Just a Little Push
Part 14
Gillian almost felt sorry for Ally.
Almost.
After all, the poor girl was engaging in an awesomeness contest with her, the embodiment of awesomeness herself. If it weren't for the fact that her dating of Mattie was on the line (not that it was really on the line, because if she wanted to date Mattie, she'd date Mattie, no matter what anyone said), she may have decided to take pity on the poor girl. She could play a little easier; give her a chance at winning...
But now. Now she was going to decimate her.
"Now, remember, everyone. We want a good, clean, friendly competition. We're going to have fun, right?"
She wasn't listening to a word that whoever was talking was currently saying. She was pretty sure that he was one of the camp directors or something; he'd gathered their group under a pavilion overlooking the beach in order to tell them all of the rules of the camp. Rules that she had not only heard multiple times before, but broken multiple times before.
At least he was a new guy. If he'd been someone that had been here before, she'd probably have been forced to actually listen... As it was, she was completely ignoring everything he said. Just shut up and let's get to naming the teams already.
Ludwig suddenly leaned over slightly, bumping her with his elbow. She shot an irritated glare at him. Damn it, she'd heard this same speech at least a dozen times before... And so had he, so why in the world was he taking notes?
Anyway, back to not paying attention.
So her team would totally win. That was a fact. After all, she was on it. Plus, she also had Francis and Luddy and Artie. And, even if it was pretty unawesome that Tonio and Mattie weren't on her team, they'd still be able to manage. Besides, she'd noticed that for whatever reason, Arthur seemed more into the whole contest than she'd expected. And when Artie got into something, he got very into it...
And suddenly the man sat down, apparently finished with whatever he was saying. And Mr. Roma jumped up. "All right everyone! We spent a lot of time coming up with the teams for your stay at Camp Hahanee..."
"Harahawnee."
Mr. Roma pouted, as he glanced over his shoulder to where Gillian's grandfather was sitting, his expression completely blank. As usual. "Camp Harahawnee. All right, so once you have your team, you can come up with a team name, flag, song, national flower—Ow!" Gillian snickered as Mr. Roma jumped, apparently having just received a kick in the ankle from the man sitting behind him. "Fine. Fine. Be boring..."
He cleared his throat rather ostentatiously and then continued, "And here is Team One! First off, we have our very own Gillian and Ludwig Beilschmidt! Then, Arthur Kirkland. Francis Bonnefoy. Natalya Braginski. My adorable little Feli—ow, fine, Feliciana Vargas..."
"Ve~" Gillian smirked as she watched Feliciana launch herself at Ludwig, practically climbing onto his lap in her excitement. "We're on the same team!"
Damn it. Where was her camera when she needed it?
That could be useful. Feliciana would be pretty useless during the actual competitions, but she could be very useful as a weapon to use against her brother if necessary. After all, Luddy would do anything that the adorable little Italian girl asked.
"And finally, Heracles Karpusi." He glanced over toward where Lovina and Antonio were sitting together and smiled. "You would have also had my other adorable granddaughter, Lovina, but due to her accident, she's going to have to sit out for most of these games."
Antonio immediately bent over to whisper something in her ear. And she blushed beet red.
Eh, it was probably for the best. Having Lovina on a team with Ludwig would have just been asking for trouble. Although, this would mean that they had less people when compared with the other teams...
"However, since we don't want the teams to be uneven, my vice-P and I decided to call in someone from outside, who happens to live relatively close to here, to join us."
And at that, the pavilion erupted into chaos.
"Who?" That was Ally, who had been spending basically the entire meeting staring at where Arthur was sitting next to Francis...
Wait a minute!
Gillian performed a rather awesome double-take at that. How had she missed that? Arthur was sitting next to Francis. And they weren't trying to kill each other!
...Holy shit.
Anyway, ignore that little sign that they only had a couple more hours until the earth ended—damn it, and she hadn't even gotten to pull off her ultimate prank on Roderich yet... She'd just have to make sure that she made the next few hours hell for him to make up for it—Who in the world were they getting?
Not that it really mattered, because her awesomeness was enough to guarantee victory, no matter who was on her team...
Still...
"It's going to be a secret until tonight," Mr. Roma chuckled, obviously amused that he knew something they didn't know. "Anyway, now for team two. First off, we have Ivan Braginski."
Gillian laughed at the expression that crossed Ally's face. Obviously she wasn't very happy that Ivan had been named first.
Ivan just smiled. Creepily...
"Then Allison Jones, Antonio Carriedo, Kiku Honda—or, sorry, Honda Kiku, Wang Yao, Sadiq Adnan, Im Yong Soo..."
There was a screech from Yao at this last name and he suddenly jumped up, eyes flashing around in a panic. "What! Since when is he here, aru!"
"ANIKI~!"
And suddenly the Chinese man found himself being tackled from behind, two hands almost hidden by long sleeves reaching around him to grab at his chest.
"Let me touch your breasts, aniki!"
Nobody seemed entirely sure what to do, so nobody did anything. Besides stare in a mixture of confusion, horror, and incredible amusement.
Yao flailed. "AIYAH! How did you get here, aru! I thought we left you at home, aru!"
The Korean boy just continued to grope his chest to his heart's content. "You must have forgotten to wake me up to catch the bus, aniki! But that's okay! I just drove myself here, da ze~!"
Gillian was pretty sure she'd never seen Yao break down crying before.
Damn it. Why the hell had she forgotten her camera in the cabin? She'd just have to ask Yong Soo for a repeat performance. He'd probably be thrilled to do it...
"And now for the last team—"
"Um, Mr. Roma...Aren't I on Ally's team too?"
Everyone seemed rather surprised by the sudden, rather quite addition. Something that did not sit very well with Gillian. Although Mr. Roma quickly fixed his mistake, at least. "Ah, yes, sorry, Mattea. I must have missed you on my list."
That was one thing Gill could not understand. How could anyone overlook Mattie? With her beautiful, soft, curly blonde hair and big, absolutely gorgeous violet eyes, adorable smile...
There was absolutely no way that they were going to lose. She didn't care what they had to do. She was going to win this contest and force Ally to admit that she was good enough for Mattie.
"And our last team will consist of Berwald Oxenstierna, Tina Väinämöinen, Toris Lorinaitis, Feliks Lukasiewicz, Raivis Galante, Eduard von Bock, Roderich Edelstein, and Katyusha Braginski."
Because she knew that Mattie would be much much happier if she didn't feel like she was betraying her sister everytime they were together.
Besides, she needed to make sure that Mattie was comfortable with her. Since—now that the secret was out anyway—she definitely needed to take her girlfriend home and show her off to the rest of the family!
A/N: So. What do ya think about the teams? This should be a pretty awesome match, I think. ;D
And for those who are confused by the human names (or found it hard to follow):
Gill's Team consists of Prussia, Germany, England, France, Belarus, Greece, Italy, and a mystery guest.
Ally's Team consists of America, Canada, Spain, Japan, China, Korea, Turkey, and Russia.
And our Third Team (Aka: the team that is clueless about what is going on "Team Clueless" for short) consists of Sweden, Finland (who will be gen!flipped by request by Yuurei-san), Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, and Austria.
And sorry I couldn't include everyone. I would've loved to, but...that's a lot of characters. (Heck, this is going to be insane just with these guys...) And I needed to keep the teams even.
But mwahaha for Mystery Guest for Gill's team! xD Here's a hint. It's someone I haven't written about yet in the gender!flip series.