Author's Note: So, I've decided to jump on the Hetalia Unit bandwagon, and I'm also dragging my friends into it with me! :D
Almost all of the characters in this fic that aren't from Hetalia are actual people I know. Although, in reality all of my friends don't live together, you get the gist. It's fanFICTION. So, yeah. :P
"TURN OFF THAT SMOKE ALARM, I CAN'T HEAR MYSELF THINK!"
"WHAT'S EVEN BURNING?"
"BRI! TAKE THE BACON OFF THE BURNER! IT'S A BURNT CRISP!"
"YES, I LIKE MY BACON CRISPY!"
"SHUDDUP, I NEED MY BEAUTY SLEEP!"
"GIRL, YOU DON'T NEED 'BEAUTY SLEEP,' YOU NEED TO HIBERNATE!"
"HEY!"
"FOR GOD'S SAKE THAT SMOKE ALARM IS STILL GOING...!"
"ALL OF YOU BE QUIET, I'M TRYING TO READ MY MANGA!"
Kay-Kay groaned and rolled over in her bed. From what she could hear coming from downstairs, it was morning, and the normal "Scout House" morning routine was in suit. This "routine" for the most part involved everyone screaming at each other. It might not be the best idea, but, hey, it worked for them.
Sighing, Kay-Kay dragged herself out of bed and over to the closet. She shared a room with Meghan and Carrie, two of the other girls who lived here, so the closet was divided into three sections. Carrie's side had lots of various graphic tees (many if which had the Batman logo on them), Meghan's section in the middle had lots of black clothing and a few cosplays, and Kay-Kay's section had a mix between graphic tees with cartoon and anime characters on them, and a few dressier shirts for when she wanted to look nice.
Today Kay-Kay chose a simple black tee-shirt with Gir from Invader Zim on it and a comfortable pair of purple Soffe shorts. She then brushed through her short, ruby-colored hair and put on her thick, rectangular glasses. Now that she could see properly, Kay-Kay did a quick once-over of herself in the mirror and then left the bedroom, heading downstairs to the kitchen/living room area.
"OPEN A WINDOW OR SOMETHING, THE SMOKE IS CHOKING ME!"
Kay-Kay looked over to see Carrie running over the a window to open it. Once it was open, she stuck her whole head out the window and started breathing deeply. Kay-Kay looked towards the kitchen and was met with a smoky haze that burned her eyes. Through the smoke she could see a girl with blonde, shoulder-length hair trying desperately to scrape the charred remains of what was once bacon out of a pan.
"Too crispy...WAY too crispy!" she whimpered to herself. Kay-Kay shook her head and headed into the living room, passing Carrie who still had her head sticking out of the window.
She plopped herself down on the couch next to Meghan, who was watching Bones on Netflix. "Care to tell me what the hell is going on?" she asked.
Meghan sighed. "Bri tried cooking, I couldn't hear myself think over the sound of the fire-alarm; which I took the batteries out of; Carrie is breathing out of the window, Sam is trying to get her 'beauty sleep,' Quincy has locked herself in the bathroom, Kaleb is still asleep, and Kris and Ami are both at work."
"So, the usual?" Kay-Kay inquired.
"Pretty much."
Kay-Kay and four other girls her age (15) lived with Bri and her family all in one house. The girls had all been together in a Girl Scout troop for a few years now, and since then Ami, Bri's mom and the troop leader, had considered all of the girls as her daughters. Eventually all of the girls had made the decision to move in with Bri's family, and thus the house they lived in was nicknamed "The Scout House." Morning was commonly the most hectic time for the place.
A few minutes into the episode of Bones that Meghan and Kay-Kay were watching, Kay-Kay could hear someone coming down the stairs. Eventually a flustered-looking girl with blonde highlights stood on the landing. "I hope you're all happy! Thanks to you I didn't get NEAR enough sleep, and I'm going to look absolutely horrible all day!" she announced, giving a death-glare to anyone who happened to look her in the eye.
"Good morning to you, too, Sam!" Carrie said sarcastically, finally leaving the window, apparently now satisfied with the air-quality of the house.
Sam huffed angrily, but uncrossed her arms. She batted her eyelashes, which were coated with all sorts of mascara. Sam had probably woken up 20 minutes earlier, but had taken time to make sure she looked what she considered "presentable." Basically she looked like a walking Barbie doll. "What were you all screaming about, anyways?"
Carrie looked up from her manga, which she had just returned to reading. "Bri set fire to the kitchen."
"I DID NOT! The bacon I was cooking got a little too crispy and you all overreacted!"
"There was a shit-load of smoke." Meghan interjected.
"That depends on how much smoke you define as a 'shit-load.' It really wasn't that much-"
"You had poor Carrie gasping out the window for clean air!" Kay-Kay interjected.
"I didn't force her to shove her head out the window. How do we know she wasn't just enjoying nature?"
Meghan clutched her head. "You logic...it hurts! It physically HURTS!"
