A/N: I should be plowing all of weekend hw from being sick, but I'm being incredibly lazy and slacking. xD But hey, can you blame me? I've been coughing up phlegm and blowing out snot. Great description, I know. But anyhow, I'm too sick and depressed to be doing homework, so I'm just writing fanfiction instead. xD So enjoy!

Oh, and I don't own much here.

And Tanoshimi, I am working on that TaiNet oneshot. I'm getting there! I promise to get it published by the end of this week.


Chapter 3: In which Anders is Confused (Adorably So)

Anders Densen was by no means a dumb person. He was just incredibly, amazing dense. Along with freshmen Amelia F. Jones and Alice Vargas, and senior Antonio Fernandez Carriedo, he was one of the most thick-headed people in the school. None of them could read the atmosphere. Subtle hints and careful implications were lost on the four of them, much to the chagrin of their friends. Berwald and Nora, in particular, were extremely agitated and amused by just how dense he could be. Mari was usually indifferent, but she enjoyed taking jabs at him. Tina was too amiable to care, unless Anders had particularly irritated her. The rest of the school population (minus a great deal of freshmen, of course) was used to seeing the hyperactive Dane rush around the school while proclaiming loudly in Danish and hugging people on a random urge.

So although the Danish boy in question had missed the sly smirks of Nora, Mari, and Xiang, coupled with Arthur's uncertainty and Yong Soo's more-extreme-than-normal hyperness, Berwald and Tina didn't. The tall Swede and his petite girlfriend had sensed trouble brewing since the day Anders came wailing, WAILING, to them about how some random creeper was texting him. In fact, Berwald had figured out immediately that Mari had something to do about it. After all, the platinum blonde had never really liked the obnoxious Dane; it would be an understatement to say that she disliked him. When Berwald very subtly brought this up to Tina, she had caught on as well.

So two days after Anders had begun receiving creeper texts, the duo confronted Mari. Berwald, having known Nora, Mari, and Anders for pretty much all his life, felt that Mari would be easier to crack than Nora. Tina agreed with him, since she had the unpleasant experience of being glared at by Nora for trying to pry something out of her.

"Hey Mari! How's it going?"

The girl shrugged, flipping to another page of her book. The cheerful blonde usually had no visible effect on her mood.

"We w'nt t' t'lk t'ya."

"About…"

"Would you happen to know anything about who's texting Anders?"

"No."

The couple looked at each other. Tina winked, signifying that they were moving to plan B. However, just as they were about to use their most effective method of coercing information from Mari, an Asian boy with an unfathomable expression appeared with a similar looking, but much more lively Asian girl at his side. And appeared that they were bickering in Chinese.

"哎呀, 翔, 我不想做啦! 他知到了就很尴尬。"

"但是这很好笑。你很久没有放松了。这说不定是一件好事。"

"我真的不懂男孩子!"

"谢谢。"

"Hi Xiang."

Tina and Berwald watched in amusement as the two Asians joined them at the table which had earlier had been occupied by Mari only. The boy exchanged a brief hug with Mari. Automatically, Mari leaned against him, and the boy nonchalantly looked over her shoulder to see what she was reading.

"You know, you should talk to Mei. She's thinking of backing out."

Mari raised an eyebrow. "Really? I thought Yong Soo and Xiang threatened you with stealing all of your clothes so that you would have to come to school in nothing but your underwear."

Tina now recognized the boy as Xiang, Mari's sort of boyfriend, and the girl as Jing Mei, Xiang's twin. She looked to see if Berwald had realized this as well. As it turned out, it seemed that Berwald had really caught on.

"Yer s'ttin' y'r b'yfr'end on 'nd'rs, 'ren't ya?"

"No," replied Mari calmly. Jing Mei fiddled nervously with the strings of her hoodie.

Suddenly, Tina's eyes lit up and she began to bounce on the balls of her feet excitedly. Berwald looked to Tina in bewilderment, but once he saw the expression on Tina's face, he began smile. Or as well as someone with his gruff demeanor could.

"I know! Mari, you're having Jing Mei prank Anders, aren't you? I knew it! That is a BRILLIANT idea! Absolutely brilliant!"

Jing Mei nearly fell out of her chair in shock. Identical devious expressions appeared on Mari and Xiang's faces as they quickly began to think of ways to take advantage of this new development.

"Ber-Bear, do you have any good blackmail on Anders? Please?"

If it was one thing Berwald absolutely could not resist, it was Tina's smoldering puppy face. Her big violet eyes would water slightly and her delicate mouth would form itself into a pout. His face softened as he blushed profusely.

"Mmmm."

"Thank you! I have the best plan ever!"

Jing Mei, Xiang, and Mari watched on awkwardly as Tina tackled Berwald in a bear hug while chattering happily about how brilliant her plan was going to be. Jing Mei shot her twin and his girlfriend a venomous look as the two smirked at her.

