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Chapter 21

Alfred's point of view

I enjoyed kissing Alice very much. Her lips were soft and she practically melted into me when our mouths met. Kissing her was like an explosion of butterflies going off in my stomach and I had to work so hard to keep my brain from going haywire. At first I wasn't even sure if I should kiss her. What if I messed up or scared her by kissing her only after the first date? I didn't have any experience in this field but then again neither did she. Besides I was a hero! I had to take chances right? So with my heart racing a million miles an hour I leaned in to my very first kiss and it was perfect. Yes, we didn't have any experience but it wasn't gross or sloppy. Somehow we both knew what to do and it was like magic.

After our first kiss we had our second and then our third but it didn't stop there. I pulled her back down so that we were lying on the grass again and she cuddled up against me as I peppered kisses all over her face. I just couldn't get over the fact that she was mine and I just couldn't believe how I had ever become hers.

As the night went on we continued to kiss and laugh and talk. We talked about everything and we talked about nothing and time just seemed to freeze out there in the fields that we were laying in. The glistening stars that stretched out across the universe for us gave us just enough light to see each other's faces as we shared our secrets and told each other stories and whispered sweet nothings into each other's ears. Although I would have wanted nothing more than to stay stargazing in the fields with Alice forever we eventually had to head back home to the apartment as the winds picked up and the air became colder. So I took her smaller hand into mine and I began to lead us home, giving her kisses on the cheek along the way and getting to see that adorable blush of hers underneath the street lamps.

"Hey, Alfred," Alice suddenly asked me after I had given her what I believe was the fifteenth kiss on her right cheek. She sounded timid and her green eyes were big as she stared up at me with a bright flush on her face.

"Yes?"

"Remember earlier this morning when we were talking about what happened the other night when I was drunk…" she trailed off and looked down at her feet.

"I remember," I told her slowly. I had a feeling about where this was going…

"Well you know how you told me that I had said something to you but I couldn't remember what it was?"

"Yes."

"And you were upset that I couldn't remember but then you said you would tell me what it was later…well can you tell me now?" she asked shyly.

I took a deep breath. I knew that this was coming, that Alice would have to be told eventually that she had said she loved me. What if she freaked out though? What if she got all defensive and angry saying that she didn't really mean it? What if she forgot about everything that we had done tonight because she was embarrassed about what a little alcohol had done to her? I almost told her that right now wasn't a good time to answer her question but as I looked into her deep green eyes filled with inquiring I just couldn't say no.

"Well," I began, blushing a bit as I did so. "Last night you were drunk and like I said earlier drunken people don't really have control of their words and actions…Last night you were really out of it and you said something to me as we had just gotten into bed. Something that meant a lot to me and I was disappointed because the words that came out of your mouth were the ones I wanted to hear the most and you couldn't even remember them and because of the alcohol I didn't even know if they were really true."

"W-well what were they?" Alice blushed as she asked me. "What did I say to you?"

There was a small silence between us and I took a long breath.

"You said that you loved me."

Alice turned a crimson color that was impossible to miss even in the dark and her mouth dropped wide open in shock. She was all flustered and cute as she began to stutter a response. "B-bloody hell d-did I really?"

"Yep, I heard it with my own ears," I replied.

"I-I can't believe I didn't remember saying something like that," she said while shaking her head in incredulity.

"Well you said it, you can't change that fact but-" I paused of a brief moment. "Did you really mean it? Or was that just the alcohol talking?"

"Alfred-"she began but I cut her off.

"It's just that you seem upset" I said feeling a little hurt. This is exactly what I was afraid of, Alice telling me that she didn't feel that way about me. Well course she liked me, we were going out after all, but she just didn't feel love like I was feeling.

I opened my mouth to say something more but Alice stood up on her tiptoes and caught my lips in a kiss to silence me. It was a needy kiss, a kiss that clearly said you-don't-understand-me-so-I'll-make-out-with-you-unitll-you-get-it. I pulled her closer to me and wrapped my arms around her waist and she caressed my face as we deepened our kiss. Our tongues crashed together and fought each other for the dominant position until I won the right to explore Alice's mouth. She tasted sweet, like the sugary tomato sauce we had eaten earlier and I couldn't get enough of it. After awhile of kissing we ran out of oxygen making us finally break apart. Our breathing was ragged so we held onto each other until we could catch our breath.

