Peculiar Sleeping Habits (Germany, Prussia, Luxembourg)

It was 2 A.M. when Prussia's phone buzzed. He debated with himself if he should answer it or if he should just pretend he hadn't heard it and get back to sleep. Glancing at the display, he realised it was his brother and decided to pick up.

"This is the Awesome Me," he grunted in a peeved tone. "Who dares to bug me in the middle of the night?"

"You know fully well who this is," Germany replied, sounding equally annoyed. "The thing is…" He paused. "I need your advice."

"Oooh, my little brother needs my advice!" Prussia cooed. "Now, what can I do for you, my child?"

"I already regret calling you," Germany grumbled. "The thing is … I don't know who else would keep this a secret."

"Come on, don't let me dangle. What happened?"

"Um…" Germany hesitated. "Luxembourg is sleeping in my cabin on the plane to this conference…"

"Yeah, so what," Prussia said in a bored tone. "Don't you have another bed in that cabin or something?"

"I do, but…" His brother's voice sunk to a whisper. "He's naked!" Germany sounded mortified.

Prussia almost fell off his bed as he was seized with a fit of laughter.

"This. Is. Not. Funny." His brother sounded really angry now.

"So what," Prussia said again. "Some people do that. Sleep naked, I mean. Not my problem. Deal with it. I'm going to hang up."

"Prussia, you can't…"

But he had already disconnected.

Notes

The foreign ministers of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and Luxembourg, Jean Asselborn, are good friends. They were guests in a German talk show ("Lanz") about friendship between men on 20 September 2012. During this show, Asselborn told Markus Lanz, the host, that Steinmeier had once given him a lift in his official plane when they were both on their way to a Latin American summit. Asselborn said that since it was very warm in that plane, an old machine that had once belonged to GDR leader Erich Honecker, he had been "lying asleep next to Frank-Walter [Steinmeier] in the cabin without wearing pyjamas. But we were lying in separate beds" (see "TV-Talk bei Lanz: Asselborn lag nackt in Honeckers Flieger", in: Luxemburger Wort, 21.09.2012). I just don't think Germany would have been able to handle this as calmly as Steinmeier apparently did…