My Roommate is still not sharing with me:
Felicia Vargas was an auburn haired, hyperactive Italian Visual Arts Major, and was more of a twin to Feliciano Vargas than his actual twin Romano Vargas. She often came to town to visit her family, which also meant visiting Ludwig because aforementioned cousin always found a way to Ludwig's house.
On one faithful day, these two decided it would be far better to visit him at work. Which, for Gilbert and the rest of the newly hired staff, they're visit made for one funny day. Mainly because, everyone knew that the youngest of the Beilschmidts had a tiny crush on the spunky Italian girl, well everyone except Felicia and Feliciano.
"Look who's on Christmas Holiday!" Feliciano announced, swinging open the pharmacy door and drawing the attention of the customers and staff members.
Please God, no. Not them, not here. Ludwig thought as he came down from the ladder in the back of the store, where he was hanging paper Christmas trees. He peeked around the corner. Sure enough, two sprouts of auburn hair, one taller than the other, stood in front of the 'drop off counter' chatting away to Gilbert.
Mrs. Lacour, an elderly widow who'd been coming to the pharmacy for years, and was aware of the 'relationship' between the friends, was also excited Felicia back. "Oh look at you, growing up into a nice girl! Where's Ludwig, Gilbert? He should be here to greet them."
"Hey, West Felicia's here!" he heard Gilbert say and toyed with his glasses, "West! West?"
Ludwig grinned his teeth, being sure to stay hidden behind the cough medicine shelf for fear that his face was scarlet, "I heard you Gilbert, you don't have to yell."
Mrs. LaCour turned in his direction, gesturing for him, "Ludwig, dear come here. That Feli girl is back and she looks so nice. Nice pretty dress and everything."
Gilbert chuckled, and then made a suggestive whistle, "Felicia, did you change your hair? It looks good! If I didn't have Liza well,"
He leaned forward to say something, which Ludwig wasn't quite sure if he wanted to hear. Mrs. LaCour slapped Gilbert's arm in chastisement, which further solidified Ludwig's thought that his brother made some lewd comment that no doubt went unnoticed by both Italians.
He fiddled with a few boxes, trying to look busy and appease Mrs. LaCour from trying to usher him over there. Felicia did look nice, even from behind Ludwig could tell this. But she always looked nice to him. He sighed, and looked at the box of Mucinex in his hands. You can do it. Just go over there and be cordial. Say hello or something. Ludwig tried to will his feet to move, but they denied his request several times. His inward monologue of going versus staying was interrupted by Felicia's high-pitched voice.
"Well," Felicia said, " We went to your house but then Feli forgot that Ludwig moved. Ve, I didn't know either. So then we went to Ludwig's new house," Ludwig stiffened, "And I met his new roommate. She's really nice and…"
"Hey West, did you hear?" Gilbert interrupted, "She meant An'na. Liza wanted you guys to hang out and stuff when you got here. But West was totally against it."
The girl clapped merrily, smiling from ear to ear, "That sounds like fun. She was really really nice"
Feliciano chimed in then, sounding a bit defeated, "I've been trying to go over to make pasta for her but Ludwig refused. He's so mean. I just want to share his friends, like we used too. I even asked him if they would share his…"
Ludwig's feet immediately decided it was the perfect time to move, "Maybe you should wait for us at your house." He stammered out.
Gilbert looked over the Italian's shoulder at his brother, a brow raised in curiosity. Mrs. LaCour faced him too. "Wait, wait, share what Feliciano? What did you guys share that you think him and his new roommate should share?"
The Italian blinked, looking at his friend (or attempting to), "When we were roommates in college, and I sometimes had scary dreams, we used to share his…"
"Please" Ludwig finally moved close enough to where Felicia was standing next to him, his face redden and eyes closed, "Bruder, let it go."
The doors chimed open and an elderly couple walked in, saving him from further embarrassment, for the moment at least. Gilbert paused until the couple made it to the counter, and then turned back to his Italian friends. He dung into his white smock, pulling his keys from his pocket.
"Here, you guys can go to my place. And we can talk about when I get off work, k Feli?" Gilbert smiled, and Ludwig looked away.
A/N: Because what's life without a little drama, hm? Felicia is in town, what will happen next? On a completely unrelated note, did you know that you can only have 50 documents in your 'doc manager'. I've tried to post this chapter several times, and I couldn't figure out why it never did. Then I actually took the time to read what those red words were telling me! And that's why reading is fundamental, kids! lol
Ciao!
-CeCe ~.^