AN: Hej.

New chapter. I haven't stopped writing today. At all, not since I woke up. It's driving my mom up the wall.

To those who reviewed:

Spamano4ever: Cuteness..hmm..yeah, I suppose so. It's cute now, in story form. In cosplay form that was uber improved? Fuck no it wasn't. Glad you liked it though, I'll tell our Canada you liked the chapter he gave me the inspiration for!

Penguin Braginski: Vash and Roderich are adorable. They're both so serious all the time, though...so... But yes, things are going wonderfully for the holidays. Thank goodness.

Oh! And I forgot last chapter. What was said between Vash and Gilbert towards the end was "Be careful" and "Don't worry so much."

That wasn't too fun to translate, actually, the last one. The first one..well, America's always telling me that, in German and English, so...

Enjoy.

The following morning, Lovino woke up to see Antonio still asleep and half smiled, staying put so that he didn't wake the Spaniard up.

The others were already getting up and ready for the day they had ahead of them - their first day off from school for holiday.

They had planned to go to the amusement park again. The waterwork attractions there had been closed for the winter, but the others were still open and decorated for Christmas.

Antonio woke up not long after that and scrunched up his nose slightly. "Lovi?"he asked.

Lovino looked at him again. "Si?"

Antonio smiled faintly. "Wondering if you were still there,"he grumbled, letting the Italian go after stealing a chaste kiss.

Lovino smiled at that and got up to get ready, letting Antonio get woke up.

When Lovino came back it was to see that Antonio had managed to fall back asleep while he was gone.

He laughed, moving to kneel beside him. "Hey, amore?"he said, gently shaking Antonio. "Time to wake up."

Antonio grumbled in Spanish, but got up anyways.

Matthew's phone went off as everyone was eating breakfast that morning and he frowned, answering it. He smiled slightly when he realized it was his brother, but then his smile faded again. "Yeah, hold on."

Matthew moved the speaker away from his mouth to look at Gilbert. "Can Al come too?"he asked. "Please? Our parents are fighting again..I don't wanna leave him there alone,"

Gilbert nodded. "Yeah, tell him to get his ass over here,"

Matthew smiled at Gilbert and went back to talking to Alfred over the phone. After a moment, he hung up. He sighed. "They do this every year,"he grumbled. "Only ever fighting at Christmas."

Gilbert wrapped his arms around the canadian, kissing his cheek. "Well then...just ignore them."

Lovino spoke. "I've told him that for years, Gil. He wouldn't let anyone love him before you came along and changed everything because he's seen what 'love' does to people."he said from his own seat across the table.
Gilbert looked at Lovino before he looked back at Matthew with a frown. "Is that true?"he asked.

Matthew nodded once. Then he glared at Lovino. "You can't say much, Lovi. You closed yourself off to love as well, for the most part."

Lovino shrugged. "I know I did. I've accepted that and moved on."

Feliciano came into the room then from where he had gotten up and taken off to get something from his bookbag. Lovino choked slightly when his brother tied it around his neck without warning. He coughed for a moment before he looked at him. "What the hell, Feli?"he demanded.

Antonio laughed lightly, pushing Lovino's glass to him.

Lovino took it and sipped at it for a moment before he continued. "What is this thing?"he asked, since he couldn't exactly see what was around his neck.

"Go look!"Feliciano said happily.

Lovino sighed, but he got up and disappeared to the bathroom anyways.

When the elder Italian came back, he spoke. "Feli, how did you get my old bandana? It was in the attic,"

"I went up there and got it and washed it for you the last time we were home!"Feliciano said softly. "You used to love wearing it, and it just fit what you were wearing, so..."

It was true. While Lovino was wearing one of Antonio's shirts with an old ripped up pair of jeans, the bandana did fit. His old punk-esque style. That's exactly what it was.

Gilbert grinned. It was that style that Lovino had had when he'd met and became friend with him. "I remember that,"he said softly. "You used to get so much crap for wearing that bandana to school. You sometimes would tie it in your belt loops to stay out of trouble."

Matthew laughed lightly. "Man...I miss those days. It was so simple,"

Lovino rolled his eyes, letting the two reminise all they wanted. He sat back down with Antonio and let the Spaniard adjust the bandana before kissing his cheek.

Once Alfred got there, the group headed out to the amusement park for the day.

Lovino allowed himself to be pulled away. Matthew smiled as he watched Lovino and Antonio disappear. "It's nice to see Lovino so okay with Antonio."

Gilbert smiled at Matthew and pulled him to him gently. "It's sweet. But.."he said softly. "I want to know why you pushed people away before me,"

Matthew sighed. He should've seen that coming. "Because, I didn't want to get hurt."he said. "But I know you'd never hurt me."

"Well..unless you asked me to hurt you,"Gilbert said, chuckling.

Matthew turned pink, pushing at the prussian's shoulder. "Perv,"he grumbled.

Gilbert smiled softly. "I mean it. I will never hurt you. I love you too much."

The others had disappeared as well, letting the two have their alone time. They'd all meet up for lunch, at any rate.

Matthew smiled up at Gilbert. "I love you."he said softly.

"Ich liebe dich auch."Gilbert responded before he leaned down and kissed Matthew. While it wasn't one of their first kisses, it was as sweet as their first, just much less timid.

Matthew smiled faintly when he pulled away. "C'mon, let's go."he said.

Sometime during lunch, snow started falling, gaining a few surprised exclamations from Matthew, Alfred, and the Vargas brothers. It was rare for them to get to see snow and it was a pretty sight.

Gilbert chuckled, moving to wrap his arm around Matthew's shoulders, snapping him from his stupour.

The others managed to snap out of it when they heard Matthew's soft laugh.

Lovino grinned. It was definitely nice to see his best friend be so happy with someone.

Their day was full of chatter and fun. The snow stuck to the ground, so the group ended up having a snowball fight the moment they got home. It was brilliant. Lukas managed to get tackled into the snow by Mathias while they were playing and having fun in the snow, making the Norwegian squeel and laugh lightly. It wasn't often that he laughed and smiled, but he had yet to stop that since they started playing in the snow.

Mathias moved to give Lukas a kiss before he got up and helped his boyfriend to his feet.

After it got dark, they headed in to change and drink hot chocolate before settling down for the night. It had been a perfect first day of holiday for them. And since Lovino had to go back to work the following morning, it had been the perfect day off for him as well.

Here ya go.

It turned all cutesy and stuff, but I like it anyways. And I just had to include that PruCan moment. Because..well..c'mon, it's PruCan. That pairing deserves a lot of love as it is!

Farewell, love. I'm off to finish a cosplay video right quick like.