Hi, I know this chapter's a little bare but believe me I've got a good plan.

This story goes along with my story Fame! starting somewhere after chapter 9.

It had been almost a week since Gilbert and Romano had had their first gaming session, Gilbert had added Romano onto his friends list the following day, and they'd played every evening since.

In the evening Ludwig would lock himself in his room by himself to 'talk' to Feliciano on his computer, leaving Gilbert alone in their large livingroom.

The pair had taken to playing on the PS3 as Gilbert didn't have a PS4 yet, Romano didn't mind playing on it but it meant he had to change the hdmi input, and he always seemed eager to voice his displeasure about it to Gilbert when he got the chance.

Gilbert lounged on the cream sofa, nattering to the Italian over the headset and laughing at his own jokes.

"Gilbert you know I can't understand that German bullshit, when you insult me do it in Italian you bastard."

Gilbert blew a raspberry into the mic, "That's the same in every language," he shouted as he killed Romano yet again, "Come on Lovi I thought you said you were pro at this."

"I am!" Romano screamed, "You're cheating you fucking bastard!"

Gilbert chuckled softly, smiling widely, "Yeah sure I am… God you're a loser."

"I'm not a loser!"

"Then why are you losing?!"

"Because you are cheating!"

Gilbert fell into laughter as the round ended, shaking his head as he read out their score, he'd won by 5 kills, the gap between them was slowly closing.

Romano was silent the other end, Gilbert had guessed he's muted his mic for some reason, when he heard him again he let out a sigh through his teeth.

"You're getting better," Gilbert offered him, "You're good for someone who's only played by himself before."

"I thought you were going to brag about being a god again," Romano growled.

Gilbert shrugged, "Well I can't keep playing that card can I, it'll get boring."

Romano scoffed, "Sure..."

Gilbert stretched as they waited for the next game to load, kicking his socks off and balling them up, throwing them through to the laundry room. He couldn't stop smiling when he played with Romano, he was so entertaining, he didn't get angry in the same way the other guys he played with did, his anger made him better, and you could hear the colour of his face in his words.

"…So how's your brother?" Gil asked after a moment, the server still loading.

"Why the fuck do you care?" Romano said briefly.

Gilbert frowned, "I was just asking. It's polite right?"

Romano let out another sigh after a moment, seeming distracted, "I always get people asking after my brother, no one ever cares how I fucking am."

Gilbert's frown deepened, he turned on the sofa to sit up fully, "Well ok. How are you Lovi?"

There was silence down the line, Gilbert thought that the mic had been silenced again, after a moment he heard a soft moan through his speaker, "I'm ok I suppose."

"What that's it?" Gilbert whined, "You make a big thing and you answer like that?"

He chuckled to himself, shaking his head, Romano was such a drama queen, it was entertaining. He sighed softly, looking at the screen, this was a relatively old game but he was having so much fun he didn't want to stop playing.

"Fine…" Romano scoffed, "I'm ok, nothing good or bad happened to me today so I'm just ok. That good enough for you?"

"Yep," Gilbert said happily, "Or good enough, you'll get better," he chuckled.

Romano scoffed, "Shut up Gilbert, you laugh too much it's annoying as fuck." He swallowed hard, the noise audible through the speaker, "Do you want to keep playing? I think the server's fucked up."

Gilbert nodded, "Alright… I kind of want to keep talking though."

"Do you have a facebook?" Romano asked slowly, part of him thinking it might be a little forward.

Gilbert nodded, smiling, "Sure. Gilbert Beilschmidt, I'm the only one on there."

Gilbert jolted slightly as his phone buzzed, he went to mention it to Romano, but found he'd already disconnected. He looked at his phone and found it was a friend request from Romano.

It was so nice to have a friend be so forward with him, usually his gamer friends were so reluctant to get in contact on other sites.

He added the Italian boy, looking through his information. He hadn't realised that he was older than Romano but apparently he was by almost 4 years. He found himself looking through the photos, most of them were of Romano looking solemn next to Feliciano looking ecstatic.

Gilbert chuckled to himself, pulling up the message tab and sending Romano 'Hey dude!'

'I'm looking through your photos', Romano replied, 'You look like a dork' he sent him a link to a photo of Ludwig's last birthday party, Gilbert drinking with his tie tied around his head, 'Dork' Romano put under the photo.

'Shut up at least I don't look like a wannabe emo' Gilbert retorted, chuckling to himself.

Gilbert continued looking through the photos, coming across one he rather liked; Romano sitting in an old armchair in an old house, smiling at the camera. He sent it to Romano, 'You look cute here though'.

He frowned to himself, he didn't mean it to sound like that, damn he'd made things awkward … 'Rather than a dumb emo kid I mean'.

'Feli took that', Romano answered, 'Yeah I guess it's ok.'

There was silence between them for a while during which time Gilbert got up, going to the modern-build kitchen and starting on dinner. He laughed to himself as he looked down at his phone, noticing that Romano's profile picture had changed to the one Gilbert had just sent him.

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