Title, St Hetalia High
Author, The Similar
Summary, Sometimes, everyone just wants to fit in. Become one with the crowd. That's sometimes difficult in a school like this. Complete Genflip, High School AU.
Pairings, AmericaXJapan, EnglandXAmerica, PrussiaXHungaryXAustria (I'll let you wait to figure this one exactly out hehe), ChinaXSKorea, RussiaXCanada, and a shit-ton more! It gets complicated! (But if you wanna know if your OTP is in here or something at all, drop me a review and I can do my best to answer).
Warnings, Swearing, general talk of sexuality.
Note, I tried to make it really obvious who was who, names-wise, but a names list will be provided at the bottom for everyone who appeared in this chapter.
Disclaim, I claim no ownership.
"I would like to formally thank you all again for attending the first school council meeting of the school year, even though the school year has yet to formally start." Alice began, shuffling the papers around in front of her in a very business-like manor. "Perhaps we should begin by introducing ourselves and our office duties."
Amelia stood up at this, smacking her hands down on the table, grinning maniacally. Madeline blushed at her sister's flamboyant display.
"Well, obviously, I'm the hero, so I should go first!" Amelia fist-pumped, facing the six other girls around her. "I'm Amelia F. Jones and I'm the vice president!"
"Hey!" Alice snapped, standing up too, trying to ignore the furious flush that crossed her face. "I was going to start, because I'm the president!"
"Whatever, the president does nothing." Amelia said flippantly, sitting back down and turning her head away from Alice.
Alice blushed again, trying to conceal her embarrassment by arrogantly flipping one of her long pigtails back over her shoulder. "Well, I'm Alice Kirkland, this year's student council president. As I have been for the last three years." She sat down, flicking a small glance to Sakura, who was sitting beside Amelia, the large lockbox in front of her nearly obscuring her from view.
Said girl stood up, bowing her head slightly. "I am Sakura Honda, this year's treasurer."
Madeline began to speak about herself, but was interrupted when her sister stood up again instead. "This really shouldn't be necessary, we were all here last year, and I think we know each other."
"Agreed, it would be a waste of time." The blonde sitting arms crossed in the corner seat agreed. Said blonde looked around, feeling slightly uncomfortable now that Daisy hadn't been voted back onto student council.
"I think this tradition is important!" Alice said, pride wounded.
"Bullshit, we shouldn't act so cold all the time." Amelia argued.
"I disagree with both of you!" Marianne said, and then ignored their rebuttals, pulling out a red rose and offering it to Madeline, who was trying to sink through her seat and into the floor.
"Mm, no, thank you!" Madeline squeaked, refusing the French woman's gesture.
"Don't you agree with me, Maddie?" Amelia turned from her loud argument with Alice, to her sister.
"Who?" The awkward, irritated blonde, Louise, asked Amelia in a very slight German accent.
Madeline blushed a fiercer red as the classroom they were using as a makeshift student council office dissolved into chaos.
"Perhaps I can offer you two some authentic Chinese candy?" Madeline heard the Chinese transfer, Chun-Yan, ask Marianne as she argued loudly with Alice, a smile on her face as she insulted British cooking. Alice seemed to be extremely ticked off and Madeline wondered how the conversation had shifted.
The door burst open suddenly, a large, bulky silhouette appearing. Everyone froze mid-fight as Ivana waltzed in, taking a far seat from everyone else at the table.
"I am sorry that I am late." She said simply, smiling happily at the silent, shocked student council.
"Hey, Iggy, how did she make it back on?" Amelia mock-whispered to Alice, loud enough for everybody to hear, except for maybe Ivana. If Ivana did hear it, she didn't let on.
"I don't know and I told you to stop calling me that," Alice said back, dumbfounded. The identities of the student council were left secret until the first meeting, which happened approximately a week before the rest of the school arrived.
Alice brushed past the incident. "Marianne, though I hate to leave such a large duty to a lecherous frog such as you, you are the student council's voice, so I have to request a beginning-year speech from you."
Marianne grinned, gripping the edge of the table with vigour as she stood up, her skirt bouncing happily around her thighs. "Why of course, I shall take this task to my heart!" She said grandly, a happy smile on her face.
Alice rolled her eyes. "We also have to address the issue of money. Miss Honda here," Alice bit out, jerking her thumb towards the tiny Japanese student, "has informed me that we haven't been allocated enough money to host our yearly trip back into the mainlands."
