Chapter 14

"Toni! What the hell? You spent the night?" Gilbert whined and clung to his friends back as the Spaniard walked to his locker. "Si! I was right, the snacks were really yummy~" When the metal door opened several papers flew out and scattered around the hallway. ""The snacks were really yummy~" Don't even, that was totally unawesome ditching me for a bunch of chicks!" The albino cried and helped pick up a few of the papers, "How do you even have his much crap? Can I just throw all these away?" "Si, I have all of my homework, I don't know where all the stuff comes from~"

Gilbert rolled his eyes and threw the papers into a nearby trash can, flicking a note that missed back in. "Are you almost ready? What's his name is going to be mad if we're late to home room again and my family is full of a bunch of sticks in the mud so I get crap about it from them too." "Hold on, here. Throw this in there too would you?" Antonio asked and threw another piece of paper at him, it was folded in half and looked like it had been rolled up into a ball and striated out a few times. "You're a mess, Toni." With a roll of his eyes Gil threw thee note away, neither of them checking what was written on it.

"Ok, I'm ready~" "Finally! It's not good to keep the awesome me waiting you know." "Yes yes, come on Mr. Awesome." Antonio forced his locker shut and started to dance down the hallway, his friend walking behind him and complaining about being left behind again.

xXx

Antonio shifted in his seat uncomfortably waiting for the lunch bell. Hopefully Lovino would be at lunch today so that he could get his answer. He let out a sigh when the shrill bell finally rang, jumping up to get to the door first.

"Lovi! You're here! I missed you~ Did you ge-" "Shut up. Where's my lunch bastard." Antonio had spotted the younger boy at the door to the cafeteria, usually the Italian was already sitting down. "Oh, Uh… Well I don't have one today. I spent the night and I couldn't make you one." "Whatever. I have to go." Lovino's face was bright red as he pushed past the other boy, trying not to make eye contact. "Wait! Lovi! What was your answer?" But the sophomore had already disappeared in the oncoming crowd of hungry students.

Antonio's shoulders slumped and he walked in to the lunch room with a defeated look. "Lovino hates me. He wouldn't even tell me 'no'. I'm sorry guys, I didn't get a date I guess." Was the Spaniard's greeting to his friends as he sat down, refusing to meet their eyes like Lovino did to him.

"What!? The little bastard! He can't say no to my friends!" "Gil, calm down. Can't you see our dear little Tonio is upset?" "Oh, well I can beat him up for you? Would that make it better?" "Shut up Gilbert." Francis and the albino bickered across the table at each other before the blonde put an arm around Antonio, "Now, what were you saying Toni dear?"

"I said I didn't get a date, I can still see you guys at the game but I'm going to skip the dance." "But we were going to spike the punch bowl together! It was going to be aweso-" "Gilbert, shut up. I am trying to comfort our friend." Francis scolded him again as he started to rub circles on Antonio's back.

"It's ok Toni, sometimes you can't force amour. It's only a silly dance anyways, I can assure you I won't stay for longer than 10 minutes." That comment made the Spaniard smile, "Si, because you and your date already booked a hotel room right?" "Maybe, maybe not~ But that's not the point! You shouldn't be upset that Lovino said 'no', me and Gil did say it was a bad idea after all." Antonio's smile fell almost as quick as it had come back, "That's just it, he didn't even say 'no'. He just pretended I didn't ask him!"

Francis sighed and pushed his food away from himself, he wasn't going to get a chance to eat; he'd have to comfort his friend for the rest of their meal. This task continued to get harder and harder as the cafeteria got louder and louder from the excitement for the game tonight and the dance tomorrow. Antonio still wasn't his usual cheerful self by the time lunch ended, but Francis had made him fell a little better. Gilbert had been too busy eating both his and the Frenchman's lunches to pay attention.

xXx

Antonio had struggled to pay attention to his classes that day, his usual smile and cheerfulness was gone. When the last bell finally dismissed the students, he dragged himself to his locker to get the some books. "Fuck." He mumbled to the metal door as he tried to pry it open, the evil locker had shut on something and was jammed close. It took him several tries before it opened, realizing a new avalanche of papers and junk. "Damn it all!" He cursed again and aimed a kick at a scape of paper that had fallen out.

After he'd gotten all of his stuff and forced his locker closed again, the cranky junior trudged to his car and left the parking lot without saying goodbye to anyone. Once he was at home he tried to quickly escaped into his room, ready to give up for the weekend.

"Toni~ Is that you?" His mother called when he'd slammed the door closed a little too hard. "Si, I'm home." "Magnífico! Are you still going to the game tonight?" "I- si, I guess so…" He sighed and dropped his bag in the hallway going to meet his mom in the living room.

