Hello everyone, I am pleased to present the final chapter to Feliciano's Fire. I am really happy that all of you have followed this story and enjoyed it. I hope that you all decide to follow the rest of the series. As usual I appreciate reviews. Thanks for reading.
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The weeks following the encounter were tough for the students involved in the fight. The administration punished the students for leaving the grounds without permission. When receiving their punishments Feliks did his best to convince the teachers that the school's saviors did not deserve to be punished but the school only added him to the list of people that would spend the remainder of the school year in detention.
By the time May came around, Lovino had grown tired of the classmates who declared themselves his fans.
"Lovi, I brought you a snack!" one of the girls said. He rolled his eyes and looked at her.
"Thanks, but I'm not really hungry. Go see if someone else wants it, I want to be alone." The girls giggled and left him. Gilbert was strutting around the campus, quite happy to have an entourage of his own.
"Hey Lovino, why are you all by yourself? Scared your fans off?" he asked with his usual grin.
"For your information, I politely asked them to leave. What do you want?"
"Nothing whatever." He said as he walked away followed by the fans. While in detention later that day Lovino tried his best not to make eye contact with the students who were staring at him and the others. Francis, Antonio, and Gilbert were relishing the attention. Alfred also enjoyed the limelight but all of the others were doing their best to either ignore the other students or politely turn them away.
Eventually the last day of school came, and all the students were packing up. Feliciano made mental notes of how the room looked at each stage of packing and each one made him sadder.
"It feels like everything is over…" he said quietly. Ludwig gave him a confused look.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, this room has been our home for such a long time now…. And we don't know if we'll see each other again next year."
"Don't be ridiculous, you were told when you came here that people around the same age are kept together." Ludwig explained calmly, "If we aren't roommates we will probably living in the same building, on the same floor even. On top of that there is still the library group so there's no need to worry over something that is not even an issue." Ludwig then closed the bag he was packing and smiled at his roommate. "I must say I wasn't sure if we would get along when we first met, but despite your… oddities, I'm proud to say you're my best friend." Feliciano brightened considerably when he heard that and gave Ludwig a hug.
"I'm so happy you think of me as your best friend!" he said with a warm smile. Ludwig rolled his eyes slightly and sighed.
"Alright thank you for the hug, but I'm not quite as contact oriented as my brother so please let me go." He said, reverting to his typical seriousness. Feliciano nodded and obliged. After they finished packing Feliciano took one final look around the room.
"It still makes me sad…. I know!" he said, as he quickly rushed out of the room. Ludwig just looked confused. The bouncy Italian came back into the room holding a digital camera. "I'm gonna take a picture of us here, that way we can always remember our first school year as friends." He said as he removed the small device from its case. After turning it on he went and put an arm around the German, holding the other one out with the camera pointing at them.
"What the?"
"Smile!" Feliciano ordered with a grin, and Ludwig did so. Feliciano took the picture and then looked at it. "Perfect! Take a look!" Ludwig took the camera and looked at the display. The image on the camera summed up their relationship beautifully, Ludwig looked tentatively happy about the situation while Feliciano looked oblivious to any discomfort his friend was experiencing in that moment. Ludwig nodded at Feliciano and handed the camera back.
"Well I think we're done here, we better go get our things to the office." Feliciano nodded and followed his friend out of the room.
Meanwhile Lovino was practically jumping for joy at the prospect of leaving his obnoxious roommate and returning to his native country. His enthusiasm caused him to finish his packing much faster than Gilbert. Said albino German looked up from his work at the lounging Italian.
"Why are you still hanging around? If I remember correctly you said that you'd leave this room as soon as humanly possible this morning." Said Gilbert. Lovino glanced at his roommate.
"I just don't feel like moving my stuff yet."
"Good, I was afraid you randomly had a change of heart and decided that you found me tolerable." he said with a smirk. "But this is good, the Bad Company Club is having one last meeting before Francis, Birdie and Alfred are picked up." Lovino nodded and stared out the window. He then let out a sigh.
"What is this stupid meeting about, bird-bastard?"
"Summer plans… We usually take a moment to see what everyone is planning for the summer. Sometimes we plan group trips if no one is particularly busy." Gilbert said, but then realized that Lovino stopped listening after the first couple words. "Are you planning on talking to Bella before you go?"
"W-wha?"
"I can tell you were thinking about her, the only time you don't look pissed off about something is when she's on your mind." Gilbert explained as he cleared Gilbird's cage of debris. Lovino looked around the room briefly and muttered to himself. He then looked up at the German.
"Do you think I should?"
"Vargas, you have a good chance with this girl and you obviously like her a lot. If you don't set up a way of staying in contact with her you don't know what could happen over the summer. You don't want to waste this kind of chance, believe me." He said in a tone that showed that there was a story to be told, one that Gilbert would never tell.
