It's short, but it's on time.

I don't own Hetalia.

~EM

Chapter 10

Boys are so weird

Julchen arrived home. She slung her backpack down onto the floor, then followed the smell emanating from the kitchen.

Ludwig was kneading dough with deadly concentration and precision while something simmered on the stove. The otherwise immaculately clean kitchen had one cutting board with one knife and chopped herbs on it, and one floury work station for Ludwig's bread.

Julchen was about to surprise attack hug her brother when she stopped, doubting the hug. Did brothers hug each other? Did Gilbert hug his brother?

Aah, whatever. Julchen shouted, "Surprise attack hug!" as she wrapped her arms around Ludwig.

"Ah!" Ludwig shouted in reply, accidentally squishing part of the bread. "Gilbert! You made me squish the bread!"

"Pssh. I got it. Go away." Julchen shoved her brother to the other side of the room and began to knead the bread.

"Oh, by the way, hello little brother."

"Hello Gil."

The day passed by quietly, with a dinner and leftovers stuffed in the fridge before both siblings spent the rest of the night doing homework in their rooms. Julchen got out her laptop and messaged Cheyenne and Francine.

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Julbird2000: all right?

tomatogirl: all right.

French Beauty: we better get this mess figured out soon.

tomatogirl: being at home was bad enough. what of at school?

French Beauty: we can do this

all we gotta do is remember to respond to our names.

Jubird2000: we can't talk to each other. we're supposed to hate each other

tomatogirl: oh no! You're right!

Julbird2000: we'll have to have a secret meeting spot.

French Beauty: how about the library?

tomatogirl: perfect!

Julbird2000: right then guys, see you in library tomorrow!

French Beauty: Bonne nuit!

tomatogirl: buenas noches!

Julbird2000: Guten nacht!

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"Hey, Gilbert?" Ludwig called softly, rapping on Julchen's door.

"Ja, Lutz?"

"Guten nacht."

"Guten nacht, mein bruder."

++line break, I'm a line break. And some time passing. Line break!++

Julchen woke up on time the next day. She put on some of the boy's clothes she had, and slipped a set of her old clothing deep within the black hole of her backpack.

She got to school just as the bell rang. The time from first bell to lunch was spent pretending she hated Franci-François and Antonio. As soon as lunch started, she raced up to the library. She had a lunch in her backpack, and if she wasn't allowed to eat in the library, she was going to anyway.

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Eating in the library was allowed.

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Julchen whipped out her phone. "At the auto bio section" she typed.

"Will b there in 2 sec" Cheyenne replied.

"Coming" Francine replied.

There was an interesting looking book about some German guy that Julchen was reading as she chewed carrots and waited for her friends. Soon, two boys joined her in the section.

Julchen did a double take. "Oh yeah. Hey, guys," she whispered.

"Hey!" they replied, settling themselves down to eat as well.

"So-" Francine began, but at that moment, a red-eyed boy came skidding into the section.

"I found you guys!" Vladimir exclaimed.

"You were looking for them?" Arthur asked, striding into the section as well.

"Hi Arthur!" Francine greeted.

"Their auras-" Vlad tried.

"Do you know the memory spell?" Arthur asked Vladimir.

"Uh... I have it in my backpack."

"All right. Can I have it, and I'll perform it on you?"

"I... guess... You know what, no. I want an answer first. I feel like I already told Gilbert that his aura was odd. But it's kinda hard to remember. And these two, their auras are also strange."

"Hey, I just remembered!" Arthur exclaimed, quite obviously not listening. "You would be a great help for the memory spell!"

"Uh, what?" Julchen asked.

"See, because his magic has to do with people, he'd boost the spell," Arthur explained.

"Wait, what spell?" Vladimir demanded.

"There's a memory spell on everyone," Cheyenne interrupted.

"It was focused on us, so that everyone would think we were guys," Francine continued.

"We need your help to undo the spell," Julchen finished.

"You haven't convinced me," Vlad stated.

Julchen thought about how everyone seemed to remember her name, and quickly inputted, "Julchen- my name's Julchen. I'm a girl. They're both girls. Francine and Cheyenne."

"Julchen? Oh, Julchen! We already did the memory spell!"

"Yep, we did."

"All right, when can we do this memory spell for everyone?"

"Today?" Francine suggested hopefully.

"No," Arthur said. "I need to get my energy back up, because I want to help."

"How long will that take?"

"Umm... we have to perform a counter-spell for a very strong spell on every person any of you know. Not only will I have to be at full strength, so probably a week, we're going to need William, Patrick, Eoin, Matthew, Lovino, Lukas the Norwegian kid, and..."

"Them, you, and I are the only magic users in the school," Vlad reported.

"Why not your brother Alistair?" Cheyenne asked curiously. "And your mom and dad?"

"Alistair wouldn't help. Mum and dad's magic actually deals with something entirely different, so they'd be useless."

"All right," Julchen said. "I think I can get Matthew. Cheyenne and Francine can get Lovino. Arthur and Vlad, that leaves you to get Lukas."

"Let's do this!" Francine agreed.

End Chapter