Happy Hetalia Day to all of you!

Sorry for updating this late but school's being a bitch. The only class I can properly write in is my math class and in breaks I can't write because I made new friends. And at home I have to do loads of homework…
And another thing is that I am required to write stories and plotlines and character sheets for my literature class… It takes a lot of time away from my normal writing time because I have to think about two completely different stories…

Thank you very much to all my reviewers please continue to review^^

Warnings: Just minimal amounts of SpaMano action, a lot of BTT/BFT action, shameless mentioning of PruCan, a lot of aggression (but no one gets hurt^_^), Random Insecure Antonio, uh… probably other stuff I don't remember…

Disclaimer: I don't own anything in this story. Neither the characters nor the song, but my imagination claims full ownership on the locations.

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I woke up to the sound of my phone ringing in a distance.
Funny. Normally I kept it either in my pants pocket or on my nightstand. In this situation it should have been the later but it sounded like the phone was in another room. .

I sat up in bed still half asleep, groggily wondering why my room looked like Lovi's. I got up and followed the sound of my ringing phone.

The crowns are out in town and we got news for you 'cause whenever we're around this place is going down. Let's not make a sound 'cause you don't wanna be found.

While following the sound which steadily got louder because I set it to increase volume with longer ringing time and I got closer, I realized I had been in Lovi's room not mine.

The phone had stopped ringing while I was still following it's sound but I knew it would start ringing again because it had rung with the ringtone I had set for my friends they would not stop calling. I was right, right when I reached my room the pants I had discarded on the floor the day before started ringing. I ran over there, picked them up and got my phone out. I picked up and held the phone to my ear without checking who of them was calling "Yeah?"
"Yo 'Tonio why don't you pick up first ring if the awesome me is calling?"
"Ahaha~ Good Morning Gil! I was another room sleeping ahaha~!" I said scratching my neck out of habit.
"Kesese did the little brat lock you into the supplies closet again?"
"No. Quite on the contrary. By the way, why are you calling?"
"Did you forget which weekday it is?"
"Ah… AH! It's Thursday"
"Right. Drinking Night! What are we going to do? West said he'll personally shoot me if I invite anybody over for the next two weeks. Who knows why… And Franny said his place is also out of question. What about your place?"
"I don't know. I haven't seen Lovi today but there is this new bar in town, which is rumored to be very good"
"Good to know. Get ready! Franny and I will be at your house in 20!"
"Ahaha~ so you're already in Spain… Bye" I said and the answer was beeping, indicating Gil had hung up on me. Now I had 20 minutes to get ready and search for Lovi.

Getting ready didn't take long. I just took a short shower and dressed in black jeans, which fit quite nicely according to my friends (and even Lovi but that was just my guess since he has the same reaction every time I wear sexy clothes) and a deep red fitted button up which I left unbuttoned at the top.
Now I had about 10 minutes left to find Lovi.

First I went to check in the upstairs bathroom and Lovi's room. In Lovi's room I even checked in his closet, knowing his childhood habit of hiding everywhere possible even if I didn't know what he would hide from but he was nowhere to be found. Next I checked the downstairs bathroom and all the other room's downstairs, including the supplies closet and the kitchen. There too, not one clue where Lovi could be. Next stop would be the garden but it really is too big to be searched in the 5 minutes I had left until my friends would arrive. So I just opted to walk around the house starting at the patio around to the front.

I saw nothing out of place in the back and at the side of the house but at the front suddenly saw why I couldn't find him anywhere.
His car was missing.
It all came back to me. Normally I would see him in the mornings but our drinking night is always on the same day as Lovi's weekly visit in Italy.

Why did he go without saying goodbye? Does he hate me now? Will he come back? Can we keep on being lovers or will we go back to being friends now or whatever it was we were before?

