Chapter 12: Break Away

Everyone in the student council looked at England a bit worried. It's been three days already since they heard the news that Mexico had quit being the assistant. Though they didn't understood why she quit. They persuaded England to ask her why but every time he came back he told them that Russia didn't even let him near her. It seems that Belarus had got her brother to protect her when she wasn't around.

The Student's council work went slow since they no longer had help from Mexico. They did try to finish with the decorations with the ball. The ball was their top goal!

The ball was a few days away though! And everybody, especially the female countries, were all excited!

Almost everyone though. Some were actually nervous. Germany was one of them.

"C'mon West! Just ask her! If you don't someone else will!" said Prussia as he was watering the flowers in the garden with a pail. Germany was standing by him in the garden.

"I-I'm not sure how though," A blush began forming across Germany's face.

"Just talk to her normally like you would usually do."

"But to ask a friend to go with me to the ball or even ask her to dance! It's...a bit nerve wrecking."

"You're making this too hard on yourself, West! If you don't ask her quick America will end up taking her from you!"

"Yeah but..."

"Alright! How about this! It's a few days away till the ball, right? Hopefully by then no one asks her to the ball. At the ball I ask her to dance and a few minutes later I get so tired that I give her to you. Huh? How about that?"

"Well I guess its not that bad of an idea."

"Not a bad idea?! It's a really bad idea!" says France coming along walking with him is Spain. "The problem with that plan is that there isn't anything romantic about it! How are you going to get her to remember you after that, huh? You need to be romantic!"

"I'm not sure if I can really do-"

"Don't worry! I'll help you out asking Mexico. She'll never forget such a dance with my plan!"

"How did you know?!"

"You are a bit too obvious when you're around her."

Germany's face went completely red.

"Well as long as you have Prussia, Spain and I to help you out surely Mexico will remember the night with you. Right Spain?"

As France looked at Spain, Spain looked a bit troubled.

"Are you okay, Spain?" France asked worried about his friend.

"Yeah I'm fine. I have a lot in mind. Excuse me but I have to go!" Spain then left the group.

"Hope Spain is alright," said Prussia.

"Yeah, I hope so too!"

Outside of the academy, America was in a fast food restaurant with Canada sitting across from him.

"So what exactly are you going to do?" Canada asked him.

"I don't know, dude! I mean I really want to ask Mexico to go to the ball with me but if what if I can't?"

"What's stopping you?"

"I don't know! Maybe since I don't this kind of thing! This is my first time ever doing this kind of thing!"

"Well that's true. Well if you aren't comfortable asking her to be your date then ask her to dance at the day of the ball."

"That's a great idea! But what if someone asks her to the ball or to dance instead of me?!"

"Well that's your loss!"

"Gee! Thanks for the support, Canada!" America said sarcastically.

"Anytime America!" Canada said with a smile and took a sip of his drink.

After that, America and Canada went ahead to eat the rest of their food. America stopped eating as a thought came.

"Hey Canada!"

"Yeah?"

"Do you think that...maybe...that its possible that Mexico would like England?"

Canada looked at America for a bit while America then began feeling nervous.

"Yeah I believe its possible!"

"What?!"

"Yeah. I'm sure enough they could be dating secretly!"

"What?!"

"Yeah. I mean they are always together in the student council meetings and of course who knows what they are doing alone together in the Student Council President's office."

"You're kidding!"

"Yes I am! In all honesty, who knows."

"That was a cruel joke! And you know I doubt that is even happening! And you know why?"

"Why?"

"Because Mexico hasn't gone back to being England's assistant!"

"That's true. I hope everything is alright between the two!"

"Don't worry about it! I'm sure enough that Mexico got fed up with England's bossiness that she just left!"

"I doubt it. There must be something more behind it!"

"I said don't worry about it!" said America sounding a bit irritated.

Canada would understand why he would be mad. America has liked Mexico for a long time now and someone else always near Mexico can put America on edge.

After leaving the fast food place, America went into the school and into his Hero club room. There is usually no one else but him in the club so he was alone in the room. He sat in a chair and stared out the window. He saw Sealand, Seborga, Wy, Ladonia, and Kugelmugel all playing outside in the old playground. Them playing actually gave America a memory back to when after Canada and him met Mexico when they were kids.

Canada and America waited till England wasn't around and the two left to go see Mexico. They waited for her to come to them at their meeting place in the forest. They waited a few minutes till she finally came.

The three played as adventurers going to discover things of the world.

They end up finding weird objects on the ground and collect them. They would would gather all their things and put them in a hole of a tree for safe keeping. They knew which tree it would be because their tree a had 'A C M' carved onto it.

"Hey guys! I got an idea!" America said.

"What?!" the two replied.

"Let's sail out into the sea!"

"How are we going to do that?! We would need a boat!" Canada said.

"And even if we did have a boat we wouldn't know how it works," Mexico added.

"Then we ask our big brothers! They are always sailing to places so we can ask them!"

"What?! How am I going to ask Spain something like that!? He is always gone and only comes for a while!"

