Fem!Nordics x Reader - Living with the Nordic 5

I stretched my arms, yawning. Finally, I finished cleaning up my room.
I looked around satisfied, and couldn't help but notice how much better it looked now.
I hadn’t had time to clean up before, since I’d always been busy either with school or… well, the five young girls I’m sharing this flat with.
Calling Marlene, Nora, Frida, Tiina and Kristina just a little strange would be an understatement… But they’re all a bit weird in their own special ways.
Still, the most significant feature of theirs wasn’t their personalities or the way they behave around each other, no. It was the fact that they all were living personifications of whole nations.

First of all, there was Marlene Køhler, the personification of Denmark. She was a very loud girl with an unbelievably great ego, and called herself the “Queen of Northern Europe”. With the personification of USA, Amelia F. Jones, and the personification of the no longer existing Prussia, Julchen Beilschmidt, she was a part of the so called “Awesome Trio”. She’s had fights with the personification of Sweden in the past, and even nowadays their relationship isn’t what you would call loving and caring. She is also a heavy drinker, and nothing good happens when you give her alcohol. (That actually goes to them all, but especially to Marlene.)

Nora Bondevik, however, was almost the complete opposite of the Danish woman with her emotionless and unreadable attitude, at least. Nora was the personification of Norway, and together with the personification of England, Alice Kirkland, and the personification of Romania, Andra Şerban, she formed the “Magic Trio”. She was obsessed with her younger sister, Frida Steilsson, and always demanded that she called her “big sister”, but never getting what she wanted.

Frida was the personification of Iceland. Even though she seemed to be very cool and composed outside, she could be surprisingly passionate about some things. She loved licorice and hot springs, and owned a talking puffin named Ms. Puffin. Very original, if you ask me…

Then there was Tiina Väinämöinen, the personification of Finland. She liked to talk a lot, especially in Kristina’s presence, and once she starts talking, it'll take a while before she’s done. She liked saunas and odd foods, and doesn’t mind cold at all. Her best friend was the personification of Estonia, Erika von Bock. She owned a puppy with her other good friend, Kristina (with whom she had some kind of rivalry going on all the time).

Lastly, there was Kristina Oxenstierna, the personification of Sweden. She was a tall and slightly intimidating girl, who rarely spoke, and when she did, it was hard to understand her. She liked debating, and although she's not so good at talking, she's really good at making things with her hands. Kristina seemed to really like Tiina and called the Finn her “husband”, only lord knows why.

So, these five are the girls I, [Name] [Last name], am currently sharing an apartment with. As the apparently only normal human.

You may be able to imagine how shocked I was, when I first got to know that my friends, and actually most of the people I knew, were countries, but I got used to it eventually.
Some may think that living with nations would be more exciting, than the ordinary everyday's life, but in fact, it was just... normal. Well, as normal as it could be with those girls.
I smiled to myself, and mentally thanked the specific friend of mine, without whom I wouldn’t have met the so-called “Nordic Five”, once again. It was really nice living with them, definitely better than living with my mother, who just wanted me out of the house.

The smell of hot dogs coming from downstairs reminded me of how hungry I was, so I quickly went down to the kitchen, where I saw Marlene eating the predicted food.
When she noticed me and heard my stomach growl, she grinned.
“Hej, kæreste, want some?”

I nodded. Unlike Marlene, I wasn't that obsessed with hot dogs. But I had to admit she really made good ones, and didn't plan on declining her offer.

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After a while we had both finished eating, and I was washing the dishes in return for Marlene cooking.
“By the way, Marlene, where are the others? I haven't seen them since breakfast,” I mentioned.
Marlene laughed one of her laughs, before answering my question. “Well, you've been in your room all day, kæreste! So, you see, Frida went to visit Jin Miu, Nora's meeting with her weird club, and Kristina and Tiina went shopping, so I guess you're stuck with me for the moment.”
“I'm actually more surprised that you aren't with Julchen and Amelia right now”, I admitted while drying the dishes.
That caused Marlene to laugh a bit awkwardly. “Well, Julchen is actually hanging out with Isabel and Marianne right now, and Amelia is busy with... something. And I'm boooooored!” she explained, stretching the last word purposely to emphasize it.

