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Chapter 4: The past is in the past.

Ludwig sighed after leaving the bathroom not really wanting to go back to class. He spotted Séamus in the hall glaring at that Kevin dick he apparently has history with. Kevin backed him into the lockers and slammed a hand by his head leaning over him smirking.

'This is reaalllyyy none of my business but,' Ludwig thought rolling his eyes then slammed a hand on the lockers an inch behind Kevin smirking as he peered back startled.

"You know. He made it clear he didn't want to be near you. Do you have a problem with understanding that," he smiled threateningly looking scary as hell.

"No, I have no problem understanding. I just thought I could convince him otherwise. But while you're this close cutie why don't we," he smirked back then was cut off.

"Why don't you stop there before I bash you head though the lockers," he said lowly and scarily.

"Fine I'll back off just for your sake cutie. I'm not really a bad guy," he said walking off.

"Can I kill him and everything he stands for," Ludwig deadpanned as Kevin disappeared making Séamus laugh.

"What if something he stands for is good?!"

"I'll kill it anyways just to spite him."

"No only kill the bad things Ludwig and him. The good things you don't touch."

"Fine if you really want to be that boring," he sighed.

"I do," he smiled as they walked to class. "Hey," he spoke up at the door before they entered. Ludwig looked at him as he held open the door for him. "Thanks for making him leave," he smiled walking in.

"It wasn't a problem," he said entering after him and shut the door.

"Your brother is secretly a sweetheart just so you know," he teased sitting behind Gilbert's desk.

"SSSHHH! He will chew your head off if he knows you know. It's a family secret that he's cute and sweet," he teased making him laugh as they both peered at Ludwig who chose to ignore them.

"Well him being cute wasn't a secret," he teased reaching over and poking Ludwig's cheek who tried to bite his finger only snipping air because of Séamus' quick reaction. "Oh, he really does bite."

"Don't worry his bark is bigger than his bite he'll only draw a tiny bit of blood if he catches you," Gisil teased.

"Can all of you shut up I'm trying to concentrate," Ludwig sassed.

"Fine fine we'll leave you alone," Gilbert surrendered.

"Cutie," Gisil coughed a few seconds later.

"Sweet cutie," Séamus coughed.

"Cutest person on the planet," Gilbert coughed making him snap his book closed and stand up and storm off to change desks.

"NO COME BACK WE LOVE YOU," Séamus laughed.

"I'M NEVER BEING NICE TO YOU AGAIN," Ludwig cried pointing at him then sat by Arthur in a huff as the three were laughing.

"Don't worry I'll get them back for you," Arthur beamed at them.

"Good," he said returning to his book.

During seventh period he had gym class. They all did being as they all had the same schedule. But they got divided into groups. They had stations at gym class today. Some would be jump roping, others running, others doing pushups and sit-ups, and others doing weight lifting. Each group got twenty minutes at each station. He scowled stuck in a group with five guys that were scared of him and that douche Kevin.

"Ten bucks says Kevin dies," Arthur spoke up to Gilbert.

"Oh, I am not betting against that," Gilbert said bluntly.

"He won't die he'll just be hospitalized," Ludwig said walking to his group sighing.

"He is not happy," Gisil laughed.

"I wouldn't be either," Liam said glaring at Kevin.

Ludwig kept his ear buds in listening to music as he worked out but it wasn't so high he couldn't hear Kevin. He started talking about Séamus immediately to the other guys. He started blurting about bad things in his past that he had done trying to make him out to be some terrible person. Ludwig was seething on the inside. He hated people like him. Using someone's past against them. He hated it because he had it done to him to many times.

'It's really not my business I hardly know the guy,' he thought trying to calm down. 'But still he doesn't deserve this shit and I wouldn't want this happening to me so this fucker is going to have the hell beat out of him,' he thought failing to calm and racked his weight.

"Hey," Ludwig said going to Kevin calmly.

"Hey cutie! Finally want to admit your feelings for me," he teased smirking.

"Ok I will admit them," he said lifting his head looking scary as hell. "I really hate bastards like you," he said darkly as his fist made contact with his nose.

Kevin returned the favor smirking wildly and the guys started scrambling away in panic as the pair were throwing powerful punches and kicks. But it was still turning out with one clear winner.

