Hallo my flickering flames! Welcome back to an almost slightly late chapter of Llama Socks (just be glad I don't procrastinate on a regular basis), I almost didn't finish this chapter today and I wouldn't have it I kept my promise. Though it is not a school day for my wonderful characters in the magical world of Blythewood, there will still be an introduction or two. Don't forget to follow or favorite. Thanks to little Miss punk rocker and randomobsession123 for favoriting and following! Next chapter will have answers to the Densa questions and possible winner. I was abandoned at study hall while I was writing it... Sadcat decided to skip and Boxi left in the middle of class. Einsamkeit.
Disclaimer: I don't own Hetalia or any of the characters that aren't listed as OCs on my bio. I also don't own Nemo.
Apparently when Nonno said a couple of days he meant the next day at two in the morning. Lovina lay on the couch using Tesoro as a pillow. It was early in the morning on Saturday and she lay with the side of her face in the warm, freshly shampooed fur. Tesoro lifted her large head and affectionately licked the face of the tired Italian.
Lovina ran her hand across the chest of the droopy-faced, gentle giant. The large, dark furred dog started to softly growl, staring at the door before the knock came. Then the house blew up. Not literally, that'd be bad. Instead of literally blowing up, all three dogs started to bark at once.
She looked down at her outfit, a very short pair of shorts and a loose t-shirt. She shrugged and opened the door to see Dr. Beilschmidt and his two sons. The two blonds were looking away, cheeks tinged pink at the sight of the scantily clad teenager while Gilbert smirked at her. Dr. Beilschmidt started talking hastily. "I am, uh, here to see you grandfather."
"Nonno! Your stupid Vice Principal decided to come here at..." Lovina stopped yelling to briefly check the time. "...fucking six in the morning!"
"Lovi, don't yell and watch your language!~" The poor girl sighed as her Nonno came downstairs in nothing but his boxers and hugged her. "Hello Alaric, what are you doing here so early? Come in, I'll go get dressed. Lovina go wake up Feli and tell her to get dressed. And call off your dog, she look likes she is about to kill Gilbert."
"Come on Tesoro, let's go free the bitches. And wake up the idiot..." Lovina dragged herself up the stairs, being nudged by the slow, stupid creature. Oh and Tesoro.
A couple of minutes later Nonno was letting their unannounced guests into the kitchen as Lovina fried skewers of Italian sausage, peppers, onions, and pineapple. "Nonno, we have some ciabatta left, do you want me to go buy some cheese while Feli finishes the skewers?"
"Sure Lovi, but you're not going to walk are you?" Lovina nodded, not really having much of a choice.
"The awesome me can take her!" Lovina glared at the loud albino and heard some thunking come from the living room area along with a yelp from Fortunato. She sighed and looked at the scene before her. Feliciana was laying on top of a struggling pile of fur.
"Idiota! You could have hurt her!" Lovina yelled shoving the now standing Feli down, which a white ball of fur narrowly avoided the falling girl.
"Ve! Sorella I'm sorry! No stop, it hurts! How come when someone else hurts me you get mad, but you hurt me?"
"I only get mad because it's my job to hurt you, I don't want other people stealing my job!"
"Girls, girls, why don't you both go finish colazione?"
"No! I need to go get cheese!"
"Sorella, let go of my hair!"
"Fine, go finish breakfast! Stay away from the potato bastard! Potato bastard number two, take me to buy cheese. Let's go!" Lovina stomped out the door, not even closing it.
"Um... so Vati, I guess I need the keys?" The normally cocky Gilbert stood there, looking at the door, confused. The exasperated man reluctantly handed over the keys to his car. Gilbert took them and left, closing the door after him.
Apparently Lovina didn't even wait for him and had already started walking, despite the fact it had just started raining.. "Hey, Lov, hop in. We can get there in less than three minutes. Here's a towel."
The Italian got in the car and took the towel. "Is there a reason you have a towel in here? "
"Vati keeps it in here because it's always good to have emergency supplies. Same reason he keeps five guns in the console and about fifteen knives littered around the car. By the way, watch your foot, there's an opened knife that looks like it's about to cut you." Lovina glared at the knife before picking it up.
"I wouldn't know why someone would want so many weapons in here. It's rather pointless. So are we almost there?" She asked, getting bored. She was also casually swinging the knife around as she talked with her hands.
"What if we got attacked and you had no weapons on you, you'd either have to know self defence or die. I'd rather have a weapon and be arrested for it than be killed. Speaking of being arrested for having weapons, I bring a gun and knife to school everyday." Gilbert said as if it was a normal thing to bring weapons to school illegally, while taking the knife away from the Italian.
