Fun fact about this week's entry: someone is arriving. This person is like a steel column; impossible to shift and it hurts like hell when you run into them.
Disclaimer: I don't own Hetalia. And this depresses me.
Monday 14th March 2013
Happy right now. Happier than I have been since we got here. Seriously, I ran around the halls making airplane noises, one of the dumb things I used to do before the zombies came and I AM SOOO RELIEVED. We all were. Today a group of us made it to the perimeter.
Guess who it was.
Berwald Oxenstierna, Lili Zwingili, Peter Baron, Audrey what's-her-face and Giovanni Vargas. They arrived early in the morning at 4 a.m. Noises downstairs woke Luddie and me up so we woke up Mei and told her where we were going. We had to go through the floor beneath to get to the perimeter. A few sleepy heads were poking out curious about the commotion. Matron Gonzales came down after us. As we were coming around the corner I thought I could hear a familiar voice, but I pegged it down to sleep deprivation and stress. Never been so glad to be wrong.
First I saw was Berwald shouldering his way through Security with Audrey clinging to one shoulder, Peter on his leg and Lili holding onto the back of his jacket, who had Gio on the back of hers. Lili and Luddie ran for each other the second they saw each other. Lili is a tiny thing but the German must be strong in her, because when she hugged him around the waist she got him off his feet and kept him there. I usually only see that kind of strength in Luddie. It was cute. Little cousin had big cousin in a fireman's lift. For a split second I missed my family so much I wanted to cry then I got swept up in the excitement and handed out some bear hugs too.
Audrey cried, Peter cried, I sobbed happy tears, Lili cried, Luddie wiped away a couple of sneaky ones, Gio couldn't stand up he laughed so much and Teddy Ber stood in the middle totally expressionless. The man is made of steel I swear. Others were attracted downstairs by the noise, mostly the guys from the second floor. Once they saw what was going on one of them ran up to the nations' floor. The other guys were happy even though they hung back. I guess they didn't want to intrude on the 'special international' moment, which I heard Adande (Jamaica's city of Kingston) call it. I wish you could have seen my friends' faces when they recognised the new arrivals. Audrey was passed from shoulder to shoulder so people could hug properly. She was scared silly and delighted to be out of the rough areas of the school. Poor kid's only eight years old she must have been so overwhelmed by it all. I'm seventeen and I'm so overwhelmed it feels like I'm drowning. By the time she got to my shoulder she had calmed down enough to replace her sobbing with talking.
"I never thought I would see anybody here again!" she said, her eyes still wet "I thought you were all dead or that I would die before I got the chance and I want my mom." She went off into hysterical sobbing at that point. Whenever Mattie and I got upset that badly Papa would cuddle us and murmur happy things in French. It felt kind of awkward for me doing it but it worked like a charm. On the down side it made Gio cry too.
Because it was 4 in the morning the only thing the group wanted to do -apart from learn who among their peers was alive- was sleep. Eventually Tino and the other 'Nordics' found Berwald, the only one missing from their usual group. Hugs and manly tears all around. Except for Berwald. He has no tear ducts or strong emotions that's, my working theory. He left to catch up with his friends, taking Peter with him, after he checked Audrey would be alright in the care of Lili and the rest of the girls. Although his bed is in my dorm he spent the night with them, probably catching up with the best of his friends. Now that they had Lili and Audrey to fill up some beds, Mei and Bella felt it wouldn't be too much to sleep in their own dorm for the rest of the night. Gio sacked out in Ven's bed and I know Ven wouldn't mind because Gio is his cousin. Heck, if Ven had come back with them I'll bet he would have got in bed with him - Ven doesn't care about personal space at all. Peter must have slept in bed with one of the boys in the Nordics' dorm. If someone would let me I would certainly crawl into bed with somebody. Call me gay as much as you want. It's true anyways.
Well friends it is with regret I inform you I must depart for the land of sleepiness. It's been a rough series of nights. However I daresay things are looking up from here. Tomorrow morning I'll bet more people will arrive. Ven and Liz and Roddy and Oscar will all burst through the perimeter with a thousand armed Marines and we will mow down the putrefied masses and escape to freedom and my god I need to sleep look at what I'm writing. Good night.
Okay. As Alfie said, things are starting to look up. Did I just call him Alfie? Bedtime for me too. Good night friends. If it is not night where you are please replace my greeting with the appropriate salutation.