A/N: Hello! After you're done getting mad at me I'd like to say sorry for not putting anything up for a while. Also I'd like to make a personal apology to LilDeadKitty because I said this would be done by Monday…. Three months ago. If it helps I actually did have it done but I didn't like the way it turned out so I redid it. Moar details at teh end of the chapter. Please enjoy
After lunch Ludwig had woodshop with Berwald and then his last class of the day would be history.
"Ve~ Ludwig sit over here!" Feliciano had made it to class earlier than he had and saved him a seat. Ludwig made his way over to the desk and sat down, waiting for the teacher to come in.
"Hello guys, welcome to AP world history! I will be your teacher Mr. Annan." This teacher was quite peculiar looking. He wore a long tan coat with knee high boots and brown pants. He had a red fez on his head and a white mask on his face. It looked like he would be better suited for a Halloween party than a high school teacher.
"I can see from your faces that my outfit is confusing you." Mr. Annan smiled, "Let's just say I have a lively personality."
Vell zat didn't answer anyzing. Ludwig scoffed to himself.
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At the end of class school was let out for the day. Ludwig walked out of the building with Italian in tow.
"Ve~ve~ve~ve~ve~" Feliciano sang while skipping behind his friend.
"Hey Ludwig!"
"Nnm?"
"You should come over to my house so I can introduce you to my family properly!"
Ludwig recalled the morning he had dropping off Pookie, he didn't really want to meet Feliciano's brother again.
"What's wrong?" Feliciano noticed the discomfort in the Germans face. "It'll be fun! Maybe we could play something!"
"Huh? Oh well I don't think your bruder would appreciate me coming over after mein visit this morning."
Feliciano bit his lip thinking, than brightened up when he remembered something.
"Wait! Fratello is in detention! So you don't have to worry about him!" Feliciano exclaimed.
Ludwig contemplated going. Vell I don't have any work to do considering it's za first day. Und I don't zink I vould vant to see Gilbert again for a vile. Und I guess I should try to be friendlier… Ludwig sighed. "I'll go."
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After being half dragged to Feliciano's house, Ludwig was a bit discombobulated.
"Hey I have a question." Ludwig asked, having regained his stability.
"Ve~?"
"Well it's just, if your opa works at the school, then why didn't he just take you both with him?" Ludwig asked.
"Um… Well nonno has these… uh, 'Roman School Traditions' that he follows every school year." Feliciano looked at the ground uncomfortably.
"What's that?" Ludwig asked, not having been looking at Feliciano's obvious signs of awkbirdness.
"Uh… It's when he-" Feliciano sighed, "It's when he hooks up with the first woman he can before school starts. To keep him 'focused'"
Both boys blushed at this last part, cause ya know, ew.
Ludwig chuckled lightly "Well then I guess it's okay to tell you that that's the same thing as Gilberts 'New Year Traditions'"
"Oh… Well here we are!" Feliciano gestured Ludwig to follow him inside the house.
"NONNO~! Ve~ nonno sono a casa! E ho portato un amico!" Feliciano shouted up the stairs.
"Venendo mia piccola Italia~!" Could be heard coming from upstairs from Feliciano's grandpa.
Mr. Vargas came down the stairs to greet his guest.
"Oh I remember you! You're that new kid from Germany right? What's your name again?"
"Hallo sir. My name is Ludwig." Ludwig reached out his arm for a handshake but got a hardy hug instead.
"Relax Ludwig~! This isn't school! Take it easy!" Mr. Vargas slapped Ludwig's back playfully. "You kids have fun~ I've got to get some things and then pick up your brother from detention." He waved before walking out the door while muttering something about a 'lazy good for nothing'.
"So do you wanna watch a movie?" Feliciano asked.
"Sure."
"Ve~ what do you want to watch? We have lots of movies come on, I'll show you!" Again pulling Ludwig by his shirtsleeve, he took him to the book shelf full of movies in the living room.
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Pookie had come to cuddle in Ludwig's lap and Ludwig was petting him absent mindedly, watching Feliciano out of the corner of his eye. They watched 'Agent Cody Banks' for a little bit, before Ludwig was kicked out by Lovino when he came home.