"You talk too much, git," Alice managed to say once her breathing had returned to normal, a smirk gracing her features. "I was upset because when a person confesses their love to another they don't want to be drunk and half asleep. I wanted it to be special when I told you that I loved you."

I froze and my heart almost stopped beating. Had I heard her right?

"Say that again," I said to her eagerly, a huge grin appearing on my face.

"Say what again?" she asked puzzled.

"You just said that you loved me!" I beamed.

Alice blushed beat red and I smiled dopily.

"You loooove me," I drawled as I poked her stomach playfully and began to tickle her.

Now what Alice did next was something that I never expected her to do. She shrieked and jumped backwards at my touch causing my grin to widen tenfold. "I didn't know you were ticklish," I smirked inching closer to her.

For every step closer I came Alice moved a step back. "N-no I'm not," she lied her voice going into a high falsetto.

I laughed at how she had tried to cover up the truth from me. "I think you are," I sang as I pushed her up against the wall of a building that we were standing next to and started to tickle her sides.

"No!" she screamed and laughed at the same time as she tied to kick and punch me. "Alfred, stop!"

"Aw but I don't want to stop," I told her with a chuckle as I continued to torture her with her own laughter. "You're so cute and defenseless right now."

Alice was laughing so hard that she was beginning to cry. "Fuck, Alfred, I'm going to kill you," she hissed through her laughter.

"Alright, alright I'll stop if you say what you said before," I promised her as I continued to work my fingers up and down her sides.

"I l-love you," she laughed as she gasped for air.

"Alice, that's not very convincing," I told her with an evil smirk. God I was so mean! But it was funny so I didn't feel too guilty about what I was doing.

"I love you," she said again a bit louder than the last time but it still wasn't good enough.

"That wasn't loud enoughhhh," I sang while grinning mischievously.

"Damn it, Alfred! I love you! I love you! I love you!" she shouted in laughter. Alice was so noisy that a few candles in nearby buildings flickered aglow.

At seeing that a couple of villagers were now awake due to Alice's screaming (and my evil fingers if I might add) I released her from my death tickle hold. Alice, greatly relieved that I had let her go, slid down against the wall into a sitting position where she panted and fought to get her breath back. I sat down next to her and waited for her to regain her composition and when she finally did she wacked my arm angrily.

"Bloody hell I thought I was going to die from lack of air," she scowled.

"Sorry it was just so much fun to tickle you," I chuckled.

"Or do you really mean to torture me?" she retorted with raised eyebrows.

"Maybe I just like hearing you say that you love me," I told her as I took her hand.

She blushed and looked away. "Well you know I could just say it without you having to attack me," she mumbled.

I laughed as I tucked a piece of her hair out of her face then standing up pulling her up long with me I said, "let's go home."

She smiled and nodded and we continued on our way back to the apartment.

….Line Break….

After a while we turned onto our street and made our way down the cobblestone walkway back to our apartment. All of the lights in the other buildings were out so I guessed it was sometime around midnight or maybe even later. The only things out in the night were Alice and I and the shinning moon that illuminated our path.

As we walked towards home I suddenly had a flashback of the first time I had brought Alice to my place. We kept on getting lost and I remembered Alice being pissed off saying I didn't even know where I lived. Then when we had finally gotten there I expected her to make fun of my run down home but instead she told me that it was brilliant. I smiled to myself as I thought about how so much had changed in such a short time and how when I had first brought Alice home we were strangers and now she was the most amazing and beautiful girl I had ever met.

"You know I'm really glad you ran away from home," I told her when we had reached the apartment. We were now standing out front a little bit before the rickety porch steps just looking at each other, neither of us wanting to go in yet.

She laughed and stepped closer to me, "I'm glad too. I'm free and I got to meet you and I mean just imagine me ruling a kingdom?"

