A fair-skinned girl with brown hair in a half-up-half-down style and green eyes moved through the somewhat familiar hallways of the World Academy.

"Hey! Kentucky!" the girl said happily, waving at said person.

"Uh, hiya, Mass. Why weren't 'cha here yesterday?" Kentucky asked, while sitting on her horse/ BFF- Mr. Horsie-Horse.

"Well.. the voices in my head told me not to come!" she said cheerfully. Then she leaned in and whispered, "But I really really wanted to see Cardiff."

"Oh. That makes some sense. Why ya got voices in yer head anyways, girl?" Kentucky asked, while petting Mr. Horsie-Horse.

"Oh, Mr. Horsie-Horse is so beautiful! Can I pet him?" she asked. "I'm schizophrenic." she added.

"Look. Don't touch. I have my pick axe and my hoe with me, now. Schizo-phrenah-what now?" Kentucky slapped Massachussetts' hand away.

"It's nothing. I'm gonna go see if I can find Cardiff~" her voice rose a few octaves as she practically sang (quietly) 'Cardiff'.

"I can't believe San Jose dumped me." a boy muttered to himself quietly as he walked through the crowded hallways. He was usually pretty happy, but not recently, since his girlfriend dumped him. 'There's no where to activate firecrackers in this stupid school.' he muttered to himself. Managua was pretty sure that he was going to start high school with a girlfriend, but I guess not.

He took a seat in his art class. He really liked that class. It was easier, less stressful, and it gave him a break from history, science, and math.

The class was taught by Kiku Honda, a Japanese man who was small in stature, with black hair, and brown eyes.

Diego (Managua) listened intently as Mr. Honda spoke about their current unit, drawing.

About halfway through class, Mr. Honda let them draw freestyle, to see how good they were. Managua drew himself setting of fireworks. He drew his home, his family, himself, fireworks exploding, some pretty flowers he'd seen once. He began to draw San Jose, but then thought better of it and started to erase.

"Wow. That's really good!" a voice from behind him caught him by surprise.

He turned around to face a pretty Indian girl. "Thanks. Yours are nice too." he said quietly. He couldn't really see her drawing, but he felt the need to compliment it.

"You think so?" she smiled broadly, holding up her picture. He nodded. "I'm Mumbai. You can call me Raja. What's your name?" she sat down next to him.

"Managua. Deigo. Please don't say anything about that stupid American show." he said.

"Don't worry! I wasn't going to!" she told him. 'I totally was.' she thought to herself. For the rest of class, Mumbai talked (maybe enough for the both of them) and Managua nodded or occasionally replied with a short answer. In short, he felt like this girl wasn't going to leave him alone.

"Manitoba..." the teacher said, while pushing up his glasses.

"Yeah, Mr. von Bock?" she said, looking up while putting away her math textbook.

"Do you remember the quiz we took yesterday?"

"Eh... The one to see how much we know?"

"Yes, that one." he confirmed, motioning for her to come to his desk.

"What about it?" she asked.

"I'm sort of concerned about your score. It seems you only got 3 out of 10 right. That's thirty percent." he informed the red-head.

"Thirty Percent? Oh Lord, I'm even dumber than last year!" she shrieked.

"Please, calm down. You aren't stupid. You just need a little help. That's why I reccommend that you find yourself a tutor." Estonia assured her.

"A tutor? So I just ask around and see if anyone'll help me?" she questioned.

"No, I've already got someone to tutor you. He should be here any second..."

Right on cue, a tall-ish boy with a lanky build walked in the room. He had a light skin tone and light brown hair. He was obviously one of England's children, with his thick eyebrows and emerald eyes.

"Bristol, this is the girl I wanted you to tutor." Estonia said.

"Hi. I'm Manitoba, or Tristan Williams." she introduced herself shyly.

"Edward James Kirkland. Nice to meet you." he said, shaking her hand. He remained calm and stoic, but on the inside, he had a nosebleed because of how cute she was. She had curly red hair that went a little past her shoulders and amazing blue eyes.

sorry it took so long. i was too lazy to type. I'm pretty pathetic...