School was over and Elizabeta was a girl with a plan. Unfortunately this plan happened to involve two of her least favorite people, Francis and Gilbert. Luckily, the two juniors were never hard to find. It was tradition that after school they were in detention for some misdeed, it had been like this since freshmen year. Today they were supposed to be in the library returning books to their proper shelves. Of course they never actually put the books away, they just hid in the back aisles laughing like idiots. It was this laughter that Elizabeta was currently following. Before entering the aisle she took a steady breath in hopes that this would actually work.

"Hello boys," she said cheerfully.

They looked up, warily, they knew that voice.

"What do you want?" Gilbert asked suspiciously.

"I need a favor," she said slowly.

"Us? Help you? You've got to be joking!" laughed Gilbert.

"I wish I were," she huffed. "Will you help me, or not?"

"Mais oui, what is it that we can do for such a beautiful girl?" asked Francis.

It took everything in her power not to smack the French student with her Chem text book. "You guys are pretty good friends with that new student right?"

"Antonio? Yeah he's kinda awesome. Not as awesome as the awesome –"

Elizabeta had to interrupt. "Yeah, well you guys are friends right?"

"Oh! Do you want us to give him a little note from you? You know so you can ask him to Sadies?" Francis said with a little wink.

Elizabeta frowned. "Just the opposite."

"And what does that mean?" asked Francis.

"I need you to keep him away from any girl who might ask him," Elizabeta replied.

"Is this for your creepy-ass cult?" Gilbert asked.

"It's not a cult!" Elizabeta shouted. Heads turned, more quietly she added, "will you guys do this for me?"

"But Tonio deserves a date of his own," Francis started. "Do you want him to be forever alone?"

"Oh he'll get one, but I need you guys to do this," Elizabeta said, refusing to beg.

"This is for that cult of yours," Gilbert concluded. This only confirmed what Elizabeta already knew: Gilbert was really dumb and seemed to have a really slow one track mind. Pretty much he was a lost cause.

Her eyebrow twitched. "Just do it, will you?"

"And what will you do for us?" Francis said with a wicked grin.

Elizabeta sighed. "I promise I will stop hitting you with my text books."

"And, what about in cooking class?" prompted Gilbert.

"And I won't hit you with a frying pan in cooking. Do we have a deal?" Elizabeta asked impatiently.

Francis and Gilbert made a big show of thinking about it and then slowly started to speak. "I think that can be arranged, don't you Gil?"

"Hmm the awesome me thinks that can work," Gilbert agreed.

"So it's settled then?" Elizabeta asked slowly losing her cool.

"For you, Lizzie, anything," Gilbert smirked.

"I've told you, don't call me that!" she growled.

"What are you going to do about it," he looked pointedly at the text book she had raised. Reluctantly she began to lower it. "I think I am going to have a lot of fun."

Elizabeta began to storm out of the aisle.

"Wait!" Francis called out, she turned. "May I ask who will be allowed to ask Tony, so we don't...you know...accidentally stop her."

Elizabeta smirked. "It's a need to know basis only, and you boys don't need to know yet."

"But you will tell us?" asked Francis.

"Only when you need to know. And boys? Fail me and you are dead," and with that Elizabeta walked away.

Gilbert turned to Francis. "Who do you think it could be?"

"I do not have an idea in the slightest...but I believe things are certainly about to get very interesting," Francis replied.

Gilbert nodded. "Do you think we should stick around Tony so no one can ask him?"

In the next aisle over they could hear two girls talking.

"Oh my god! There he is out in the quad! And those two losers aren't with him, c'mon I want to go ask him before another girl gets down there!"

It would not take Sherlock Holmes to realize that the girl was talking about Antonio. Just then it hit them, how hard this was actually going to be. With panicked looks on their faces Gilbert and Francis sprinted out of the library. They knew very well just how much Elizabeta would hurt them if they didn't get to Antonio first. The three flights of stairs had never felt so long, but luckily for them the girl was taking her time so she wouldn't arrive sweaty and out of breath.

They made it out onto the quad and flagged Antonio over.

He smiled, "shouldn't you two be in detention right now?"

"Um yes...but we are making a break for it," Gilbert lied almost smoothly.

