Chapter 8

The tour of America's house continued without interruption. Michigan took them to most of the floors, told them who slept there, and moved on. Then it was dinner time, the countries ate, and were then shoved into their rooms. They would have called the states rude, but they'd been weird all day so they didn't expect much from them.

The following day was Wednesday, and the countries, read as Germany, had requested that they have that day off so that they could do paperwork. This worked out fine for America and the states since the remainder of the states were coming home and they didn't need a bunch of countries causing trouble. Several states actually arrived Tuesday night. After making sure the countries were dealt with Michigan rushed off to see the newest arivee, New York, she was hoping to get there before Massachusetts did. Unfortunately, she didn't beat the older state and arrived just in time to see New York open the door and get punched in the jaw.

"Welcome home," she muttered as New York doubled over and Massachusetts ran off cackling.

"MASSACHUSETTS!" America bellowed. "Get back here, you can't just punch your brother without saying hello!"

"Yeah, it's rude if you don't say 'hi' first," Washinton commented sarcastically as he handed New York and ice pack. New York chuckled.

"Don't worry 'bout me dad, I'm fine," he added. Realization dawned in Alfred's eyes.

"Oh yeah! Hey, dude, you okay?" he asked as he clapped him on the back.

"Of course I am, that Masshole punches like a girl," the state assured his dad.

"WHAT! I do not punch like a girl!" an outraged Massachusetts yelled from around the corner.

"Ha! You owe me twenty bucks!" Nevada yelled at Kentucky. "I told you he hadn't left yet!"

"Damn it, this is the fifth bet in a row I've lost," Kentucky complained as he handed the money over.

"Maybe you should stop making bets with Tucker," Illinois advised.

"Massachusetts come out here and tell you brother you're sorry you punched him," America ordered. Massachusetts slunk over to his brother.

"I'm sorry you're so weak that me punching you caused you pain," he muttered. America sighed.

"That's better, now come on. You're going to give me twenty laps around the house," America decided, walking towards the door.

"What! Why? I said sorry."

"Did you mean it? And besides, you didn't say you were sorry for punching him," America informed the state. "Now, come on." Massachusetts scowled and followed his dad out the door with New York's laughter following him.

"Are the countries gone?" Hawaii asked as her and Alaska came out of the library, where they were hiding.

"Their doors are locked and won't be unlocked until morning," Michigan informed the small states.

"Wait, what's this about countries?" New York asked confused.

"A bunch of countries were poking around the house so dad decided to reveal us states," North Dakota told him.

"Oh really?" New York asked, a mischievous light coming to his eyes.

"Don't even think about trying anything, dad said if anyone messed with the countries they'd be scrapping bird crap off the roof," Indiana warned.

"Yeah, and you can't approach them either. The state that's doing the introductions and showing them around has to introduce you," Arizona added.

New York deflated a little. "That's a bummer. Who's showing them around?"

"Michigan," Ohio said before she could. He shot her a glare and she gave him the middle finger. "I don't know why she was picked though, when there are much better applicants, like me."

"You know, I asked dad the same thing. He said it was 'cause you're a lazy asshole," Michigan replied innocently.

"Well, you're-" Ohio's response was cut off by Texas's hand clamping over his mouth.

"Let's not fight right now, or we'll all be running laps around the house," the large state said. New York strutted over to Michigan.

"So, how are the dear countries?" he inquired. Michigan shrugged.

"They're normaler than I expected."

"Who's met the countries so far?"

"Let's see, it was me, Virginia, West Virginia, North Dakota, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Tennessee, Washington, and Nevada. Hawaii and Alaska have been spying on them though, so they probably have a truck load of info on them."

"Massachusetts met them?"

"Don't start this, York," Delaware warned. New York waved him off and looked intently at Michigan.

"Yeah, he did. I was showing them 'round the first floor then he jumped out and sang a song about the revolution, then he complained about you, and after that he knocked Wisconsin and Minnesota out with a table," Michigan stated.

"He did what?!" Louisiana exclaimed.