"Well, 姐姐,I think there is absolutely no way for you to get out of this now."

"Yes!" tittered Tina happily, handing her a piece of paper, "Here's Berwald's number and mine! Make sure to text us after school so we can give you some information to scare Anders with! This is going to be so much fun!"

Jing Mei took the paper helplessly as Tina beamed at her. "Um, thanks, I guess."

"No problems!"

Just as Jing Mei was about to make her escape, a certain Korean boy caught her eye.

"勇洙,你给我回来!你这个笨蛋,我真的是被你气死啦!我以后一定要报仇!"

"Aniki! Mei Mei is after meeeeeeee!"


Meanwhile, Anders was ranting in Danish to Nora.

"Lort, det her er vildt uhyggeligt! Hvad nu hvis det er en pædofil? Hvad nu hvis det er en lærer? Nora, hjælp mig!"

"Calm down idiot. People are watching."

Nora was getting a massive headache. Anders was taking the whole "OMG there's a creeper TEXTING me" thing way too far. People around them were giving them funny looks. No wonder Arthur had excused himself to eat lunch elsewhere.

"Hey Nora, something wrong with Denny here?"

Nora turned to see her friend Erika looking on with amusement. She shrugged.

"Eh. Nothing much. I wouldn't worry about it. He has spasm attacks often."

"NOTHING MUCH! NOT COOL, NORGE!"

Nora rolled her eyes. "I'm going to eat with Erika and whoever else she's eating with. Go yell at Gillian or Yong Soo."

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Nora smacked him on the head. With a final whimper, he shut up and went to find someone else to whine to. It seemed that his best friend was no use in desperate times like this. Maybe he could go find Yong Soo to whine too. After all, Gillian was probably with Francine, Antonio, and that one invisible kid planning some new amazing stunt to pull off.

However, Yong Soo found him before he could find the energetic Korean.

"Gyaaaaaah! Anders, my insane cousin is going to murder me! Hide me!"

Before Anders could reply, a petite Asian girl came power walking down across the plaza, huffing angrily as her eyes scanned the crowd.

"There you are! I'm not letting you get away until you retract that stupid dare!"
"Gotta go! Bye!"

And thus, Anders was left in a shocked daze as the two Asians rushed past him. When he finally shook himself out of it, the one thing he could remember was the fierce look in the girl's eyes.

"Dude! I have a totally unawesome assignment for the totally unawesome English class. Ya wanna be the partner of awesome me for it?"

"Do you know her name?"

Gillian looked confused. She knocked Ander's forehead a few times with her fist. "You ok? It's unawesome not to listen to me."

"Hey Gilly, do you know the name of the girl just passed by?"

"That Asian chick? Sure! She's Kiku's cousin. You know, mein bruder's asian friend who's total geek like him, but really awesome anyways? She's also Mattie's friend. I think her name's Jing Mei or something awesomely Asian like that."

"Who's Mattie?"

"Gott, why does no one know who he is!"

And for what seemed like the billionth time that day, Anders Densen was left in a daze. He need to talk to Lars if the other boy's insane girlfriend wasn't around. Maybe his other SUPER BEST FRIEND would have some awesome advice, unlike Nora or Gillian or Berwald or Yong Soo or…

Gah. Screw the rest.


A/N: Poor Anders. xD Here are the translations:

"哎呀, 翔, 我不想做啦! 他知到了就很尴尬。" – Ugh, Xiang, I don't want to do it anymore! It'll get really awkward if he knows.

"但是这很好笑。你很久没有放松了。这说不定是一件好事。" – But this is really funny. You haven't relaxed in a long time. This might be a good thing.

"我真的不懂男孩子!" – I don't understand boys!

"谢谢。" – Thanks

姐姐 – Big sister

"勇洙, 你给我回来!你这个笨蛋,我真的是被你气死啦!我以后一定要报仇!"- Get back here, Yong Soo! I'm getting really pissed by you, you idiot! I will definitely get revenge in the future!

Once again, I speak fluent Mandarin, so unless you feel like I could have translated better, there should be no mistakes.

And the Danish:

"Lort, det her er vildt uhyggeligt! Hvad nu hvis det er en pædofil? Hvad nu hvis det er en lærer? Nora, hjælp mig!" - Holy crap, this is really scary! What if this person is a pedophile? What if it's a teacher? Nora, help!

And I had a Danish person translate this for me as well. ^^ Thanks Someone-you-do-not-know!

So I'm sorry if the SuFin part was really cheesy. They're a hard couple to write, just like GerIta. I hope Tina wasn't too OOC.

Oh, and Erika is fem!Romania. I'm really glad there's an official Romania now!

And Francine is fem!France, and Gillian is fem!Prussia.

Lars is Netherlands.

If you're unsure about other characters, let me know!