Chapter 2 - The Reunion

The jolly look on Feli's face surprised the blonde who just called by his name, Ludwig. He was in a hurry and thought he won't be bothered by some random guy grabbed on his elbow and just forcefully released his hand from the gripped with his full-strength, he immediately changed his mind after he heard an all too familiar sound of someone he absolutely missed. For second thought he couldn't believe his eyes to meet again with his best friend in such a wrong time. For the first time he felt irritated with his busy time as he couldn't meet with his old friend again with his tight schedule. After seconds later an awkward position began to catch their attention. Such a dramatic way of reunion made people around them to look at their weird pose plus with a sudden shout of Ludwig's name from the certain Italian had bring all the people's eyes on them. Shamefully they pulled back their hands together and acted as nothing happened.

"Ludwig, I'm glad to see you again!" The brunette began to break the silence with his cheerful voice.

"Me too… Feli." Ludwig replied with rather a surprise tone (at least to Feliciano). A voice of a tough man with addition he called him with his favorite nickname. Not that he was a pervert to get melting by hearing someone else's voice but the Italian surely had missed Ludwig so much that he couldn't help but blush when he finally able to hear his friends calling him.

The dramatic scene was sudden broken when Ludwig saw the clock on the digital board. He had a meeting to attend for his work and any further delay might get him into the trouble. He couldn't blame the weather for not be able to get him in time but still he need to get to the meeting venue as fast as he could.

"Um, are you alright? Sorry if you in a rush, I was able to meet you again and if we weren't to meet just now we might not meet again after this." Feliciano said with a guilty tone also with a great consideration of his friend.

"Y-yeah I need to hurry. I'm sorry Feli but I'll meet you again and here's my card. It's my work-only phone number but it'll do it for now. Maybe we can meet again." He said in a very fast pace. Grabbing his luggage again he began to bid farewell for Feli and walk as fast as he could. Feli, being nothing but a hindrance could only see Ludwig gone again but this time he obtained his number (though it was just a business number). Then he thought himself, 'what kind of work he does for wearing such a fancy clothes?' he looked at the card and shocked but in the same time he kind of knew it considering Ludwig's personality and all.

'A military of course….'

The next day Feliciano had began his 3 days vacation but instead of enjoying his day off he stuck with his phone and a piece of a card. His mind was occupied with wonder if it was okay to call Ludwig at this time.

'Will it be okay? It's his business phone number but it's the only way to call him. What if he was in the middle of his job and I had to bother him at the wrong time? Hah~ I don't know what to do anymore!' He thought himself still holding tight both card and his phone.

'Guess I have to call him now. It's already evening so he should have done his work or at least on a break…' With that in mind, he decided to call his friend anyway. If it's true he was busy then he should just hung it up and wait until the other call him back.

'Yup, that should do it.'

Nervously he typed the number and began to call.

"'Hello, may I help you?'" It was the sound of his friend only with a serious tone though his voice weren't much different with his casual way.

"It's me, Feli. You gave me this phone number yesterday when you were in a hurry."

"'Ah, yes! Feli, I'm glad you call me and sorry for yesterday. I really want to meet you after so many years we apart but it had to the worst time of all. I would like to apologize." Ludwig sound too formally that made the others feel quite uneasy.

"N-no it's okay, as long as we did met each other, it was good enough. I think it was a good idea to give your number to me. If I were you I would forget to do something like that." Feli replied honestly and it was terribly true. He was known to be careless after all.

"Ludwig if you don't mind, why not we meet up at a certain place?" Feli offered the other. A sudden suggestion did shock Feli himself as he didn't made up that idea before he was about to call. Guess his intuition was just too strong.

"That would be good idea since I have my free time these few days starting tomorrow." Upon heard the answered Feli knew the luck was on his side. That made him more delightful.

"How about we meet up at the new café that was just open at the West Street? I heard it served the best coffee!" He said with joyous tone.

"I know that place and it certainly nice place to meet. Well then I meet you at the café during lunch at 1300 hours if you don't have anything to do." Ludwig suggested. Feli giggled upon heard the time 'so military-ish!' he thought.

"Umm… is anything alright?" Ludwig asked in confuse.

"It's okay the time is good. I had a few days of too so tomorrow is it? I'll be looking forward for the date!" The brunette joked though the other seems to take it seriously.

