Title: Cherie Road

Author's Note: Hey so im posting again already because my last chapter did really well (for my standards) so here's some more! Since it's summer, I might be able to post really often until I get writers block or something. Ok, enough of me ranting…

Enjoy!

Chapter 2: August 19th, 2005, 11:30am

The day goes on so far like any other. Customers come in, mostly regulars that come everyday before work and some tourist before they tour the old town.

Romano handles the register and makes some of the coffees while Feliciano keeps an eye on the amount of food they have out and makes the other half of the customers drinks. When there isn't much customers, Romano would go wipe up the tables after their use.

The entire day so far though, Feliciano couldn't keep himself from looking at the building across the street. It's the first time he actually was paying attention to the building. When Aurther was there, he never even went over since they weren't that close. Now though, if you were to ask him about a detail on the building, he could probably answer in a heartbeat. The building was the same height as all the others but this one was a much brighter color. The Kirkland brothers decided to paint it again during their ownership.

Suddenly, Feliciano was snapped back into reality. He was standing in the kitchen with a tray in his hand and Romano's face close to his. He just realized that he smacked him on the back of his head.

"Wake up idiot. We still got customers in the front!" He hissed at him. Feliciano gave him a weak smile and nodded.

"Sorry Romano! Just tired, didn't really sleep well last night!" He said quickly before setting down the heavy tray with an assortment of pastries and bread. Romano rolled his eyes and went back to the front of the cafe.

Feliciano sighed and allowed his eyes to drift back to the building. He didn't really understand why he was so excited for the new owners. Maybe he just wanted some new faces on the street or he just wanted some new friends. A lot of his friends here were mostly made through his brother, so he decided that he was just excited to introduce himself, by himself.

While looking at the building, he noticed two familiar faces walk beside the window, heading for the entrance to the building. Feliciano smiled and looked at the clock, showing it was 10 minutes till they could close the cafe for an hour for a break. One of the many pros of having their own business.

He quickly finished up what he was doing by putting the food in the fridge to cool and went to the front to clean off tables before closing up. Once he walked through the door, he was greeted with a smile from his Spanish friend, Antonio and a signature laugh from his French friend, Francis.

"Move basterds, we still have customers!" Romano half shouted at the two men while waving his hand. Romano always acted like he doesn't like them but they all know that he just has a hard shell that they just needed to break to be his friend. Feliciano took off his apron and went over to his two friends.

"Ciao! How are you two? Would you guys like something to eat or drink? I could go make something real quick!" He said very quickly to the two.

"Oh no! It's ok Feli! We just came by because we were on our lunch break!" Antonio said, still with he very large smile on his face and his friendly green eyes gazing into Feliciano's.

Francis let out another small laugh. "We came by because Antonio here really wanted to see your brother!" Francis said with a wink as Antonio elbowed him playfully in the side.

"No, well I mean yes but no!" Toni said quickly. "We wanted to ask you guys if you wanted to join us on our lunch break! We are going to get something to eat down the road." Feliciano smiled at the offer.

"Oh course! We were just about to go on our break as well! Romano will probably go too even though he doesn't act like he will." He said, pointing to his brother closing the door behind the last customers. He noticed his brother pointing at him and rolled his eyes for what seemed like the millionth time today. He hung up his apron like Feliciano did before and walked over to the small group standing near the back of the cafe.

"Ok, what do you two want?" Romano sneered while eyeing Antonio. Francis laughed and put his hand onto his shoulder, earning him a dirty look from Romano as well.

"We just wanted to ask you two to join us out to eat for lunch! Feli here already said yes so we just need your answer." Francis said, gesturing to Feli as he talked. Romano sighed and looked at the clock behind him, hanging on the wall above the chalkboard with all their coffees.

"Fine. We have an hour though before we have to open up again though. Unlike you two, we have responsibilities!" He said in a huff, tossing Francis's hand off his shoulder. "We have responsibilities too Romano!" Francis added.

Antonio and Feliciano smiled and started to make their way towards the door. Francis followed close behind before Romano yelled to them that he was going to go get his jacket upstairs before leaving with the other three.

"So where are we going?" asked Feliciano while they waited for his older brother. "Oh, I was thinking we go to Yao's place! He has good stuff, right?" Toni responded. Feli nodded and noticed his brother opening the door from their apartment.

"Hey Fratello! Welcome back, let's go!" Feliciano said before throwing the front door open. A last blast of cold air hit his face, causing a shiver to run up his body. He immediately wrapped himself with his arms at the cold.

"Here you idiot," Romano said behind him. He turned around to see his brother holding his light blue jacket. He smiled and took it. "You should have known it was going to be cold."

The four of them walked out of the building, Feliciano now wearing his jacket and Romano locking the door.

"I guess they are coming in tonight!" Feliciano heard Antonio say to Francis, as they started walking down the street.

"Wait, the new owners the building? You know them?" Feliciano said, allowing himself to join the conversation. Francis gave him a big smile before answering.

"Oui! We do! They are two German brother! We knew them back when we lived in Europe." Feliciano gave him a large smile in return. "Really! Oh, that's great! Are they nice? Romano doesn't really like Germans." Romano overheard the conversation and growled.

