Feliciano and Ludwig made it to school and got their schedules.
"Ve~ check it cool Ludwig! We got some classes together!" Feliciano pointed out shoving the paper in Ludwig's face.
"Yes. I see that" Ludwig sighed pushing the Italians' hand from his face. They had math, gym, lunch and history together.
"Hey brohas!" Ludwig turned around; his brother had just called a few feet away. "Let me see your schedule, I want to see if you have any classes with the awesome me."
Ludwig gave his brother his paper and he snatched it out of his hands. Gilbert studied it greedily for a few moments before his eyes lit up and he smiled.
"This is awesome! We have gym and lunch together!" Gilbert laughed. "And if you're wondering about my New Year traditions," his smile turned devious, "All went down smoothly!" Gilbert turned and walked away, "See you later bruder!"
"What does he mean by New Year traditions?" Feliciano asked his curiosity peaked.
Ludwig smiled awkwardly "uh… nothing, it's just an inside- I-I-I mean personal joke."
Feliciano still looked confused but he let it go. "Okay, well let's go to math!"
Feliciano grabbed the sleeve of Ludwig's shirt, and pulled him down the hall. Ludwig stumbled at first but regained his balance quickly.
Is zis vhat friends do? Ludwig asked himself. People were usually not this affectionate to him.
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"Hello students of new year aru! I will teach you the Asian ways of math-get A or I disown you aru!" Feliciano and Ludwig's new teacher- Mr. Yao- was yelling to the students. "You are all honor students so I expect you all to keep up with the curriculum. Now I'll pass out your forms aru!"
Mr. Yao gave a stack of papers to the kids in the front row who in turn took their stuff and passed the rest to the person in back of them. Ludwig stole a glance at Feliciano who choose to sit to his left. The Italian was busy drawing pictures of cats and completely ignoring the class around him.
How ze holy hell did zis guy get in zis class? Ludwig thought to himself, Vell I guess he could just be book smart. Ludwig looked at the rest of the kids in the class, very few looked to have any enthusiasm at all, and one kid was even slurping down a shake with no regard for his neighbors. Or zis school could just have low standards.
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"Ve~ Ludwig I'm so excited for gym this year!" Feliciano and Ludwig were sitting on the gym floor with the rest of the class waiting for the teacher. "Hey look! It's Tino and Berwald! Hey guys come sit over here!" Feliciano made wild hand gestures and Tino and Berwald came to sit by them.
"How fun it is that Mr. Berwald and I have gym with you guys!" Tino smiled happily, and Berwald just nodded slightly.
At that moment Gilbert came running into the gym, he looked around to see were his brother was and sat down next to him.
"There you are West! How's your day so far, mine's been fucking awesome!" Gilbert noticed the two others sitting by them and addressed the taller one. "Hey Berwald, and...?"
"I'm Tino! It's a pleasure to meet you!"
The door to the gym opened and this time it was the teacher who came in. He was a tall muscular man with brown hair that was a bit messy in some areas making some loose strands of hair stick out in random places. He had a bit of stubble on his chin and an attractive shade of brown eyes.
"Ciao everybody sorry I was late! I needed to break up a fight in the hallway. So I guess I'm your P.E. teacher this year. Any way for you new kids you can call me Mr. or Coach Vargas, anyone your most comfortable with~!"
Vargas, huh? Isn't zat Feliciano's last name? Now zat I zink about it he does sort of sound like him too… Or maybe I'm just reading into Italian stereotypes like a dummkopf. Ludwig's thoughts were confirmed when he got jabbed in the ribs with an elbow.
"Hey Ludwig," Feliciano whispered, "That's my grandpa! Isn't he cool?" Ludwig nodded, if he was going to be honest to himself, this man did look very respectable and admirable.
"Okay first I'm gonna take attendance and then we'll go check out the locker rooms to go over the rules and show the new kids the regulations." Coach Vargas called out the attendance and then led the group the locker rooms.
"Okay let's go over the rules, number one; if you leave anything in the lockers, make sure to lock it up with a school lock. You don't know how many times people have had to call home to get clothes dropped off because someone took their stuff while they were in the shower. Also, if something does get stolen we are not responsible so be careful. Number two; don't run around in here, you knuckleheads will have enough time for that during gym, capiche?... If any of the P.E. teachers catches you running around acting like an idiot, you will get detention…. Also; I know you are all teenagers and you like to 'compare' things, I don't wanna see any of that…. We're okay to a degree with P.D.A., however I don't care who you are no one showers together and don't make out in here, do it on your own time…." Coach Vargas rambled on with all the other rules and what not's.
However the shower part of the coaches' speech made Ludwig feel uncomfortable, was it normal in this country to just walk in and take a shower with others? He didn't like the idea of using the shower in someone else's home. He looked at his class mates there were many kids, a few boys were holding hands.
