Hello, my little sweethearts! Wow, to think that I have published almost all of my story. At least I'm getting better at the author notes. Don't worry, it's not going to end soon, I mean that I have published about 70 out of 81 pages, but I am still continuing, so don't worry about that! Oh and I'M SO EXCITED THAT WE HAVE A LITTLE OVER 950 VIEWERS! XD THAT IS AWESOME! YOU'RE AWESOME! We truly have come a long way. To think it was only at fifty views! Anyway, I have a feeling you want to get back to the story right?

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She finally found a nail and hammer when she heard a knock on the door. She said to herself 'who could that be?'

She left her items on the kitchen counter and opened the door to reveal Alfred, Allistor and Arthur fighting. Allistor pulling Alfred's hair, Al making fun of Arthur's eyebrows and Arthur's foot on Allistor's jaw.

They froze when she opened it and she sighed. She said "What are you three doing?"

They put their hands and foot down where they should be and Arthur began "Um, we were wondering love-"

"Oh, don't use that 'love' shit with her!" Allistor butted in.

"Well, you should stop swearing in front of ladies." Arthur retorted.

"She's listened to worse." He said to his brother. "She listens to the music that I do, you boaby!"

Arthur raised his voice and said "You didn't need to add that! That's even worse!"

Sofie asked "What does it mean anyway?" Completely clueless to what it meant.

Arthur and Allistor paled, but Alfred didn't because he hasn't lived with both of them long enough and knew about that insult just as much as Sofie did.

"Ragazza, I need to go." An angry Italian shouted from up the stairs. She almost forgot that he was still upstairs.

She said to him "Um, okay. . .? See you later then." Lovino walked down the stairs, but stopped when he saw the brothers.

He instantly got angry, but scared at the same time. Angry because those guys bullied his brother, but scared because he didn't want to be beaten up either. She asked "Lovino, are you alright?"

He bolted out, not even saying goodbye or dealing with it normally, even screaming "CHIGI!" When he was running away. She blinked "Do you guys have anything to do with that?" She asked them.

They were guilty of bullying sometimes him and his brother, but they shook their head anyway. Arthur coughed in his fist and said "Anyway-"

Alfred butted in and said "Wanna hang out with us?"

Arthur sighed and shouted to him "Will you two stop interrupting?"

Alfred said "Sorry Iggy~!" Just to piss him off. Arthur was red in fury when he said the nick name he hated so much.

"That's it!" He shouted before trying to punch the daylights out of him.

Sofie, still watching all of this squeaked out "Stop!"

Arthur was going to punch him, but stopped dead in his tracks. He let Al's jacket go and said "Sorry love, do you want to be with us for a short while?"

She laughed a little and said "Sure, why not."

They were relieved. At first, the three brothers separately wanted to go on a date with her, but when they saw each other going to the same place, they started fighting. But they guessed that this was good so they would keep an eye on their brother/stepbrother, yet again, they couldn't put the moves on her.

"Right now?" She asked the three.

They nodded and she said "Hold on a sec."

With that, she got her bag, bunny and a new sweatshirt that was a dark blue and a creamy yellow for the hood. She then walked with her friends who were arguing, she was completely entranced in the fairy that happened to float to her. Allistor and Arthur completely forgot about the fighting to see the fairy that was braiding Sofie's hair and talking with her.

Allistor muttered "Would ye look at tha'."

The fairy turned to them and was a little scared that his face was so close to her and it smelled of cigars.

The fairy flew right in front of Sofie's nose and was waving her hands in an urgent manner for her to see what was behind her. She cooed "What's wrong?"

The fairy slapped her own face and pointed behind her for after to cower on her neck and her feet to be on her shoulder.

She turned around to find Allistor's face very close to hers, she blushed a little and stuttered nervously "H-hey, what's up?" to him. She was trying her best to hide her nervousness, but never could when it came to these things, even with her friends.

He realized how close he was and stuttered "N-nothing." He stopped leaning his head to her shoulder height.

Awkward silence followed. Arthur, being the gent he is, imagined how awkward it would be for her, so he tried to start up a conversation "So, Sofie, have you been practicing guitar lately?"

She shook her head "Not today, the homework is really starting to bug me with how pointless and tedious it is."

They did have to admit that they weren't going to use this. Alfred groaned and said "Don't remind me of that stupid homework!"

Allistor asked "Ye play the guitar lass?"