"Yeah, someone should probably go clean that up. The table broke on Wisconsin's head, there are wood and glass splinters everywhere," Michigan added as an afterthought.

"Are they totally, like, okay?" California asked, looking up from her phone. Michigan paused and took on a thoughtful face.

"I don't know," she said at last. "We just kind of left them in the hallway. I think they're still unconscious."

"Oh my God! You're suppose to be more mature than that!" Illinois yelled, before grabbing Maryland and racing upstairs.

"It was funny to watch," Hawaii giggled. "Alaska even smiled at it!" The remaining states chuckled at the image.

"So," South Dakota said awkwardly. "It's nice seeing you York, but I've got to hit the hay." Most of the states nodded in agreement and left either to go to sleep or eat.

Texas lifted Ohio up and headed upstairs. "I'll just drop him off upstairs. As much fun as it is to watch you two fight, I can't let that happen because I just got my pistol back. I don't want to lose it again."

"Don't you have like, five pistols?" California asked.

"Yeah, dad took them all!" Tex yelled from the stairs.

"That sucks, I feel for you bro!" Michigan called back. Louisiana rolled his eyes.

"You need to embrace your French side," he told her.

"If she did that she'd be no fun," New York argued.

"Whatevah," California stated. "All this arguing is, like, totally unfabulous. Lewis and I are going to the movies. My bae is suppose to be there in twenty minutes with some friends. This is totally going to make him jealous," Cali stated before dragging Lewis out the door. Michigan and New York shared a grin before cracking up at the look of surprise on Lewis's face.

"Hey, everyone ditched us," New York complained when they stopped laughing. Michigan looked around.

"The bastards. Wanna go down to the basement and watch some hockey?"

"Hell yeah! I'll race ya!"

The two states raced downstairs to watch hockey. A few minutes later America and Massachusetts came back in breathing hard.

"Who was that, that left?" America breathed out. Massachusetts shrugged.

"I…don't know. I think…there were two people though." America nodded and straightened up.

"That was a good run. How about we go get some ice cream at Smith's?" Massachusetts nodded happily. "Sounds wicked sweet."

xXxHetaliaxXx

The next morning the countries woke up to the sound of many voices. They shrugged it off though, the states are pretty loud. Even when they were staring at them the day before the volume in the dinning room was at a dull roar. The countries supposed they just inherited it from America.

One by one the countries left their rooms to retrieve food, all of them expecting to have to go to the dinning room for food. They were pleasantly surprised to find buffet set up in the hallway. America didn't want to risk any awkward, or possibly dangerous, run ins in the dinning room.

The next two hours were spent in peace, sort of. They had to wear earplugs in order to drown out most of the noise of the states. That was something else the countries noticed, the states seemed rather louder today and they were slamming a great deal of doors. However, most, countries ignored this and passed it off as the states being teenagers.

There was only one country who became suspicious of the doings of the states. This, of course, was partly because the noisy states woke him up, but mostly because when he went out into the hall he heard a state yell, "I can't believe it's been a month since our last family night!"

The Prussian, who was already planning on sneaking around America's house since he had no paperwork, decided he had found his mission for the day. He was going to find out what was going on with the states, and what family night really was.

He slunk out of the hallway and then ducked into library where he left the door open a crack so he could see the foyer. He only waited a few minutes before the front door swung open and a state with a duffel bag stepped in. Seconds later said state was tackled by one of her siblings.

"Ow! Get off me Cali!" The girl yelled from the ground.

"Sorry, Tana, but I, like, haven't seen you in a month! And, like, so much fabulous stuff has, like, totally happened in the past week!" California yelled as she rolled off her sister.

"Real stuff, or microstuff?" the other state questioned.

"REAL STUFF!"

"Well, what is it?"

"THERE ARE TOTALLY COUNTRIES HERE!" California shouted, throwing her arms up.

"Wait, seriously?" The other state glanced around, as if she could spot a country hiding behind the curtains.

"Yeah! It's totally weird!"

