Well, I'm sure everyone's been looking forward to this ever since I posted the poll for it! Well, SG-chan's assuming that everyone's looking forward to it, since out of the 9 votes total (really? Only 9 votes?) 3 went to Spellbound being posted first, while the other 6 went to Love in G Major ^^ So here's the first chapter of SG-chan's USUK Nyotalia High school AU!
Wait, we needs a disclaimer *clears throat*Ahem.
I, SG-chan, being of sound mind and body (Ha! that's a laugh), do hereby admit that she does not own Hetalia in any way, shape or form (besides a totally awesome shirt and hopefully an Iggy body pillow for my birthday), and that she does not make any money from this story. She would like to go on further and state that there are some OCs in this story that belong to SG-chan, and also that if you do not like yuri/shoujo-ai, yaoi/shounen-ai, or relationships of any kind, then to pick the back button, because this story contains all three.
Welp, that's done with. Oh, if you want to read the whole summary for this story, it is available on my profile. You gotta scroll down a bit, but it's there. Anywho, read on!
They say that just the simple flutter of a butterfly's wings can snowball until it starts a hurricane thousands of miles away. I'm not really interested in that sort of thing. Right now I've got one, no, make that two goals.
One, to protect my sister from that Beilschmidt chick who keeps flirting with her. I have no problems with her dating a girl, but I draw the line when she starts getting flirted with by someone who's got a reputation. Two, I'm going to be Alice Kirkland's hero. Why? Well, it's complicated. Let's just say it's a long story and leave it at that.
Oh, you want to know how I'm going to be Alice's hero. Well, first I have to convince Maddy I'm not moving in on her turf. After that… it's an open game.
"Maddy!"
Aemilia Jones, more affectionately known as 'Em' to her family and close friends, slammed the door open to her sister's room. "I'm gonna be joining you in choir!" Aemilia grinned like she had just found the cure for cancer.
Madeleine "Maddy" Williams was less than impressed with her sister's grandstanding. "Leave."
"Wh- but Maddy!" Aemilia whined. "I thought you'd like having the extra company!"
"I'm fine with my 'company' the way it is," Madeleine glowered. "Everyone already pays attention to you Em, why do you want to do this?"
"To protect you, duh!" Aemilia rolled her eyes. "Geez Maddy, you'd think someone as smart as you would be able to tell when I've got an awesomely heroic plan in the works!"
"Is this about Gretchen?" Madeleine sighed as she reclined in her chair. "I told you Em, that's just how she is; she flirts with everybody!"
"Exactly!" the blue-eyed blonde exclaimed. "She should only be flirting with you if she actually means it; I won't let anyone break my little sis's heart!"
"Em, I'm the older one here," Madeleine sighed, a slight blush crossing her face as she played with the end of one long blonde pigtail. She appreciated her sister's attempts to 'help', she really did, but Em was such a character, she could be overwhelming sometimes.
"Only by, like, a minute!" Aemilia retorted flipping her shoulder-length hair back.
"How did you get Mr. Edelstein to let you join anyway?" Maddy asked out of morbid curiosity.
"Hmm? Oh, I ran into his fiancée the other day, asked her if they needed another person and she said I'd be more than welcome."
"Of course," Madeleine muttered to herself. "Just don't upset anyone too much. Please."
"Yeah yeah," Aemilia agreed. "So what do I have to wear?"
"Birdie!" Gretchen Beilschmidt exclaimed as she saw the blonde girl. "I missed you!" she whined as she hugged her. "Weekends are too long to go without hearing your lovely song."
"G-Gretchen," Madeleine blushed brightly.
"Ahem."
Gretchen looked past her target of affections to see a girl who looked similar to Maddy, in that she had the same expression Madeleine did when she was trying to figure out a particularly difficult section of a song. "Who are you?"
"Aemilia Jones," the girl replied, her expression friendly, save for her eyes. "You can also call me 'your worst nightmare should you hurt my sis' if you like."
Geez, she hadn't seen a smile that hostile since her vati kicked out her old boyfriend Fritz for cheating on her – not that she'd really minded since they really didn't have that spark anymore, but it had scared her. "Listen, Birdie's perfectly safe with me. I don't fuck around like some people do!" She called the last bit over her shoulder.
