Thanks to Flannya, Animefreaks48, and xXBrokenMarionetteXx (ha I loved that Author-san thing) for reviewing! You guys are mai favies! Thanks for all the reviews! I don't own Hetalia, but I do own my characters (Alice, Carrie, ect.)
By the time Rose got to America's backyard, where the rest of the girls were, they were already chattering away;
"I can't believe you did that."
"I can't believe he did that. Japan! A perv! Who knew!"
"Ya I always thought Germany was the perv…"
"Germany is not a perv!"
"Oh come Bev, you've seen the show."
"He's nice."
"Uh huh. Well you don't have to worry, cause Japan's the new Germany."
"?!"
"Mr. Japan didn't do anything! Nothing happened! Alice!"
"Yes, Care-bear?"
"Nothing happened!"
"Hmm, sure…not from what I saw…"
"What?! You saw something?! Gross! What'd you see?!"
"Calm down, Jade, you little man-izer."
"What? Man-izer? Hailey, that's not a word."
"It totally describes you though. Italy and Mexico! Woo! Good taste."
"Maaaggiiee! It's not like that!"
"Sure. Just like there wasn't anything between Japan and Carrie."
"THERE WASN'T ANYTHING BETWEEN JAPAN AND ME!"
"No Mr. Japan this time, huh? Ya, good for you kiddo."
"Yo, Rose what's up? Where were you?"
"Oh hey Rose! You look a little shaken. You okay?"
By this time the girl's had finally noticed Rose. She guessed she must've looked a little shaky because they were all staring at her. "Nothing. I-I mean I'm fine. So Jade, what's this of Italy and Mexico?" She asked, just to get attention off her. Jade blushed and ducked her head, but not saying anything.
Alice smiled. "That's the Rose we all know and love." She turned her attention back to Carrie, suddenly serious. "So. Carrie, Carrie, Carrie…what to do with you…"
Carrie sighed, worn out by this entire conversation. "Why won't you believe me that nothing happened?"
"Be-cause, Care-bear, I came in, and saw Japan hovering over you."
Carrie gave her a look. "He fell. Did you not see him blushing? He didn't mean to."
"Well, it didn't look like he was moving."
"You came in the second after he fell! We were both caught by surprise! Me and Japan…we're just friends." Carrie sounded a little crestfallen by this fact. Jade went over and put her arm around Carrie. "Aw, it's okay Carrie. Just like, I dunno, ask him out or kiss him or something."
Carrie looked like Jade had told her to push Japan off a cliff. "What?! I could never do that! I would be embarrassing him and inviolating his space!"
"I'll tell you what's 'inviolating space' with him." Alice muttered.
"He didn't do anything." Carrie said crossly.
"Do you wish he did?" Beverly asked curiously, causing Carrie to blush.
"No, no. He doesn't like hugging or anything…" she trailed off. "Do you like him?" Beverly asked, purely out of curiosity. Carrie had never had a crush before.
There was a silence. Carrie looked at the ground, biting her lip. She brushed some of her soft black hair out of her face, a habit she did when she was nervous. "WELL?!" Jade exploded, unable to take it longer. Jade's own long black hair was sticking all over the place because of the running around she did, adding to the effect of her looking crazy.
"I…I feel strongly about him…but…if he does not return those feelings…" Carrie murmured softly.
"Or if Alice stopped bursting in at the wrong moment and never letting Japan kiss you…" Hailey said, causing Alice to glare at her. "I do not burst in at the wrong moment!"
Carrie turned pink. "Japan would not kiss me. We've been over this." She said, blushing at the thought.
Just then America came running into the backyard. "Yo, dudes, Italy called emergency meeting now!"
"Italy?" all the girls chorused. Since when did Italy call emergency meetings?
America panted. "Yea…he wants all of you guys…he didn't want us countries but I'm America and I'm coming anyway! Ha hey Rose sorry bout France dude he's totally into you though this is so hilarious! It's like a soap opra or something!"
Rose glared at him and balled her hands into fist. Alice stepped up. "Ok, we're coming, go away." America and Alice stared at each other for a moment, remembering the last time they saw each other. Then they both looked away and blushed. America turned and walked away quickly, head down, with a blush still on his cheeks.
