p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I don't know why I try so desperately hard to gain his attention. I don't know why I'm drawn in by those thick eyebrows and bright emerald irises. I don't know why I cover my feelings with meaningless taunts and insults. I just don't know. I especially don't know why, out of the seventy-billion people on the face of Earth, I fell in love with him./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I've known England ever since he was /spanspan style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"un petit lapin/spanspan style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;". He was the cutest thing I had ever seen in all my life, and still is. There were so many things I admired about him; the way he was always brave enough to face the world alone, his messy hair and bright green eyes, and the way he tried to cover up his feelings with lame excuses. I miss the days where he and I would cuddle under a large tree after a small picnic, his small head peacefully and contentedly sleeping on my lap. I miss moments like those./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He always picked out my flaws and got annoyed at everything I said and did, as if we were natural enemies with so much in common, we were friends. I believe /spanspan style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Amerique /spanspan style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"calls this being "frenemies." America… he chose England to be his older brother instead of Finland or me. That child caused England so much heartache and suffering when he finally wanted independence and to be his own country. But it wasn't only him. America asked me. /spanspan style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Moi, /spanspan style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"of all people to help him gain independence from the one I loved more than life itself. He was asking me to basically help him rip England's heart out of his prideful chest, gift-wrap it, and hand it to Russia as a Christmas present. It was a hard decision to make, but considering all the laws, restrictions, and taxes that were being passed, I slowly saw that England was becoming possessive of his colony./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He was beginning to take desperate measures to keep his precious "little brother" from abandoning him, therefore gaining a possessive emotion to flow into him. To be honest, I was quite jealous. Not that America chose England over me (I had my own little colony to attend to, my cute Canada), but that England was slowly needing only one nation's love in the world, and no one else's./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Once America finally broke away and became independent, England rarely showed his lovely face to the outside world. I had attempted to pry him out by leaving little notes or gifts at his door or even trying to get him to go on a few dates with me. But nothing succeeded in making him come out of his shell. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I didn't see him at all during my revolution. The next time I saw him was at the start of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. When I finally took a good look in his eyes during a raging battle, they held only hatred and remorse for me. Even after the battles, /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"and though England and I had been in many wars and arguments, I had long ago realized my true emotions toward the younger nation. It was a hard truth to face, but I gradually accepted the feelings. I was in love with the personification of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I've known England ever since he was /spanspan style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"un petit lapin/spanspan style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;". He was the cutest thing I had ever seen in all my life, and still is. There were so many things I admired about him; the way he was always brave enough to face the world alone, his messy hair and bright green eyes, and the way he tried to cover up his feelings with lame excuses. I miss the days where he and I would cuddle under a large tree after a small picnic, his small head peacefully and contentedly sleeping on my lap. I miss moments like those./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He always picked out my flaws and got annoyed at everything I said and did, as if we were natural enemies with so much in common, we were friends. I believe /spanspan style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Amerique /spanspan style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"calls this being "frenemies." America… he chose England to be his older brother instead of Finland or me. That child caused England so much heartache and suffering when he finally wanted independence and to be his own country. But it wasn't only him. America asked me. /spanspan style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Moi, /spanspan style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"of all people to help him gain independence from the one I loved more than life itself. He was asking me to basically help him rip England's heart out of his prideful chest, gift-wrap it, and hand it to Russia as a Christmas present. It was a hard decision to make, but considering all the laws, restrictions, and taxes that were being passed, I slowly saw that England was becoming possessive of his colony./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He was beginning to take desperate measures to keep his precious "little brother" from abandoning him, therefore gaining a possessive emotion to flow into him. To be honest, I was quite jealous. Not that America chose England over me (I had my own little colony to attend to, my cute Canada), but that England was slowly needing only one nation's love in the world, and no one else's./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Once America finally broke away and became independent, England rarely showed his lovely face to the outside world. I had attempted to pry him out by leaving little notes or gifts at his door or even trying to get him to go on a few dates with me. But nothing succeeded in making him come out of his shell. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I didn't see him at all during my revolution. The next time I saw him was at the start of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. When I finally took a good look in his eyes during a raging battle, they held only hatred and remorse for me. Even after the battles, /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"and though England and I had been in many wars and arguments, I had long ago realized my true emotions toward the younger nation. It was a hard truth to face, but I gradually accepted the feelings. I was in love with the personification of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland./span/p