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USUK, Punk!Arthur meets Alfred at the McDonald's where Alfred works together with his brother Matthew after a concert he gave. Arthur and his band are getting more and more famous. Arthur seems to be somewhat liked by Alfred, so he doesn't know how to react on that. Fail summary.

Hamburgers with Rockin' Tea

Chapter 1

By HamburgerWithTea

Arthur had to hurry. He had to eat something before even the very last fast food restaurant would close. He hated to go to the McDonald's. But he had no choice, since it was already 2am and he was dead tired after the concert. He had been playing at some pretty well-known pub this night, together with the rest of the band, and the audience seemed to love their music. They loved it so much they kept asking for more. So that's how they ended up playing twice as much then they usually did. So now he was running to grab some fast food before the McDonald's would close and he'd end up without food.

Normally he'd just cook himself something nice, but tonight he was way to tired. And also, the guitar-bag on his back didn't help him getting home fast either.

"I will take my time to sleep tomorrow, I really deserve some proper sleep after I've been this busy with the band lately," he thought.

He finally arrived at his destination; the McDonald's. He hated this bloody place! It's food was disgusting and they didn't even serve some bloody tea! But once again he remembered he didn't have a choice. He'd have to either eat here or be hungry the whole night, and since he wouldn't be able to sleep when hungry, it was better to just eat something.

The restaurant was almost empty. Only two tables were in use; one was in the corner of the restaurant, there sat some average guy, "Probably a truck driver," popped into Arthur's mind, and the at the other table there was a business man sitting. Both seemed to have finished their meals and were getting ready to continue on their way to their next destination, which would probably be either home or some hotel.

As he walked toward the counter to order something to eat, the guy behind the counter kept smiling at him as if it was his natural facial expression.

"How can someone be so happy at this late hour?" thought Arthur.

"And what would you like to order, bro?" the guy asked.

"Just a hamburger and some chips, please," said Arthur, a bit annoyed "and don't call me bro! The name is Arthur!"

"Okay then! Also, nice to meet you, Arthur!" the guy said, still smiling way to happy in Arthur's opinion. "My name's Alfred F. Jones!" the guy said very proudly.

Arthur felt really annoyed; what would he bloody hell care about the name of a guy he doesn't even know? All he cared about now was to eat something and then go home and sleep!

"There you go!" said Alfred, while he placed a hamburger and some chips in front of him.

"Why do I even bother to remember his name?" is what Arthur asked himself inwardly.

"Thanks," murmured Arthur.

He was a bit shocked as he noticed Alfred sat down on the seat on the other side of the table.

"Bloody he-" he said.

"Aah it's so nice to sit here and have a nice talk, after a good day of work," Alfred said. "It's really hard to work so late, you know, but I like this job so I'm okay with it."

"Well then, that's very nice for you," Arthur said, while he tried to ignore the annoying guy in front of him. He disliked this kind of people, who always try to meddle with other people's problems.

"Ah you see the guy over there?" Alfred asked, pointing at another employee. Arthur hadn't noticed the employee before.

"That's my little brother! His name is Matthew!" Alfred continued, "He also works here! But he mostly does the cleaning instead of taking orders."

Arthur noticed that Alfred and the guy that was cleaning did look alike. Only they seemed to have to totally opposite character; Alfred was all hyper and annoyinginly-interested in everything, while his brother seemed to be more calm and almost invisible.

Still Alfred was smiling brightly. He seems to wait for an answer, so Arthur gave him one.

"Yeah you two do look alike," he said. At least he could be honest.

"Haha we hear that a lot! So what do you do for a living?" asked Alfred.

"That guy sure does ask a lot of questions! Doesn't he think its rude to ask so much without even knowing the person?"

"I work at a part-time job in a music store to gain some money, but I prefer to earn my money by performing with the band I'm in."

"Ooh a band?" the other guy asked with the smile which seemed to have been frozen on his face, "What kind of music do you guys play? What's your instrument? Do you guys sing? Where do you perform?"

"Doesn't this guy ever stop asking questions?"

"We perform at the local pubs. We usually play our own songs, which are a mixture of rock and metal and that kind of music. Also, I play the guitar and do the lead singing. We're getting quiet famous lately, it won't take long until I can cancel my job at the music store and start a living with the money I get from the performances." Arthur answered.

It surprised himself how much he talked, normally he would've just ignored the guy and continue eating his hamburger (which was now kind of cold, since he'd spoken so much he totally forgot about his food).

Maybe it was because of the unwavering smile the guy opposite from him had?

"That's so awesome!" Alfred told him, "I plan on becoming a hero once I get enough money by working!"

"A hero?"

"Yeah! A really awesome hero! I would save people and help people! I would make the world a better place!"

Was this guy some kind of grown-up child? How stupid was he exactly? Everyone knew there didn't exist any heroes in this world!

"Ah.." was all Arthur could replay. Both since he'd just put the very last, big piece of hamburger in his mouth so he could barely speak, but also since he suddenly felt how tired he really was.

He really felt like falling asleep right there, but he knew he had to get home.

"Are you okay, Artie?" Alfred asked, looking worried. "You look really tired! Shall I walk with you on your way home? Mattie sure won't mind to clean up by himself tonight!"

Arthur felt embarrassed. No way in hell he'd let a guy, especially this one, walk him home! He wasn't some kind of sissy! He could walk home by himself just fine!

But he didn't say so. He was to tired to properly say so. Also his voice was a bit hoarse after the concert, so it the end he only opened his mouth and closed it again.

"Well Mattie, you okay with it right? This guy really needs some sleep. Where do you live, bro?"

He started calling him 'bro' again. Arthur normally would've said him to not call him like that, but he didn't care right now. All he could care about was how fast he was going to get home and get into his bed to sleep.

He could feel how he was helped to stand up. He was glad he was getting support of that body next to him.

Should he be grateful? No, he remembered, it was that annoying guy!

But still he was happy to be taken care of… He was so tired…

He heard Alfred say goodbye to Matthew and they walked out of the restaurant.

On their way to Arthurs apartment they didn't speak. The other guy finally seemed to have noticed how tired he was.

Alfred dropped him off in front of his home, and after Arthur murmured something that sounded like "Thanks", he left, with a big smile on his face.

Arthur dropped his guitar-bag right there where he stood, and walked up to the couch.

There he fell in a deep sleep, with the last thing that popped into his mind was the warm smile of that stupid wannabe-hero. He grinned.

/Author's note/

Yeah my very first fanfic, and also my very first story ever, so I know how crappy it is, and I really wish you could help me if some grammar is wrong, some words are miss-spelled or if some sentence just sounds weird. Feel free to comment anything.

Also please tell me when I messed up the names D:

Also I'd love receiving some critique, since it could help me a lot!

Of course every comment / review is welcome…

English isn't my native language, so please don't be hard on me if you see some mistakes…

I know this story was crappy, but I just wanted to try…

Also, it doesn't have a mature rating now, since it's only shounen-ai for now, which is like T rated, but maybe in some future chapters it'll have to be rated M, but we'll see if I even get this far…

Also I don't know how regularly I will update, since I'm not used to writing this much and also I'm very busy… especially with school…

Thank you for reading, and please rate + comment! (and fav if you like ;D)

Also I hope you don't mind the lame title of this story . I fail at life..

I do not own Hetalia or the characters, those belong to their rightful (awesome) creator, Hidekaz Himaruya!

(03/28/11)