Amore Mio, Aking Mahal
[Romano x Philippines: Philimano]
Chapter one
She was different from the other countries, But in a good way... She seemed to copy everything someone would do. She was stubborn, yet she was still very polite. Barely anyone knows her. She's normally forgotten.
Meeting her was the best thing that happened to me, even if I didn't admit when we were young. I knew I liked her deep down. But admitting it seemed to kill me
I don't understand how she was able to tolerate me, yet in the end….
She did
"I met her as a child…"
"Romano~" Called out Spain, who seemed a little bit joyous today.
The young Romano, with a mop in one hand and a bucket in the other looking rather upset with his master, said, "What now you bastard?"
Spain smiled and looked behind him. "Come on out!" He gently pushed out a little girl from behind. She had black hair, brown eyes and had a tan skin tone. She seemed scared and she was obviously shy. "This is Maria or the Philippines." Spain said as he pinched her cheek. "Isn't she adorable?
Romano shot a glare to the young country scaring her into running back behind Spain with tears. "K-kuya Antonio! I'm scared…" She said quietly
The older country sighed. "Romano be nice!" But the southern part of Italy just shot him a glare again as well and attacked him by hitting him in the stomach, causing Spain into collapsing to the floor and Philippines going to his side shouting "Kuya Antonio! Kuya Antonio! Are you okay?" Romano just walked away.
Later in the day, as Romano would walk about ignoring his chores, he came across Spain and the new country, Philippines.
Spain seemed to really like her. It was in his eyes every time he saw her. It was obvious that she was going to get more attention than Romano.
"Make me Halo-Halo Kuya Antonio!" The little girl demanded. Spain would laugh as he picked up the girl and patted her on the head. "I'd love to!" He said. "But I don't know what that is…" Philippines would giggle. "Then I can show you how Kuya Antonio."
Romano would just pout and walk away. It was obvious that he wasn't going to like this new country.
Days went on and Philippines, to Romano, seemed to prove well of herself. She knew how to clean and she could take orders from people. Spain gave her a lot of attention and everyone seemed to praise her. Romano wasn't exactly pleased with that. In fact, he was quite jealous of everything she got.
On occasion, Philippines would do something nice for Spain out of her own free will, and on the same occasion, Romano would follow because Spain wanted them to be friends. When Philippines and Romano were allowed to play, Philippines would run off to pick carnations for Spain. The whole time, the two wouldn't talk.
The differences between the two were rather obvious. Spain's boss seemed to have differing opinions on both favoring one of the other. Romano wasn't happy at all. Spain's boss let Philippines do whatever she felt like doing but she would yell whenever he wanted too.
"Can I keep this puppy Ms. Boss?" She would ask. "I promise to watch after it! I'll even clean up!" Spain's boss would just smile and say, "Oh of course Mi nina~" Romano would bit his lip and look at her in disgust.
"What is so great about her?" He thought one night in his room. "She's just another country! She is really nothing special! She's just annoying…"
A knock on the door was heard. Spain came in with Philippines in his arm. "I need Maria to stay with you for now." Romano just gave his normal pissed expression at Spain, who began to panic slightly as he put the young girl down on bed. "I can't have her staying in my room as cute as she is!"
"Good night Maria, good night Romano."
Philippines began to panic. She rushed towards the door in an attempt to catch Spain before he left. Spain closed the door behind him. Philippines kept running up until she hit the door. She was on the floor crying from the pain. Romano just walked into his bed and tried to go bed. It was definitely a long night.
The next morning, as Spain walked in to wake the two up, Romano and Philippines where still awake. Romano was looking at the girl in great disgust and Philippiines was still crying.
Romano ran up to them and picked up the girl. "Are you okay Maria?" He asked. He shot his head towards young Romano, he wasn't very happy.
"She wouldn't stop crying!" Romano exclaimed. "I tried to stop her! Then she started pulling my curl a-"
Spain just stopped him by walking out the door with Philippines. After seeing how mad Spain looked, Romano just pouted and sat in the corner with his eyes beginning to tear up.
Outside, Spain sat Philippines down on one of the seats. He pat her on the head and smiled at her. "It's alright mi nina. Everything will be alright." But no matter how he tried, she kept crying. "Shhhh! Shhh…" Spain said trying to calm her down again. "Maybe I could make that halo-halo you like so much? Oh how about churros? Churros are good~"
Philippines looked up to Spain. She finally stopped crying. "Do you just want to make churros because YOU want to kuya Antonio?" She said quietly. Spain laughed, "A little actually. But why don't we? I'll teach you how I make them."