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"Hey Gilbert, I have a question." Ludwig was in his house on the couch playing a video game with his brother.
"Shoot." Headshot.
"Why did Feliciano give me that pasta?" Ran out of a burning building with zombies.
"Why wouldn't he?" Got killed. "ScheiBe." Gilbert sighed turning off the console.
"What do you mean?" Ludwig asked standing up and stretching.
Gilbert sighed in frustration "You really need to get out more." He muttered. "Look West, in life, people are going to be nice to you, not everyone's a jackass! You don't need to question someone's motives all the time! Just accept the fact that you have a friend and he's going to be nice to you! Try to relax more and be awesome!" He took a deep breath and stood up, looking dramatically off to the right, "like me!"
Ludwig nodded, thinking what his brother said over.
"Speaking of friends, I'm going to Antonio's house to help him out." Gilbert made his way to the front door, "Which is something else friends do!"
I guess I know vat I have to do now Ludwig thought to himself and made his way over to the kitchen.
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"Ve~? You made me one of your funny German sausages?" Feliciano asked skipping as the pair traveled to school. "Thanks!"
"Uh, yeah. You're welcome." Gilbert had more or less forced Ludwig to walk with the care free Italian, again.
"Yo West! Why don't you go to school with Feliciano again today? You can give him the wurst you made for him!" Gilbert suggested.
"Nien. I'll give it to him at lunch." Ludwig replied, not even bothering to look up from the newspaper in his hands.
"Come on you're gonna be late!" Gilbert pulled the paper out of his brothers' hands almost tearing it.
Ludwig sighed annoyed. "Gilbert-"
"Go or I'll tell Opa about your tapes you sadist bitch!"
And so that's how Ludwig found himself walking with this robust Italian to school for the second time.
"That's what friends do, right?" Ludwig asked awk-tak-aly.
"Ve~ thanks again Ludwig!" Feliciano sighed happily and took the German into a tight embrace.
"Uh-uh-uh-" Ludwig stuttered, his cheeks heating, not used to such emotion being thrown at him by another boy.
Feliciano let go, looking up at the taller kid, cocking his head in confusion.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah." Huff "Yeah, I'm fine." Ludwig breathed, trying to even his breath. Fricken Italians.
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"Okay, we will now do work in groups of three aru." Mr. Yao was at the front of the room writing instructions on the board. "I feel generous today so you pick your own partners aru."
Ludwig already expected that Feliciano would want to work with him and since everyone else had partners he ended up with him and a Japanese boy; Kiku Honda.
"Ve~ hey Ludwig this is Kiku! He's going to be our partner!" The Italian practically threw the poor boy at Ludwig.
"Eh, hallo" Ludwig muttered as he slapped Feliciano's hands off of Kiku, picking him up and setting him in a seat.
"Ow!" Feliciano whined, pouting.
"Anyway…" Kiku cleared his throat. "Why don't we get to work?"
"Yeah, good idea." Ludwig agreed, trying to have this class go smoothly.
The group did their work and finished early quite to Ludwig's disbelief. Although Feliciano was able to answer the questions, he had to get help from the taller man occasionally for strange things. And Kiku, well he was a very bright kid and knew his shit.
Since they had some time left over, Feliciano took it upon his self to strike up a conversation.
"Ve~ Kiku, what time do you have lunch?"
"Sixth period."
Feliciano bounced in his seat. "Hey, hey! That's the same as us! You should sit with us!"
"Er…" The bell rang to switch classes.
"Ve~ great see you there!"
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Lunch went by without too much trouble; Gilbert and Elizabeth sat at the table with the rest of the 'Bad Touch Trio.' Kiku did sit with Ludwig and Feliciano mainly because he had nothing better to do.
Kiku stayed quiet for most of the time, but he did answer the questions that Feliciano had for him. Mainly small stuff like things like 'what's your family like' and 'what's your favorite subject' and stuff like that.
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The rest of the day went by pretty fast and soon it was time to go home.
"Ve~ Ludwig are you going to take me home again?" Feliciano asked when they made it out of the building.
"Sure, why not? I can't stay though; I need to take Blackie to the groomer today."
"That's okay! I just like walking with you!" Feliciano exclaimed but looked at the ground.
