Tricking People

Nervous red eyes followed Francis when he went to buy them coffee, he could feel the stare bore into his back when he paid, when he waited for them to finish he felt the question, and as he walked back with the two coffees in hand the nervous expression was back. He sighed.

"Relax, s'il vous plait", he said softly as he put down the two cups on the table. "You look like you've killed someone, Gil."

Gilbert laughed nervously as he picked up the cup in both hands to keep it from shaking like hell and spill out the strong liquid.

"Sorry. It just feels like we've tricked him", Gilbert said and took a gulp from the drink.

Francis sat down next to him, not too close but not too far away either, and resisted the urge to kiss his cheek. Instead he put his arm over the backrest behind Gilbert and discreetly leant closer to his secret boyfriend in the process.

"We haven't tricked anyone", the Frenchman said and sipped his own coffee. "We just chose not to tell them."

"Isn't that the same thing?" Gilbert snorted. "He's our best friend after all."

"He doesn't need to know everything I do in my love life."

"He's your ex. Exes have rights."

"I'm sure he can handle it. He has Lovino."

Gilbert sighed and leant against Francis shoulder, snuggling into the fabric of his t-shirt. Francis raised an eyebrow at him, but he didn't move away or push Gilbert away.

"Gilbert…"

"I know", Gilbert mumbled. "I'm just tired of pretending you know." He looked up at Francis with his honest, red eyes. "I want to be able to cuddle with my awesome boyfriend in public. I wanna show people I'm your awesome boyfriend now."

Francis smiled softly at him and was suddenly very happy they choose a spot where they were hard to see.

"I know", he said and kissed his forehead. "I want that too."

They stayed like that for a couple of minutes, cuddling and just staying close to each other. Gilbert sat up just before Antonio came into the café and approached them with a huge smile on his lips.

"Hola!" He beamed and sat down on the other side of the table. "You two look cozy."

Francis smiled and pushed his cup over to his friend, so that he wouldn't have to go buy his own just yet.

"And you look stupid", Gilbert said back with his usual grin, letting the arm closest to Francis fall down on the seat. Francis got the hint and let his arm drop too.

Antonio was too busy talking about his last date with Lovi to notice that his friends' fingers intertwined under the table.

Maybe they should let him be oblivious a little while longer.

It was fun to trick people after all.


A/N This must be the silliest little something I have ever written. I wrote this in the car as my dad drove me around to different art museums today! And the museums were really awesome if you wanted to know! I had great fun, and I have a lot of one-shots done and going on know because of this vacation~ I needed a break from my chapter fics, which I WILL CONTINUE. Someday. Not this summer though, sorry. I still haven't found someone to discuss them with :( I'll see what I'll do about that.

Anyway, I hope you liked this! I know I did. It was really fun to write and I've just recently fallen in love with this pairing because of a friend... I'm not sure if I like it, but I sure love writing about the Bad Touch Trio xD So I really hope you enjoyed this!

Please leave a review and tell me what you thought about it, positive o negative, tell me what to work on and so on. They make my day, and you'll be almost as awesome as Gilbert if you do! Thank you in advance!