Having finished my work, I sighed and started thinking. What could I, or rather we, do next to escape boredom?
I’d already finished all my homework, my room looked perfect , and my boyfriend... Oh shit.
I realized I’d been thinking aloud, when Marlene looked at me slightly confused.
“Ah, well, you see... My boyfriend's birthday is in a few days, and I still haven't got a present for him, so...” I explained to her.
“...I'm going to help you finding something proper”, Marlene finished my sentence, grinning triumphantly.

I sighed. I knew this probably wouldn't end well, but if Marlene got something into her head, it was impossible stopping her without getting violent or using some kind of trick, so I consented to her offer of aid.

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Despite my suspicions at first, Marlene was actually really helpful in the end. Due to her assistance, I bought a T-shirt with a picture of my boyfriend’s favourite football player on it and also a new football for him.

Having gotten back to our apartment, we went through the front door. Already there I was able to hear the usual “Call me ‘big sister’” from Nora and the following “I'm not going to say it!” from Frida.
I can tell that if I was ever to leave this house, I’d never get used to the silence.

As I and Marlene went to the living room, we were greeted by the usual argument between Frida and Nora, and a cheerful “Hei!” from Tiina. Kristina, however, was nowhere in sight.

As if she had read my thoughts, Tiina spoke: “Kristina is down in the basement repairing the coffee table. I was just about to prepare the dinner; does any one of you want something special?”
The Finn smiled at me and Marlene friendly, waiting for a response.

“Thanks, but I'm fine with a slice of bread and cheese. I'm going upstairs for a while, calling my boyfriend. I should be back in 10 minutes!” I told and hurried to my room. I didn't want to end up eating alone.

When I mentioned my boyfriend, I noticed that Tiina’s expression changed slightly from upbeat to almost chagrined, or even a bit hurt.
I mentally scolded myself for having overanalyzed her expression. “Get a grip of yourself, [Name]! You’re not supposed to think things like that, you have a boyfriend!”

As I had finally arrived at my room, I threw myself on my bed after getting my mobile, and quickly dialed my boyfriend's number to ask him where we'd meet up at his birthday.
He went to a different high school than I did, but we’d been a couple since the 8th grade.
I anxiously waited for him to pick up, and I was rather surprised when a youthful female voice answered me.

“Uhm... Hello, I'm [Name] and I'd like to speak with [boyfriend's name], is he home?” I asked, unsure what to say. I never knew he had a sister...
“Yeah, he is. But may I ask what you want from my boyfriend before that? Are you his sister? I never knew he had one”, I heard the female voice tell. The phone almost slipped out of my hand. WHAT?! At first I was too shocked to say anything, but somehow I managed to get the female to get my soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend to the phone.

“So, I'm your sister now, huh? And who is the poor girl anyway?” I asked him, dangerously calm.
Just when he was about to answer, I quickly interrupted him.
“You know what? I don't want to hear your excuses. We're through.”
He sounded angry now, and also a bit panicked. “But we've been a couple since the 8th grade; you can't dump me just like that! Besides, you are the one who's living with five girls, I bet you just used me to cover the fact that you're actually lesbian, and...”

Before he could end his sentence, I hung up. I just didn't want to hear him anymore. My boyfriend, the one I loved and trusted, had cheated on me just like that!
Slowly my anger started to fade away and turn to sorrow. I felt tears forming to my eyes. I had read many stories about a boy cheating on his girlfriend, but I never thought that it'd ever happen to me. Besides, in those stories there was always a childhood friend there to comfort the heartbroken main character...

I heard the door slowly creak open, but I didn't dare to look up; I didn't want anyone to see me crying, and besides, I already knew who it was.
The bed lowered when Kristina sat next to me, putting pressure on it. “What happened? We're waiting for you”, she said, sounding a bit... worried.
“I broke up with my boyfriend because he... cheated on me”, I somehow managed to say. Saying those words out loud really hurt.

It was silent for a while before Kristina pulled me into a tight hug, and I let the tears flow out freely. As I calmed down a little, we stayed like this for a few minutes, before Kristina broke the silence again.
“You should come down and eat something with us. Everybody is really worried about you.”
I lightly nodded, and she took my hand gently as she guided me downstairs.
When we arrived to the kitchen, I was nearly tackled to the ground by Tiina.

“[Name], is everything alright?! What happened?!” She spoke so fast that I had hard time to understand what she’d said.
“Please, calm down! I'm alright! Well... besides the fact that my boyfriend cheated on me and I broke up with him...” I said, noticing that I started to cry again. Right in front of my friends, although I’d done everything to prevent that. Shit.
But as the five girls started to comfort me, I thought that maybe it wasn't as bad as I thought. It actually felt really... soothing.