Ludwig smiled to himself slightly, "Me too."
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Feliciano sighed deeply; he was so bored. Really, really, bored. It was the first weekend of the start of school and he just needed something to do. Lovino was out with Antonio studying and practicing for football. Nonno was still here but he was sleeping off a hangover so that's no fun.
"Ve~! What the hell am I gonna do?"
Thump!
Feliciano looked over to his right and ran over to the mess on the floor.
"Pookie! He-he what's wrong with you silly? Did you fall off the table? Heh, I guess you did, look at all these papers on the floor!" Feliciano picked up his cat and plopped it over his shoulder, he also grabbed the papers and went to sit down in the living room.
The Italian looked trough the pile and found a coupon book for the HIP mall.
"Ve! I'm gonna go here! Hmm let me text Ludwig to come too!" Yeah I'll take Ludwig he's cute- I-I mean fun. He thought to himself.
Me: Heyyy Ludwig are you busy?
Me: Lol jk I know youre not busy, come ova here!
Ludwig B: Why
Me: Were going out! Oh and bring Berwald and Tino I don't have their number
Ludwig B: No
Me: Please :(
Me: Please?
Me: C'mon! D:
Ludwig B: we're on our way calm down
Me: :D
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(Feli's POV)
The ride to the mall was fun; well at least in my opinion. Berwald was driving his truck, Ludwig was in the passenger seat and Tino and I sat in back.
I chatted away with Tino about nonsensical things. I often can find myself rambling and he's the same way so we just click in that sense. I found myself suppressing a giggle here and there because his thick accent does make him sound funny.
I was happy to see that Ludwig was talking to Berwald; on their own they're so reserved and quiet (Berwald especially) that it's really something to see how well they can actually get along and converse.
After parking the car on the second floor outside (cause the first floor never has parking), we went inside together.
"Hey Berwald! What do you want to be going to first?" Tino called up to the tall Swedish man, whom he was walking very close to.
"Mm'm." He shrugged his shoulders. "We're here with Feliciano so…" he trailed off like an awkward dolphin.
"Ve~ any things okay with me. Uh, but maybe we can get pretzels?" I suggested. I honestly didn't care; I just wanted to socialize with my homeboys! Ha, I mean my buddies; I can't pull that off, I'm too white.
"Pretzels?" Tino asked confused.
"Suolakeksit." Berwald replied.
"Oh, yum! Ha, well that's not something we would be going over in the English classes! Let's go!"
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After sitting down on the benches outside the Game Stop, we immediately all started nomming our delicious food.
"Ve~ did you guys like it?" I asked, trying to break the silence. Ludwig and Berwald nodded modestly and Tino shook his head up and down very enthusiastically.
"Ha, good!" I smiled, and wiped some crumbs off my face.
"I'm going to throw this out, are you guys done?" I asked, standing up and holding the bag out from the pretzels to collect the trash. Everyone threw their stuff in the bag and I skipped off to the nearest garbage. At the can some kid approached me.
"Oi! Feliciano!" The kid called to me. He had a wild mop of brown hair, bright green eyes, and a bandage over his nose.
"Eh, hello?" I responded, I didn't know this kid, and his personality was very strong.
"Okay Feliciano, I'm leaving to go home to Australia tonight and I'm so glad that I saw you here today before I leave."
"Um, I- what?" I was so confused; I didn't even know this guy.
"So before I leave I just thought 'YOLO.'"
"Wait-"
"Enough yabber mate."
I opened my mouth to protest when the boy grabbed my head and pulled it close to him. He let his hands run through my hair as he lulled me into a deep kiss. He slipped his tongue into my mouth and moved it around inside sensually; touching any part he could reach. I was too shocked to move and before I knew it he let go.
"Sorry, I had to do that, it was a bit of a ratbag thing to do. I wish it could have been more pash though." And with that he left.
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I didn't even realize how long I was standing there before I felt a hand on my shoulder.
"Uh, Feliciano? Are you okay?" I flinched at the touch and turned around to face Ludwig.
"Y-yeah! I'm fine! I-I just would like to go home now!" I stuttered, trying to keep my voice calm, and failing.
