Best Friend (Romano One-shot)
It wasn't hard to catch his attention. He was quite a flirt to start with. Everything about him was simply charming. His dark brown locks, his emerald eyes that glinted with mischievous charm, his smirk that Leyka Waath wouldn't mind falling for. Even his temper and cursing habit attracted her to him.
She was his very own best friend. A best friend who was simply falling in love with him with each passing day and he was oblivious about her feelings. She wasn't shy. In fact she was very bold and very frank. She tried flirting him and he just flirted back, thinking that she was playing a game with him. But she wasn't playing. She had never confessed, at least not yet. But his blind heart was making her frustated. And she was very near to her limit.
On the heat of the fight
I walked away
Ignoring words that you were saying
Trying to make me stay
I said 'This time I've had enough'
And you called a hundred times
And I'm not picking up
Lovino Vargas was not really what you call a flirt. He just enjoyed the company of the girls. He enjoyed seeing them desperately trying to get his attention and how they would blush when he said a compliment or two. Sure he had a foul mouth that would scare the ladies at times but he really didn't care if he attracted them or not. He only cared about his own enjoyment. So when his best friend seemed to start a flirting game with him, he just played along, although he didn't know what to do since he had been in love with her for God knows how long. But as stubborn as he was, he would never admit it. No matter how much Antonio would pester him about it
'Cause I'm so mad
I might tell you that it's over
But if you look a little closer
She sat on the park bench, staring from afar at her long time love. Lovino was surrounded with girls 'as usual'. It angered her that he wouldn't stop flirting with them but she knew that she couldn't show it. She shouldn't show it for she had no right to be jealous. She was just his best friend and nothing more.
Days passed and it was still the same. She would flirt him and he would flirt back but differently from his usual flirtations. Until 'that' girl came. Her name was Bella and it seemed that she could steal Lovino's glances away from his best friend. But then again Leyka didn't have any rights to be jealous.
I said 'Leave'
But all I really want is you
To stand outside my window
Throwing pebbles screaming
I'm in love with you
Wait there in the pouring rain
Coming back for more
And don't you leave
'Cause I know all I need
Is on the other side of the door
Lovino would now spend most of his time with Bella just to take Leyka away from his mind. He couldn't bear it anymore to be with her but couldn't get any closer than being her best friend. He knew that if he it wasn't for his pride to not confess to her, he would've said everything to her. But right now, he wanted to not to think of her. He would rather talk with Bella, take her to some walks, occassionally flirt with her, or just hang out with her and Antonio.
The one afternoon when he and Bella was hanging out again, she confessed to him. He on the other hand, was used to confessions like this. And he knew that if he would reject her, she would never get near him again. So he accepted her, thinking that he will soon forget his feelings for his best friend.
Me and my stupid pride
Sitting here alone
Going through the photographs
Staring at the phone
I keep going back over
Things we both said
And I remember the slamming door
And all the things that I misread
She now sat on the usual bench at the park where she usually met up with Lovino. She wasn't surprised that he wasn't seeing her anymore. She was sure that he was with Bella. Oh how it hurt her to think that they were together. And as if on cue, Lovino sat beside her. They just talked without their usual game of flirting. Until he finally admitted it. Bella was now his girlfriend and it was proven when Bell saw him and ran to him, sat on his lap, and pulled him in for a heated kiss that he gladly took.
And that was the last string. Leyka snapped. Screamed at him for making her feel that way, unknowingly confessing to him. She blamed him for being a flirt. She blamed him for being oblivious. And she ran away with tears. But Lovino never ran after her.
So baby if you know everything
Tell why you couldn't see
When I left I I wanted you to
Chase after me
Lovino just sat there, stunned. He never thought that Leyka felt that way about him. Bella however just muttered on how stupid his best friend was. And that seemed to get on his nerves. Without thinking, he pushed Bella away from his lap and told her that they were over. But instead of running to where his best friend had gone to, he ran to the opposite direction. He couldn't face her like that. At least not now. But he would. And he would make sure that she would feel all of his feelings that he had kept from her. He would lay all his love for her one way or another.