Allistor peered up as they heard yelling and crashing. Guys started running out in a panic.

"What the hell is going on," Allistor demanded of one.

"LUDWIG IS MURDERING KEVIN," one wailed.

"I KNEW IT," Arthur exclaimed.

"ARTHUR NOT NOW," Gilbert yelled trying to hold back laughter with the others.

They rushed of the weight room only for Kevin to come flying out of the double doors and landing on his back. Ludwig was on him like a cat and started beating him senseless as the gym went silent in terror.

"LUDWIG ENOUGH! HE'S HAD ENOUGH! LUDWIG! HEY," Gisil yelled trying to rip him off.

"LUDWIG FOLKERT BEILSCHMIDT YOU CALM DOWN RIGHT NOW," Gilbert barked making him freeze. "Get off him Luddie that's enough," he said gently.

"I hate people like him," he seethed quietly.

Ludwig got off him and stood but was hauling him up in the air by this throat.

"If you ever run your mouth again about him I'll kill you," he said threateningly and tossed him to the side.

"Why don't you beat me up so more? It's clearly in your nature. No wonder everyone is scared of you," he spoke up as he sat up smirking. "Look who looks like a monster in front of all these people," he smiled mockingly.

Ludwig glared at him then noticed all the people in the gym staring in horror at him. He had Kevin's blood on him and barely any marks from the fight. Kevin was a bloody bruised up mess. Ludwig unclenched his fists blinking rapidly feeling his head swim. He hated all those looks. He was getting them again all because he lost his temper on some piece of shit. He walked away silently. No one dared go get the coach that was currently at the football field painting the strips. Ludwig disappeared into the locker room and cleaned the blood off. He changed into his clothes then walked out of there. He walked for home deciding to skip the rest of class. He felt tears burning down his face.

"Tears don't suit you. You are cuter when you smile," a voice spoke up as a hand ran through his hair gently. "I'm sorry to cause you so much trouble," he murmured as Ludwig just stopped and cried into his hands pitifully.

"You didn't cause anything. I did it myself," he blubbered.

"You did it for me though."

"I MOSTLY DID IT FOR MY OWN SELFISH REASONS," he cried. "Don't get the wrong idea. I'm selfish and I did it only because I hated it when people brought up my past so I took it out on him when I heard him talking about yours. I didn't do it for you. I did it for me," he sobbed.

"You might have mostly did it for yourself," he smiled gently. "But you still did it partly for me. You took up for me and made him stop running his mouth. Thank you so much for that," he murmured making him turn and hugged him tightly.

Ludwig hugged back after a moment. He gave up he just wanted to be held. He blamed it on his confused and emotional state for why he hugged back. He convinced himself it would only be for a moment but they stood there awhile silently and both shedding tears.

"Look who actually turned out to be a real sweetheart," Séamus teased petting his head.

"Shut up or I'll chew your head off," Ludwig mumbled back with a small smile making Séamus laugh.

"LUDDIE," Gilbert's voice rang out.

He rushed to them panting then wrapped them both up in a hug.

"Don't run off like that Luddie. You scared me," he murmured.

"Sorry," he whispered.

"Just don't do it again," Gilbert smiled.

"Alright," he agreed.

The others run up soon.

"Did we all just skip the rest of school," Ludwig asked.

"You started it," Gisil teased.

"I never asked you to follow my influence," he sassed.

"Well we wanted to. Just to be sure you're ok."

"I'm fine," he shrugged.

"Those tears say otherwise," Theodo said swiping his eyes gently with his thumb. "Don't worry about it LuLu. No more tears," he said caressing his cheek bone with his thumb gently.

"Shut up they're just watering and nothing more," he denied blushing furiously as he swatted his hand away making them all laugh and pounce on him with a hug. "Get off," he complained squirming blushing like the cutie he was.

"Nein. We want to love on our Luddie," Gilbert smiled.

No matter how much he protested they kept hugging him for a long time. He wouldn't admit that he secretly liked the affection.

Stupid Kevin and his bullshit. Just making him up made me mad. I hate the only character I created. How sad. XD But someone has to be a douchebag and now I can use non Hetalia characters to be the douche! Also I may extend Kevin to three or four chapters just to not go too fast with everything but at the same time get the two families closer pretty quickly.