Ludwig stared at me hard, it made me feel at bit uncomfortable, but he noticed my look of discomfort and stopped.
"Ok, I'll go tell Berwald." He turned around and went back to the bench while I sighed in relief.
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"Would you mind telling me what's wrong?" Ludwig asked.
"Uh, there's nothing wrong! My-um- my Grandpa called and asked why I was gone because I didn't tell him I was leaving because he was sleeping! So y-yeah nothing's wrong!" I lied through my teeth but I did manage some truth, I guess…. Yeah not really.
"Mmm." He grunted in response as the bus pulled up to the stop to pick us up.
Okay so maybe he didn't believe it, but I didn't want to talk about what was really on my mind.
The bus was fairly empty, and we chose to sit down in the back by a window. We were quiet for a little bit before he spoke up again.
"So who was that guy?"
Crap. He saw that! Wait; calm down dude he might not have seen that. Just be cool Feli.
"Uh, what guy?"
"The one that talked to you by the trash and ran off."
"Oh- uh him! Yeah I don't know! He just talked to me and left. Ha-ha pretty strange, ve?" Ludwig regarded me for a minute before placing a hand in my hair and rubbed my head soothingly.
Damn he could be sweet when he wanted to! Although it didn't help my current situation.
"Well here we are!" I exclaimed catching him off guard.
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When I go home my grandpa was awake and Lovino was still gone.
"Feli, where the hell where you?" My grandpa asked (well duh, who else woulda?)
"Oh, sorry nonno, I was bored so I went to the mall with some friends." I gushed and ran to my room to think.
When I sat down on my bed I immediately was attacked with mixed emotions. I couldn't place what I was feeling. It felt like shame and relief at the same time. I didn't know what to do. Suddenly (or at least it felt sudden) my grandpa came into the room catching me off guard.
"What's wrong, Feliciano?" he asked, genuine concern lasing his words.
"N-Nothing!" I said all too quickly. He being my grandpa and all knew I was lying and sat down next to me.
"Tell me what happened."
Fudge. A. Duck. I didn't want to talk to him about this. I was too ashamed for that.
I looked down and he sighed deeply.
"Feliciano, you know you can trust me."
Well might as well, right? I guess I did actually want to talk to someone but that didn't mean I didn't still feel ashamed.
"Well at the mall, this, uh, boy, he-" God damn, how to put this, "he kissed me." My grandpa stayed silent until I started talking again. "And I think I liked it." I looked up at my grandpa and he stared at me blankly for a moment before regaining his composer.
"…So what are you trying to say?" He asked slowly as if talking to a three year old.
I had to think about this one. "I don't know…"
"Are you, uh, saying you're…?" He sputtered and died off towards the end (his words, not him, my grandpa didn't spontaneously die).
"Ve? What? No!" I retorted defensively. "I-I-I'm not gay! Hahaha, eh heh!" I laughed awkwardly. Truth be told, it made sense, now that I think about it. "Am I?" I asked, more to myself.
Nonno was startled by my sudden outburst, but he softened up at my question.
"Well, that's not for me to decide. You need to find out for yourself." He looked at me awk-ly for a moment. "Do you want to be by yourself right now, or…?" He trailed off, again much awk-trocious.
"I think I'm gonna go for a walk, ve." I said and he nodded.
Translations:
German: Bruder=Brother, Mein=My, Opa=Grandpa, ScheiBe=shit/crap (I'm not too sure), Nien=No
Italian: Fratello=Brother, Nonno=Grandpa, nonno sono a casa! E ho portato un amico=grandfather, I'm home! And I brought a friend, Venendo mia piccola Italia= Coming my little Italy
Finnish: Suolakeksit=Pretzels(I'm sure you could tell that ;))
Le other A/N: So I has surprise for all of you lovely people who waited for this to continue. First of all, I'd like to say that even if updating is slow this will not go on hiatus, not at all. I'm busy with school so when I get free time I'll write, I'm always thinking about this story… always. So you don't have to worry about that :)! Err right! Back to what I was saying, as an early Christmas/holiday gift, this week I'm going to put a new chapter every day (Monday-Friday) I have three done already so for sure those will be up! Thanks again for reviews/follows etc., they make me puke rainbows of happiness 3!