It hadn't been very long since Alvarez came to visit. In fact it had probably only been about 2 days before he and Antonio started bickering like children. Quite frankly, Lovino had had enough of it. It was always, 'that's mine don't touch it!' or 'oh shut up, nobody asked you!' or even, 'well you're stupid!' between them. It was insanely childish and all Lovino wanted was for the two of them to get along.
On this particular day, Lovino and Alvarez were huddled under a blanket together on the couch while looking through an online catalog for cribs.
On the plus side, at least Alvarez was good at picking out baby stuff, it made his visit really seem worth while.
"What about that one?" Alvarez wondered before pointing to a light yellow crib.
"Hm, I like it." Lovino nodded, "I'll ask Toni what he thinks when he gets home."
Another thing about Alvarez visiting was that Antonio was hardly around. He claimed that his boss had him doing extra paper work but Lovino knew it was a straight out lie and more so an excuse to leave the house for the day.
"Ooh look that changing table matches the crib." Alvarez pointed out.
Lovino's eyes scanned the screen until he saw the table there and sure enough, it did look cute with the crib.
"It does, I like it." Lovino grinned. "Thanks for helping me out with this stuff, Alvarez. Toni and I haven't had much time to plan out a nursery."
"It's no problem Lovino." Alvarez shrugged with a smile.
In a matter of minuets, the front door squeaked open then shut closed again, it seemed that Antonio was home.
"We're in the living room!" Lovino called out, not looking up from his laptop.
When Antonio walked in, his brows furrowed in confusion.
"Why are you two all cuddled up?" The Spaniard asked.
"Because Lovino was cold." Alvarez explained.
"Mhm." Lovino hummed, nodding his head. "Come, amore, look at this crib Alvarez and I picked out."
With a sigh, Antonio walked over and leaned over to look at the laptop screen.
"Que lindo." Antonio nodded. "We're going to do the baby's room in yellow?"
"Yes but not an ugly yellow." Lovino answered, "A pretty yellow. Alvarez picked it out."
"Weren't we going to do the nursery in purple? I thought we at least agreed on that." Antonio responded, standing up straight.
"I know but yellow seems a little better." Lovino replied.
Antonio crossed his arms with a pout, of course Alvarez had to put his own word in and change everything.
"Fine." Antonio sighed.
The next day seemed a little better. The two brothers bickered but it wasn't too bad. The only thing they argued over that whole day was for the remote control. It was around 4pm when this particular incident started. Antonio was sitting on the couch, one leg crossed over the other and both arms crossed over his chest as he watched some spanish novela on tv.
Lovino came trotting into the room, a parent magazine that he had been reading in hand. His hazel eyes looked over and he could see Antonio looking as grumpy as he had normally been these past 4 days.
"Mio amore, what is the matter?" Lovino asked, sitting down next to him.
"Just stressed out." Antonio answered. "You know because of Alvarez."
"Don't be so stressed out because of him, he's just here so you guys can get along." Lovino told him, "Have you even tried getting along with him?"
Truthfully, Antonio hadn't. So he stood silent. Lovino took the silence as an answer.
"Exactly. So I think that you and him should try getting along a little more." Lovino shrugged, "It could benefit the both of you. "
"I guess." Antonio sighed, slouching forward and resting his elbows on his lap.
A few seconds passed before Lovino thought of something.
"You know," The Italian nation spoke, placing his hand on his lover's upper thigh. "We haven't done it in a while."
Antonio swallowed thickly, noticing how dangerously high up Lovino's hand was.
"I think you're right." The Spaniard nodded with a smirk, "How about we change that?"
"Sounds good to me." Lovino murmured before pressing a kiss on to Antonio's neck which earned him a small moan in return.
It didn't take long until Lovino was underneath Antonio, both shirtless and kissing each other intensely. They had even forgotten that they were still in the middle of the living room.
"España.." Lovino moaned out and his lover kissed up and down his lightly tanned neck. Antonio merely hummed against his skin in response.
Just as the Spaniards hands reached down to unbutton his own jeans, of course someone just had to walk in.
"Woah." Alvarez laughed out. "You guys couldn't even make it to the bedroom?"
Antonio looked up, irritated and blushing madly. The Portuguese nation chuckled once more and sat in the living chair near the couch.
"I just came down because they're giving my favorite show now and I wanted to watch it." Alvarez explained.
"S-Sorry." Lovino stuttered out an apology, "Come on Spagna, let's go to our room."
The couple sat up but Antonio just crossed his arms.
"I'm not really in the mood anymore." Antonio replied, grabbing his shirt and walking off.