"So nice to hear what you think of me ma cherie!" called a blond boy from the other side of the room. "I think the world of you as well!"
Gretchen responded to this by giving him a one-fingered salute. "I wouldn't touch you with a five-meter pole Francis!" She turned back to Aemilia. "Aside from Frenchie we're all okay. Well, no one can really beat how awesome I am, though Sakura comes a close second to Birdie."
"I'm just making sure you don't break my sister's heart!" Aemilia chirped, far too happily for it to have been natural Gretchen realized.
"Hey, you wanna call off your attack dog any time soon?" she inquired soto voce.
"We're stuck with her for the rest of the year," Madeleine sighed.
"Seriously?" the albino complained. "Verdammt, that is no fun!" she pouted at Aemilia. "Birdie, make her go away!"
Madeleine blushed as she felt Gretchen press snugly against her back as she linked her arms around her waist. "C-c'mon Em," she stuttered as she slapped the other girl away. "Let's introduce you to everyone."
"'Kay!" Aemilia agreed, again far too cheerfully for Gretchen's comfort.
"Everyone, this is my sister Aemilia," Madeleine introduced to the group of people scattered throughout the room, most who were already paying attention.
"Hey Tori!" Aemilia greeted a mousy-looking brunette.
"Hello Aemilia," Tori replied. "How was your summer?"
"Awesome, thanks!" Aemilia grinned.
"Like, how do you know her?" the blond boy sitting next to Tori asked.
"We both help out with Peer Tutoring; Aemilia's really good at math," Tori told him.
Ah, I'm so-so," Aemilia grinned sheepishly.
"Ah, so you are Madeleine's sister." The boy Gretchen had been shouting at gave a small bow as he approached them. "Would you give me the pleasure of hearing your voice cry out in song?"
"Don't pay him any mind," Gretchen scoffed as Aemilia's expression darkened and she seemed about two seconds from punching the blond's lights out. "Francis is a manwhore, but he's reliable in a pinch."
"Hola!" the dark-haired boy who accompanied Francis over grinned. "I'm Antonio Carriedo."
"Oh, you're the one Lovino's always talking about!" Aemilia realized.
"You know mi Lovinito?" Antonio's expression lit up.
"Yeah, we had Spanish and lunch together third tri of last year. He was always going on about 'that tomato bastard'."
"Aww, mi pequeñito tomate does care!" Antonio's grin was blinding as he hugged himself gleefully.
"Yeah Antonio, like, we all know how much you, like, totally love Lovino." The blond who'd asked how Aemilia and Tori knew each other rolled his eyes. "I'm Feliks, Tori's boyfriend."
"Nice to meet ya," Aemilia replied.
"Hey guys, sorry we're late!" A group of four boys entered the room, the foremost grinning while the others wore deadpan expressions. "We ran into some complications-"
"Matthias couldn't find his car keys," a boy who wore a cross-shaped hairpin interrupted as he draped his coat over one of the chairs.
"Lukas!" Matthias whined. "You meanie!"
"Who's she?" the shortest of the four asked, his violet eyes questioning.
"This is my sister Aemilia," Madeleine introduced her. "Em, that's Matthias-"
"Yo!" the first boy grinned.
"-Lukas-"
The boy with the hairpin merely nodded.
"-Nikolas, and Xian." She pointed to the remaining two, identifying the former as the boy who'd asked who Aemilia was, and the latter a dark-haired boy with golden-tinged eyes.
"Pleased to meet you," Xian greeted politely. "Sakura-neechan says that she's picking up Angela and she will be here in a few minutes."
"Thank you Xian," a girl with glasses and long blonde pigtails said as she came out from the teacher's office. She stood in front of Aemilia, giving her a once-over. "You're Aemilia Jones?" she inquired stiffly.
"That's me!" Aemilia grinned.
"Alice Kirkland," the girl introduced herself. "I'm the section leader for the sopranos and altos - that buffoon over there is section leader for the basses and tenors," she muttered, indicating to Francis, who winked and blew Alice a kiss. She wrinkled her nose in reply. "So which part do you sing?" Alice turned her attention back to Aemilia.
"Part? Well, I can sing both high and low," Aemilia replied, scratching her head a little sheepishly. "I've never really thought about it before."
