"Like, where do you want me to put up these streamers?"
Feliciano turned his head to look at the polish nation who just asked the question.
"Put them up them way up there if you can reach." Feliciano replied pointing to the walls.
"I'm, like, on it!" Feliks nodded before looking around, "Liet! come help me up!"
The nation of Lithuania put his and Poland's daughter back in the bassinet beside Feliciano's son.
"Alright, I'm coming." Toris told his lover before going over to help him.
In a few seconds time, Lovino walked into the living room of his house where all the activity was taking place. A few of the nations were pitching in to set up his long awaited baby shower. Feliks and Toris were the first to arrive along with Feliciano, Ludwig, Gilbert, Roderich and Elizabeta. A few of them were busy decorating the living room, putting up streamers and filling up balloons. Elizabeta, Ludwig, Roderich and Tino (Who just recently arrived with his family) were in the kitchen making deserts and foods for the actual event. Meanwhile, Antonio and Gilbert were out back drinking a few beers. The rest of the nations were to arrive a little while later but until then Lovino was just walking around and checking on everyone.
"Everything looks good so far." Lovino complimented. "Thanks again for decorating, guys."
"It's no problem!" Feliks smiled from his seat upon Toris' shoulders as he taped up more streamers.
"Yea, we're all happy to help!" Feliciano beamed before puffing more breath into the balloon he was holding.
Lovino showed a small smile before looking down at his nephew in the light blue bassinet. The baby was covered in red party streamers and it seemed like he had chocolate frosting smeared all over his chubby pink cheeks.
"Veneziano." Lovino spoke, walking over to Lukas.
"Sí?" Feliciano replied, arranging some flowers in a base.
"Your bambino," Lovino began, picking up his nephew, "Is covered is streamers. And have you been giving him cake?"
Feliciano looked over at his son and giggled, "My poor bambino. No I haven't been giving him cake, maybe it was Sealand."
Lukas cooed and reached out for his uncle's face. Lovino smiled and kissed his little pink nose. The baby giggled and kissed Lovino's cheek as best as he could.
"Aww so cute!" Feli grinned.
"Shut up." Lovino rolled his eyes, trying to remove the streamers that were wrapped around Lukas.
Suddenly, a pair of arms wrapped around Lovino's middle, placing their hands right over his belly. The Italian looked to the side and saw his husbands cheerful face upon his shoulder.
"Aw Lovi, you look so cute holding a baby." Antonio smiled.
"As I was just telling Feli; shut up." Lovino said as he finally got the streamers off of Lukas.
The baby caught sight of Antonio and smiled, cooing and reaching out for his other uncle.
"Here, hold Lukas." Lovino said.
Antonio unwrapped his arms from around his husband to hold their cheerful nephew.
"Aye que lindo, such a cute bebé!" Antonio cooed at the baby boy who was now giggling and sucking on one of his fingers.
Lovino gazed lovingly at the sight of Antonio playing with a baby until Elizabeta happily burst out of the kitchen holding a tray of snacks.
"Here Lovino, try one. Tell me what you think!" Elizabeta prompted the Italian to try one of the amazing looking cookies.
He took a bite out of one and marveled at how good it was.
"Their great." Lovino spoke honestly.
"I wanna bite!" Antonio exclaimed.
With a roll of his eyes, Lovino placed the rest of the cookie he had in his husbands mouth.
"The guests should be arriving soon, maybe in about an hour." Elizabeta informed the group in the living room, "We're almost done making all of the sweets."
"An hour? We better hurry up with the decorations." Feliciano spoke hastily. "There's still so much to do!"
Sure enough, fifty five minuets later, at around 4:00pm, one of the loudest nations knocked rapidly. Lovino was seated on the couch at the time so Feliciano offered to answer the door. Upon the sound of the door opening, an obnoxious American accent could be heard.
"Sup dude! Long time no see!" Alfred exclaimed as he saw Feliciano.
"Ciao Alfred!" Feli smiled, "And hello Arthur!"
"Hello, Feliciano." Arthur smiled back politely.
The door shut and all three of them, including Charlotte who was asleep in Arthur's arms, made their was inside the living room.
"Whoa bro, you're as big as whale dude!" Alfred laughed, seeing Lovino's huge belly.
"Shut your fucking face you ass wipe." Lovino glared at him.
"Y'know I'm just kidding." Alfred smiled, walking over and hugging his best friend.
"I hate you." Lovino grinned, hugging back.
"Lova ya too." Alfred replied. "So how've you been dude?"
"Pretty good I guess." Lovino answered.
"Are you excited for the baby's arrival?" Arthur asked kindly.
