Lovino sighed angrily while booting up his slow laptop. The screen flickered in many different colours before making a loud beeping noise and slowly beginning to glitch it's way to the desktop.
"I really need to get a new damn laptop", he cursed, annoyed by the incredible time it took to start the old thing.
When it (at last) was ready to use, Lovino started the web browser and started checking all social medias that he had been missing out on for the day. School had been pushing him to his limit for a long while now, and he hadn't had much time on the internet, even though it was one of his biggest passions. Now when it was summer break though, he had all the time in the world.
When Lovino had been looking through all of his notes on deviantART, stopping on the way to look at one of his brothers' new works (amazing, as always), he moved on to Facebook.
"Damn it, I don't care about your new gay relationships, Francis..." Lovino mumbled to himself as he scrolled trough the long list of news, mostly filled by posts on how Francis loved this "Matthew" oh-so-much.
After 30 minutes of checking social medias, he decided to check his mail, just to know if he had received a mail from a teacher, informing about a homework for the summer, and as he looked at the notification that showed him 149 new mails, he groaned.
"Fucking advertisements", he thought while rolling his eyes.
While flicking through all the junk mail, here recognised a user he hadn't seen in a long time.
How long was it since he had talked to that guy? 6 years?
Lovino clicked at the mail to start reading.
From: oyanbun.53
Subject: hi!
Hi, do you remember me? :D
It's Antonio, your old pen pal!
Do you remember that I live in Spain? Well, I want to tell you that I'm moving to London, and that I really want to meet you! :P
This may come out of the blue, but I have been planning on moving for a long time, since I plan on starting my own spanish restaurant there!
Well, you might think that I'm a stalker of some sort, asking my pen pal from 6 years ago to meet again after all these years like you're the only thing I think about, but it's just that you were always so nice to me when I was sad and all of those things, and I think that we could become really good friends if we live so close to each other!
I could really use some friends in London, since I don't know anyone there, so I would really like to get to know you! :D
If you're interested, please reply! :D
Antonio
Sent 14:53
Opened 18:47
Lovino glared at the mail for a while.
He remembered Antonio being 2 years older than him, and he recalled him to be quite a depressed boy. Lovino had tried to cheer him up, even though he hadn't really understood the case, since he had been too young to experience those kinds of things on his own.
"At least he seems to be really fucking cheery now", he thought to himself.
The italian kind of wanted to meet the Spaniard that he had been so good friends with, but he knew that his hopes were lost. His sucky abilities of conversing outside the internet were unstandable, since he didn't really have any friends from anywhere else but online. The internet personality he had built up over the years was so unrecognisable compared to his personality in the real life that he had simply given up on talking outside of the internet. He never conversed, only making exceptions when he was answering a question, and he was always wearing an angry scowl to protect him from people trying to say anything to him. When he tried to talk, he always managed to sound rude and he always panicked, making him blurt out insults as often as his brother said "ve".
Lovino decided to at least reply to the mail, to spare the man's feelings, even if it was a little bit.
From:
Subject: Re: hi!
Oh, hi, I thought that we would never speak again! :P
It seems fun that you're moving to London, and if you succeed in making a living out of this, I'd love to try out your restaurant! I'm sorry to say that I'm not too keen on meeting up. I have to say that I'm not a talking person, and I will probably scare you away if we do meet Dx
At least I'm happy to see that you seem well and I hope you have a safe flight.
Lovino
Sent 18:53
After replying, the italian continued to flick through the mails, proud over his reply that had both ended the conversation and still managed to be as polite as possible.
Lovino's stomach suddenly growled from hunger, making him notice that he hadn't eaten anything yet. He started to long for a good bolognese, so he flicked trough all the messages as quickly as possible, ignoring Alfred's invitations to parties that seemed to be held all the time.
But just as he had finished clearing up all of the mails and started to leave his small room to make some food, his laptop alerted, showing a notification.
1 new mail!
Lovino growled. The italian was quite tired of his laptop for the moment, since all he wanted now was something to fill his stomach with. He angrily clicked the mail open and started reading.
From: oyanbun.53
Subject: re: hi!
I see! :(
Aaaaw, I bet you are an amazing friend and I'm sure you wouldn't scare me away! :(
Well, if you're not too comfortable with it, I can't force you, but I really want to meet you!
Is it alright if we keep mailing each other, and we can see if you get more comfy with me?
Antonio
Sent 19:07
Opened 19:09
Lovino glared at the mail and sighed. He knew that this guy was bad news. The italian didn't know how many times he had ended friendships, and even relationships because of their need to do meet-ups. The relationships had started out great until they had begun to talk about wanting to meet with the italian. Lovino knew that they would end whatever relation they had when they met the overly rude, angry looking italian, and he had always attempted to break it before that happened, avoiding the reject and pain himself by pushing it to the other person.
He couldn't stand feeling rejected and hurt, so, being the selfish person he was, he had given the pain to his partner.
"One person can't hold up a relationship."
Lovino knew this.
But he still couldn't accept it.
That's why he really didn't understand why he started writing a new mail.
From:
Subject: re: hi!
Well, it can't hurt, can it?
I probably can't reply in a while since I will be making food (I'm so hungry! :'c), but I hope I will get more comfortable with you over the time! :)
When will you be leaving?
Lovino
Sent 19:15
Lovino sighed. He knew that this was going to end badly. Why did he even bother to talk to this guy?
The italian rose from his chair and made his way to the kitchen.
All he wanted now was some nice pasta with lots of tomatoes.
hi!
This is the author, obviously!
This is my first story on this site, and wow I'm nervous! D:
I just want to say that ENGLISH IS NOT MY NATIVE LANGUAGE, I am from Sweden, and while my english isn't horrible, I need a moment to say that it is not perfect.
I apologise in advance for any possible typos!
~Midori