*knock knock* who's there? Hetalia Gakuen chapter 5, enjoy~
Erin p.o.v.
I never thought such a simple thing as sleepover could get so crazy, moreover what I couldn't comprehend was how none of these guys seemed to have recognized us, after all, we shared numerous classes. We partook in some simple conversation such as "here is your pen" or "the teacher wants to see you". Geez, I even got yelled by the teachers for causing noise pollution in the class, is this really how little attention they paid in class? Were we gals so forgettable to end up on the bottom of their list? However maybe it was our blessing that seemingly ran out today, we never had to deal with their flirting or pranks before.
I glanced at the ongoing Skype call, Laura was still arguing with the dude named Alfred, as well as her sister. I think by this point we all clued out that this loud American was her crush, yet even if he had a girlfriend already he seemed to be suspiciously strongly against Lutz being near Laura. Was Lutz truly such a bad suitor? Was his bad reputation even known to people outside this state? Where did they all even meet? I saw Laura being clueless about Alfred's attitude. From her previous talks she sounded like he never cared about those matters, what have Lutz done for his protectiveness to jump from 0 to 100? I decided to listen to someone's else conversation because I knew I wouldn't find any answer to all those wonders anyway.
Turning my head to Fantina I overheard how she took a liking to Francis, the weird guy that could make roses appear from thin air, has he taken some few magician classes to use those tricks to impress girls? Well, it sure worked on Fantina that's for sure. This made me wonder who was Undine's crush I glanced her way, surprising she was now the one leading a conversation with someone named Antonio. I stole a glance and saw this cute tanned guy and his friend, one of the characteristics they shared was their brown hair.
"Lovi!" Undine called out to him, only to receive a nasty response back. Was this his personality or was he just mean to Undine. I saw a hurt look in her golden eyes, well even if this is how he was, I wouldn't forgive him for hurting my friend. Overall this Skype call seemed like a disaster, both of my best friends got kind of chewed up by their crushes, maybe it was good the guys appeared, now they knew about our existence so it would be easier to set Laura and Undine with them. Finding new love seemed like a good strategy to forget their heartbreaks, but I would probably need Aspen's help. Matchmaking was her hobby not mine, even if her pairings problematic at times, it would solve itself somehow in the end.
A sound of a slapped cheek interrupted my thoughts, and turning my head I spotted both Lutz and a furious Laura. He was lucky there wasn't any school tomorrow because this would definitively leave a mark behind. The annoying Alfred got to know about this situation and he restored to say.
"I warned you, he's dangerous," Laura simply responded.
"At least he won't be as oblivious as you." since he started to choke on his burger him devouring it way too fast, he didn't hear it.
"Do you see this, when I tried to confess this shit always happened." Laura's mood just got worse, which made me ponder on who successfully would have the power to cheer her up.
"I know!" I yelled and I ran where Artie was still locked. I didn't even need to tell him to rush to Laura because he did it on his own accord, I guessed that he sniffed out the depressed state that she was in at the moment. I ran behind the dog and saw him performing a full leap, causing Laura to fall as she couldn't catch these 80 kilos of fluff and muscles when off guard. Artie licked her face, most people were shocked to see the dog, I saw Lutz backing away, fear written all over his face. It wasn't often you could witness a buff guy in such a state. And finally, I got to hear the soft and calm voice I was missing.
"Sorry that I left you all alone in another room, I should have let you out faster. Thanks, Erin!" now that was what I called a pretty smile. First Artie seemed rather uninterested by the guys scattered around the room, but once Laura restored her peace, Artie faced the guys and started to growl. It must have happened because they didn't discard their evil intentions towards us.
"Don't worry Artie, the situation is under control." as if the dog understood her, it laid all his attention back to the owner by making himself comfortable in her lap demanding unlimited pats, which were granted for time being.
"I miss Artie." a guy from the call said, unlike Lutz that Ludwig guy seemed to adore dogs. People went back to their conversations but soon the room was disturbed again when Artie started to bark. Laura grabbed her wallet and I followed her having a hunch what was going to happen. When we arrived at the front door the doorbell rang echoing through the house. I opened the door seeing both the pizza delivery guy and the one that bought us Chinese takeout. What good timing they both had. After paying I helped Laura to get all the boxes to the top floor. The smell of food filled the room which made my mouth water, I was reminded how distasteful my dinner was, hence I decided to shove as much pizza I wanted into my mouth. But moderate amount so I wouldn't get a stomach ache.