"Its okay! Canada and I can just ask England! He's always around with the boats and from his stories he's told me he sounds like he would know how to control one!"

"Okay but how do we get our own boat?!" Canada asked.

"We'll borrow one! The sailors at my place have a lot of them so we'll just borrow one and sail out to our adventures!"

"Well now that sounds like plan! Let's try it!"

"Okay! I'm in!" says Mexico. She looked at the sky seeing the sun starting to set. "Well I have to go back home but I hope next time I come back you guys have a boat and we can get ready to go!"

"Yeah!" The two said. "See you later Mexico!"

"See you guys later," she said as she began running back to her place.

America woke up from his memory. He now noticed the micro nations beginning to leave the playground. He decided to leave his club room and go back to his dorm.

While walking out in the hallway of the school he heard talking and looked down the hall. It was England and Belarus.

"Please, Belarus! Could you get her to talk to me!" said England as he sounded really desperate.

"No! Mexico told me that she doesn't want to talk to you at all!"

"But just for a while! Please! I want to fix this!"

"How?!"

"I'm not sure. I'm not even sure how."

"Fine. I'll tell her what you just said. I'll inform you what she say's tomorrow."

"Really?! Thank you, Belarus."

"Humph! We'll see each other tomorrow," Belarus says and then leaves.

England crosses his arms and starts to think, 'Only if I knew what I did to get her mad at me. Then maybe it be easier to fix all this!' He began walking and then noticed America coming his way.

"Hey there England," America said.

England found the way America was talking a bit unusual. He almost sounded like he was a bit mad. 'Does he know?" England thought. He quickly responded, "Hello America. How's it been?"

"Its been good."

'Again!" England thought. 'Why does he sound like he is so mad?!'

"Well, I have to get to the council room. I'll see you later, America." Before England could leave.

"England!" America practically yelled out.

It made England jump a bit. "Y-Yes, America?"

America stood quiet. A minute passed without him saying anything. "Never mind. I have to go." America then ran down the stairs.

England just looked at the stairs as he left. 'I'm sorry, America. I really am!" England thought as he walked. "But please let me keep Mexico a while longer!'

At the boy's dorm. "Shoot! I got nervous and left! Oh man! But how much I wanted to ask him if there was something going on between him and Mexico!" America said as he got into his room. He walked back and forth in his room. Pondering about the idea of what England was saying earlier. England really wanted her back! But why? Why her? He shook his head as his head began to hurt for thinking so hard about it.

"Why let this bother me? It's not like they were together and England is trying to get her back! Yeah no way! I'm taking this way too far. Besides, they don't even make a great couple!" He said to himself happily. He then decided to go out and get a soda.

In the girls dorm, Mexico was working on her dress. It was going to be a nice beautiful red dress. Her last idea wasn't working out for so she decided to make a new one. Red is a great color and she looked great in red! She was going to add a couple of things in it as designs.

She began feeling her hands very tired so she decided to stop and put it all away till later. She felt like visiting Belarus, so she went to her dorm. She knocked on her door and let herself in. "Hola, Belarus!"

"Hey, Mexico," Belarus said. She didn't look up at her. She was too busy looking at a piece of paper.

"What's that you got there?"

"A love letter," she said plainly.

"Usually, girls get over excited when receiving one."

"Yeah well I'll only be over excited if it was from big brother."

"Then who is it from?"

"I'm not sure. It just says he hopes to meet me at the ball for a dance."

"Sounds sweet!"

"I guess."

Belarus put the letter back in it's envelope and placed it on her desk. "So, Mexico. I met with England today. He said to tell you he would really like to speak with you."

Mexico crossed her arms. "Then you tell him that I don't want to speak with him!"

Belarus looked at Mexico worried. "Mexico, why does this upset you so much?"

"Because when I heard the student council had its members, I got really worried that I be no longer his assistant!"

"I know that it was my idea for you to quit but now I think you should have?"

"If I I didn't quit he would have just had me leave, remember!"

"And yet he's still trying to speak to you."

The two were quiet for a few seconds. Then realized what Belarus just said. Hey looked at each other with surprised eyes. "Why does he?" They said in sync.

"I feel we just made a mistake," said Belarus.

"I'm sure we did," said Mexico.

"WE JUMPED TO CONCLUSIONS!" They said at the same time.

The two dashed out of the dorms in search for England.

"So where should we go first? The ball room or the student council room?" Asked Belarus.

"You check the ball room! I'll check the student council room."

"Right!"

The two then split up. As Mexico ran, she looked in her cellphone looking through the tracking device for England."

She noticed that he wasn't there but was in his office. She ran to that direction. As she ran up the stairs she stopped in the middle of the stair case as soon as she heard England's voice. He was talking to someone.

"I really appreciate the help, Seychelles. I think I would have lost it if weren't for you service."

"It's no problem. I just wanted to help a bit so you can at least have time to practice for the play."

"Again. I appreciate it."

'He had Seychelles helping him!' She thought angrily. 'So we weren't jumping to conclusions. He really was looking for someone to replace me!

