AN: Hi!
New chappy for ya.
To those who reviewed:
ThatRandomReview: It's fine, that was my bad for my wording in the end.
Spamanoever: I love PruCan, and this is the first time I've actually wrote it. I'm gonna write them a drabble or something later.
GothicKitty1313: Yeah..but things are going to get better for both of them. They both have wonderful boyfriends who care so much for them!
Enjoy.
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The group was relaxing outside at lunch the following day, enjoying the unusual warmth. Lovino was laying down in the grass, staring at the clouds.
Matthew spoke softly, interupting the Italian's thoughts. "Hey, Lovi?"he asked. "How are you and Feli going to do now..?"
Lovino sighed. "I'm going to pick up a part time job soon,"he replied, looking at Matthew tiredly. "We have to survive somehow,"
Gilbert spoke. "Until you find a job, you could always play at bars and stuff for money,"he offered. "That friend of your nonno's would do that for you and Feli. He loves you guys to death,"
Lovino nodded, going back to watching the stars. "Yeah, I'll do that.."
Hercales looked up at Lovino from where he was patching up a guitar. He glanced at it before he passed it over to Lovino, who blinked at it in surprise.
"What are you on about?"
Hercales smiled. "Play something,"he said softly.
Lovino sat up and fixed the tuning on the guitar silently. "What song?"
Francis grinned. "Play something for Tonio,"he said. "You've never played a song for him,"
"That's so awkward, though.."Lovino said softly.
Antonio half smiled, kissing the Italian's cheek lightly before he rolled his eyes. "Play whatever you want to play, Lovi."
Lovino sighed. "Fine.."he grumbled, glaring at Francis before he glanced down at the chords before he started playing. It took him a few tries to make it sound right.
"Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass and I'm homebound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder..."
Francis smiled faintly in surprise. He wasn't aware that Lovino could play something so sweet.
"It's always times like these when I think of you and wonder if you ever think of me, cause everything's so wrong and I don't belong living in your precious memories."
Lovino half smiled, glancing up at the others as he stopped playing. He passed the guitar to Hercales again, rolling his eyes. "Content?"he asked.
Francis spoke up. "That..that was...aw! Sweet!"he said, grinning at Lovino.
Lovino turned bright red and shrugged.
Antonio laughed lightly, pulling Lovino to him. "Leave him alone, guys. If he wants to be sweet, he can be sweet."he said softly.
Lovino half smiled, wrinkling his nose slightly.
Things settled a bit after that, and Antonio rested his chin against Lovino's shoulder as he listened to the conversation, sometimes giving a soft comment, sometimes not.
Gilbert hid his smile in Matthew's hair. It was nice to see Lovino so okay with physical contact after so long.
Lukas was examining Lovino before he spoke. "I could talk to my dad about getting you an interview,"he offered.
Lovino gave Lukas a faint smile. "Would you?"he asked. "That would really help,"
Matthew seemed to realize something, because he snatched his bag and dug through it quickly, gaining a few looks.
As soon as Matthew got his history notebook out, Lovino cursed. "We have a test today, don't we?"he asked.
Matthew nodded.
Lovino cursed again, getting his own notes out.
Antonio and Gilbert exchanged looks, but neither of them said anything to the two once they started studying over their notes.
After a while, Antonio looked over Lovino's shoulder at the notes in his hands before he blinked in surprise. "What..?"
Lovino looked back at him for a moment before realizing that he was trying to read the notes. "Oh, sorry. It's in Italian. Matthew and me always do this, we write in French and Italian respectively when it comes to our notes. That way, we can word it so we understand it better and the teachers can't get on to us because they can't understand it,"
Antonio nodded, letting Lovino go back to studying.
Silence fell for the longest before Lovino growled, putting his notes up. "I give up. If I fail, I fail,"he grumbled.
Antonio rolled his eyes, pulling the Italian into a soft kiss before he pulled back and met his eyes. "You won't fail. Neither of you. Know why? Because you are both muy inteligente."he said softly. "So stop with that,"
Lovino huffed, but nodded once in understanding, letting Antonio pull him closer.
Feliciano frowned at his brother. It wasn't often that he had a spell like this, but when he did it never ended well. "Lovi...? You aren't going to snap again are you..?"
Lovino blinked at Feliciano before he gave a weak smile and shook his head. "No, Feli, I'm not."
"Promise?"
That innocent voice surprised Lovino still. He nodded. "Promise."he said softly.
After school ended, Lovino sighed in relief. The group was sitting together outside again, waiting on everyone to show up before they left.
Antonio raised an eyebrow as he sat down beside Lovino. "How'd the test go?"
"It sucked. I think I answered about half of it in Italian before I realized what I was doing, so I had to go back and rewrite it all in english."Lovino said, sighing and leaning against Antonio tiredly. "I'm not cut out for last minute cramming and freaking out when I'm handed a test. I can't do that again,"
Gilbert laughed. "Yeah, out of the group, Matthew and Lovino are the only ones who will study days ahead of time for a test or something,"he said. "They're not good under that kind of pressure."
Matthew shoved Gilbert lightly. "Jerk,"he mumbled.
Gilbert responded with catching the canadian in a hug. "Ich liebe dich,"he said softly.
Matthew turned pink. "Let go,"he said softly. He looked really uncomfortable with the situation.
"No."Gilbert said.
Matthew knew what he was waiting on and sighed, rolling his eyes. "Je t'aime aussi."he said softly.
Ludwig and Francis both looked at the two in surprise.
Lovino blinked at them before he grinned. "Okay, I know enough of those two to know that you guys just told each other that you love them."he said. "Secondly, that's adorable,"
Both of them turned pink, so Lovino let it drop, knowing it sucked to be put on the spot like that.
A sound of a nearby argument got the others' attention. Lovino glanced back. Of course. Hercales and Sadık were fighting again.
Only this time it was different.
"..no, I've told you a million times, do not act like that if you come visit. They're wanting to kick me out," Hercales didn't sound happy. Lovino knew what that was about. Hercales's parents hadn't been too happy when he'd come out to them, and Hercales, in an attempt to keep Sadık safe from harm, had given the warning not to act like they were together when he visited if they were around Hercales's parents. "And I know you always say that if they do, I could come stay with you, but..I can't just..."
Sadık nodded that he understood. "I got it,"he said softly, taking one of the greek's hands in his own. "I know. I messed up with this..but I promise it won't happen again."
"Okay,"
Lovino looked at the others for a moment before he sighed. "I hate when parents are like that,"he grumbled.
Feliciano nodded. "Weren't our parents like that?"
"If they paid us any mind, you mean?"Lovino asked. "No. They were actually pretty open minded about things..but then..they never really cared either way, so.."
Feliciano nodded in understanding.
Antonio spoke softly, offering a distraction. "So..I know Lovi's middle name. What's Feli's?"
Nobody answered for a while, so Lovino spoke up. "It's Veneziano."he said softly.
Feliciano blinked at Lovino before he let it go, continuing an old conversation with Ludwig quietly.
It stayed that way for the longest before they left, all heading to hang out at the old community center again for a while before they headed for dinner.
Alfred and Arthur joined them later and got questioned about their date the night before.
It had turned out to be a pretty good day for a first day back after a funeral.
Here. Once again, I listened to Europa for the majority of my time writing this. Hope you enjoyed!