Kiku had called her mother and asked for permission for Alice to stay the weekend at his home. Mrs. Kirkland agreed as long as she slept in a different room, to which he confirmed. He then called her brother Dylan and asked him to bring over a weekends worth of clothes over to his home. One hour later he was there with several skirts and shirts over, as her mother didn't allow Alice to own anything but dresses and skirts.

All the while, Alice stayed in her designated guest room, silently crying. Once Kiku had her clothes and everything she'd need, her school materials and uniform, he went in to join her. Alice hadn't spoken since her breakdown when he had picked her up, and right now she laid on the queen sized bed a little lifeless. She hadn't told him everything yet, but all Kiku knew was that Alfred had destroyed her, just like he warned her he would. But Kiku wouldn't say 'I told you so', that would just be rubbing salt on her fresh wound.

Kiku walked over to her bedside and sat down on the edge and reached out his arm to rub her back. Alice scooted closer and rested her face on his lap. Kiku blushed at the action, but ignored his feelings. He needed to there for Alice right now.

"I brought you some earl grey tea, your favorite, would you like some?" He asked softly. Alice nodded and slowly rose and rested her back against the pillows. Kiku went over to the porcelain teapot and poured a cup of tea for her and handed it over on a platter, along with some blueberry scones and buttered crumpets, also her favorite.

"Thank you..." She mumbled as she nibbled on a scone. The tears had dried on her face, but her eyes were still red and puffy. Kiku felt immense sadness that Alice had to go through this, and extreme anger at Alfred for putting her through it. He should have never allowed that American to be around her.

"Your welcome." He said back. "Are you alright to talk?" Alice shook her head no. "Then how about we watch a movie?" He suggested, and she nodded her head yes.

And that's how they spent the rest of the night, cuddled together in bed, watching Disney movies. Kiku was a little uneasy whenever a romantic scene came on, and he always suggested they put on something different, but Alice always told him it was fine. Though he knew it wasn't, he didn't argue. It was best not to. Eventually after four movies straight, with the servants bringing them their dinner and even desert, Alice fell asleep on his shoulder. Kiku was slightly tempted to not leave her, but he knew that it wasn't appropriate for him to stay in the same room with Alice while she slept, so he silently slipped away and retired to his own room.

The next day went much like the previous. No serious talking of any kind, while they simply binge watched Cardverse and ate expensive sweets. When his mother came in to check on them he explained to her that Alice was going through a tough break up and asked that she not tell Alice's mother. Thankfully she agreed; his mother had always been so kind to Alice, as well as cynical towards her mother's raising methods, so she was more than happy to spoil Alice why she was there and keep their secret safe.

Later that night, while they were eating dessert and watching the second season of Cardverse, Alice finally decided to talk, so he paused Netflix to listen.

"So what happened?" Kiku asked gently, not wanting to be too pushy on the subject.

"He made out with me as Alice." She whispered.

"He what?" He exclaimed in a moderately loud but angered voice. "Did you tell him you were England?"

Alice shook her head. "I told him afterwards."

"And...how did he react?"

Alice rested her head on her knees and proceeded to tell him of everything that went down, leaving out details of their heated moment thankfully, but told him about all they name calling, the screaming, and about the break up. When she was done she was sobbing once again, clinging onto Kiku like a koala.

"Kiku…?" She called in a rasp.

"Hai?"

"Am I a bad person for lying to him? Was this all my fault?" Her voice quivered as more tears threatened to fall. Kiku sighed and wrapped his left arm around her shoulders, resting her head in the crook of his neck.

"Don't put this solely on yourself, there are things we all could have done differently." He answered her in a caring tone. "Just let it go, there's nothing more you can do." Alice buried her head in his chest once again and asked for him to continue the show again. So they carried on watching tv and eating treats.

If there was any chance Alice and Alfred could fix their mistakes and get back together, Kiku was guilty enough to hope they would never find it. He knew his best friend loved the American, but he also knew that he wasn't good for her, didn't treat her right, constantly ridiculing her and all. Kiku also couldn't deny that his jealousy was getting in the way of his judgment as well.

