I stole Sarah's laptop again, squinting at the small print on the screen, because for whatever reason I left my glasses upstairs and Romano, Sarah, Paige, and Conner all refused to go get them for me, so it seemed I'd have to go without for awhile.

Conner looked up from his knitting (Yes, Conner knits. He finds it very relaxing and he makes us these awesome flag scarves all the time. They're really soft!), "Hey…" he began, glancing around, he lifted the throw pillow beside him on the couch and looked under it, searching for something, "Has anyone seen Prussia?"

Romano snorted, "He's probably lying dead in some gutter somewhere! Thank god!"

"Impossible, Prussia's too awesome to die in a gutter. If anything, he's passed out in a gutter." Sarah frowned at Romano, and crossed her arms over her chest, returning to reading the website I was looking at over my shoulder.

I sighed, "He's at his new job, believe it or not."

Chaos ensued. Sarah jumped up onto the couch, soundlessly yelling at me, Romano was doubled over with laughter, pleased with the misfortune his fellow ex-nation was subjected to, and Paige looked torn between crying and laughing. Conner just dropped his needles.

"W-What? You were serious?" Paige asked, leaning forward and staring at me. It felt like she was staring straight into my soul, so I forced my eyes away from hers and glared at Romano.

"Roma, you're getting one too, so stop laughing."

"Excuse you?"

"What do you think I'm doing right now?"

Romano narrowed his eyes, and got up from the recliner he had claimed as his own, walking up to me to see what I was attempting to read.

He saw me checking a job listing page for our area, and—as many of my friends would say—bust a tit.

He threw his hands up in the air and brought them down on the coffee table, creating a loud banging sound that startled Conner and Paige, both of them jumping slightly. Romano started stamping his foot and bitching about how he shouldn't need to do any work, he continued this for a few moments, before storming out of the room, most likely intent on trying to destroy all off my cosplays, seeing as I hold them very near and dear to my heart.

I checked the time and passed the computer off to Sarah so she could continue the job search and hoisted myself off the couch, adjusting my shots, "Let's get out of here, Paige."

She nodded and started working on putting her hair into a ponytail while I called up the stairs to Romano, "You still want to come and do March of Dimes with us?"

A muffled "No." was my reply.

"What about the babies, Roma?"

A pause. "Fine."

He trudged down the stairs with his usual scowl on his face, almost looking like a pout.

I glanced back into the living room, "Sarah." She glanced up, "Hold down fort, if we don't return, you can have my hidden cosplay money stash."

I open the front door and was able to herd everybody out and shut the door, but not before hearing Sarah yell at me, "Where is it?"

WwWw

Paige, Romano and I met up with the rest of our team at the park where the starting line for March of Dimes was.

Savana and Kelly both had on their The Otaku Team shirts, all decked out with characters from various animes, and when we arrived they passed us ours from the box at their feet.

When they got a good look at Romano, they both started spazzing. We had informed them of our new Hetalia Units, but this was the first time they actually got to meet one of them.

Romano's frowned at the attention, but before he could do any real emotional damage on my friends, we were told to go to the starting line to begin the walk.

We pushed our way through the crowd of people and stood right under the big banner, and in front of the news camera.

We all waved like crazy people, and when they started playing "I'm Sexy and I Know It" we all sang along and danced. Well, all of us except Romano that is, who seemed really unpleased with his decision about coming.

We started the countdown, and at zero we began the march, moving at a quick pace. Our goal was to set a pace and stay at it for the full six miles, and to not stop at all.

To pass the time, we joked around and listened to music, occasionally succeeding in roping Romano into the conversation, only for him to pull back out suddenly moments later.

About three miles in, my phone rang.

I paused my iPod and Savana groaned, as we were just getting to the good part in America's Maru Kaite Chikuyuu.

"It's Sarah, blame her." I told her, and answered, holding the phone a little away from my ear, because the screaming had already begun.

The sounded like an absolute mess, I could hear Conner yelling in the background with Prussia—who had returned from work— chiming in every two seconds, and Sarah was babbling nervously into the phone, and I couldn't make heads or tails of what she was saying.

"Sarah, calm down, and go into a different room, I can't hear over Conner and Prussia." I told her, and she quickly did just that.

"Okay, what's going on?" I asked her, turning the phone on speaker so everyone could hear.

"Two things. First one, which is very urgent. We have a con tomorrow." Sarah groaned.

We all gasped and exchanged glances, "What con?"

"AiCon."

We gasped again, how did we all forget about the famous convention that surpassed Anime Expo last year? Given it was by three people, but still beat the (formally) biggest convention for anime in America!

"Well, I assume we already registered and booked a room, right?" Paige said, leaning in towards the mouthpiece.

"We did, but—"

"Then what do we have to worry about?"

Sarah spoke in one breath, "We signed up to do an Ask-A-Nation panel."

We all stopped walking.

I spoke first, "Oh shit."

"And we were supposed to find a lot of people! We forgot to do interviews!" Sarah said, her voice plainly showing how stressed she was feeling.

We've done panels before, so we knew how this went down. Not having enough panelists is bad.

"Who all remembers registering for AiCon?" I asked the group, and everyone raised their hands (but Romano, who was tapping his foot impatiently) "Okay so this means that for the panel we have Italy, Germany, Romano, Spain, Austria, and America. We're missing key nations."

"I can ask the Hetalia cosplay group if anyone with experience would be willing to do it, but I don't know what we'll get."

I resumed walking, trying to match my brisk pace from before, "Ask Prussia if he wants to do the panel." I glanced over at Romano and thought for a second, "If you can get some other Nordic cosplayers, I'll be Denmark for the panel and Romano can be himself."

Romano coughed on his water, "Ask me before you decide something, bastard!"

I glanced at him apologetically, "Sorry, Roma. But this is for the fans."

"What fans?"

"Shut up, Sarah. What's the second thing?"

"We got three new units."

"Three?"

"Yep, Spain, America, and Canada."

Savana and I both squealed like crazy when we heard America, and Romano took the chance to snatch the phone out of my hand, "That tomato-bastards there?"

"Yes?"

"Disgusting."

He shoved the phone back in my hand and his walking speed increased.

I told Paige to keep an eye on him, "We can use them, Canada can be himself, and… Hm, I think America might be the perfect size for my England cosplay, since it's too big, tell him all he needs to do is pretend to be England for two hours. And Spain can be… Russia? Conner can let him use his cosplay, they should be just about the same size."

"Alright. I'll get back to you on who can take the other roles. Now walk for the crippled babies, Madison." And with that, Sarah hung up.

I slid my phone back in my pocket, "Well, looks like we're gonna be having a long night guys."

Fail chapter is fail.

Sorry, I wrote this in like, two hours. And I wanted it up tonight.

AiCon isn't real. I made it up.

Next chapter will have the convention. Hooray! I'll probably include some of the experiences I had at MomoCon with the amazing Sarah and the awesome Paige~

OUR COSPLAY LIST IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING (for the Panel ONLY, excluding extras):

Me/Madison- Denmark

Sarah-Spain

Paige-Italy

Conner-Austria

Savana-America

Kelly-Germany

Romano-himself

Canada-himself

America-England

Spain-Russia

Love y'all (especially reviews, I LOVE reviews so much, they're like crack for me),

Ayai~