Hallo my flickering flames! Do not worry, the more I write the shorter the author notes will get. So here is my second chapter right on time, but I'm not sure if my third will be. I am going camping over Thanksgiving break, so I won't have internet to write because I do largely rely on it when I do write. Don't forget about the Densa questions, you still have two more weeks to give me answers. By the way in Spanish this is how yes is spelled: sí, but in Italy: si. See the difference -wink wink-. Thank you to AoNoShi, Kira-Vantas, , and randomobsession123 for following my story and STARFIRE67 for favoriting my story, you made my day. Just a warning, Lovina is a little OOC in this chapter. Get ready for a whole lot of new characters. Also I forgot to tell you this started Friday, November 21.
Disclaimer: I don't own Hetalia or any of the characters that aren't listed as OCs on my bio.
Important info in Author's Note!- Lovina was forcefully pulled up the stairs and sat in a chair. She looked at the slightly surprised faces around her. She recognized Gilbert, Francis, Alfred, Alice, Ludwig, Feliciana, and (much to her displeasure) Marie. There was a girl with platinum blond hair sitting slightly farther away from the others, a very tall and large guy with the same colored hair, a Chinese girl with her hair up in two buns who was scooting away from another Asian who was calling 'Aniki', a Japanese boy with no expression, another Asian girl with long black hair who was sitting besides the Japanese boy, and a boy with fairly long hair and violet eyes who was talking quietly to Marie.
"This is Lovi!" She stopped studying the faces as Antonio proclaimed this.
"I told you to call me Lovina, bastard!" She snapped and then became quiet as she noticed all eyes were on her. After a couple moments of silence they all started introducing themselves. The girl with platinum blond hair was Natalya (her brother Ivan told me this), the large guy was Ivan, the Chinese girl was Chun Yan, the guy calling her 'Aniki' was Im Yong Soon, the Japanese guy was Kiku, the girl beside him was Xiao Mei, and the quiet boy was Matthew.
"So Lovina, you came from Italy, da?" Lovina started shaking as she felt a hand on her shoulder. Don't look in his eyes, don't look in his eyes.
"S-si." She pulled out her meal, first the smoothie, then the parmesan. The chicken parmesan was still hot after being kept in a thermos for a while. She listened to the different conversations around her as she ate. Meanwhile Feli had just pulled out her cheesecake.
"You bring cheesecake to school?" The shocked question came from Ludwig, she also got a couple surprised glances from the rest of the group. Though some were too busy eating to even notice, like Alfred who was eating a hamburger and simultaneously trying to get a conversation out of Natalya who glared daggers at him.
"Si, sorella makes it! She makes everything delicious and then packs our lunches, like Mamma used to!~ Right sorella?" Lovina shrugged at what her sister was saying. Yeah she made everything, she loved to help Mamma in the kitchen when she was little.
"So Lovina you cook and it sounds much better than Ally's food." -"My food tastes fine you git! And don't call me Ally!"- "Mind if we come over to try some?" Alfred asked with a wink.
Lovina looked at him blankly as she pulled her cheesecake out without even looking at her bag it was in. "There is no way in hell I am cooking for all of you, it's bad enough Feli and Nonno don't help out and I already feel like I'm cooking for an army."
Gilbert, who was eating wurst and potatoes, attempted to swipe a bite of cheesecake with his fork. Let's just say it is not fun for an angry Italian girl to take your fork and stab you with it. Francis shook his head at Gilbert. "Gil, that is not the way to get food from a lady! Have I taught you nothing? First you must seduce them."
Lovina panicked at the last part because Francis suddenly had an arm wrapped around her shoulder. She quickly stood up and ended up tripping backwards. She found herself on Ivan's lap. "Hello Lovi, you would like some borscht, da?"
"Chigi!" Lovina quickly got up and hid behind her sorella. By now she had forgotten all about her cheesecake which had been swiped by Marie.
"So no borscht?" Lovina felt relieved when the bell rang, signalling the end of lunch.
"Come on, schön. Let's go to study hall." She followed Gilbert down the stairs as they pushed their way through the crowd and into the cafeteria. She felt a hand grab her breast and then it pushed her backwards. Luckily for her, she fell into something soft with large hands that lightly put her back on her feet. Unluckily for her, it was Ivan. "Chigi!"
She laughed as she latched herself onto Gilbert and he let out a nervous laugh as he looked back at Ivan. They both watched as he grabbed the guy who pushed her by the collar. "You will not hurt my friends, da? You should go apologise to the babochka, comrade."
"Y-yes Mister..." Lovina almost felt sorry for the guy as Ivan held him off the floor. But he did molest her, so she just grinned.
