18-year-old music lover Jenny Integra has been the subject of mockery for most of her life, but on her first week of college, she finally finds a place where she can fully belong when her friends Eleanor and Sandra let her join the music group they'...
"Anyway, I'm Ludwig Beilschmidt, but you can just call me Ludwig if you want. I'm the drummer for the Hetalians." He introduced.
"Jenny Integra. But most people call me Jen." Then she and him shook hands.
"Do you want me to take your things for you?" Ludwig politely offered.
"Oh, no, it's not that much, I'll be fine." Jenny declined this offer with the same level of politeness.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine. Don't worry about it!" And her mouth curled into a friendly smile.
"Hey Bruder! Who's at the door?" Came the sound of a higher-pitched voice, also with a German accent.
"The new member who wants to join! She only just got here."
"Oh gimme a sec! The awesome me will come and welcome her!"
"Give her a minute to put her things upstairs and then you can all greet her." Ludwig told the man who spoke from the next room who Jenny guessed was his brother, judging by use of the word 'Bruder' which was its German meaning.
"Very well then. My awesomeness is willing to wait that long."
"That's my older brother Gilbert. He's one of the lead guitarists. As you might have heard, he's kinda egotistical at times regarding how 'awesome' he is, but actually deep down he's still a nice person."
"Oh. It's okay, I understand he might wanna prove himself as the alpha male. But as long as he's a nice guy like you said, that's all that matters." Jenny nodded in understanding as Ludwig lead her upstairs to where her room would be. The inside of the house was definitely as big as it appeared from the outside, and on the outside of the house, this symbol (but with a music note on it and without text) was on a flag hung on the roof:
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It certainly looked as if the place was designed to be crowded. Upon noticing this, she asked,
"Just out of curiosity, how many members are there?"
"There's 12 members of the Hetalians so far, including me and you." Answered Ludwig. They were only giving her membership a trial run for a week at the moment, but she was sure she'd get used to the place.
"Here we are. This is your room here. We all need to be roommates with at least 1 other member of the same gender, so you're going to be the roommate of your friends Eleanor and Sandra. And after fully ascending the stairs and walking down the hall a little bit, they arrived at one particular door. He opened it for her, showing inside a single bed and, a feeble feet away, a bunk bed. The top bunk looked like it was Eleanor's bed, as the sheets were in an orange, yellow and pink colour scheme, and the single bed, judging by the look of the posters next to it and the red, black and white colours of the bedsheets, it looked as if it was Sandra's. The bottom bunk was obviously going to be Jenny's, but she was fine with that.
"Do you want to come downstairs and meet the others now, or unpack your stuff first and then come down and meet them?" Asked Ludwig.
"I'll just put my bags in here and come down now, if that's okay. I'll come back up here and unpack afterwards."
A few seconds later, after he'd gone downstairs to tell the others to make themselves look sharp for the new arrival, Jenny had followed, after taking her trainers off and leaving them under her new bed.
In front of her, as she descended the stairs, there were 8 other people except for him, Eleanor and Sandra, stood together, looking up at her with welcoming eyes.
"Well hey there!" One of them exclaimed (who was American, judging by his accent). He was a man of about Eleanor's age, with blonde hair, bright blue eyes, and he wore glasses and a sports hoodie. "The name's Alfred Jones. I'm one of the bass guitarists and I'm also the lead vocalist!" He seemed as if he was the dashing, princely type of man. "Meet the crew!" Alfred motioned towards the other members behind himself with his hand Who Jenny didn't know yet. "This guy right here is Ludwig's brother Gilbert!"
Alfred pointed out a man who was relatively the same height as him, with short platinum-blonde hair, what appeared to be red eyes, and he had a small yellow bird on his shoulder which was presumably his pet. At first glance she was surprised that this member was older than Ludwig, as he was slightly shorter and not quite as muscular, but she realised things like that could still happen.
"So, you are the new girl? Well let's hope you prove to be as supremely awesome as me in the days to come during your trial period!" Gilbert said, in the same voice she'd first heard when she came in the doorway a minute beforehand. Ludwig, behind her right now, rolled his eyes at this remark.
"Next to him is Arthur, the lead guitarist. He's from England, like you!" Alfred continued.
"It's a pleasure to meet you." The smooth voice of Arthur spoke up, during which Sandra was discretely blushing but trying to hide it, as she had affections for him, but she'd never told anyone yet. Arthur had bushier eyebrows than the others, with blonde hair in a punk style and emerald-green eyes.
"Likewise!" Jenny answered amiably.
"And over there are Honda and Feliciano." Alfred motioned respectively towards one man with short black hair, brown eyes and an Asian-like appearance, and then the one next to him with brown eyes and pale brown hair with a single, solitary curl poking upwards on the left side. "They're both backup dancers and vocalists. "Then this guy right here is Francis, my fellow bass guitarist."
"Why, I heard there was a new member joining us but I wasn't told that they'd be such a beautiful woman..." The man stood right next to Alfred, who was obviously French, purred. He'd easily look like a girl from behind because of the length of his silky blonde hair, which was down to his shoulders, and also had blue eyes similar to Alfred's. He had a flirty look written across his face.
"Come on, Francis. Stop with your flirting at least for now. You'll frighten the poor girl." Arthur advised the Frenchman, who did a mini pout to himself, causing Jenny to chuckle.
"Honestly, it's fine, Arthur. I don't mind!" She reassured.
"See? She's perfectly okay with it." Francis pointed out.
"Anyway, who's left? Oh yeah, there's Ivan, our keyboard player." The next member of the Hetalians to be pointed out by Alfred was a tall man, most likely the tallest out of them all, and he had a slightly more round face than the others with a more prominent nose, and had short silver hair and purple eyes. Upon looking at him, she saw that he was wearing a warm and friendly smile, but Ivan was still currently coming off as having an aura of dread hanging around him.
"Oh, and don't let his big size scare you or anything, dudette. He's actually a very nice guy!" Alfred said, noticing what Jenny was thinking and decided to offer her reassurance.
"I look forward to being your bandmate if you pass the trial period, which I think will be likely." Ivan said, speaking softly and killing off the intimidating aura immediately. Jenny detected a Russian accent in his voice.
"Thank you Ivan. I'm looking forward to being in the band as well!"
"And last but certainly not least, this is Wang, another of our backup singers/dancers!"
The final member to be introduced was standing next to Ivan, and Jenny guessed by the sound of his name that he was Chinese, which would make sense because of him looking Asian-like, similar to Honda. Wang's long dark brown hair was tied back into a ponytail, and his eye were also brown.
"So yeah, this is the crew!" Alfred finished. "And the hero of the group is definitely me!"
"Oh shut it! You always say that, but your role as 'hero' is more self-proclaimed than anything." Arthur argued with the American.
