Flowers and Chocolates

Part 1: Antonio & Lovina

This was absolutely ridiculous.

Lovina took a deep breath and peeked out from behind her current hiding place—behind the door to the girl's bathroom, if you had to know. Thank God, it was all clear... No sign of him.

Good. Maybe now she could finally make her way to class. She only had a few more minutes before she was officially late for the fifth time this semester. Always his fault, by the way...

"There you are, Lovinita~!"

And shit.

Lovina turned at the voice shouting down the hallway, feeling her stomach twist into a weird combination of happy excitement and complete and utter terror. Because her stomach was fucked up like that. Only a fucked up stomach would feel any happy flutters at hearing his voice right now.

After what he'd done to her.

"Lovi~" At least he was alone. And his arms were empty.

She sighed and took a step into the hallway, crossing her arms over her chest and tapping her foot in an irritated tempo as she watched her fiancé—oh God, it still felt weird to call him that—almost fall over himself in his haste to reach her.

"What do you want, you bastard?"

Antonio's bright smile fell slightly at that and she felt a slight—very slight—twinge of guilt. But then she reminded herself of everything that he'd done to her today and the twinge of guilt instantly evaporated. Because he was an idiot and he'd been torturing her for the past five hours of her life.

"I wanted to know if you'd let me walk you to class?" And he offered a shy smile and held out his hand and oh God, stupid fluffy feelings needed to burn in Hell...

She rolled her eyes, but then accepted the offered hand. "Fine, but this had better mean that you're done."

"Done?" He turned his bright green eyes on her and he had better not be trying to pull the innocent act on her. Not after today. "Done with what?"

"You know what."

"De la Sierra Morena,
Cielito lindo, vienen bajando,
Un par de ojitos negros.
Cielito lindo, de contrabando."

Oh God, they were back.

"That!" And she spun around and pointed toward...toward... Toward the mariachi band that had been following her all day long.

And she wished she was making that up. But, no, she had woken up this morning to a legitimate mariachi band playing outside her window. All dressed up in their Mexican blanket things and their big sombreros. And they'd followed to school and been following her around, singing romantic crap to her in Spanish. And okay, yeah, the guy with the guitar had a nice voice and was pretty cute, actually—hey, just because she was engaged didn't mean she wasn't allowed to look ; besides, Antonio had somehow beat him in the looks department by a little bit—but that was beside the point. Antonio had hired a mariachi band to serenade her for Valentine's Day.

She'd always known that Antonio was an idiot, but this was...this was just beyond anything that she'd experienced before.

And not only had he hired—well, not technically hired; apparently he knew a guy from his tango class who played in a mariachi band—this band to follow her around. Oh no, that apparently wasn't enough. He'd also been stalking her all day, throwing some random gift at her every five minutes or so. A big box of chocolates, a tomato plushie, a bunch of roses. She'd had no idea what to do with them, so she'd ended up squishing everything into her locker, praying that he'd just quit it sooner or later.

But of course not.

God, she hated Valentine's Day.

And she may not completely hate her fiancé, who now turned his head and sent her a happy little grin as he swung their arms between them, but it sure wasn't for want of him trying.

A/N: So here begins our Valentine's Day compilation, or as I shall henceforth call it, The Pleasantville LOVE LOVE Series. So up from now until Valentine's Day (would've started two days ago, but I had to go and catch the flu, damnit) I'm gonna be posting short little one shots about Valentine's Day. And how our favourite couples show their loooooooooove.

Most of the ways they show their love are insane, by the way.

And these are all going to be taking place on the same day, btw. So, it's the Valentine's Day right after Just a Little Push.

How Antonio managed to get a mariachi band in the school? Mr. Roma is the principal. He thought the idea was hilarious and totally gave him the go ahead.