Elite: HI guys~!

Kara: You're fucking late.

Elite: I know I'm sorry. But hey, to make it up to you guys, I did something really special for this chapter. In this chapter Kara won't be the main character.

America: Wait, what? Then who?

Meli: HI HI~!

Kara: Really, my little sister?

Elite: Yep. Teehee.

America: Aww I think that will be cute. So what is this chapter about if it's taking in the place of a cute little girl?

Elite: You'll have to see and find out. So as usual, I don't own Hetalia or the manuals. And just so you guys are aware, these are the translation lines of "Hetalia Good Night with Sheep". Teehee.

Romano: Why am I here?

Chapter 10: Meli's SleepyThyme

"What the hell? Why am I here?"

"Because I'm sweepy but I can't sleep."

"Huh? You can't sleep?" Romano frowned and waved his hand in the air. "Like I care! What the hell do you want me to do?"

"Ummm . . . . .count sheeweep~." Meli smiled brightly.

"But why do I have to count sheep to you anyways? Get your sister to do it." Romano looked at Meli and he sees her give him the stink eye. "What?"

"But I can't sweep~!" Meli whined. "But I wanna~!"

"Hey!"

"I WANNA~!"

"Fine, fine, I got you." Romano sighed. Meli stopped whining and looked at Romano with an almost teary face. "You're not Feliciano so quit the loud screeching. I'm ending this ASAP and then I'm going to bed. Now lie down, already."

Meli nodded her head and lied down on her very comfortable (and very girly) bed. She dragged Kumajiro into the bed. Romano questioned where the polar bear appeared from or why it was in the room in the first place. Kumajiro hugged Meli and fell asleep right away. Meli looked up at Romano; expectingly.

Romano sighed once more once he say that there was no way to get away from the cute little blond girl. He grabbed a very low chair and sat down right next to her bed. Meli adjusted her blankets.

"You seem a little too happy about this." Romano muttered under his breath. "God it's midight already and I'm ready for bed."

"Eh?"

"Nothing. I'm starting now." Romano tucked his hand under his chin and stared at the wall to his right. "One sheep. Two sheep. Three sheep. Four sheep. Five sheep. Six sheep. Seven sheep. Eight sheep. Nine sheep. Ten sheep."

Even though Meli knows he was counting, she didn't like the way he was counting. It sounded like he didn't care that Meli wasn't getting any sleep.

Meli would always go to Kara to have her count sheep for her. Before she went to college; she would have. But now Kara had more things on her hands and Meli didn't want to bother her working-hard sister.

But that left her with a problem she was hoping to solve with this Italian.

. . . . . .

. . . . . .

. . . . . .

She might have chosen the wrong Italian.

Romano glanced down at Meli and it looked like she was getting tired at all. It made him slightly irritated.

"Huh? What are you looking at?" Romano asked while raising his voice at the same time. "If you really wanna fall asleep that bad then put your back into it. I'm counting for you because you said you couldn't sleep! You know that, right? Now hurry up and close your eyes."

Meli gasped at the loud and quickly closed her eyes. While adjusting the blanket as well.

She didn't like where this was going.

"Good. Nice and tight." Romano blushed at the corny comment. "I'm continuing, damn it." Romano, once again, took up his previous position. "Eleven sheep. Twelve sheep. Thirteen sheep. Fourteen sheep. Fifteen sheep. Sixteen sheep. Seventeen sheep. Eighteen sheep. Nineteen sheep. Twenty sheep."

Romano once again looked down at Meli and she was still not asleep.

Once again Romano looked irritated.

Scratch that; mad.

"GO TO SLEEP, YOU BASTARD!" Romano shouted. Meli gasped and completely hid under her covers. Kumajiro opened up one eye at the loud noise. "I'm even counting for sheep to you right now! Speaking of, everyone keeps saying to count sheep but why does it have to be sheep?! What's wrong with counting pizza or tomatoes instead?!"

Meli whimpered under the blanket. She can tell that Romano wasn't liking this at all. But she needed to go to sleep. She hasn't been sleeping too much because everybody in the house was sually loud until later in the night.

Why does her brothers have to be so loud?

"Don't have to count sweep." Meli said quietly; peeking out from the blanket.

Romano went quiet for a moment and then gave a slight smile.

"That's right. It's not like I have to count sheep. Counting sheep doesn't match me anyways." Romano gave himself a firm nod. "I've decided. I'm going to count tomatoes instead."

"But I like sweep though. So fluffy." Meli giggled. Possibly imagining petting one of the said animals.

"You shut up! I'll count whatever the hell I want." Romano frowned.

"But sweep~. . . ."

"It's not like it's a big deal if it's a sheep or tomatoes." Romano sighed. "Just be quiet and listen okay?"

"Okay . . ." Meli frowned. There was no point in arguing anymore.

Then Romano went to go count sheep again. But this time something was a little different. Meli listened really closely to Romano and he sound like he was counting at a slower pace. It was nicer then how he was counting before.

This is nicer.

Meli let the blanket fall right under her chin and cuddled up more with Kumajiro. Kumajiro nodded and went back to sleep. Romano had just reached thirty tomatoes when he noticed the sleepiness of the little bundle under the blanket.

"Now you're finally getting sleepy huh, you little . . ." Romano sighed and then scratched the back of his head. "This is really embarrassing so hurry up and fall asleep. . . and forget this every happened." At the last comment, Romano turned a tomato color.

Meli pretended she never saw it.

"Still, this tomato counting seems to be more effective then sheep counting." Romano gave himself another proud smile. "Figures an idea I came up with would work. Anything I think up is gold compared to what others think up. Tomatoes really are great." Meli could see a hungry look on his face. "Ahh, now I feel like eating pizza."

"Eat one now?" Meli asked.

"Huh? I can't eat one now!" Romano blushed harshly. "I have to put you to sleep first. Now stop talking and go to sleep okay?"

Meli yawned loudly as Romano started counting again.

-Hetalia-

Romano noticed the yawn and gave a small smile as he continued counting. He would have to apologize to her in the morning for the harsh words. She really was cute, unlike her older sister who seems to be turning into the girl version of the potato bastard. It was kinda stupid now that he thinks about it.

Kara should learn how to relax a little bit more and rely on her housemates. That's the basis of why Units are made after all.

He had just reached fifty tomatoes when he noticed that Meli had successfully fallen asleep. All bundled together with the white polar.

"Sound asleep, about time." Romano whispered. "Damn it you were a handful to deal with, ya brat. Well that was embarrassing. This has to be the uh . . . . let's see. . . . about the 200th time I've dealt with something embarrassing since I was born."

There was a time where he went the bed, that time he got blasted off, and how was he supposed to know there was an old man behind him?!

Romano sighed at the little girl that worked him so hard. He decided to take a nice long drink and then head off to bed. He yawned as he rose up from the chair, careful not to wake up the girl again. Once he reached the door, he silently closed it behind him.

"Buona Notte."

Romano face turned red as he headed off into the kitchen for that drink.

AUTHOR'S NOTE!

Elite: *pokes Romano's cheek* Aww aren't you the most adorable little person ever.

Romano: Shut up you! What's with this chapter anyways?

Elite: Well I was thinking that every 10 chapters I would put up a "Meli's SleepyThyme" chapter since Meli is in the picture now. It gives me a goal so I thin kit's worth going into.

Romano: Why did I have to go first?

Kara: Because she can.

Elite: *turns to readers* Now that I have introduced this idea, I want to see how you guys like it. And I also want you guys to comment on who should count sheep to Meli the next time. Please review. ^^

America: Hey, where's Vash?

Elite: The world will never know. ^w^