Note: Its official then. I got approval. I'm going to put other couples to help these two on the way to what we all hope for, their love to bloom. I'm so cheesy...


Antonio went to go get Gilbert's back pack and his own. He had already seen the time and the school bell going to ring pretty soon. He figured he should be ready and changed early. He quickly hit the showers and changed to his school uniform. Just as he was about to head out to the hallway, he started hearing sniffles from near by. Curious, he looked around to where it came from till he reached one of the unused classrooms. The doors were all made of fine wood with a glass pane on each one of them, letting anyone else see a limited amount of what was inside. The windows were open, that much he could tell. Beyond that he could see the field. Some of the students were already taking a break.

On the side of the window, barely visible, was a girl facing the field. She had brown, somewhat wavy hair that ended below her shoulder blades. A headband could be seen, matching the color of her uniform, which was a female golden version of the male's. The sniffles had become much softer now. Antonio was puzzled at why she sounded like she was crying. He knew who she was and also knew that she wasn't the type to be crying out of nothing, let alone sounding like it. He decided to see why she was there, opening the door and making her look his way.

She turned quickly when she realized who it was. Trying her best to dry her face with her hands and clearing her throat, she faced Antonio with a pissed off expression.

"What do you want bastardo?" she said, not succeeding in covering up her strangled voice. She cursed to herself as she noticed it. Antonio got closer.

"Caterina, what are you doing here all by yourself? Y porque lloras?" Antonio asked, not one to be so subtle in situations like this with the girl. Or her brother. (A/N: "And Why are you crying?")

She scoffed and turned as a tear happened to fall out. She didn't want him to be there. She didn't want him to see her. See her the way she was now. "What do you care? Aren't you supposed to be in gym or something?"

An obvious fact was made there but it seemed less important to point out as Antonio continued to walk towards her. "Bueno, I just got out but-" he didn't finish as he was cut off.

"Then go away! I don't feel like seeing your stupid face!" Caterina yelled, her voice sounding more like she was going to bawl out.

Antonio almost flinched as it did hurt him hear that but he didn't let that get to him. He stood strong still and took Caterina's hand. "Chiara"

Caterina hesitantly looked at him, resisting the urge to slap his hand away and looked at him to see why he would call her by her middle name. It all felt inviting, his touch, his voice but she didn't want that. She was stressed out BECAUSE of HIM. She didn't want his touch or his soft voice. It was conflicting so she stayed neutral for a bit.

"Chiara, I don't know why your crying but," Antonio kept his soft gaze on her as she flinched, realizing that she had ended up showing her tear streaked face. "Pero no lloras, I hate seeing you this way..."

He was about to dry her face but she looked down, laughing only once. It sounded bitter. "Well, if you hate it so much then don't look."

Caterina opted for pushing him away. She didn't want this to go further, not after what she witnessed. The brunette pushed him away, literally this time and ran out of the classroom, leaving Antonio looking at her till the door closed. He snapped out of it and ran outside. He looked left and then right. Nothing. She was gone. He vaguely remembered that Italians can run fast when they want to but he shrugged the idea off. He heaved out a frustrated sigh as he scratched the back of his head, closing his eyes as he did so. Antonio adjusted the two book bags on his bag as he heard footsteps coming his way.

He looked at who was coming to see Lovino coming around. His hands were in his pockets, for once, and he was in deep thought. He never even noticed that Antonio was right in front of him until he bumped into him. Quite clumsily, too.

"What the?! Oh, it's just you bastard. Cosa stai facendo qui?" Lovino said, having forgotten what language to talk in as he wasn't fully out of his thoughts from before. (A/N: "What are you doing here?")

Antonio, having been living next door to the Italians and had hanged out with them since little, knew what he had asked and responded with a small smile. "Nada Lovi. Just trying to figure your sister out, I guess."

"Hmph! Don't call me Lovi." Lovino said, leaning a little away from Antonio, continued with the conversation. "Plus...she might be upset about something..."

"What?" Antonio asked, seemingly curious to the possible reason of the girl's distress. Lovino went rigid and got off the wall, realizing what he was doing.

"Nothing! It has nothing to do with you!" And like that, Lovino left in a hurry, into another hallway. Antonio didn't know what to do about the fraternal twins. He was at a loss, for the moment, on how to take in both of their actions. They were both always the type to not show too much closure, unlike their little sister and big brother. Antonio sighed again. The bell rang soon enough and he took his time on getting to his locker where he knew he would meet Gilbert and Francis. Girls and friends. That's what usually was on his mind nowadays, it seems.

"Ow..."