Laura decided to end the Skype call, me thinking it was a splendid idea, at least those guys wouldn't irritate our uninvited guests anymore.
While we ate the food topics about the school ball were nudged, it was coming closer and it seemed like none of us had any dates, suggestions to go as a group of gals were mentioned because who cared about couples when all that mattered was having a blast. Laura admitted that she wanted to arrive dressed as a guy while pretending to be someone's date. Most people were certain that it would be great if I went with Laura. But if she went dressed as a guy wouldn't that mean I needed to pose in girls' clothes. That wouldn't happen, not in a million years. Fantina thought she came up with the best excuse.
"You can both go dressed as dudes, pretending to be a yaoi pairing." Obviously, it sounded like our cosplay plans we were preparing for the next convention, so maybe it would be wise to let Laura go with someone else and let her act like a prince.
"We could always ask these guys out for the ball," Catalina considered as we turned toward them, there were mostly staring at walls now or spacing out, some of them had this dangerous glint in their eyes as if they were planning something nasty. When we were pondering whatever asking those guys out for the ball would be a good idea, suddenly we heard a screech from the car wheels. Which was suspicious since not many cars passed this road at this time. Concerned I looked out but saw just a familiar Volvo parking in front of the garage.
"Laura for some reason your parents are here," I warned her. She quickly stood on her feet and cleaned all the empty pizza boxes.
"How will I explain this?" she pointed at the guys panicking while Artie ran down to greet his family. I reassured her I would have her back since I was close to her parents considering my own blood usually ignored my existence, this recently became my usual hanging place. Soon Mr. Amoniak and Mrs. Amoniak made their way to Laura's room, their unique name coming from their Polish heritage. Their kind smiles disappeared when they saw more guests than they agreed on, but no one was expecting what came out of their mouths.
"I'm very happy my daughter finally wants to pursuit some romance, but you could have warned us about the double rise of the guests." Laura flicked around with her fingers with her sheepish look trying to explain the situation but no words came out from her mouth. Probably her panic caused her brain to remain blank, maybe she thought they were furious even if their peculiar choice of words just voiced disappointment.
"Well the guys tagged along, we first disagreed but later we thought that some of those guys could use some fun which is a girls sleepover." Laura's mother just cooed, being apparently delighted by the idea.
"So you going to let them do your hair, and you girls will paint their nails." it seemed like some of the girls liked the sound of this idea, guys not so much.
"I see you had in mind to have the same equal amount of girls and boys, but as I see some of them are missing." we quickly understood where he was getting at.
"Since that's the case, which one is your boyfriend. Wait don't tell me I will guess." Laura's attitude changed, from panicky to overloaded with rage. Well, I could understand her anger, since he always teased her to find a boyfriend she could annoy or fight with. I held back my laugh, wondering which guy he would pick. His feet stopped by no one else but Kuro.
"You must be the one, what is your name, young man?" I couldn't hold myself anymore and so I collapsed onto the floor holding my stomach that couldn't take this huge amount of giggling that escaped my mouth. Despite all the noise, I made he answered, politely as possible.
"Kuro Honda." he looked so dumbfounded it made me even laugh more.
"I suppose you are from Japan then?" he nodded, meanwhile Laura looked like she was ready to pull all her hair out. Her dad was reaching for his pocket, exposing a wallet.
"So how much do you need for taking my daughter away?" Laura snapped while yelling at him.
"He's not my boyfriend dad." he just frowned while saying.
"Such a pity. Then perhaps you?" His next target was Jian, that was probably questioning what kind of father would give away his daughter to him of all people.
"No, none of them is my boyfriend, please leave now," Laura said now trying to push him out of the door, her father putting up some resistance, but she froze when Lutz announced.
"I'm her boyfriend." Suddenly both of her parents eyed him while proceeding to shake their heads in unison.
"No you are too European looking." her mother mused being confident in her words.
"But you guys are Europeans," Undide said confused, Mrs. Amoniak then stated which perhaps was a joke, I couldn't tell anymore.
"You need to have a conversation about this with Laura herself." the host of the party finally calmed herself and she decided to question her parents' random appearance.
"Why are you guys even here?" her mother was the one to answer her eager question.
"We came to check-in to see if our house is still standing, but no fires over here so I think we can go back, dear."
