I'm Not England
Ch.2
Disclaimer: I do not own Hetalia.
The car ride to the store was very quiet. The silence was actually driving Arthur crazy and he wished that Gilbert would say something so that the awkward (or at least awkward to Arthur anyway) would finally go away. The silence felt like it could go on forever, but Gilbert finally decided to talk just when Arthur was about to try and end the silence himself.
"So what town are we in?" Gilbert asked.
"We are in the town of Kinghaven, West Virginia. It's a pretty decent sized town." Arthur answered.
"West Virginia? Isn't that a state in America?" Gilbert asked.
"Yes it is."Arthur said.
"You live in America?"
"Yes, I have been living in America since I was four." Arthur answered.
"But your England and you have a British accent."
Arthur just let out a small groan of frustration before he said "I already told you that I'm not England and as for the accent well I don't know I guess I was just lucky."
"But how-" Gilbert started to say but Arthur just let out a small groan.
"Can please talk about something else that does not involve my accent?"
Gilbert was quite for a few minutes and Arthur almost thought he would not say anything for the rest of the car ride. However after a few seconds had passed Gilbert started talking again.
"So why did you move to America?" Gilbert asked.
"My dad got transferred over here because of his job." Arthur answerd.
Gilbert just gave out "oh" as a reply and the car was again tossed into silence. The good news was that they had already made it to the store so Arthur did not have to try and find something else to talk about. After searching around for a few minutes for a parking space Arthur finally found a spot. Once the car was parked they got out of the car. Gilbert looked at the rather large building only to see that it was a mall and a Wal-Mart connected together.
"So which one are we going into?" Gilbert asked.
"We are going into the mall now come on." Arthur said as he walked toward the Kinghaven Mall.
Gilbert quickly followed after the blond haired man and soon enough they were in the mall. The mall had a pretty good number of people in it, but that was no surprise considering the fact that it was a weekend.
"Alright I have enough money to get you a couple outfits, but they can't be anything expensive alright?" Arthur explained.
"Yeah, yeah I got it." Gilbert said as he gave a wave of his hand.
Gilbert then proceeded to wonder around the mall while Arthur followed him around. Arthur would point out one store after another to Gilbert, but the albino man would always refuse to into them for one reason or another. 'That stores' cloths aren't awesome enough', 'that store does not have enough cloths to choose from, 'that place is just full of cloths for old people', and 'that store's cloths are to girly/colorful/not colorful enough/etc.' where just a few of the excuses that Arthur would end up getting. After suggesting what must have been about fifteen stores and having every single suggestion shot down Arthur was about to just drag him into some random store and tell the guy to just deal with what he got. However before Arthur could grab the white haired man's shirt and drag him into a nearby store, Gilbert finally found a place that he wanted to go into.
"We should go in there." Gilbert said as he pointed at a store.
The store that Gilbert was pointing at a store with a rather large dark colored metal arch over the door and loud metal music that could wake the dead was blasting away. Young people happily walked in and out of the store and old people who where over the age of eighty looked at the store as if the devil himself had made the place. The sign above the door proudly displayed the words 'Hot Topic' in big bold red letters for the entire world to see.
Arthur looked away from the store and over at Gilbert before he asked "You really want to go in there?"
A quick nod of the head was the only answer that Arthur got. With a sigh and slight shrug of the shoulders Arthur walked into the store with Gilbert following right after him. Gilbert immediately started to wonder around the store while Arthur was looking around for cloths that Gilbert could wear. He had gotten a close enough look at the red eyed man's cloths that he more or less had a pretty good idea on what his size was. Luckily for Arthur the store was having a clearance sale so he was able to find a few things for Gilbert that where on sale, but he was still silently morning the fact that his anime money for the month was going down the drain. Arthur was able to grab a couple pairs of pants and a while grabbing a few shirts for Gilbert he was able to find one that had the Prussian flag on it. Arthur slowly made his way over to wear the band shirts where kept and after staring at the huge selection of shirts for bands that he had never heard of before in his life he found a couple of Deadmau5 shirts (pretty much the only thing in the group that he actually listened too) and grabbed some shirts for himself.
Arthur also grabbed a couple CDs for himself because he had been meaning to get a few of them for a while now and if anything they could be used to drowned out Prussia's talking if he got too annoying. The whole time that Arthur was wondering around the store he was paying little attention to what his white haired unit was doing, it was only when he heard Gilbert's signature laugh did he actually look at the unit and see what was (to him) a horrifying sight. Gilbert had a total of three girls surrounding him and one glance at the Hetalia shirt that was being held by one of the girls told him that Gilbert found some Hetalia fans.
"I didn't know they made Hetalia units!" One of the girls shouted out rather happily.
"Prussia you're my favorite character." Another girl said.
Gilbert of course just grin like a manic at this and Arthur could practically see his ego grow three times bigger. The girl who was holding the Hetalia happened to look over at Arthur only to have her eyes grow wide. She quickly got her two other friends' attention and pointed at Arthur.
The three girls then looked like they were about to go over to him Arthur quickly said "I'm not an England unit so you can move right along."
