I'mma make some bootleg banners microsoft paint cause im unable to make any rn. The program I usually use somethings going on with it idk😭

Buongiorno, I'm Antonio. I'm not really sure of what to put here, I'm not sure if it will be good enough. I don't communicate really well but I'll do my best. I'm 17 and in the 12th grade. I'm extremely quiet. I have a condition where I'm overstimulated by loud noises, bright lights and such, so you can say I'm autistic....no one knows that besides my family. I'm told that I'm an overachiever sometimes, if that is a thing. I play on the soccer team, I'm an Honors student, I'm in Beta Club and Student Council, I play the harp, I can speak three languages- Italian my mother tongue, then English and Spanish, I have a black belt in karate and I model part time. I'm from Italy, but I live in America with my parents. I don't really know what I want to do career-wise, but I do want to help others.

I'm already exhausted. I'm done talking haha.

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1 year ago, Junior year.

School

ELA

Antonio's pov

It's a free day in English Language Arts, so we can do whatever as long as we're not too loud. I was silently reading my book. I usually prefer to be by myself. If I don't have anything to catch up on, I read a book. Everyone else is either talking, on their phones, sleeping or catching up on class work. I was known as a smart quiet kid, some referred to me as attractive- that's what other people told me, from my knowledge. I was at New York Fashion Week earlier this year, modeling for my grandfather, you know the famous designer Travis Sanchez? Yes him. My mother and father kept me away from cameras so I could live a normal life and the moment I show my face on a runway, a video from the crowd that shown me walking down the runway and posing. The outfit I was wearing was really popular annnnd yeah that's how I became a popular student at my school. I never asked for any of this. But I did open up just a little, I made a few friends.

My train of thought got interrupted by a foot kicking the back of my chair. I closed my book and turn around and look at this tall guy, sitting behind me. "Will you stop doing that?!" I sigh, "Was I interrupting something?" he snickers.

 Tall, muscular built with the muscles of his arms peeking through the jacket of his school uniform so it would be obvious how big he was. His straight jet black hair was shaved in the back and around the sides, the rest tied in a low-effort bun. Small studs in his ears. Dark brown eyes filled with excitement accompanied by a smug look on his lips, by his features I could tell he is Asian, but Japanese after he kept calling me 'Antonio-chan' out of annoyance or calling me names in Japanese. If looked upon closely, a light dusting of freckles are spread across his nose bridge and cheeks. I found out his name is Hitoshi. He gets on my nerves. a lot. 

"Yes you were. Captain Obvious."

 "You wanna arm wrestle?"

 "No I don't just leave me alone" I curse. 

He laughs, kicking my seat even more. I slowly turn around and go back to reading my book. "Aw come on, I'm bored man. You're gonna chicken out already?!" I said nothing back. Then he gets up, gets in front of me and shoves my head into my book, on my desk. 

I grab his neck tie and pull him down by instinct. "Oh (__) you gotta grip on you." he grabs my hair. The teacher had left the class to grab something from the office. Hitoshi pulls me out of my seat by my hair and I quickly make him let go by flicking his nose and we had to stop because the teacher was coming back.

By the time class ends and the bell rings Hitoshi holds me back. I slapped his arm away, "Why are you so pushy? We have the next class together anyway" I didn't reply. "Some sick move you had back there."

 "I learned karate" I mumble.

 "Doesn't seem like it" he smarts off.

 "If I did try, you wouldn't land a single finger on me" I say rolling my eyes. 

"Then why you let me throw you around like some rag doll stupid."

 "Maybe because I like being thrown around like a rag doll" I chuckle as he pulls me up to him by my collar making me laugh more. "Quit trying to be funny, ya weird prick" 

"Says the one who almost lost his prick, you was about have a numb groin if it wasn't for the teacher coming back" I say, pushing myself off from him as he grabs his book bag and I leave with him "Don't try anything stupid this time" I mumble.  "Yeah yeah I won't, promise"

By the time we make it to class on time, he shoves me into my desk playfully and laughs sitting down at his. As the bell rang and class began, the teacher was doing something on their laptop. We're in social studies.

I rested my head on my desk, Hitoshi was behind me. Crazy how he sits behind me in almost every class we have together. Though sometimes he's randomly missing, I found out he skips, that's why. He kicked my chair making my rest not so peaceful. "Wake up sleepy head. I had no idea Italians were so sleepy all the time, geez" 

"Are you done annoying me for the millionth time?!"

 "Nope, not this time model boy!" 

"Stop calling me that!" I turn around in my chair. "Haha! Now you're mad? Wanna arm wrestle (female dog)?" he laughs, knowing he was annoying me.