"Remind me never to make you mad... Can I have that back?"
"No, we're here." They got out of the car and headed toward the entrance, while holding a towel over their heads. Gilbert folded the towel as Lovina picked up a basket, which he put it in after quite a lot of fussing from the other.
"Do you want slices or spreads? I prefer spreads, but it's whatever the guests want. Me and my friend from home, Marcello, used to out to the marketplace and buy as much as we could with the money Nonno gave us. We loved to go and buy fresh loaves of bread and soft mascarpone cheese and eat it in the marketplace with Signorina Rizzo, the baker's sister." Lovina talked more about Italy and the marketplace as she decided to ignore Gilbert's cheese decision and got mascarpone, ricotta, Parmigiano-Reggiano, and Parmesan cheese. And lot's of it, plus a couple of other things including pretty expensive chocolate.
"Grazie for paying, I can't believe I forgot my wallet. Don't ask me to pay you back though, potato bastard number two, I don't do that." Gilbert wilted as he looked at his wallet, which had been slightly depleted. "Oh look, my wallet was in my purse. I forgot I put it in there."
"Piyo~"
"What the fuck was that?!" Lovina looked around, trying to find the source of the strange sound, while still in the store. Gilbert shrugged, unfolding the towel, and saw a small yellow chick on the ground.
"He's so cute!" Gilbert dropped the towel on the ground -"What the fuck?! The floor is dirty you idioto!"- and picked up a small, yellow chick.
"How do you know it's a boy?" Lovina had all the bags dumped on her and was now struggling to pick up the towel.
"Because he is awesome, so he's a boy. Only awesome things a boys." Gilbert "explained", completely ignoring Lovina's glare and silent muttering in Italian.
"Piyo piyo~"
"I shall call him Gilbird, and he shall be mine. He shall be my Gilbird." Gilbert affectionately rubbed the chick against his cheek and set it in his hair.
"Piyo~"
"Isn't it Squishy? I've only watched the movie in Italian, but I'm fairly sure it didn't change. What was it called again... Finding, um Nobody? Nonno told me that is what Nemo means, because it is Latin." Lovina talked to herself distractedly, still being ignored by a certain German. "Oi, potato bastard! Are you listening to me?"
"Oh, sorry Lov. Let's go back to your house." Gilbert took the towel from Lovina, threw it over her head and ran. After taking some bags of course, he had to be slightly nice.
"Gilbert! Come back here!" She yanked the towel off her head and ran after him, rather quickly, with a smirk on her face. She caught up to him and then tripped into a puddle because she happened to put on heels that day. "Ow..."
"Are you alright Lov?" Gilbert gave her his hand, which was taken and pulled downwards, causing him to faceplant on asphalt. A cheep of protest came from Gilbird (or Squishy). "I just asked if you were okay..."
"I broke my heel... Great that was my favorite pair. You jerk, you have to pay to replace them." She glared at the grinning albino.
"How much did they cost?"
"Around two grand."
Gilbert started shaking as he glanced down at his poor wallet with wide eyes. "H-how could you afford something that cost so much..."
"We were poor until we started living with Nonno. Now we're in kind of a dump, Nonno says I can't have over seven thousand dollars worth of stuff shipped from Italy at one time for now. I have to wait a week before I can get what I really want." Gilbert looked at the Italian with wide eyes.
"So much money... Are-are you royalty?" Lovina looked at him like he had grown a second, third, and fourth head.
"Nah, Nonno just had a...uh, fairly well paying job. His coworkers were almost like family. Except a whole lot um, shadier." Lovina explained without revealing as much information as she could.
"Oh, okay let's go." They got into the extremely safe car, where Lovina found another knife which also had to be taken from her and went back with the cheese, chocolate, beef, pork, and a turkey because she had read something about how good turkey was (I'm craving turkey right now...).
They talked all the way back to Lovina's house, which wasn't too far away. Once they got back they put the groceries in the kitchen and Lovina quickly changed. She went downstairs and they all sat to eat.
The three Italians all bowed their heads as Nonno started speaking, the guests quickly following this. "Benedici Signore noi e il cibo che stiamo per prendere, fà che non manchi mai a nessuno in nessuna parte del mondo, specialmente ai bambini. Amen. Lovi, give everyone a plate. Feli, go get coffee for our guests, except Ludwig."