Alice sighed. "All right, then let's do a range check." She sat down at the piano that sat in the middle of the room, and Aemilia followed her over. The pigtailed girl decided to start easy and began the scale at middle C. "Now sing on 'Ah' up the scale," she instructed. "Keep going until it's too uncomfortable for you." Aemilia did so, nervously rocking back and forth on the balls of her feet as Alice made a quick scribble on a notepad on the top of the piano. "Now go down, and stop when it gets too low." Alice made another small note before she turned her gaze to an excitedly nervous Aemilia. "Well, in the end Mr. Edelstein has the last say, but I think he'll agree with me putting you with the altos."
"Yay! Maddy, I get to sing with you!" The blonde glomped her sister.
"Em, we would've sung together even if you weren't an alto," Madeleine sighed.
"Madeleine, could you get your sister caught up on Separate Ways?"
"Sure," Madeleine nodded.
"Wait, the school year hasn't even started and you guys already have a song?" Aemilia wondered.
"It's not just singing you know; we have to learn coreography too, and you have to have the song down pat for that," Feliks explained.
"Mr. Edelstein and his fiancée usually give us free reign over which songs we do so long as they aren't too racy or retro," Matthias gave his input. "Last year we didn't have enough time to fit this one in so we decided to do it this year."
"Hey guys! Sorry we're late!" a short blonde girl exclaimed as she came in, followed by two more silent people that Aemilia recognized from her chem and film classes.
"Hey Sakura, Angie," she greeted.
"Have you joined show choir Amiria-san, or are you simpry here to keep Maderin-san company?" Sakura Honda, a rather quiet girl who took Film Studies with Aemilia, asked.
"Yes to the first," the blonde grinned.
"Are you joining sopranos or altos?" Angela Lang asked.
"Well, Ally says it's really up to Mr. Edelstein but that he'll probably agree with me being an alto."
"My name is Alice, not Ally," Alice rebuked as she tapped Aemilia on the head with a folder.
"You can call me Em if ya want," Aemilia grinned.
Alice rolled her eyes though her cheeks became dusted with light pink. "Here's your folder. Keep you music in here and please don't lose it; sheet music is more expensive than you'd think." Alice glared at the other girl over the tops of her glasses.
"Will do Ally!" Aemilia promised cheerfully.
"My name is Alice! Not Ally or Al or any stupid nickname you come up with; Alice!"
The pigtailed girl's eyes were a venemous shade of green and Aemilia briefly wondered if she would start spitting fire. "Yessir Madame Kirkland sir," she agreed solemnly.
For a moment there was utter silence and you could have heard a pin drop.
"We're going to start warm-ups until Ms. Herdevary gets here, and you will not call me any sort of diminutive of my first name or I. Will. Gut you. Do I make myself crystal clear?"
"Extremely," Aemilia replied softly.
"Good." Alice's lips turned upward in a smirk. "Let's not have any more of these incidents, hmm?" The rest of the students gathered around the instrument, no on daring to mention the confrontation while it was still fresh in everyone's minds.
The little blonde girl who'd accompanied Sakura and Angela in whispered quickly: "Try not to antagonize her too much; the last time that happened was at a competition down in Albert Lea and we nearly got kicked out."
"Wow, and thanks for the info, um..."
"Oh, Hina'ea," the blonde gripped Aemilia's hand quickly. "Hina'ea Gavai." Aemilia nodded to Hina'ea but didn't get a chance to ask how Alice nearly got kick out of the Albert Lea competition before the group began singing scales.
So how did it go? Did y'all enjoy it? I hope so.
SG-chan is just realizing now how hard it is going to be to write people singing and dancing. Meh, oh well. She has experience with both so it'll be a bit easier ^^; Oh, the thing about the Albert Lea competition is based off of an experience from eighth grade. Our group got in trouble because we started a chant against Simley during the awards ceremony. Surprisingly enough, we got an award for most spirit -_-;;;
Hina'ea and Angela are state-tans that SG-chan created a while back, and there will be more OCs later on. Not too many, but just a warning for those of you who don't like OCs. I don't think they're too bad or Mary Sues or whatever, but some people might :\
If you have any questions about who's who, then just PM SG-chan, or leave it in a review, which you should do anyway. Review, I mean x3
