p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""So what do you wanna know?" I asked, sitting down on the reclining chair. I didn't sit properly at all. I had one leg over the armrest and the other casually placed in front of me. I yawned slightly, usually I would have already taken a nap by now./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""So, chère, where exactly are we?" France asked./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Hmm, on the American Canadian border, right by Washington state," I replied, gaining a happy look from both America and Canada./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""So, dudette, do you like burgers? Micky-Ds? Fast food?" America asked excitedly./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Well, I don't mind fast food, but I don't like burgers. Personally though, the fries at Micky-Ds are AMAZING!" I shouted the last part for extra emphasis, yawning soon after, "England, would you mind making me some tea? Something that will warm me up inside," I asked./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"England smiled slightly, "Ok love, sure," he said, getting up to go make some in the kitchen./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""So why exactly are you living in the middle of nowhere dear?" France asked out of no where./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"My face instantly darkened, looking down, my aura rivaled Russias. "That, my dear France, is a question I hope I never have to answer," I replied, looking at him seriously./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oui, yes I understand chere!" France said quickly, waving his hands in front of his face to ward off the bad air./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""So Zoe, what other countries are you expecting, eh?" Canada asked./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Umm, the delivery man said to expect a lot, even some beta units, so don't be surprised if I get some sort of weird country," I said laughing at my statement, as if the countries could get any weirder than this./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Looking at the time, I gasped, it was already 6pm. Time passed so quickly. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Guys, go and get into the coziest clothing that you own. If you don't own any, look in the big boxes in the attic. When you are done come downstairs with a blanket and pillow ready!" I commanded like a military commander, "Be prepared, DISMISSED!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Saluting me, they all rushed upstairs, I walked to the kitchen to tell England the same thing. He was a bit disappointed that he didn't get to finish his tea, but he shrugged it off, walking up the stairs with me. Once I got to my room, I decided that I needed to change clothes. Looking around my closet, I found the perfect thing./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"It was a long t shirt with cookie monster on it saying 'NOM NOM!' As pants, I wore a black and blue pair of checkered flannels. Putting on a new pair of fuzzy socks, I grabbed my pillow and emergency blanket and headed downstairs./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Eh, Zoe, why exactly did we need this?" Canada asked quietly./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Well, we are going to watch this new Japanese horror movie I bought and its, like, three hours long so we needed to be prepared," I said, dropping my things on my spot on the couch. After doing this I rushed to the kitchen to grab soda, chips, popcorn and candy. After pouring the snacks into some bowls, I brought them out and set them on the coffee table./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"After putting in the disk, I sat in the middle of the couch, with America on my right, Canada on my left, England sitting on the floor for some reason, with France sitting right next to them./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Lets go then," I said, pressing play./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""That wasn't too bad, we should do this again sometime!" I said, sitting up and stretching. The others were doing the same. America though looked terrified and jumped at every sound. After we grabbed our sleeping stuff, I said goodnight to the guys, slumping up the stairs and collapsing on the bed. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"It wasn't even 10 minutes when I heard my door creak open. I looked up lazily at the silhouette of a trembling America./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You know since I am the, uh, Hero, i have got to, uh, protect you," He said, practically begging for permission to enter. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"My half awake mind barely recognized that something happened and all I did was wave him over. He quickly shut the door and jumped into my king sized bed and quickly fell asleep. Me soon following./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The morning came faster than expected, looking at my alarm clock, I saw that it was 9am and I decided to get up. I felt warmer than usual though and also a weird weight on my waist. Looking to my right, I saw America sleeping peacefully. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Seeing this I let out a sigh of relief, that is, before I tried to get up. When I sat up to try to get up, America tightened his grip on my waist and pulled me back to him. I squeaked, trying to get out of America's bear hug. England must have heard me because he rushed in in his Union Jack boxers and white shirt. Seeing my predicament, he signed./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""America, get your bloody hands off Zoe you git," he said with a frustrated growl. I guess he had to deal with this a lot./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"America seemed accustomed to England being mad at him, because he got up and stumbled out of the room. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Here love, have some tea to wake you up," England said, setting the tea on her bed side table./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.0909090909090908; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: #212121; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Thanks England," Zoe said./span/p