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BlueStar1937: Yeah it's about time Antonio does something huh? NO SPOILERS! And what can you see the future or something, how do you know that's going to happen XD.
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"I don't know if I can do this guys…" Antonio stood at his feet outside of the familiar restaurant terrified to enter. "I don't know if it will work…" he sounded unsure causing Gilbert to throw a smirk at Francis who was adamantly trying to reinsure his doubtful friend.
"Of course it will work, mon cher," Francis rubbed his friend's back reassuringly and Antonio calmed somewhat. "Besides," The Frenchman continued "It is not like you are asking him out or anything right?" He searched momentarily in Antonio's eyes for a hint of displayed emotions and found none out of place. "You are just trying to be friends with him after all," The Frenchman shrugged, no matter what the outcome of this speech was positive, either he reinsured Antonio or Antonio admitted his feelings for the Italian chef.
"I guess your right…"
"Of course he is right, dude, you can't chicken out of this now" At the mentioning of the word, as if on cue, a yellow bird popped out of his nest in Gilbert's hair and looked down at Antonio. "And, I mean dude, what can go wrong? So he says no we can always try plan B some time," Gilbert flashed a smile at Francis who rolled his eyes, "And if he doesn't say yes it's not such a big deal, I mean not really if you think about it.
"He is right, Antoine, I don't know how but somehow his brain has finally managed to pull off a miracle and make sense." Francis glared at the albino friend before continuing, "As much as I hate to say it there is a plan b, if you need it of course, which I mean you want because no one knows more than me about this sort of thing," His eyes sparkled at his own praise.
"Shut up Francey-Pants, you know more about how to get into someone's pants than most people, not friendships, for most people that are not you, there is a difference. However I am so awesome I know perfectly well how to make friends," He smiled brilliantly at himself.
Antonio watched the exchange silently, they had been like that since they had planned this the week before. Gilbert and Francis were two very different people and as such they had extremely different ideas as to how Antonio should befriend the Italian. Both assumed their own idea to be right the other's to be wrong and believed that Antonio should listen to them. Francis whoever insisted he was not going to help with Gilbert's idea if his was not tried first, hence why they were standing outside the restaurant just now.
"I guess, maybe you guys are right, I should just do this!" Antonio had a new wave of confidence which his friends took advantage of.
"Of course we are right," Francis said and winked at Gilbert.
"Now quit stalling and get in there!" Gilbert said as he and Francis pushed Antonio through the door and directly into a certain Italian chef.
"What the fuck ass hole who do you think you ar-" Lovino started picking himself up from the ground and turning to see who was behind him, "Oh my fucking god you have to be fucking kidding me."
"Hi Lovi-" Antonio started cheering up as soon as he saw the small Italian, who adorned a glare that forced Antonio to add the "-no" to the end of his name.
"What the fuck do you want you damn tomato bastard, we are closed." Lovino said as he picked up his bag from the ground and Antonio saw he had, in fact caught, him on the way out the door.
'Thank god for Francis and Gilbert, I nearly missed him," Antonio thought before realising the Italian was waiting for him to speak. "Oh, uh, actually, I came to talk to you," Antonio said inspecting the younger man, whose face suddenly became puzzled, worried then it acquired a slight blush which both confused the Spaniard and for some reason gave him a strong feeling of saying "cuuuuuuuuuuuuuute" which he promptly suppressed. 'That's weird why would I even think of saying that?'
After the Italian recovered from the shock a scowl set into his face as he replied "What the fuck about tomato bastard?"
"Oh yeah, I was wondering if you would want to hang out sometime," Antonio started and the briefest unidentifiable expression flashed in Lovino's eyes before he screamed
"Fuck no, why the hell would I want to do that?"
Antonio's heart dropped, but he continued on with a chipper tone "Come on it will be fun! We can get to know each other so that we can be friends," The Italian did not look as menacing as before. "We can go to the park, walk around some, feed birds," Lovino's face portrayed no emotions in his typical scowl, though his eyes betrayed bewildered emotions, "go for a picnic." Lovino's mouth dropped and his eyes expanded pure surprise evident on his face.
