A/N: This has been planned for a while. A LONG while. My brain runs on about fifty different tracks all at once, which is a pain for my real-life friends because my mouth only runs on one. It renders me very incoherent at times.
Axis Powers Hetalia belongs to Hidekaz Himaruya.
Lovina blearily opened one eye. Just one. For a moment she was blinded by the pure bright sunlight streaming in through the window above her head. Everything was a haze of golden yellow warmness. She shut that single eye again, reveling in the privilege of not having to get up. These lazy summer mornings were simply amazing.
The sleepy girl breathed out a long, contented sigh, burying her face into the pillow. She could feel a sense of peace filling her soul to the brim, and was aware of every patch of skin on her body – the feeling of her legs wrapped up in the smooth sheets, her stomach flat on the mattress, the comforting softness of the old, old oversized shirt she used as her pyjamas, her arms reached up on the bed to tuck her hands under the pillow, the tender touch of somebody stroking her hair…
Letting out a deafening scream, Lovina rammed her head into the first thing available - which happened to be her boyfriend's stomach.
"Owww!" Antonio yelped as the surprising strength of Lovina's neck muscles caused him to topple off the mattress and onto the floor.
"Idiot! You scared the shit out of me," Lovina gasped. She leaned over the edge of the bed, scowling.
Antonio pulled himself up onto his knees, beaming at the irate, red-faced girl. "But Lovi, you look so cute and happy when you sleep! Last night and this morning, I had to come and watch you…"
"Goddamnit, you're such a creeper," she grunted. Antonio took no notice and leaned over to kiss her on the cheek.
"Hey, you dropped Señor Toro," he smiled, holding up the squishy toy bull. Lovina snatched it up right away, burying her face into the soft fabric. "So cute of you to bring him along!"
"I'll get your breakfast, querida," he sang. "Then we can go exploring! I'll show you the animals and the woods and the river and maybe if we have time, we can go down to the market…"
"One thing at a time. Geez." Lovina reluctantly slid out from between the sheets, the plushie still in her arms. Antonio skipped out of the room, but not before shooting her another adoring smile. Soon enough, absentminded humming wafted up between the cracks in the wooden floor, along with other telltale noises of a joyous teenage boy puttering about the kitchen.
Lovina padded over to the enormous window, peering out below. She'd arrived late the night before, so after Antonio initiated a reunion cuddle-fest that had left her absolutely exhausted, bath and bed had been the only orders of business. Now the bright daylight showed her that she had definitely left the city: apart from the other small buildings for the animals and vehicles, there was nothing but wide expanses of field and trees. The only way to describe it was 'green' – but a wonderful mishmash of varying green hues, all evenly woven together.
Green was a good colour. Lovina liked green.
So twenty minutes later, she ambled down the rickety staircase and into the kitchen. Antonio was waiting with a plate of churros lightly sprinkled with sugar, a bowl of steaming hot chocolate, and the sunniest of smiles. The chocolate was very thick and still had globs of slightly unmelted bits in it. Though she didn't show it, both of them knew that Lovina would have killed small rodents to get this kind of meal all the time. Thankfully, she didn't have to.
"Soooo! I can show you the garden, then go to the dairy barn - it's really big. You can meet the real Señor Toro!...Ahhh, and then after saying hello to the smaller friends we'll walk by the fields so you can see them too, then go to the woods and I'll show you where the river is. We can go swimming there, or rowing or anything. Though maybe not today," Antonio rambled, chin resting on his fists as he watched Lovina gobble up her food. "And I told Tia Lucia that she didn't have to worry about coming back late, because I can make dinner for us both…actually, I'll just teach you how to cook our food, Lovi! It'll be more fun that way!"
"Where is everyone, by the way?" Lovina dunked the end of her churro into the bowl of chocolate. Antonio quickly pushed the plate over to catch the droplets.
"My Tia and Tio went off to some sort of meeting fair thing." Antonio handwaved the unnerving fact that he wasn't quite sure what his aunt and uncle were to be doing all day. "And as I told you last night, my little cousins Sofia and Javier are at summer camp. You're actually staying in Sofia's room."
"Little cousins? Why would your baby cousin have fuckin' scary skulls all over her room?"
"But she decorates them with flowers and paints them so that they're cute! Sofia's really artistic."
"And destined for creepy gothic weirdness."
Antonio picked up her empty dishes. "Ready to go?"
Lovina shoved her chair back from the table, ignoring how Antonio winced as the legs made a loud screech against the floorboards. "Whatever. This better not be too tiring…"
A/N: Argh, I want me some churros con chocolat right NOW. *pines for Barcelona*
Since I've never been to a real, western working farm (the farms in mainland China that I've visited are probably very different, I'm going to assume), they won't be doing any chores xD As if Lovi would agree to anyway.