I was so deep in my thoughts I never heard the car approaching nor did I sense the approaching persons. Not a good thing for a nation especially a war nation as myself.
I was awoken from my thoughts when Franny put his arm around my waist and said "Antonio~"
"Kesesese! I bet the little brat kicked him in the nuts"
"Ah! Haha~" were my first words while I scratched the back of my head embarrassed to be surprised by their arrival. "Hey Gil, Franny!~ I'll just get my things than we can go. It's not far shall we walk?"
"Yeah, yeah just hurry up the awesome me is thirsty!"
"Si~" I answered and went inside followed by my friends. I went to the kitchen and wrote a note for Lovi saying I was out drinking and where I was going exactly in case Lovi got back from Italy before I got home. He could get very insecure if I wasn't where he thought I was. If it was the case he would think about the worst things in his head like I had run away from him and other stupid things (Not that Lovi was stupid EVER!)

Gil and Franny stayed by the door talking about stuff but it was too silent for me to understand.
After finishing the note and sticking it to the fridge with a cute tomato magnet I went to collect the stuff I would need – wallet, phone, keys,… - and went back to the door.

"You took too long! The awesome me wants beer NOW!"
"I am ready~ Let's go~!" I said ushering the two of them out the door, which I locked when we were outside, and led them down the driveway.

The afternoon sun was shining down on us with its warm orange light. On the street were no cars, it wasn't that surprising since I was living in a pretty rural area.

Normally the countries had to live in their capital or really close to it but I just have a flat in Madrid and live on a small farm most of the time. It was quite far away but still close enough to get to Madrid fast enough in emergency situations. The farm was part of a nice and lively village.

After 5 minutes of walking we were on the market place in the middle of the village. The place where all the restaurants and bars were located.
Just a month ago a new bar had opened. The owner was the son of a nice elderly farmer I have known since I moved here. I saw the son grow up, he was now the same age I looked like.

I had known his father for a long time but I never had much contact with any of my neighbors, fearing to be discovered, but we still saw each other out in the fields occasionally. . Greeting each other. Having small conversations about farming.

We went into the mostly empty bar which was not surprising considering it was around 5p.m. and the bar had just opened for the day. We greeted the bartender, ordered our first round – beer for Gil wine for Franny and me – and went to a table towards the back in some corner.
"Spill it Tony! Where did the little brat lock you this time?"
"Huh? Lovi didn't lock me anywhere!"
"See Gil he was just wandering around in his house~" said Franny sneaking his arm around my back. I wanted to answer but I stopped when the bartender came and brought our drinks. A giant mug of beer for Gil (Spanish beer most likely which would earn us a drunken complaint from Gil about how German beer is so much better than the beer he gets in other counties) while Franny and I were brought a bottle of wine and two glasses. We thanked the bartender and drank first before resuming our conversation.

"Kesese the awesome me wants to know where you have been today NOW!"
"At home~"
"My cute Spanish friend I think what Gil wanted to ask is why you weren't near your phone in the middle of the day and why you are this happy about it!"
"Oh! Well…" I said blushing "I slept in Lovi's bed…"
Gil almost spat out his beer and chocked on it coughing. Between his coughs he managed to croak "What?"
And Franny said "Pardon? How are you still alive and not hurt when you slept in the brat's bed?"
Gil nodded indicating he wanted to know the same while he was still coughing lightly.
"Well Lovi said I should so I did" I said a little confused why the two of them thought Lovi was this bad and would try to kill me for every little thing I did. I won't deny he can be a little aggressive but it's just when he is very embarrassed and if he knows the persons well, if not he will just cuss and swear and try to be intimidating to hide his embarrassment and fear.
He isn't bad, on the inside he is just as weak as Feli. He just tries to hide it.

I emptied my glass and refilled it. My friends were too stunned to say something so I drank some more. It still was drinking night so why not do the things you are supposed to do?