"Oh."
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"Ve~ lets go to lunch!" The bell to switch classes went off and again Feliciano was pulling Ludwig by his shirtsleeve to the lunchroom.
I guess I'll have to get used to zis. Ludwig sighed to himself and allowed the smaller man to pull him.
They sat at a table by a window in back of the room and were soon joined by Gilbert and his girlfriend, Elizabeth.
"Hello Ludwig!" Elizabeth greeted. Ludwig nodded politely. She then turned her attention to the boy next to him, "You must be Feliciano! I'm Elizabeth."
"Ve~ Hi Elizabeth!" Feliciano responded and then proceeded to make quick work of his lunch bag, pulling out some pre-made pasta. "Hey Ludwig, do you want some of my pasta?" There was a strong sense of eagerness in his voice.
"Uh..."
"Ve~! Come on! I made extra for you!" Feliciano smiled and pulled out an extra container of pasta (Fettuccine Alfredo in case you were wondering).
An awkbird silence followed this.
Ludwig stared at Feliciano blankly. Why did he make extra for him? It confused Ludwig. He didn't need to, nothing would have happened to him if he didn't make it-yet he did, but why? Sure Feliciano had made pasta at his house for him multiple times, but he just assumed it was to say 'thank you' for playing football with him, like a trade. Gilbert and him would get a warm meal and Feliciano got to play with someone. But why would he just give him something?
On Feliciano's part he truly made it out of the kindness of his heart, Feliciano just wanted to display acts of friendliness. Not many people would bother to deal with him. Sure he was the favorite among family members who appreciated his optimism and kind attitude (especially when compared to Lovino), but others his age would get annoyed with him sooner or later. It wasn't like people weren't nice to him, lots of people were friendly to him, it was just his clinginess and what they suspected as an obnoxious amount of stupidity. So as Feliciano saw it -since Ludwig was new to having friends- this could work out well for the both of them. And one of the things friends do is share so he made some pasta for Ludwig. But why wasn't Ludwig taking it? Did he not want to be his friend? Did he not like pasta? No that couldn't be true, every day for the last two weeks after playing football Feliciano had come home with Ludwig and made pasta for Ludwig, Gilbert and himself. Maybe that's why! Maybe Ludwig was just sick of pasta and he wouldn't want any more. È stupido idiota! Egli non vuole che la pasta! Feliciano scolded himself, Why didn't I make something else! Feliciano's smile faltered,
"Yo West!" Gilbert snapped them both out of their trance, "That's when you say 'thank you' mein Gott, haven't I fucking taught you anything!"
"Thank you." Ludwig muttered and took the Tupperware with the pasta and started to eat it, very slowly. The rich creamy sauce was delicious beyond comparison. It was like an orgy in his mouth. Holy scheiBe zis is so verdammt delicious!
"Do you like it?" Feliciano asked tentatively, afraid of what he was going to say.
Ludwig blinked twice before realizing that Feliciano was talking to him. He was so immersed in the taste of the food in his mouth that he didn't hear what the Italian had asked. Ludwig swallowed what was in his mouth and the turned to the boy next to him.
"What?"
"I-I- I asked if you liked it." Feliciano stuttered.
Ludwig was taken aback by the smaller boys tone, but he answered anyway.
"Yeah, it's delicious." Ludwig informed him.
Feliciano sighed in relief. "Ve~ bene! I thought you didn't like me because you didn't take the pasta! Then you did take it, but then you ate it really slow so I thought you thought it tasted terrible! And then you didn't answer me the first time so I thought you were going to yell at me! And-!" He rambled. He then looked up at Ludwig to see the German just staring confused at him. "Ah- I'm sorry for rambling!" he cowered but jumped when he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"I'm not mad. Relax, it really is good."
Feliciano looked up and saw his friend smiling reassuringly at him.
"Round two please?" Gilbert asked smoothly. Ludwig and Feliciano turned to look across the table.
Elizabeth sighed amused "Okay lead the way!" she replied; a small smile on her face.
"See ya later West!" Gilbert called to his brother while pulling Elizabeth behind him.
"What's he talking about Ludwig?" Feliciano asked.
"N-Nothing important! J-Just let it go!" Ludwig stuttered, cheeks reddening. His brother could be such a pig.
Le AN- Now that introductions are out of the way (for the most part), we'll now be going into the good stuff next chapter! I know I said that I would have this up pretty soon and I'm sorry bout that, I will try to get the next one up quickly. Also I know I didn't do this before, but I like the accented thoughts, it's a bit difficult to do accents in all of the speech and it makes it funnier! Any who, please review that would be awesome I don't care if all you say is lol I still appreciate it nonetheless! Till next time, thanks