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Feliciano smiled as he chatted with his brother at the entrance of the local fair in the mall parking lot. It was just a small collection of rides and games aling with food stalls and Feliciano had invited his brother out for a possible double date with both of their boyfriends. Meanwhile, said boyfriends were making small chat while they waited in the line for tickets. Antonio brought the conversation back up every few moments with "How's work been, amigo?" "Life been treating you alright?" And a cheeky "How's my future brother-in-law doing?", which Ludwig took as a reference to Antonio and Lovino's engagement. While he was happy forthe both of him, it created this invisible pressure on himself to propose to Feliciano, but he would rather wait till the moment was right. Plus, it was a bit difficult to think of Lovino as his brother-in-law with how much he cusses him out. Oh how the reunions would go in that family. During his internal thoughts, he suddenly came back to reality to see he was next in line. He stepped up, taking his wallet out and decided to save them all time by buying the other two tickets along with his and Feliciano. He modded and muttered 'you're welcomes' and 'no need to' to Antonio's offers and thank you's.
They all entered through the ticket station, Feliciano playing with the machine that let them through until Lovino ushered him forever, insisting he was barely in and already trying to ride something. Ludwig took Feliciano's, looking around to see what they would do. Due to the nature of the amusement park, Ludwig was worried about letting him onto any of the flimsy looking roller coasters or more thrilling rides. In the card ride there, he explained how most likely they wouldn't go on any rides, but it didn't mean they couldn't play the games, see the exhibits, or go eat and buy things at the stalls.
Lovino and Antonio had already zoomed off into one area, possibly the small rollercoaster that Feliciano was looking at with a kid-like want. Ludwig offered a smile when he looked down to the other. "Come along, let's go see if we can get you some funnel cake and a prize." This instantly lifted Feliciano's spirits.
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The started off with eating since it was around noon when they had arrived. After Lovino and Antonio had riden the rollercoaster twice, they sat down at the bench with Feliciano and Ludwig to join them in a lunch. "How was the rollercoaster?" Feliciano asked, partially wondering if it was as fun as it looked. Lovino opened his mouth to answer, but Antonio interrupted. "It was alright, there's much better ones at the theme park. Someday we will go to that one!" Lovino gave a strange look, but noticed Ludwig sighed in relief since he didn't want to make Feliciano feel like he was missing out on it.
Lovino rolled his eyes as he saw as such a small silly thing to keeo his brither happy, but at least Ludwig cared about those small silly things. Lovino absent mindly went back to eating. They all shared some more words about topics and then parted once more. For a double date, it more seemed to both parties that it was more of 'Oh we accidentally planned to attend this fair at the same time', but did they both object to spending time alone with their lovers? Of course not.
Ludwig further more took Feliciano out to the stalls to play a few games. He managed to win a small prize due to his arm strength at knocking over milk bottles. He failed to make any balls into the tiny dinky cups. They went to the scary tunnel- followed by the 'weird and extravagant items' stall which turned out to be snakes with two heads and a dog with a third ear and such, and Feliciano practically awed at everything and promised them all a happy day with cooing. Ludwig couldn't help but smile.
Fnally, the day neared about 3 or 4 p.m. Ludwig was ready to head home, but however, Feliciano wanted to play just one more game. The little Italian had spotted possible the biggest Teddy bear plushie had ever seen, with a red bow neatly tied around the neck and arms inviting for many snuggles. Feliciano squealed. "It's so fluffy, I'm gonna cry!" He turned to Ludwig. "Win it for me?"
Ludwig rubbed the back of his neck, scanning over the game. It was a typical hammer game with a single goal: hit the button hard enough to make the marker on the lever hit the bell at the top. Ludwig figured he had the strength and nodded to Feli's plea. "I'll try my best." When he approached the game and handed the man two dollars, he picked up the hard mallet to notice it was on a short chain. How was anyone supposed to hit this thing hard enough if they could barely hold it half a foot above the dang thing? He grumbled. "Is the chain supposed to be this short," Ludwig asked the man with a furrowed brow. "Is it even possible?"
"It's possible." That was all the vendor mumbled, counting the cash and watched Ludwig. Ludwig hummed, seeing as this game was based on strength, but the chain was a disadvantage to any person no matter how strong. He lifted the chain, a gave a small, yet strong hit against the button. The marker went up about 3/4 the way before coming back down. Ludwig squinted and promptly paid for another attempt. Every time he attempted it barely made it, but was never enough and soon he would grow tired and run out of money. Feliciano growed concerned and gave a sad smile of 'It's okay, let's go home, I don't mind."
Like heck he was going to lose this now after this much effort paired with his boyfriend's sad smile. He paid his last two dollars in his wallet to the man. But this time, as he picked up the mallet, he realized that he potentially could deal more strength than this small mallet could. He gently settled it back down to let it dangle, wiping his hands against his pants. The vendor gave a confused, but amused look, thinking perhaps he was trying to get a better grip on the thing or let the feeble man attempt at it. But what took him off guard was when Ludwig raised his fist and smashed it into the button, causing the lever to skyrocket and ring the bell clear as day.
Feliciano gasped, running over to. "Oh my god- why would you do that! Are you okay- is your hand okay?!" Ludwig held a hand out to let him know he was there or to pause his concern and held his other wounded hand close to him like a dog lifting it's hurt paw. The vendor, astonished, frighteningly handed over the bear. "Jesus man.."
Ludwig huffed, taking it into his arms.
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Later when they were at home, Feliciano and him were gently sitting with legs crossed on the bed. Besides Feliciano was a first-aid kit, using it to fix the wound Ludwig had inflicted onto himself for a such a silly thing. "Idioto.." Feliciano mumbled, wrapping a bandage around Ludwig's knuckles. "You didn't have to do that. That was very silly-" Ludwig sat silent for a moment, "Well, it was worth it to bring a smile to your face. Besides- you love it." Feliciano leaned comfortably further back against the bear he had set beside him. "Fair enough, but don't do that again." "I would do it a million times if it a brought a smile to your face for a second."
"...Idiot. My idiot."