"You shall call me Koshmar. Because I am yours." The guy just looked confused and Ivan sighed. "It means nightmare."
"Yes Mis-Mister Koshmar! I'm very sorry...um, lady." He scramble off as soon as Ivan dropped him.
"Are you okay babochka? He was very rude, da?" Lovina looked up at Ivan with a smirk. She could get used to having a friend like this.
"I'm fine, grazie Ivan. What does babochka mean? You know I like you, you're a great bodyguard and protector and whatnot. Since you gave me a nickname I guess I'll give you one..." Lovina stopped to think for one that would suit him in Italian while Gilbert just stared at her like she had lost her mind. "Orsacchiotto! That is what I will call you."
"How about we try to figure out what our own nicknames mean, da? Winner is the first one to correctly get the meaning, loser has to buy them a sunflower. No asking each other's siblings either." Ivan smiled, holding his hand out and Lovina shook it as Gilbert just watched, not believing what just happened.
"You have a deal, Orsacchiotto. Okay second potato bastard let's go sit down before the bell rings." Gilbert stood in one spot for a second before leading Lovina to where he normally sits.
"So, Tonio said to call you Lovi... What about Lov? You don't have to call me Gilbert, I'm just Gil. The awesome Gil!" Gilbert said the last sentence louder than the rest, Mr. Graham giving him a look. "So, you um... gave Ivan a nickname?"
"Got a problem with that, fastidio?" He slightly tipped his head to one side, reminding Lovina of the dog her and Feli had before they moved from Italy. She stared at Gilbert for a couple of moments before speaking. "You remind me of Tesoro. So, you sit here all alone?"
"Who's Tesoro. Nah, mein slightly awesome friend, Lizzie, and unawesome cousin, Roddy, sit here too. Whenever it is just Lizzie here she doesn't stop talking about him." Lovina yawned and opened her chromebook. She looked around at the people, only seeing two she knew. Ivan was sitting all alone and Marie was talking animatedly to two other people.
"Tesoro is our Neapolitan Mastiff, she is my baby. We also have a Volpino Italiano named Pasta, she was Feli's, and Nonno had a Sicilian shepherd name Fortunato because she had almost died after being hit by a car. They come over from Italy in a couple of days and my Nonno bought a dog for hunting too." Gilbert listened intently as Lovina talked fondly about her dogs. He never had thought she would be an animal person.
Lovina scowled at the way Gil smiled at her. This wasn't like her at all. She was talking so freely to him. Why dammit? "What's up with that dorky grin, bastardo?"
"Nothing, Lov, just wondering something. Why did you move here anyways?" He smirked at her scowl. Lovina wondered if Orsacchiotto would do her a favor and rip it off.
"Nonno got a job at this school. I don't remember what, but it had something to do with the former principle being fired." She just shrugged it off as Gilbert looked at her in horror.
"So-so, he's Mr. Vargas, the new principle? Vater is VP, but that means... Um, how exactly does your nonno act?" Lovina just looked up as she thought about an answer.
"Let's see. He's very boisterous like Feli, but also gets very angry. He likes to flirt with women and he got fired from his last job for having an affair with seven of the teachers, I think. He talks and laughs a lot and gets quite annoying. I'm the most mature one in my family other than Nonna, but she lives in Greece. Why?" Gilbert looked like he was about to die. "Gil?"
"I don't want Vater to be grumpier than usual when comes home..."
"That's the only reason why, bastard?!"
After Lovina had taken a short nap, Gilbert shook her awake. "Wakey, wakey. It's almost time for Mr. C's class."
"Mr. C?..." Lovina mumbled before trying to go back to sleep.
"Nein, Mr. Chandler's orchestra class is next."
"Fuck! I forgot my instrument!" Lovina jumped up quickly, panicking. How could she have forgotten her instrument? She had everything, but her viola.
Suddenly a loud beep came as the intercom came on. "Lovi~ My sweet little nipote~ Be the wonderful little principessa you are and come to my office!~ I have something you forgot at home!"
Lovina instantly paled and Gilbert started snickering at her. "Oh and Dr. Beilschmidt wants to see Gilbert too. Something about an explosion in the chemistry room earlier this week when he left for a meeting?"
Soon they were both walking through the hallways, Lovina's cheeks were tinted pink from the very embarassing announcement that the whole school heard. Gilbert, on the other hand, was so pale he was almost transparent, looking as if he would pass at any moment. Lovina finally broke the silence with a question as they stood outside the office. "Gil, he can't be that bad can he?"
She wished she had never asked that question as a man who looked exactly like Ludwig, just with longer hair, opened the door and stared down at them with ice blue eyes. Lovina nervously shuffled behind Gilbert as he spoke. "Hallo, Vati! Nice day for a chat, right? We could even take Luddy and the dogs and go to the lake!"