I chuckled as I put my hands on her waist and pressed a light kiss to her forehead. "Queen Alice Kirkland ruler of Hetalia," I said in a mock announcing voice. "Her royal highness declares that every subject in the kingdom must eat her cooking."

She stuck her tongue out at me. "I wouldn't be that terrible of a ruler that I'd make everyone eat my food, you git. I just can't stand the idea of sitting still all day and having all that responsibility, and the pressure of messing up. We talked about this remember?"

I kissed her forehead again. "Yeah I remember. I also remember you saying that if you stayed in the palace you'd have to marry that creep."

Alice wrinkled her nose. "Let's not talk about marrying him or simply him for that matter."

I laughed, "Yeah there's only one guy I'd ever let you marry."

Alice raised an eyebrow, "And who might that be?" she inquired.

"You know, just an extremely good looking hero with glasses and a cowlick," I grinned.

She gave me a playful punch. "You really want to get married?"

I squeezed her hand, "someday."

She blushed and I smiled at how easily I could make her flush. "Just think I'll be related to royalty," I joked.

"Ex-royalty," she reminded me.

We both started to laugh as we began to start up the wooden steps that led to the apartment. When we were at the entrance I held the door open for Alice like the gentleman that I am and she thanked me before stepping inside. Before I went in after her I took one last look out at the street just as a little reminder to myself of all that had happened out there tonight. Then, just as I was about to turn away and go after Alice, I suddenly noticed a pair of ruby red eyes glowing in the darkness, watching me from the other side of the street.

I jumped back a bit, startled at what I saw. The two orbs pierced through the shadows, staring straight at me in the most eerie way possible making the hairs on my arms stand straight up.

"Alfred, are you coming in?" Alice called from inside.

I hesitantly looked away from the odd sight and shouted the reply that I would be in shortly. But when I whipped my head around expecting to meet with the strange eyes again they were gone. Vanished like they had never even been there. I shivered. What was that? I wondered as I quickly retreated inside the apartment and locked the door tightly behind me.

….Line Break….

I found Alice sitting at the table in the kitchen. A pot of water was boiling in the fireplace and I saw that she had gotten out a mug and a teabag for herself. I pulled up a chair and shuddered, I was still on edge about that weird thing that I had seen outside.

"Are you cold? There's enough water in the pot for you too," Alice said noticing my chilled state.

"No I'm fine I'm just a little freaked out," I replied as I scratched my head trying of make sense of it all.

She cocked an eyebrow, "how so?"

"I think someone was watching us out there," I started, "I saw these really creepy eyes just watching me from the ally on the other side of the street."

"You don't think it was a ghost do you?" Alice teased.

I scoffed, "no probably just some weirdo out prowling the town."

Alice began to say something but then quickly shut her mouth and blushed and looked away from me. This little hesitation of hers sparked my interest. "What were you going to say?" I asked her.

She blushed more fiercely. "Nothing it's stupid," she told me.

"No I bet it isn't just tell me," I coxed.

"W-well," she began. "I was just going to suggest that since you're freaked out about this whole eye thing that you might want to sleep with me tonight…."

She whispered that last little part so softly it was barely audible. "What? I didn't quite catch that last bit," I told her.

Alice took a deep breath, mustering up all of her courage and boldly looking me in the eyes said, "Alfred, just sleep with me tonight."

I blushed far worse than Alice had been blushing before if that were possible. She wanted to sleep with me? The butterflies in my stomach went on a rampage and I couldn't stop my heart from beating furiously. Of course I knew that she didn't mean "sleep with me" in that way. She was still way too innocent to know what that meant, but she wanted to sleep with me as in like what we had done last night except this time she wouldn't be drunk. This was a huge step in our relationship considering how shy Alice usually was when I tried to be romantic. So without further thought I grabbed her hand and the two of us raced upstairs to my bedroom, our tea long forgotten.

Author's Note: Hey guys! How are you? IT'S SPRING BREAK AHHHH! SO EXCITED! Haha did you like the chapter? Sorry I didn't update sooner my internet was spazzing and I went to my first anime convention. God it was so much fun! I cosplayed Chibitalia :D Anyways reviewers get cookies and I'll see you sometime later for chapter 22! XD