 I turn back around, and he kicks my chair again. "Why do you keep doing that?!" 

"You think you're so cool and hot (crap) cause you're some super model, but you don't have to act like you're some higher up, denka" 

"I'm just staying alive man." I shrug. "Maybe you can just mind your own business and leave me alone, micio" I look at him. He looks at me, from bottom up, "Says the guy who has diamonds on his (donkey)" he snickers, making a few around us laugh. "Kiss my (donkey lol), Hitoshi" I say, getting annoyed. 

"I don't roll that way but I can kick it for ya, girly." he looks at me with a smirk. We stare at each other, and a few around us look at us. He laughs lightly, making me laugh a little, both of us had a laughing fit as he slapped his knee and the others laughed with us.

 We cut our laughter and got back serious, "Yeah good one." I mumble, still feeling a slight smile on my face as we looked away from each other. The teacher speaks up, Hitoshi keeps his foot on my seat. "Alright we're gonna be working on a project for the next two weeks, this will be your exam grade for the first semester. I won't be helping this time, your directions are here on the board. This is a partner project, I chose your partner for you. The person behind you is your partner. Let's get to work"

I curse in Italian under my breath. "I'd rather be partners with the wall than you, Marino. Let's just get this over with" he sighs, moving his desk up to mine. We took out our textbooks and got to work. "Why aren't you writing anything?" I ask, "Because it's stupid that's why" 

"Maybe because you are stupid." I smart back. 

"Yes. Yes I am smarty pants, how do you even get diamonds in your butt anyway? Doesn't that hurt?!" he looks at my butt. I realized my jacket was revealing them so I tug my jacket down. I was wearing a crop top beneath it but I put on one of those removable collars on it so no one notices. 

"That's my lower back, stupido. They're dermals. And yes, it hurt. Perché stai fissando comunque?" 

"They look great on you" "....Thanks?" "I have a tongue piercing." "Wait really?" he catches my attention.

 "Yeah, it hurt like a brick but the ladies love it a lot" ".......You're lying" "No I'm not see?" he sticks his tongue out, he had a blue one "I snuck out and got it." he says proudly. "I have one too." "Stop joking around lady" "Here" I stick my tongue out a little, showing off black snake eyes. "I didn't think you'd be into piercings" Hitoshi rests his cheek on his hand, looking at Antonio. "Do you have more?"  Antonio raises  a brow, soon enough, they were doing work and talking about something they could actually click on.

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3 Days later

Home

Antonio's pov

I hear a doorbell and then my mom calling me. I walk out and hear her as I descended down the stairs, "Oh really? He never told me. I'm just glad he has someone to talk to, he's been looking lonely recently......Ahaha, thanks! Oh here he is. Antonio" I see my mom at the door conversating with- wait how did he find out where I live?! I stood there staring at him with a faint smile on his face. I almost felt my eye twitch. He had a few more piercings on him compared to what I seen at school, most likely hid from dress code.

"Antonio. My boss called me to a meeting, you know where your father is at right?" she asks me, I nod, while still staring at Hitoshi. "Well then, I'm gonna go, so you two have fun alright?" she kisses me on my cheek and leaves. Hitoshi partially bowed to her as she tells him bye. Hitoshi just walks in, I quickly close the door. He giggles, slipping his shoes off, and setting them by the door, "Your mom is hot man, I didn't think she looked that great up close!" "How the (fish) did you find where I-" "Coincidence." he shrugs. I'm literally on the country side, that could've been anybody! "Hitoshi-" 

"Okay, fine, I'm bored! And I kinda wanna know more about you I guess. Stop acting like an angry puppy Antonio-chan" he scratches the back of his head. "....You're trying to say you want to be my friend?!" "Yeah I guess" "Even though we fought in class?" "Yep" he says casually. 

Hitoshi's pov

He stood there looking at me confused, then his eyes looked somewhere else as if he was thinking, playing with his fingers. "What the (fish) are you on about?" I laugh lightly. Antonio wasn't the only one I would pick on, for some reason others took me seriously but I ended up beating them into a pulp. But Antonio? I don't know, I just know that I like him, he seems cool, despite him acting like a (female dog hehe) sometimes. "Nothing." he lowers his voice and head over to a couch but stumbles.

 I caught him before he fell and help him sit down. I sit beside him, "Are, you alright?" I look at him, he had a worried look on his face. He just grabs and hug me suddenly, it felt like he couldn't wait to hug me at the same time startling me, I slightly push him away at first, then I just hug him back. "I don't mind being friends Hitoshi." he whispers. I'm not much of a hugger, but dang he smells good. I don't know if that's considered creepy or not, but this dude smells great. Antonio acts like this uptight, quiet and reserved guy at school but right now I'm seeing an entirely different person. I guess it does put pressure on him since he appears as some role model out there.

