Romeo and Romeo

Chapter 5

The Society for MLPs was getting ready for Christmas. They prepared by hanging a wreath on the door and bunting above the small fireplace, which was lit every day now to warm the cozy room and block out drafts from the door.

They had even arranged a present giving system that ment that everyone got one present and gave out one present from a random name picked out of a hat. Even Arthur participated. And he was turning up to the meetings mostly every day, bringing with him his old friend Alfred to them as well, much to Feliciano's surprise.

The names were being drawn and as Feliciano opened his, he felt eyes on him. He peeled the paper back and found 'Ivan Braginski' scrawled on with fancy but hard to read handwriting. Everyone seemed happy with who they had but Feliciano had no idea what he was going to get the Russian. Then Arthur cleared his throut and began his announcement.

'As you all know, Christmas is drawing near and after having a conversation with a few of you I have discovered that none of you have any plans. So I went ahead and wrote a letter to my old friend and asked him if we could go to his holiday home in the Scottish Highlands. He replied straight away saying that he won't be using it as he is visiting his parents and will happily let us stay there for a while. The house has conveniently got six bedrooms and is quite large, so I'm sure we will be able to fit everyone in.'

As if everyone had already agreed, he took out a list of paper with that same scrawled handwriting on it and read it aloud, 'I have mixed you all up so you will be able to get to know each other better. So in room one there will be Miss Elisaveta and Miss Natalia.
In room two there will be Ivan and Yao.
In room three there will be Mathew and Francis.
In room four there will be me and possibly my acquaintance.
In room five there will be Kiku and in room six there will be Ludwig and Feliciano.'

Feliciano looked at Ludwig and smiled, remembering all to sweetly when he fell into his arms. Ludwig appeared to be agitated and only glanced awkwardly at his beautiful smile.

'All of the rooms have two beds, so there are currently two for anyone else that someone would like to bring along-' He was cut off by Kiku standing up politely, and Arthur nodded for him to go on.

'Sorry for interrupting but I know someone who would like to go.' he nodded and sat down again.

'Well I do to so if no one else has any objections...' Arthur paused to make sure. 'Well that is all. I assume that you are all coming, it's the 21st to the 27th, so bring your presents. And other than that, you are all dismissed until then. We meet at 11 am at the train station. Please contact me for any further information ' he walked out the room suddenly.

Matthew quickly summed it up for Francis and Feliciano went to talk to Ludwig. He spoke up because of the quiet clamor in the room.

'Ve~ Ludwig, we're sharing a room! I can't wait! Do you snore? I don't think I snore. Well unless I have a blocked nose. And I'm a very heavy sleeper, so you will need to wake me up by gently flicking warmish water on my face, unless it's after twelve. And I also sleep walk, but I have only ever gotten out of bed and walked to the kitchen before. Do you sleepwalk?'

'Um I don't know... I don't think so...' Ludwig sounded overwhelmed with this bubbly Italian that he couldn't quite think clearly.

'WAIT. You don't have any plans do you? You are going right?' Those pleading puppy dog eyes again accompanied by a small pout.

'Oh, yes I am going.' Ludwig could not say no.

'That's great!' Feliciano beamed brightly, 'I'll see you then!'

Feliciano happily walked home and could barely sleep that night because of all the excitement.