"Si Nonno! Ve~" Feliciana jumped up and started making coffee and pouring milk, while Lovina plated the food and put the different cheeses on a platter with the loaf of ciabatta. The girls did all of this without questioning their grandfather, groaning, or complaining. Ludwig looked down at his cup of milk disappointedly, wishing he had a cup of coffee too.
The twins sat down and started eating their skewers, while Gilbert faked a smile as he choked down some peppers and onions on his skewer and Ludwig still stared at his milk while he ate.
Alaric frowned at the cheese, not really knowing which one to take. He eventually just picked parmesan. They all finished (except Ludwig who hadn't finished his milk yet) and Nonno turned to Alaric. "Let's go to my office, you four can do whatever. Lovina, you will need to start pranzo soon."
"Si, Nonno. I will fix pranzo as soon as possible. Do you want an antipasti today or no?" Lovina looked at her nonno as he started to walk down the hallway.
"How about grilled eggplant." With that the two adults walked off.
"Okay, you will all help me. We will make grilled eggplant, gnocchi, roasted lamb, and we have a macedonian fruit salad in the fridge. All the recipes are in the open cookbook on the center counter, potato bastards, go find the ingredients. Feliciana, go cut up the eggplant. I will start on the gnocchi once the eggplant has been started, but I will go ahead and start the grill." Lovina started to heat up the miniature grill as Feli washed and cut the eggplant. They put the eggplant on the grill after basting one side with seasoning. "Okay potatoes, you need to peel three pounds of potatoes!"
Lovina stood over the two Germans -"Ve! Lovi get off the chair you're going to fall!"- with a tool to peel the potatoes with. She had a hand on her hip and the peeler in the air. Gilbert looked at the strange sight before him. "Are you okay, Lov?"
A strangely evil smirk appeared on her face. "Of course I'm fine, I'm cooking. How can I not be fine when I'm cooking? So which one of you will peel potatoes? The other will help me once the potatoes are done being peeled. Once you finish peeling them, boil them. Got that bastards?"
"Luddy can do the hard work and peel potatoes, right Luddy!" Gilbert exclaimed, not really asking.
"Ja, I guess so." The younger potato reluctantly took the peeler thingy majiggy and started taking the skin off of the starch.
"And now we get to wait about an hour for the potatoes to be peeled and boiled and we get to do the fun part." Lovina had a small smirk across her face as she stretched out on the couch and was joined by Tesoro.
"Won't the eggplant get cold?" Gilbert looked at the younger girl confused.
"I like it better served cold." Lovina said before positioning herself to where Tesoro made the perfect pillow. "It's not as bad as you might think..."
Lovina stretched and yawned before the smell hit her nose. "Ve~ The lamb looks good, Gilbert, I bet it will be delicious. Ludwig, are the gnocchi ready for the sauce? I made some fresh marinara sauce, now we just have to wake sorella!"
"Eh, Feli? What time is it?" The older of the twins got up and walked into the kitchen to see the lunch she had been prepared to make with little to no help, was completed. Her look was of pure shock. "F-Feliciana..."
"Ve!~ Sorella, you're awake! We cooked this while you were asleep. I'll go get Nonno!~" And with that she was off, leaving her older sister to frown and take a bite of everything -"I need to make sure it's not poisoned or ruined knowing how stupid sorella is, she probably screwed everything up without my help!"-.
Nonno came down the hall with a great big smile. "Are we ready to eat? Let's gather around the table. Grab the hand of the person next to you."
Lovina scowled as she reluctantly grabbed Gilbert and Nonno's hands, while Feliciana had Nonno and Ludwigs hands. Alaric was between the two boys. "Benedici Signore noi e il cibo che stiamo per prendere, fà che non manchi mai a nessuno in nessuna parte del mondo, specialmente ai bambini. Amen. Girls."
"Okay!~ So tea, cola, aranciata, chinotto, or water?" Feliciana took orders on everyone's drinks while Lovina plated the food, at last putting the fruit in separate bowls. Everyone dug into the large meal. Gnocchi wasn't Lovina's favorite, but she had to admit it was the best gnocchi she ever had. Other than when she makes it of course.
"That was delicious. Thank you. Now that we have finished work, we will be leaving now. Auf wiedersehen." Alaric left with his sons following behind him.
Gilbert turned giving Lovina a wink. "Bis später."
Sorry it wasn't the whole weekend, I might do Sunday next chapter, I might not. I am however writing a new story that will be random one-shots from the SLW series, but it won't be updated regularly at all. It's just going to be random stuff that has nothing to do with the character(s) I'm focusing on in the current story I'm writing. So sitting in math with our stupid substitute. So, Mrs. Dodge will be joining us soon. That's all for now~
