Chapter 12
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.
~Malagasy Proverb
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When spring finally arrived, everything truly looked beautiful. The trees were awe-inspiring with their new green foliage and the flowers were practically singing as they opened up and revealed their magnificent petals to the world. As the days passed, the weather became warmer, which encouraged even more flowers and trees to grow greener. Indeed, it was a fantastic spring.
However, not everything was beautiful. One day, Lithuania was cleaning the master bedroom when he noticed that he had a hole in his shirt. He sighed and took off the shirt. Making a mental note that later in the day he would have to repair the hole, which was something he often did, he tossed the shirt into a corner. As he rummaged through his closet for another shirt to wear, Belarus happened to be walking by the room. She glanced over and halted swiftly when she saw that he had deep, ugly scars on his back. Before Lithuania noticed her, she ducked behind the wall. For a few moments, she peeked around the door and watched as Lithuania pulled on another shirt and continued cleaning.
Belarus swiftly hid behind the wall again, considering what she just discovered. Where did he get such scars? He never informed her of them before… then again, she didn't really care about him before this insane marriage contract she agreed to enter. Cautiously, she walked away from the bedroom, hoping that he wouldn't hear her as she left. While she tiptoed along the hall, she pondered how he got those tremendous scars. Did her big brother do that to him? For a few minutes, she rolled that question around in her mind. The more she pondered it, the more she became protective of Lithuania, which made her become increasingly angry. She just discovered that one of the kindest, most forgiving people she ever met, if not the most forgiving, had grizzly scars down his back, and she knew that he didn't deserve them, and the thought that her brother could have done that to him sparked her temper.
Lithuania doesn't deserve torture like whatever gave him those scars! Whoever did that to him, even if it's my big brother, Russia, deserves a painful whipping! Belarus declared in her mind.
Abruptly, she halted again, and replayed what she just said to herself. While standing there silently, she realized that this was the first time she ever sided with ANYONE against her big brother Russia. Over the past months, her feelings had dramatically changed for Lithuania, and she knew it. There, on that spring morning, Belarus started to notice that she had indeed changed regarding Lithuania.
Dear Reader,
I hope you are enjoying this story!
Trust me, it's not over yet!
Special thanks to The Scheming Turtle for being my Beta in this entire story.
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By the way, I figured that since Belarus is a little aggressive towards her brother-chasing him around and such-if she started to get feelings for another man, she may be protective and aggressive about him as well... hence, the last few paragraphs of this chapter.
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