Chapter 12
"Hey Arthur! You're the last one to get here, yeah just come on in. Oh, just leave your shoes there by the front door." Tina greeted the boy cheerfully, "We're all hanging out in the basement right now, that's where all the craft stuff is set up! Erica brought a whole bunch of blank jerseys for us to use. Well come on~" She chattered away happily leading Arthur through the elaborately decorated house towards the basement.
"Tina? Can you grab some more licorice while you're up stairs? Emily ate it all again!" Some female voice Arthur couldn't place called up the stairs when they reached the doorway. "Sure! You can just head down, I'll be back in a sec~"
He stood there awkwardly as she skipped out of sight, he didn't really want to be here. At all. With a sigh he finally forced himself to shuffle down the stairs where he could hear giggles and happy chattering. When he finally made his way down the stairs he was bombarded with the sight.
On one wall was a huge table, set up with every sort of snack food known to man. Loitering around it was a pale freshman girl, Emily Steilsson-Bondevik, and the smiling blonde sophomore, Bella Lemaître. In the middle of the room was a giant table covered in blank t-shirts, standing around it holing glitter bottles and fabric markers was Feliciano, Madeleine, and Erica Vogel. On the far side of the room was a cluster of coaches and a tv, sitting by herself reading was Lucile, then on the ground was Natalya, whose hair was being braided by Feliks Łukasiewicz.
Arthur was surprised to see Feliks here, he thought Feli and him were going to be the only boys. "Ve~ Arthur you're here! Come over and help me make a flag for Luddy!" Feli cried from his spot by the table, he was waving a bottle of glue around in his hand. "Be careful! You don't want to spill that everywhere." Erica reminded him with a smile.
The Brit crossed his arms angrily before walking over to the craft table, "I'm not going to help you make anything. This is completely embarrassing." "Aw, don't feel embarrassed! You and Alfred are really cute together, it was sweet how he asked you in front of everybody." Bella laughed joining the group at the table.
"No it was utterly ridicules! He's annoying and I'm furious he agreed to this party for me." "At least he actually asked you! I had to ask my date~ Toris is so hopeless." Feliks laughed from the coach. "Ooh! Are we going to talk about how everyone got asked! That'll be so cute~ Come sit over here, you guys can finish your things in a sec." Tina giggled finally coming back downstairs with a bowl of licorice. The group of girls, and boys, around the room all moved to where the coaches where.
"You should go first Lucile! We are at your house after all~" "It's Emily's house too. She should go first." The older sister sighed closing her book. "Why me? I don't want to go first, it's not even that good." "You first little sister." Emily glared at her sister before starting, "Ravis just got me a flower with a note tied to it. It was simple, that's it." "Wait but what did he note say?! How did you respond! Emmy!" Tina cried as she hugged one of the pillows that had been shoved on to the floor. "It just asked if I wanted to go to Homecoming. I said yes. That's why I'm here." The older girl pouted before turning to Lucile, "Ok your turn Lucy~"
"Don't call me that, Matthias already does it. It's annoying." "Yeah yeah, story time." "He was being loud and obnoxious during lunch when he got the bright idea to jump up on the table and sing to me. The stupid song ended with him asking me. I turned him down." "Wait, but then why are you still going with him?" Bella asked with a confused look, "That's because Lucy's "no's" mean "yes"!" Tina giggled.
Arthur shook his head, this was crazy. "What about you Tina? How did Berwald ask you?" Erica asked with a smile. "It was soooo cute! So it was last weekend, and I was kinda bummed he hadn't already asked me. I was worried he was just going to tell people we were going to go together, that's how we started dating at least. But he didn't! It was really early on Sunday morning, like 6ish, and then there was a knock at our door. So I went and there was this ADORABLE stuffed puppy there. And it had this cute little bow tied around its neck and there was a little note. So I was super happy because I though he actually asked me! But the note said, "I have a surprise for you on Monday. –B" So then I was like "Aww!" Because that was just so sweet. Then on Monday at lunch Berwald gave me a little box he carved, and inside THAT box it asked if I wanted to go to the dance with him! It was just so cute I almost died!" Tina bounced around in her seat as she told the story, smiling from ear to ear. The ending earned 'aw's from everyone but Arthur who was tring to sink into the back of his seat and disappear. "Your turn Erica!"
