"So where are we going?" Feliciano asked as got into Ludwig's car.
"Well there's an art museum roughly an hour away and they offer free admission on Sundays so I'd figured why not go there," Ludwig said with confidence.
"You want to go to an art museum?" Feliciano asked in disbelief. He laughed a little. However, after looking at Ludwig's face he stopped.
"I thought you would like it," Ludwig said looking away. He then thought to himself. "Don't mess this up. You got to have something in common with him."
"Ludwig you don't have to do stuff like this for me," Feliciano said with a warm smile. He remained quiet for a minute. "Do you mind if I put on some music?"
"Go right ahead," Ludwig smiled slightly to himself. "Perfect we have to like similar music. Wait, is that CD still in?"
Feliciano turned on the radio. Before the CD could play, Feliciano switched to the public radio. Ludwig sighed a little but couldn't help but wonder what would have happened if he didn't. Feliciano flipped through a few stations, Ludwig trying not to pay attention. He kept his eyes straight on the road. After a few minutes, Feliciano settled on a station.
"Oh, I love this song!" Felciano said really excitedly. He started to dance in his seat a little.
"Never heard this one," Ludwig admitted. It sounded like a rather generic pop song. To him at least.
"It's been playing on the radio for a while," Feliciano asked confused despite still dancing.
"I don't really listen to the pop stations that often," Ludwig said. He kept his eyes on the road.
Feliciano said nothing in response. He started to focus solely on the music playing. Occasionally dancing when he really enjoyed the song. Ludwig kept quiet. With each passing second hoping they would make it to the museum. It got to the point where he gave an audible sigh of relief when the exit came in sight.
After a few minutes, they were able to find a parking spot, the two start to walk around the city a bit. It was rather hilly, making the walk there a bit longer than excepted. Feliciano ended up a few steps behind Ludwing. Causing Ludwig to have to stop a couple of times for him. Luckily Feliciano was quick to catch up to him. When they made it to the museum, Ludwig was taken aback. It was much smaller than he excepted. He wasn't excepting anything huge but this was barely bigger than a large house.
"Oh make sure you have your student out," Ludwig said as they started to walk towards the building.
"Why?" Feliciano asked confused.
"Just in case they ask for it," Ludwig explained. Feliciano still looked confused but just shrugged a little. When they made tot he building Ludwig quickly ran in front of Feliciano and held the door for him. Feliciano was taken aback for a second but walked into the museum. The first area of the museum was a mixture of check-in and a small cafe. The cafe was currently full, mostly by other college or high students and families. They walked up to the ticket booth got in easily and didn't even need their IDs. Both of them were given small blue tags that they placed on their respective bags. Slowly they walked into the first room.
"Ugh," Feliciano said as they walked into the first room.
"What's wrong?" Ludwig asked. Looking around he saw a few paintings. All of them looked to be abstract. Consisting of many shapes and colors.
"These paintings are so boring to look at," Feliciano complained walking up to one of them. It was made of squares of different colors. "It's just a bunch of squares. It looks so artificial and I dunno lacking some heart."
"Well, I think it looks nice," Ludwig said quietly.
"Eh to each their own," Feliciano said walking away with a shrug.
"Well, that failed, but I still have other chances." Ludwig walked around for a few minutes before making his next to Feliciano. He was standing in front of the museum directory. "Wow, this place is bigger than I thought."
The museum consisted of three different floors. The groud floor that they were currently on, only consisted of two sections. The abstract art that they had just passed through and a pottery section. From the looks of it, they could go to the section or to the next floor. Both Feliciano and Ludwig looked at each other. They walked into the pottery section, which had more people in it than the previous section. Slowly the two walked around, stopping to admire a few select works.
"These patterns are beautiful," Felciano said stopping to look at a teapot. It was a china teapot and in good condition. Not a single crack on it. It was pure white with gold and blue paint. It decorated the teapot with blue vines and small golden flowers.
"Wonder how long it took to paint that," Ludwig said looking at it closely.
"A few hours at least," Feliciano said leaning away from it a little.
"Have you ever done pottery?" Ludwig asked out of curiosity.
"A bit in high school," Feliciano explained with a smile. "I just prefer painting."
"I see," Ludwig said.
After a few more minutes, the two walked out of the pottery section. They walked up to the second floor. This floor was full of paintings of different eras.
"This is perfect," Ludwig thought to himself as they started to walk into the first room. "There's got to be something we both like here."
As they walked through the floor, Feliciano looked in awe at almost every painting. He went on and on about the different techniques of the specific era they were from. Even telling when something was a transition between two of them. Ludwig didn't care that he didn't understand half of what his friend was saying. He was speaking with so much joy and passion it was contagious. It seemed every second he was about to get bored, Feliciano brought him out of it. Still, he couldn't help but wonder was this enough?
Next, they walked up to the third floor. This floor was mainly different historical art pieces and a few artifacts. Ludwig walked around in amazement. Seeing a lot to these ancient pieces were amazing to him. Many from ancient civilizations. As they walked he couldn't help but notice that Feliciano seemed bored. At one point complaining, there wasn't anything from Ancient Rome. Ludwig couldn't help but feel some of his excitement fade. Making the whole thing feel like it was going on longer. When they were done with that, they walked back outside.
"Want to grab a bite to eat somewhere?" Feliciano asked as they left the museum.
"Sure, why not?" Ludwig said with a small shrug. Both of them opened their phones are looked up places around them. "Looks like there's a burger place nearby. want to go there?"
"Sure thing," Felciano said with a smile. "I enjoy a good burger now and again."
"Great that's what we have in common."
"What?" Feliciano asked in confusion. Ludwig was taken aback.
"I said that aloud," Ludwig said really awkwardly.
"Yeah you did," Feliciano said sounding really annoyed.
"Well we don't," Ludwig said with some hurt in his voice. "You're all about arts and outgoing. Meanwhile, I'm over here being introverted and preferring reading books over going out. I was hoping by coming here we would find something. Maybe I could learn to at least enjoy looking at art like you. But we can't even like the same art styles. I feel like there's nothing we have in common."
Feliciano was quiet. He kept staring at Ludwig. His face painted with a mix of hurt and shock. Ludwig could see him trembling a little bit.
"I-I understand if you don't want to be friends anymore," Ludwig said quietly.
"What no!" Feliciano said so gently. He walked closer to Ludwig. "The more I think about it, the more I like how different we are. I like talking to you about stuff you enjoy, even if I don't understand most of it."
"Really?" Ludwig asked in disbelief. Feliciano quickly nodded with a huge smile on his face. "I mean I really like it when you talking about art earlier."
The two looked at each other and smiled. Both seem to a greater understanding of each other. slowly Ludwig stretched out his arms. Feliciano smiled widely and embraced him. There was some happiness and closeness that now both of them knew would never go away.
