Finally, they arrived at Antonio's place called "Spain". Maria walked down the dock and stared at the scenery with her glittering small eyes. She saw tall buildings,neat beaches and people who is greeting her and Antonio. When they arrived at the front of Antonio's house, Maria's eyes were shining than before..

"If this is the outside, then the inside would be... HEAVENLY!"

When Antonio opened the door, they saw half eaten tomatoes everywhere. As usual, Spain got mad and called Romano while Maria, who's eyes twitching saw a young brunette with a strange curl at her same age walking towards her. Then Antonio calmed himself and introduced Maria.

"Romano, as you can see I have brought you a playmate! Meet Pepe! He represents the philippines!"

Romano glared at Maria. Then glared at Antonio.

"Ya know what tomato bastard? The tomatoes are gone. Buy more!"

And then Romano left, leaving the two shocked. Antonio sighed, Maria felt something in her stomach so she asked Antonio if she could go to the washroom. When she was walking to the washroom, she bumped to somebody, causing her to fall but someone held her hand. Maria bowed for apology. When she straightened up, she saw a black-haired boy who is also the same age as her were a few inches away from her. Maria blushed but she snapped and went to reality. She moved backwards a bit then the young boy held out his hand for a hand shake and introduced himself.

"I'm very sorry about earlier. My name is Alejandro Carriedo, I represent the Mexico. I heard your name while I was cleaning the dishes, you must be Pepe who represents the philippines right? Nice to meet you Pepe."

Maria held her hand a gave a handshake to Alejandro. She smiled at him causing him to blush and told himself...

"Alejandro! Come on he's a boy!"

Antonio looked for her new colony and found both of his colony hand shaking. He smiled at them.

"Great! You found a new friend Piri! Now come over here to try your new clothes!"

Antonio thanked Alejandro for washing the dishes and gave him tortilla for his great work. And so Maria tried on her BOY clothes. It was a puffy white shirt and brown pants. Maria thought it looks wrong to her but she liked it anyway. Antonio called his 3 little colonies and said..

"Today we have a new colony named Pepe and he would be staying on your room, Romano and Alejandro. Romano and Maria's jaw dropped but Alejandro was quite happy. And so they ended up having 1 large room with 3 beds, Maria on the middle and the two boys on the other sides. At night, Maria prayed while the remaining two pretend to sleep.

1 year have passed and now Maria is 5 years old along with her brothers. The next morning, Alejandro was the first to wake up following Maria. Alejandro saw Maria walking down the stairs.

"Good morning Pepe!"

"Good morning Alejandro. Is it ok if I cook?

The Mexican gave the filipina a worried look and said...

"Are you sure? You might cut your fingers though, I can always call papa Spain to cook."

Maria gave the i-am-gonna-be-ok look back to Alejandro and said...

"It's ok! I cook by myself in my homeland."

The Mexican smiled.

"Ok then, I will take a nap then."

She looked at him climbing the stairs until he was gone and started moving around. To get started, she looked for something to cook at the refrigerator when she saw a big milkfish,tomatoes and more veggies. She remembered the dish she tried to make back home so she decided to cook that dish once again. While waiting for the fish and the veggies to simmer, she cooked rice for the side dish. When it was done he called for her new father and her new brothers to come down and eat. The 3 boys walked down the stairs when they smelled the sweet aroma coming from the kitchen. They went to the dining room and sat on the chairs and they saw Maria bringing the pot with the sweet aroma to the table. When she opened the pot the 3 boys were surprised how the filipino cooked perfectly even though she's still 5. Maria smirked and said...

"BEHOLD my sinigang na isda! Try it! :)"

The 3 boys did what they were told and tried her dish. They were shocked. The sourness yet sweet of the dish made the three smile. Well, the arrogant Italian was smiling because of the tomato Maria put. But stopped when Maria offered them the rice she cooked. But the italian broke her happiness...

"Why not try eating it with rice?"

"Why would we? You fish bastard"

A vein popped at Maria's forehead and dark aura appeared.

"You...dare...to...call...me...BASTARD?!"

The three gulped in fear, they immediately tried the dish with rice but it surprisingly taste good.

When Maria saw her father and brothers wearing the i-am-satisfied face, she returned to normal. She looked at the sky through the windows, wondering how her asian sisters and brothers are doing.