"W-What!? Fuck no bastard! I am not going on a fucking date with you!" Lovino turned to move but was blocked by the Spaniard.
"I said nothing of a date , this would be two friends hanging out doesn't it sound fun?" Antonio's eyes shined with hope as he looked down at Lovino.
"F-Fuck no!" Lovino's face burned bright red and he moved around the obstacle. "Get out of my way and stay the hell away from me!"
He was out the door before Antonio's smile faltered briefly disappointment in his eyes. He then remembered his friends' words, 'there is always plan B… ', he thought as he walked out of the building to go find his friends.
"I don't understand, why did my plan not work? It was pure genius!" Francis was ranting, mostly to himself, about the failed plan.
"I told you it was because you are an idiot" Gilbert smirked at him.
"I am not an idiot, much less in matters such as these."
"Then why did you fail?" Gilbert smiled victoriously at his friend's speechlessness. "Your idea sounded more like an attempt to get in his pants than become his friend. Not to mention I can't think of more than five people you have been friends with since high school and not slept with, so of course you aren't going to have the best take of friendship."
"Well at least I know my lovers for more than a few drunken hours"
"Both of you do that" Antonio finally chimed in, adding to the amusing conversation.
"Oh, like you are any better?" Gilbert asked his friend leaving him looking confused and forcing him to elaborate "You meet someone one time and actually think you are in love with them and that you two are soul mates."
"THAT HAPPENED ONE TIME!"
"No, mon cher it has happened many times, I can name five within the past six months." Francis commented.
"At least I remember their names," Antonio threw a look at the other two.
"Okay last October blonde you met her in a bar and went on five dates what is her name?" Gilbert prompted but Antonio stayed silent.
"That was a long time ago…" Antonio answered eventually while looking down, ashamed, and the other two started laughing. Eventually Antonio's laughter joined them as they drank another round of beer.
"Okay," Gilbert said slurring slightly as he leaned forward, "Now it is my turn to help my friend get a 'friend'" Gilbert winked and made quotations with his fingers causing the drunken Francis and Antonio to laugh. "So this is my awesome plan…"
One week later and Antonio was facing a familiar situation in which Gilbert's plan was to be enacted "But, what if he says no again!?" he pleaded trying to convince his friends to let him back out.
"No can do dude, besides that was Francis' fault for coming up with a dumb idea," the blonde shot a glare at him but he continued anyway, "My idea on the other hand is pure awesome, in fact it is nearly as awesome as me, so it has no possibility of failure!" His self-assured smile comforted Antonio and helped him to believe his friend.
"Okay, okay," he said to his friends then mostly to himself "I can do this."
"Of course you can mon ami, and if not then we can always come up with another idea," Francis said shaking his head. Antonio wondered briefly, if he failed again how long would they keep helping him before telling him to suck it up and move on, that one gu- friend was not worth the trouble? He mentally sighed wanting to avoid that conversation and put even more faith into the idea that this plan could indeed work.
This time he walked in on his own free will leaving his friends arguing on the sidewalk. He searched the room for the Italian, who after a few moments exited the kitchen with a scowl on his face.
When he noticed Antonio he jumped in shock before his scowl deepened "Fuck. Damn it, you again, I thought I made it perfectly clear last time, I don't want to be your damn friend or anything got it?" He moved to leave but Antonio was still in front of the door blocking his only escape.
"Come on, just listen to me!"
"Why the fuck should I do that, bastard?"
"Because I am blocking the door and won't let you out until you do?" Antonio prompted raising an eyebrow and smiling.
"That is called kidnapping dumbass."
"Sure it is Lovi…" he got a threatening glare from the Italian before adding the "…no" to his name.
"Fine damn it I will listen but I have to be home soon bastard, my idiot brother will be waiting on me."
"Yay~!" Antonio chirped happily "Okay, I was wondering if you would want to go to a bar and hang out again like last time."
"No."
"Come on give me one good reason why not."
"Okay I can't drink." Antonio remembered the concussion he had mentioned the other day, Is that still going on? Does Lovino have a drinking problem? Or worst of all Is he trying to avoid me?
