And That's Not Great

"Where have you been?" Lovino questioned as Antonio came in. Normally, Lovino would have demanded. He believed himself to have that right. Truth be told, however, he did not feel very angry at the moment and could not put such force into his words.

"Out telling my best man who he is!" Antonio said brightly as he made his way over and hugged Lovino from behind. Lovino's good mood was no longer as good. Which should not have been right. Lovino should have been thrilled, he should have been happy, he had been telling Antonio to do this since, well, yesterday. The fact that Antonio had done it so fast was overwhelming. And yet, knowing the two people Antonio had to choose from did not make Lovino feel good about it. He knew who he would rather choose, but that would be ignoring Arthur's horror stories that Francis had not grown up yet.

"Oh? And who is that?" he asked carefully. He would be calm about this, it would be okay. As long as it was not Gilbert, right?

"Francis!" Antonio said bright, kissing him on the neck. Lovino melted into the embrace. Just ignore all of what Arthur said he is like. He seems better than how he was when I was a teen, so it has to be okay. "And then I asked Gilbert to be our officiant!"

Lovino (now) had no good mood to speak of. "What the–"

"You did! That's wonderful!" Marcus said as he reentered the room. Lovino scoffed.

"No it's not! Grandpa!" Lovino pleaded, hoping that the man would see sense. Which was probably the wrong thing to hope from him, but Lovino tried it all the same.

"He's going to be family eventually, when Feliciano finally realizes that he needs to ask Ludwig to marry him instead of waiting for it to happen the other way around~!"

Gilbert would be family. Oh God no. Lovino felt his mind break.

"I should talk with the both of them! I've been an officiant and a best man in my time... several times over! I can give them both tips!"

"Would you? Thank you so much!"

"It's nothing! All to make certain that your wedding is perfect!" Marcus smiled widely as he opened up the window to let fresh air in. Lovino wanted to scream, but with the window open he suddenly decided that would be a bad idea. What was also a bad idea? Gilbert being the officiant. Maybe Francis being the best man... Lovino was certain just making certain the Frenchman did not drink anything beforehand might keep that from going wrong, but he was not certain about that either.

No, he had to stay calm. His grandfather was fine about it. Marcus could be weird, but Lovino wanted to trust that whatever he had to say to the both of those men would keep them in order for this one day that Lovino wanted to look forward to. Look forward to, not dread.

"Thanks for doing that, stupid," he managed to say to Antonio. Antonio looked positively glee-ridden and kissed him. Lovino could not help but smile.

At least, until he was distracted by a loud noise that drifted in through the window. "Get out! OUT!"

"What the hell?" Lovino asked, pulling away from Antonio.

"What was what?" asked Antonio, who probably did not even hear it. Typical. Lovino rose to his feet so as to look out the window. He did not see anything, but his attention suddenly shifted to Marcus.

Marcus frowned and left.


Notes:

Pleaded might have been what I wrote, but I think Lovino was whining. It sounds more accurate to me.

I just realized that no family members have threatened anyone in this wedding. I am so used to writing about characters who would have a sibling or a family member threaten one of the members of the 'happy' couple. Feliciano is not the threatening type and Marcus really likes Antonio, so I guess this is one of the few cases of something like this that I will ever write. For, as we know, Ludwig is totally going to be threatened by Lovino.

It would be a complete fail!threat.