Sofie smiled and said "Yeah, I love it."

The fairy came from her hiding spot on Sofe's neck. Arthur noticed the fairy too, she only waved shyly to him, but whispered something to Sofie. She whispered (even softer than her normal voice "No . . . Hee hee, yes, he's fine and so is the other one. . . Yes I'm sure that the first one won't harm you. . . If you feel safe, go with Artie then."

The fairy flew over to him with curious eyes, she put a hand on her eyebrows and giggled to herself. He started getting red in embarrassment and anger at the fairy. Even though he wouldn't dream of hurting the delicate creature, still, he was sensitive about the topic.

The fairy more squeaked because of her high pitched voice "Caterpillar eyebrows!"

His face reddened even worse. Allistor laughed, but Sofie said to the fairy "Miss Bluebell, that wasn't very nice."

The fairy stuck out her tongue at her, but sat on the top of her head anyway. After a minute, she flew away and the fairy giggled even more at Allistor's eyebrows that were the same size as his younger brothers.

Sofie looked at the two of her friends, Alfred asked her "What's up with them?"

She was sure he didn't believe in fairies, so she made up "Um, they were reminded of someone who made fun of them recently."

He laughed and said teasingly "What, was it their big eyebrows?"

They both were listening, but got even angrier and Allistor tackled him. Arthur stood there, almost like he gave up on the world, she didn't know how to break up a fight, but she could comfort people.

She walked over to him and asked "What's wrong?" She found that sometimes, if people repeat it they can find calm. So, even though she knew what was wrong, she wanted to see that smile or smirk on his face, but not falsely.

He looked at her before saying "Why was Bluebell so mean to me? I never done anything to her."

Sofie thought about it for a second before saying "I don't think she really meant it, she did the same thing to Allistor and he's just as sensitive about it if it makes you feel any better."

They both look, Allistor still punching Alfred while he's only laughing. She said "I'll do it." Before getting her air horn out and squeezing the top.

Allistor stopped immediately and mumbled apologies along with Alfred. Sofie smiled and said "It's fine, besides, we all have insecurities too. But, I don't think Alfred would be open with his insecurities, which is fine too."

Alfred laughed and stopped suddenly, he said "Wait, what does insecurity mean?"

Both Allistor and Arthur rolled their eyes, but Sofie happily explained "Oh, it simply means something that you don't like about yourself. Like for me, I don't like the fact that nothing fashionable hangs right on me."

All of them disagreed. Alfred said "You look awesome!" Allistor said "I bet it's fine." Arthur replied "You would look wonderful duckie." But, they said it at the same time, so she really didn't catch any of it.

Since Sofie didn't want them to repeat, she said with a smile "Thanks guys."

They nodded, but didn't take a step further in the same direction since they were at the restaurant. They walked in and Arthur asked "What would you like So-"

"Sofie?" Someone asked from the counter, it was Yao. She was surprised since she really doesn't go out to many places like restaurants by herself and she was only noticed about a week ago.

"Oh, hey Yao!" She chirped to him.

"H-hey Sofie." He replied "What are you doing here?"

"Oh nothing," She replied "Just here with Alfred, Arthur and Allistor. So wow, you work here? I bet you get to eat all of the food huh?"

He smiled but shook his head. "No," He said "Kiku works here too, so he swats my hand away when I do." She laughed a little and nodded.

Arthur said "Sorry to interrupt, but we'll have two orders of rice and-" He looked at her and asked "What do you want love?"

She looked at the menu and said "Um, the egg drop soup sounds good."

Arthur asked him "Hey uh, you'll give us a discount right?"

Yao's mood changed in a matter if a millisecond and he shouted, his voice shrill "No! I'm tired of you asking for discounts just because I work here aru!" He got a pan out from the back and slammed it on the counter "Not this time ass!"

Sofie was wide-eyed, and so was the rest, she never saw him like this. She said "Arthur, why do you ask him for discounts?"

Arthur replied to her softly so he wouldn't hear "Um, its because I thought that he was my-"

"Friend?" Yao shouted "Even though I am, I didn't expect you to take advantage of me aru!" He slammed the counter with the pan in beat to what he said "I hate, I hate it, I hate it!"

Sofie said to him "Can you please stop yelling? Even though you might be angry at him, you shouldn't beat up the counter because of it."