Amelia gasped. "But we always take that trip!"
Alice rolled her eyes again. "I was just going to point out that we need to hold a fundraiser larger than last year. Sakura has also suggested holding a festival of sorts, with booths that sell things and host events."
"Where are we going?" Amelia called out again.
Alice resisted the urge to slam her head against the desk. "We haven't decided that yet."
"I vote New York!" Amelia hooted loudly.
"On another note, unlike last year, you will not be getting the names of your unarrived roommates, due to some trouble last year." Alice continued, ignoring Amelia. "You'll be finding out after arrival in seven days."
Everyone looked around nervously, except for Amelia who was still off in her own world, no doubt dreaming about New York.
Alice adjusted her glasses and was about to speak before she was interrupted by a flurry of knocks on the door. She sighed and opened the door slightly, looking down before closing it again.
The flurry of knocks ensued again, accompanied by muffled yells that sounded something like 'JERK ALICE LET ME INNNN'.
"Sorry," Alice apologized through grit teeth, "My sister thinks that she's on the student council because she came with me. But I guess we'll be finishing in a few anyways, so if you could ignore her."
"Can we go now?" Amelia whined. "I'm hungry." Everyone else nodded furiously in agreement.
Alice sighed, shaking her head. "Fine." She said quietly, which resulted in a stampede to the door.
"Hey Maddie?" Amelia asked her sister, stretched out on the bench outside of the cafeteria.
"Yeah?" Madeline looked at her sister, crossing her legs uncomfortably as her sister flashed her accidentally for the third time that day.
"I know who I'm rooming with." Amelia said after taking a long sip of her milkshake.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I stole Alice's files and checked it out. I'm with Chun-Yan and some chick named Aisu. I think she was a freshman last year."
"… Oh. She was on the hockey team last year too." Madeline said awkwardly. It wasn't like her sister to be this serious. Ever. And this wasn't even seriousness to anyone else. "Are you okay?"
"…Yeah, I guess so." Amelia said, leaning back on the bench, short hair swaying slightly in the breeze. "Have you… Have you ever thought about being a lesbian?"
"Excuse me?" Madeline said quickly, kind of really shocked.
"Never mind." Amelia said, sounding like she was going to say something else.
"Why?" Madeline pestered.
"Well, you remember Rosalie, the one in our music class last year?" Amelia said, leaning forward towards Madeline and grinning devilishly.
Madeline rolled her eyes. Trust her sister to get mixed into gossip.
"I heard she was a lesbian."
"Amelia," Madeline said, looking her sister in the eye. "Rosalie is the straightest girl I know. Besides, why does it matter?"
"I don't know." Amelia shrugged.
As Amelia began to chatter about how she really hoped they would get a fast food joint on the island, Madeline breathed a sneaky sigh of relief. Hopefully she wouldn't ask again. Madeline's shaky sexuality did NOT need to be shared with her sister.
"Hey, Maddie? You listening?" Amelia said, waving a hand in front of her sister's face.
"Yeah?"
"I was just saying how awesome this school year was going to be. I missed you over the summer!" Amelia cried dramatically, lacing her arms around Madeline's shoulders and squeezing her tightly. Madeline squirmed around to try and break the embrace.
"Al, can't breath." Madeline choked out.
"Sorry!" Amelia said sheepishly, drawing away and grinning again. "Guess I forget my own strength sometimes! But wouldn't it suck if we couldn't take the mainland trip this year? We need to think of something awesome to have at the festival!"
Madeline sighed. Keeping up with her sister's train of thought was as easy as sleeping through an explosion underneath you. "Have the choices been finalized yet?"
"Yeah, the choices are Tokyo, again, New York, again, or Toronto, wherever that is." Amelia said, putting up fingers for every destination. "I really think we should go to New York, it's so much fun to go there! So many people!"
Madeline sighed. "Toronto is where I spent my summer vacation, how could you forget were it is? And besides, we went to New York two years ago."
Amelia looked at Madeline like she was crazy. "So? Can never get enough of a good thing!"
"Look, let's go find our rooms." Madeline mediated, pulling her sister off the bench and towards the large dormitory complex. Her sister complied, continuing her earlier conversation about fast food with mostly herself as she was dragged along.