"And if you don't come with us you will be an accomplice," Francis added quickly.

Antonio only laughed and started to run, Gil and Francis followed after him.

A few moments later a girl was left all alone out on the quad. Her friend stood beside her.

"I was sure I saw him," she lamented. "He was just by that tree."

"Didn't you see those jackasses running from detention? Those two idiots were Francis and Gilbert, they probably saw Antonio and wanted to hang out with him," her friend comforted her.

"But I really wanted to ask him!" she moaned.

"Why don't you put a note in his locker? He'll probably see it tomorrow," her friend suggested.

She brightened at the thought and headed back into the school.

* Hetalia *

When the girl had wrote the note and arrived at Antonio's locker she already found a note taped on the inside of the door. She ripped it off and threw it in the trash, where six other previous notes had been tossed. Carefully, almost reverently, she placed her note inside the old locker and walked away. From behind a column another girl watched her silently. Once the first had walked far enough away the second made her move. She headed towards the same locker and opened it. She ripped up the note and added it to the trash. Quickly she replaced it with her own and walked off with a smile on her face. By the end of that period there were eighteen letters in the trash and only one note in his locker.

* Hetalia *

Sports had just begun, and Lili sat watching the school's ice hockey team. Nobody thought it strange that this girl was watching practice, they just figured she was here to kill time. They would be wrong, there were actually two reasons for her to be sitting on the cold metal bleachers. One reason was personal, and the other was strictly business. She studied two forms out on the ice, one was a rookie the other was one of the best players. She had to admit that the whole team was pretty good, but these two had her attention for a reason.

Matthew Williams was a junior and yet he was still made team captain by the other players. Around him he watched Ber and Tino pass the puck, while Emil and Lukas were fighting and somehow shooting against Mikkel. Ivan seemed to be terrorizing the newbies: Toris, Eduard and Ravis. While Katyusha was teaching Natalia to skate backwards. He had to admit, it was weird having girls on the team, but they were surprisingly good. He skated over to a sophomore who was still getting used to his skates.

"Do you need any help?" Matthew asked.

"I'm fine," grunted the boy.

Matthew smiled, he remembered his first time skating. "If you need any help just shout, I'll be over there eh?"

The determined boy nodded.

"Alright then, good work Vash," Matthew said clapping him on the back.

Lili studied all these boys, wondering how she was going to get the captain of the ice hockey team to ask someone as annoying as Gilbert. The whole school new that Gilbert had a thing for the Canadian, she just wondered if he had a thing for Gilbert. She began to wonder if she could even pull this off.

"Hey, want some coco?" Bella asked sitting next to her. She held two cups in her hands, one of which she extended to her friend.

"I'd love some, what are you doing here?" asked Lili.

"Well Beta sent me to come check on you, first day getting the assignment and all. I just figured you would be here. So do you have any questions for me?" Bella asked.

"How do I get Matthew to ask Gilbert? Elizabeta said it was easy, but I don't see how," Lili said shrinking in on herself.

Bella's heart went out to the small girl. "Well this won't be quite as easy as your friend Michelle's that's for sure, but I do have a few tricks for you."

"What?" Lili asked leaning forward.

"Just talk to him, ask him about himself," Bella laughed.

"But he's a junior!" Lili said.

"So?"

"So I'm a freshman," Lili said looking down at herself.

"Look Lili, Mattie is one of the kindest people in the world. You can certainly become friends with him, he'd love to have you as a friend," Bella said sipping her coffee.

Lili looked down onto the rink. Now the team was doing drills. She watched as Abel helped Vash up from where he had fallen. Bella noticed how the girl blushed.

"You're here for another reason aren't you," stated Bella with a grin.

Lili just blushed more.

"So who do you like? Come on you can tell me," Bella coaxed.

"Vash," the girl mumbled softly.

"Do you think you are going to ask him to the dance?"

The girl's eyes widened in fear. "I don't think I could be brave enough to do that!"

"Oh sure you can," Bella said kindly. "I bet he'd love being asked by you."

"Really?"

"For sure!"

The two girls sat together for the rest of practice. Enjoying each other's company and the hot drinks.

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