Antonio looked around the living room and saw everyone in there.
It was a weird family.
They were quiet big, thanks to their alliances back in the day.
It was something wonderful that he had such a big, wide family. He could count with them at any time.
Roderich was like the head of the family. It was something Antonio was grateful for, back in the day he could take countless siestas because he knew, somehow, that the Hapsburg rule Europe. It was such a wonderful time.
At that time Spain was the country were the sun never set… But then that little bastard had to come along ruining everything they had built. Arthur Kirkland pretended to be a gentleman and he was a total punk, pirate.
"Antonio, I think everyone is here" the Belgian said
"Oh good!" Antonio said looking at the Belle "Could you please ask the cook at what time would dinner be ready?"
"Bien sur!" she said with a smile.
"Thank you!" he sighed "I really need to take a siesta"
"You do?" she asked looking at him "But it's worth it, you get to spend time with your siblings."
"Yeah, that's true. Tomorrow is their birthday and I want to take them somewhere special."
Belle smile and walked away from Antonio.
In the living room, Isidro drank his mango juice a little skeptical
"This doesn't taste like mango" he said to Suyapa
"Si!" she said annoyed "That's why I asked for water"
"So, Tomas tell me more about your house!" the Hungarian lady, Elizabeta, said exited
"Well, is hot…" he said looking at Suyapa and Jose "and tropical… and pretty?" he said a little doubtful
"I bet it is!" she said getting up "Roderich we're going to have to take a trip to Central America and enjoy the beaches and the forest!"
"Ah" Roderich said looking at his ex-wife
"You guys were married, right?" Itza asked
"Yes…" Elizabeta said
"Oh!" Suyapa said exited "Did you guys love each other? Did your people always fought? Did you have a thing for each one?" she asked curious "Was it really love? Did you feel things inside of you? Do you still feel them now?"
Elizabeta had pink cheeks while Roderich looked like he was about to explode
"We… umm…" Roderich said looking for words
"It was political." Elizabeta said looking at Roderich
"Yes, it was political"
"Everything is political with us" she said a little sad, but then return with her usual sarcasm "And then you ruin it!" Suyapa said making her hands make an exploding gesture "WWI was quite bad. We Central American lost a lot of people whom we trade goods with. It was quite awful. I personally wanted to punch you" She said smiling towards the Austrian "My people didn't, I don't think but I wanted to. I was doing so-so and then you…" she shook her head and then laughed
Itza looked at her sister with a smile on her face
"I think we all declare war on the central powers" Itza said getting some hair out of Suyapa's face "It was, to us, like a pay back. Especially because those Germans were taking away my precious coffee land and they about controlled 50% of my economy… It looked like the Europeans would never leave the land mama left us." She paused and looked at nothing "I knew some Germans wanted to get some Mexicans to invade… I had to. I didn't want anyone to take my land away from me again."
"I felt like I had to do it out of pressure" Suyapa said "Same as WWII. I had such a wonderful relationship with Ludwig."
"Yeah…" Isidro said "You had a German population didn't you"
"Yeah, German descents" Suyapa said sighing "After all I was the last one to declare war on Germany"
"I was the first one" Itzel said "I think we were all pressure to do it… but some of us had some reasons to do it"
"Freaking Monroe Doctrine…" Suyapa said under her breath "blank check for Yanki intervention towards Latin America"
"I think Ludwig killed it." Tomas said "Sinking all those boats in the Atlantic. Even though the allies kind of made me declare war on the central powers."
"Those were orders" Ludwig said serious looking at Tomas
"Don't you have common sense?" Jose asked irritated "We didn't really wanted to get involve, but we had to, our economy at the time depended it on European and North American economy… Why involve us when we weren't even close. But then again" Jose continue "I had my own reasons to attack you so that damn Wilson would recognize my president and it didn't help… it didn't. I wasn't even aloud in at the Peace Conference."