Bri kicked Meghan in the shin. Meghan punched Bri in the shoulder.
A cricket chirped.
A car crashed outside.
Someone robbed a store.
A plane crashed.
A thug shot a guy.
A bird tweeted.
"I'm bored!" Bri whined.
"Why don't you read something?" Carrie suggested.
"I've read all of my books!" Bri complained, pouting.
"Not my manga..."
"I can't understand how to read them! Aren't they the kind of comic books you read upside-down?"
"Um - backwards, but yeah-"
"Then no. I don't want a headache."
"You could read my gossip-magazines..." Sam chirped.
Bri grimaced. "I'm not THAT bored."
"Well, I don't care what you plan on doing, but I'm going on the Internet." Kay-Kay said, picking up her laptop, which happened to be right next to the couch. Everyone's school-assigned laptop had some identifying feature about it. Her's was the one that had the British flag on it.
Kay-Kay logged onto her deviantART account and began going through her messages. When she was about halfway-through them a pop-up ad came up. Rolling her eyes she moved to x-out of the ad. Her mouse was hovering right over the red x when a word in the pop-up caught her eye. "Hetalia"
Hetalia was Kay-Kay's favorite anime of all time. Since this pop-up had mentioned the show, she decided that she should at least read it.
"Do you love Hetalia? Do you wish you could actually meet and talk to the characters? NOW'S YOUR CHANCE! Flying Mint Bunny Inc. is looking for people to join in the beta-test of our new HETALIA UNITS! Your first two units are free as part of our beta-test, and you can buy as many as you want after that! So what do you have to lose? Join our beta-test today and own one of your favorite countries!
Please allow 1-3 days for delivery. Results of unit-ownership may vary. Flying Mint Bunny Inc. is not responsible for any injuries, property damages, or deaths that occur during unit-ownership. Units are non-refundable."
...What? Kay-Kay read the pop-up over and over again just to make sure she had read it right. Once she was sure that she fully understood what the ad was saying, she jumped up and fangirl squealed. LOUDLY.
Clutching her ears, Meghan looked up at Kay-Kay. "What the hell is wrong with you?" she snapped.
Too excited to talk, Kay-Kay simply handed her laptop over to Meghan and pointed at the ad, doing a little happy-dance as she did so. After she was finished reading, Meghan did a fangirl squeal too.
A door opening upstairs and someone running could be heard. Soon a girl with mousy-brown, wavy hair in a ponytail who was wearing tons of black eyeliner was at the landing looking around urgently.
"What's happening? Is someone hurt? Should we call Kris or Ami? SOMEONE TELL ME!" she shouted, freaked put by the shrieks she had just heard.
"H-He-Hetalia Units!" Kay-Kay was finally able to blurt out. Her brain was pretty much short-circuiting at the moment due to a major fangasm.
"Heta-what whats? You're not making any sense!" Sam said impatiently.
"Wait...isn't Hetalia that show you two never shut up about?" Carrie asked Kay-Kay and Meghan. They nodded. "Then what's a Hetalia Unit?"
"Robots, I think!" Meghan blurted out, also excited. "They're made to look and act like the characters in the show!"
Bri looked up at Meghan, the confusion obvious on her face. "What is it about these robots that has you acting so crazy, then?"
Kay-Kay was the one to answer this time. "Because I was just offered a beta-test where I get TWO units for FREE!" She added a quick fangirl squeal at the end if it.
"Wait wait wait. You want to bring two robots into my house just like that?" Bri questioned, trying to wrap her head around what madness was going on in Kay-Kay and Meghan's minds.
"You mean I want to bring two characters from a show with the world's hottest male cast into the house? HELL TO THE YES!"
"Dude, what would my parents say?" Bri asked.
"Oh, yeah, I forgot about that." Meghan murmured. Who'd have thought that BRI of all people would be the voice of reason?
"Well, in two days they're going on that business trip for a week ( I still can't believe they're leaving Kaleb in our hands), so we could just try the units out in that time, and then figure out what to do with them after that. Come on, they're free, what do we have to lose?" Kay-Kay reasoned with Bri.
Bri rolled her eyes. "I don't know..."
"Wait, we'd be getting hot amine boys in the mail?" Quincy perked up, peeking out from behind the hair that completely covered one of her eyes.
"YES! That's what we're trying to say!" Meghan shouted excitedly. "PLEASE, BRI-ZEE?"
By now Bri knew that she was outnumbered. "Ugh, fine, but we have to get rid of them when my parents come back!
"YAY!" Kay-Kay, Meghan, and Quincy shouted. Kay-Kay favorited the Flying Mint Bunny Inc. homepage. "I'll order them tomorrow, they said they'll take 1-3 days to arrive, and I don't want to risk Ami and Kris still being home when they come."
Confused, Sam looked down at Carrie with a quizzical look on her face. "What just happened?" she asked.
Carrie simply shrugged and went back to her manga.