Diaclaimer: I, in no way possible, own Hetalia. I do own the idea of my story though.

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Started in the South

America didn't really like his states leaving their natural home. They were only allowed to go to the other states, not out of the country. So, the other countries didn't think there was a human form of them, only England knew. They lived like that for years and years and years.
This story started with a small little state in the south. It wasn't long after England found America, actually. America had just found little Delaware and placed him in the care of Pennsylvania.
He was skipping around the backyard, waiting for England to get back when he spotted her. Sitting by a small pond. She was half the size of him and she stared blankly at him with sea blue eyes. She wore a little black dress to fit her chibi form, matching her short black hair- but not the red at the ends.
"Hi there!" Alfred beamed at the little state, "I'm America! What's your name?!"
"... Maryland."
He instantly took her by the hand and dragged her to Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania wasn't much younger than America, but he was old enough to take care of two chibistates. He already had placed the care of Mississippi and Tennessee to the care of Alabama, and Lousiana and Oklahoma to Texas. There were others, but too many to say.
About ten years went by and it happened. It actually happened a few times until they realized what was going on. One minute Maryland was calm, the next snappy. One minute she was cheerful, the next she was trying to kill New York with a spactula. She was bipolar, the only bipolar state though. That's what made him even more protective.
He hid them in the states, never letting them come out if the other countries were around- besides England. He was worried about her, he didn't want her getting hurt like she did at Fort McHenry. He didn't want to risk her getting hurt with her swinging emotions. He tried to act like it wasn't her fault- which he knew it wasn't. It wasn't her fault that she was like this. So he acted like he just didn't trust the other countries around them.
But Maryland knew. She knew she was the cause of all this. The reason why the states never got to travel. Never met anyone but that stupid brit. She was the reason they were locked up in America. She wanted change. She wanted to do something, anything.
All Avara Riley Jones wanted was to be free.