Lovino Vargas slowly opened his eyes. Gentle rays of sunlight shone through his thin curtain covered window, lightly illuminating everything in his bedroom. Despite how much he said that he hated mornings (especially school mornings) he enjoyed waking up early. He sat up in his bed and looked at his room. His brother had bought him lots of things for High School, most of which were put in his bedroom so it was a little crowded. He had a tan colored school desk with a high tech silver colored laptop sitting on top. A dark reddish brown chair was pulled up snuggly under it. There was a large bookshelf filled with numerous dusty books which Lovino had never read. There was an acoustic guitar (which he rarely ever played) and a pellet gun as well. Also, there was a large tan colored dresser with random articles of clothing rumpled in balls and spread about the dresser.
Lovino pinched the bridge of his nose and hoisted himself out of bed and stumbled over to the dresser. He hated it when his legs were asleep when he himself was awake. Lovino ran against the dresser and a corner struck into his hip bone. Romano clenched his teeth and did all he could NOT to fall on the ground, clasping his side and cursing like a sailor. That was actually one of Lovino's most well-known traits, his cursing. Yes, he didn't curse around women, but when he was around his younger brother, Feliciano, and that "potato bastard" from Germany he cursed and threw harsh insults around like a spoiled child would throw things around during a tantrum.
Romano opened one of the dresser draws and pulled out one of his school uniforms. He slipped on the dress shirt and buttoned it up. He never liked the uniforms. They were too formal, too itchy, to stiff, and too uncomfortable. The ladies seemed to go crazy over how the boys looked though so that was okay. High school girls were suckers for uniforms. That reminded him, it was the first day of his second-to-last year in High School. One more year and he could FINALLY get out of school! Lovino started humming to himself while he put on his black trousers and blue blazer. If his brother were to hear him he would probably burst out into his idiotic laughter because Lovino was rarely ever in a good mood.
Lovino looked in the mirror and gently combed his hair; his single hair curl stuck out as usual. He had tried multiple times to comb it down but had tried unsuccessfully. It was like a separate appendage! He took a good look at himself, straightened his tie, walked to the door, opened it and headed for the kitchen with a large smile on his face.
Oh no, was Lovino's first thought as he neared the kitchen. His brother was singing again. If you were to look at his brother, Antonio, and then Lovino you would think they actually were related but no, Lovino was Antonio's adopted brother. One could tell that immediately by the way they acted. While Antonio was cheerful, sung quite a bit, nearly always had this big goofy grin on his face, loved his work, and rarely ever cursed…unless of course…someone triggered the Spaniard's temper. Mostly this was Lars, a man from the Netherlands, who despised Antonio. Antonio was also a senior at the same High school as Romano; Ambrosia High School. Romano saw his lunch sitting next to Antonio's lunch. Antonio was singing happily while making churros, Antonio's favorite treat. Romano crossed his fingers, if he could just slip out the door…
"LOVINO!" cried Antonio as he embraced his shocked little brother.
"YOU'RE…CHO…KING…ME!" he wheezed painfully. Antonio let go of his little brother, who coughed and panted for a moment.
"Sorry about that," He said, rubbing is neck. "Why were you about to leave before having breakfast? You would have gone hungry."
"I was trying to avoid you…" Lovino admitted angrily. Antonio looked hurt for a moment but quickly went back to smiling.
"Churro?" Antonio offered, his forest green eyes shining.
"No, thank you" Lovino replied, furrowing his brow and started heading for the door.
"I'll keep bugging you until you take one, you know that right?" He chimed. Lovino gave Antonio his best death glare, he pictured burning a hole into Antonio's forehead (it was all he could do not to smile at the thought). Antonio shrugged, and Lovino groaned.
"Fine…"
"Bien!" Antonio replied happily and handed Lovino a churro. Lovino quickly ate and was about to grab the door handle when Antonio cleared his throat and tapped Lovino on his shoulder. Lovino looked back. Antonio was holding his navy blue backpack. "Forgetting something, amigo?" Lovino didn't answer him; he grabbed the backpack, opened the door and slammed it in Antonio's olive-tan skinned face.
Lovino shoved his hands in his pockets and trudged to the bus stop. He could already see his brother and a few other people there. Vash Zwingli was there along with his sister, Lili. Lovino's brother, Feliciano Vargas along with his best friend, who secretly had a crush on him, Ludwig Beilschmidt, and his brother, Gilbert. Roderich Edelstein was there too. His girlfriend, Elizabeta Héderváry, was there too. Arthur Kirkland, Francis Bonnefoy, Sadık Adnan, and Dracul, that one Romanian boy, was there too. Unfortunately, his block had the most people on it.
