★ Eight - Wake up Little Susie

[redwhiteandhero]

A] 1445 Mitchell Road - Morning

[Ahhh, what a lovely sunny day in Mayfield! Assuming all that other mess is done with. America feels exceptionally well-rested today!

He puts on his bathrobe and slippers and heads downstairs to pick up the newspaper off the front porch before starting on breakfast, and-- wait.

July 23rd?]

I missed my birthday!?

B] Neutron Diner - Afternoon

[Bummed out about apparently misplacing three weeks somewhere, including the most important day of the year, America has helped himself to a very large ice cream sundae and is eating it all by himself.]

Comments

[redwhiteandhero]

[What, jealous?]

Yeah, he came over to help out around the house and stuff after the first war. That's how come we're good buds.

[willbeurprincess]

[No never.

Maybe slightly. :| JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE HAS LIET LIVED WITH]

O-Oh. I didn't even realize...I'm afraid I don't know much about what happened with Eastern Europe during the wars. That explains how you know each other though.

[redwhiteandhero]

[EVERYONE. That little hussy.]

He was pretty much flat broke.

[willbeurprincess]

I--I see. I suppose I didn't think about how much the war must have cost...

[Physically and emotionally, she had thought about those things after she had seen Lithuania's scars. Yet somehow the obvious monetary things hadn't even occurred to her]

[redwhiteandhero]

Yeah, only then-- well, y'know-- and I couldn't afford to keep him around anymore. S'too bad, he's areal nice guy t'live with.

[willbeurprincess]

[Her face falls just slightly] I'm afraid I don't really... I suppose you must have had your share of expenses as well.

[redwhiteandhero]

[C'mon Koharu, not knowing Lithuanian history is understandable, but not knowing American history is unacceptable.]

Nah, I mean, I was alright after the war. It was the stock crash.

[Now he's gonna start stuffing his face with ice cream again.]

[willbeurprincess]

...Oh. [She will just fiddle with her milkshake straw and stare at the table awkwardly]

[redwhiteandhero]

[Om nom nom god as my witness I'll never be hungry again.]

But yeah, y'r lucky!

[He's gotten really good at talking with his mouth full. He's almost completely intelligible.]

[willbeurprincess]

...I'm lucky? [She thinks what what he said]

[redwhiteandhero]

He'll take good care of you.

[willbeurprincess]

[She flushes despite herself and nods slightly] I know. He's my k-knight. A-Ah um, you probably want to get back to your sundae.

[redwhiteandhero]

Your knight?

[willbeurprincess]

It's something silly--Just something silly from home. I ah...had a knight, Sora--or she liked to say she was a knight who protected princesses. Lithunia...he's very much a knight.

[redwhiteandhero]

It's sorta old-fashioned, but I guess that works for him.

[willbeurprincess]

I told you it was s-silly! [Face buried in hands]

[redwhiteandhero]

Naw, don't get all embarrassed!

[willbeurprincess]

N-No I know it's silly really.

[redwhiteandhero]

You're a real cutie.

[willbeurprincess]

[Bright red help] N-No I'm not really--I just--[...Head in hands again ff]