The next day, Sunday, Kiku decided it would be good if Alice went out and got some sunlight. So he looked up if anything interesting was going on online, and he saw that new Cardverse merch was on going on sale today, as well as the box set of the second season as well. So without warning, Kiku turned off the tv and pulled Alice out of bed, grabbed a random outfit, and shoved her towards the shower room, as she hadn't taken one since she got there.

"Kiku, what is this about?" His best friend questioned him.

"Were going out, go and get ready." He said as he opened the bathroom door for her.

"But I don't want to! I just want to watch Cardverse and eat sweets all day!" She argued as she tried to go back to her room. Kiku struggled to stop her, as he wasn't all that strong.

"Alice-chan that isn't healthy! Besides, they have new Cardverse merchandise at the shops." Kiku tried to persuade her, and it worked.

"What kind of merchandise?" She asked excitedly, ceasing her revolt.

"Plushies, shirts, dresses, cosplay-"

"Cosplay?!" She nearly shouted, her face now beaming. If there is anything that will distract Alice from her heartbreak, it's shopping for cosplay.

"Yes, I believe they even have some for Queen of Spades."

No more had to be said to convince her to leave her room. She went into the bathroom to shower and get dressed. When she came out she was wearing a light blue shirt with a white knee length skirt.

"I'll go call Lucas and Vlad, they'd love to come as well." Alice said as she excitedly ran back into the room to grab her phone, wallet, and shoulder bag. She called her other two friends and asked if they wanted to go to the shops as well, to which they agreed. They all decided to meet in one hour, so Kiku decided to have breakfast in the dining room with his family, now that Alice was well enough to leave the room they had given her. His family was large, as large as hers, but much more rowdy. Kiku knew that Alice enjoyed the change in dinning atmosphere compared to her thick and tense atmosphere she usually has to eat in.

Twenty minutes later they said goodbye to his family and left, Kiku driving them there in his car. They parked and met with the others in front of H*t T*pic, where Kiku let Alice go in ahead of them, holding the others back for a second.

"Lucas-san, Vladimir-san, I have to warn you not to mention Alfred to Alice today." He warned them in the hallway outside the store.

"Why is that?" Vladimir asked him.

"They broke up on friday. I brought Alice-Chan here to take her mind off of it, so just be careful with what you say around her."

The two of them nodded in agreement, then they all went in after her to see her fangirling on the floor over the merch, quickly joined by Vlad.

"Oh my Dracula! They have the eye of seduction from season one episode thirteen!" Vlad nearly screeched as he pulled a plastic golden eye necklace from the shelf.

"And look! They have the Spade's pocket watch!" Alice bubbled and held up a silver pocket watch, with the Spade emblem on it, on a chain. Vlad gasped and looked at the watch she holding in her hands.

"Look at the detail on it. They even have the incantation along the side!" He said in amazement. Lucas, not being able to resist any longer, went over to join their geek out.

"Tempus subsisto tempus sustinebit." Lucas said dramatically as he strutted over. (Time stop Time freeze)

"Converte nunc micat illa facere." Alice joined in as well, holding the watch as if casting a spell. (Reverse this moment, make it flash forward.)

"Ut custodiant viam Domini, et inflectunt ad voluntatem meam." (May time bend to my will and obey me.) They all chanted together.

"Rigescunt indutae!" Alice shouted. (Freeze!)

"Contrarium!" Vlad howled. (Reverse!)

"Vestibulum Flash!" Lucas yelled in a, slightly, lower voice. (Flash forward!)

Kiku facepalmed at their geekiness and the fact that they all ended up casting different spells, in the middle of the store, with everyone looking at them. Still, Kiku couldn't help but feel happy that Alice was enjoying herself.

In the end Alice bought the slave queen outfit from season two's finale, Kiku blushed at the the thought of ever seeing her in it, but quickly threw that thought away; the Spade King's pocket watch; a key-chain of the Spade Jack's enchanted sword; and every Cardverse shirt they had in her size, small.

