To Find Where You Belong (Hetalia)

Chapter 16

“A birthday party? I wonder what the festivals would be like, if this was the celebration for the birthdays…” Matthew trailed off as he looked around the field. Streamers and balloons lined the field and nearby houses. Kids were running back and forth through various games that the adults had assembled around the place. Many different types of foods were covering the oak tables and a large stereo was being set up on the end of one of the tables.

“Kesesesesese~ this is awesome! I wish I got to have birthday parties like this! Wait… I do!” Prussia burst out laughing and swung his arm around Matthew’s shoulder. “You wouldn’t mind if we joined you, right?” Prussia asked looking at the adults surrounding the table.

“P-Pruss- I mean, Gil, we shouldn’t intrude on their party.” Matthew whispered to the albino, quickly remembering the Prussians human name.

“Don’t be daft! It’s fine! Enjoy life while you can, isn’t that right?” One of the men laughed. “You guys can join, don’t worry. Join the games, dig into the food. Do whatever you like!”

And with that Prussia was dragging Mattie to a table of different cakes.

“Come on, birdie! You have to try this cake!” Prussia exclaimed holding out a dark chocolate cake.

“What is it?” Matthew asked, gently taking the cake from Prussia’s hands.

“It’s a Black Forest cake! It’s awesome since we are right next to the Black Forest!”

Matthew chuckled at the Prussian’s over enthusiasm.

~~~~Time-Skip~~~~

It was starting to get dark when the adults started setting up a bonfire.

“Hey, Prussia?”

“What is it, birdie?” Prussia looked up at the blonde. Matthew had to try and not laugh at the albino’s foamy moustache he had gotten from the beer he was just drinking.

 “Don’t you think we should get back to Germanys house? I mean, it is getting dark.”

“Kesesesese~ Birdie, we have to stay for longer! The party is just getting started! Come on, please~” Prussia asked, placing his beer on the table and grabbing Matthews hands in his own. Mattie tried not to laugh at the ridiculous face Prussia was pulling.

“Prussia… Please… I-I want to go back… I-I don’t want t-to stay at another party… Please…” Matthew stuttered out, remembering what happened at the party at Germany’s house. Matthew felt tears threatening to spill over and quickly blinked a couple of times to get rid of them.

Prussia’s eyes widened in realisation. Quickly grabbing his beer and sculling the rest of it down he grabbed Matthews hand and quickly walked to the forest.

“Hey! Where do you guys think you are going?” They both turned when they heard the voice behind them. “Come on guys! You can’t leave now, the party is just getting started!” One of the men that had been previously setting up the bonfire walked up to them.

“But, it is getting late. We should really-“ Prussia tried to get out of the situation, he didn’t want to make Matthew uncomfortable here.

“You guys don’t need to worry! You two can just stay at the motel over there.” The man pointed over to one of the buildings near the field.

“No, we really shou-“

“Okay. We can stay the night here.”

Prussia turned to face Matthew.

“Birdie…”

“No it is fine. We can’t ditch out on the party now, right?” Matthew shyly smiled at Prussia. But, Prussia didn’t buy it, he knew Matthew wasn’t comfortable with this situation, but yet he still tried to get into it.

“See! Your friend likes the idea, come one! Have some fun!” The man then turned on his heels and headed towards the bonfire. Matthew smiled once again at Prussia then followed the man, the albino had no choice but to follow the blonde.

~~~~Time-Skip~~~~

Matthew and Prussia were both currently leaning against a table, watching couple dancing around to an upbeat song next to the raging bonfire.

Prussia was drinking beer while Matthew was sipping at some foreign soft drink he didn’t know the name of. Was that even a good idea? He didn’t know, but Prussia said it was fine. So Matthew trusted his judgement. Was that also even a good idea? Matthew didn’t know the answer to that either, he would just have to wait and see.

Matthew looked out over the dancing couples and his gaze rested on a young girl, around the same age as himself. She was staring at something with hope in her eyes, he didn’t know what though. Following her gaze, he noticed it landed on the albino next to him.

Matthew felt something wrench his heart, a pain that he couldn’t explain. Maybe he should stop drinking the soft drink… Or maybe he was just tired, a lot of stuff had happened recently. But, that didn’t really explain the pain in his heart.

That girl could look at Prussia however she wanted. It’s not like Matthew had feelings for the albino…. Right? His mind drifted back to the kiss they had shared earlier that day. His felt his heart thumping in his chest, it rang in his ears so loudly all he could hear was the thumping of his heart. The boy looked over at Prussia to see if the albino was able to hear it, but the Prussian was paying the blonde no attention but had his eyes fixed on the raging bonfire.

Matthew smiled to himself, bringing his gaze down to the grass.

But, his head snapped back up when he saw the girl heading their way. Her gaze was locked straight on Prussia. The way she looked at Prussia made Matthew’s heart thump louder than before and he felt that same pain in his heart. Was he… jealous?

He didn’t need to be jealous, right? Prussia wasn’t his… He couldn’t… No! He couldn’t… Was he in love with Prussia?

Matthew shook his head clear of those thoughts. He couldn’t be in love with Prussia! For one thing he had to finish that adventure-thing, he didn’t have any time to be in love with anyone. And secondly he had only knew Prussia for about 3 days.

The girl was standing in front of Prussia, she was nervously playing with the hem of her frilly pink shirt. It took Prussia a couple of seconds to realise she was there. When he did he just looked at her with a questioning expression which caused her to look at the ground, blushing furiously. Mathew tried to look away from the scene next to him, it hurt too much. But, no matter how much he wanted to… He couldn’t.

“Ja?” Prussia finally spoke up, startling the girl from her inspection of a very interesting piece of dirt.

“Um… I-I was w-wondering if you w-would like to d-d-dance with m-me…” The girl’s voice trailed off at the end of the sentence. Her face was bright red and she looked anywhere but at Prussia.

Prussia looked over at Matthew who quickly diverted his gaze from Prussia, looking over at the bonfire where Prussia was previously staring at.

Matthew felt Prussia’s gaze leave him, and the albino sighed placing his beer on the oak table.

“U-Uh… sure.” Prussia replied with walking over to where the other couples were dancing.

The girl looked over at him, surprise written all over her face. She obviously didn’t expect him to say yes. A toothy smile covered the girls face and she giggled as she followed Prussia over to the dancing couples.

Once the two of them reached the other couples the song instantly changed to a slower song. The girl instantly placed her hand in Prussia’s much larger ones and placed her other hand on his shoulder. Matthew saw that Prussia had put his hand, very reluctantly, on the girl’s waist. Then… the two started dancing.

Matthew noticed straight away that Prussia was actually a very good dancer. The albino caught the blondes gaze halfway through the song. Matthew quickly diverted his gaze, feeling blood rushing to his cheeks.

The violet-eyed boy sighed.

This was going to be a very long night…