CH.1
I entered the house feeling so scared and fragile, I immediately hid behind my mother, and she gave a smile to the stranger that greeted our small family at the entrance. All I could do was look up at this man, my sister held my hand in comfort looking to me with a smile on her face…It comfort me in a way as she always knew how and we entered the foreign and strange house. The day passed and I avoided each person I saw holding onto my sister's hand tightly, we were lead down a hall to our bedrooms on the West wing of the house. We were never allowed to the East wing…I never really knew why.
I jumped upon my bed feeling exhausted from all the hiding I had to do; from that stranger…he had blond hair and green eyes…with really big eyebrows. My sister spoke to me laughing, "Man did you see that guy! Those eyebrows were hilarious!" she pointed to her own mockingly making a funny face. I couldn't help but laugh with her, covering my mouth I let out a silent giggle and nodded agreeing. But in reality I didn't mind the eyebrows I really never paid attention to that but…the way he'd look into my eyes strongly when he spoke to me face to face, when he introduced himself…" Hello" he said with a small smile, "I'm Arthur, in due time we'll get to know each other better I hope" I lay back upon my bed clutching onto my pillow tightly thinking about the events, how strongly he spoke when it came to setting down the rules of the house.
"Hey" my sister spoke looking at me from the other side of the room; she lay comfortable on her bed. I turned around and looked at her questioningly, "Who do you think these guys are?" She said leaning her head on her hand. "I-I'm not sure…Arthur seemed nice…" She grinned slightly when I mentioned his name, "Yea he sure is" She lay back with a sigh looking up at the ceiling. I couldn't help but giggle from the way she swooned whenever we spoke of him; I lay back on my bed, letting my little polar bear cub climb up on my bed. My bear looked at me confused and finally curled into a ball on my bed and drifted off to sleep. I smiled at the small bear and turned blowing out the candle that lit our darkened room.
Days passed that we lived there…and the only person I ever saw was Arthur and my mother, I think my mother mentioned that Arthur had children of his own too. But I never really noticed any other children running about but Amelia and I…I wonder who these children could be.
Until it finally happened, I suddenly bumped into this boy, we both fell to the ground, he let out a grunt while I hid my face instantaneously when I hit the floor with my little bear. The boy started saying something, but I tuned him out…I was too shy to face him, "I-I'm so sorry! I-I didn't m-mean to bump into you!" I said, hiding my face the entire time. I suddenly started hearing laughing, pulled the bear down slowly and saw his face, dirty blonde hair with this cowlick sticking up from it, he had bright blue eyes that I couldn't stop staring into, and all he did was laugh at my response. This made me blush so much, why would he laugh at me? He stopped laughing when he noticed me looking at him and smiled; he got up from the ground and helped me up. "It's okay! No need to fret, it was an accident!" He spoke with much confidence in his voice, it still kind of sounded as if he were laughing to me…
My sister ran around the corner and saw me with the boy; she started smiling really big and came up behind me. "Hey! You met the other kids!" I looked to her clueless; I didn't understand what she met until I looked back at the person standing in front of me. This must be one of Arthur's children that Mother had mentioned earlier. He smiled as big as Amelia had, maybe even bigger and waved to me, when he was about to speak another boy came walking in, holding a polar bear just like mine! He looked very shy and looked at the other boy, angrily tugging at his arm sleeve. "W-What are you doing here, w-with the other girls? You k-know that Britain doesn't want us near them…" The boy looked at the other smile in place and shrugged, "I guess I forgot!" The other just shook his head and looked back at us apologetically and pulled the boy's arm towards his direction dragging him off. "Hey!" He said as he was dragged away from us, my sister Amelia smiled at me and pulled me away to our rooms.
