
The brunet smiled. At that moment, he was very glad that Alfred didn't speak any Lithuanian. Because he had actually said:
'You are beautiful and kind."
"Hey, can you say the V states again?"
"Wermont, Wirginia, West Wirginia..."
"That's still so cool!"
"I-I'm glad to be knowing that you think so...!"

Hehe, I love this pairing a lot, actually. America is so fun to write in~ ^^ Hope you liked it!