When I walked outside after school Rome was already waiting there for me. He was standing with a few of his many friends talking.

I approached slowly, hoping they would leave before I got there. But they didn't. I stood awkwardly outside their little group until Rome spotted me.

"Germania!" he shouted happily turning to me.

Why did he have to shout? I was standing right by him.

His friends turned as well. The wore the same confused look as they had that morning. I didn't like it. It was like they thought they were better than me like pure breeds to a mutt. Which probably what they thought or something along those lines.

But Rome again took no notice. He finished talking with them and lead me off to his car.

I didn't know a thing about cars but his looked nice enough. Small, plain, and blue.

He unlocked it and climbed into the driver's side. I hesitantly sat in the passenger's.

Rome turned on the radio and drove out of the parking lot.

I expected him to just start blabbing like every other time I had been with him but he remained silent. I was hoping that he wasn't waiting for me to say something because that wasn't going to happen. But evidentially he was.

"Sooooo..." he finally said, after realizing I wasn't going to say anything, "I just realized that I don't know much about you, so what do you like to do?"

Oh god, now I had to talk.

That question actually took some thought. What did I like to do?

"...I like to read," that was about all I could think of.

"That's all?"

"I've been told I'm a very boring person," thank you Gilbert.

Rome sat thinking for a bit.

Wow, how did he manage that?

"Don't you like to hang out with friends?" he asked.

Well, I probably would if I actually had some.

"I don't have any friends,"

"What!" Rome looked over in surprise.

It wasn't that hard to believe, really.

"What about those two you sit with in the morning?" he pointed out, I was actually surprised he took notice of them, me, in the morning.

"They're my cousins,"

"Don't you like to hang out with them?"

I didn't mind being around Ludwig but Gilbert liked to tease me any chance he got. Plus they had actual friends to hang around with.

"They have better things to do than be around me," I said without really realizing it.

Rome made a face, "Hey, don't say things like that! They should take time away from whatever they're doing to be with you if you want to be around them! You're an important person and they should treat you like one,"

I turned to look out the window. It was a bit of a habit. To turn away when I felt awkward, which happened a lot. I started fiddling with book bag for something to do.

We were quiet for the rest of the car ride.

XxxxX

Rome's house was a nice looking medium sized, yellow house with a large yard.

He parked the car and we got out. He ran inside leaving me to follow him.

"Well, here we are," he smiled, spinning around like a child. "My parents aren't home yet. So, what do you want to do?"

I shrugged.

"Wanna play the wii?"

"Sure,"

We ended up playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl for three hours. Meaning I kicked his butt at super smash bros. for three hours. We only stopped because his mom came home.

She walked into the living room, where we were sitting, and sighed. "Romulus really? Another girl?"

My eye twitched. Rome started rolling around laughing.

It wasn't funny! I'm not that girly looking!

I kicked him in the ribs. It wasn't a hard kick. More of a threatening 'if you don't stop I will break your ribs' kind of kick.

"S-sorry," he breathed as he finally gained control of his laughter. "Mom, this is Germania. HE is my partner for our English project,"

Her eyes widened, "Ah! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Please forgive me! I just thought-"

"No, it's okay. It's fine," I assured her as Rome went into another fit of giggles.

"B-but-"

"He said it's fine mom. Besides, you can't really blame her can you 'Mania?" Rome tugged at my hair.

I rolled my eyes at the nickname, "No, it's not the first time it's happened," not by far.

Rome's mom stood back smiling uncertainly, "Will you be staying for dinner?" she asked.

"Yes!" Mr. Idiot answered for me.

"I guess if it's not any trouble.."

"And it's not! Come on!" and Rome dragged me off to his room.

XxxxX

The rest of the evening passed quickly. Rome and I decided to play cards in his room and just do not much of anything until dinner.

By dinner time Rome's dad was home and I was once again mistaken for a girl. At which Rome couldn't stop himself from laughing, much to my displeasure.

But dinner was nice. We had raviolis and sauce. And over all the whole family was very kind.

I had a better time than I thought I would.

Maybe this project wouldn't be so bad after all.

XxxxX

Rome drove me home at around 9:00.

"Well, I hope you had a good time with me," he grinned.

I glanced over at him and smiled slightly, I couldn't remember the last time I had actually smiled, "I did,"

He gawked at me, "Wait hold it! You smiled! That was so cute~" he teased, poking my cheek much like Gilbert did.

"Sh-shut up!" I scowled at him, blushing slightly. For a moment I considered biting his finger.

"Oh no, I ruined it," he pouted, "Well I'll see you tomorrow. Can we go to your house tomorrow?"

I sighed, "Sure. Bye," I stepped out of the car and watched it disappear.

Yeah, this project would go better than I thought it would.

XxxxX

A/N: hiiiiiiiii~

Poor Germania. Every time one of my family members sees him they think he's a girl. But that's why I cosplay as him ^^

Mm.. Ravioli... I just ate some. It's the third best food ever. Bested only by raspberry ice cream and small children~

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