"Oh, um… Well Vash asked me… It was two weekends ago. We were having a picnic and he was acting weird, so I asked him if he felt ok. Then he asked me~ It was sweet, he also got me a cute new hair bow to wear to the game!" She smiled quickly turning to Feliciano, "What about you? I think we all want to hear how Ludwig asked you Feli." The Italian smiled and started his story with lots of hand gestures.
"He asked me after the picnic I went to with Antonio and Arthur and everyone else! I was taking a nap on his lap while he was studying, then when it was time to go he woke me up. Ve, he just sort of stuttered for a while before he just asked me~ I said yes right away! Then on Sunday when we were supposed to meet Kiku for lunch, but Kiku canceled. So just me and Luddy went and he told me that he wanted to ask me properly, I don't really get what he meant by properly, but so he took me to lunch and then we walked through the mall. Then we went to the pond and fed some ducks and while I was playing with one of them he went off and got me some flowers from a little cart and then he asked me again! SO I said yes again, and that's it~" This story got another chorus of 'aw's from the party.
"Like it's totally my turn!" Feliks decided, "I asked him because Toris was too shy. It was like after school one day, and he was picking me up from detention. I was only there because that really bitchy teacher who doesn't know how to style her hair was totally jealous of how great my ass looked in my skirt and she made me stay after because "I was breaking the dress code" or something stupid. So after I was done with that I got in his car, and he just looked so cute because it was right after practice and he was still in his uniform. So I totally confessed how much I liked him! But- I did it in Polish because I may have been just a little shy. So he didn't really understand what I was saying… But then I was just like "Screw it. I'm hot, you're hot, we should go to the dance together." He was a little speechless for a second, but then he was like, "Okay!" And that was it. So then I like totally kissed him! Because like what else are you supposed to do? And he was shocked so he jumped and accidently stepped on the gas… So we crashed into the stop sign a little bit, but whateves~ So what about Natty? Didn't you finally get Ivan to take you? Like, congrats girl!"
"Da, but he only agreed because his other friend wasn't going. He doesn't really want to take me." Natalya said sadly and hugged her knees. The other girls wasted no time in hugging her and telling her that it was only a matter of time before he realized how amazing she was. After finally getting the usually reserved girl to smile they turned to Bella and demanded her story.
"Oh, he just asked me out of the blue actually. We were walking from 2nd period to our lockers and he was just like, "Do you want to go to the dance together?" I said yes and was really happy until he ruined the moment by saying how couple's tickets were cheaper than single tickets. But I mean, that's Tim." She giggled and shrugged. Thankfully no one asked Arthur how he got asked, they all knew anyways. "What about Gilbert and Heracles? Who are they going with?"
"Um, well, I'm going with Gilbert." Maddie said quietly from her spot on the floor next to Natalya. "Ooh, how did he ask you?" Tina asked. "Um, he woke me up at 1 in the morning by texting me to look out my window. A-and he was standing outside with a big sign asking me to go with him. I-I said yes, that's why I'm here, and then he told me that I was awesome." She blushed after finishing her story. "That's so cute~ But what about Heracles? I thought we invited every one Lucy." "We did, he's going with Kiku. But he was busy tonight." Now that everyone's stories were told they went over to work on their shirts and flags.
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I decided to split this chapter in to two~ The party will continue next time! Yay! Thanks for all of the support you guys, it means a lot to me that you like my story! I hope I didn't let anyone down with their stories, yes I do think Ludwig would make sure to ask Feli the "proper" way lol. Thanks for reading!
