What is... "Home?" (Hetalia Fanfic, W.A. '13 Finalist)

Chapter 32~!

"Mattie Mattie Mattie! Guess what guess what?" I said excitedly, grinning before sticking a cookie in my mouth. That might explain why I was so hyper at the moment.

"What is it?" he asked, looking up from the book he'd received from England (I made sure England remembered Canada this Christmas. Yeah, I'm an amazing friend).

"Japan did make a Hetaloid with your voice!" I exclaimed after swallowing my frosted baked good.

"He did? That's so cool!" Mattie agreed. "What's it called?"

"Sweet Devil~" I smiled as Ko climbed up onto my shoulder and hugged my neck. "Are you gonna ride on my shoulder instead of having me carry you, Ko?"

"That's what I was thinking," my new companion chirped while batting at my ahoge. I'd let it hang free since it was discovered and planned to pin it back up when we went back to school. "Is that okay with you?"

"Sure, unless I think of any other ways."

"I'm glad you both are getting along," Mattie said as he looked at my computer screen over my other shoulder. "Oh, you're updating?"

"Yeah, I feel awful for not updating in so long," I admitted.

"Hey, guys! Let's go swimming!" America suggested, obnoxiously loud, as he bounded into the living room from his bedroom. He was dressed in only swim trunks (printed with hamburgers and his flag, what a shocker). "We didn't get to our first day back home so we should do it now! Besides, we've got nothing better to do."

I glanced at my computer screen as I thought 'Well I could still update instead' but gave in because he was right. 'I gotta do something else for a while, I've been at this for a while.'

"Okay, I'm game for some swimming." My laptop was shut with a new-sounding clack and I stood from the couch, stretching before going up to my room to change. I looked at the swimsuit that hadn't been taken out of the bag since it was put in. 'Was it really three days ago?'

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"CANNONBALL!!" America shouted before he hit the water, sending a wave of water up and drenching both Canada and I. The plethora of pool toys was rocked on the waves as his head broke through the surface, and he gasped while straightening his glasses; they'd somehow managed to stay on through all that. "Oh, that was great! You guys comin' in or what?"

I grinned and jumped in right next to America, pulling my legs up under myself and plugging my nose with one hand while closing my eyes. I hit the water with a decent-sized splash and came up a second later, shaking my wet hair and wiping my eyes free of chlorine-water. "WOO! Yeah, I am awesome!"

"I'm awesomer!" America protested as he grabbed me around my waist and dunked me under. I came up and shot a spray of water at his face from my mouth, giggling as his glasses almost came off. They hung by one arm over his ear until he fixed them and sent a wave of water at me. Mattie came at me from my other side and sent a matching wave, and I plugged my nose before going under as the walls of water hit just above me.

"Where'd she go?" I heard as I broke the surface of the water quietly and saw their backs to me.

'Oh, boys. Never turn your backs on your opponent. Muwahahahahaha~'

I surged forward and pounced on America's back while laughing maniacally. Both of them shrieked (They claim they sounded nothing like girls) and spun around, but that was hard for America with a hundred-something-pound girl on his back in waist-deep water. He fell over and took me down with him, where I let him go underwater and grabbed Canada's ankle as I came up. He wriggled free and grabbed me around my waist like America had and tossed me over to America, who had just resurfaced.