No Regrets. Just Love//romerica

ch 10

Alfred could only focus on the slap, it was almost as if Lovino had knocked the kiss out of Al's memories.

Alfred placed his hand over his cheek, covering the red handprint that had replaced his blushing skin.

"What the hell, Lovino?! That hurt like a bitch!" Al swore at Lovi, he figured he picked the excessive profanity up from Arthur.

All Lovino could do was stare wide-eyed at the boy. Shock spread across his face while confusion took the same action on Al's; he was wondering if Lovino didn't mean to do it.

After a long, awkward pause Lovi broke the silence, in Spanish. He was no where near fluent in the language and it was uncharacteristic for him to speak in anything but Italian or English.

"Lo siento mucho. Lo siento, perdóname por favor! No te quiero perder!"

Al cocked his head, still confused. He wondered why Lovi was speaking a different language, due to Alfred's job he needed to know many different foreign languages and Spanish was one of them, along with Italian, Mandarin, German, Dutch, and more.

Alfred took a moment to process the words, but soon translated them for himself. It had been a while since he spoke Spanish, it didn't help that he only began to learn it in Freshman year of High School.

"No me quieres perder?" As the words escaped his mouth quietly Lovino's cheeks grew bright red.

"Y-you speak Spanish?"

Alfred only nodded in reply. Lovino sat at the dining room table and buried his face into his hands in embarrassment.

Al sat down next to him, grabbing one of his hands. Lovino looked up at Al as he let their fingers intertwine. Alfred's cheeks turned the color of carnations in bloom as his looked down at the other boy.

"What's wrong, dude?"

"I uh.. you- you speak Spanish.. I just t-told you that I don't want to lose you.." He groaned.

Al smiled brightly at him, in hopes of cheering him up. "Yeah, you confessed your feelings to me! So what? Do you know how great it is to hear some one say that? It's an amazing feeling! Don't beat yourself up over this. Hm.. Okay, I'll tell you what, I can forget about this whole situation, if you go on a date with me."

Lovino glared at Al, tears threatening to spill over his eyes, yet still he intimidated Alfred.

He sighed and reluctantly agreed. "Alright bastard. But only one date, okay? One! And you can't tell anyone about it!"

Alfred simply nodded, he knew exactly where he wanted to take Lovino.

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ALL OF THESE OLD A/NS ARE SO CRINGY IM SO GLAD THEYRE GONE