{Chapter XIV "A Froggy Proposal"}

Humming, Alfred jumped aboard a lower deck of a riverboat. Seeing that the coast was clear, he whistled letting the others knows. Unfortunately once everyone was aboard, a shadow appeared on a wall that looked like "Hunters with guns!" Alfred exclaimed. Francis, Lovino, and Antonio hid behind Alfred as he squared up in hopes of looking like a box. The men walked by but stopped when they saw Alfred.

"That is one life-like costume!" One of the men exclaimed.

"Gator, can you play that horn?" Another asked. Alfred quickly played a couple upbeat notes on his trumpet.

"Amazing! You should come with us gator, we're playing Mardi Gras!" The third one told him. Alfred instantly jumped back to life and excitedly followed the men, continuing his earlier tune happily. Antonio and Lovino sighed in relief, and then tensed up again once they realized they were holding onto each other for dear life.

Francis sighed when they jumped apart. "Well come on now! We can't miss Alfred finally playing with the big boys!"

Lovino nodded and started hopping after him. He stopped when he realized Antonio wasn't alongside him. "Aren't you coming, Antonio?"

"I'll be right there," Antonio replied. "Go on ahead." Lovino looked like he wanted to say something, but instead he nodded again and hopped away a little faster than before. Antonio sighed and his eyes followed Lovino until he turned a corner. Why was this so hard? Mama Lizzie had definitely proven to him that he needed real love, and that his love was for Lovino. Even Alfred and Francis could see that. But could Lovino? Antonio sighed again. This would be so much easier if he were a human. Then again, if he were still a human he would never have met Lovino in the correct circumstance and would be marrying Feliciano. Wait a minute, Antonio thought. Marriage! That's it! I know how to prove to my Lovi that I love him!

Antonio smiled at his work. He found a fake pearl, and was able to twist wine muselet to make a decent looking engagement ring. Antonio sighed. He was doing that a lot lately. Was this whole situation so stressful? He loved Lovino, why couldn't he just say it outloud! The wishing star, Jeanne, shined brightly down on him as if giving him some encouragement.

"Oh Jeanne, why is this so hard? Why can't I just tell Lovino how I feel?" Antonio asked.

Francis sighed in relief. He found Antonio! Lovino wouldn't admit it, but he was definitely worried when he kept asking if 'anyone has seen that damn tomato bastard.' Francis then frowned when he saw Antonio's sad face. "Antone, what is wrong mon ami?"

"I'm in love with Lovino."

"Okay, I know Lovino can be rude and feisty, but is being in love with him really all that bad?"

Antonio laughed. "No, being in love with him isn't bad. Not at all, actually! It's wonderful, he's wonderful. I just…I don't know how to tell him."

"Antonio you're being ridiculous. You just have to go out and tell him!"

"Francis, you don't get it. I can't do that!"

"Sure you can! Like this 'Lovino, I love you!'"

"No you don't, asshole," Lovino growled from behind them.

Antonio turned around and beamed at a scowling Lovino. "Sure we do, Lovi! You're too cute not to love!"

Francis groaned. You idiot, he thought. Then he smirked. "Well I'll just leave you two love birds alone. Don't do anything I wouldn't!" Lovino glared at him but Antonio just laughed.

"That leaves our options wide open, doesn't it Lovi?" Antonio asked teasingly.

Lovino, thanking the universe that frogs can't blush, turned his glare towards Antonio. "How many times do I have to tell you not to call me Lovi!"

"You might want to give up soon because I'm not going to stop."

"So you're going to follow me around for the rest of my life calling me 'Lovi'?"

Antonio beamed. "Sounds like a plan." Lovino was going to protest but a sudden thought crossed his mind: he would definitely be okay with Antonio bugging him the rest of his life. Not that he was going to tell Antonio that. All Antonio wanted was to marry someone wealthy and become rich again. Luckily, Lovino found a distraction.

"There it is!" He exclaimed and pointed towards the old sugar mil.

Antonio followed his eyes to where Lovino pointed. "Your restaurant?" he asked.

Lovino sat down and pulled Antonio with him. "Isn't it beautiful? Oh, can't you just picture it all lit up?"

"Jazz pouring out of every window!"

"I want it to be elegant, bastard. There will be beautiful Italian music filling the crevasses the smell of food doesn't reach."

"Oh but you have to keep it lose, mi amor!"

Lovino laughed and then sighed in content. "Just imagine, people will be coming from everywhere just to get a taste of our food."

"Our food?"

Lovino nodded. "My nonno's and mine. It was his idea in the first place, and he taught me everything I know. With your help, our dreams will finally be coming true tomorrow."

"Why tomorrow?"

"I have to turn in the money by tomorrow or I lose the place."

Antonio nodded and quickly shoved away the ring and the ideas surrounding it. "Ah, I see. Well Lovi, I promise that I'll do anything I have to do to make that dream happen."

Lovino beamed and then, surprisingly, hugged Antonio. "Oh Antonio, thank you so much."

Antonio just nodded and grudgingly untangled himself from Lovino. "Of course, but now I…well, I'll go find Alfred and Francis."

Lovino nodded and put his head in his hands when Antonio was out of sight. Jeanne was shinning bright on him, as if giving him encouragement this time. "Oh Jeanne, what do I do? I've always known exactly what I wanted. Put my dream first, but now…now I'm not sure what my dream is."

Unfortunately, while Lovino was explaining all this to Jeanne, he didn't notice Antonio getting captured by the shadows working for Dr. Kirkland.

A/N: Ta-da! To be honest with y'all, I was so close to having Antonio just propose to Lovino and having them blow off this sucker and just get married. Then I realized I wanted a thicker plot so I continued along the lines of the original story line.

I hope y'all have been enjoying this Heataliafied Disney fic-thing so far. I'll see how much I can update today. I'm going to a cardiologist, so we'll see.

Ciao, Athineath~