Those Three Little Words

Prologue

Three words. Just three words can flip your life upside down, and turn it completely around. I found out the hard way that sometimes, words speak just a bit louder than actions. This is the story of how those three little words, spoken by Berwald Oxenstierna, changed my life forever.

Oh! Perhaps I should introduce myself! My name is Tino Väinämöinen and during the time of this particular story, I was nineteen years old. I live in America, yet I don't have a single drop of American blood in me. My family moved from Finland when I was just five years old, so I don't have many memories of my homeland, and I probably speak better English than Finnish.

Unfortunately, this story doesn't begin with a dramatic opening, or with a life changing event. No, this story just opens with my acceptance into college - which I was no doubt thrilled about. Throughout elementary school, to middle school, and finally to high school, grades were always very important to me, and it had always been one of my goals to be accepted into a top notch college. When I received that diploma to my college of choice (Hetalia University), I couldn't have been happier! In the process of my loud and exaggerated victory dance around my small house, I broke one of my mother's glass trinkets sitting on the short coffee table in the sitting room (where I happened to be when I opened the letter), a dish or two (I had been eating at the time), and probably vexed all of our neighbors on the street due to the commotion, but at that moment, I couldn't care less. After receiving tight hugs from my younger sister and brother, a tearful embrace from my mother (and then a slap to the back of the head for breaking the ornament), and a proud clap to the shoulder from my father, realization hit me; was I really ready for this? I was barely nineteen; all this time, I had been so determined, so pushed to get accepted into the college of my dreams. I had thought I would've been ready to do this - but in reality, I was scared to death.

While the University was not that far away, I would still have to live on campus, which means that I would probably have to share a room with a roommate who I hadn't even met. That was a little bit terrifying. Would my roommate be a tall, scary guy who could intimidate someone with just a glare? And could I handle the work load? Would I be able to get through college and graduate?

However, I couldn't just throw away this opportunity! I had worked hard, and I wasn't going to throw it away due to the chance that I could have an unpleasant roommate. I found myself actually excited to start my time at Hetalia University in the fall. Soon, the cold spring soon turned into a toasty, cheerful summer, and before I knew it, autumn had come. And you know what comes along with the beginning of autumn? The beginning of a new school year! The time soon came where I packed up many of my belongings, gave embraces to my tearful family members, got in my trusty, light blue bug (which I had received for my high school graduation), and started the journey to Hetalia University that would ultimately change my life.

A/N

Hello and welcome to my first story on WattPad! This story was first on Fanfiction, but many of my friends have WattPad accounts, so I decided to get one as well! As of right now, I'm still sorting out the plot of the story, but the main parts have mostly been defined.

Tell me what you think! Thank you so much for reading!

Continued in the next chapter..