Feliciano Vargas giggled as he skipped through the giant and elegant looking gates of World Academy. He took in everything with a big, bright smile while his older brother- Lovino Vargas scowled at the unfamiliar place in front of him. The building towered above the two brothers like a castle, something to expect from an ever so prestigious private international school. This place was supposed to harbor at least seven- maybe eight thousand students at a time and that's like two thousand students per grade level. This school was like four whole average schools combined into one and the thought of being surrounded by that many people was starting to make Lovino uneasy. Both he and Feliciano were fresh out of Italy to be new students at this school and he wasn't looking forward to it at all whatsoever.
Lovino clung to his younger brother with a scowl playing at his lips and he felt his heart sink into his stomach, smothering it with anxiety and nausea. He absolutely hated change, especially when it involved schools, every time he and Feliciano were transferred to somewhere new there's never been a time when his social anxiety didn't act up and cause him to make a fool out of himself. It was embarrassing and a traumatic experience every time it happened, so he just knew this wasn't going to be any different. Seemingly sensing the rising tension in his older brother, Feliciano quickly went for the other's hands that gripped at his clothing tightly and squeezed them gently in his own in hopes to strike a sense of calmness in him knowing that he had someone familiar to hang on to.
"Lovino, there's nothing to worry about. I'll be with you the whole time so everything's going to be okay." a reassuring warm smile etched itself across the younger of the two's lips and Lovino's cheeks flushed a bright shade of pink while he nodded dumbly and ungracefully returned the gesture. Damn, since when was Feliciano so charming all of a sudden!?
With their hands intertwined together, the pair of brothers made their way inside the large school and started their journey towards the office where they were to be officially enrolled. There they received everything from their schedules to their World Academy uniforms, established everything from dormitory housing to medical records, and went over everything else that served as a significant matter of importance before being released for the day to explore and get familiar with their surroundings and the people that inhabit it. Everything Lovino hated doing but felt necessary to complete seeing as how this smothering feeling won't subside unless this place stopped being so damn foreign to him.
"This place is too fucking big, I hate it..." Lovino felt panic desperately trying to settle in the pit of his stomach and he gripped his brother's hand just a little tighter.
"Calmati, Romano, your hand is starting to get all gross and sweaty. Look- I know you don't like being in new places but you're gonna have to bare with it, we're gonna be here for the next four years and you can't expect me to hold your hand for that long." stated Feliciano with a nonchalant swing of his and the older Italian's joined hands. This almost automatically calmed Lovino down, being with Feli like this, it was enough to ease the festering of frustratingly hard to deal with emotions bubbling in the pit of his stomach and gradually replace them with some that were more tolerable.
"I'm calm, I'm calm, it's just-it's so hard, yknow? Talking to people... trying not to say the wrong things..." Lovino played off the situation with a sigh as if it wasn't that big of a deal, but they both knew it was and Feliciano couldn't help but roll his honey hazel eyes and snicker. This was Lovi being his typical tsundere self now and honestly, he preferred that over anything else.
"You're so funny, fratellone~" he leaned into his brother with a hum and a contented sigh, "But I'm hungry, so lets go to the dining hall. Breakfast started a little while ago and we should eat something before Riposo."
"Yeah, I guess you're right but we should hurry..." Lovino pulled his phone from his back pocket and glanced at the time, "it closes the same time classes start."
Upon hearing this, Feliciano broke out into a sprint towards the dining hall, leaving Lovino to drag behind him and attempt to coordinate. Typical Feliciano, always thinking with his stomach rather than his head, but this is the Feliciano Lovino wouldn't trade for the world- though he might be shit at showing it. This actually made him realize how blatantly he trusts and depends on Feliciano compared to when he's with other people, and it made something fuzzy in his chest tingle which was a whole new feeling to him that he found himself wanting to experience more. Just what hell was happening today?