Nightmares

America and Russia are complete opposites of each other-or, at least, that's what everybody believes. One of them has been faking it.

Who?
America.

Why?
He feels as though he has to put up a mask to hide his distress over the effects 8 month's worth of nightmares has caused him. He doesn't want to feel as though he were a burden to whoever knew, and he felt that virtually nobody would care anyway.

He was doing good for a while, with the whole hiding thing, until Winter Break ended. Everything only went downhill from there. His cover started slipping, and people started noticing. This included Russia, who had been paired with America for the grading period. Neither knew much of anything about the other, mostly going off of assumptions, and yet he still noticed something was off.

He wasn't acting as, well, annoying as usual.

What will happen when America finally breaks? Will his fears come true, or will things take a completely different direction for him?

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here's a warning:
This book contains self-harm, depression, suicidal thoughts, cursing (major & minor), perhaps an attempted suicide, and gore. If any of this is a sensitive topic/trigger for you, please turn away now. If you're okay with this, then please continue on.

All art you will see in this book is probably going to be created by me, including the cover. The cover is a little old, though, so I'm going to fix it up soon.