World History was interesting. I had the class with most of the other exchange students. Taylor was talking with one of her friends who seemed really shy. It kinda looked like Taylor was trying to convince her to talk to me. I listened in to the conversation a little.

"Come on Antonia, just talk to him. He's really nice and I think you'd like him."

"Taylor. You know how I don't do well with talking to new people."

Taylor sighed. "You need to get out of your comfort zone every once in a while or you'll be confined to nothing." Taylor then stood up and walked over to me.

"She's shy. Sorry about that." She had a sad smile within her words.

"It's fine. Wait how did you know I-"

"I'm not an idiot, Alfred." I kept forgetting that she knows my name. "So welcome to World History. Speaking of which, what's your favorite subject to learn about?"

I sighed. I really liked learning about the American Revolution but it seemed really sad. Part of me almost teared up when we learned about it. I'd have to settle on the voyages of Christopher Columbus. "I think the voyages Christopher Columbus took were pretty cool. You know, he sorta found this country."

"Actually, our present day United States was first discovered b- yeah. I guess his voyages were pretty cool." She began to correct me but stopped. Weird. Most people would have been a total jerk about it, but Taylor? No. She just agreed with me. I was impressed.

"I think World War Two is probably my favorite." She disrupted me from my jumbled thoughts when she said this. I noticed a small smirk on her face almost like she expected me to counter her opinion. I didn't.

"Wow. A guy that doesn't disagree with every word that comes out of my mouth. Impressive." I noticed her smirk become more obvious. It was then that her friend decided to come meet me.

"Hi Alfred. I'm Antonia. Nice to meet you." Taylor jumped, a small yelp escaping her lips. "How many times have I told you? Don't freaking do that!" Taylor was now gritting her teeth after her remark, obviously to get her point across.

"Sorry. Not like I was trying to intentionally scare you." Taylor smiled. "It's fine. You know I don't care, right?"

"Alright everyone! Work on your daily warmup." Nice to meet that teacher formally. I sat down in a seat next to Arthur and close to Taylor. I looked up at the board and thought about the question: 'How did the bald eagle become the national animal of America?"

(Idek what kind of question that is but it was the first and most idiotic thing I could think of)

I sat in my seat contemplating this. I was really good with history but this is something I couldn't figure out. I finally asked Arthur.

"You think I know? At least you're American!" I rolled my eyes at his response. I heard a snicker from some kid behind me. I turned around. It was one of the kids from earlier. I remembered his name was Gilbert.

"And what would you be laughing at?" I asked as sassily as possible.

"Oh, nozing, just the matter of fact that you're American and you don't know the answer." I noticed he sounded extremely German. He kept laughing until some dude with dark brown hair and purple eyes slapped him.

"OW! WHAT ZHE HELL WAS ZHAT FOR?!" He yelled but no one seemed to notice.

"That's for being a stupid, annoying idiot that I somehow keep getting stuck with!" I had to cover up my smile with my hand. "By the way, blonde, American kid, what's your name?"

"Alfred, nice to meet ya broseph!"

"Eh, don't call me that. I'm Roderich."

It was then that the albino kid cut in:

"AND I'M GILBERT!"

I already know who you are...

"So... Where are you dudes from?" I asked, hoping that Roderich wouldn't slap me like he did to Gilbert.

"I'm from Austria and that idiot-"

"Awesome idiot" Gilbert corrected.

"I'm from Austria and that 'awesome' idiot is from Prussia." He said using hand quotations around 'awesome'

"Prussia doesn't ex-" Roderich slapped a hand over my mouth and leaned in really close.

"Never, ever, EVER say that Prussia doesn't exist. Hear me?"

I nodded.

"Good. Now just keep working, got it?"

I nodded again and kept went back to working.

"Okay, so today, we'll be discussing the American Revolution!" Our teacher said way to excitedly.

Most of the class groaned except for Arthur and I. We had a lot more in common than I thought. I saw movement in the corner of my eye and decided to turn around to see Taylor waving a pencil at me.

"Hey, you're not, like, crying or anything, right?" It was at that moment that I noticed my eyes were watering as well as Arthur's. I shook my head.

"No, I'm to heroic for that." I replied. Taylor's hand shot to her mouth and I could her quiet snickering. Her friend, Antonia, looked about ready to lose it, assuming she hadn't already.

-=+=-

We ended up watching some video instead of actually being taught. I was trying to pay attention but some annoying kids kept talking. I could tell that they already went to this school and that chances were, I would either hate them or they would become my best friends.

I could hear snoring behind me and turned around to see Gilbert asleep and Roderich trying to wake him up.

Have fun with that... I thought.

-=+=-

Class eventually ended after what felt like complete agonizing torture and feels. What? The Revolutionary War really hits a soft spot for me. 

I now had English class. Simple enough, right?

Not right. It was when I walked in that I realized I had no idea what was going on. The thing was, I'm pretty sure almost every other exchange student did know what was going on. The ironic thing is, I'm the only new student from this freaking country!

Clearly Arthur had noticed my confusion because he was silently laughing next to me.

"Do you really not have the simplest idea as to what's going on?" he said in his adorable British accent.

"No I totally know-" I stopped mid-sentence.

Did I just say adorable?

No. This was not possible. Was I falling for this jerk?

Eh, whatever. I'd get over it eventually. 

"You okay, Alfred?" Arthur asked for probably the fourth time.

"Oh, uh, um, yea." I replied, rubbing the back of my neck awkwardly. 

That was the end of our conversation.

-=+=-

So...

I added a little USUK. Hope you guys are okay with that.

But there may be a little Taylor x Alfred drama in the future...

PLS DON'T HATE ME.

But anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed. I tried to give you a longer update this time to make up for how long it's been since I last updated.

This story still has a really long time to go so I can promise you that it'll get better from here.

I'm also working on some different POV's so I can also promise that you won't have to deal with just Alfie. There will also be several new characters in the next 3-5 chapters. ;)