"D-date?!"

"Haha~ kidding~ ve~"

"O-okay I'll meet you then…" The voice getting slower and apparently he hung up the phone. Then a message tone was heard.

'Hear is my personal phone number. You can use this instead. Ludwig'

After reading it Feli suddenly had the tendencies to laugh and managed a little giggle. He thought, 'How silly Ludwig is.' Before he knew it he also became silly and even sillier than he was before.

Another day went by and for Feli another day and he would ended his free days. Quite a shame he thought especially since he just got to meet his friend again. He drove himself using the Fiat Fiorino car that he and his brother owned to the mentioned café and for the first time he tried to go out thirty minutes earlier to their meet up place. He afraid something might distract him on his way to the café like saw some cute or pretty ladies. Probably he would woo them before the meeting. However thing went well and unexpectedly early for him. Guess he was into meeting Ludwig so much.

Not so long later Ludwig had arrived after him. It was still 10 minutes early but this is Ludwig we were talking about so it wasn't a big deal. Ludwig instead had come with his elegant Mercedes car. He came out of the car and happened to wear a casual clothes but visible enough to see his muscular arms and torso. Feliciano saw him from beyond the window but he totally amazed by his appearance so much in contrast with him who was just a skinny guy with a single strain of curly hair though he himself had enough of good quality. Feliciano, being lazy to move had quickly called his friend to come and sit with him.

"I'm right in front of you." Feli said and led the other guy too look straight from his direction. With any waiting he went to his friend and greet. Ludwig and Feliciano coincidentally wearing a same cream colored clothes. It was like they were planning it.

They made some order of what they would eat. Ludwig had a steak with mashed potato while Feli had ordered scallop pasta.

"It seems like your sense of taste didn't change. It's good that you are still the same!" Feli commented after heard Ludwig's order.

"You didn't change much either. Except for being more attractive you still the cheerful guy I knew." Ludwig said unconsciously. Feli was surprised and blushed upon heard the other's compliment.

"You seem to be more open with what you're saying now Ludwig. I didn't you would complimented me directly like that." Feli said while giggled a little.

"S-Sorry I didn't think before I said." Ludwig replied and now his turn to blush.

"Ve~ it's fine… Say Ludwig, I was wondering where had you been these past few years. Ever since we graduated from high school I haven't get any touch from you. Although it's true I did vanish from America and went back to Italy but we could always get in touch with email and such." With that saying the atmosphere got intense. The conversations became more serious than he thought it would be.

"Yeah… It's because I cleared all my accounts in social media. I did change my phone number too." Ludwig said bluntly.

"Why would you do that?"

"I guess nobody knows about the incident… I'm sorry Feli but for now I don't think I have the courage to tell you the whole story. Besides it would be a very long story and you might be bored just by hearing it." Ludwig said again with a lot of mysterious information behind what he said. Feli became more curious to know about it but suddenly he wanted to know something else.

"Have you contacted Kiku lately?" Feli asked again. This time Ludwig had a clueless expression.

"No… Are you telling me that you haven't met him too?"

"Yeah and same as you we lost contact of him since we graduated."

"That's weird because we got to meet him normally even after he finished his school two years earlier than us. Well maybe he got to work and with his profession he might even have time to take care of himself." Ludwig then gave a simple conclusion but it was valid enough since he had been too busy ever since he got promoted to be the researcher's assistant. Perhaps now he already became a researcher himself and that's why he couldn't call his friend.

"Talking about our senior how's Gilbert? Is he as crazy as ever?" Feli asked with a bit of a joke. However instead of going on with the joke Ludwig became depressed.

"Please don't crazy…" He said with a low tone and sad expression. Feli was very conscious with Ludwig's behavior and became guilty all of sudden.

"I-I'm sorry… Did I say something wrong? What happened to your brother?" Again, Ludwig had a pain expression. He didn't said anything and after seconds of muteness he beagn to talk again.

"Feli… how about I show you a place?"

To be continue…

*As you can see this is pure fiction with no exactly real place. There are no such thing as that street in the story. Only US that totally exist. Any similarities are consider coincidences! And I would love if you give comments and reviews so I can move on with next chapters. Also English is not my first language so any mistakes please tell me! Thank you so much for reading it!*