St. Hetalia High School.
Built on an empty island way off the coast of California, USA, it comprises of 9 buildings, 6 departments, a track, a field and a small ice rink. Somehow, through a very selective scholarship program and a very exclusive student base, it became an elite type school. However, anyone, rich or poor, could attain a scholarship in just about anything.
Which made for a very diverse student population.
School calendar follows the school tradition, same events every year. Student council, elected in the last week of the prior year (campaigning happens the month before), meets exactly a week before arrival of regular students. Typical boring entrance speeches by various faculty and the student council voice happen on the very first day but getting settled with roommates, schedules and school ground (for freshmen) happens the weekend following the arrival, with classes happening the day of orientation. Freshman on the student council is rare, but not unheard of.
Events for holidays, including special classes and parties happen yearly, as well as the school-wide fundraiser happening mid-fall and mid-spring, to raise money for the school-wide mainland trip. Mainland trips usually happen late spring.
After school clubs often determine friendship circles, whilst grade, classmates and roommates rarely matter.
Pined after by most, St Hetalia has nearly everything to offer.
Except maybe a lot of men.
But really, that's irrelevant.
Alice sat nervously on her bed, waiting for her roommates to arrive. Planes from California arrived an hour ago and Alice hadn't seen either of her bunkmates yet. She looked around the bare room, at the naked walls, and back down to her single unpacked box. Inside laid a few rolled posters and a couple clay figurines of various mythical creatures.
She wondered if Sabite would mind if she put them up. She wasn't too worried about Tina. Of course she already knew whom she was roomed with; she was the class president after all. She knew her other roommates last year, barely. Sabite was a senior, like Alice, and Tina was a year younger. People rumoured that Sabite had been in a gang. She certainly dressed like it.
It made Alice uncomfortable as she waited for them to arrive, so she pulled out a poster, unrolling it and laying it on her bed. A star chart. That was normal, right?
The clock above the door ticked in time to Alice's heart when the door opened, setting it off course. Alice adjusted her hair and smoothed down her skirt, like a jumpy freshman.
A short blonde waltzed in, turning to dismiss whoever was behind her. A smile lit up her face as she toted her white suitcase in, turning around to talk to whoever was following her again.
"Thanks, Berta! Bye!" Tina called, drawing out the e in bye. She kicked the door shut, turning to Alice and jumping a little when she saw her sitting still. Shock was replaced with a warm smile when she recognized Alice. The white suitcase turned out to have a huge, blue cross on it, completing a Finnish flag.
"Hello!" she said, lifting her suitcase onto the top bed of the bunk bed opposite to Alice's single.
"Hello." Alice said coolly without meaning to, regarding her new roommate. Dressed in a white, short-sleeve hoodie and long sweat pants, Tina was the epitome of casual dress. A white hat topped off the ensemble, short, blonde bob curling prettily at the end.
Alice's heart thumped; ridiculously afraid she might be rejected by her new roomie. Tina looked around, ducking her head into the tiny bathroom.
"Not even private showers for the school president?" Tina joked; smile still wide on her face as she took in the rest of the room.
Alice smiled back, wincing as she tried not to take the joke to heart. "No, standard showers are still the public ones at the end of the hallway." Alice bit out. Tina nodded slowly and climbed onto the top bunk, pulling her suitcase open and rifling through it.
Alice awkwardly turned back to her box, heaving it up onto the bed, beside her star chart. She flipped it open again, pulling out a few figurines and a new poster, cataloguing the types of forest folk. She held it up, admiring the intricate art as Tina hunted through her suitcase for something.
The door opened again, slamming against the opposite wall as a tall, very tan woman waltzed in with stacked suitcases and a carry-on in hand. She looked triumphant as she dropped her bags, pulling out her cell phone and rapidly dialling a number. Alice and Tina watched with rapt fascination, poster and clothes in hand, respectively.
"Ha-ha, I found my room," Sabite bragged over the phone. There was silence as her face grew furious in a matter of seconds. "What do you mean you found it an hour ago?" Sabite exploded, yelling over the phone. She snapped her phone shut and threw it against the wall in a fit of rage, stomping over to it in knee-high boots, heels thudding angrily against the carpet when it didn't break.
She stared at the unbroken piece of technology before turning around, leaving it and staring at Alice and Tina. She grinned.
