Sorry for the long time before the next chapter, I had a little writer's-block. Thank you to all who reviewed/favorited/etc.!
The next day, after Bri's parents had both gone to work, Kay-Kay, Meghan, Quincy and Carrie were all gathered around Kay-Kay's laptop in her room, browsing the Flying Mint Bunny Inc.'s website.
"Okay, so it looks like we can choose from chibi or full-grown units." Kay-Kay spoke without taking her eyes off of the screen.
"Let's just get the hottest two characters!" Quincy said, impatiently.
Meghan turned to Quincy with a look on her face that clearly said, 'Are you stupid or something?' "One does not simply select two of the 'hottest characters' from Hetalia," she said.
Quincy obviously didn't understand what Meghan was saying. "What? Why?"
"Because they are all SMOKING, that's why!" Kay-Kay answered enthusiastically. "There are no two that can be held up as 'the hottest.' They're all pretty much a perfect-10 in the looks department."
"Well who should we order, then?"
"Honestly, I was thinking we should get a Chibitalia Unit, first." Kay-Kay answered sheepishly.
"A who unit?" Quincy asked.
"Chibitalia is the younger, toddler-version of Italy." Meghan answered. Then she turned to Kay-Kay. "Why would we get a Chibitalia Unit?! I though the point of this was to own some of the hottest cast-members of any show ever. Why on Earth should we waste this chance to get a little kid?" Then Meghan got a mischievous smile on her face. "Unless you're into that sort of thing, Kay-Kay..."
Kay-Kay shoved Meghan off of the bed. "Shut up, loser, you know I'm not. I just think that it would be easier to try and take care of a chibi unit first before we get an adult one. Plus, Chibitalia is undoubtedly one of the most adorable things in the universe, and he'd be able to do all of our chores for us. Think about it."
"You know, that's actually not the worst idea in the world." Carrie said, contemplating what Kay-Kay had said. "Good job, Kay-Kay, that's the smartest thing you've said all week!"
"Oh, shut it, Carrie! You're one to talk, Miss 'I don't believe in science*!'" Kay-Kay retorted.
Carrie's face got hot. "I misspoke when I said that, and you know it!"
"Doesn't mean you didn't still say it."
Carrie's eyes narrowed. "Just order the stupid robot."
The next day was pretty slow after Ami and Kris had left for their trip. The morning, however, had been hectic. Kris kept remembering things that Ami had forgotten, and various items seemed to continuously disappear. Before they had left, Kris felt he needed to remind the girls of Troop 69 of some things, too.
"I just want to remind you all that NO BOYS are allowed in while we're gone, understand?" he said, eyeing each of the girls. Ami felt the need to mouth 'Unless they're cute!' after this.
"We understand." they all said together in a monotonous tone.
"Also, no parties, and no leaving the house to go to a party, got it?" Ami added, 'Party hard!'
"We got it." they replied, trying not to snicker at Ami's contradictory statements.
"Okay, then we'll see you in a week. Bye!" he said, picking up his suitcase and heading out the door.
"Bye girls, and Kaleb!" Ami said, waving over her shoulder.
"Bye, seeya!" the girls responded, waving as the adults piled into the car and took off.
Now it was about 4:00 in the afternoon and everyone was bored out of their minds.
"Sissy, I'm bored, can we go to Doug and Edna's to get ice cream?" Kaleb asked his sister, Bri.
"No, Kaleb." Bri responded tiredly.
"Why?!" Kaleb demanded.
"Because I'm too bored and tired to get off this couch. Shut up and watch TV."
Sam perked up, suddenly. "Bri?" she asked.
"What?" Bri groaned.
"I want some ice cream, too."
"Too bad!" Bri snapped.
Carrie slowly looked over at Bri and just stared at her. Eventually Bri looked up at her. "What?!" she said, obviously irritated.
"You know, I could really go for some ice cream, too-" Carrie began.
"Ugh!" Bri groaned, sitting up. "Fine, show of hands, who all wants ice cream?!" she looked around at her brother and the girls in the room. Everyone raised their hand. "Okay, fine, we'll go down to Doug and Edna's, geez, just let me get some money."
Bri left to get money, and everyone got up to get their shoes. It was at this time Quincy looked up from her phone.
"Wait, are we going somewhere?" she asked. Kay-Kay rolled her eyes.
"Just get your boots on, genius."
Kay-Kay ate her chocolate soft serve happily while walking along the road with the rest of Troop 69. One thing she liked about the ice cream drive-through uptown, Doug and Edna's, was that their sizes were huge, so a small there was like a large anywhere else.
As the group passed the big, stone church near the center of town, Kaleb turned to his sister again. "Sissy..."
"No." Bri responded idly.
Kaleb stomped his food in aggravation. "You didn't even hear what I was going to ask!" he pouted.
