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I know that a lot of you wanted to see the magic lesson continue. Sorry! But there might be another lesson in the future.

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Chapter 24: Shiver

Canada sighed, walking towards the meeting room. After having two days without meetings, this was the worst. And it was a Friday, which meant he was in even less of a mood to go to the meeting.

Not to mention, he'd be in the same room as England, France and America again, and it was almost guaranteed that one of them would try to force him to have lunch with them again, or would confront him about his new friends which would lead to either an unfair accusation or…

Or a potential wake-up call.

He didn't like the accusations that his friends weren't his friends. That they were just using him. But he couldn't help but wonder if it was true. Were they really taking advantage of him?

He didn't want to think so. The previous day, Korea and Romano had let him watch hockey with them, not because they wanted to, but because they wanted to cheer him up. And Austria offered to teach him the piano after seeing that Canada had an interest in it.

Where in those scenarios was he being used?

"A-are you alright?" a nervous voice asked, snapping Canada out of his thoughts. "You seem a little upset."

Canada hadn't noticed that Latvia had been walking in front of him, and the younger-looking nation had probably been checking over his shoulder, as he often did. So he had obviously seen Canada being upset.

"It's nothing," Canada said, smiling softly at the smaller nation. "Anyway, how are you doing?"

"Um, I'm doing well," Latvia said. "Mr R-Russia hasn't bothered me yet, after all."

"I'm glad to hear that."

Canada didn't bother trying to explain to the Baltic that Russia wasn't that bad. He knew that if anyone had seen the dark side of Russia, it was the three Baltics. So he kept quiet about that.

"Um, Mr Canada," Latvia said, startling Canada from his thoughts. "May I ask you something?"

"Of course," Canada said, smiling kindly.

"Is there someone you like?" Latvia asked.

Canada blinked in surprise. It seemed as though everyone wanted to know that.

"Not romantically," Canada said. "Why do you ask?"

"Because you're too nice to be alone," Latvia said. "I-I w-was thinking that… well, I might help you if you like someone, but…"

Canada smiled warmly.

"Thank you, Latvia," Canada said. "I appreciate the gesture."

Latvia smiled, and the two lapsed into a comfortable silence. The silence was broken when someone else approached.

"Canada? Latvia?"

The two turned to see Lithuania and Estonia. Lithuania was the one that spoke, and he looked between the two younger nations with a confused expression on his face.

"Bonjour," Canada greeted. "How are the two of you doing?"

"I'm doing well," Estonia said as he and Lithuania fell into step with Canada and Latvia.

"Y-yeah," Lithuania said. "I'm doing alright as well."

"Has Russia been bothering you again?" Canada asked, looking at the Lithuanian with concern.

"N-no. It's just…"

"Don't worry about it," Estonia interrupted. "It's just Toris being Toris."

"O-okay," Canada said, a little unsure. "Anyway, thanks for fixing my phone again Estonia."

"It's no problem. I was more than happy to help."

"Um, C-Canada," Lithuania said, "would you like to sit with us at the meeting today?"

Estonia looked at Lithuania with surprise, but Canada only smiled.

"If you don't mind, I'd like that," Canada said. "At least it saves me the trouble this time of finding a seat."

Lithuania smiled, and Estonia sighed. The middle Baltic knew about the elder's crush, and he supposed that it was a good thing that the younger hadn't picked up on it, otherwise Canada would already know about it.

Latvia, meanwhile, was thinking about nations that could be a good match for Canada. He really didn't want the North American to be alone. Canada didn't deserve it. He had always been so nice to Latvia…

The four lapsed into a comfortable silence as they continued their journey to the meeting room. All four of them hoped that this meeting wouldn't be so stressful, but they all knew that that was too much to hope for. The very definition of world meetings was 'stressful'.

When the four arrived, Canada immediately noticed England, sporting a black eye, a bruised cheek and a split lip. He immediately felt concerned, and his eyes darted around, finally spotting England's brothers.

The other UK brothers looked amused as they looked at England, but there wasn't a hint of smugness, which meant that they weren't the ones responsible. But who else?

Canada searched around, finally spotting a smug Russian. He decided that whatever England did to anger Russia, he probably deserved the punishment.

The four took their seats, Lithuania making sure that he sat next to Canada. The other seat next to Canada remained empty.

However, it wasn't long before someone else sat next to him, and Canada smiled when he saw her.

"Hi Rosa," Canada greeted. "How are you?"

"Tired," Mexico said. "I've been trying to stop an argument between Argentina and Chile for the last two days. Don't ask me how I was sucked into it. So, what did you do the last two days?"

"Um, well, I spent some time with Australia and New Zealand, then Romano joined us for lunch, and then Hong Kong and Macau joined us for a movie. That happened Wednesday. Yesterday, Belgium and I had a bake-off to see whether pancakes or waffles are better, then Austria gave me some piano lessons, then I watched some hockey with Korea and Romano, and then Norway and Romania… Um, it's a bit difficult to explain what we did."

"Nothing too naughty, I hope," Mexico joked.

Canada's cheeks became red.

"Of course not!" he sputtered. "It was perfectly innocent."

Mexico was surprised to hear how much Canada had done, but she was happy nonetheless.

"I'm joking," she said. "But I'm glad you're making friends. See? You don't need the stupid gringo."

Canada smiled, thinking that he should probably ask for that spell at the next conference as well.