"What was that about?" Rose said, one eyebrow raised. Her interest in the life of romance had been dead for a couple days, but she felt some history between America and Alice. "Did something happen?"
"Ah…no." Alice said, looking away awkwardly.
Rose gasped dramatically. "Something did happen!"
"Well I see you're feeling better…" Alice murmured while all the other girls looked at her curiously.
Emma sighed. "We better go. I wonder why Italy is holding a meeting…" she trailed off and stared at Jade, like everyone else. "What?" Jade demanded. Emma shrugged one shoulder, wondering if Russia would be at the meeting.
They walked to the normal meeting place, where a very certain angry Italian was waiting for a very certain small, tan, silky black haired girl with bright green eyes.
"Ve! Jade! You cannot go out with Mexico!" He said, pointing a finger at her. All the girl's, especially Jade, were so thrown off by his anger, they didn't say anything. "Um…" was all Jade said.
"You don't even know him!" he went on, looking and sounding more and more like Romano every second. Now all he needed to do was call Mexico a b*st*rd (I try not to swear) and he'd be on his way.
"You stay away from him! He is not good for you!" Yup, definitely like Romano.
Jade was past her shock enough to get angry. "You…" she said so furiously, jabbing a finger at Italy, that he took a step back. "You have absolutely NO right WHATSOEVER to tell me who I can and can't date! You're not my dad, you're not my BOYFRIEND," Italy winced at that one, "you have no CLAIM OVER ME!"
Everyone was silent, probably because Jade, who was normally happy and bouncy, looked totally physco with her hair all over the place and breathing hard. Italy looked shocked.
"Um, right. Let's go." Alice said, figuring she better get Jade out of there before she decided Italy would look better with bruise marks all over him. She walked over to Jade, who wouldn't budge, even when Alice pulled on her arm.
"Yo, Jade, we might want to go…" Alice said nervously. Jade didn't respond, instead narrowing her eyes at Italy as though she was trying to laser him with her eyes.
Alice gave a panicked glance at Beverly, who shrugged.
"Help me!" she mouthed, miming with her fingers. Beverly raised an eyebrow, then sighed. She walked over to Jade, threw her over her shoulder, and walked out, with a very angry Jade yelling and squirming on her shoulder.
"Put me down! I will kill that little Italian boy, he has absolutely no right to tell me who I can and cannot date! I will-" The rest of Jade's screaming was cut off as Beverly walked further off.
There was an awkward silence for a moment, then Alice smirked at Italy. "Smooth going, Romeo." She walked out of the garden, and after a hesitant moment, America ran out after her.
Rose raised an eyebrow, wondering what that was all about. Then out of the corner of her eye, she saw France make his way toward her, and she grabbed the arm of the person closest to her, which happened to be Maggie.
"C'mon let's go! We're, uh, going on that double date, remember?" She said, babbling the first thing on her mind. Luckily the word "date" made France freeze on the spot. Unluckily, China whipped his head around and narrowed his eyes at the two girls jealously also at the word "date".
"What?" Maggie said, confused. "That's right. Our date. We're gonna be late. Ya know, with me and BRAZIL," she said Brazil's name loudly to show France she was taken, and he winced, "and you and, uh, uumm, the guy Brazil's bringing for you. I forgot his name. What's his name?"
"I have no idea what you're-" Maggie was cut off by Rose. "So, yeeaa, let's get going." Rose exited the garden, dragging Maggie behind her. France watched them go with slumped shoulders.
"Alice!" America called out as he ran to catch up with the smaller girl. Alice stopped and turned around. "Oh dear god why do you hate me?"
"What was that?" America asked as he caught up to her. "Uh, nothing. So, you need something…?" Alice asked, eyebrows raised. America looked at her strangely. "I want to…to um, talk."
Alice gave him a look. "You want to talk?" A nod. "You always talk! The last thing we need is more talking!" America looked at her, not smiling, unusually serious. And it was making Alice nervous. She didn't like it when people were serious. Serious people talked about serious stuff. And Alice was not good at handling serious stuff.