"They didn't have the box set of season two like you said." Alice said as they left the store.

"They should have the episodes at the comic book store on the bottom floor." Lucas told her.

"Well let's he'd there next." Vlad said and skipped merrily away towards the escalator, Lucas following after to make sure he didn't hurt himself. Kiku walked at a slower pace with Alice along side them.

"Thank you, Kiku." Alice said softly as they walked along. "For today."

Kiku looked over at the Brit and saw her soft, honest smile. Kiku smiled back at her.

"I'm glad I could help." Kiku said as they got on the escalator.

"You always do." Alice told him. "Thanks for being here for me."

Kiku was about to say something else but was distracted when Vladimir called out her name and drew both of their attention.

"Alice! They have the limited edition Spade Card Deck in shop!" The strawberry brunette called out from the front of the store.

"Seriously?!" Alice nearly screamed and hurriedly ran down the steps and ran for the comic book store. Kiku chuckled to himself as he got off the escalator as well, however, from the corner of his eye he saw someone. Alfred. Looking at Alice running to the store in shock. He began to make his way to the shop, which prompted Kiku to swiftly intersect him. There was no way Kiku was going to let this day go wrong for Alice.

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Alfred had been lying in his bed all weekend since the breakup, eating nothing but hamburgers and ice cream While he watched marvel, DC, and Star Wars movies, only to cry like a baby whenever a romantic scene came on and yell at the couples for being happy while he was miserable, making him rage quite each movie. He listened to a lot of romantic music for some reason, his favorite being 'My Heart Will Go On', and eating triple chocolate fudge underneath his blankets. He was taking the breakup with Alice really bad. His parents tried to get him out but were never able to make their son budge, so on Sunday, they called over their nephew, his cousin, Francis, to come and pull their emotional son out of his dark depressing room.

When Francis walked into the teenagers bedroom he was met with a foul smell of junk food and body odor. Alfred was under his covers, tearily singing 'A Thousand Years' with his mouth full. Francis immediately pulled the curtains open and visoiusly ripped the covers off of the American. Alfred winched at the light and even hissed at Francis.

"Alfred, what are you doing?" Francis questioned him.

"Mopping!" He replied dramatically and tried to pull the covers over himself again, but Francis pulled them off his bed.

"Alfred you can't stay like this forever." He told his cousin in a soft but strong voice.

"But I wanna! Everything around me reminds me of Ally!" He cried out and curled up in a ball and shoved another spoonful of chocolate in his mouth. Francis felt a prick of annoyance at the hopelessness of his usually confident and cocky cousin.

"Okay that's it!" He shouted as he confiscated his ice cream and literally kicked Alfred off his bed. "Go take a shower and get dressed, I'm getting you out of this depressing atmosphere." Francis commanded. Alfred begrudgingly obeyed and grumbled as he grabbed a change of clothes and head for his bathroom, but was soon heard crying in the shower. Forcing Francis to rip him out of the shower as well, in a totally cousins way.

Twenty minutes later, they were outside jogging in the streets of London, Francis taking the lead and Alfred struggling to keep up and panting.

"F-Francis! Why are we running?" Alfred questioned as he began to slow down.

"To work off all those calories you've eaten. I refuse to be related to a slob such as yourself." Francis responded from ahead. Truly Alfred had quickly gone out of shape, usually it was Francis who was behind Alfred, not him. After about another ten minutes they stopped outside the mall and took a rest.

"Feeling better?" Francis asked him.

"Hardly! You ran me ragged!" He complained.

"Well at least you worked off a few of those pounds, now let's see if you can lose some more, how about we go shopping."

