America the Mysterious (United States of America #1.5)

Yearning

Jealousy hurt.

It was like a hand choking you, making sure you suffered until you couldn't even breathe. It was like a dull knife forcing its way through your heart, creating a wound that will never heal.

Worst of all, the personifications of England, France, Canada, and even Russia knew this jealousy was all from their creation, and there was even nothing they could do about it.

America would never love them, not like men, and they had pushed her away.

They were currently watching with sorrowful looks as Canada and America's older brother, Mexico, laid a gentle kiss on America's head (without her knowing of course), all while he watched the children he had with her do what they love best.

New Mexico danced to her hearts content, with Arizona as her partner, while Nevada gambled with his older half-sister Michigan, the latter who was in the process of losing big time.

Nearby, Netherlands watched his own children do their own things. New York and New Jersey were breakdancing together, clearly without a care in the world, and nearby Hawaii was trying to make a bouquet with cherry blossoms in the mix, only to pout when the petals would blow away. Japan just chuckled and continued to add more petals to the bouquet of Hawaiian flowers.

America was smiling at the children with her, loving and happy, so unlike the cold, indifferent, cruel, and hostile America when she was around the other main nations. It took them all a long time to see it, but they missed the old America, the America that never existed and lived each day to the fullest.

Now, they had happily pushed that America away, and all they have is the America who refuses to see them as anymore than coworkers.

However, for those who saw the previous America as a friend, Emily F. Jones decided that America  would be for them, and no one else. She clearly wanted nothing to do with the others as persons, just as they wanted nothing to do with her in the past.

Now, they could only think: What have I done?

You don't understand what you have until it's gone. They were aware of that quote, and yet they did nothing about America, didn't understand how much she meant to them.

And now look where that's got them.

Sorry if I've upset some of you. I wasn't in a good mood was I was writing this.