Ok I though I would write something for Canada Day to celebrate Mattie's birthday
In case you don't know
Canada opened his light to bright sunlight streaming in from the windows. In fact if it hadn't been for air conditioning, it would have been unbearably hot. Felling too tired to get up he just lay there in bed thinking about the day ahead.
It took some time to realize today was his birthday. What with America nagging him about his in 3 days, Quebec boasting on about how amazing his was or would be and all the commotion in the last few days; he had totally forgotten about it.
Canada got up, got dressed and checked his Blackberry for today's plans. His government always uploaded them to his phone. Strange, they told him to come to Ottawa in the morning but the big celebrations didn't start until afternoon and evening, then he had the rest of the morning off.
After getting his morning Tim Horton's, he took a taxi to the airport.
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Canada was puzzled all throughout the flight. He rarely ever got an hour off, unless you count the half of his life traveling from one place to another. Maybe it's because it's his birthday. Yeah that must be it.
He fumbled out the keys from his pocket and unlocked the door to his place in Ottawa and opened the door.
"SURPRUISE"
And suddenly everything made sense.
"Happy B-Day bro!"
"Bonne fête"
"Yes, happy birthday"
"Joyeux anniversaire, mon cher."
"Sehng-ill chook-hah-heh!"
"Feliz Cumpleaños."
Canada' ears hurt to comprehend the words as America, Quebec, Britain, France, Korea and Cuba all shouted out their multilingual congratulations at the same time.
"Wait! How did everyone get in!" Canada shouted.
"Duh! Steve let us in." America said.
"Who's Steve."
"Monsieur 'arper" France said.
"And even if he didn't, we do live together." Quebec said sarcastically.
Except Quebec liked to hang out in Montréal.
Then Canada started giggling then laughing outright.
"What's so funny?" Cuba asked.
"Did we do something wrong ~da-ze?" Korea asked
"No. Nothing. Its just funny how I totally forgot my own birthday but you guys all remembered." Canada said hastily.
'Even though I like to keep to the background, its nice to be remembered sometimes' he thought to himself as America brought out the cake.
He took in the scene. France and Quebec started arguing about their language, his province's Joual becoming more and more pronounced. America ranting about his birthday party in a few days and about Cuba being lucky to even hear about it, Korea poking the (apparently weird) cake in fear and Britain complaining about the lack of tea and biscuits ("I mean if only I knew I could have brought some of mine" "NO!").
'Though it may not be perfect' Canada thought while maple syrup flavoured cake decked with red and white icing. 'I wouldn't change my life for the world'
In my head-canon there is a Quebec/French-Canada because they are so culturally different and Canada has declared Quebec a nation within a Nation.
I also think that every nation lives in the most populated or famous city (America lives in New York) and has a place of residence at every major city.
All of the multilingual stuff meant Happy Birthday with Quebec, America and Korea saying it more informally.
Other notes
Quebec does celebrate its own national holiday on St. Jean Baptiste Day (June 24th), St Jean is also the patron saint of French Canada.
Although RIM (maker of Blackberries) is loosing popularity, it is a Canadian corporation and was popular among Canadians.
Tim Horton. COME-ON PEOPLE THIS IS BASICALLY A NATIONAL STERYOTYPE BY NOW!
Also most Quebecois don't have a French accent so that is why France has one but Quebec doesn't
Joual the French dialect sometimes spoken in Quebec.
And they also have colourful cake in Canada.