"Well we could do something else…" Antonio tried to calm himself.
"No." Lovino crossed his arms and Antonio deflated slightly but maintained his smile.
"Why not?" Antonio unconsciously took a step towards the Italian.
"Why should I?" Another step, Lovino's eyes flashed to something behind him but he ignored it.
"Because we should be friends…" Another step forward.
"Why do you think so?" This question made Antonio stop and think he was not really sure why he wanted to befriend the feisty Italian he just knew that he did. Something about him intrigued the Spaniard and made him want to get to know him but how could he tell Lovino that… "We don't fucking know each other and have nothing in common, there is not a damn reason to be friends besides your creepy obsession." Lovino clearly made his point and Antonio stood there unable to speak too busy thinking.
Antonio was kicked back to reality when he heard the door shut quickly behind him. As he had moved forward he had left the door completely open and Lovino had run out the door at his first opportunity. Antonio returned to his friends with disappointed eyes.
"Come on man, don't be sad, he must have had a good reason for saying no right?" The trio was gathered in Antonio's apartment again "It is just going drinking not a big deal or anything…" Gilbert tried to console his friend.
"If it was not a big deal why did he say no and run out of the building terrified?" Francis questioned then re-shattering the crumbled Antonio. "We need to come up with a better idea, one so magnifique that Lovino could never turn down." Francis sat there racking his brain, Antonio laid numbly on the couch trying to ward off his depression and Gilbert looked lost and zoned out.
"How many more times are we going to do this?" Antonio questioned from his spot on the couch causing the other two to look at him with confused and worried expressions. Antonio rarely sounded so down and it worried them, he took their confusion to be that they didn't understand what he had asked so he clarified, "How many times are you going to try to help me get him to be my firend?"
"We will do it until you are ready to stop, mon cher," Francis asserted putting a hand on his friend's shoulder. "That is why we started this in the first place, to help you because you wanted this, and we won't stop until we succeed or you are ready to stop." Francis looked to the albino for backup only to see him still zoned out "Right Gilbert?"
"Oh right, sorry, I was thinking…"
"That's a first" Antonio snickered happy that his friends were not giving up, if they did Antonio had no chance.
Francis also laughed before adding, "Don't hurt yourself mon cher, we need your help with Antoine's problem."
"Yeah, that is what I was thinking about actually…" Gilbert admitted and Antonio was worried at the uneasy look in his friend's eyes.
"Oh, do tell," Francis placed his chin on his hands and elbows on his knees as he leaned forward.
"I was thinking, Lovino is a really tough case, tougher than I thought…" hearing him say this worried Antonio and his pulse quickened as he kept speaking. "I have been wondering if this was a good idea, I mean if the three of us can't get someone to be our friend there is a problem there…" Every word was like a knife in Antonio's heart "I was wondering if it were possible and if the three of us could do it…"
Francis gave him a warning look threatening him to continue his sentences, "If you are suggesting that we let poor Antoine give up-"
"No, that is not what I am saying at all" Gilbert suddenly snapped out of his unsure state, "I was thinking… We might need a little more help…"
"Really, from who, that could actually be useful if it was the right person…" Francis began daydreaming about a possible new ally, or sex-partner, Antonio could never really tell. Knowing his friend it was probably both.
"I already know who, just let me make a phone call." Gilbert whipped out his phone and scrolled through the contacts, he found the appropriate number and called it, putting it on speaker but instructed his friends to be quiet.
After what felt like an eternity of ringing to Antonio a happy voice picked up the phone, "Ve, hello?"
AN
UH-OH! Guess who! This can't go well for Lovi…
Why do I love writing these guys so much? It is just so much fun XD.
Sorry if this isn't the best chapter (it's mainly for humour (or an attempt at it) and filler) but things get interesting soon, I promise.
WOW! Just, wow, thank you all so much for all of the favourites, followers, and reviews after last chapter! I can't believe this story has gotten the attention it has. It really means a lot to me and actually you weren't going to get this chapter until tomorrow (I was being lazy and this weekend has been insanely busy and I have been having writer's block) But I felt you all deserved it today!
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