Hallo my flickering flames! For those of you who know nothing about me, check out my bio if I have it up. But I have a question. Have you ever had that moment where some guy you've never even seen before asks you for your number? I just stopped, gave him a dirty look and pushed past him before going up stairs to class. He wasn't all that cute or handsome either. You know how we all dream some handsome guy is just going to stop you in the halls and ask you. Yeah, I never want that to happen again. The school is basically my school with a different name and all the teachers are based off of my teachers. So the title really doesn't have anything to do with the story, I was just staring at my socks one day and thought it would be a good idea for a story. Chapters may not be long and I'll try to post before midnight, eastern time, on Wednesdays. I may not stick to that schedule though. This is my first story in Socks of Love and War (SLW) series.
Disclaimer: I don't own Hetalia or any of the characters that aren't listed as OCs on my bio.
Lovina sat quietly, dreading going to her new school. Her new school, Ridgecrest High School, which wasn't really in a town, but on the outskirts of Columbia and Blythewood, South Carolina.
Her address though, said she was a resident of Blythewood, a small town with a population of two thousand. She moved here in the middle of the first semester of her freshman year. She looked over her schedule again. Math for two periods, geography and english for one, then lunch, after that she had study hall and orchestra, and for the last two periods she had mythology. The only problem is, she had no clue where her classes were.
Nonno told her that there was one person assigned to show her to her classes before lunch and another person assigned to take her to her classes after lunch. She groaned and banged her head against her desk. She had been given both of their names, before lunch, Antonio Carriedo and after lunch, Gilbert Beilschmidt. She looked at the clock and frowned. She was already ready and had two hours before school started. School started at 8:35 am, except on Wednesday when it started at 9:30 am.
She decided she would at least look nice on the first day (excluding the fact her jacket was beyond saving) before she just got lazy. She had put on a tomato red tanktop, a rather beat up and stained, white jacket, black jeans, and designer boots. They had just moved from Rome, Italy where it would still be rather warm this time of year. Instead it was thirty degrees in the middle of November. She woke up Feliciana and Nonno before making breakfast.
She cut up a tomato before throwing it into the mix of eggs, bacon, sausage and bell peppers. Lovina turned towards the fruit bowl and removed their brand new blender from the cupboard. She threw strawberries, bananas, and ice into the blender and watched as it mixed.
"Ve~ Lovi!~ You made breakfast!" She felt ready to throttle her sister when she was pulled into a hug (more like tackled).
"Get off of me Feli, stop being an idiot!" Lovina snapped at Feliciana as she backed away with wide eyes. Normally she would have cussed anyone else out, but Feli would start crying and then Nonno would start asking her questions and it would be annoying. She sighed and fixed three plates and made a cup of coffee for Nonno. She poured two cups of orange juice for Feli and herself before setting the table. Nonno had come out and started drinking his coffee by the time everyone had sat down.
Lovina ate in silence, claiming she was too busy eating to talk. Feliciana and Nonno chatted away cheerfully and Lovina started washing the empty dishes. After the dishes were clean, she poured the strawberry banana smoothie she had made earlier in a cup. She packed the leftover chicken parmesan and pasta they had the night before for their lunches. She topped it off with strawberry cheesecake.
Maybe she was going a little overboard, she didn't care. She sighed, Nonno was forcing them to use English at home to get more used to the language. Lovina could speak English fairly fluently, but not perfectly. Her tutor in Italy refused to teach her how to cuss in English. She knew enough to speak in a conversation, but she would switch back and forth while talking.
"Feliciana, hurry up idiota, we're going to be late for school." Lovina handed Feli her lunch as they headed out. They were both suppose to meet their guides for before lunch. The school became visible in the distance as they got closer.
"Ve~ Lovi, do you think we'll make lots of new friends? And then they can come over and we can make delicious food for everyone and it will make everyone happy!~" Lovina sighed. She never made friends, it was always Feli who'd made friends and bring them over. Lovina honestly hated having Feliciana's friends come over because she'd end up being the one cooking.
By now the twins were entering the school, when an arm wrapped around her shoulder. "Hola! You are the Vargas girls, sí?"
"Chigi! Let go of me, bastardo! But yes, I am Lovina and that is Feliciana." Lovina yelped as she pushed the strange Spaniard off of her before answering his question. She sent the Spaniard one of the worst glares she could muster up.
"I'm Antonio Carriedo and over there is Ludwig Beilschmidt." He motioned towards a very tall, large, muscular guy. "I'll be showing you around and Luddy over there will be showing your sister around."