"Sorry.." Alvarez apologized.
"It's fine, he just being a little grumpy." Lovino sighed, grabbing his shirt and throwing it on.
The Italian stood up shakily, before placing a hand over his prominent belly.
"I'll just get dinner started." Lovino mumbled before walking off as well.
The next day after the incident Spain found himself in dire need of some sort of stress relief. He wasn't proud of it but in the late afternoon, he went out back to the large fields and took out a pack of cigarettes.
"Lovino would kill me if he found out." Antonio mumbled to himself.
It wasn't like this was his first time smoking, that was was far from the truth. He'd smoked cigarettes before along with pipes and cigars but he hadn't felt the need to do so in such a long time. But, since he felt stressed out, he thought, why not? Lovino used to smoke too but only cigars in his mafia days. That was a long time ago, it's been years since then and now the Italian didn't really like smoking. For some reason, he especially didn't like Antonio smoking.
Still rather hesitant, Antonio opened the pack and took one out. He placed it between his lips before putting the pack back in his pocket. His tanned hands fumbled in his other pocket until they found the book of matches. From there, he lit it up and took a long drag.
5 minuets into thinking while taking long and consistent drags, Antonio heard a noise from behind him. He prayed it wasn't Lovino as he looked back. It wasn't Lovino, no it was who else but Alvarez.
"Calm down it's only me." Alvarez chuckled running his fingers through his dark brown hair.
"What do you want?" Antonio said, turning back around.
"To talk." Alvarez told his little brother before walking over to his side.
"Talk about what?" Antonio questioned before taking another drag of his cigarette.
Alvarez paused for a moment before speaking up, "Why do you hate me?"
The question was sudden, too sudden. The Spanish nation looked over at his brother, both of their green eyes meeting.
"I don't hate you." Antonio replied.
"Well you sure act like you do." Alvarez told him. "Still sore about all those wars? I mean come on they happened in the 1800's."
"I'm not really sore about that I just- I don't know." Antonio sighed. "I mean I feel like we're just always supposed to argue, that's always how it's been ever since we were little. And maybe those wars do play a little part in it too."
Alvarez thought for a moment while Antonio took another short drag of his cigarette.
"Well maybe things can change. Maybe we don't have to fight anymore." Alvarez told him. "I don't want to be your enemy anymore, I want to be your brother. Besides what would mama think about us still fighting?"
That really struck Antonio, he could hardly think of their mother with out crying of feeling pained. He looked down at his shoes, knowing that Alvarez was right. They had nothing left to fight for, as annoying as they thought each other was, there was nothing really left to make the fights worth it. Besides, their mother probably wouldn't like it if she saw her boys fighting like 2 year olds. The thought of her grabbing them by the ears and forcing them to talk and make up popped into Antonio's head and he couldn't help but to smile a little.
"I guess you're right." Antonio nodded, flicking the cigarette to the ground before stomping it out.
"Of course I'm right, I am the oldest." Alvarez chuckled. "So we're good now? No more pointless arguing? I want my little brother back."
Antonio looked up at him with a small grin before nodding again, "Alright, alright."
Alvarez took that as an invitation to engulf his brother in a hug. Antonio hugged back and for the first time in years, they felt like real brothers again.
"Well obrigado for letting me stay here, I really enjoyed my time hear." Portugal smiled patting his suitcase beside him. It had been another two days since the Iberian brothers made up and now it was time for Alvarez to go back home.
"And we enjoyed having you." Lovino nodded with a grin.
"Well I wouldn't say enjoy." Antonio joked before Lovino elbowed him.
Alvarez laughed before pulling them both in a hug. The couple hugged back.
"I'll see you guys soon." Alvarez told them then ruffled Antonio's hair which caused the Spaniard to pout, he loved teasing him like that.
"Alright, have a safe trip." Lovino told him.
"Will do." Alvarez nodded, picking up his luggage.
The Portuguese nation bid one final wave before walking out the door and to his car. Both Antonio and Lovino waved him off.
"Well," Lovino said, closing the door shut afterward, "That was an interesting week."
"Sí it was." Antonio nodded, "And yet we still haven't had any alone time.
"Hm you're right about that." Lovino walked over to the Spaniard before leaning up to kiss his jawline. "We're alone now though."
Antonio smirked and gave his lover a nod, "Why don't we go finish what we started a few days ago?"
"Sounds like a plan."
A/N: I am soooo sorry for not updating in a while it's just that school has really taken it's toll on me but I am trying to update this story more because I do want to finish it and get to the sequal as well!
And sorry if this chapter wasn't all that great I only had about two hours to write it ;-;
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