"The brat ALLOWED you to sleep in his bed?
"… Huh? Didn't I say that already?"
"Yeah! You did but you didn't tell the awesome me and Franny why he would ever do something like that when he is convinced we all are the greatest perverts on earth."
"He loves me~"
"You managed to get a confession out of Roma-chan?" Franny retorted astounded
"Well…" I said scratching my neck again "He didn't really say it while he was awake… But he let me hug him and kiss him and he fell asleep in my arms~"
"Sounds like l'amour~"
"It does, right~?
"Pah! Love is so not awesome!"
"Why~?" I whined
"Nobody needs love it's just stupid and fucks you up and stuff"
"Mon ami you have the wrong impression of l'amour"
"I experienced it myself so shut up! You are spreading stuff about l'amour all the time but you never keep a girlfriend for longer than a week!"
"My love is so big I give it to many people~ They just can't appreciate it!"
"Franny~ you can't love so many people~ Somewhere out there HAS to be someone who is just right for you, who will need your whole love~ who you want to be with for the rest of your life" I protested. Franny began to murmur next to me but I couldn't understand him because Gil yelled through the bar to order a second round of drinks and also ordered a third right with it.

The bar had filled a little since we arrived but I think it was as filled as it would get, it still was a weekday, but I understood some of Franny's words and assumed he had someone he loved but couldn't go out with them. Probably a human.

Many of us fell in love with a human at some point but it never could be a long relationship. Humans aged we didn't and when we were 'younger' we aged very slowly. Our time stood still. A human's time flowed fast. Humans died. We live as long as our country lives even if it is struck in alliances seized or in other misfortunate situations. As long as people identify themselves as a nation's people the nation can live.
As our immortality is a dream of many humans, it can be a curse if humanoid beings like us have to live among humans, feel the same feelings as them.

While I was deep in my thoughts our drinks were brought.
I woke up from my thoughts and drank some, maybe even more than some.
Franny stopped being so sullen and also drank, Gil drank half of his second mug and started the discussion about the unimportance and unawesomeness of love
"Yeah yeah Tony that's fine and stuff if you and the Italian brat are like that but it's still useless. Not everything works out as fine as it does for you!" Gil wasn't his normal loud and 'awesome' self. His speech had some sadness in it. Why? In all the centuries we were friends I never saw Gil like that, he always was invincible even when he lost. He never lost his spirit. Did he also fall in love with a human?

I just wanted to ask him what had happened when Franny did "What's up?"
Gil went from sadness to rage "You know exactly what's up! Every time I try to meet Mattie when he is over here you busy him with stuff. Every time I try to go over there you do your best to keep me here. You even got West on my case! Or you fly Mattie over here the same day I fly over there. And on such short notice he can't contact me. EVERY SINGLE TIME! I couldn't see him for at least 6 month and even then he had to sneak out of your house and we could just meet for a few hours in some stupid restaurant in Paris while you were in a meeting. Since you saw us together when I visited him last year you are way to overprotective of him!"

What? Who is Mattie? And what relation does he have with Franny? And Gil dated someone? Didn't he just say love was unawesome? And why do they have to fight?

"I want to protect him he is like a son to me! I don't want him to be sad because one of my friends played with his feelings! I have seen you play with the feelings of boys and girls alike. I never saw you dating even one person without sex as the only goal. If you got what you wanted you run. Maybe if you deemed the person worthy you would do them a second time maybe a third time but never more…"

There the bartender intervened shouting "Stop fighting. If you wanna fight go home!" But none of them heard it. They just kept fighting. I didn't know how to intervene, how to stop them. I knew nothing about the situation, but I had remembered that Mattie had to be Matthew, Canada, but I wondered why I couldn't remember his face.

"Just because get the one you want you don't have to destroy other people's lives. Did you even once consider how Mattie feels about this? Have you ever seen him truly happy since that time? Also did you see me dating anybody since world war two? I bet you didn't! While you and the other Allies decided what would be happening to West and me I met him for the first time. He sat in some corner and nobody even noticed him. I did. We became friends fast, we talked a lot, then I had to go with Russia and you abolished MY country. I couldn't see him for 40 Years, couldn't talk to him. When I realized I missed him just as much as my friends if not more I knew I felt different for him than I did for anybody before. So when the stupid wall was gone I flew over there as fast as I could and told him I love him. We've been dating ever since. Ever since 1990! We've been dating for 20 fucking years! You didn't even notice! Just when you remember him and see us together you think it is better if he doesn't see me because I could hurt him? YOU are the one who is hurting him right now! He and I knew it wouldn't have a good ending if we told you so we didn't! You think I was happy I couldn't share my thoughts with my friends? That's totally not awesome but I did it for his sake. I didn't want him to be sad. I didn't want him to go through the same thing I did when I realized I love him but was struck in stupid Soviet Russia!"
Gil's voice was loud normally but while he held that speech it got even louder and he even stood up.
Franny didn't answer after Gil stopped speaking and he looked very shocked.

