Chapter 1.
It was a normal Sunday morning for Ludwig. Walking his dogs in the park. However, there was something very different today.
"Draw a circle, that's the earth~. Draw a circle, that's the earth~."
On the edge of the lake, there was a humming girl. She was sitting on a fordable stool, drawing the park on the canvas on her easel. The painting was outstanding. However, the thing that caught Ludwig's eyes weren't the drawing. It was her beauty. She had her amber eyes and auburn hair with an unusual curl on the left side of her head. She had her hair in two loose braids lying on her shoulders and wearing a white knee-length sundress with no sleeves and a pair of ankle boots.
For a moment, Ludwig thought the world stopped. He could feel his face blushed. She's… she's so beautiful… Ludwig stood there until one of his dogs barked for his owner's attention. Unfortunately, the dog unintentionally got the attention from the girl as well.
"Ve~, ciao! Good morning to you!" She smiled brightly, waving her hand.
"G—Guten Tag, Fräulein." Ludwig stuttered uncharacteristically.
"Ve? What does that mean?" She shrugged with questionable look.
Verdammt! I spoke in German! Ludwig faltered for a bit. But he gained his calmness soon. Then he smiled as naturally as possible.
"I was just trying to say, 'hello'. It is nice to meet you, Miss. My name is Ludwig; Ludwig Beilschmidt." Ludwig approached to her with giving his hand for a handshake.
"Ve, it is nice to meet you too!" when she kissed both of Ludwig's cheeks instead of replying him a handshake, not only Ludwig blushed his cheeks, he also felt something twirling inside him.
Ludwig coughed and turned his sight away from the smile. Still blushing."T—that's a pretty nice drawing you have there."
The girl beamed. "Grazie! Today I decided to come out and draw pictures since it's a lovely weather out in the park today." then she clapped her hands. Seeming that she realized that she had forgotten something. "Oh! Where are my manners? My name is—."
Woof, Woof!
From the barks, the girl's attention quickly changed to Ludwig's dogs. "Oh, hi there! What's your names?" the girl immediately knelt down, some dirts were on her dress. However, she started to pat the dogs with her smile. For the first time in his life, Ludwig had an urge to strangle his dogs.
The girl didn't seem to notice that she got some dirts on her dress. "Umm, miss? I think you're getting some dirt on your dress." Ludwig pointed the edge of her dress.
"Ve? Oh! It's alright! I can always clea—! Ahaha, that tickles!" the girl's sentence was remained unfinished from the three different tongues liking her palms and face.
Ludwig let his dogs to play with the girl. However, when they started to tackle the girl like they usually do to Ludwig, he thought he should stop them when his dogs started to jump on to girl. Thus, even one of his dog was too big for her. "Aster! Blackie! Berlitz! Sit!" Ludwig felt some jealousy was included.
The dogs immediately halted. Looking at their owner with questionable eyes, waiting for the next order.
"Are those their names? They're so cute!" the girl chirped. Smiling widely that made Ludwig to blush again.
You know, you're much cuter. Ludwig thought to himself. Then he answered. "Ja…"
"Ve? Ludwig? Are you okay? You seem very red." then the girl put her palm on Ludwig's forehead.
"I—I'm alright." Seriously, there was something about this woman keep making Ludwig to blush.
"Anyway, would you like to be in the picture? Ve, it's just I didn't draw any people yet."
"What? Even if I'm with my dogs?" Ludwig felt puzzled from her question. She wouldn't want to ruin her beautiful painting from a guy wearing a warm up suit and walking three dogs.
"Sì!" she chirped. Smiling brightly. "Actually, I think the painting would be much better with a handsome man and his adorable dogs!"
At this point Ludwig wondered were there any limitation of being blushed ever existed. He couldn't even make an eye contact with her! "Ummm… but my dogs might not be able to stay in same position for a long ti—" Ludwig couldn't finish his sentence once he saw the pleading doe eyes of hers.
Ludwig was well aware of the fact that he isn't a type of person that can be swayed easily. But this girl… uhm… Ludwig just scratched the back of his head, trying to stop him from blushing any harder. "S—sure… why not." he questioned whether this girl has an ability of hypnotising people.
"Grazie, Ludwig!" The girl chirped. "Okay! So, you can stand right there with your dogs." the girl pointed out the position. It was the other edge of the lake. Once Ludwig got there, the girl started to paint. Ludwig didn't even know how long the time had passed. It might have been less than few minutes or maybe more than hours. Just looking at her smiling and painting was just hypnotizing enough.
And when it felt like a forever had passed, the girl put her brush down. "Oh! For all this time I didn't tell you my name right? I'm sorry." the girl scratched the back of her head embarrassingly. "My name is—."
