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How the hell could he get lost so easily? ! I looked around and realized he was right, somehow we had ended up in Chinatown.

...I hadn't even known there was a Chinatown in this city.

I groaned and rolled my eyes. "You're hopeless!"

"Sorry."

"Oh come on, let's just eat here instead," I said, dragging him by the arm through the snow to a cute little restaurant nearby. Pushing open the glass door, a tinkling bell alerted the staff to out arrival. A long-haired Asian man came up to greet us.

"Ni hao! Table for two-aru?" he asked with a smile. I nodded affirmative and he led us off to a booth, chattering about the Christmas specials and whatnot. He left us to get settled and disappeared to the kitchen, telling is our waiter would be right out. As soon as he was gone, an uncomfortable silence fell. Roderich coughed awkwardly.

"So..."

"Yes?"

"...How's your work going?"

"Same as normal."

"How about your friend Kiku? Are you two still working on that photography collaboration together?"

"...We finished that a week ago."

"Ah, I see..."

And thus the conversation slowly withered and died. Trying to ignore the heavy silence I zoned out, looking around the little restaurant. There weren't many people, everyone was probably out of town for the holidays. There were plenty of cute Christmas decorations but thankfully, it was done tastefully and the waiters didn't have to do stupid things like wearing reindeer antlers or something. Suddenly a bright cheeky voice made me snap out of it.

"Hey there! Welcome to the not-quite-as-awesome-as-me-but-still-pretty-darn-awesome China Palace! So whatda ya want?"

My head snapped up and standing there in front of me was a tall narcissistic albino with a pencil behind his ear and a broad smirk on his face.

"Gil?"

"The one and only!" Naturally, when he said this he had to do what he probably considered an 'awesome and manly' pose. "So what brings you here Lizzy? Did you miss the awesome me so much you had to come visit?"

I scoffed in a teasing way and rolled my eyes. "Pfft, as if, idiot. I just happened to stop by. If I had known you worked here I wouldn't have come."

"Gasp! That hurts Lizzy, it really does," he pouted, putting a hand over his heart for dramatic effect.

"You'll get over it. So what are you doing here? I never thought you would be a waiter in a Chinese restaurant."

"Well, after I left the military, my old friend Yao who runs this place offered me a job," he said, shrugging.

Well that's a surprise. "You were in the military?"

"Hey, don't sound so shocked," he replied sullenly, pouting again. "I am Prussian after all, being a soldier is in my blood!"

"Ah yes, you supposedly come from a nation that no longer exists. That makes perfect sense," I said narrowing my eyes and smirking.

"That's not true! Prussia still exists! It just has a different name now."

"Ha. Yeah, sure."

He was just about to make an angry retort when-

"GILBERT!"

Gil and I both turned around to see a totally pissed off dark haired Asian guy with huge eyebrows. "Yes HK?" Gilbert smiled innocently and spoke in a sing-song voice, obviously trying to diffuse the angry Asian. I didn't work.

"Stop slacking off and do your job!" he yelled before storming off. Gil sighed and turned back to me, a resigned and disappointed look on his face. "He's right, what do you guys want?"

"I'll have the hibachi chicken and some water please," Roderich said, handing Gil the menu, trying to touch the germ-covered laminated paper as little as possible. Huh...I kinda forgot he was even here.

"Yeah sure. What about you Liz?"

"I don't know, surprise me," I told him, handing over my menu and smirking.

"Ha ha! Will do!" he disappeared off into the kitchen yelling something to the cook. It was very quiet after he left. Leaning back in my seat, I saw that my boyfriend looked kinda moody. Roderich looked me in the eye and said, "I don't like him."

Deciding not to comment, I simply sighed and stared out the window.

Yeah, short chapter is short. Im too lazy to type more. Sorry :\

eh maybe I should have just kept this as a one-shot...but then again, if I did that I wouldn't be able to write the part where Lizzy and Gil go to a convention together...hmm. hopefully that chapter will make up for the sucky chapters like this one. Ive got a lot of ideas for this fic but I havent written it all out yet so please bear with me, I promise it will get better!

oh and im sorry if theres any OOCness in this story