"I know what you were going to say, though." Bri responded, taking a bite if her cookie dough Cyclone, or "Rocket", as Doug and Edna's called it, in honor of the high school sports team, the Rockets.
"What was I going to say?" he asked skeptically.
"You were going to ask if we could stop at the park near the church and play." She turned to him. "The answer is no."
"Why?!" he whined.
"Because I'm dead tired and I just want to get home and lay down now, okay?! We can go to the park some other time, Kaleb, but I just want to go home and have no more distractions, okay?"
However, once they got home, there was a BIG distraction sitting on their front porch.
"Hey, sissy, what's that big crate sitting in front of the door?" Kaleb asked.
Bri's eye widened, remembering the conversation she had, had with Kay-Kay and Meghan two days previous. "Oh no-!"
"YEEEEESSSSS, HE CAME!" Both Kay-Kay and Meghan flipped out, running the home-stretch to the little white house.
"What are you guys screaming about?!" Sam shouted, trying to keep up with the spastic fangirls. By the time she was at the porch, though, they were already bringing the crate into the house.
"Will you two wait before you bring that thing into my house?!" Bri asked, trying to catch her breath after running up to the maniacal otakus. They obviously didn't listen to her.
"Do you think he'll be just like he is in the anime?" Meghan asked excitedly.
"The ad said that he was supposed to act exactly like the anime character. Kay-Kay responded, setting the crate down in the middle of the living room/dining room floor with Meghan.
"Sweet, let's bust this crate open right now!" Meghan said. Kay-Kay grabbed her before she could do anything, though.
"No, we're supposed to read the manual first. The Flying Mint Bunny Inc. website said it was crucial." Kay-Kay gestured to the paper booklet that was taped to the front of the crate. Meghan pouted, mumbling something like, "Manuals are for pussies" and adding that Kay-Kay needed more "adventure" in her life.
After she was done skimming over the manual, Kay-Kay decided that they should boil water to make pasta in order to wake up the sleeping unit.
"Sounds brilliant!" said Bri. "Aside from the fact that we don't have any pasta!"
Kay-Kay shrugged. "It says here that the boiling water should be enough to wake him up, even if we don't have any pasta."
"Oh, okay, FIRE UP THE STOVE!" Bri said, beginning to rush into the kitchen. However, her collar was caught by Carrie.
"No. Remember the other day when you 'cooked' the bacon? The house still smells like smoke! You're not allowed in the kitchen unless under high supervision until Kris and Ami come back." she lectured sternly. As much as she hated to be referred to as such, Carrie was definitely the most maternal of the girls, and was one of the only ones who could get Bri under control.
Bri grumbled angrily and freed herself from Carrie's grip. "I don't need supervision to be in my own kitchen, dammit!"
Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Kay-Kay and Meghan already had the water in the pot and on the stove, waiting for the water to start boiling. Sam slipped into the kitchen, wearing a sly look on her face. "Don't you two know that a watched pot never boils?" she asked, obviously trying to annoy the he'll out of the two fangirls.
"Yes, but an unsupervised pot over-boils, and then makes a mess out of everything." Kay-Kay countered, definitely not in the mood for Sam's bullshit at the current moment.
Sam frowned at the retort. "Why are you boiling water, anyways?"
"Because hopefully it will wake up Feli over there!" Meghan chirped, pointing to the crate.
"Feli?" Sam raised an eyebrow.
"That's the character we ordered." Kay-Kay answered.
"Huh?" Just as Sam started to question the two friends, the crate containing the young nation quivered. Soon a light pounding could be heard from the inside of the box.
"Please let me out!" a small, feminine-sounding voice called out from inside the crate. "I want some of the pasta you're making! Please?"
Meghan ran into the living room and grabbed Bri's crowbar ("Hey, my crowbar!") and went to open the crate. Soon enough, a younger version of Italy stood in front of her, practically radiating cuteness.
The poor little guy was nearly in tears, though. "Grazie for freeing me from the box, ma'am!" he said to Meghan. "C-can I please have some of the pasta you're making?" Meghan simply stood there making "awww" sounds at him.
Kay-Kay walked up to the younger nation and knelt down to his level. "Sorry Feli, we don't have any pasta - we just did that to wake you up. You can have some of my tomatoes, though." she offered. Quincy looked up from her phone.
"Wait, what's happening?! Kay-Kay never lets anyone even touch her tomatoes!" she asked, looking around at the mess sitting in front of her.
Kay-Kay growled at said fellow-Girl Scout menacingly. "You're damn right no one else can touch my tomatoes!" She then turned to Feli with a warmer expression on her face. "Unless I say so, and I say you can have some. C'mon," she took Feli's small hand in hers and guided him to the kitchen. "I'll show you where they are."
Meanwhile, Sam looked at Feli like a little girl looks at a doll. "Aw, she's adorable!" she cooed. Meghan's expression immediately changed, and she nearly burst out laughing.
"She's a he."