Foreword: This concept is stolen from the book The List by Siobhan Vivian. It's an excellent book and I would recommend it to everyone. Also please be patient with my writing this is the first fanfic I've ever published. That being said on with the first chapter!
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FRESHMEN
MONIKA BEILSCHMIDT
Monika rubbed out another equation, no that one was also wrong. Damn it Feli! She knew Felicity wasn't good at math but she had never imagined to what extent. She took out her pen and held it to the paper, ready to write out in excruciating detail the correct method, when the car hit a pothole. Her hand jerked and ink covered the other nine questions she'd just written out.
"Julchen!" She snapped turning towards her elder sister.
"Huh? What" Julchen said detachably.
"Are you feeling alright? You've barely said anything this whole time." And it was true. It was typical for their car rides to school to full of the albino rambling on about people at school with 'awesome' and 'unawesome' used liberally, but this morning Julchen had been quiet, except for cursing at other drivers, here again 'unawesome' was used and a fair amount of honking.
"What do you mean? Of course I've been talking. I am awesome!"
Monika raised an eyebrow, her sister never ended a statement with 'I am awesome' unless she was uncomfortable.
"No! Stop giving me that look! Ugh fine you win, West"
Monika flushed, she really hated that nickname.
"Well you know how most people in this school are totally unawesome, right? Well they continue being unawesome today, in fact today they are especially unawesome! There'll be a list, and it's fucking stupid, but it'll rank people based on their appearance and I'll be on it. Just don't listen to some of the things said about me, okay? You'll be fine, just don't let what people say about me affect you!" Julchen gabbled all of this then turned back to the wheel. "Fick! Green light!"
"Wait! What!"
"Geeze Monnie, calm down! This happens every year. Don't make a big deal about it"
"But it's wrong and it needs to be stopped-"
"-Monika, shut up"
Silence fell until Julchen inserted her car between two others in the school parking lot.
"Just don't make a big deal about The List, West. Okay?"
Monika looked into Julchen's pleading face. Julchen always asked for things but she never did it with this much sincerity.
"Okay, Julchen."
It still didn't sit right with her but if it made Julchen happy then she would agree to her request.
After stowing away her, now ruined, notes for Felicity and slinging her bag on her back, she hurried over to the stairs to the main entrance.
The main entrance of Mount H.E.T.A. High was an extravagant display of former wealth. The school used to be private but due to demographics had to become public. The entrance showed this history. The archway over the door, the wide marble stairs leading up to it, the sudo Roman pillars supporting the overhang, all these had been graffitied time and time over and cigarette butts decorated the stairs no matter how many times the janitor cleaned them and pages were stuck to the pillars… Wait that one was new.
Intrigued, Monika walked up and looked at the pages, half expecting an ad for another one of Felicity's clubs. It was not.
Ugliest:
MONIKA BEILSCHMIDT
Monika stared. That was she could do. Stare.
She was suddenly acutely aware of everyone standing around, chatting. Were they looking at her? Were they whispering about her? She could feel a burning in her eyes. She tried to squash the thoughts but..
Otherwise known as Manika
Someone broke into peels of laughter and it was just too much.
She rushed into the school, still clutching the piece of paper. The pages were everywhere and everyone seemed to be gathered around them.
Manika
She was in the bathroom, sitting on a toilet, crying. She felt angry, angry at Julchen for not preparing her better, angry at the author for writing the list, and angry at herself for getting so upset. Shouldn't she be able to simply shrug it off and move on and yet..
Manika
She couldn't seem to let go.
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FELICITY VARGAS
Felicity hummed contentedly to herself, ignoring the dirty look Lovina gave her. Lovina had just had a long night, she and Felicity had been waitressing last night at Café Roma, their Grandpa's restaurant that they lived over. Felicity liked being a waitress, she got to chat with new people and see the chefs make food and sometimes she could cook pasta for their costumers because everyone said she made the best pasta. Lovina didn't like it. She really didn't like it, the only reason she did it at all was because Grandpa Roma threatened to kick her out of the apartment.
Felicity craned her neck looking around the bus, to see if she could spot any of her friends. Monika was driven to school by Julchen, Emily was like a bear in the morning and Lilli walked to school with Vash. She sighed and glanced back at Lovina who was leaning against the window, earphones in.
"Lovi. Lovi. Looooooooooovi."
"What!" Lovina snapped, pulling an earphone out and glaring.
"Um…. I forgot."
Lovina stared at her younger sister.
"You're an idiot"
"Lovina! I didn't see you there!"
Up popped up the head of Lovina's not-boyfriend Antonio, known to most as Toni. Lovina insists that they have no romantic relationship and Felicity believed her but most of the school didn't. Most were surprised when Antonio started dating Francine and assumed Lovina would be upset, even though they both protest that they have more of a brother-sister relationship. Felicity liked Antonio. He was nice and cheerful.
"Lovi, are you okay? I mean you know what day it-"
"I'm fine, bastard"
"I mean I know you say-"
"Just stop!"
"Um… alright"
Felicity stared at her sister and Antonio completely lost in the conversation, although that wasn't particularly unusual.
"Huh.. oh we're here." Antonio said, pointing out the bus window.
"Urgh, get me off this fucking bus"
Antonio gave Felicity a look, she mouthed back "Waitressing" and he nodded back in understanding.
Lovina rushed out past Felicity, who happily skipped after her. She bounced off the bus and spotted Lilli and Emily standing at freshmen island, the spot where freshmen gather outside school by the large oak tree although no one ever went to the bench under the tree itself. That was Alice's bench.
"Ciao Lilli, Emily" Felicity called running up to them "Have you seen Monika?"
The other two girls exchanged a silent conversation before Emily said "No. Have you seen this?" and handed her a page.
Prettiest:
FELICITY VARGAS
Bonus points for overcoming genetics
"Um.. I don't get it"
"It's.. uh.. a tradition. Uh.. big brother told me about it."
Felicity looked at the delicate Swiss girl. Lilli looked distinctly uncomfortable. Emily decided to take up the mantle.
"Some random girl makes a demeaning list, naming a pretty and ugly girl and people take it way too seriously"
"Oh.. um.. I get it!"
She looked down at The List again. Monika was on it. Well Monika was really strong and tough she wouldn't mind it. The thing about genetics was cruel to Lovina but, well, Lovina didn't mention The List at all so she probably didn't care.
She looked back at Emily and Lilli, the former looked indifferent and the later nervous.
"Well, this is a good I guess"
She was the prettiest girl, out of all of the freshmen. A smile slowly grew on her face. She carefully folds up The List and placed it in his bag.
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Monika: nyo!Germany
Julchen: nyo!Prussia
Felicity: nyo!Italy
Lovina: nyo!Romano
Lilli: Liechtenstein
Vash: Switzerland
Emily: nyo!Iceland
Antonio: Spain
Grandpa Roma: Rome
Francine: nyo!France
Alice: nyo!England
Yay first chapter. So if Germany seems out of character it's because she's a teenager she's not as strong as an adult Germany. Same with Italy, while Italy has always been oblivious I imagine she'd be even worse at 14. And why does she hang out with Liechtenstein and Iceland because ….. they're in the same class and I needed Italy to have friends while Germany is crying in the bathroom. And if you're asking where is Japan well you shall see in the next chapter of The List. That would have been cooler if it was a TV announcer.