"I'm Sabite, nice to meet ya." She said, picking up her luggage and dumping it unceremoniously on her bed, below Tina. She unzipped her boots, flinging them lazily towards the door before walking over to observe Alice's poster. Alice held still, holding it up awkwardly, feeling the disappointment radiating from Sabite.
"Nice." She said sarcastically, laughing boisterously as Alice blushed, pulling it closed quickly, bending it down the middle in embarrassment.
Tina gave Alice a sympathetic look before introducing herself to Sabite. "I'm Tina."
"That's nice," Sabite dismissed before looking up and changing her mind. She threw her hand up, tall enough to almost reach Tina.
Tina took her hand hesitantly, shaking it gently before retracting her arm slowly.
Sabite picked her cell phone up off the ground, opening it and blowing on it gently, as if it was dusty. She walked back to her shoes, picking them up like she was changing her mind about throwing them off; then she walked out of the dorm.
There was a brief silence as Alice looked brokenheartedly at her poster.
"… I think it's pretty." Tina said kindly.
Alice nodded sadly.
Amelia turned to Chun-Yan, fury in her blue eyes.
"But I HAVE to have the top bunk!" She cried, hands thrown up. "The hero always gets the top bunk!"
"You owe me, aru. Remember that favour I did for you last year? It's either that, or you pay me in cash, aru." Chun-Yan pointed out calmly.
Amelia looked at Chun-Yan with big, pleading eyes. "Please?"
Chun-Yan rolled her eyes, reaching up to pull out her white hair buns. She turned to the bathroom, reaching into to grab a hairbrush before she slowly began to brush her hair. "No, aru. I should get my pick because you still owe me, aru." Chun-Yan said, sitting on the small ladder to the top bunk.
Amelia stomped her foot in fury.
"I'll tell everyone what I saw you doing with Im So-Young!" She threatened, yanking the knotted front of her white shirt tighter.
Aisu sat on the single bed, chewing her liquorice slowly as she watched the scene play out.
Chun-Yan was shocked into silence, the only sound was of her hairbrush thumping onto the carpet and Aisu's slow, rythmatic chewing.
"You wouldn't, aru!" she spluttered.
"Well, Aisu already knows something's up!" Amelia said triumphantly, pointing to the white haired girl on the bed. Aisu stared back, eyes as blank as she could make them. There was a flurry of feathers coming from underneath the bed. Aisu paled slightly but pretended to ignore the commotion as it happened again.
"What the hell was that?" Amelia asked, eyes now on the bottom of the only single bed in the room.
"I don't know, aru." Chun-Yan said, picking her hairbrush back up, glad the subject wasn't on her anymore.
Amelia crouched to the floor, giving Aisu a gracious view of her cleavage, which Aisu politely ignored as Amelia pulled a small carrier from under the bed, a small puffin as its contents, 'Mr Puffin' written in large lettering on the side. Amelia looked at Aisu, who shrugged as a response. Amelia gave the carrier another, long, confused look before placing back under the bed slowly.
Chun-Yan gave Amelia the top bunk in the end.
Marianne and Carmen loomed down at Rosalie as she cowered in the corner of her bed, proper breathing space unallocated for her.
"You aren't Gillian," they chorused, evil leers spreading over their faces.
Gillian looked up from her magazine at Kaori finally.
"You aren't Marianne or Carmen." She pointed out lazily. Kaori nodded her head slowly, brown eyes focused on Gillian.
Gillian, unimpressed with the lack of response, turned back to her reading.
A/N
In order of (general) appearance:
Alice – England
Amelia – America
Madeline – Canada
Sakura – Japan
Marianne – France
Louise – Germany
Daisy – N Italy
Chun-Yan – China
Ivana – Russia (duh)
Tina – Finland
Berta – Sweden
Sabite – Turkey
Aisu – Iceland
Im So-Young – S Korea
Carmen – Spain
Rosalie – Austria
Gillian – Prussia
Kaori – Hong Kong
I really tried use fanon gender bend names, or keep the names relatively the same.
There is going to be a shit-ton of pairings (as stated above) in this, including more one-sided love, lots of drama, some forbidden relationships (hehe) and even having more than one lover (hehehe). And friendship, of course! hehe!
It's going to be drama-llama filled, so drop me a review and tell me what you think!
Like it? Dislike it?
Thank you for reading anyways~
-Priss