Philippines stood up and began to smile. She pulled him by the hand. "Let's go Kuya!"
While they were making their food, Romano passed by. When he saw them in the kitchen, he hid behind the wall and began to eavesdrop. He wasn't surprised that they were talking about him.
"It's alright mi nina." Spain apologized to the little girl. She looked at him in confusion as he continued. "I'm sorry Romano hurt you last night. If I knew he was going to hit you, I wouldn't have left you with him."
Philippines tried to speak, but Spain just kept going. "He really doesn't like it when you pull on the curl of his. I did once… That really hurt. You're lucky you're not bleeding though." Spain just kept going on and on. "We keep trying to get him to change but he won't! That's why boss likes you better… You learn thing faster and easier than he does." Philippines began to tug on his clothes. "I was hoping that maybe you guys could be friends… But it didn't work… I don't know what I'm going to do with him, sometimes I wish I had his little brother instead. Or maybe just you mi nina, you seem to be doing well."
Romano ran away to his room crying. The two had no clue he was there.
"Kuya Antonio…" Philippines was finally able to say. "Ah~ Yes mi nina?"
Philippines just looked at him with a normal expression as she said, calmly, "Kuya Romano never hit me." Spain's eyes widened. "I did pull his curl, yes! He said he was going to hit me… But he turned away and began hitting his pillow."
"Then… How come you were still crying?" Spain asked. "Were you still crying because I left?"
Philippines smile. "I really don't care about you Kuya Antonio! I was gonna ask for milk!"
Suddenly, it felt like an arrow just went through Antonio's heart.
"I began walking around and I hit Romano's mop and it fell on my head."
"Then why was Romano staring at you the whole time?"
"He wanted to know if I was okay and just sat there the whole time!"
Spain's palm connected to his face. "Ay Dios Mio!"
Philippines grabbed a churro and sat down, nomming on it like there was nothing going on. Spain looked at the little girl as she ate her snack. He put his hand on her shoulder and sighed heavily. "So mi nina… You're telling me Romano never hit you?"
"Opo!"
"You just wanted milk?"
"Opo!"
"Then the mop fell…?"
"Opo!"
"…And hit you on the head?"
"Opo!"
His palm connected to his face again.
Philippines stood up from her seat and went to the refrigerator. "W-What are you doing in there Maria?" She came out holding a slice of pizza. "I'm gonna make Kuya Romano breakfast!" She said as she attempted to heat up the pizza.
"You never made Romano breakfast before…" Spain said. "You never really did anything with him."
Philippines looked back at him once more. "Romano is nice and he didn't come out of his room yet so I'm going to bring him breakfast."
Spain watched as Philippines left with the food to go and give it to Romano. Spain couldn't help but smile at that.
Philippines entered the room. She saw could see Romano sitting on his bed facing the wall. She heard the sound of sniffling and hiccups.
"Kuya Romano?" Philippines said walking through the door. Romano immediately wiped his eyes. "Go away liar!" He barked.
"I got you something to eat Kuya~" She said quietly
"I don't want fucking churros!"
"I know~" She said. "That's why I got Pizza."
Romano turned slightly. "Pizza…?"
"It has a lot of tomatos on it…"
Romano was trying hard to resist his urges for the pizza."
"I never lied." The little girl said walking towards Romano. "Kuya Antonio thought you hit me because I was crying… It that why you're crying kuya?"
Romano rubbed his eyes furiously. "S-Shut up! I'm not crying!"
Philippines sat next to the Southern part of Italy. "I told kuya Antonio what really happened."
She handed him the pizza. Romano immediately began eating it. Philippines began to giggle as she watched her "older brother eat.
Romano began to think, "Maybe she isn't that bad after all."
"Stop crying!"
"WAH!"
"How do you shut her up?"
"Huh?" She began to reach for the curl on the Italian boy's head
"Wh-What the hell are you doing?"
She pulled it
All hell broke lose
"I AM GOING TO HURT YOU SO MUCH!"
The young Filipina covered her head.
He wanted to hit her… But he ran for his pillow and started punching it.
She began to laugh.
He blushed.
