Hikaru

The season got colder a couple months late and pretty soon, we were close to winter vacation. And along with winter came snow which also came with hot chocolate, sleigh rides, warm moments by the fire with Ludwig, and unfortunately, snowball fights.

"Incoming!" Alfred shouted.

I ducked behind a wall in the school's courtyard and laughed as the American's snowball hit the wall. I poked my head out from behind the wall and shouted, "Ha! You missed, you stupid Amer—" Suddenly, a snowball hit me in the face. It stung like crazy and the others started laughing as I wiped my face.

"Are you okay?" Ludwig asked me.

"Yeah," I said. I scooped up a handful of snow and molded it into a ball. "I just got to get Alfred…"

Ludwig smiled at me. "I'll help you," he said, showing me the snowball in his hands. Then the both of us threw our snowballs at Alfred and hit him in the face.

"What!" Gilbert shouted from behind his make shift fortress made of snow. "You two are teaming up! No fair! I want to have a teammate!"

"We're not teaming up, Gilbert," Ludwig told him.

"Why not, Ludwig?" I asked. "It'd be nice." I smiled at him and he blushed.

"Fine then," Ludwig said. "Just don't get hurt."

I smiled again and everyone broke into pairs. Then, we resumed the fight but it was soon ended by a teacher who got mad and told us to stop. Everyone was soaked to the bone from the melted snow and red in their faces. I was freezing even though I wore a thick jacket but the skirt and the knee-length socks that was part of my school uniform wasn't enough for my legs.

"I love snow," Ivan said, smiling.

"Are you kidding me?" Alfred said. "Whose stupid idea was it to start this snowball fight?"

"Yours," Arthur and Yao said in unison.

"I'm gonna go clean up," I said to Ludwig, smiling.

"I'll come with you," Ludwig told me, grabbing my bare hands in his giant gloved ones. "Your hands are cold." He kissed my fingers and I pulled away, smiling, and slipped them into the pockets of his jacket. He slung an arm around me and I hugged his waist as we walked to the nearest restroom.

When we go to the restrooms, I went inside the girl's and smiled at myself in the mirror. Today felt perfect even though it had barely begun and I wasn't going to let anything get in my way. Then, I cleaned myself up and when I was done, I exited the restroom to see that Ludwig wasn't waiting for me like he said so I waited for a minute or two outside the boy's restroom for him to come out.

But he never came so I decided to look for him around the area. I started to turn the corner but the sight of Ludwig's back and a pair of arms around his neck stopped me with Natalia's face pressed against his. And there was no doubt that it wasn't her. Her large bow and pale blonde hair, almost like Ivan's, gave her away.

I pulled myself away from the corner and took everything in. I clutched my chest as if I could feel my heart breaking. Then, after staying in the same place for another second, I ran back in the direction I came from.

"Hey, Hikaru," Alfred shouted. "Where's Ludwig?"

I slowed down to see Alfred, Arthur, and Ivan coming around the corner. I couldn't look at them—especially Ivan since he was Natalia's older brother—as I said, "He's back there." I almost started crying when I imagined what she and Ludwig were doing now…

"Are you okay?" Arthur asked me. "Do you need a handkerchief?"

I wiped my eyes. "It's just the snow. It still hurts from earlier," I said.

"If it's about the snowball I threw at you, I'm so—" Alfred began.

"No, it's okay, Alfred," I interrupted him quickly.

"You know, the snow really isn't that bad even if it's cold," Ivan said. "I should know. I grew up with it."

"I think I know what snow is," I said a little too harshly. Ivan's not Natalia, I scolded myself. I bowed my head. "I'm sorry, Ivan," I told him. "I have to get to class. I'll see you guys later." Then, I ran off into the snow covered courtyard.

A Note from your Author:

And so here we are at chapter twenty. I honestly never thought I'd get this far, you know. It's much easier writing fan-fiction than writing your own story, which I have just realized now *laughs* So in this chapter and as promised in chapter nineteen, it's now wintertime and everyone is almost on break and things are totally screwed up because of Natalia/Belarus. I don't hate Natalia/Belarus but it's just that whenever I see a picture of Belarus and Germany together, I just want to punch whatever is close to me. I'm a fan of Germany and I'm kind of obsessed with the country. I'm weird and I know it but I kind of get jumpy when I see something German-related. Take this one guy at my school for instance. He has the German flag on his backpack and I just want to rip it out and go all Gollum-like… Oh, you know what I just realized? I never really wrote much about what happened in school. I just wrote things that happened outside of school, if you know what I mean. This is like the first time I wrote about the school since, well, the first few chapters. I mean, I know it is called "Gakuen Academy' but sometimes I just want to write about everyone's lives together. Also, I'm currently writing a little story that's based off a dream I had once. If you read it, I'd be so happy and thankful...or you can just...you know...review... Anyways, thanks for reading and enjoy!

P.S.

If you read this already, I apologize because I made a typo. I put "I dicked behind a wall" on accident. I swear! It was an ACCIDENT! *laughs* So thanks to AndieArmstrong, I corrected it...so thank you...and enjoy...