So Gil had been dating Canada and Franny had some love interest too… I really want to know who it is.
Did he tell us at some point? Was I that focused on Lovi all the time I didn't realize my best friends' love life?

Gil was still breathing a little hard from his yelling but seemed to have calmed down mostly when the bartender came over and told us we had to leave and were not welcomed here again for half a year. We emptied our drinks, paid, and left the bar. Nobody talked. It seemed like Gil and Franny didn't want to talk to each other and I didn't know what to say.

Just some minutes later while we were wandering through town I found a hopefully neutral topic "Hey let's get some alcohol from the convenience store and continue drinking at my house"
Hopefully I would find a way to cheer both of them up and get them to make up. I also hoped Lovi would stay in Italy for the night or I would lose him to his stubbornness again.
They ignored me but instead of ignoring each other completely they started to glare at each other and stopped walking. I stayed at the side ready to stop them if things would get physical but also not close enough to not get into the fight. They glared at each other for some time both of them trying to get the other to admit he had been right.

From what I had heard I thought Gil was right but I wouldn't say anything. If I would both of them would probably attack me. I didn't want to stand between them.

Franny sighed "Ok here is a deal! You'll come over tomorrow, I'll judge you and Mathieu. Then I'll decide if I allow you to date or if things will stay the same!"
Gil's face lit up right when Franny finished his second sentence and he was almost smiling a genuine smile after he had finished. Relieve was written all over his face.
I was also relieved. The fight had stopped. Hopefully it would have a happy end or I would lose at least one of my best friends.

I had to have spaced out for some time because when I came to both of them were normal again, stood on both of my sides and had their arms around my shoulders.

"So Tony… The night is young let's continue drinking"
"Yeah Kesesese!"
I was confused by the sudden change in their demeanor but didn't let it show and answered "Yeah~! We can't go back to the bar but we could go back to my hose"
"What about the brat?"
"Stop calling Lovi a brat he is almost as old as you are! He normally stays with Feli for the night and comes back around noon. So let's buy drinks at the convenience store and head ho my house~"
"Kesese Even if he looks as old as we are now he still is an unawesome spoiled brat that knows nothing about the world and wars"

We started walking again, me leading them towards the convenience store

"Isn't their innocence the charm of those cute little Italians that won't share their amour with me?"
"Franny! Stop talking about Lovi like that! He is mine!"
"Kesese you sound as if you are married"
I blushed but kept silent.

We arrived at the convenience store and went inside. We grabbed as many bottles of alcoholic drinks as we could carry randomly – Franny even found some French wine – and paid for them.
On the way home we chatted about random stuff and drinking. When we arrived at my house Gil went to his car and got even more booze. Why he even drove around Europe with loads of beer in his car I'll never know. You're not supposed to drink&drive.

We went into the house after I managed to open the door without putting down the booze. We went straight into the living room without even taking off our shoes. We put down the bags there and I rushed them back to the door to take off their shoes. It was risky enough to drink here.

I didn't need a scolding from Lovi about keeping the house clean. Even if it was funny because Lovi still was unable to do most of the tasks around the house. It was just his Italian pride telling him to keep his surroundings clean despite being unable to do it himself.

After we took off our shoes Gil and Franny went back to the living room. Rather than following them I went to the kitchen to get some snacks and to check my cell phone for calls from Lovi in case I hadn't heard it while we were out.
My cell showed nothing so I proceeded to my other task, getting snacks. We always had some in a cupboard so I went there and got them, then I went back.
Gil and Franny had already started, both were a little drunk already, there earlier argument already forgotten, so I placed the snacks still in their bags on the coffee table and started drinking myself not wanting to fall behind.