"Did you hear?" Lovino heard Francis whisper to Arthur. "There's a new girl on the block!"
"What!?" Feliciano exclaimed. Every time Feliciano heard about a new girl he got all excited. Mainly because there were only 11 girls (including this new girl) in the whole school, well, 12 if you count Feliks Łukasiewicz. That guy was as girly as one could get.
"Yes," Francis continued. "She's from Belgium and her name is Emma Deijck."
"Deijck? Is she related to Lars?" asked Vash.
"Oui," replied Francis. Lars Deijck was a boy from the Netherlands. Lovino knew about him from Antonio. Lars apparently had a grudge against Antonio, who was clueless as to why he had one.
"What grade is she going to be in?" asked Lili fidgeting with her fingers, she once had a crush on Erik, an Icelandian boy, a while back but lost interest after her brother told her who-knows-what. She still acted a little timid around him though.
Francis grinned, "She is going to be a senior," he answered triumphantly. The only seniors on Lovino's block were Arthur, Francis, Roderich, Gilbert, Antonio, and Sadik. The others were juniors (including Lovino) and Vash, Lili, and Dracul were the only sophomores. There weren't and pesky freshman on Lovino's block.
"Who's going to be a senior?" asked a familiar voice. Lovino groaned as Antonio, joined by Heracles Karpusi, a Greek kid, approached the group.
"There's this new girl from Belgium who's going to be a senior at our school." said Dracul.
"Oh, seriously?" Antonio inquired. Dracul nodded. Lovino inwardly grinned, if Antonio's ears were to flap anymore, he would take off and circle their chimney.
"It would be nice to see another girl," Elizabeta mused.
"Indeed, perhaps she is interested in music," Roderich agreed.
"Perhaps she likes Tea!" Arthur said excitedly.
"Or Baklava!" Sadik added.
"OR PASTA!" Squealed Feli. Everyone looked at him. "What, she could…" Feli pouted; Ludwig patted him on the shoulder. Lovino raised an eyebrow at his brother.
Suddenly Elizabeta let out a yelp of surprise. "GILBERT PINCHED ME IN THE REAR!" she screamed and pointed an accusing finger at an oh-so-innocent Gilbert.
"Who, me?" he asked laying one hand on his chest in an exaggerated manner.
"Why you!" Elizabeta growled and started chasing after Gilbert, who in turn screamed,
"I REGRET NOTHING!"
Lovino couldn't help it, he burst out laughing. Then again everyone started laughing; even Heracles and Roderich. Elizabeta was too busy chasing Gil to laugh and Gil was laughing while desperately running to avoid her wrath.
"Alright, everyone calm down. Look! The bus is coming!" Sadik said loudly.
"Elizabeta, you can have your revenge later! Come over here!" Roderich yelled to Elizabeta.
Lovino took a deep breath to try to stop laughing…emphasis on the try. All of a sudden, a frantic voice called out.
"Sorry I'm late! I forgot to pack my lunch so I was a little delayed!"
Lovino turned and saw one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen. She had golden blonde hair that would make the sun jealous of its golden color. Eyes a healthy kind of light green and skin a light peachy color and it looked just as soft. In her hair was a brilliant emerald green ribbon which truly brought out the green in her eyes. She wasn't wearing the school uniform (new students never had to wear their uniform on the first day since they got their uniform from the office). Instead of the uniform's black and white Lolita-esque style, she was wearing a pretty, knee-length, sky blue, long sleeved dress. It seemed to shimmer in the morning light. Sadly, what ruined the beautiful image where the tall tannish brown boots she wore. They were an ugly shade of brown and they reached halfway up her shins. They were also slightly caked with mud and dark raspberry colored stains from who-knows-what. Still, it was her smile which distracted one from looking at her ugly boots. It was her enchanting smile that could bring shame to Venus herself. She finally stopped running, put her hands on her knees and caught her breath.
"Hallo! My name is Emma Deijck. I'm the new student." Lovino stared with his mouth open. He could see the other students staring too. Though, Francis was staring at a place that other students weren't… "My brother unfortunately isn't in the same neighborhood as me so he couldn't come to the bus stop with me," she continued flashing her bright smile. The bus stopped by the crowd of students. Lovino spotted Alfred Jones, an annoying American boy and his twin brother (though adopted from a different family), Matthew Williams. Matthew was more tolerable than Alfred.