"Of course I don't , bastard. They sound like loud, drunk idiots and their food tastes like shit." Romano spat back at them. "Oh come on, you know that isn't true!" Antonio said, nudging Romano's arm. "Germans are great people! Also, to answer your question Feli, yes, they are nice people."

Feliciano smiled at the answer. This is great! It would be easy to make friends since they already know them and Toni said they were nice!

"Well, what are they like?" Feliciano chirped. They were almost to the restaurant so he wanted to wrap up this conversation before they sat down, so Romano would enjoy himself.

"Oh well our friend Gilbert is basically a hot mess and a party animal but we still love him," Antonio said, laughing at himself as Romano gave out a loud sigh. "And his younger brother, Ludwig, is way more organized than him. He kinda strict but he's just a really sweet kid." Feli nodded to himself, trying to figure out what they would look like.

"Ok, new topic!" Romano said quickly, stopping the group in front of the small Chinese restaurant. "Let's eat, I'm hungry." The group followed him inside. Before walking in, Feliciano looked back to the building down the way once again before walking inside.

The air in the restaurant was much, much warmer than the air outside, allowing the group to relax a bit. They sat themselves down near one of the large windows in the front while a young boy wearing a name tag saying 'Hello! My name is Xiao' came up to their table and silently handed them each a menu.

"I don't really eat Chinese food often, I don't know what these are!" Feliciano said with a giggle as he looked over the menu filled with various foods. Before Romano could lean over and help his brother, Feliciano's phone started to vibrate in his pocket. He quickly fished it out and noticed the caller ID. Embarrassed, Feliciano got up from his seat so he could pick it up outside.

Once outside, he clicked on his phone and held it up to his ear.

"Hey Nikie! How ar-" He said before being cut off.

"Hey babe! You know how we wanted to go to that movie tomorrow night? Well, you know my friend Jessica's wedding is coming up, and something came up so I gotta go help her. That cool?" Nikie, Feliciano's girlfriend, said very quickly. Feliciano was taken back on the amount of information that was just thrown at him.

"O-oh yeah, of course!" He said, much quieter than her.

"Ok perfect! We can always make it up later, ok love? Oh, am I bothering you? You're at work right?"

"No no, you're fine! I'm out eating right now with Romano and friends!" Feliciano replied once again, softly. He could hear a small 'oh' from the other side of the phone.

"Ok, well I'll leave you to it! Love you, bye!" Nikie quickly.

"Yeah… you too. I'll ta-" She had already hung up. Feliciano let out a long sigh and turned to head back inside.

Feliciano has always been a flirt, but about two months ago, he was flirting with Nickie but things moved a lot faster than he wanted. She flirted back and then before he knew it, they were dating. He didn't really have a lot of feelings for her though. Yeah, she really nice and pretty but he never really felt a connection with any of the girls he flirted with. Mostly saw them as pretty girls to flatter and some to become friends with.

He joined the others inside. They all ordered food and talked about work and life. Feliciano avoided the question about who was on the phone. They all know about her but they don't really know her personally so they don't talk about her much.

After lunch, the two pairs split up, Antonio heading down the record store where he worked and Francis to the small book store right next store. Neither of them owned their very own store like the Vargas brothers, therefore why they have more strict lunch breaks.

The two brothers walked silently back to the cafe where they will keep it open until 4:30, then eat dinner and follow their night time routine. As Romano was unlocking the front door, Feliciano caught himself once again looking at the tall building across the street.

The rest of the day went smoothly. They had their daily customers come in, along with more tourists.

At 4:30, the two brothers hung up their aprons inside their apartment and went to eat dinner. Once again, Feliciano was making pasta for the two of them. Since they didn't want to spend money on a table for their small apartment, they each took a seat on their couch and turned on the TV (like what most Americans do for dinner).

They were both tired after today, and since neither of them slept well last night, they retired to their respective rooms for the night.

As Feli got undressed and changed into his nighttime wear, he remembered that the German brothers were supposed to get in tonight. He quickly made his way over to the small window in the corner of his room. As he pulled back the blinds, he could already see a large truck being parked out on the street. He watched closely as a very pale man with blond hair step out onto the road from the passenger's side, laughing. A angry looking blond from the driver's side got out and started to talk with the shorter one. The two talked for a minute and went to the back of the truck and grabbed a few boxes, before unlocking the front door of the building and heading inside.

Feliciano watched all of this and smiled. He did feel a little weird watching them but he told himself he was only curious.

He backed away from the window and decided that he really was tired. He crawled into his bed, making sure his alarm was set, pushing it a little further away so he couldn't just turn it off right away and fall back asleep in the morning.

Before drifting off, he thought about how he was going to introduce himself to the two Germans tomorrow.

"I'll probably just say hi! There is nothing to stress over about them!" He said to himself, before closing his eyes and drifting off to sleep.

Just so you know, Nikie isn't anyone from Hetalia (that I know of) Also, if you are enjoying the story, feel free to review!

Ok, till next time!

-Mello