ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔢 [𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔶𝔥𝔲𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔵 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔯]

Chapter 17

Ring ring
Ring ring
Ring ri-
"Hello?"
"Ah! Y/n! How are you?"
"Poland! Hello! How are you?"
"I'm fantastic! What about you?"
"I'm great, a little freaked out though."

"Really? What happened?"
"Well, Meri told me and Ru Ru that he saw someone in the woods beside Ru Ru's house."
The other line went quiet for a minute.
"Oh did he now...?"
"Poland? Are you okay?"
He stopped talking again.
The silence was horrible, I was imagining his face.

"Hello?"
No answer.
"Poland? Are you still there?"
"Yeah! I was thinking. My bad. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have left you without an answer."
"It's fine, don't beat yourself up over it."
"Uh, actually, do you mind if I call you back in a few minutes?"
"Sure! I'll talk to you later!"
"Thanks Y/n. See you in a bit."

Beep beep beep.
He had hung up.
Russia and America had switched seats after we had our conversation. Apparently America hadn't slept last night so it was nice of Russia to let him to rest.
"How was he?"
"Hm? Oh! He's doing okay. He seemed a little off though.."
"How so?"
"I told him about Meri telling us about the person in the woods and he stopped speaking. It was weird."
"It's Poland, he can seem off sometimes. It's usually just him overreacting because of something."
"But he seemed perfectly fine before I mentioned Meri."
"I don't know what's wrong then."

I looked back towards America.
He looked happy. He lay there, sleeping peacefully, I could hardly hear him breath-
Ring ring
Ring ring
I almost jumped out of my skin when my phone began to ring.
Just as I was about to pick up Russia grabbed the phone and answered.
"Привет? Who is this? Oh Poland! Hello. Y/n? Yeah she's next to me. Ok. Here Y/n, it's for you."
"Yeah no shit, its my phone"
He chuckled and handed it to me.
"Just a warning, we're gonna arrive at UK's in 30 minutes, okay?"
I nodded and held the phone to my ear.

"Hi again!"
"Y/n! Hi! Why did Russia answer earlier?"
"I dunno, he just answered for me I guess?"
I heard him laugh a little
"That sounds like Russia."
"What do you mean?"
"Russia would always answer for America. When they were dating, oh! Did you know-"
"That's enough Poland."
"Why? Doesn't she deserve to know?"
"Poland stop."
"Okay! geez!"
I was surprised at how secretive Russia was being about this. I mean, he seemed to be sensitive about this subject but...I guess I understand.

"Guys please stop, Poland, what did you want to talk about?"
"Oh! About that, America-"
"Y/n? What's going on?" America sat up, yawning and rubbing his eyes.
"Oh! Hey, I was just calling Poland!"
"damn...Y/n I'll call you back later. I can't talk to you with him around."
"Him? Are you talking about Ameri-"
Bzz bzz bzz
He just hung up.
"What were you guys talking about?"
"I was just telling him about the person you saw. You know! The guy in the woods!"

He nodded
"We're almost there, look! You can see his house!" Russia pointed out.
I could see the tips of the mansion sized house emerge. A wall surrounded it with
Two figures were standing at the entranceway visibly arguing. One of them I recognized to be Uk
"Isn't that France?"
America leaned towards the front of the car.
Russia pulled up and we got out.

Uk and France didn't notice us and continued to argue.
"What are you doing here?! Are you mad?! Do you know what America would do if he saw you here?!"
"I really need to talk to you!"
"We're already talking."
"You know what I mean."
"France. Please, leave me be for a while I have things to do."
"So you're too busy to talk to me but you're not busy enough to invite Y/n to stay with you?"
France pointed at me.
Uk sighed and looked towards America
He had an indescribable look on his face.

"Is this a bad time?"
"No Russia, everything's fine. Don't worry. France. Please leave."
"Fine! Je le jure, parfois tu m'embête tellement je veux t'étrangler. (I swear, sometimes you annoy me so much I want to strangle you)"
"America, lets go."
Russia took ahold of his arm but America flinched and moved his arm away.
"Don't you fucking touch me again." He hissed.
Russia shot me a concerned look but continued on.

When they had left Uk turned to me.
"Come in, are you going to stand out here all day?"
I nodded and walked down the brick path. I tripped on a loose tile and fell.
"Oh my goodness gracious! Y/n! Are you alright? Did you hurt yourself? Did you break something? Are you okay? Are you bleeding?"
I stood up and rubbed my knee. A few drops of red blood trickled down my leg. Uk went absolutely insane.
He picked me up bridal-style and brought me into the house, despite me telling him that I was alright.
"You're clearly not! You're bleeding!"

He brought me to his kitchen counter and set me down.
Next he looked through some of his cupboards.
"Now where is that first aid kit..?"
He brought out a white box, took out a bottle of anesthetic and a small piece of cloth.
Uk leant down and began to clean my wound, it stung like hell.
I gritted my teeth in pain and my eyes welled up.
At last he placed a bandaid on the wound. And stood up.
"Better?"
I nodded and hopped off the counter.

"I was fine to begin with! You didn't need to get so worked up."
Uk chuckled nervously and he looked flustered.
"I'm sorry I acted off instinct."
"It's alright, don't worry. Um, why was France outside earlier?"
He shrugged.
"No idea, I don't really know what he needed. Nor do I care."
"Do you hate each other?"
"Hm? No, we don't hate each other! We just, we get on each other's nerves often, I guess it happens more than we expect."

"Oh, okay, but weren't you guys married at one point?"
"What? Oh, yes, we were. How do you know about that?"
"America explained to me about what happened with you and France, I didn't know you guys acted like this though."
"America told you about that? Well...did he tell you about, anything else..?"
"He told me about how it was rough on him and Canada and that you..." My voice trailed off
He looked away from me.
The sentence America had told me repeated in my head.
'Dad became kinda abusive and less of a father figure to me.'

There's no way that the man in front of me was abusive towards his son, there's no way.
"Y/n?"
I snapped back to reality in an instant
"Ah! I'm back, sorry, hah."
He smiled gently at me.
"It's quite alright, I'll show you to your room."
Uk took my by the hand and brought me up his grand staircase. The only noise was the sound of our steps walking on the wooden floor.
After three doors he stopped at one,
"Here's the room! I hope you like it."
I opened the door and walked in.
"I'll come get you in 30 minutes. There will be a meeting then. Enjoy!"
And with that he left.