Chapter 2
But Feliciano's happy spirit and running after Ludwig didn't return. As time passed Ludwig's worries grew bigger and bigger until he barely walked outside, he just sat under his worktable with the phone Feliciano always calls on his knees and a beer in his hand. This was not normal for Ludwig who was known to watch over everything and was very careful with alcohol. But there was no Feliciano he needed to help, no Feliciano always being after him loudly screaming and destroying his work. One day there was an important meeting with all the summer activity groups at Francis's home. Ludwig who still was waiting for Feliciano's call was dragged to the meeting by Kiku who thought it might cheer him up. When everyone was there the meeting started.
-"Well, what do we need to talk about today then?" Alfred asks through a mouthful of his favorite food, hamburgers.
-"Apart from Ludwig's super weird behavior" says Francis, looking at Ludwig who's sitting on his chair with his face flat on the table.
-"Yeah, what's happened Ludwig? You haven't been looking over my group with a loud Italy for a really long time!" says Arthur and turns around to look at Ludwig.
-"Where's Feliciano by the way?" asks Francis looking around, "I haven't seen him with his pasta group for a long time".
-"You tell me" Ludwig says and raises his head so that it would look like he didn't care.
-"Don't you look after him?" Francis asks in a mean tone, "you always rush whenever he needs help".
Ludwig rose with a face that showed his panic but then sat down with an expression of "I don't care "again. Everyone stares at him, shocked. Everyone, even Francis who really hates Ludwig, wonders what's wrong with him. When he doesn't say anything Roderich says slowly:
-"Well Ludwig… you seem… a bit out of shape, do you want to go home?"
Without saying anything, Ludwig stands up and walks out of the room. Everyone follows him with their eyes until he's out of the room. When he's out of the house Arthur yells:
-"Why did you do that for Roderich?!"
-"Now when he's out of the room we have to have a serious talk about those two, seriously neither one of them have been outside for a very long time!" Roderich says seriously.
-"I agree, I found Ludwig before the meeting sitting with his phone under his table and empty beer bottles around him. I needed to drag him to the meeting" Kiku explains seriously like the Japanese he is.
-"Why do I need to care" Francis asks with a bored voice, "I don't care about Ludwig".
-"No but you do care about Feliciano, ne?" Kiku asks.
-"No, not at all!" Francis says and crosses his arms but you could see in his eyes that he does care about Feliciano, like a little brother.
-"Anyway to find the problem with Ludwig we need to first know what Feliciano's problem is" Kiku says, "I know Ludwig's, it's obvious that he's worried about Feliciano".
-"Well sure!" Francis laughs, "Ludwig? Worried?"
-"He called me and you could clearly hear on his voice that he was seriously worried, and you saw his face for just a minute ago" Kiku says and looks seriously at Francis.
Francis got silent again. Something's really wrong with Ludwig…
-"Whatever, we need a plan" Roderich says to break the silence.
-"Yeah, first thing we can do is that we all stalk Feliciano for more clues" Arthur says. He didn't care about either Ludwig or Feliciano and he wanted to go home to England but this seems interesting.
-"How many are with us?" Kiku asks the other ones.
Not many raised their hands but after the meeting they had a little "Ludwig Feliciano problem solver group" shortly "LFPS group". It contained the following persons: Kiku, Roderich, Francis, Arthur and Ivan.