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Be yourself (cheesy but there's no point him liking you if you aren't being you)

Antonio looked at the list, this was the first step, he'd ignored it at first, choosing instead to go right on to number four, but not this time.

He'd act like Antonio and not a clumsier, more nervous version, he would just be him and see where that went. And if that went well he would move onto number two.

Lovino wasn't in his class room, Antonio was a little worried, but he supposed that it was nothing to be too worried about.

So he'd gone to his own classroom.

Lovino's morning was off to a bad start...no change there then... he'd overslept, ran out of coffee, Mathew was late to pick him up, and then they'd got caught in traffic, so he was about ten minutes late to his first lesson...he was usually there about half an hour before the students were.

His hair was stuck up in all sorts of places because he didn't have the chance to brush it, and the lack of caffeine was really starting to get to him. So he set his year elevens to work on their course work.

Feliks lent him a hair brush, which was a relief because he couldn't stand his hair being messy, but he didn't take as long on it a he usually would.

Thank god for free periods, Antonio had no idea if Lovino had the same time off as he did, he'd only visited during the breaks the students had before, so this was either going to be a nice surprise for Lovi, or he'd get told to Fuck off.

He peeked through the window in the door, Lovi was teaching, something about deserted medieval villages...well, he didn't have anything else to do, he could listen for a bit until Lovi was free.

There was some sniggering going on in the back of Lovino's lesson, Lovino folded his arms and walked towards the children "What's going on?" he asked, carefully censoring himself.

Chris, an Australian student grinned and pointed to the door. Antonio was waving through the window, Lovino groaned and went to open the door. "What the hell are you doing, Bastard?" he hissed, Antonio shrugged

"I've got a free period, I was just going to see if you were free, but then I got caught up in the lesson" he smiled.

Lovino groaned, the Bastard must've been out there for a while, ugh, he was going to hate himself for this "Come in and sit down, But interrupt my lesson in anyway and you're a dead man".

Lovi's hair was all sticky uppy, it was adorable. Antonio wondered briefly if he'd done it on purpose.

He registered that Lovi had invited him in, so he sat down in the back row. He didn't recognize anyone because he didn't teach any year eight students, Lovino stood back at the front of the class and continued talking.

Why anyone would willingly sit through a lesson was beyond Lovino, but Antonio had decided to sit there, and true to his word he hadn't interrupted. After the hour was up Lovino kicked the year eights out.

"Alright, Bastard, what the hell is going on?" he growled furiously, although he wasn't sure why he was so angry, probably because the Bastard had distracted him...never mind that he hadn't spoke a word, just sitting there smiling good naturedly...

"aha, um, I really did want to visit you"

Bull shit, no one ever wanted to visit him, apart from Femke and Mathew occasionally...and his crazy family...but they were related to him so it didn't count!

Antonio seemed to notice the disbelieving look "Really, Lovi".

Antonio had never been the best in the world at understanding emotions, or what was going on around him, he did, however, notice the look on Lovi's face.

So he sort of forgot about how nervous he was and decided instead to make sure that Lovi knew that he was most definitely there because he wanted to see him...he wasn't sure whether he gave away his feelings or not though, because he wasn't really monitoring what he said. Also he didn't want to tell Lovi just yet...because he didn't think he'd say yes yet.

"I promise, Lovi, I'm here to see you, why else would I be here." he grinned reassuringly, it was true, he was, he'd nearly told Lovi he was his favorite person.

Lovino sat down on a chair "hmm, whatever, Bastard" he grumbled softly, Antonio wasn't sure if Lovi believed him, but at least he wasn't pulling the 'Shut up Antonio, I don't believe you, and you're stupid' now he was starting to get all nervous again...the practice hadn't worked, he'd got worried around Mathew in a wig, how was he supposed to deal with real Lovi.

Antonio had sort of frozen up, Lovino waved a hand in front of his eyes, "Oi, Bastard?, hello?," no reply, Lovino sighed "whatever, I'll see you later" He got up to leave the room, he needed to talk to Kiku anyway, and return the books the year elevens had finished with.

Oh NOOOO!, he'd frozen up again!, it had just started with looking at Lovi's messy hair, and then he'd drifted off into dream land and when he came back Lovi was gone!.

This was happening far too often, it was just as well he wasn't going out with Lovi if he kept getting distracted by things, and freezing up...but he'd be with Lovi...which would be nice...more than nice...

Librarys were usually quiet, peaceful places...not Hetalia Gakuen Library was not one of these places, but not for lack of trying. For a start the student librarians were insane, or at least a lot of them were. His brother amongst them. Kiku, the librarian and friend of both Lovino and Feliciano.

Which was a fucking miracle, was a quiet man who regularly lent Lovino books to read.

But it was always wise to keep in his good books, because he wasn't above making it difficult to book the library for lessons.

"Hey, Bastard, I've got some books" Lovino announced, passing the Japanese man a massive pile of books.

Kiku smiled at him, he wasn't very talkative, but that gave Lovino the chance to complain.

"Do you know what the fuck is wrong with Antonio?"

"The maths teacher who runs Spanish club?" Kiku asked.

Lovino nodded, "I'm not sure" brilliant.

Marcello wasn't stupid, and he'd gotten into the habit of knowing about gossip, although that was to be expected what with sitting next to Feliks in Art (he had no idea what Feliks was doing for his coursework piece but it had something to do with Horses and Dragons) but he got hold of information by accident mostly, including something to do with his eldest brother.

He was working in the library when Miss Héderváry came in to talk to Mr Honda. They'd chatted normally and then Marcello had overheard (he didn't mean to, Miss Héderváry could be very loud sometimes) that Mr Carriedo was planning to ask Lovino out. Marcello had no problem with this, but he did worry about whether he was serious or not, or whether it was a rumor or the truth. But honestly he would be quite happy...so he had come to the conclusion that he would help things a little (although he wasn't sure how).