"Of course, it won't be very long until then." Lovino replied.
"Bro how far along are you right now?" Alfred asked.
"I just hit seven months two days ago." The Italian answered.
"Whoa really?!" Alfred exclaimed, "Wait where's Toni?"
"In the kitchen probably eating some snacks." Lovino explained.
"SNACKS?! THERE'S SNACKS?!" Alfred exclaimed once again.
"Shut up you nuisance, you'll wake Charlotte up." Arthur elbowed his husband in the arm.
A knock on the door interrupted whatever Alfred was going to say.
"I'll get it." Feliciano offered.
The next hour went on like this, people knocked while Feliciano ran to answer the door, the guests would come in, congratulate Lovino and Antonio and make conversation with them before talking to other nations. The event was going great even though Lovino was sitting most of the time due to sore ankles.
All of the nations brought plenty of gifts for the couple and their little one that would be arriving in a few weeks time. There was a table set up in the living room where the mountain of gifts resided.
"So have you two thought of any names yet?" Emma, the nation of Belgium, asked Lovino and Antonio while they all sat on the couch.
"Well we've thought of a few." Lovino answered hesitantly.
"I wanted to name the baby Isabella but Lovi said no." Antonio pouted.
"Because it's going to be a boy." Lovino rolled his eyes.
"Oh you know the gender?" Emma asked.
"No but I have a gut feeling." Lovino replied.
"And I have a gut feeling it's going to be a girl." Antonio said, "A cute little girl that we'll dress up and we can put cute little pink bows in her hair."
Emma giggled, "If it's a girl you can name her after me."
"And if it's a boy, you can name it after me!" Alvarez said beside them from his seat on his boyfriend's, the nation of Netherlands, lap.
"I don't think so." Antonio said, shaking his head.
Before another word could be said about the situation, Feliciano came trotting over holding a tray of cookies.
"Do any of you want some cookies?" The nation asked cheerfully.
"Ooh I'll take some!" Emma smiled as she took a few.
"How about you, Lovino?" Feli asked his brother.
"No thanks, I already stuffed my face with those German cakes." Lovino told him.
"Let's go back to talking about baby names!" Alvarez suggested excitedly, "So like I was saying, Alvarez sounds like a good name."
"You guys were talking about baby names?" Feli smiled, "So do you know what you're naming the bambino?"
"Not exactly. We just have a few names in mind." Lovino explained.
"Ooh like what?" Feli took a seat beside Emma while still holding on to the tray.
"Well if it's a girl, which it will be," Antonio began, "We were thinking about the name Isabella, Maria or Nina."
"Okay first of all, Antonio is a liar because those are all Spanish names and I did not agree to any of those." Lovino said, "And secondly, since it will most likely be a boy, I like the names Marcello, Fiore or Alessandro."
Antonio playfully glared at Lovino and the Italian stuck his tongue out childishly in response. Feliciano chuckled.
"I hate to break it to you fratello," Feli began, "But I think it might be a girl too."
"So do I." Emma nodded.
"I think it's going to be a boy." Alvarez chimed in.
"What about you, Tim? What do you think?" Lovino asked the Dutch nation.
"I don't know." Tim said honestly. "But I think I'm leaning more toward the outcome of a boy."
"See I'm telling you, Toni." Lovino shrugged.
"Well we'll see in about two months." The Spaniard replied, "Remember, 20 euros."
"I didn't forget bastardo." Lovino told him. "You're going to owe me 20 euros really soon."
"20 euros?" Emma asked curiously, sneaking another cookie off of the tray.
Before Antonio could explain the bet, Tino spoke up from his spot over at the gift table.
"It's time to open up the presents!" The Finnish nation announced.
"Come on let's go." Lovino said, "Help me up you bastard."
Antonio stood up then helped ease his lover off the couch. The two of them walked over to the table covered in gift wrapped boxes. Feli, Alvarez, Tim and Emma followed behind them.
"Here, take a seat, Lovino." Tino said gesturing to the comfy seat that resided next to the table.
"Thank you." Lovino grinned as Antonio helped him sit down.
"It's no problem at all." Tino returned the smile.
All of the nations gathered around happily all wanting to see Lovino unwrap his gifts. The nations who had babies held the little ones in their arms to watch the event. Though some babies like Feliks little girl Irenka and Tino's daughter Emelie, who was being held by her father Sweden, were fast asleep and probably wouldn't wake up the whole time.
Once everyone was gathered around, Antonio placed one of the gifts in Lovino's hands. The wrapping paper had American flags and bald eagles all over it.
