please read authors note!

A/N: ok, so as with anything ive ever written i'd like to give fair warning that it is highly unlikely that i'll update regularly. not because im busy or anything, just because im realllyyy bad at motivating myself to do stuff. ok so another thing! i headcanon lovino as trans ftm and im probably going to include that and if you have a problem w that you probably shouldnt read this? but im not going to make an enormous deal of it probably because its just a gender headcanon. so um. yea. this is my first hetalia fic. my second fic in general. human names used.

hmu if you have advice or tips about how to improve this garbage (aka criticism is welcome) and also if you have ideas about where you want this story to go because i sorta just go with the flow.

aaaand i think thats all. enjoy!
-MF

"Antonio, come on already!" Lovino shouted through the apartment.

Antonio rushed out of the bathroom door at Lovino's call. There was still a towel in his head, but other than that he looked ready to go. "Where's all of the luggage? Did you pack the car already?"

"Yeah, I took care of it while you took your dandy ass time in the bathroom." Lovino replied.

"I can't help it; I take long showers!" Antonio grinned.

Lovino sighed; he knew this, as they had been roommates for two years and friends since elementary school. "We were supposed to leave at two. It's four now." he grumbled.

"Hey, it's not like we're on a tight schedule, Lovi. It's spring break!" Antonio said with a smile, dashing around the apartment, pulling together the last few things that he couldn't pack earlier like his toothbrush, and shampoo, and the snacks for the ride.

Lovino didn't know what he expected. Antonio always acted as if they had all the time in the world.

Every year, starting the year Lovino got his license (which was eighteen since he failed the driver's test so many times); Lovino's parents would allow him and his brother to vacation at the beach house that they rented in the spring. They could each take only one friend; the house only held four rooms. This was never a problem, as Lovino was an ass, and his brother was annoying, so neither had many friends if at all. Lovino and his brother spent the first few years of spring breaks with only each other for company in the vacation home, because neither of them knew who to invite. They mostly spent the time bumming it out on the beach, and since they shared an apartment and saw each other far too often for Lovino's tastes, they took pains in avoiding each other.

By the time Lovino turned twenty, Feli had started to bring along a guy named Ludwig. Lovino really, really hated the guy at first, but eventually warmed up to him (as much as a guys like Lovino could warm up to someone). Ludwig and Feli fell in love fairly quickly, but it took them forever to finally get together. Ludwig apparently had a lot of problems accepting his sexuality, probably since he had been raised in a ridiculously conservative family.

Regardless, Lovino couldn't help but note how well they worked together. It was, in all honesty, kind of sweet. But he would never, ever say that out loud.

Ever.

Around the same time that Ludwig and Feli got together, Lovino had caught up with an old 'friend', Antonio. The way the two had reunited was incredibly cliché and embarrassing, but that's a story for another time.

Lovino had hated Antonio a lot in elementary school. He hated everyone, to be fair, but he especially hated Antonio. The hatred only grew in middle school, especially since he was a sixth grader and Antonio was in eighth grade, and there is always that weird tension between sixth and eighth graders that's there but nobody talks about. In high school, Lovino had a ridiculous crush on Antonio, though he never told anyone. Lovino didn't remember his crush going away, but when they reunited he mentally waved it off as a trivial high school fling. (How could he ever love someone like Antonio? That question made him laugh inside. How could someone like Antonio ever love him?)

Lovino had matured since then (sort of), and gotten over his crush, and actually just really needed someone to pay half of his rent since his brother moved out (he lived with Ludwig). And though he blamed his 'bad luck' that he ran into Antonio (of all people), Lovino considered him a tolerable roommate.

Since then they had grown closer; Lovino might go far enough to say they had become friends (no he wouldn't), and he offered to take Antonio to the beach house this spring break. Antonio agreed under the condition that he drove. Lovino didn't complain.

This year, however, Feli and Ludwig were bailing for some reason that Lovino hadn't bothered asking, and he and Antonio would be on their own.

Lovino pulled himself out of his thoughts as Antonio appeared in front of him with the last few bags, smiling as usual.

"Are you finally ready?" Lovino growled.

"Hmm…" He replied, counting the bags. "Yep, let's go!"