And after a few days of healing his heart, he did.
I said 'Leave'
But all I really want is you
To stand outside my window
Throwing pebbles screaming
I'm in love with you
Wait there in the pouring rain
Coming back for more
And don't you leave
'Cause I know all I need
Is on the other side of the door
She just sat there on her bed, crying. Her friends, Kiku, Feliciano, and even Antonio, visited her, tried to talk to her, but she pushed them all away. She didn't want anyone to be bothered by her. She wanted to recover all by herself without the help of anyone.
Then her phone rang. She picked it up and when she heard the Italian accent of his, she threw the phone and screamed frustatingly. Why would he call? To slap the fact that he didn't like her at all on her face? He was such a jerk! He kept calling other people a bastard when he was worse than them! Then something hit her window. Tap, tap, tap. She made her wat to it and looked outside. There, Lovino was throwing pebbles and whenhe saw her he yelled for her to come down. But she just drew the curtains and went back to the bed. She would never let her heart be wounded again.
And I sream out the window
I can't even look at you
I don't need you but I do
I do, I do
I said there's nothing you can say
To make this right again
I mean it, I mean it
He knew that she was angry at him. He knew that she didn't want to listen. But he would not give up, not until he could say to her the words he had been meaning to say all those days of being with her. He threw some more pebbles and when she didn't even bother to look back outside, he considered the option of breaking into her house but he was not that desparate—NOT YET. Day after day, he would just stand there outside her house, by her window. He would occassionally throw pebbles on the window, call her name, knock on her door, call her phone, and he even tried to get some help from Antonio and his brother Feliciano, but all was in vain.
He just kept standing there, rain or shine, dark or light. Then one night when he was still standing there, rain poured and he knew that the cold rain and cold weather of the month wouldn't do him any good. That was when he snapped and throw all of his hesitation and pride away.
What I mean is
I said 'Leave'
But all I really want is you
To stand outside my window
Throwing pebbles screaming
I'm in love with you
Wait there in the pouring rain
Coming back for more
And don't you leave
'Cause I know all I need
Is on the other side of the door
She was still on her bed, never moving much. She would occassionally drink water but she never had the appetite to eat. She wanted to forget him but it seemed hard since he was just outside her house. She knew that he was still there, standing like an idiot in the rain but she would never go out and say that she loved him too much to keep ignoring him. She had grown stubborn to let her feelings overpower her brain again. But that was when she heard his scream.
"Ti amo, damn it! Ti amo, I love you! And I can't live without you! Please come back to me! Let me explain! I never love anyone else except you! Please, Leyka, just please! I love you!"
Her dried eyes were now once again wet. And without thinking, she ran outside her room, down the stairs, and out of her house. She really coudn't stand him. She loved him and nnow she knew that he loved her back, why would she hold back?
With your face and the beautiful eyes
And the conversation with the little white lies
And the faded picture of a beautiful night
You carried from your car up the stairs
He cried as raindrops fell to his face. He had finished screaming his feelings at the top of his lung and still, she didn't give him any sign that she was moved by his words. It was no good. Maybe, she hated him now. Maybe she had gotten over him. Maybe she didn't love her anymore. But as he turned around to leave, he heard her voice, calling out his name. He turned back and saw her running to him, unnoticed tears on her eyes. She ran to him and they met in a tight embrace.
"I love you, too, Lovino," she sobbed on his chest.
"Oh God, I'm so sorry for being a bastard," he said, "Ti amo, Leyka."
"I thought you don't? What about Bella?" she asked as they pulled away.
"I don't love her. Actually, I just made her my girlfriend because I thought you don't feel the same way about me. God, I'm so sorry."
"It's okay."
And they kissed under the rain, without a care in the world.
And I broke down crying was she worth this mess
After everything and that little black dress
After everything I must confess
I..need...you...
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(A/N: I don't own the song 'The Other Side of the Door', it belongs to Taylor Swift. I don't own Hetalia or any of its characters, it belongs to...I don't know, it's creator/s? Haha, anyway review and tell me what you think.)