"Looks like the first one is from you, Alfred." Lovino said holding it up so the American could see.
"Hell yea! Open it!" Alfred exclaimed.
Lovino rolled his eyes before tearing at the paper. After the paper was mostly off and the box was opened, Lovino could see it was a (very poorly sewn) handmade teddy bear.
"I made it myself." Alfred boasted confidently.
The seams were sewn messily, there was still pieces of thread poking out of some stitching. The button eyes looked wonky and crooked. The ears looked lopsided and uneven in size. But it was still incredibly sweet.
"I love it Alfred." Lovino said truthfully, "Isn't it cute, Toni?"
"It's adorable! Thank you Alfred." Antonio smiled brightly.
"No problem dudes!" Alfred nodded.
Lovino placed the gift back in its box and down on the floor as Antonio grabbed a bigger box off of the table.
Within forty five minuets, Lovino and Antonio managed to get all of the gifts opened. They received a few homemade blankets from Tino and Berwald. Feli and Ludwig also gave them homemade blankets including homemade plushies. Feliks and Toris brought them an adorable playpen for the baby. Norway, Denmark and Iceland all chipped in to buy a play mat that was guaranteed to keep the baby busy for hours. China brought these beautiful chinese porcelain dolls for when the baby grows a little older. Russia gave the couple hand knitted scarves, gloves and sweaters for the winters. Canada brought a bassinet, a few baby books and some cute bath toys. Australia, of course, brought a huge koala plushie that Lovino secretly adored. Prussia gave them a high chair, some plushies, and a doll house for toddlers. Last but not least, France gave them a few hand sewn clothes including 5 pairs of baby booties and a bunch of other baby toys.
Antonio and Lovino were beyond thankful, it was so sweet of everyone to pitch in and go all out for them with these gifts. Honestly, Lovino always thought everyone hated him but it was clear that that was not the case at all.
After Lovino set the last gift down, he spoke up to the nations gathered around.
"I just wanted to.. thank you guys, this really means a lot to us." Lovino said, showing a small smile.
"Sí, thank you all, it was so nice of you to come over and celebrate." Antonio smiled.
The crowd of nations erupted into a bunch of you're welcome's, some even in different languages.
"Hey dudes, I've got the perfect way to end this kick ass celebration!" Alfred exclaimed.
"If it's something crazy Alfred, I swear to god-" Lovino began, giving the American a menacing look.
"Nah it's something cool, c'mon to the backyard!"
Exactly five minuets later all of the nations were outside in the backyard, Alfred was in a clear spot far from them, fiddling with something in front of him. He claimed he didn't want whatever he was doing to be too loud so that's why he was as far away as he could be. Thank god their field outback was big enough.
"Why the hell are we even standing out here?" Lovino complained. "This better be good or else I'm going to kick Alfred's ass."
"Knowing Alfred, it might be something stupid." China chimed in.
"Probably." Arthur nodded in agreement, shifting the weight of his daughter in his arms.
A few seconds later, there were a few sparks from where Alfred was standing and said American nation took a couple of steps back as whatever was sparking shot into the night sky. It was fireworks, leave it to Alfred to bring something like that. All Lovino was wondering was where the hell he got them from.
The dark blue sky was illuminated with sparks and flashes of reds and whites and greens. The nations gasped at the beauty of it all. Even the baby nations were in awe at the sight of the pretty flashing colors. Just as Alfred set another one off, Antonio wrapped an arm around Lovino's waist. Lovino smiled and leaned into his husband, resting his head on the Spaniards shoulder.
"I love you." Antonio said over the sound of fireworks in the background.
"I love you too." Lovino replied with a smile, placing a hand over his belly.
Antonio leaned his head down and connected their lips for a moment before going to look back at the brightened sky.
"You know, I really hope people don't drive over here thinking we're having a huge party or festival." Antonio said.
"If people start showing up I'm gonna beat Alfred up." Lovino nodded, his eyes still fixed on the sky.
"That sounds fair." Antonio chuckled.
The nations spent quite some time outside relaxing and marveling at the beauty of he fireworks. That is until Alfred's sleeve caught fire and they had to help put it out. Other than that, it was overall a great day and both Lovino and Antonio were grateful to have such friends that cared about them so much. It was a day neither of them could ever forget.
A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, it was pretty fun to write!
And just a heads up guys, this story is starting to come to an end which means its time to plan out the sequel! I love this story so much that I can't imagine not doing another part so there will most likely (like I am 99% sure there will) be a sequel.
I will also try to update again before winter break is over, I might even update twice before it's over.
So yea, thanks for reading and following and favoriting, I really appreciate it!
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