Nothing really happened we just drank and joked around, teasing each other and I concentrated on trying to find hints on Franny's love interest as much as I could in my drunk state and also I tried to find out why I couldn't remember the face of Gil's boyfriend.
Not the easiest of things to do while drunk and because none of us spoke about love.

Some hours later most of the booze was gone and we all were drunk. Not that drunk that we would forget what had happened in the morning but enough to most likely get a major hangover.

How long we had been drinking I don't know but at some point we passed out one after another, me being the last to pass out.
I had the best fortune with lying on the couch. Gil passed out on the coffee table and Franny was lying on the ground behind him.

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My consciousness picked up a sound and woke me a little. I recognized it as the front door so Lovi did come home. I kept my eyes closed. I didn't want to see what Lovi would do in his rage and embarrassment. I heard his approaching footsteps but they were different from what I imagined. It wasn't stomping, he walked with his normal cute steps.
Still they approached the living room.
What was on Lovi's mind? I could handle Lovi's normal attitude but this was torture. I couldn't handle this. I was afraid of his calmness.
I wanted to just open my eyes and see what was happening. Go and greet him to gauge his reaction but Lovi was already in the living room.
What would happen if I woke up now? I stayed 'asleep' wanting to 'wake up' when Lovi did something that would be a cue to wake up but he was silent and approached me.
I could hear his footsteps closer and closer.
At one point the footsteps stopped and I could sense him right beside me.

Would I get hit? Would he yell right into my ear?

I felt him lean closer and could feel his breath on my cheek. Then I felt a soft touch on my cheek.

Part of Lovi's face, soft, …
He kissed my cheek!
I was happy. I needed every bit of my self-control to not start smiling a very bright smile.
But why?

When his lips left my face I could feel his presence still right next to me for a few moments. Then he ran from the room, at least it sounded like that, and knocked over some of the bottles littered around on the floor and up the stairs.
When I heard footsteps on the stairs I opened my eyes. The room was almost completely dark just illuminated by the moonlight. Gil and Franny were still sleeping to they really passed out from the alcohol.

When I stood up from the couch to follow Lovi I could already feel a light headache but my head also felt a lot clearer than it did before I fell asleep. I wondered how long it had been since I fell asleep and what time it was now.

I slowly made my way to the stairs carefully avoiding the bottles because I didn't want to wake up my friends, then I felt my way up the stairs and to Lovi's room.
The door was wide open and Lovi stood in his room with his back to me and one of his hands on his mouth.
It seemed like he hadn't heard me or knew I was behind him.
I just stood there for a few moments but when Lovi didn't move at all I approached him. I didn't really try to be silent but my steps still were silenced by the carpet.

Lovi still didn't move even when I was right behind him.
All I wanted to do was hug him. Kiss him. But spooking him was the last thing I wanted to do. So I settled for a hand on his shoulder and a whispered "Hey Lovi~ Welcome back"

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So nothing new about SpaMano in this chapter… but you'll hopefully get plenty in the next chapter, whenever I'll finish that…
And also I tried a little bit of new formatting in this chapter. Longer parts. Not so many short tiny sentences. How is it? Is it still readable?
It flows somehow naturally with Antonio but with Lovi I think the short and broken style is better because of his randomness…

So my school had its 150 year anniversary last month and there were loads of things to do. We had a day of arts a sports festival and a science day. Science day was boring we had to build bridges and compete with them… but day of arts resulted in the big fight between Gilbert and Francis…

And to celebrate the anniversary we also had a BIG party in the biggest event location in my town and there the teachers' choir sang. Nobody really wants to hear the teachers sing but my friends and I still went to see them just for fun and they started their performance with a speech. The speaker started talking about Prussia and I already had fun with just that but when he said "Everybody was kneeling at Prussia's feet" (really like that not with Prussians) me and my friends had to leave because we were laughing too hard.

Hetalia day is now over in Germany xDxD I really wanted to go as Prussia but my wig still hasn't arrived… But I finished sewing my flag now I just need to paint Gilbird on it…