"Hey Birdie,"
Gilbert recieved a splash and a sweet, "Yes Gil?"
He wiped the water from his eyes and pointed past her, "There's my little brother, HEY LUDWIG!" Madeline turned around expecting to see a little boy, but instead was greeted by tall, blonde, oh god those muscles.. hey! She knew him!
She turned back to Gilbert, "Hey Gil, what's your last name?"
"What?"
"What I said, what's your last name?"
"Uh, Beilschmidt."
"I know your brother!"
Gilbert stared at her for a second as if she was crazy "How is that possible? We live in Germany, and as far as I know you're not German."
"We both work for our governments' international relations departments!"
He gave her a blank look.
"I'm still confused,"
Madeline seemed to be talking to herself, "This is why you look so familiar, you must've come on one of the trips with your brother,"
He snapped his fingers and splashed her, "Birdieeeee, don't ignoreee meeeee,"
"What? Oh, hey!" she smiled sheepishly and rubbed her head.
"Want to see something cool?"
After a good afternoon of splash wars and sand castle making, as well as general laziness, the heat of the day was beginning to subside. Madeline had eaten pasta at Gilbert's campsite, and was feeling content with the day. They only had about an hour before sunset, and despite the calm weather and peacefulness of the moment, she reallyfelt the need to go canoeing. With Gilbert. To a secret place that few people at this campground knew about. Maybe tonight she could work up the courage to tell him how she really felt about him..
Neither spoke as the paddles pushed through calm waters. The birds were singing there final songs of the day while Madeline took Gilbert to an unknown destination. There were no people, no distracting noises of civilization. Omitting the occasional fish jump, it was as if the world were settling down to sleep, and for once, the tranquil beauty of nature did nothing for our dear canadian's nerves. All Madeline could do was try not to drop the paddle as she puzzled out the words to say to Gilbert. But, what was there to say? "Hey! I've only known you a couple days but uh I like you a lot" No. She'd just have to come up with something when they got there.
The canoes came to rest on a pebbled beach. Madeline motioned for Gilbert to follow her into the trees. She could already hear the loud rumbling of the water fall. Walking around a bend her face lit up, here were the falls, tall, beautiful, dangerous. Gilbert looked upon them with incredible awe, Madeline with pride. Little rainbows flitted in the mist.
"Gilbert, I.." her voice trailed off. Now was her moment.
"Hm?" he smiled at her with that grin that she'd grown so accustomed to the past couple days.
"What do you think?" flopped it.
His eyes returned to the natural wonder, "they're awesome."
"Gil, I, well these past few days have been amazing and I, really like you," her thoughts came out quick and whispered.
"Sorry, what? Did you say something?"
"Eh? No, nothing," shoot. He didn't hear me. sigh
A/N: hi guys... sorry for random hiatus! but also, don't expect fast updates haha ^^ but i know where this story is going, it's just a little slow moving~ thanks for continuing to read my story and i hope you'll forgive me and enjoy this short chappie!