"Haha, very funny." Alfred said as they got up to walk inside the mall. First thing he did was find a restroom to clean off all the sweat from his face. Looking at himself in the mirror Alfred could see that he at least looked better. Not so much like death as he had this morning when he took a quick shower. The two cousin walked into the mall and looked around, of course the first store Alfred wanted to visit was the comic book store, so naturally that's where they headed first. Alfred gushed over all the superhero comic they had and the Star Wars and Lord of The Rings merch as well. Alfred ended up buying a new Batman shirt, an elderly Bilbo Baggins figurine to finish off his collection before he started his Hobbit collection, and a Marvel version of Monopoly. He wanted to buy even more but he had forgotten his wallet at home, and Francis was buying him all of this out of pity. He ended up geeking out in the store for about an hour until they were finally done and ready to leave.

Alfred greatly appreciated what his cousin was doing, even if it wasn't a permanent solution, at least he was wasn't thinking about it now. It felt good to just forget about his sadness and focus on something else for a change, compared to his gloomy mopping he had been doing previously.

"Thanks, Franny." Alfred said when they walked out of the store. "This cheered me up."

"No problem, mon cousin. Just as long as you're not so depressing, I'm glad to hang out with you."

"Good, now let's go get some hot pretzels!" Alfred cheered and ran for the pretzel shop across the way.

"Mon Dieu, Alfred you've had enough junk food!" Francis said exasperatedly.

"Alice! They have the limited edition Spade Card Deck in shop!" A loud voice called out in the mall, stopping Alfred immediately.

"Seriously?!" A feminine voice yelled in excitement, Alice's voice, he recognized it. It wasn't the slightly lower voice she had used as England, it was Alice's smooth, natural voice. Slowly, terrified that he as correct, Alfred turned around and saw Alice running over to one of the guys she had met at the party he took her to, the one she got drunk and started stripping with. She looked so happy as she looked around with that other guy, a little too happy for his liking. Alfred knew he shouldn't but he started walking over towards them.

"Alfred, leave it be." Francis cautioned, but went ignored, seeing Alice being happy with another guy so soon after their breakup seriously pissed him off. It was as if she had the nerve to enjoy herself while he was still miserable. However before he could make it anywhere near the comic book shop, he was intersected by Kiku, his rival and old friend.

"Don't go anywhere near Alice-chan." The tiny Japanese man hissed at him.

"I have the right to go anywhere I want." Alfred snapped at him and tried to get around, but he was stepped in front of again.

"I will not have this day ruined for her." He claimed with a deadly glare.

"Like it has been for me." Alfred spat.

"That's your own fault for coming here, but I will not see Alice cry anymore over trash like you. She's cried enough already."

The last bit surprised him a bit and made him look back at Alice through the window of the store. Now that he looked at her more closely Alfred could see how pale she was, and even a few rolls she put on, much like himself.

'So she has been mopping too.' He thought to himself.

"Get out of here, Alfred-san. I don't want you to be around Alice-chan ever again, not even in class." Kiku declared, standing up to his full height, that still fell short of him. There was something in Kiku's tone that surprised him and created a sort of realization in him. It was similar to when he threatened him after he had initially rejected Alice.

"You're in love with her, aren't you." Alfred said more as a statement, as if it was the undeniable truth.

"Longer than you have been, and more than you ever will be." Kiku said as he turned away, only to be met with Alice who was watching them outside of the store, with Lucas and Vlad in tow.

"Alice-chan…" He said in shock.

"Kiku you…" She looked over from Kiku to Alfred and Alfred stepped out from behind Kiku to stare at her. Both of their gazes were broken. Alfred didn't know what to say, seeing her in front of him so soon had him in shock. Anything he would have said he'd have had no time to say anyway as Alice waited not a second to sprint away in the opposite direction of him. Running as if a bear was chasing her.

"Alice-chan!" Kiku called as he ran after her, followed by her other friends. Alfred watched the four of them go, knowing he'd only make it worse on both of them if he went after her. Turning back to Francis he walked back for the exit.

"Let's go." He said.

So much for feeling better.

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Yaaaassssss I love this story so much! Sorry this was kind of filler like, big plot point in the next chapter or two. I absolutely love writing about Alice geeking out with the Magic trio, they're so fun to write. Anyways I'll see y'alls soon, I'm on break for the week so I have some more free time, been writing every night so far. Byeeeeeeeee!

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