"Why would there be a fire in the first place." her father responded this time.
"Your mother was worried you would find another horrible cook of a friend." it didn't seem like a satisfactory answer for the poor girl.
"We burned scones just once, only one batch and you will remember this for the rest of your life?"
"It's a hard memory to forget." did those scones turn into coal and started a fire alarm, was it why her parents were so jumpy.
"Please stop you will make my friends believe I'm bad at cooking." Undine decided to butt in.
"Well, you liked that Brits food, so your cooking is questionable." Laura decided to defend the honor of her cooking ability.
"Are you going to bully me for the rest of my life, because I found his fish and chips yummy." Undine just nodded with a serious expression. Suddenly I got reminded myself of Oliver's ability to make cupcakes, I needed some sugar right now.
"Mr. And Mrs. Amoniak can I use your kitchen?" I asked hoping they would fulfill my wish.
"Of course, just don't make a mess. And how many times do I need to tell you Erin call us dad and mom." I shook my head feeling awkward, there was no way I would do that.
"Brother and Sister?" of course Laura's dad would try to throw in a joke here somewhere.
"Let's not make this weird." Laura decided to suggest something as well.
"Hmmm, your two last options are calling them either uncle and aunt or by their names." Uncle and Aunt didn't sound too bad.
"What do you plan to make?" Catalina asked me, of course, she who loved to cook would ask me.
"Cupcakes, right?" I directed my gaze to Oliver hoping he would give me a hand.
"Making cupcakes with you poppet, will be fun~" Oliver responded smiling, I could tell he was overjoyed by my invitation.
"Is there is a possibility he is your boyfriend." so it was now my turn to be asked ridiculous questions by Laura's dad. I quickly shook my head.
"It's so fun with young love." Laura's mom mused a pleasant smile plastered on her lips, she quickly started to drag her husband away.
"We will be heading back now darling, have fun." Laura got a kiss on her forehead and soon they were gone.
"Your parents are amusing," Vlad spoke, as Al laughed.
"If they are always like this, then I'm going to come here often." I decided to protect my territory.
"Sorry I already claimed this place as my second house." he just stuck out his tongue telling me he didn't care now letting Laura understand he would visit her, even if she didn't agree.
"P-please don't." was she back to acting all shy?
"I would recommend not taking off your eyes from Oliver." Kuro gave his quick advice.
"Why?" Avalyn asked probably intrigued because the tip came particularly from nowhere.
"He may put some secret ingredients inside of them." Matt seemed disgusted just at the thought of it. All the girls looked at the sweet, maybe a little crazy brit, we always took caution from his cupcakes because none of his friends were eating them, but we only thought he liked to play pranks such as feeding them wasabi.
"Let's add some people to the Oliver watchmen troop." Aspen wouldn't take any risks and she asked Undine and Vlad to join us. Vlad refused but he soon realized he would find more peace downstairs so he tagged along anyway. Undine another cupcake lover decided to help us out, but I refused her help. She may have teased Laura about being a bad cook, but she was far worse. Also for some reason, Aspen tagged along. I could hear those frequent giggles that indicated only one thing, she found her two love birds she wanted to match together. It couldn't be me, right? Suddenly strange questions arrived in my head. Would I be happy with this guy? Then again I hardly thought we fit together, he a creature dresses in baby pinks and blues and me who would never wear anything of such.
"Then again maybe she set her eyes on Catalina or Undine." I muttered to myself.
"Poppet~ you did it all wrong." I looked up, seeing all the mess I did while spacing out.
"Haha, sorry I lost focus for a second there." then I decided to redo my task, who would want a sloppy cupcake anyway. Once the batch was finished and all the pretty cupcakes were inside the oven we walked upstairs only to see two TVs, one that probably came from another room, some of those guys were playing on either Xbox One or ps4 and the rest was still chatting about god knows what. Miraclously Fantina was sitting there and painting Kuro's nails black, she must have used some of her dirty tricks to persuade him. And was it me or was Al trying to get closer to Laura by doing her hair, so he could crash at this house whenever he wanted? Soon time for bed arrived since most of us saw staying up all night like a bad idea. If we did we would never stop hearing Fantinas complains about the precious beauty sleep we stripped away from her.
Bedtime arrived, all the good boys and girls shall head to sleep, are the guys staying or not? (づ￣ ³￣)づ