England had talked about the land that was beyond the horizon.
When they met for the first time, when he still was a kid, England mention the land that belong to Spain. England wanted that land, that's why he had hurried up and come to the north part.
In the 18th century England had attacked a certain Central American country, and several people had made maps out of those countries.
It didn't matter to him since he was fighting for independence.
He didn't really care about the crazy people from the south, they didn't look friendly anyway. He didn't pay attention to anyone, he wanted to stay away from everyone and be his own country. After all he was still growing and wanted to stay as isolated as possible.
In 1840 John Lloyd Stephen visited a place that recently had become independent. The nation was still struggling and no one really knew her except for her siblings.
Stephen and the English drawer Frederick Catherwood went to the place where the Mayans had been.

The trip was quite amazing, America felt like it was a real vacation. He could forget about everyone back at home.
The natives help them go from place to place. The jungle was dense and there were the mountains.
The two man mention before were amaze by what they had seen.
When they arrive to Copan, Stephen and his party found the city in ruins, the jungle had swallowed it, things were broken and some were missing.
The English man enjoyed himself drawings the ruins and the Steles.

America wondered off to other sites that Stephen and Catherwood had not yet seen.
And then he saw her, for the first time while the sun radiated in her beautiful skin
She was sitting in a stele eating mangos and looking off to the distance.

"She's not dressed right." America thought to himself "That's a weir outfit."

Her hair fell to her back, some of it was in her face; it was long and wavy.
She noticed the person staring at her.
She got up and grabbed another mango and begun eating it.
She didn't say anything she only saw the white person in front of her. She didn't smile.
She only looked at him indifferent.
He didn't know what to do

"America! Where are?" Stephen called from behind

This made the girl run away.
He didn't see her for the rest of the trip.
He went back to his home and forgot about her.

She wondered who was that stranger, with the weird glasses and the cowboy hat.
She couldn't erase him out of her mind for a while, wondering if he was one of them.

The time went by and the year 1849 came.
America, once more, visited that country again with William Vincent Wells, an American that was sent to Honduras as consul general.
America went with him to see the land, but this time they went to a different place. They were in Olancho. They were just exploring the place. It was very different from the place he had first visit.
They went around Olancho he enjoyed the trip there. It was nice to see new places

Then again, he saw her.
He didn't really remember her, but it felt like déjà vu.
She looked tired and a little grown up.
Her hear was in a braid but some of her hair was falling in her face, she was getting water from a well that was close.
He didn't say anything and went around his business.
He only wanted to worry about himself. It wasn't selfish, he only wanted to go on and learn more things.

This time, she didn't notice him, her mind had erased him off. So many things were going on with her and her siblings.

In 1853 he went to Central America once again.
Ephraim George Squier was the person who went there. The Americans wanted to see if there was a possibility of building an interoceanic railway.
They visited El Salvador and Honduras.
Like always he saw it as a vacation, he didn't pay attention at what was going on with the other coutries. America didn't care, it wasn't his business. Not exactly anyway.
That time he did no see the girl. He wanted to see her and talk to her. It would be nice to meet another person that was like him. Or at least he thought they were alike, because she hadn't change much.

In 1856 Wells went to Honduras once again, but America decided not to go.

Honduras was concerned, stress, and scare from the civil wars, the coup d'état, thinking that their siblings and her could never be together. Belize was still in England's hand, and everyone was just being a jerk, not wanting to unite. It was her fault too. She had withdrawn once or twice… and she knew she thought it was for the best. But was it really?
She felt so out of herself. She was so scared.

The end of the century had come.

She had a new thing to do.
Sell bananas.
This made her quite rich.
The port in the south was important too.
It looked, for a moment, that she would be able to grow and show the world who she was. Especially big brother Spain.

Life had been short and she had so much to worried about, but that didn't stop her from being the happy girl she was.

At the end of the century she met someone.
Someone who would change her life forever.

"Honduras, this is the United States of America" Jose Policarpo Bonilla Vasquez, Honduras' boss at the time said to her.
The president showed her the tall American boy.

Honduras now looked at the American, wondering if she had seen him before, maybe in a dream?
Her memories were clouded.
He had blondish-brownish hair; he had glasses; blue eyes; white skin
Honduras smile shyly and offer her hand to him

"Nice to meet you" she said in her terrible English.

America didn't say anything. He only looked at her.
And that was the end of that conversation.

The following years America visit often, to check on what the archeologist Sylvanus Griswold Morley, and to check on the Banana industries.
Cruces came and went from Honduras; life looked like it could go on and be wonderful. That's what Honduras thought.
Her clothes begun changing and her skin color had settle for a dark tan.
She had to be thankful to the mixtures of race she had on her.
At this point America's superiors told him to make a move. They wanted her healthy ports and bananas to be only theirs. They would invest on her, but they wanted something back in return.
Honduras didn't know about this, she wanted to make herself grow and become powerful. But she didn't know what was coming.
No one expected it. Not even him.