Oh god. What DID I just do?

My eyes (bad as they are) weren't lying. On my screen, the webpage still broadcasted my success like a well-lit billboard. As I sat there floundering, I realized just how much trouble I had gotten myself into.

Oh, wait. You don't have a clue about what is going on, do you? Sorry about that. I'll fill you in.

It started out just like any other day in the life of a seventeen-year-old… well, maybe not any other day, or any other teen for that matter. Let's just say it's the average day for a geeky, anime-obsessed, antisocial girl. That's me, if you were wondering.

Anyway, on this much-too-average day among many, I was at home alone, again. And my computer was being disagreeable, again. Asher (What, a person can't name their computer?)is very selective on what he does and doesn't load, and luckily for me, he was being uncharacteristically kind and loading my favorite free Tetris site, where my predicament begins. I'm not one to brag, but I'm really very good at Tetris, so when I saw that the site was hosting a contest, I just had to see what it was about.

Curiosity killed the cat. I'm not a cat, but it will most certainly kill me one day.

So dangerously-curious me just absolutely has to click to see what this amazing contest is about. To be completely honest, I was expecting a simple site-wide score-based contest. And I was right. But much to my surprise, there was a prize. (See what I did there? Surprise, prize? Oh, I'm sorry, I'm interrupting, aren't I?) An AMAZING prize, for that matter. The site was offering Hetalia units to whoever won. Now, I did mention that I was completely anime-obsessed, right? Well, Hetalia definitely did not escape my obsessiveness, and as such, there was no way that I was missing this contest.

Cue Tetris playing. Six hours of Tetris playing. If you were wondering, no, I do not have a social life. Thanks for reminding me. With an impressive final score of somewhere around fifty-thousand, I finally decided that seeing 't' blocks when I blinked was not a good thing and called it quits. Anyone who plays Tetris will probably be asking themselves '50.000? In six hours? What did you do, play on level one the whole time?' The answer to that is no, I did not. I do, however, have a particularly affectionate cat that chooses the most inopportune moments to sit on poor Asher's keyboard and make me have to start over.

Anyway, I submitted my score and looked for a way to wait out the two days until the contest results were posted. And because I'm a nice person, I'm not going to bore you with every detail of World of Warcraft playing and OCD window cleaning and generally being bored of those two days. No, I'm going to skip right to the part where I look at the high-score table to see…. That I won. Now, being me, the most unlucky person alive (by many standards) I was completely shocked.

It's your turn to ask 'Just how unlucky are you?' I'm unlucky enough that, hypothetically, if I bought a lottery ticket, later that day the lottery office would explode. And then WWIII would break out. And then my cat would pee on Asher. So actually winning something was an amazingly new concept for me. Following the directions on the page for the winner of the contest, I checked my email and saw a simple few-worded message. "Thank you for participating in our contest, and Congratulations on winning! Your first Hetalia unit will arrive in 2-5 business days. We sincerely hope that you will enjoy your experience. ~F.M.B. Co."

And then, I realized who the cast of Hetalia is. None of them had any semblance of sanity, except maybe Germany, China, and Canada. I could end up with a trigger-happy Swiss, a hyperactive dim-witted Italian, a violent loud-mouthed Italian… or Russia. He doesn't get any adjectives. He just doesn't. Don't get me wrong, Russia is one of my favorite characters. But actually having him in my house…

This is where I realized what I had just done. Oh god.