"Look, Alice." America sounded strained, like this was hard for him. "I felt-when we were together-I want to tell you-"
"I WILL KILL YOU AND EAT ALL YOUR PASTA! NOBODY TELLS ME WHAT TO DO, ESPECIALLY SOME IDIOT WHO FLIRTS WITH EVERY SINGLE GIRL ON THE PLANET!" Jade, bless her maniac heart, had somehow wiggled away from Beverly and came screaming back. This gave Alice just the distraction she needed to get away from America, though she had to admit she was curious to hear what he would've said. But not curious enough to risk…to risk anything really. This is why Alice didn't like relationships-they always ruined something, or at least had the potential to. Better to avoid them.
"Whoa, Jade, calm down." Jade ignored Alice and sprinted past her. Beverly, who had been running after Jade, yelled at Alice. "Grab her!"
Alice sprinted, away from America and after Jade. "Jade! Jeez, will you calm down, Italy's just looking after you." She called out.
Jade stopped suddenly and turned around, glaring so hard Alice froze in place. "Looking after me? LOOKING AFTER ME?!" Alice cursed Italy that he had to upset Jade; Jade was always prone to dramatic reactions for everything. "That-that little-" Jade was apparently so angry she was at a loss for words, and instead cursed Italy with every bad name imaginable.
Alice walked over. "Dude, Jade, will you relax? He didn't really say anything that bad." Jade glared at her, but Alice held her ground.
Jade sighed then, suddenly defeated. "It's not the WORDS he said really, it's just-it's more like the reason he said them." She told Alice, looking tired.
"Um, what?" Alice didn't quite understand Italy and Jade's relationship. It seemed like, oh one week they were together, like a couple, then PHYSC the next week Italy was actually with some other lady. Now Jade was with Mexico, and Italy was mad? He needed to get his priorities straight.
Jade waved her arms around, as though this might help Alice understand better. "You know, he's just…" she sighed, then said, "Can we talk somewhere else?"
Alice nodded. "Yeah, sure." She glanced behind, to see where Beverly had gone, and saw she was talking to America. For a moment, Alice felt a pang of jealousy, then shook it off. "Bev! C'mon, let's go!"
The three girls walked off toward America's home, with America himself looking after them. He didn't call out, though, and Alice almost wished he did.
They walked around trying to find everyone else. "That's the problem about this place," Alice muttered, "It's enormous, and you never know where everything is. For all we know we can walk to China from here!"
"Uh, we can walk to China from here." Beverly said. "Besides, if we worked on getting back to our normal world…"
Alice narrowed her eyes. "Oh, no, I am NOT getting into this with you again. Look, maybe we're not really here and we're actually insane, or maybe I got sold a freaky TV, but honestly its better here than back on…the real world or whatever."
"Maybe," Beverly said, "but here everyone is like, a country or something, it's weird, it's ANIME, and I'd like to know it I was insane or not, wouldn't you?"
Alice opened her mouth to reply, but before she could say anything, Jade suddenly shrieked. "Shut up! Both of you! We're NOT insane, we're ACTUALLY here, and we all like it here! There's nothing to discuss! Beverly, stop being stubborn, you like it here, just accept that!"
Both girls stared at Jade in astonishment. Then something caught Alice's eye. "Look!" Where she was pointing was Rose and Maggie, along with Brazil, Rose's sort-of boyfriend.
Alice, Beverly, and Jade ran up to them. Rose and Brazil were discussing a date of some sort.
"So, can you bring someone for Maggie?" Rose asked. Brazil nodded, flashing white teeth. "Of course."
Maggie struggled to get away from Rose, who was still holding on Maggie's wrist with an iron grip. "No! I don't want to date anyone!"
"Anyone besides China." Alice put in, just to be annoying. Maggie narrowed her eyes at Alice. "Why are you always here when we're talking about boys?" she snapped.
Alice shrugged. "Good timing, I guess." It was weird how she was always there, like someone, possibly with the name of Lemon bars 101, always put her there so she could make fun of the girls. But, anyway, back to the story.
