Ch. 3
Classes went by pretty fast, students minded their own business, but for Lovino, well you could say he was pretty much upset. He had tried to get Antonio alone, and ask him if he was going out with the chick he was flirting with earlier, but Antonio always said the same thing, he had to go somewhere.
It was almost as if Antonio was avoiding him. And it hurt Lovino, a lot.
By the time school ended, Lovino made his way out the school doors and decided to walk home instead of taking the bus with Feliciano.
Along the way, Lovino subconsciously walked to the park. It was a place where he and Feliciano would always play at when they were just little kids, and as years went by, it still was a relaxing place for Lovino in case he was feeling frustrated or upset. He then decided to sit a while in one of the new benches that were recently put there.
Just as he was about to relax and let himself go freely, Lovino started to hear noises in the trees around the park. He realize that, someone was crying. Lovino started to feel uncomfortable and slowly started to get up and walk away. But just as he was about to walk away, the sobbing person started to say words.
"Stupid*sob* Alfred…"
It was Arthur. Lovino hurriedly rush to where Arthur was crying, because believe it or not, Arthur was like a best friend to him and brother, they both went through a lot of things when they were kids, and they always talk to each other about their problems. Even though in school, they act like they were just acquaintances and nothing else.
And right now, since Arthur's crying, Lovino is willing to let Arthur talk about his problems to him.
When he spotted a figure that was on the ground, knees up to his chest, and head in between his legs, Lovino knew he found Arthur, and walked towards him, slowly so he wouldn't startle him.
"Francis, if it's you, leave me alone…" Arthur kept sobbing.
"It's not Francis, and it's not Alfred either," Lovino knew that Arthur likes Alfred, and Alfred was the only person who could make Arthur cry like, like this.
Arthur looked up, his eyes were red and teary, but then he looked back down.
"You know, I was hoping it be Alfred who found me," Arthur managed to say after he stopped crying.
"So are you going to stay here and keep crying like some kind of pussy, or are you going to stop and be man to talk about it," to anyone else, it would've sound like he didn't care at all, but to Arthur, he knew that Lovino, in his own way, was trying to help him.
Arthur ignored him for a bit, then he stood up and lean against the tree for support.
"Lovino?" Arthur asked, while he crossed his arms, to keep at least some pride after he just cried.
"May I ask you a question?" Lovino was suddenly reminded of the question Arthur had asked in the morning.
"Y-you're not going to ask me the same question again are you?" Lovino panicked, because he hadn't told Arthur about his crush to the Spaniard and wanted to keep it that way.
"No, not exactly," Arthur replied.
Lovino relaxed a bit.
"Ok, tell me your question." At first it didn't seem like Arthur would say something but then he asked his question.
"How does it feel?" he whispered.
Lovino was confused and didn't know what Arthur meant by the question.
"I mean, how does it feel when the object of your love doesn't notice you're feelings, didn't notice the looks you give them?" Arthur's voice cracked a bit at the end.
"I…" Lovino knew exactly how it felt, and he knew that Arthur felt the same way as well.
"It hurts…a lot," Lovino could feel tears threatening to fall, but he refused to cry.
"That's exactly how I feel when Alfred doesn't notice and don't think I didn't notice about you and Antonio." So he knew then, Lovino saw no reason to deny his affection for Antonio.
A few minutes later Lovino asked what was on his mind for a while.
"What did Alfred do to make you cry this much, Arthur?" Lovino finally asked.
Arthur's expression saddens after trying to keep on a straight face.
"He…he asked me out…"
Now Lovino was very much confused, if Alfred asked Arthur out, shouldn't he be acting all happy and in love?
"But Alfred only asked me out because he made a bet with Gilbert, and that was to have the nerve to ask me put!" Arthur looked like he wanted to cry but he stopped himself.
"How did you know it was a bet?"
"Because after he asked me out, Gilbert came in and said 'I can't believe that you actually asked him out, but a bet is a bet,' and then he hold out the money for Alfred to take it," Arthur had said it with disgust all over his face.
"I got really angry, and I …I slapped Alfred and ran away, I eventually stopped here and started crying."
Lovino felt sorry for him, but didn't say anything.
"Don't think that I have given up on Alfred, Lovino, because I still have hope that maybe… maybe Alfred likes me back just like I like him but I don't know how I will find out if he likes me back," Arthur said.
"It's the same thing for me, I don't even know if Antonio likes me back," Lovino replied back to him. But then, a crazy idea quickly came to Lovino's mind.
"What if… what if we tried dating someone else?"
"WHAT? Are you crazy or something!" Arthur burst out loud.
"No! What I meant was, what if we tried fake dating someone else? That way we can find out how Antonio and Alfred feel about us, see if we can get any reaction from them."
"Interesting, it's a really good idea," Arthur said, "but who can we get to fake date us?"
Another crazy idea came to Lovino's mind.
"We can fake date each other, that way nobody will know we're faking, we don't have to pay someone to fake date us, and it'll be easier to keep it a secret."
Arthur thought about it for a moment.
"All right then it's settled," he finally decided, "You and me are officially," and he quoted, "going out."
And so it begins, the plot of the story!
On other things, thanks for the reviews you guys, because of that I decided to update this story today instead of a week from now, just for all you reviewers!
Keep in mind that I will finish this story no matter what and will somewhat update every week when I can, so yeah! Look forward for the next chapter you guys!