"Sit, both of you." Gilbert obediently sat while Lovina panicked.
"But-but, sir, I'm just here to see my Nonno!" She let out a small squeak as his icy gaze turned on her. She quickly sat down. "I-I mean ye-yes sir!"
"Now Gilbert, how many times do I have to tell you not to bring any explosives to the chemistry lab? You are retaking it next year if the school has to be evacuated one more time because of your small 'experiments'. You will learn the values of patience and obedience like your younger brother..." And this went on for another ten minutes. Lovina had fallen asleep half way through Dr. Beilschmidt's lecture and was given 2 hours of detention along with Gilbert, who got it for not waking her up immediately. So, we had another fifteen minute lecture about the importance of staying awake during school.
"Um, Dr. Beilschmidt, where is Nonno?" Lovina asked after a couple minutes of awkward silent minutes. Gilbert's father opened the door where Mr. Roma was snoring on his desk.
Lovina finally got her viola and they headed down to the orchestra room, over halfway through class without late passes. Let's just say they got another two hours of detention and Lovina was ready to strangle Gilbert. Chamber orchestra, it had only the best players in the school. There wasn't very many of them, but Lovina had met all, but two. Playing violin was Chris, Gilbert, Natalya, Francis, and apparently Gilbert's cousin. Lovina, Marie, and Matthew played viola. On the cello were Ivan and Chun Yan. And finally the bass player was Bella.
Bella was a small girl whose family moved from Belgium the year before she was born. She had small hands and always smiled, kind of reminding her of Antonio. Lovina crossed her legs and plucked at the strings aimlessly while Mr. C went over Bella's fingerings on It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.
"Okay, now everyone together." They all readied our instruments for playing as Mr. C gave us the tempo. Playing the viola was probably one of the most natural things for Lovina. It was one of the few things that she was better at than Feliciana. A smile grew on her face as she played the sweet melody, but her face formed a scowl as soon as it was over "Thank you very much, binders!"
At first Lovina looked and felt confused until she noticed everyone else was packing up. She put her instrument on the shelf, where everyone else's was. She was studying the painted wood in the shape of violins that were hanging on the wall. "Privet, Babochka. You played well. You like those? The orchestra designs and paints most of them, but not all. You would like to buy one, da?"
She shook her head while still looking at them. "I don't rea-"
The bell cut her off. "I will see you tomorrow, da?" Ivan said with a smile before leaving.
"Come on Lov, Dr. Tanner's is pretty far away." After walking through the crowded atrium, pushing their way up the stairs, and panicking at the hall which was quickly thinning, they were in the classroom.
"Ah, Gilbert and Lovina, welcome! Come and feel free to sit down! Lovina is new in this class, let's see... Ah! Why don't you sit behind Heracles." Dr. Tanner talked, signalling towards an empty seat in the back and guess who was sitting not to far from her. None other, than Marie.
She sat, boredly behind Heracles while Dr. Tanner talked about the cause of the Trojan War. It wasn't very exciting, Paris capturing Helen and managing to anger all of Greece. From Lovina's experience in Greece, the Greeks were fairly easy to anger. Just say, "You're an idiot." and poof, suddenly their whole family is after you.
"Dr. T, can I go use the restroom?" Lovina looked at a short guy with curly hair in the front of the room. His skin was tanned and hair dark.
"Well, Devon, the aegis is too tired today. Maybe he will be well-rested tomorrow, losing a leg took a lot out of him." Dr. Tanner paused as the bell rang. "Well we are going to now become Greeks and Trojans. Maggie, how about you come up and be our scribe on the white board and Kurt can make a google doc to list names."
Maggie went up to the board and called on people to choose which side. Everyone laughed at the points where Dr. Tanner forced some to go to a different time, like how he wouldn't let Daniel and Baker be on the same team. In the end nine girls were on the Greek side and two girls on the Trojans. It just so happened Lovina and Marie were the two girls on the Trojan side. After sides had been chosen they had ten minutes left of class. And yes it took that long.
Gilbert had come over to her seat and started to talk to her, while Lovina ignored him. She instead stared at the back of the head of the the person in front of her. She believed his name was John. Lovina watched as everyone started grabbing their stuff as counted down from five.
"...three, two, one." The bell rang.
And I leave it at that! So, John is based off of a real person who always counts down at the end of class and the bell rings right when he gets to one. One of my friends in there insists that he is a witch. Next chapter will be that weekend, so be prepared for mein awesomeness to return to you in a chapter that may be longer than my previous two! Also tell me who should win the foreign nicknames, Lovina or Ivan. I would put up a poll, but I have a feeling no one would go to it.