Itza looked at her little brother and was quite surprise that he was a little angry. Jose barely got angry.
"Brazil was angry!" Portugal said "She even wanted to send some soldiers to fight in Mesopotania against the Turks."
"I didn't enter the war" Isidro said stealing Suyapa's water "but I did give my ports to Mr. Alfred to use."
"They invited us to the Peace Conference in Paris 1919 but they didn't allow us to speak. We thought Europeans had changed but they were the same…" Tomas said
"I felt hope towards was Article X of the covenant, guaranteeing the political and territorial integrity of its members, we hoped it would serve us as a counterpoint to Mr. Alfred" Suyapa said
"They're getting better though" Isidro said doubtfully
"Yeah, I don't think Europeans think the world is theirs…"
"They have to worry about those Asians and North American" Suyapa said
"You have to worry about Koreans" Isidro said
"You Chinese"
"What are you talking about?" Antonio asked
"Asians want to do some 'good works' in our places just like you Hermano" Itza said
The Europeans were quite.
They didn't think they affected the Latin Americans so deep, it was something new for them, not to this day anyway.
The aura felt dark, no one talked for a long time.
Antonio didn't feel comfortable at all.
"Well, well! This is a family reunion!" Antonio said clapping his hands "Let's be happy about seeing each other. Come on, let's go to eat… the food is ready!"
"Yeah! I've been starving over here" Isidro said getting up and stretching
"It was about time." Suyapa said
"Shut up! We all know you and Jose love history, both of you enjoyed this conversation"
Jose nodded and Suyapa laughed.
"Sr. Gilbert, are you okay?" Itza asked the white-haired man
"I was just bored" he answered a little sleepy
Itza noticed that Gilbert was the life of the party, any party and today he had stayed quite
"Next time we'll talk about the Austrian Succession War" Suyapa said padding Gilbert on the back
"We don't talk about that" Roderich said
"The family was apart." Abel said in his thick Dutch accent
"I thought it was stupid of Gilbert's boss to not accept Maria Theresa as a queen because she was a girl" Suyapa said "You see girls are powerful too!"
Suyapa skip to where Antonio was and took his hand
"Let's eat then" she said smiling
"Well, it will be good to eat some pasta after all this silly discussion" Feliciano said padding Ludwig on the back
"We're not having pasta" Jose said
"What?" Lovino said angrily
"We're having Paella today" Antonio said happily.
"I always eat that crap when I come here you bastard"
"We're here this week!" Isidro said "We want Paella."
"You bastards, working against me."
Elizabeta and Roderich stayed behind everyone.
They were thinking still about WWI and how everything had gone to the ground and how it affected other countries that were suppose to be not even involve
"Come on, dear" Roderich said to Elizabeta "It's time to eat"
"Was it wrong of us?" she asked
"Things tend to happen for a reason" he answer
Elizabeta got up and walked out of the living room with Roderich.
"It's delicious Antonio!" Tomas said
"The sangria is the best here!" Suyapa said
"I can't wait for the churros!" Jose said smiling
At the head of the table was Roderich, at both of his sides Elizabeta and Gilbert.
Elizabeta's side went like this: Elizabeta, Belle, Abel, Lovino, Itza, Isidro and Antonio; Gilbert's side went like this: Gilbert, Ludwig, Feliciano, Suyapa, Jose, Tomas and Amaral
No one sat at the end of the table.
"I would like to propose a toast" Roderich said "I would like to thank God for our family"
Everyone raise their cups and toasted.
They seemed like their discussion earlier had gone away, everyone was joking around and even smiling. Everyone looked happy.
Gilbert was up again making jokes and laughing as loud as he could.
Itza looked at Antonio and smile towards him
"My siblings are happier than when we left the airport."
"Yes!" Antonio said smiling "I'm happy big brother can do something about it"
"Me too." Itza said "Me too…"
The atmosphere felt light and amazing. They were happy.
It looked like this reunion could have a positive outcome after all.
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