The next morning Feliciano jumped on me to wake me up. I moaned loudly. "Feliciano, dammit! Just wake me up the normal way next time! What the fuck with waking me up in the strangest ways!"

Feliciano smiled happily and rolled over on me, "Loviiiiiiiiii~! This is the only way to make sure you woke upppppppp~! I don't want us to be laaaaaaaaaate~!" He wailed loudly.

I sighed and pushed him off of me to get up. I tiredly trudged down the stairs while he quickly raced in front of me. When I did finally get to the kitchen, Feliciano was already putting away his cereal bowl. Mine was already sitting on the table for me, because Feliciano had the time to make me one. Once again, things played out as the previous morning had, and we both stood outside. The next day, our older brother, Sebo, would be coming home from collage for a few days. He was working on his masters degree at the moment.

The bus loudly pulled up in front of our house, and once again we walked to the back of the damn bus to the four seat. Once again, Ludwig and Antonio were the two sitting there.

"Ciao Antonio! Ciao Ludwig!" Feliciano chirped happily as he sat down in between the two.

"Hola you two!" Antonio replied just as happily. There was something strange about that guy. He made my chest hurt. It hurt in a good way, though.

Ludwig and I just nodded to each other as I sat down. Feli smiled at me because I sat next to him and Antonio. I was completely taken by surprise when he lay down on my shoulder. I jumped a bit. Not the smartest idea on my part, because our curls got tangled, and everyone knew what our curls were, or, at least, we did.

I yelped, and started pulling on my curl, and Feli with his. We both kept grimacing and yelping considering that it was hard to do this while only touching your own curl.

"Umm... Do you guys want any help with that?" Antonio asked.

"N-n-no!" Feliciano stuttered, giving another hard yank at his own curl.

"Are you sure? You look like you need help," Antonio said.

"Dammit no!" I shrieked, "You can't touch our curls! No one can but us! Feli, just let me do it!"

As I messed with our curls trying to get them undone, Feliciano wouldn't stop whining and shrieking at me to stop. He was flat out sobbing by the time I got our curls undone, and he had to get off of the bus, face tear stained.

Lots of people ran up to Feli once he got off the bus, even the people that didn't know him ran up to comfort him. Due to the large amount of people there, someone accidentally pulled his curl again. He let out an ear splitting shriek and fell to the ground sobbing. Unlucky for him, our school was filled with those damn annoying bullies.


Feliciano and I stood undoing our lockers when someone walked up to us and laughed the fucking most sickening laugh I've ever heard.

"Feliciano Vargas, huh?" he asked. He was very tall and had a large nose. His name was Ivan, he was in my gym class. "You the cry baby from the bus, huh? Well, I think you need a lesson on being stronger."

I growled at him, "Don't you dare lay a damn finger on him, bastard!"

"Oh? You had to get your big brother to help? Well, I guess both of you need a punishment." He grabbed Feliciano's collar, "And big brother will have to watch his little brother be punished. I started yelling fiercely at him as he lifted Feliciano high in the air, and pressed him against the wall of lockers. "Do you scream, little one?"

Before I could make another move, two arms pulled me into a hug. Antonio was standing behind me protectively, arms around me. I looked back up and saw Ludwig punching Ivan across the face, and Feli cowering on the floor. Once Ludwig punched him a bit more, he hissed into Ivan's ear, "Never mess with my friends again, got it?"

Ivan nodded his head vigorously and ran off down the hall to his friends. Ludwig knelt down next to Feliciano and tilted Feli's head upward. Feliciano broke into a watery smile and through his arms around Ludwig's neck, crying into his shoulder. I hardly even realized that Antonio was still hugging me. I concealed some of the oncoming blush as I saw him.

"Let go of me, dammit!" I shouted at him, and he obeyed, but hesitantly.

Ludwig sighed, "Maybe, we should head to gym," he said looking at Antonio. Antonio nodded as the went down the hall. The minute they were out of sight, I ran forward and hugged Feliciano.

"Feli are you okay? What did that bastard do to you? Grandpa Romulus will need to find out about this! He won't let Ivan get away-!"

"Lovino, I'm fine. Ludwig saved me! He didn't let anyone hurt me," Feliciano said laughing a bit. "Come on, let's get to class."