Kiku came from the back and said "What's goin-"

He saw Sofie, Arthur, Alfred, and Allistor on the other side of the counter and Yao yelling at one of them, he couldn't determine. Kiku, in the restaurant was unlike his persona at school or anywhere else, he shouted "Yao-san, what is the meaning of this?"

Yao was steamed like before because his younger brother was yelling at him "Stupid Arthur wants a discount, but he gets one every time he comes here!"

Sofie piped up "How about let's just forget the discount okay? He can pay full price," She looked at Arthur "Right?"

Arthur sighed, but smiled a little "Yes," He looked at Yao, even though he was still angry "Sorry friend." He got the thirty dollars from his pocket, he swiped it from him and went in the back.

Yao shouted at Kiku "I will work in back now!"

Kiku sighed, but apologized to Sofie and Arthur. She said "You shouldn't worry about it, sometimes people blow their top when they had enough."

So, at the table, they waited for their meal. Arthur was a little worried that he would purposely make it bad, Sofie just couldn't wait to eat something that her friend made though. Allistor didn't really care along with Alfred, but they were trying to embarrass each other to her.

Like Allistor saying "Alfred had a crush on Justin Beiber when he first listened to his cd!"

Or Alfred saying "Allistor sleeps with a sheep toy!"

They kept going at this, but Sofie mostly let it not bother her as it got worse, she was just honestly trying to have a conversation with Arthur.

Their meals came and Sofie loved hers, but Arthur spat his out immediately. He shouted "What is this trash?"

Sofie asked him "What's wrong?"

Arthur said "This meal! How could anyone eat this?"

Sofie got her chopsticks and tried some of his rice and shuddered at the taste, it was crunchy and tasted like couch stuffing. Allistor said "Let me try that, it can't be-" Around the last part of the unfinished sentence, he tried it and had the same result. He spat it out and shouted "It's about as worse as yer cooking!"

Sofie said to him "His cooking can't be that bad."

Allistor said "Ye haven't lived with him for fifteen years lass."

She only blinked and went back to eating. Allistor felt a little bad for his little brother, so he gave him half of his rice without a word spoken.

She just smiled at this, she never had siblings, she thought that it would be nice to have one though.

All of them went back to eating, after they were finished, they walked back to Sofie's house to drop her off.

Yao was cooking, but still felt bad about yelling in front of Sofie, he knew she hated it, but he did it anyway. Kiku said to him "Why did you yell at them like that?"

Yao shouted to his younger brother "I don't know aru! I was just sick of paying his bill too. I can understand the first time, but over and over again? I'm not a pushover."

Kiku sighed "That was irresponsible. You know Sofie hates yelling anyway and you could have woken up Mei."

Yao said "Yes, I-"

A little voice interrupted them "Yao?" And a yawn followed.

They both turned to find Mei in her nightgown and rubbing her eyes. She asked "Why are you yelling?"

Yao smiled a little, but said "You should go back to sleep, mom will probably be angry."

Mei nodded and stuck her hands out and grabbed the air, Yao chuckled before picking her up. He brought her up the stairs to the apartment to tuck her in. He went back down the stairs to the restaurant, still with a smile.

Kiku knew that look with him. He always felt happier with his younger brothers and sisters, he did too, but so many things were on his mind as of recent, and it seemed that Mei and Im Yong Soo melt the troubles away.

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China: I'm about four thousand years old, why am I taking orders from a teenager?

Me: Because I'm the author and you aren't! Besides, South Korea said you would!

China: South. Korea! You know how irresponsible he is!

South Korea: *from the other room* I am not irresponsible! *random crash* I meant to do that!

China: *sighs, then gives me an 'I told you' look*

Me: Anyway, you haven't done it yet!

China: Fine! But don't expect me to do this again! *turns to viewer* Follow, favorite or review for her to stop pestering me.

Me: That wasn't so bad was it? Anyway. . . *turns to viewer and trumpet plays in background* Seriously though, you are free and welcome to do so. If you don't like it, I honestly want to know! But please, try and be polite about it, I would like my review section to be free of guilt, pressure or bad feelings. Oh, the same things goes with my other stories, try and be polite about the reviews. In other news, WE ARE 35 VIEWERS AWAY FROM 1000 VIEWS! Thank you and goodnight! *music turns off and the author is replaced by a puff of smoke*

China: *sighs yet again* Didn't Austria tell her not to use Romania's smoke bombs?