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“That’s how you knew you liked me? At six years old??”
“I don’t know, Arthur!” Alfred spluttered in an almost whining tone, face reddening, as he flopped back down onto the bed, covering his face with his hands. “There was more to it, but I’m not explaining it very well, okay!?”
“I just— I just can’t believe that you—”
“Do you remember?” Alfred asked, cutting him off. “That first summer you were here?”
Arthur hesitated. “... What about it?”
“You know—” Alfred gestured awkwardly here and there, before making a strange flittering motion with his fingers, as though that explained everything. “The June bug thing?”
Arthur paled. “Oh, god...”
Arthur remembered. Of course he remembered.
The June bug incident.
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An incident between their son, Peter, and the neighbor's daughter, Wendy, raises a question Arthur never thought to ask, and serves as an unexpected reminder of one of the stranger moments between him and Alfred when they first met as young children.
Written for Day 1 of the ☆USUK+UKUS Lounge☆'s Transatlantic Summer of Love Event for the prompt "Summer Nostalgia"!
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- Part 7 of Esper’s Libertea One-Shots
- Part 1 of Esper’s Transatlantic Summer of Love 2025 Submissions