"Rose, we are having a meeting." Jade said seriously. Rose raised an eyebrow. "I've noticed since we got here we seem to be having a lot more meetings than we ever have needed." She said wryly. Beverly gave Alice a look, which she ignored.
"Boy trouble." Alice explained briefly with a shrug. "Mm, my favorite kind of trouble. Well, hon, I better go. See you later?" Rose asked Brazil, who nodded.
"I'll remember to bring someone for Maggie." He said. Maggie shook her head frantically. "No! No! I won't go, so don't bother!"
Rose ignored this and kissed Brazil on the mouth, ignoring everyone stiffing in surprise. "Bye. See you later." She said, smiling at him. She walked off, and after a moment everyone else followed her.
"Uh, what the heck was that?" Jade asked the question on everyone's mind. Rose stared at her. "What do you mean?"
"Well…is Brazil…I mean, France and all…" She trailed off, unsure how to phrase it.
Rose shrugged. "Well, Brazil did ask if France was bugging me at all, if that's what you mean. He's such a good boyfriend." She swooned.
Alice said nothing, but she knew Rose, and could tell that Rose didn't really have feelings for Brazil. She decided against saying anything, though. Even though she normally enjoyed bugging her friends about the guy, and giving them pushes towards the guys, jumping into the whole Brazil-Rose-France fiasco sounded as fun as diving into a pool full of crocodiles.
The five girls went around and gathered up everyone else (Emma was with Russia, Carrie with Japan, and Hailey with England. Wow, what a surprise.)
Once they were finally all gathered in America's backyard, Rose said, "Now, tell us what this is about."
Everyone looked at Alice. "What?" she said. "Why do you always assume I have something to discuss? This is Jade's meeting."
Everyone turned to Jade, who was staring at the grass she was sitting on. "Well, Alice wanted to know why I was so angry at Italy. And, I don't know, I thought all you guys might want to know."
"Uh, yeah." Hailey said sarcastically. "You went berserk. I know what he said was totally out of line, but you don't need to beat him to death."
Jade flashed her an annoyed glance. "He's bugging me."
"He's bugging you?" Emma said disbelievingly from her position leaning against one of the chairs, arms crossed over her chest. "Just because he's bugging you doesn't mean you can go ahead and kill."
"Oh, like you're one to talk." Maggie snorted. Emma gave a sideway glance, and shrugged.
Carrie held up her arms. "Please, can we let Mi-I mean Jade talk?"
Everyone turned to Jade expectantly. Jade hesitated for a second, and then explained her story about how Italy went off with that lady the night Jade met Mexico. "I mean, he's always doing this. He always goes on dates with whomever, not even the same ladies! And now he's telling me who I can't date?! He must've known he was hurting me, but didn't do anything about it! So you can see why I was a little pissed." Jade finished.
"Over-reaction," Hailey muttered, while Alice said, "Jade, dear, you know I love you like my own sister. I will totally support you with whatever. But I think you're being a teensy-bit over-dramatic. Italy probably didn't know he was hurting you, and didn't notice what he was doing was wrong."
Jade glared at her, but Alice remained unfazed. Maggie chipped in. "Uh, you do know you can just ignore him, right?"
"No!" Jade protested. "We need to work together to get Bev and Germany togeth-uh I mean…" she switched subject abruptly as everyone looked at her weirdly, and Beverly narrowed her eyes at her. Jade held out her wrist and checked her nonexistence watch. "Oh, wow, well look at the time! I am totally late for a date with Mexico! Yes, totally late, so I better go, like, right this second. Don't wait up!" She ran out.
"Hm, and I thought I had to do all the work with you guys…" Alice mused to Beverly, who snapped a harsh, "WHAT?"
Alice just grinned. "Oh nothing, Bev, nothing…"
Yes, well, because I totally ran out of ideas there, I decided to stop the chapter here! Ok, I will say I am sorry I totally suck at updating, and I am sorry for that. What can I say? School. Because it is break I will try for one more chapter, but I can't promise anything. BUT I WILL TRY FOR YOU, MY DEARIES! Pwease review!