"Maddie we got to meet both of them!" Amelia said grinning jumping on my bed happily, I couldn't help but smile as each jump she took I was flung in the air, while I held my bear in my arms. "I-I guess so, but who were they?" Amelia stopped jumping and sat back down on my bed Indian style grinning, "Well I know the first kid! The one that bumped into you, his names Alfred I think he mentioned, he was about to call himself America! Stupid right? Oh and that other kid with the bear, I asked him before but all he did was shake his head and say sorry and then he just ran off! Pretty rude if you ask me" She said lying down on the bed looking at me with the biggest grin in the world. I sighed and thought about the other boy with the bear, he looked scared and very pale with very blonde hair it was kind of wavy, but mine is straight and brown, like my sister's…he had very beautiful violet eyes, I wished I had those eyes…mine were just a regular blue-green like my sister…
"Yeah weird…" I replied holding onto my bear deep in thought, my sister looked at me questioningly, "what's up?" I snapped my head up quickly looking at her innocently, "N-Nothing…I was just thinking about those kids…" My sister raised a brow, probably not believing a word I said but didn't bother to question it. We suddenly heard footsteps down the hall, Amelia jumped off my bed and ran to hers trying to act like a good little girl that stayed out of trouble, the complete opposite of how she really was. The person opened the door, it was our Mother, Alice, she looked at us frowning, I knew by that look that one of us was being punished…
"Were you two just in the lobby?" She said, irritation emanating from her voice, I looked down sadly and nodded, my sister just pouted, "So what if we were? What about it?" She huffed crossing her arms. Alice looked back at her disapprovingly and sat down on my bed, passing a hand through my hair. "Well young ladies I hope to think that what I heard was a lie, did you two happened to bump into two young boys by any chance?" I looked up to her quickly, "Oui, two blondes?" Amelia looked back at me angrily giving me a face saying that I shouldn't have said we had…Alice gave out a sigh and noticed the look Amelia gave me and scowled at her, "Well now that you too have met them, there's something I should tell you now, since you two are going to become young ladies soon enough." Amelia sat up straight on her bed as did I and we listened intently as to what Alice had to say, I didn't really get what the big deal was about that we had met the two strange boys, one seemed so happy and cheerful about it, as the other seemed rather scared by it.
"Well, Arthur is very important here in this country, and as are his children to him," "Aren't every parent's kids important to them?" Amelia said tilting her head to the side, "Hush now! A proper lady doesn't interrupt one when they are speaking!" Alice said, flicking my sister's nose, my sister flinched putting her hands to her nose quickly looking back at her angrily. "As I was saying, Arthur is very important in the government, and well we tried to avoid you two from meeting his children as to so keeping their little secret classified, so I'll just say it, but you both cannot and will not tell anyone. Is that clear?" She said waving her finger at both of us, I nodded my head, trying to be obedient as my sister just rolled her eyes and nodded too after a while of thinking. "Well Arthur is indeed fact, The United Kingdom of Great Britain, and his children aren't his children, their his colonies, America and ….Oh dear I forgot the other chaps' name…starts with a C I'm assuming…" She shrugs it off waving her hand dismissively, "Well you understand what I mean, he is indeed a country, and it is not meant for it to spread around willy nilly and I expect to know that you shall keep both of your mouths shut of this." She looked back at Amelia narrowing her eyes at her, putting her hands on her hips. Amelia snickered and raised her pinky, "Pinky promise I won't tell a soul." I sighed, and just let them bicker for a while; all I could do at this point was just think about what Alice had just said.
It would kind of explain why Alfred almost introduced himself as America, but what I couldn't understand was why the other seemed so quiet…And if my history books are correct from school, that other boy would have to be…Canada. My birth place…Finally Alice and Amelia stopped fighting, when I looked up to them, Alice was heading to the door and right before she left, she stood still, keeping a hand to the door knob, "Now then…since you two have broken the 2nd major rule of this house, please do keep the first unbroken "She spoke stressing out the last word she said, she finally closed the door and left us alone in our room. What could be at the other side of the house….and am I really living among actual nations?