"HEY! California and Montana, you guys need to be quite!" a boy shouted from down the hall.

"Whatever Penny!" California yelled back.

"I'm serious, I was ordered to make sure people stayed quiet over here. Dad said to make sure the countries don't get disturbed. We don't need them to come out and investigate," the boy explained as he neared the girls. Montana nodded.

"That's perfectly reasonable. We'll go."

"Yeah! We can go up to your room and I'll help you unpack. That way I can explain everything to you!" California cheered and dragged the other state up the stairs.

'Now this is interesting,' Prussia thought. 'I thought all the states knew about us knowing. And they don't want us countries interfering with whatever's going on. Maybe the next group that comes through will explain it.'

The next group certainly did, but not in the way Prussia thought they would. He was expecting another state to arrive at the house. Instead he heard the elevator ding and had a second to dive out of sight.

'Scheisse!'

"Why do we have to do this?" complained a male voice.

"Because if we didn't we'd have to sit on the floor," another voice reminded him.

"I meant why does it have to be us."

"Probably because we're smaller than most everyone else."

"But we're older than most of them!" the other voice cried out in response.

"Remember, because we're carrying the chairs up we get to go first at the meeting."

"Yeah, I guess that's a nice perk," he muttered.

"JERSEY! DEL!" a girl yelled as she burst into the library.

"Yeah? Whaddya want?"

"Are you guys done with the chairs?"

"No, George."

"It's Georgia! I'm not a boy!" the girl pouted.

"Okay, I'm sorry. Did you have something to tell us?"

"Yeah, Penn wanted me to tell you guys, if I saw you, to meet at New York's room to rehearse one more time," she informed him.

"Okay, thanks Gia," the other state thanked.

"Now that's a nickname I can live with."

"Good, 'cause you don't get to change it."

"Shit! Dude, only seven hours left 'till family night starts!" one of the dudes warned.

"We better hurry up then, see ya 'round sis!"

After the three states left the room Prussia rolled out from under the couch.

"Kesesseess! So Family Night is tonight! And it must be like a World Meeting. I'm so awesome for figuring this out!"

Prussia decided he should continue investigating though, that way he could find a way to spy on Family Night. He went in the elevator, because the states had obviously come from up where the meeting was being held.

"Now, which floor to go to? Hmm, Michigan didn't take us to anything above the fourth floor so I'll start on the fifth floor!"

Prussia arrived on the fifth floor to discover that he had, indeed, chosen the correct floor.

Instead of emptying out in a library, the stairs took him to the corner of a meeting room. There were, unfortunately for Prussia, several states up there already. They noticed him before he saw them, and the next thing he knows something whacked him in the back of his head. The world faded to black.

When he awoke he was tied to a chair. There were several states pacing around and debating what to do with him.

"We need to do something with him, to keep him away from the meeting," said one boy.

"I know! We can throw him out the window and into the pool!" declared another state.

"Ken, we want to subdue him, not kill him," a girl reminded him.

"Well, what do you think we should do?" he demanded. She shrugged.

"Knock him out and lock him in a closet?"

"That's not half bad," another state added.

"I still think we should let dad decided," a quieter girl remarked.

"DID SOMEONE SAY MY NAME?" America yelled as he burst into the room.

"Yeah! We need to figure out what to do with this dude!" yelled a kid from across the room.

"Oh, hey Prussia!" America waved, just noticing the nation. He seemed to consider the options. "We could throw him out the window."

"Dad!"

"Hey, that's what I said!" America grinned and fist bumped his son.

"Great minds think a like!"

"More like strange minds," muttered a voice behind Prussia.

"We can't throw him out the window," argued a state.

"Why not?"

"Because then we'd have a broken window to fix!" the state replied in a 'duh' voice.

"Oh yeah, good point."

Prussia's eyes nearly bulged out of his head. He couldn't believe they were really having this conversation. Throwing him out a window wouldn't kill him! They should know better.

"Why don't we just give him to Michigan and make her take care of him. She was put in charge of this whole situation anyway! It's her fault he came up here, so she should fix it."