As she was about to turn and leave, Seychelles spotted her as she was going down the stairs. "Mexico! What a lucky surprise! I was hoping to run into you! I would like to tell you that tomorrow we're having our first rehearsal tomorrow so we can do the first three acts!"

"Ah! Yes! I'll be there!" She said nervously. She was praying and hoping England wasn't still around to hear her.

"That's great! It's going to be tomorrow at three in the day! I'll see you there!"

"Yeah. See you there!"

As soon as Seychelles left someone called her by her name.

"Mexico!" England called out to her. Mexico went and tried to leave but England grabbed her by the wrist. "Please hold on, Mexico! I really want to know why you quit!"

"Shouldn't it be obvious?"

"No."

"You were going to drop me as your assistant!"

"No I wasn't!"

"Yes you were! That's why you asked Belarus to be an assistant!"

"Yes I asked her but not to replace you!"

Mexico turned and faced him. "Then for what?"

"To help the student council. She'll be helping them so you would be able to help me."

"Huh?"

Englad was glad she hadn't run yet and was glad to know why she quit. "You see. The day you got sick, you're teacher advised me that it was because of all the work you were doing. So I got worried and decided to come up with a way to lessen your work. That's when I decided to add a second assistant but for the student council."

"An assistant? For the student council?" She repeated the words. "Wasn't I good enough?"

"Yes you were but having someone work in two places at the same time could really stress out a person."

"Yes it can."

"So what do you say? Would you continue being my assistant for the Student Council President?""

She thought about it and could feel her cheeks get warm as she felt embarrassed over the fact that she and Belarus really did jumped to conclusions. "Yes I will."

"That's good, he said with a smile. He sighed, "You really worried me Mexico. I thought I was doing a bad job and is why I lost you."

He looked in her the eyes. "I'm happy to be having you by my side again, Mexico." Still having a hold of her wrist, he pulled her closer to him and held her in a hug.

'If only you knew how much you mean to me,' he thought.

Mexico felt relieved that she'll be going back but right now she felt something as he held her. Her heart was racing a bit fast. She wondered why?

England soon let her go. He could feel his cheeks getting warm as he was about to ask her, "Mexico, can I ask you about the ball?"

"Yeah. Go ahead."

"Well that is, if you don't mind. Would you give me the honor of giving me a dance with you. You know, when we're not too busy being the chaperones."

Her heart began to beat much faster as her cheeks felt like they were getting warmer. "Yes! I will dance with you!"

"Splendid!" he said overjoyed. "So, well, are you busy right now?"

"No except that I need to make a phone call to Belarus."

"Oh I see."

"Yes but it wouldn't take long. Is there something you need, Mr. England?"

England felt happy inside as she called him Mr. England again. "I wanted to know if you join me to the Ball room. I was going on my way there to know how the preparations were going and wouldn't you like to know, too?"

"Yes! It's been a while since I seen it."

"Then let's go shall we?"

"Yes we shall, Mr. England!" She said with a smile.

To be continued...

Announcement!

So hey guys I know it has been a couple of months and all since I last updated. To tell you the truth. I've been very busy lately and hadn't have time to update chapters but I do want to keep on updating this story. This story has been on my mind for a good while and the ideas for it haven't changed. So I'll do my best on when I can to keep on updating. So please bear with me with the slow updates.

Next, I've decided to change Mexico's height to 5'2'. I think that's a good height for a female Mexican. I noticed that a lot of Mexicans don't get to grow very tall and some stay shorter than five feet. It was a fact I learned as I saw my aunts in a photo along with my cousins. Also about her ability. She can see spirits and sense them as well. I got that idea from the Day of the Dead. Also a certain commenter reminded me the ability of looking of ones past of those who died. Which is an actual real ability that some may have when seeing and sensing spirits. I have a best friend who knows some things about such abilities of seeing the spirits and I asked her about it and she agree about the ability of looking into the past. So Mexico has this unique ability that she will use later in the story. Also she is good friends with a couple of the spirits that roam around the school.

The fact that Mexico can see magical creatures like England is the fact that she does believe they exist. For when she was a small girl, she was a bit scared of her ability of seeing spirits at times since she no longer had Azteca with her to help her. Then at times when she played with America and Canada when they were kids she felt peaceful. What America and Canada didn't know is that they each had a fairy that followed the two around that also helped Mexico. So the fairies had a great impact towards Mexico. Soon enough after the two told stories to Mexico from what England told them about magical creatures, that's when she began to believe in them and got the ability to see them. Seeing the nice fairies helped her realize that maybe talking to the spirits may not be bad.

Her hair is naturally straight. At times when she feels like it, she'll make it wavy. This idea came from the fact from seeing so many girls doing their 15th birthday (Quincenera) and making their hair wavy or curly.

I've learned that a common Mexican girl name is Guadelupe. Which I was going give her as her human name though then I thought Rosa would be nicer. I decided on Rosa for the roses the people give to the Lady of Guadelupe in December and from what gave proof when Juan Diego picked the roses and placed them in his poncho to build the Lady of Guadelupe her church.