Chapter 9: Magda
I looked down at my watch and cursed loudly. I was late. Again. Usually I would have thought of a good excuse, traffic, broken alarm clock, kidnaped, arrested, anything that was believable. But today I would go with the truth that I overslept. My brother wouldn't be pleased but he didn't live with me anymore and couldn't judge me.
With determined steps I made my way to the building where the world meetings were held. I noticed that I wasn't the only one who was late this particular day. Spain was looking like he was just getting out of bed. His hair was a mess and it looked like he had just thrown something on when he woke up and realised that he was late.
"Hi", he greeted when he saw me and when I got closer I could spot a red mark on his neck and I knew that had delayed him.
"This is the part you're supposed to say hi back, chica", he said and I realised that I had been staring down at his neck. I looked down at the ground and could feel my cheeks heat up.
"Hi", I mumbled and hoped that he wouldn't torment me by saying anything more. He chuckled and opened the door so I could enter.
That day I wished that it was time to change our seats but today wasn't my luck as Monaco openly told both me and Spain that we had to be in time to the next meeting and then she told us to sit down. I could see Éloïse from the other side of the room raising her eyebrows and smirking at me and Spain.
"As I was saying before I was interrupted", Monaco continued. Spain leaned closer to me and I could feel his breath against my neck but I tried to seem unaffected by how close we were.
"Why were you late?" he whispered. I shrugged my shoulders. "So you did something and don't want to tell me?" I had forgot that only my brothers understood what I meant when I shrugged my shoulders. I turned my face to him.
"If you think that I was up to similar activities as you, you're mistaken, I just overslept", I told him. He chuckled and turned his attention back to Monaco and I felt a bit proud of myself that I told him that without stuttering.
After the meeting, Ludwig walked up to me. I was surprised to say the least as he barely acknowledged my presence nowadays. He had a stern expression on his face and he gripped my arm to lead me away from the others so no one would hear.
"I know that you want to be independent but your behaviour puts me in a bad position", he said.
"Because I was late?" I asked him. Who was he to judge me? He couldn't boss me around anymore and I wouldn't believe that anyone minded me being late now and then. It wasn't the end of the world.
"You know very well what I'm talking about", he said sternly and I could see that he was very angry.
"No I don't, please enlighten me", I told him.
"You're late and then you come in with Spain and you're not even trying to hide your recent activities with him", he said so loudly that everyone could hear. The room had gone quiet and all eyes were on us. He believed that I would do something like that? I looked at Spain who was looking very uncomfortable. And it would become even more so.
I strode over to Spain with determined steps and didn't even care that everyone saw us. Confusion was written in his face and I hoped that he would just play along. As he was a bit taller than me I grabbed him by the collar and pulled him down so that our lips could meet. Since it was my first kiss I had no idea what I was doing, but his lips felt soft on mine and I relaxed and closed my eyes. He had been taken by surprise but kissed me back and I wondered if it was just a natural response or if he actually wanted to kiss me.
Then I realised that the kiss had went on for a lot longer than I had expected and it scared me how much I liked it. I knew that he had been with someone this morning and now I was kissing him. It made me feel dirty so I broke the kiss and before he could say anything I walked away. I passed Éloïse and told her with my eyes that she should follow, and she did.
When we came outside of the meeting room I stopped and started to hyperventilate. Had I just did that? Did I kiss Spain? In front of everyone? How stupid can one be? Ludwig will be so pissed at me.
"What was that all about?" Éloïse asked me curiously. She had been eyeing me and Spain for the entire meeting and I suspected that she thought the same as my brother.
"I was proving a point", I replied.
"To who?" she asked with a worried expression.
"To….. Ludwig, I guess", I said. She sighed.
"So you and Spain?" she asked carefully.
"Nothing had happened, we both just happened to be late and he was already looking like that", I explained.
"So you just kissed him in front of everyone to prove to your brother that you weren't doing something with Spain?" Éloïse asked.
"No, I was just showing him that he can't decide who I date", I told her.
"But now everyone thinks that the reason you didn't show up in time was because you were doing something with Spain", Éloïse pointed out. I hadn't really thought about it.
I felt myself blush and I felt so ashamed. It was so stupid of me. I will be ridiculed for all eternity.
"Never let me do anything like that again", I told Éloïse.
"You know you will do it again", she said and put a hand on my shoulder as we walked outside of the building.
We went to sit on a café as we hadn't really had time to talk much since the dinner she held for Greece. We had talked a few times over the phone, she had told me how much Greece slept and he could go out and sit in the sand and just stare dreamily up in the sky for hours. But other than that, we didn't really talk.
Right now she was the only one I felt like talking to, not Ludwig and especially not Spain.
"What do you want?" the waitress asked us. She had red hair, pale skin and she had a thick layer of eyeliner and looked like she wanted to anywhere but here.
"A cup of hot chocolate, please", I said and the waitress scribbled something down and then looked Éloïse.
"The same", she said and the waitress wrote something down on her notepad and left us.
"So how is Greece?" I asked Éloïse.
"Good, he's still not used to living in a real house but he's getting there", she said.
"I have been thinking of getting a roommate as well", I said and Éloïse looked up at me with a questioning look.
"It's just that it's pretty lonely in my house", I explained. "Not that I would ever want to go back to Ludwig's house", I added. Éloïse looked at me a bit thoughtful.
"You could always offer someone who needs a place to stay a room", she suggested. It had crossed my mind to ask Gilbert, but he was my brother and I feared that he wouldn't see the house as my mine.
"When I think about it, I don't want to have a roommate", I said. Éloïse chuckled. We talked about many things that afternoon and decided that we had to do it more often and I forgot about my kiss with Spain and the fight with Ludwig. I felt happy with life.
I just want to point out that this story will contain, especially in the first part, phrases in different languages. The only two languages I know are Swedish and English, everything was written with the help of Google Translate so they are probably not right. As far as transalation is concerned, you will have to translate it yourself since I have no idea what all those sentences mean anymore.
I hope you enjoy this story and look forward to more chapters, it will be much better and exciting in the future.