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AmeIta: Don't Panic

Feliciano often had panic attacks. It tended to come at random times, and it left him trembling, crying and blubbering. He couldn't help it, and when it happened in a situation that could be considered dangerous, or in front of people that were larger than him, he would look like a coward.

It was on one of those days that Feliciano met Alfred. He was out for a walk when he heard two men fighting. Loudly. Feliciano tried to get away, but not before he saw the two men get into a fistfight. And seeing acts of violence tended to set Feliciano off.

Feliciano ran, but it wasn't in time. He started to feel as the tears gathered in his eyes, and his hands were starting to get shaky. Eventually he had to stop as his entire body had started trembling, the tears uncontrollable.

Alfred had just come from the gym and was on his way to his car when he saw the crying and trembling man. He immediately went over towards the poor man and wrapped his arms around him.

"Dude, what happened?" Alfred asked. "Are you okay?"

Feliciano was breathing heavier, his trembling becoming worse. The man that was holding him could easily break him. He could easily beat him up, like all the other people in his old high school. Feliciano started sobbing, and the other started rubbing soothing circles on his back.

Alfred didn't know what to do. This man was in a state, and Alfred didn't know how exactly to get him out of it. But he held tighter and continued to rub soothing circles on the other's back, hoping to get him calmed down enough to tell him what happened.

Eventually Feliciano realised that the other man wasn't hurting him, and he gradually started to calm down, taking deep breaths while making sure he wasn't hyperventilating.

When Alfred felt the smaller man calm down he pulled back, smiling gently.

"There now," he said, "you're alright. Can you tell me what happened?"

Feliciano swallowed nervously.

"Panic… attack," he said.

"Oh, I see. My brother has them too. Um, well, not the same as you do. I'm Alfred."

Feliciano smiled.

"Feliciano."

The prompt was: 'Person A has anxiety and is prone to panic attacks. Imagine Person A's reaction when the macho, masculine, brawn-over-brains type Person B, whom has just walked out of a nearby gym, came over to comfort them while Person A was having a panic attack. Bonus: It's how they first met.'

I've been asked about the CanadaXWorld story. That one's going to take some time, since I have him 'meeting' many different countries (about 57, actually), and I want a chapter for each of them, but I'm unsatisfied with my first attempt (and with the order of the list) and tried to redo it, though not successfully, causing a slump. But I've started fresh, and I'll start working on it as soon as I can. That one won't be posted until I've written a chapter (likely to be short) about each of the characters that 'meets' Canada. The reason I do that is because I want to avoid a situation where I post a few chapters, hit a slump, want to redo everything and not getting to it. So that's going to take some time.

And I'll start posting Ve, We Totally Fooled You on Monday, so look out for it.