AN: Konnichiwa, guys. I've been going back and forth, I know. I'm currently in the midst of finally reading House of Hades. It's amazing, but it makes me want to yell at the book...and that's not something I'm used to anymore. And I just downloaded Slender: The Eight Pages today so that I could play it. It's been a while since I thought about doing that. Pewdiepie kinda reminded me. I got to watching some of his videos today with one of my friends. ^.^

Anyways...to those who reviewed:

ThatRandomReview: Eh. I write to write. And as for planning this out? No. I don't have nearly anything planned out. I have a few things that I know I want to do with the story, but besides that, I'm freaking winging this. More fun.

Spamano4ever: Yeah.

Luvrainluv: Yeah, he definitely will be okay in the end. Thanks. :)

British Iggycat: I know! Thanks.

SeriPhe08: Oh wow. You must be a fast reader...Glad you like it. I've noticed it going a bit OOC and I've tried to patch it as much as possible before I update, which is why it's taking me so much longer than normal. But I'm glad you think that their personalities are working well enough with this. Aw! That's got to be the biggest compliment I've ever gotten on my stories! Thank you!

anonymous1: Oh! I know who you're talking about now! Okay! Yeah, that was sad. I kinda...ugh, I got laughed at because I was still crying going to the bus after the play and stuff. Jake was so understanding about it and he was so happy that we got to see it..and the fact that they moved people to tears says amazing things about how awesome they were in the play! To be able to move a crowd is a spectaluar accomplishment! He did remind me of Sealand..which was just like...oh gods, I now sincerely hope we never find a Sealand for the high school group...I'd have to be mean to them. It made me feel bad just to be reminded of it!

Enjoy.

Once the group went back to normal at school, Lovino noticed that they had all become rather close. It was almost like a family type group now rather than just a group of friends goofing off all the time.

Antonio was chatting happily with Gilbert and Francis while Lovino thought, his arms wrapped tightly around the elder Italian's small frame.

Lovino half smiled, leaning up to steal a soft kiss before he broke free of Antonio's hold on him and got up, disappearing from the area.

The others watched this in curiousity. It wasn't normal for the Italian to just up and disappear off on his own in the mornings.

He caught up with the group again at lunch, but when he showed up, he had his focus on something he was reading through in a folder, as well as having another one tucked under his arm.

When he stopped at the table, he passed the folder to Feliciano and sat down. "Information about auditions."he said softly when Feliciano went to question him.

"Oh."

Antonio skimmed over Lovino's shoulder before he smiled. "You're going to have fun, you know."he said softly.

Lovino nodded. "Definitely."he responded, leaning against the Spaniard after he closed the folder again.

It took a while for Lovino to get used to the calm rhythm the group fell into between his work and the odd pattern they had at school and on breaks and weekends.

Plus, adding in another thing - auditions - was something that he thought would throw things slightly more off balance...but it hadn't.

Within the next few weeks, Feliciano and Lovino focused a lot on what they had to learn for the auditions.

When the day finally came around, they were rather glad for them to get there.

The following day when Lovino walked into work, Feliciano with him, his boss spoke up from where he was wiping one of the tables down. "So, how were auditions?"

Lovino shrugged. "I didn't pass out, so I believe it went over pretty well."

Feliciano snorted. "He did amazingly,"he commented dryly. "He's just being overly modest, as usual."

Lovino rolled his eyes, heading back into the kitchen to get started.

"So, when will you guys know who's in the play?"

Feliciano smiled softly. "Next week."he said. "We'll be sure to let you guys know when we find out."

This gained a nod.

Lovino's voice drifted out again then. "Feli, you should get home before Ludwig comes looking for you!"

This gained a bit of laughter, but the younger Italian yelled a farewell to his brother before he disappeared.

Naturally, with all that was going on, Lovino felt that he should feel a bit more rushed than he normally was to get things done so things would go back to normal...but he didn't. He felt perfectly at ease with having so much going on. It felt normal to him. And he missed that sense of normalcy, quite a bit more than he cared to admit.

Ciao, guys. I gotta go so I'm rested. I have a lot of stuff going on tomorrow. We're doing student directing and stuff in Drama, so I have lines to learn and rehearsal first block and then chorus we have a concert on Tuesday, so we have one last rehearsal. It's our dress rehearsal, we'll be in the auditorium, I beileve, on the risers and drilling on our songs. It'll be fun...maybe..?