"SORELLINA!"
The girl couldn't finished her sentence- again. But this time, it was from an absurdly loud growl from some loud voice. Probably a woman.
"Where the fuck are you?! You're supposed to come home like half an hour ago!"
The girl looked very apologetic. "Scusa, Ludwig! That's my sister! I have to go!" Then she quickly packed her stuffs and left. Leaving Ludwig behind.
Ever since Ludwig met the girl at the park, he couldn't focus like he used to do. He couldn't stop thinking about her. He even went to the park two hours earlier hoping to see her. It's been three weeks. His coworkers Kiku even offered to take some of Ludwig's work worrying about whether something's wrong with his health.
SLAM!
Gilbert slammed open the door without a knock. "WEST! C'mon out! I have an awesome news just for you!"
Ludwig was startled by his brother while working on his papers. He sighed and took his glasses off then gently put it his table with grunted. Obviously annoyed. "What is it?"
"Listen, do you remember mein freund Toni?"
"Of course, I do. You guys have been friends for more than 10 years!"
Antonio Fernández Carriedo and Francis Bonnefoy are Gilbert's most dearly friends since they were in high school. This so called Bad Touch Trio were the biggest headaches not only to the school, to Ludwig himself. It seemed that this trio doesn't have any boundary for any mess or shenanigans. Whenever and wherever they went, the only thing remained was what it would look like when a tornado of annihilation crashed in.
Even it was only an year, during the high school years attending the same school with them was worse than attending a hell. So when they graduated when his freshman year finished, he almost cried with joy at the moment. Even though he fell into a great despair when he met them in same college.
"Anyway, Toni has been meeting this Italian gal Lovina Vargas for couple of month. And guess what! They're getting married soon!"
"That's a good news. So you want me to go to their wedding?"
Turns out it wasn't anything bad. Ludwig could certainly spare some time to attend wedding of one of his brother's best friend. After all, among those crazy trio, Antonio is the closest person who could be considered normal. Moreover, Antonio has been a good friend —even though it wasn't same level as a Gilbert— to Ludwig as well.
"Duh, of course! However, there is more than that!"
"Huh?" Ludwig's shoulder muscle tightened with nervousness.
"Lovina has a little sister called Feliciana! And she's AWESOME! I've never seen anyone who's that cute and that muchava sweetheart! You'll definitely agree once you see her. She looks like a freakin' angel landed from the sky! Moreover, now listen to this very closely because it's the best part: she isn't seeing anyone currently!"
Ludwig impassively nodded. "Good to hear. But what does any of that have to do with me?" he wasn't interested to any other girls since he met the girl at the park.
"You're going on a date with her this Friday evening at seven o'clock at the Italian restaurant Buon Veneziano."
"WAS?!"
What the hell was that? Did he gone mad? Why in the hell did he make an… "appointment" without the my consent?!
"Bruder are you insane? Why in the hell would I go to a date that wasn't even scheduled by me! And don't you remember how the last blind date you setted up for me?!"
"Because she's very kind and adorable! Plus, it's been a while from the last time you got laid! And I know that you've been using your DVDs and magazines with one and in your boxer." Gilbert grinned.
"WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING!" Ludwig blush skyrocketed.
"That means now you can actually start to get laid again instead of jerking off!" Gilbert rolled a fist and shook it up and down repeatedly. Expressing an action which Ludwig didn't want to think of. Ludwig palmed his forehead from the great headache.
"Kesesesese! C'mon, West. Just have some faith in your awesome big bruder." Gilbert continued to grin.
Gilbert's nonstop chat was annoying enough to increase this headache. Ludwig groaned. Because both of the brothers knew that there is only one way to end this nuisance. Ludwig sighed with reluctance.
"FINE! But you're gonna pay me back what I spent there later!"
"Ja, ja." Gilbert patted Ludwig's shoulder with a huge grin full of success. "This awesome me will gladly provide you the sources that you'll need for your date." The older German winked mischievously then squeezed something into younger German's palm.
Before Ludwig could react, Gilbert disappeared to his room with a creepy laugh. Gott, this better not be what I think it is. Ludwig grunted harshly when he saw the source: pack of condoms.
Hello everyone! Sorry for the random hiatus.
While I was writing Mr. & Mrs. Jones I just got distracted and lazed around. So I'm putting that one in hiatus for a bit with fixing some storylines and others.
I'm so so sorry if anyone was waiting for the next chapter. Maybe I'll be able to fix it later or rewrite the story.
Plus The Appointment is rather short easy and comical. Maybe this will give you some fun and since the ⅓ of the story is already written, it's a definite promise that next chapter will be posted at next Sunday.
And pls give some reviews if you liked them. You don't need to write long. Even just few words are fine!