England's secret (Hetalia)

Chapter 8

Japan had rewinded the video back to the moment when Scotland had nation-hopped into England's house, and all of the nations in the minibus were carefully watching the screen, not wanting to miss any vital information.

"Scotland!" exclaimed England in surprise as his elder brother entered the room, "Why are you here?"

"I'm here because of what happened at the world conference." Scotland said sternly, "What were you thinking?! You made all of the nations suspicious of you, and now it is much more likely that they will discover your secret!" All of the nations gasped at this comment. So England did have a secret that he wasn't telling them!

"I'm sorry Scotland, but France's insult really hurt me. If it had happened at any other time, I would have been fine, but it was just after the ceremony and... well..."

"Well what?" demanded Scotland, "I know how important keeping your secret safe is to you. I mean, you have kept it all to yourself for most of your life! What on earth caused you to make other nations suspicious of you? If they do enough investigating, they might just find you out!"

"Don't you think I realised that!" England yelled as he jumped out of his chair, "I know I screwed up! Several nations have already come over to my house to see why I stormed out. I sent them away, of course, but now I think that their even more suspicious of me! I don't know why I stormed out I guess I just felt..." England seemed to crumple in on himself as he fell back into his chair and whispered the last word "Vulnerable."

After they turned up the volume and rewinded the video to make sure that England had really said that he was feeling vulnerable, the nations all started feeling guilty for what they had done. Had their visit and France's comment made England feel that bad? England was quite proud, so it would take a lot to make him admit that he was weak or vulnerable. Something serious was going on here, something that was quickly getting out of their control. They had come here to find out why England had stormed out of the world conference, and now they had found out that England may have been hiding a life-changing secret from them for most of his life. What would that do to a person? How would it feel to have to keep a massive secret from all of your friends for most of your life? The secret is obviously big enough to make England feel 'vulnerable', but just what is it? What is England's secret?

Scotland also was shocked by England's sudden outburst, but when he heard England say 'vulnerable' he started to comfort England.

"Hey England," Scotland whispered in England's ear, "It's going to be alright. I'm sure they don't even know you have a secret, since you are quite a good actor." England seemed to grow in confidence at these words, and he started to talk again.

"Yes, I'm quite sure they don't know anything about it, I didn't leave any evidence lying around my house, so I hope that they don't know anything."

"Well, if the problem of the other countries finding out has been resolved, let's go to the basement to read over the spells that you will need to use to complete the ritual."

"Alright, I do need everything to be perfect since if something goes wrong I don't know what I will do." England replied as he got up and started to walk toward the basement door. Scotland seemed to look directly at the camera, and all the nations had to remind themselves that this was only a recording, and that it was not a two way camera, before saying,

"Hey England, are you sure that you don't want to tell the other nations about your secret? I mean if it is bothering you that much then surely it is better to tell the others and stop worrying about it? I'm sure that they'll accept you, since they are not ordinary humans like all the other people you told." England turned back towards Scotland with a look of disbelief and fury on his face.