"What's wrong hijo? You seem down." Antonio just shrugged and slumped into the coach across from where she was sitting. The tanned woman got up and plopped down next to her son and wrapped her arms around his waist, "What's wrong? You can tell me~" "Nada." "Tsk! Don't you 'nada' me young man! What's bothering mi chico?"

The teenager slowly returned his mother's hug with a low sigh, "I asked Lovino to the dance, he turned me down… But he just ignored me." "He ignored you? That's not a no is it?" "It is if he brushed me off and refused to talk to me at all."

Mrs. Carriedo thought for a second before answering, "Maybe he's just embarrassed? Maybe he doesn't like boys but doesn't want to hurt your feelings?" "Then why wouldn't he tell me? I wouldn't be upset if that was the case." "Well, you should just ask him at the game. Which you're going to be late to if you don't hurry your culata up and get back to school!" She laughed and pulled her son off the coach.

"You're amazing~" Antonio laughed, his mood was much better after talking with his mother. He didn't need to change but he wanted to shower before he left. Once he was ready he gave his mother a quick kiss and hopped back into his car.

xXx

"Oi! Toni! Come sit over here~" Francis called to his friend from when he was sitting on the bleachers, a few rows behind the player's dates. Antonio was one of the last to show up, he'd almost not found a parking spot in the huge lot and had to walk forever to get back to the field.

"Hey Franny~ Where's your date? Didn't she come to the game?" "No, she did but she's one of the cute little cheerleaders so she couldn't sit with moi." "I see, so have you seen anyone else?" "Well, Gil and his brother are in the locker rooms with the rest of the team. Little Feli and Madeline are sitting in front of us. Miss Eliza and her boy-toy were sitting over there somewhere-" he waved to a few aisles away where only Roderich was sitting, "But our dear little Hungarian went missing, I thought I saw her heading back towards the locker rooms."

Antonio laughed and sat next to his friend just as the announcer came on for the starting lineup.

(I'm skipping the actual game because I can't write actiony stuff very well 3 You can imagine whatever you want~ I will say that Ivan and Berwald were up front somewhere to scare the other team, and Alfred's the quarterback. They also win, but you can pick the scores, they could pound the other team or win in an intense overtime-instant death kinda thing. So, yeah :D )

After the game Antonio and Francis had quickly said goodbye and left while most of the crowd was still cheering, deciding to try and get out of the parking lot before it was impossible. The Spaniard had completely forgotten to look for Lovino, he'd been having too much fun with his friend watching the game to think about what had been depressing him earlier.

xXx

Gilbert had kept his friends up until 3 in the morning bragging about every play he'd done, claiming that they wouldn't have been able to win without his awesomeness. So Antonio had slept in later than he normally did on the weekends. It was already 2:00pm when he finally woke up.

"Toni~ Aren't you going to get ready for your dance? Did you even ask him about it?" His mother instantly bombarded him with questions when he came out from his room, not even offering him a good morning/afternoon.

"Ah! I forgot!" Antonio grabbed at his messed up hair in frustration. "I completely forgot about it! I didn't even look for him…" "What the heck? Can't you send him a text thing? No, never mind. No son of mine would be that un-romantic." "Well it doesn't matter, he wouldn't have changed his answer to a yes. He just would have said no because he likes girls instead of not liking me."

His mother let out an annoyed huff, "I don't see how anyone could say no to mi hijo. Strait or not." Antonio rolled his eyes playfully at her and crossed his arms. "Well I think you should get ready just in case! Maybe someone else will find they're missing a date and you can be the little saint you are~" He didn't really want to bother himself with getting ready for a dance he didn't have a date to but he grudgingly agreed and started to get ready, wearing an old tux he had from some wedding.

It was around 5 when he was done, "I don't think anyone will need me…" "Well then you can just look nice for dinner~ What would you like?" "Um what about-" He was cut off by his phone going off from its place on the counter. Antonio picked it up to read the text quickly.

"What the hell bastard. Are you going to take me out for food or not before this fucking dance? –Lovino" He could only stare at the screen in shock. Instead of asking what it said his mother plucked the device from his hand. "I knew no one could say no to you~ Go on! I'll call and make you some reservations at one of our restaurants ok?" Antonio just nodded and moved with stiff arms and legs, taking his phone back and grabbing his keys.

Yay! New chapter~ I wrote a lot of this while I was flying, it was my first time in a plane and it was so much fun! Sorry about not writing the game, the soccer game in the beginning was hard enough. I hope you like it so far! Thanks for reading and any reviews you leave, they make me smile :D