Shades

Chapter 5

Truth." Ame said confidently. Uke thought for a moment.

"What do you miss not being able to see? Wait...you weren't born blind right?" Uke asked. Ame shook his head.

"I miss not being able to watch the sun set, but something I miss more is..." he stopped and wiped the tears forming at the edges of his eyes. "I miss not being able to see my family's faces. I'm never going to truly know what my baby brother and sister are going to look like. I'm not going to be able to see the change in their faces. I just wish I could see their happy smiles...even if it was just once." Ame said, by now he had given up on trying not to cry. It was embarrassing to him, the fact that he was crying in front of his friends. They all looked at him wide eyed, not really expecting such a deep answer.

"A-Ame I'm sorry I-" Uke stumbled on his words, Canada reached out and set his hand on his brother's leg. Ame took a deep breath, trying to calm down.

"H-hey maybe we should play something else?"Japan suggested.

"Y-Yeah." SK said. Ame felt bad, he didn't mean to start crying or make everyone else uncomfortable.

They played a few more party games, like 7 mins in heaven, would you rather, and a few others. By now it was around midnight and they all voted to watch a movie, but not just any movie, a horror movie. Because you thought it couldn't get any more cliché than this. Pretty much everyone except Ame, Rus, and Uke was scared out of their minds. They were all clinging to each other, Ame was just trying not to fall asleep, he was quite tired. Rus and Uke on the other hand were doing just fine. Eventually the movie ended and they all decided to go to sleep.

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The room was dark. Almost pitch black, the only light being a small window that was letting in some moonlight. The boy had given up on trying to pull himself free from the chains around his wrists. Then he heard it. The continuous sound of someone walking towards him. He pulled at the chains, the clanged together as he struggled.

There was a deep chuckle, it sent shivers down the boy's spine. Then there was pain, so much pain. He cried as his other eyes became blurry from the blood...so much blood. He started to choke on it. There was too much. He screamed. Screaming for anything. Maybe someone would hear him and come to save him. Probably not. Maybe, just maybe, he would see them again. He started to choke more, he couldn't breath, he couldn't see. He-

America opened his eyes only to feel someone's hands over them, and over his mouth too. Out of instinct he grabbed the arms of whoever this was, he dug his nails into their skin. He pushed and pulled but he couldn't get them off. After a minute or two he started to come to his senses again, Ame let his hands fall to the ground beside him. His breathing was back to a normal pace now.

"Ok Ame, you need to calm down." He heard Canada whisper to him. He tried his best to take deep breaths. After a little while of Canada just whispering things to his brother Ame finally had calmed down enough. He started to feel tears pouring down his cheeks. His eyes still hurt like hell, so did his throat, but they would get better later. Ame reaches up and hugged his brother.

"I just want to be normal." He sobbed quietly into Nada's shoulder.

"Please, just make it stop." He managed to say through the sobs. Canada sighed.

"Sshhhhhhhhh," he whispered into Ame's ear, just trying to keep him calm.

"It hurts, it hurts so much." Ame mumbled. Russia looked over at the two.

"Is he okay?" Russia asked. Canada shot his gaze towards Russia, he didn't think that he's woken anyone.

"Is anyone else awake?" Nada asked. There was silence as Russia just looked at the two brothers. Canada sighed and picked up his brother.