"Yeah, let's do that!"

"Sure."

"Whatever."

"I'm down with it."

"Awesome!" America cheered. He pulled out his phone and dialed a number. "Hey! Micky! How're you?…Great! Now get up here and get rid of Prussia for us!….No! I don't mean kill him!…Sweet, bye!" America hung up.

"It's all cool dudes!" he declared. Although Prussia was slightly worried he might wake up in a ditch somewhere now.

When Michigan arrived she just dragged Prussia into the elevator, chair and all. They rode downstairs in silence, and then Michigan dragged Prussia back to his room. Then she ungagged him. She didn't untie him though.

"So, you've discovered Family Night is our form of a World Meeting. Big deal, why wouldn't we have meetings? The thing is we don't want you countries interrupting our meeting. Therefore, I'm gonna lock your door once I untie you. You got any questions?"

"Ja, when does this Family Night thing end? I want to know how long I'm gonna be locked up."

"Fair enough, it starts with dinner tonight and it'll end sometime tomorrow evening."

"How am I gonna eat?"

"Oh, I guess I'll have one of the maids bring up some food."

"Can you bring a TV in here? If I'm gonna be locked up for a while I want some entertainment."

"Yeah, that can be arranged. Oh, and you won't tell anyone about this, yeah?"

"Ja, sure, just get me some food."

"Okay,cool." Michigan jumped up and untied him before rushing out of the room. Prussia jumped up right after her and looked through the keyhole to make sure she was gone. He had managed to form a plan when he realized he was just being taken back to his room.

"LUDWIG BEILSCHMIDT! GET YOUR KLEINE ASS IN HERE NOW!" He banged on the wall. His room was next to his brother's and Michigan had told them that the walls were pretty thin.

Prussia heard something loud hit the door, cue German swearing. Soon enough the door burst open though and Germany was yelling in, of course, German.

"Bruder, would you mind telling me how you manged to lock yourself in your room?"

"Well, I was doing some awesome investigation on the fifth floor when some unawesome ninja states knocked me out. Anyways, I found out that Family Night is like a giant meeting of the states und it starts tonight at dinner. I have decided we must spy on it," Prussia explained.

"You want to spy on the people who knocked you out? You must have been hit very hard," Germany noted.

"Nein! I'm fine, I have a hard head. Think about it, there has to be a better reason for the states and America to not want us to know about this!" Germany sighed, he didn't want to admit it but he was curious. "Plus, it'll be great entertainment."

"You might have a point. Let's see what the other countries have to say about this."

When the countries had gathered in the hallway Prussia explained the situation. They, too, were intrigued by this change of events and wanted to learn more. The problem they encountered, however, was how to go about spying. Luckily for them, a sympathetic state had been listening. She thought the countries should see that the states were just like them, and she hoped that this might bridge the gap between the two groups.

She approached the group, they didn't notice her. She joined the group, and they still didn't notice her. She jumped on a table and raised her arms, and they didn't freaking notice her. So she opened her mouth and yelled at loud as she could. They heard something. The countries all shut up and listened really hard.

"If you want to spy on the mission then I can help," said a voice. The countries looked at each other uneasily. Maybe America was onto something with his ghost theory.

"Okay, what do we do?" England asked cautiously. He was certainly uneasy, especially because Russia was grinning more than usual. Russia was grinning because he could see the blond girl standing on the table. He found it amusing that the countries were scared of a state.

"Good, just follow me," the girl replied, hopping down from the table. Several countries were about to say that they couldn't see her, but shut up when they saw Russia start walking.

The girl took them to the basement, another place they hadn't been yet. She lead them around a corner and to a wall. She pressed the stones in a certain order and the wall opened up. A staircase was revealed. The countries were ushered up it and at the end of the staircase they found a room with many tv screens, all of the screens were showing an image of the meeting room.


This was fun to write, the next chapter will be the meeting!

I don't really have any history and character notes for you guys, but there will be some next chapter.

Guess who that state at the end was!

Last Edited- 4/10/15