“Just how could that jerk do that to her?! If I were him, I'd never cheat on such a wonderful girl like her...” I heard Frida say silently. When she obviously realized what she’d just said, she blushed bright red.
I couldn't help but smile. “Thank you all so much...”

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I stretched my arms and yawned. Finally, it was lunch time. It most certainly wasn’t easy being in a high school, but at least I had two of my good friends there; Selina, or Lin, as she preferred to be called, and Sebastian, Julchen's older brother and the personification of, in my and Lin's opinion, a really beautiful German (or Prussian, as Lin insisted) city, Erfurt.
I've known them since the first day I went to this high school, although our first encounter was rather... strange.

In fact, I was looking for them, as I felt someone tap on my shoulder. I turned around, just to meet Nora's dull blue eyes with my own [e/c] ones.
She shoved a lunch box in my hands. “You forgot it home”, she said emotionlessly like always.
I smiled at her. “Thank you very much!”
She nodded and then turned around to leave. I really have to thank her better for going out of her way to come to my high school just to bring me my lunch...

“Hey, [Name]!” I heard someone call behind me. I turned around just to see Lin and Sebastian smiling and waving at me. Like always, I couldn't help but crack a smile, but how couldn’t I? Their affinity was just too cute! If I didn’t know better, I'd say they were twins. Sure, Sebastian's short hair was of a lighter blond than Lin's very long hair and their “steel blue” eyes weren’t perfectly identical, but there were many similarities in their personalities; for example, their love for the colour blue.

From ever since we met, I’ve never witnessed them being separate, except for that one day when Julchen kicked Lin out of their house. It was no wonder that the rumors of them dating won't come to an end; I wasn't sure about their relationship either, to be honest.

“I heard you broke up with your boyfriend? I'm really sorry to hear that, you deserve better than being cheated on!”
I smiled at Sebastian's kind words; he was always so friendly and polite, and in my opinion his German accent was kind of cute; it was also more obvious than Lin's.
“He never deserved her! But... with whom are you going to the prom then?” Lin asked, tilting her head.
Oh shit, the prom! I’d completely forgotten about it!
As I accidentally said this out loud, Lin looked at me worried.

“You really shouldn't go alone, you know how guys are! Have you even got a dress?! And-”, Lin spoke so fast that it was really hard to follow her. Sebastian patted her back and said something in German to her, what made her calm down in an instant.

“I’ve already bought a dress, although I don't think I'll find a partner in such a short time... With whom are you going anyway?” I asked curiously. Sebastian had gone somewhere with Julchen, apparently she needed something from him.

“I'm going together with Sebastian! B-but just as friends, of course!” Lin told, and blushed a little. I was kind of sure that they both liked each other more than just like friends.

I laughed. “You know, you should tell him”, I said, winking at her.
“I-I don't even know what you're talking about!” she exclaimed, flushing crimson while denying it, like the cute little Tsundere she was~ Well, okay, she isn’t that short, but still cute. However, she got serious again.
“You know what I'm thinking, [Name]? Maybe it isn't actually that bad that you broke up with [boyfriend's name]. Now you can go to the prom with the one you really love.”

I stared at her, dumbfounded. “B-but the one I really loved was-”
Lin quickly cut me off. “Don't try to fool me, [Name]. I've known you long enough to tell that you're lying. Don’t lie to yourself. Just admit your feelings to yourself and tell them to the lucky person too, 'kay?” She smiled at me warmly. Sometimes I really had the feeling like she was my big sister, even though that would be impossible.

She hugged me warmly before waving and storming off to probably find Sebastian. I waved back, lost in my thoughts.

The one I really loved...?

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I was still thinking about what Lin had said to me today when I got home, but I guess she was right; I was only fooling myself. Living with the Nordics had changed my life in several ways; one being having fallen in love with her.

I actually didn't want to tell her about my feelings, because I was afraid of getting rejected. But if I won't tell by myself, Lin surely will. Or then she’ll make me do it – either way to her.

Sighing, I went through the front door of our house and upstairs to place my things. I sat down on my bed and closed my eyes for a minute.

“[Name], you can do that!” I repeatedly told myself, before getting up again. I should stop being such a coward, and tell her about my true feelings already!