Antonio looked at the source of the small voice and found behind himself the new teacher holding a makeshift ice bag on her left hip. She seemed to want to double over as she kept walking by the wall, passing her hand on it as she went. If Antonio didn't know any better, he would have thought that she just came back from a harsh game play. Whatever that may be. He went up to her, ready to offer his help.

"Are you ok, Maestra?" Antonio asked, lending a hand for her to lean on. (A/N: "Are you ok, Teacher?")

Maddie waved her free hand at him, dismissing the help.

'I shouldn't have stopped playing Hockey this summer, I'm too tender now...' Maddeline thought, smiling apologetically at the student. It was still hard to believe that all the students here could have been her classmates instead of her pupils. Nevertheless, she didn't feel too comfortable with either idea. She's still getting used to reality.

"I'm alright, just a sore on my hip." Maddie said, straightening herself. 'That and I might actually be false advertising on how old I look with this ice pack on my hip of all places...'

"Oh, you'll get better Miss..." Antonio didn't know her name.

Cautiously, maddie corrected him. "Ms. Williams. I'm the English teacher for Seniors."

"Oh! Gusto en conoserla Senora Williams!" Antonio said, showing his usual bright smile on his face. (A/N: "Oh! Pleasure to meet you Miss. Williams!")

'Correct me if I'm wrong, my Spanish is a bit rusty, did he just call me an old woman?' Maddie asked, particularly to no one in her thoughts as she still displayed her apologetic smile.

Antonio continued with the introductions, though.

"Me llamo Antonio Fernandez Carriedo! It's nice to meet you!" Antonio smiled a brilliant smile, already shoving his hand out to shake hands with her, only to bring it back again as he noticed how occupied her hands were.

"Oh, sorry, um, let me help you." Antonio said as he started to take Maddie's hand and started to walk to the nurse's office.

"Thank you Mr. Carriedo." Maddie said, feeling a little relieved. As they headed for the nurse's office, Antonio felt the need to talk with Maddeline. By talk, in his mind, meant that he'd share almost his life's story with the two best buds he has. He moved a little sometimes to avoid collision with other students as they passed by the hallways. Sometimes he was as hard as a rock if when they did bump into him. To say that Maddie was astounded may have been an understatement.

"Everybody liked our first performance and that was how Francis, Gilbert and I got our first fans from the cafeteria." Antonio finished. Maddie wouldn't have had a clue that Gilbert was the lead singer of a band that was only made up of his friends.

"So that's why they call you The Bad Touch Trio..." Maddeline concluded. She had received a few warnings about the three teens being trouble but she honestly couldn't see anything bad about Antonio. What was funny to her was that the faculty always referred to the three by their band title.

"Yeah, it was thank to the fans really. We couldn't think up of a name that we all agreed to." Antonio suddenly looked bummed out. "I thought 'Los Mosqueterous' was pretty good, too..." (A/N: 'The Mussketers')

A sweat drop formed around the young teacher, seemingly understanding where he was coming from.

"Anyways, we'd had many fans since then, mostly chicas." Antonio explained, back to enthusiastic self. Maddeline figured as much. Boy bands usually did have their array of fan girls. Antonio continued on.

"We have dated some but I guess we really never stayed with them for too long..." Antonio said, now remembering the past relationships. On the other hand, that gave Maddie some huge red flags. She looked at the boy straight in the eye with wide eyes, startling the green eyed Spaniard.

"You all dated your fans?" Maddeline asked incredulously. She would hardly hear that boy bands nowadays ever dated within their fan circle. Wasn't that bad? Wasn't that suicidal for the girl herself? Maybe she really didn't know that much about the current culture after all. "Yeah but that was in the past. This year we mostly decided to not date anyone of our fans."Antonio said and Maddie simply nodded in approval.

'Wait, why am I approving this? It's not exactly my business...then again a teacher does sorta have the right to help the students grow to the right direction in life...I guess..
.' Maddeline thought. Antonio shifted a little and showed her that they were at the nurse's office.

"We're here!" Antonio announced, smiling as he did so.

"Thank you again Mr. Carriedo." Maddie said as she let herself open the door held it there. She looked back at the young man in back of her.

"De nada!" Antonio said, still flashing his always so happy smile. (A/N: "Your Welcome!")

"If you need anything, please find me in my office in RM 303 or you can find me in Homeroom with Gilbert." Maddeline supplied. She thought she was doing an okay job for a new teacher.

"Okay! See you later Senora Williams!" Antonio said, waving as he sprinted towards the cafeteria, adjusting the two book bags on his shoulder as he did so.

~And now I have some information to go on~


I hope you all remembered that the squiggles are Maddeline's thoughts as a form of breaking the story into parts while Gilbert's is dash lines. Its non cannon but it helps me break this story into sections.

Also, I need people to participate as their state or providence or just even a town! I need human names tho...