"Lovi, isn't this mondiale (wonderful)?" Lovina turned and glared at her sister as she made the exclamation.
"I think you used that uh... sbagliato (wrong) with English." The correct word slipped her mind completely, feeling slightly hypocritical, but it wasn't like she cared.
"Um, I hate to interupt, but classes are about to start soon." So the tall blond can speak. He had an accent, German I think. Lovina frowned, she didn't want any potato bastards to grope Feli or steal her innocence.
"Fine. Okay bastardo, where's my class?" Lovina glared at the idiot in front of her.
"Well, Lovi, so you're a year ahead in math? I'm a year behind in math and two years behind in English and Social Studies. I'm 16, by the way and I'm guessing you are 14? I guess we have all the same classes before lunch. I think this will be f-" He stopped rambling on as the bell rang.
"Oi, bastard don't call me Lovi and I don't care whether you're in my class or not. Just hurry up and get me to our class." She sent the older guy a glare. He smiled brightly and grabbed her hand. From there he started running.
"Hey-hey, bastardo! What do-what do you think you're doing?! Antonio, stop!" She felt her cheeks heat up as she yelled at him.
He turned and smiled at her brightly. "You look like a tomato, Lovi. And please, call me Toni." He laughed as her blush grew deeper.
"Dio accedenti, let go of me!" She yanked her hand away as they entered the classroom. She studied the room. There were wolves everywhere, they were the Ridgecrest Wolves, after all. There was no teacher in the room yet and the bell had already rung.
"Come sit with me, Lovi!" Toni didn't give her much of a choice as she dragged her to the back of the room. Most of the tables only sat two people, but the one in the very back corner had four desks. There were two other guys around Toni's age already sitting there, but still one seat empty. She was more or less forced into that seat.
"Okay, has Lovina Vargas arrived yet?" Lovina watched as a heavily pregnant woman entered the room.
"Sí, Mrs. Henry, she's sitting back here with me!" The teacher nodded at Antonio and motioned for Lovina to come up. In response she sighed and reluctantly walked towards the front of the room.
"Now introduce yourself to the class and we can get started. Just tell them you're name, age, and where you lived before this. You can also tell us who you live with." Mrs. Henry told Lovina before rolling her chair to her computer.
"Um, I'm Lovina Vargas, I'm 14 years old, and I came here from Rome, Italy. I live with my Nonno and twin sister." Lovina shuffled nervously as she spoke and sat down as soon as she finished.
After Lovina had sat down, Mrs. Henry started going over what the class was doing that day, which she didn't follow very well. Something about trigonometry? Lovina got bored fairly quickly and started drawing on her notes, not even noticing the teacher had left to go to the bathroom. "Lovi, this is Gilbert and Francis."
Lovina was startled out of her thoughts when Toni introduced her to the weird albino and the creepy blond. The first name sounded rather familiar... "Are you Gilbert Beilschmidt? The one who is suppose to show me around after lunch? Are you related to that potato bastard who is showing my sorella around?"
The albino looked confused at first, but then a smirk played across his face. "Ja, ja, and ja, he's mein awesome kleiner bruder. I'm sure you can't wait until after lunch, schön, I'm not one for going to unawesome classes though. Don't worry, I won't leave you behind while I skip. You said Lovi, eh Tonio?"
She turned beet red when he winked at her. "Lovi, you look like a tomato again~"
Lovina just wished that the two hours of geometry were over already as she smacked her head on the desk. She ignored the people who were giving her strange glances. She was grateful when the bell rang, then realized, class was only half way over. Lovina was almost happy when the teacher told them to start on their homework. So that is how she spent the last part of her class.
Lovina started putting her stuff in the tomato print bag Nonno bought her, when I felt a finger poke me. "Lovi, I didn't know you liked tomatoes!"
The Italian snorted at Antonio. "There's a lot you don't know about me, bastardo. For example, only my sorella is allowed to call me Lovi. I even get mad at Nonno when he calls me Lovi. I don't appreciate being called a tomato, even if they are the best fruit in existence. And if it wasn't as fucking cold out I'd being wearing something much nicer than..." She paused to look down at her outfit. "This."
"But Lovi, I think you look so cute~" She blushed and just as she was about to yell at him the bell rang. "Let's go!"
The Spaniard grabbed her hand once again and proceeded to drag her down the stairs, all while ignoring her cries of protest. They hadn't walked very far when they entered a room with one wall covered in a map. "Wow, that is one huge ass map."
"Lovi, don't curse! It's not nice!" Antonio looked like he was in a panic when she said that. Lovina started laughing, but it was more like a series of snorts...