The students crowded into the bus and Lovino got a seat in the back of the bus. Emma sat in the front (which frustrated Lovino) by the door. All the other students seemed to want to sit by her. She said that she was saving the seat for her brother. Antonio got the privilege of sitting across from her. Lovino fumed in the back as he watched the two chat together. At the next stop though, to Lovino's delight, Lars got on and sat next to Emma and sent an icy stare to Antonio. Berwald Oxenstierna, Tino Väinämöinen, Mathias Køhler, Lukas Bondvik, Peter Kirkland, and Erik Steilsson got on as well. Erik sat next to Lili, who blushed like mad (her brother GLARED like mad). Lukas sat alone as did Peter, Berwald sat next to Tino and Mathias sat across from them. Conversations stopped as the bus hummed along. At the next stop, Feliks Łukasiewicz, Eduard von Bock, Toris Laurinaitis, Raivis Galante, Katyusha Braginskaya, Natalia Arlovskaya, and Ivan Braginskaya got on. Eduard von Bock sat with Katyusha (they'd been dating ever since they met in Choir Club last year). Toris sat with Ivan (reluctantly). Feliks sat across from them with Raivis. Natalia angrily sat next to Lukas and started mumbling about Ivan and Toris while Lukas sat quietly and nodded his head every once in a while.
At the final stop, they picked up Kiku Honda, Yao Wang, Mei Xian, Kaoru Wang, Lien Chung, Kasem Chao, Kirana Kusnapaharani, and Im Yong Soo. Kiku sat with Alfred, Yao with Mei, Kasem with Lien, Kaoru sat across from Mei, and Kirana and Im Yong Soo sat in the back across from Romano. Romano hated the Korean guy and the Indonesian girl. Every time they sat in the back, they held hands and talked for the whole trip about dramas.
"Bloody hell! I'm glad Logan doesn't take the same bus and me. Having Peter on my bus is bad enough but when that girl from Wy was here I had no peace at all! I'm glad she's on a different bus. To think he's a freshman this year, someone kill me…" Arthur groaned.
"Why do you hate your younger brother so?" asked Francis.
"He's keeps wanting for me to acknowledge him so he bugs me constantly and unless I say hello he doesn't stop but when I do he runs around the room yelling 'hurray' at the top of his lungs! He's such an ass!" Arthur remarked angrily.
"I AM NOT! REMEMBER ALL THOSE TIMES YOU WOULD BRING THAT VICTORIA GIRL FROM SEYCHELLES OVER!? YOU TOOK HER TO YOUR ROOM AND YOU-!" Peter yelled but was silenced when Arthur screamed,
"ONE MORE WORD AND I'LL WRING YOUR NECK YOU PIPSQUEAK!" His face was bright red. Lovino smirked as Frances laughed and Alfred whistled.
"Dude, you got laid!?" He cried and burst out laughing and fell on the floor. Soon the whole bus wanted to know what happened, (Except for the couples who were becoming uncomfortable by such vulgar talk). Lovino noticed the expression of complete shock on Emma's face.
"SHUT UP YOU DUMKOFFS!" Ludwig shouted and the whole bus got quiet. Prussia took his hands away from nearly groping Hungary's butt again. Ludwig cleared his throat. "We are nearly at the school and I don't think the teachers would appreciate us talking about how Arthur had sex with that African girl. Therefore let us change the subject. Is anybody planning on going to the Valentine's Dance next month?"
"I am!" yelled Alfred.
"Me too!" Katyusha cried her breasts bouncing as she stood up and raised her hand.
"So are we!" said Erik and Lili.
"I am…" mumbled Lukas and he gently clasped Natalia's hand.
"I am too!" said Ivan cheerfully as Toris smiled next to him.
Next the whole bus got into a conversation about the dance. By the time they pulled up to the school everyone was talking about it and who they were taking. Everyone crowded out of the bus. Lovino slouched and shuffled out but was surprised when he saw Emma standing there waiting for him.
"Excuse me…but I am not quite sure where the office is for the seniors. Would you be so kind as to take me there?" Lovino stared at her in surprise. She had asked him instead of his brother!? He slowly nodded and gestured for her to follow him and smiled as they walked to the office. He navigated the maze-like hallways past the crowds of students until they reached the senior office.
"Thank you so much!" Emma she said and gave him a large hug. Lovino felt his face heat up while she embraced him. She let got and gave him a big smile before she went into the office. Lovino heard the attendance bell and ran to his first period with a giant smile on his face. Maybe today wouldn't be so bad, besides he now knew who he was going to ask to the Valentine's Dance.