This part for some reason took me three days to write.

Feliciano sighed softly, squinting across the large sunlit garden. The first day of summer. He inhaled deeply, it was so lovely, so perfect. He couldn't help wishing that Ludwig was there to share it with him.

He walked out to his sun lounger and undressed himself, sighing softly and stretching, standing in the sun for a moment.

There was something about being naked outside that Feliciano really loved, feeling the sun's warmth on quite literally every inch of himself, it was so lovely, it felt so freeing.

Romano hated that he did it, but he couldn't stop himself, part of him needed it, that feeling, he lived for it.

He rubbed sun lotion onto his body, laying down, sighing softly as he let himself slowly fall asleep.

The small bleep of his facebook messenger pulled him to a woken state.

'Feli are you out of the house?'

Feliciano smiled softly, staring at Ludwig's profile picture and reading the message, imagining his voice saying it.

'Yeah, I'm sunbathing.'

'Sunbathing? It's raining here, kind of depressing.'

Feliciano frowned softly, he wasn't sure why but he always felt bad when Ludwig wasn't experiencing what he was. Whenever he went to a show he felt bad that Ludwig wasn't there too, and was instead at home watching tv or something.

Feliciano got up to make his way inside, stretching and locating his clothes so he could get dressed, though part of him didn't want to.

He flinched softly as a white flash pierced his peripheral vision, he turned his head, hearing someone swearing loudly.

He took a step forward, frowning, reaching down and taking his shirt to cover himself.

"Hey!" he shouted loudly, "Who's there, are you taking photos of me?"

The leaves of the tree by the fence rustled, but no one answered. Feliciano quickly pulled on his clothes and sprinted across the grass, raising onto his tip-toes to look over the fence. He couldn't see anyone, but he could tell there'd been people there, they'd left drink bottles and sandwich wrappers amongst Romano's lilies.

Feliciano frowned, he pulled out his phone again, ignoring Ludwig's massages and writing 'brb, the photographers have left a mess 3:'

He walked through the quiet house and to the front door, he thought about telling Romano but decided against it. He knew it would make him angry and he'd been so quiet and happy for the past couple of months.

He smiled a lot now, it was lovely.

He opened the front door, biting his lip at the sight of yet more photographers, "Excuse me," he said tentatively as he made his way towards the fence where he'd seen the rubbish, "Excuse me, I need to get past."

He ignored the crowd's questions and went to the fence, picking up the rubbish and going back inside. He bit his lip and frowned.

They'd gotten photographs of him sunbathing, naked, they'd print them in the papers and Romano would get so mad, he knew he would…

Should he tell him?

He knew he had to tell Ludwig.

Oh god how would Ludwig react?

…It would be ok, he'd just be truthful, Ludwig would understand.

He threw the rubbish in the bin, and walked to sit in the livingroom, pulling out his phone again and beginning to type to Ludwig.

'Luddy… I have something to tell you.'

'What Feli?'

Feliciano grit his teeth slightly as he typed out what had just happened, swallowing hard before he sent the message.

'You did what?' Ludwig typed back after a moment.

'Feliciano Why Were You Naked Outside?'

Feliciano frowned, 'I like being naked outside ludwig, it's nice.'

'But people see you! Don't you understand how bad that is?'

Feliciano sighed, laying back on the sofa, feeling his spirits fall. 'I know Luddy… I didn't know they'd take photos, I didn't know they could see over the fence.'

In all truthfulness the thought of if they could or not had never crossed his mind.

'They shouldn't have taken photos like that, and you shouldn't have been naked outside!'

He hadn't expected Ludwig to react with so much anger, Feliciano let out a small whine, typing back a quick 'I'm sorry.'

He had to tell Romano now, he couldn't not do and let him find out through the papers the next day.

"Romano," he called softly through the house, his gut filling with dread, hoping against hope that Romano wouldn't reply…

He flinched as Romano shouted "What, Feli?" down from his den.

Cautiously Feliciano ascended the stairs, standing awkwardly in the door frame, his hands entwined and his eyes on his feet.

"Romano…" he said again, more softly this time.

Romano frowned as he looked up at him. "Give me a moment Gil," he said quietly before pulling his mic off his face. "What's wrong Feliciano, what's happened?"

Feliciano let out a tiny whine, heat rising in his face, bringing tears to his eyes. "I was sunbathing naked and I saw a flash from the fence and I think people were taking photos of me, Romano."

"You were what?" Romano growled softly, "Feliciano how many times have I told you not to do that?" he shook his head, "I got you that stupid thong thing so you wouldn't be totally naked, why didn't you wear that? Why did you have to be naked?"

Feliciano felt tears leave his eyes, "I'm sorry Romano I forgot, I'm sorry, I didn't know they would take photos."

Romano huffed, "They've been swarming the house since you kissed that stupid German boy, they take photos of everything Feli!"

The younger boy looked up, frowning, "Don't call Ludwig stupid, I love him Romano, this isn't his fault!"

"He is fucking stupid!" Romano yelled, "It's his fault they're all here, it's doing all this to you while it's not affecting him at all." He shook his head, "Fucking… Idiots, you're both idiots. Why couldn't you keep all this to yourself? It's affecting everyone Feliciano, I can't even go out to buy food without them hounding me!"

Feliciano whimpered again, unable to hold back the noise, "I'm sorry Romano," he said weakly, "I-I didn't know it would make things so bad," he swallowed hard, wiping the tears from his eyes, "I just wanted to be happy."

Romano huffed again, "Don't fucking cry Feli," he said, his voice softer, "Don't get upset."

"I can't help it," Feliciano squeaked, "I just want to be happy but everything keeps going wrong."

"Feli… Don't worry about it ok? I'll deal with what happens when it happens, just go ok? It'll be fine."

Feliciano nodded and wiped his eyes, feeling better now Romano had said that. Romano had this weird way of making everything feel better and worse at the same time. But Feliciano always walked away feeling better. He guessed that just talking about it, however brief, made him feel better.

He left the room and pulled out his phone, seeing half a dozen messages from Ludwig, the final one being 'Feli are you even listening to me..?'

'I'm sorry', Feliciano replied, 'I talked to Romano. He said he'll fix everything, so it's ok.'

'Ok' Ludwig replied, 'That's good'.

'But you can't expect Romano to fix everything for you all the time. You have to think about what you do.'

'I know Ludwig…'

'I'm only saying it because I don't like when you're upset. You have to think about what you're doing.'

Feliciano smiled, 'I know, that way things don't upset me in the first place.'

'Exactly.'

Feliciano smiled, sighing softly as he looked down at the phone. He should go and get his computer, he wanted to call Ludwig again, see his face and hear his voice for real.

He tried to push what had happened to the back of his mind, and he climbed the stairs to his room in the roof, he loved it up here, it got cold in the winter, but he loved the shaping of it, the slanted walls and the high ceiling.

It was the largest room by floor size but it seemed smallest.

He turned on his laptop, pulling up skype and calling Ludwig, happiness filling him again at the mere thought he could talk to him.

He'd never felt such love for another person, the feeling devoured him, he loved it and hated it at the same time.

He almost melted at the sound of his voice. "Feli."

"Ludwig," he cooed, "I missed you…"

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