America the Mysterious (United States of America #1.5)

His American Wife (China) (Part 4)

The wedding day had been long, like really, really long, and America had been thankful when it finally ended and she was allowed to sleep.

Not including the fact that she now had to share a bed with China.

China. The man she had just gotten married to.

He was now her husband, a husband that she did not love in the slightest.

Despite how tired she was, America had difficulty going to sleep that night, and it was all thanks to the guilt she was feeling. She felt lower than scum, lower than shit, and it prevented her from getting the sleep she so wanted.

Eventually, after an unspecified amount of time, America went to sleep, and woke up to find that China had left without a trace.

Good.

America wasn't in the mood to deal with him at that time.

He hadn't touched her that night, hadn't made any advances on her, and America didn't know if it was because he was tired too or he just didn't want to perform the intercourse. Either way, America was thankful, for she had no doubt that China would've bitched about the fact that she wasn't a virgin, not like many thought. Still, she was thankful that even if he were to touch her that he had not been the one to take her virginity, something she lost centuries ago.

Now, they had been married for months, but neither have acted like a married couple to the other. In fact, China and America became distant after that, their previous relationship not changing to the relief of the states.

Speaking of the states, many of them had mixed reactions to China being their new stepfather. The calmer ones for example, while showing no clear animosity towards the older nation, possessed grim expressions on their faces, their distrust and worry apparent. The more active states were unable to hide their own worry and distrust, often voicing it, and others, like Maine, would turn cold and spiteful.

Thankfully it was never anything more than that, but America wasn't really proud of her marriage, despite the good results that came in soon after.

In two months alone, many Chinese people had moved to the U.S., often populating the less populated cities and towns and others the most well-known cities. As a result, many started opening up their own businesses and schools to teach the next generation more about Chinese culture and customs, while in China more people were starting to get jobs, and the pollution was starting to dwindle. Of course, there were still a lot of people who didn't want to leave China and were content with having one child with their spouse as ordered by the One Child Policy.

It would be a long time before the overpopulation and the pollution were brought under control, but America was confident that they had a good heads-start.

Her marriage was another story however.

Although things hadn't changed between them, that didn't change the fact that they were now husband and wife. That meant that China had become more distant from everyone, even his own wife, and that irritated America. She didn't love him or desire his presence, don't get her wrong, but he was still a husband, and husbands were supposed to care for their spouses, arranged marriage or not.

America could feel the annoyance she felt with him before coming back, and this time it was for a whole new reason.

For all his talk of being mature, and a brave man, he was nothing but a coward.

She really did choose poorly, and now her children had to have this...thing as their stepfather.

Then again, China was far from a good man anyway. He proved that to her over and over again, and it was one of the many reasons she refused to disclose the truth about her children or her actual gender for so long.