The Fake Smile He Wears

Chapter 10

Sorry for the late chapter, my lazy ass was procrastinating, so sorry guys! As always thanks for the reads! Sorry that you have to deal with my procrastinating, I'm just tired, that's all. I just don't want to do anything, but I want to do something, and it just sucks. Enough about my crappy potato life and on with the story.
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America was lost in his thoughts like usual. He criticized himself even more than he already was. He was always like this and he couldn't help it.

"Hey don't criticize yourself too much. I have secrets no one knows too, okay. Everyone here does, and we're all bound to know them all. Even if we don't want to. I mean look at you. You didn't want this, yet it happened anyways. Life has it's ways, maybe this is to help you. It may not seem like it now, but I just have this gut feeling that everything is going to turn out fine. Maybe we'll all come out as better people. Who knows? Life is unpredictable, we all know that very well." Denmark says positively. His voice upbeat and happy. His smile was fake. His eyes were just sad, to simply put. He was trying to cheer up Al. Trying real hard. It seemed to work. Seemed to. He could never tell. No one could. He was a book they translated wrong, and later they finally figured out what it was actually saying. But the more they read, the more cryptic, and sorrowful it gets. How deep does this hole go? How much more do they have to read? How much more do they have to see? How many more painful truths do they have to learn? Cause honestly he doesn't want to know anymore. The more things he learn, the more he realizes how he never really was close to Al. He was just as far as the others. And he didn't want to accept that. He didn't want to accept any of the things he learned today, he doubted he was the only one who felt that way. But he had to accept the painful truths, just as some of the others has. He wish things could be back to normal and it's just them hanging out as the awesome trio. It could never be normal like that again. Anyways the person they were friends with never existed. How was he going to tell Gil? How? He would be heartbroken and sad, even more than he already is. He was already struggling, as the only ex-nation alive. He had already been through so many painful things the others wouldn't understand, he never told any of them for a reason. But now what? How was he going to handle this? How?!? His head was screaming with thoughts, he couldn't handle. Just as he was thinking of all of this, something fell out of the vents. That something was Prussia. He landed perfectly in the middle of the table, surrounded by who knows how many countries. Everyone stared at him, except America. He laughed sheepishly, as he scratched his back, out of habit.

"I can explain!" Prussia says out of habit. He noticed no one asked for an explanation. He was originally here to pull a prank on everyone. But then all of this happened, and he couldn't find an excuse or reason to being here. After the break, he disappeared, and everyone kind of forgot about him, so he took it as a perfect opportunity to pull a prank on everyone. So he stayed there, silently crying at times. He heard everything and it made him heartbroken. To see everyone so sad and somber. Especially his two best buddies. Denmark and America so sad, it hurt. The two seemingly happy nations, were now, so broken. He could fix Denmark, it'll take a little work sure, but nothing's too hard if your try hard enough, but how can he fix America? He's more broken than he was. They may call themselves the awesome trio, but in reality they're really the broken trio. They've tried to invite the Italy brothers, but they declined, saying it'll ruin their facade. They understood and decided that they would be secret members, and they would all meet secretly every week. They made sure to not be seen all together, or it would make it suspicious. At the meeting they would tell the others whatever they wanted to. America always seemed to look better, but was he? He realized that he never shared his burdens like the others did. He knew that his burdens were too heavy to hold. He knew and that's why he would tell them lies. His burdens were heavier than the rest of them. That's why he never told anyone, because if they knew they knew, everyone would've been heavily burdened, and he knows it. The burdens he carried were heavier thane everyone for a reason. Even though he didn't know America as much as he would like to. He cared for him and Mat like brothers. He couldn't bear the sight of seeing them like this. So he decided to make a dramatic entrance, to help lighten the mood and make everyone laugh. And it worked tremendously.