How to Get a Clubbing Addiction By MeganTheNerd
A/N: I love you guys so much that I said screw you studying for my Pre-Calc test tomorrow and finished editing this. (Okay it was really just an excuse to stop studying but that doesn't mean I don't love you!)
A few things:
- Mei is Taiwan
- Hoa is Vietnam (Pronouced H-Wa)
- I don't own Hetalia
- Enjoy!
It was a typical club. Loud music, spastic dancing, and Mei was just as uncomfortable as she had been all of the other times her siblings had dragged her along.
She stood along the wall per usual with several couples doing "things" she'd rather not see. If she didn't know that her family members were going to get completely smashed and need a driver, she would have been reading magazines or something slightly more enjoyable.
"Hola!" a cheery Spanish voice said, "Are you the designated for your amigos too?" Mei turned around to see an equally Spanish man with evergreen eyes and a golden tan standing slightly too close for comfort, not that there was a large amount of room in the club to begin with.
She let out a hesitant conformation. Normally, she would have ignored him until he left (she had been the subject of many a drunken dare before) but there was something about the Hispanic man that reminded her of a lonely child or a lost puppy looking for a friend.
"That's cool! So am I! Mi amigos are over there."
She followed his pointed finger to the bar on the other side of the bar. His "amigos" were quite shockingly different from him. One, a blond, European man who seemed to have a crowd of women with him, and the other, an albino with a cocky smirk and... A chick on his head of snow white hair? For a few moments, Mei wondered if she was looking at the right people but when both the blond and albino responded to the Spaniard's wave it was official that they were in fact his friends.
"Where are your friends?" the stranger asked.
"They're..." she paused, realizing that she could no longer locate her five siblings "around?"
There were a few awkward moments that slipped by before the man held his hand.
"My name's Antonio! What's yours?"
"Mei."
She shook his hand. It was surprisingly callused and rough for someone so seemingly innocent and childish. He obviously did a lot of manual labor but he was so, for lack of a better word, sunny. Like he had never really grown up. She returned his infectious grin with a small smile of her own.
"Do you want to dance? Seems like a waste to just stand here all night. Especially since you can't find your friends."
"Wo bu zhidao... I'm not much of a dancer..."
Mei expected him to be at least slightly crestfallen but his expression just as bright, if not brighter, than before.
"I'm not either but I think dancing is more about having fun than being talented," he grabbed her hand "Come on! It'll be fun, I promise!"
He proceeded to drag his new friend to the floor. Once there, he took hold of her other hand and started to alternate pulling her hands, in an attempt to get the girl to move. It turned into a strange mix of the twist and a shimmy.
Despite their silly dance, the two kept turning in almost perfect sync. When she pushed her hand forward, he would her opposite hand back.
They danced for what seemed like hours until a slow song came on. Several curses were thrown at the DJ for "ruining the mood" while Toni changed from their invented dance position to that of the waltz.
While temporarily stunned from the sudden proximity breach, Mei didn't swat his hand away in favor of putting her unoccupied hand on his shoulder. Most of the couples left the dance floor for the bar, leaving a few partnerships a majority of the space to themselves. Catcalls and drunken cries pressured for more intimacy, though Antonio seemed to be ignoring them completely (much to Mei's relief) due to his intense concentration on her (much to Mei's discomfort).
The sunny smile was replaced with a more calm, thoughtful one. Part of her longed for the brighter version but another part was deeply intrigued by his sudden contemplative aura.
"MEI! What are you doing, aru!" yelled her older brother, Yao, as he pulled them apart.
"Dancing, Ge Ge," she replied.
Yao was red faced and slurring slightly giving the impression that he was at least moderately intoxicated. "With a strange man?"
"Ge Ge, we're at a club. You can dance with people you don't know here," she spoke slowly, knowing her brother tended to be forgetful and slow when drink.
Facing Antonio, she apologized, "I'm sorry. He gets a little... Overprotective sometimes."
The Spaniard just laughed earnestly, "De nada. I'd get protective too if I had a pretty hermana like you!"
"D-duo xie..." she stuttered, blushing, "I should probably get him home now. Bao zhong."
She started to push her brother off the floor when Toni grabbed her arm. The Hispanic man kissed her cheek as she turned, whispering "Hasta luego. Same time next week?"
Too surprised to say anything, the Asian nodded her head and hurriedly pushed her elder sibling away.
The rest of her family were waiting by the car.
"Chi, why is your face red?" Hoa, her elder adopted sister, asked bluntly.
"Shen me?" putting her hand to her face she felt an abnormal heat she had not noticed earlier.
"Guess it was just a little cramped," she lied.
She knew the reason why she was red. She knew all too well. It would be the same reason as to why she would insist on going to the club again next week.
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Translations
- Spanish (Antonio):
Hola = Hello
(Mi) Amigos = (My) Friends
De nada = forget about it
Hermana = sister
Hasta luego = see you later
-Chinese (Mei):
Wo bu zhidao = I don't know
Ge Ge = brother
Duo xie = thank you very much
Bao zhong = take care
Shen me = what
-Vietnamese (Hoa):
Chi = sister
P.S. (I am working on the China crack that you suggested LOC! Now you get to be the only one who knows what that means for now! :D )