"Happy Birthday Feliciano!" Roderich (Austria) greeted his son. "Ve~!Thank you, daddy!" Feliciano (Italy Veneziano) respond joyfully."You're four years old now!" Roderich added. Feliciano lifted his head to ask his father and mother, "Are we there yet? I wanna see the turtles!". Elizabeta (Hungary) turn around, she smiled and hugged Feliciano, "We're almost there and there will be lots of turtles on the beach!"

The weather was balmy, there are many kids playing and running on the sand at beach. The two little boys Feliciano and Lovino (Italy Romano) running towards their father standing in the tent. The two brothers saw their cousin Matthew (Canada) holding his belly in pain and Elizabeta started stroking his back. "Elizabeta, what's wrong with Matthew!?" Roderich asked his wife. "He might've eaten something." she replied and confused. "I'll go the front desk. Maybe there's a doctor here." Roderich decided to run to ask someone for help while Elizabeta still stroking Matthew's back and picked up the little blond boy to go back to their private room. "Let's go inside. You can wash up and take a nap, Matt."

Suddenly, Lovino pulled his mother's skirt, "But what about the turtles, mom?" he asked. "Later, Lovino. Feliciano, stay with your brother." Elizabeta replied with a faint smile. The two little brothers stay outside in their private room with confusion but Lovino are so eager to see those turtles so he grabbed Feliciano's hand and they run away, "Come, Feli! Let's go!", "Lovi, are we going to the turtles?" Feli asked, "Yes. Let's hurry! We might not see them!" Lovino replied. Feliciano smiles at his big brother and Lovino told him to "hold tight" together.

Twelve years later.

"Wow! Congratulations, Lovino! Just two mistakes!" Ivan (Russia) said happily to his classmate while Lovino hold his test result with a sad face. "Why you look so sad, da?" Ivan asked. "Because that Froggy got a perfect score!" Lovino pointing his finger at a blond guy who are sitting and studying alone in the front of the computer, Francis (France).

"So?" Ivan asked again. Lovino just stares at Ivan and looks away, "I have to graduate as batch valedictorian. I want to give my mother a reason to attend my graduation."

The night is so silent, Lovino's mother, Elizabeta humming at the window. Holding and staring at the picture frame, it's the picture of little Feliciano. She fought back tears, not wanting to cry and then she whispered "I miss you my baby."

The next morning, Lovino rushed toward the kitchen. He greeted his cousin, Matthew. "Your mother was still in a meeting. I guess we have to go ahead." Roderich said, eating breakfast together with Lovino and Matthew. Lovino really miss his mother, they didn't talk too much when Feliciano disappear twelve years ago.

So many fishermen are standing on the shores, some of them are cleaning their own net. There's a boy with innocent looking face walking along the shore, humming and carrying his books. He's wearing his school uniform. He suddenly stops walking and stares at the woman in the boat. "Mama!", the woman turn around and wave her hand happily, "Marco!".

Marco (Italy Veneziano) run excitedly toward his mother, Laura (Belgium) and he kissed his mother's left cheek. "My child." Laura said. "Marco, your aunt and I are going to the resort. They need some help in the kitchen and waiters too." Laura added. "Really, mama?" Marco said with a smile. Laura notice that his son didn't wear his school shoes,"Marco, why aren't you wearing your shoes?", "Ve~! I don't want to wear them out. We don't have money to buy a new ones." Marco replied but Laura said sharply, "We also don't have money to pay for your hospital bills if you acquire tetanus." Marco burst laughing and hug his mother again, "Mama, I'm your son. We are strong, right? No way am I getting tetanus!". Laura gently patted the boy's cheek with a gentle smile, "Fine, whatever you say!".

"Marco, why are you still up?" Laura asked, while entering from the main door with umbrella. She saw Marco at the bamboo table with a little lamp, "Just finishing my school project" Marco stares at his mother with a sad face, "Mama, we don't have any leftovers from dinner". "It's okay. I ate already. Just get me a glass of water" Laura replied with a smile, Marco rushed from the room, poured a glass of water from the container. Then, Laura noticed his son's notebook in the table, contains a handwritten note by Marco.

Whenever I swim, I remember my papa Tim (Netherlands)...
and how he swam against the tides of life, for his beloved family.

"Mama!" Marco rushed toward his mother, scratching his head shyly. "Don't be shy! It's fantastic!" Laura said it with a charming smile. "I got good grades in school for my writing. Your papa was just good in one subject. . .recess." they soon start laughing together. Marco looks at Laura with his cloudy eyes, his lip started to tremble and then he started to cry, "Mama, I'm really sorry". Laura dashed out in confusion, "For what?", Marco began to sob and tears flowed from his eyes, "If I went home sooner that day, papa wouldn't have gone looking for me. We would have him until now.", Laura tried to comfort his son but he kept crying. "Don't blame yourself for your papa's death. It wasn't your fault okay?" she hug his son and planted a kiss on Marco's forehead.

While Elizabeta walking back home from work, she tried to remember what she said to his little son before, "Do you remember the song I taught you to sing whenever you're scared?", little Feliciano answered gently, "Yes! Mommy!".

*Marukaite Chikyuu*

Elizabeta started crying right after remembering those song, then, she wiped her tears away with her hand. She didn't know that Lovino was watching her in the corner but his mother caught him staring at her. Lovino started shaking, he's nervous but he needs to comfort his mother right now so he greeted Elizabeta with a smile, "Hi mom. Did you just got home?", he walks towards his mother and Elizabeta replied him with a smile.

However, after Lovino kissed her mother in the cheek, Elizabeta turn around without looking back at his son. Lovino felt a sharp pain on his chest but again, he tried to talk to his mother to comfort her, "Would you like me to make you dinner" Lovino asked. "I'm not hungry." Elizabeta replied with a blank face. "Okay. . ." Lovino said.

"Mom, next week, it's my birth-" Lovino said quickly but Elizabeta stop him, saying, "It'll be 12 years next week. Do you remember?". Lovino looks at his mother and looks at the floor.

"Twelve years since we lost your baby brother." ,"What were you saying about next week?" Elizabeta asked. Lovino just smile, shaking his head

and replied, "Nothing, mom.", "Just don't stay up too late. It's not good for you. Good night." Elizabeta added. Patting Lovino's shoulder and walks away.