The girls let out various noises of disappointment, but Gilbert quickly go their attention again. Arthur just sighed before he dumped his stuff onto the desk and the casher immediately started to scan his items.
"So is he your unit?" The casher asked in an attempt to make small talk.
"Unfortunately he is."Arthur grumbled out.
The girl just laughed at this before she asked "You get him as a surprise gift or something?"
"Something like that." Arthur answered.
"Well if it helps any I know how that feels. My friend once got me a Len Kagamine unit from vocaloid for my birthday. I was not to thrilled with the idea of having a unit at the time." The girl said with a slight chuckle.
"What did you do?" Arthur asked truly interested now.
"Well, it took awhile to get used to him, but after awhile he became a part of the family." The girl chuckled a little before she continued talking. "We did have a bit of an awkward moment between us when we both realized something about each other, but after we both talked it out life with him has been pretty good."
The girl had a look in her eyes that Arthur could not really place and a small smile on her face. Arthur was not sure if he should ask for her to explain what she meant by an 'awkward moment', but before he could really decided to ask or not he heard Gilbert shout at him.
"We should get this shirt!" Arthur looked over at Gilbert to see what kind of shirt he was talking about.
The shirt Gilbert was holding was a bright red and it had a picture of the Prussia himself on it wearing a crown and saying 'I'm awesome'.
"What are you going to do with that?" Arthur asked, but to be honest he knew the answer.
"I'm going to wear it." Gilbert said with pride. "
You're not going to wear a shirt with a picture of yourself on it!" Arthur shouted.
"Well you could wear it." Gilbert said with a smirk.
"I'm not going to wear it either now go put it back!" Arthur shouted as he pointed over to where the anime and video game shirts where kept.
"So not awesome…" Gilbert grumbled out, but did as he was told.
The casher just laughed and shook her head as she continued to scan and bag Arthur's things.
"Well he's an interesting character, but seriously don't worry about it you'll get used to living with the guy eventually." The girl said.
Arthur said nothing to this he just waited for the white haired man to return. By the time Gilbert returned the girl had just finished scanning Arthur's CDs.
"Deadmau5, Daft Punk, Sex Bob-Omb, Metric? You listen to that stuff?" Gilbert asked as he watched the girl put Arthur's CDs in a bag.
"Yeah why?" Arthur asked.
"I figured you would listen to things that old people like." Gilbert said
"I'm not old!" Arthur quickly shouted out.
The girl just started to laugh when she heard Arthur say that before she handed Arthur his stuff.
"Oh man you guys crack me up. Please come and shop with us again." The casher said with a grin.
Arthur just snatched his stuff out of the girl's hand and practically stumped out the door. Gilbert just followed after Arthur all while laughing his head off. As Arthur walked out of the store (and the mall itself) the only thing that he could think was that didn't care what that girl said he was never going to get used to living with Gilbert, not in a million years…
Ok, so that's chapter 2. Anyway, info time!
Kinghaven, West Virginia: Kinghaven is just town I made up, it is not a real town in West Virginia (at least I don't think it does anyway). Since Arthur is not really England I figured it would not be too surprising if Arthur lived in the states. Now granted Arthur will still have pride of his birth country (England), but he will have a soft spot for the Mountain states since it's where he lives. As for why I had Arthur live in West Virginia and not New York, California, Virginia, or any other state that you can think of well the reason is that I live (and I was born) in West Virginia. I was thinking of having him live in Iowa (I lived there for awhile), but I went with West Virginia.
Arthur: While Arthur is human!England Arthur will have a few differences between him and England. The differences will mostly be in the interest department (like he like things that England does not like and vice versa).
The Hot Topic?: So Hot Topic is starting to sell Hetalia shirts now (or at least in my area they are). So far the only Hetalia shirt I have seen is the one with England, Sealand, and America on it (and for some reason England is on it twice, but he's just awesome like that). I have yet to see a Prussia shirt in the store, but hey they might start selling them sooner or later. I just kind of chose the store at random because I can kind of see Prussia wanting to go in there for curiosity's sake.
I stuck a reference/shout out in here: This is not all that important, but I did stick a reference to a comic series/movie in this chapter. I'm not really sure if anyone will be able to find it, but if you can tell me what it is and where it's from in your review. The first person to get it right get's to decide which unit Arthur will get after he gets his second unit. I'll give you two hints to the shout out.
Hint 1: The shout out happens when Arthur and Gilbert are in Hot Topic.
Hint 2: The song "Black Sheep" by the band Metric was used in the movie. I'm pretty much giving it away with this hint.
England unit: Ok, so after seeing how you all feel about it I have decided that I will give Arthur an England unit. It is going to be interesting to write, but I think I can pull it off without it getting too confusing. England will probably be the last unit (or close to the last) that Arthur will get, but he will get him. Anyway, since we are getting another England that means we have another England couple on our hands. This means you guys get to vote for who the England unit will end up with. I'll be putting a poll up on this so please vote on there. These are the choices.
America
Germany
China
Canada
Italy
Spain
Anyway, make sure to vote for who you want on the poll.