"So we have a new student, Lovina right? Welcome Lovina to our humble place of learning! I am Mr. Dixon, your geography teacher. You can sit in the empty seat by Marie." He paused for a second before looking towards the back. Lovina noticed a girl focused on her Chromebook, that had been assigned by the school. There was an empty seat right next to her. "Marie, raise your hand."
The girl, apparently Marie, stuck her arm straight up in one lazy motion before putting it back down. Lovina walked back and sat between her and guy who was too busy chatting away to someone else he didn't even bother to notice her. Lovina was fairly grateful no one had attempted to talk to her.
"Hey Chris!" She didn't jump at that! No, not at all. Why would she be scared of someone she'd never talked to before. Apparently Marie yelled at the guy on the other side of Lovina. Marie gave the Italian a dirty look before slipping between her desk and the one in front of her. The rude bitch started talking to the Asain with the scarf.
Lovina of course wanted to strangle Marie, but the bell rang before she could. Marie sat down without looking at Lovina again. Only mere seconds after the bell rang she yawned, slowly starting to slip into sleep. "I'm so sorry I'm late Mr. Dixon, the bloody frog tripped me and I fell down the stairs again. This bloody idiot did nothing to help."
This knocked her out of her stupor as she jumped up to see two blonds. A guy and a girl had walked into the room. The girl was very short and had...caterpillars on her face? Were those suppose to be eyebrows? The guy was much taller and wore glasses and a cocky grin on his face. Mr. Dixon smiled before talking to them. "Don't worry about it Alice, I know you wouldn't be late on purpose. Now you and Alfred go sit down. I'll have your extra quiz ready by lunch, so don't forget to come by to take it."
The girl, Alice apparently, looked quite happy about it, while Alfred just stood there in shock. "Close your mouth, git, and hurry up before we lose the extra credit chance on the next test."
We watched through the announcements, Lovina not sure what she was suppose to do during the Pledge of Allegiance, and answered some Densa questions. There are three tomatoes, you take two. How many tomatoes do you have left? What two numbers make eight? (PM me the answers or leave your review, first person to get both has their OC become a regular in some of my stories if they want or they can request a story.)
The concept of human geography was fairly easy. Lovina, however was having problem with some of the words. She wasn't an English-Italian dictionary dammit! Just as she thought she was starting to get the hang of using an English-Italian dictionary, she had a piece of paper passed to her by Marie. Marie snickered as she gave the Italian the folded piece of paper.
Lovina unfolded it, curiously and felt like banging her head on her desk as she looked at what was on it. There was a picture of a turtle and above it the words said 'Señor Tortuga'. At the bottom of the page it said, "Isn't Señor Tortuga cute like you, Lovi?"
Lovina scowled at it before folding it back up and putting it in her pocket. Lovina was now well aware that Marie was staring at her, but it was fine since Lovina had take the time to study her. Marie was wearing slippers, ripped blue jeans, dark green/brown glasses, and a Gatlinburg sweatshirt. The girl had no fashion sense.
Lovina sighed as the bell rang. Antonio was waiting for her beside the door. He smiled brightly as he, once again, started to drag her down the hall. She had a feeling this would start to become normal. As she entered the room behind him, she started noticing something strange. "Is this the Spanish room?"
She looked around as Antonio smiled. There was a Spanish flag hanging on the wall, posters with Spanish writing on them. "Sí Lovi."
"But aren't we in here to take English?" Did someone trick her into taking Spanish? This would not settle well with her at all. Though after Antonio repeated his answer from before, she relaxed slightly.
"Okay class, please get your novels out. Hello Miss Vargas, I am Mr. Bryant. You can share with Mister Carriedo for now. Mister Carriedo please catch her up." Mr. Bryant said quickly before talking to the class about symbolism. Toni got out a copy of Lord of the Flies and they managed to read one and a half chapters before the bell rang for lunch.
"Come on Lovi! You can come sit with us!"
And there we end it! So what did you think of the first chapter? I'm sorry English class wasn't as long as the first two, but it was one in the morning and I was tired. All of the OCs are based off of real people, check out my bio if you want a list of them. We will pick up at lunch and don't forget to answer the Densa questions! I will have these opportunities pop up at random times, so basically whenever my geography teacher gives us Densa questions. You only have one chance to answer each question so think carefully and here they are again: There are three tomatoes, you take two. How many tomatoes do you have left? What two numbers make eight? If no one gets the answers within three weeks I will give them to you. Guests can not qualify for this just because I need to be able to PM you. I know it isn't Wednesday, but I finished writing today and didn't feel like waiting... So I will see you in the next chapter!