"Alright… I'll go put my things in the office and then talk with her. I'll see you at the meeting place later." Gilbert nodded and Lovino gathered his things and left.
It was pure luck that Bella happened to be dropping her luggage off when Lovino got there. He smiled and waved at her. She noticed and waved back at him.
"Can you wait here a second? I have to put my stuff in the assigned area." Lovino explained. She nodded and waited for him to finish setting his bags down. "Alright, glad that's over…" he said as he returned to her.
"So what's up Mr. Hero? I haven't really seen you around since the incident with the threat to the school." She said. Lovino scratched his head and looked down slightly.
"That's because I've been up to my eyeballs in detention and stalkers… you would not believe how fast everyone wanted to be friends with us after that mess went down."
"Sounds like a pain." Said Bella with her cat-grin, "Besides that how have you been holding up?"
"Pretty well, I actually came here to see if we could exchange phone numbers or something…." He looked intently at the ground, face turning red in spite of himself, "I'd like to stay in touch over the break is all…" She reached into her purse and found a pad of paper and a pen.
"I would love to exchange contact info." she said as she wrote down her all the ways that he could get a hold of her. When she handed him the paper he chuckled slightly.
"This is a bit more than I expected…" he commented as he tore off the blank half of the paper and wrote down his information. "Here you go, I hope that we talk a lot." She smiled and thanked him.
Shortly after that, the Bad Company Club was in their meeting place. The room was more crowded than usual due to the fact that relatives were also there.
"Alright, so now that we are all here it is time to commence in the annual sharing of Summer Vacation plans. Who wants to go first?" said Francis.
"I'm not doing much… I plan on spending as much time outside as possible. Besides enjoying the weather I'll mostly be relaxing." Antonio said.
"We're spending the first couple of weeks in the country, other than that we have no specific plans." Said Gilbert.
"Al and Francis are spending the summer at my place…."
"Hey, why don't we all try to get together before school starts?" Alfred suggested after his brother mentioned their plans. The others looked at the American strangely.
"Well it's not like we don't have room… I guess the only thing is seeing if Mom's alright with that." Matthew said as he thought about it.
"Well, assuming we could do that who would be coming?" asked Francis.
"We'd certainly come. As long as we end up at school when we're supposed to be there our mom isn't bothered if we stay with friends." Said Gilbert. Feliciano smiled, looked up at his brother, grabbed his shirt, and started begging.
"Please, can we go? Please, please, pleeeaaasse? I promise I'll never ask you a favor again!" Feliciano continued on in this manner as Lovino tried to explain that it wasn't his decision. Eventually the older Italian sighed.
"If our parents say we can go, we'll go…"
"Yay!"
"I'll see if I can go, I think it would be fun. The only problem is that my parents might not let me because you're all boys." Said Elizabeta.
"I think I'd rather stay home thank you very much. There is no sense in buying a plane ticket to Canada just to get on a plane to the United States a month later." Roderich said. The others rolled their eyes at him.
"So its agreed?" Francis said.
"Damn straight, we're gonna spend time in Canada!" Gilbert shouted enthusiastically. Lovino tried to contain his irritation when Alfred and Feliciano decided to start dancing circles around the group to express their excitement.
The Vargas brothers and Beilschmidt brothers were on the same bus going to the airport. Feliciano was babbling about nothing in particular to Ludwig who looked as though he wouldn't be too upset if the Italian suddenly forgot how to talk. Lovino just stared out the window and tuned his brother's voice out, a skill he got very good at over the years. Gilbert was checking on his pet bird, which was now in a little travel. Once the bus arrived at the airport, the students got off of it and waited for the shuttles to take them to their terminals. Minutes later Feliciano, Lovino, Gilbert, and Ludwig were in the international terminal check in area. Feliciano looked at his friend sadly.
"Well…. I guess that this is good bye for now…"
"Yeah…"
"I'll make sure to send you the picture."
"Thanks…" Ludwig said. Feliciano looked down, he then gave his friend another hug. Gilbert smiled at the scene in front of him.
"Relax Feli, it's not like you won't see him ever again. It'll only be a few months before school starts again, plus if you guys can come on the trip it'll be even shorter." Feliciano nodded at Gilbert. Lovino sighed and held his hand out to Gilbert.
"I'll admit this much, things weren't boring with you around." Said Lovino. Gilbert shook Lovino's hand and smirked at him.
"Likewise, you turned out to be pretty awesome in your own right."
"Well I guess I'll see you whenever we're back in North America." Gilbert nodded. The pairs of boys each went to their respective areas.
As Lovino and his brother walked to their gate, the older Italian couldn't help but remember a line from the speech Feliks gave in front of the student body before graduation.
'Although this was a great triumph, we can be sure that this is only the beginning to something greater.'
The End