 I literally slammed this guys head on a desk one time and he acts like it never happened. The one time he seemed flattered and interested was when I made fun of his butt diamonds. "Okay, enough of the hugging." I wiggle him off, but he wouldn't budge. He already fell asleep? I push him so he could rest on my shoulder. But I do gotta admit, the silence is really peaceful compared to where I live. It's so huge here, the ceiling is so high too, feels like a breath of fresh air. It's making me sleepy now. I gently push him to the other side of the couch off of me. I rest my arm on the armrest and rest my cheek in my hand, I look at him from the corner of my eyes.

 Even at school, he always looked really focused on whatever he would do, like he just take his work so seriously. But I guess he does have to, the clubs and whatever he's in has smart people in it. He really has it. He's smart, he's nice, a lot of people like him, he's got some cool piercings and he even has parents that actually love him, and....yeah he's definitely got a lot of girls around him. Even despite me treating him like crap, he's still being nice to me. Maybe I shouldn't be around him, some broke guy that just doesn't care about his life is hanging around a star student. I admit it, I'm a bit jealous.

I'm thinking about every thing else but I kinda just now noticed how quiet it is. Did I say that already?  It's really, really.....quiet...

Antonio's pov

Thirty minutes later I wake up to some snoring. I open my eyes and look around and I had to contain my surprise, I fell asleep on the guy and he's sleeping too. The last thing I remember before I fell asleep, Hitoshi and I were talking and, I almost panicked because I didn't know how to respond to something he said, I don't know, I just felt a bit overwhelmed for no reason. But when did I get so sleepy? I was doing homework just as fine. Maybe I was tired and didn't realize it then.

I look over at him sleeping, he's just quietly snoring. He looks peaceful sleeping. I decided to leave him alone. My eyes study him more. Blue jeans, white Nikes and a white shirt under a unbuttoned short sleeved navy shirt is what covered him. Bandages wrapped around his knuckles and a band-aid on his cheek and forehead. I felt like an ant compared to him, he's at least 6'5, head taller than I. I never had someone here at home with me like this besides my cousins but they're out of state. I never even visited a friend's house let alone that. Maybe because I didn't have friends or  maybe because I didn't want friends? Maybe I didn't think I needed friends? I hate to overthink.

Then I see Germany walking over to Hitoshi, and bumped her nose against his knee. Germany is my mother's German Shepard, she helped her with investigations many times before. She's one of the many pets we have here. She looks at  me, I put my finger to my lips, she just walks over to me and sits down. Wait if she's here then where's Rico? He's always with Germany... oh boy. I hear him flying in and perch on the arm rest beside Hitoshi. Rico's my mother's African Parrot, who talks. 

He's been with her since she was younger. "Hello!" he chirps, "Rico be quiet!" and that just set him off he just started getting louder, eventually waking Hitoshi. 

He looks at Rico and they both startle each other and he pulls me into his grasp, cursing like a sailor, "What is that?! I had no idea you had an eagle in here man!" (sqaaa🦅)

"Dude calm down! He's an African Parrot!" "Don't those things bite and peck people?!"

 "He doesn't! He's trained! He won't hurt you, but you're gonna snap me in two in a second!" I struggle. He pauses, lets me go and shook it off like nothing happened as Rico lands on my arm.

  "Look, he's friendly, though he has a mouth." I side eye the bird. Hitoshi scoots farther away from me. "There's a dog here too?" "Yep, and horses too! My mom loves animals a lot" I laugh a little.

 "This is Germany, she's a german shepard, and this here is Rico. Wanna hold him?" 

"Do you see the claws on him!? No way I'm gettin' near him!" 

"He won't hurt you! I promise." I say as Rico flapped his feathers against my face a little, then started cursing. "Not this again...." I sigh. "I (freakin) love pizza. You like pizza?! (duck) you." and he starts cursing and whistling more, Hitoshi's smile creeps on his face. 

My mom curses a lot so you can guess where Rico learned a lot of his colorful vocabulary from. Rico looks at him for a bit, and doesn't budge. Germany walks up to Hitoshi and he pets her. Rico looks at the two and decides to fly to Hitoshi's shoulder,  "Seems like they both like you already!"

 "If this bird (shirts) on me it's gonna be your fault!"  

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I like to add cute facts about this book. it's kinda like a behind the scenes kinda thing. so you'll see one or two at the bottom of every chapter lol

🍄Hitoshi asking Antonio to arm wrestle him was a reference to Antonio's parents when they were younger, with Dianna asking Leonardo to arm wrestle.