Friends or What?
Valentine's Day, a time of the year where loves would go out… that would be the so-called 'standard' of the holiday. However, some countries see this quite differently. For Finland and Estonia, Valentine's Day carries a different meaning to it.
Sweden was standing outside Finland's house; his eyes fixed on the side mirror of his car and tidying himself up. It would seem like another meeting with his neighbour and former wife, but the day was 14th of February – Valentine's Day.
"Fin would love these lilies of the Valley… they be his national flower…" Sweden carefully thought, "And then we will go to a nice restaurant and watch the sunset from his lakes…"
Sweden took another glance at himself again, and straightened out his blue tie.
"Sve, you know what day it will be next week, right?" Finland said, "Come to my house. You're invited."
"Hmm… for mi wife…" Sweden thought, and a smile appeared on his face.
The Swede walked up to the porch and rang the doorbell to the house. To his surprise, someone he did not expect went to open the door for him – Denmark.
"Dan…" the Swede murmured.
"Ha, what took ya so long to get here?" Denmark remarked, "We've all been waiting for ya!"
"Wai'in…" Sweden repeated the Dane's words.
"I have easily captured the meek Finland! Now I shall use him as bait to lure out Sweden and defeat him at last…"
"Come in already, I don't got all day!" Denmark cried.
"Unforgi'ble…" the Swede muttered, grabbing Denmark by the collar of his shirt.
"Bam! Boom! Bam!"
The noises made from the brawl attracted the attention of the other people in the house, particularly Norway, Iceland, his puffin… and Finland. All of them saw Sweden brutally pummelling Denmark to a pulp.
"Yah, beat that shameless guy up!" Mr Puffin cried, "Beat him till he dies!"
"Shut up; you're not helping!" snapped Iceland.
"But I'm so cute that the audience denies me shut me!" Mr Puffin continued, "Ha ha ha!"
"Sve, what are you doing?" Finland exclaimed.
"'m not surprised," Norway brushed it off, "must be something Denmark said."
"Fin'… 'u 'kay?" asked Sweden, "…Dan 'urt 'ye?"
"No, no one hurt me," Finland answered.
"'En 'dey 're 'ere?" asked Sweden.
"Because of today," Finland replied, "don't you know what day is today?"
"Va'enti's 'Ay…" the Swede spoke.
"Here in Finland, we call it Ystavanpaiva," Finland said, "It means the Day of Friendship, where close friends gather together."
"c'ose… fr'nds…" repeated Sweden.
"Come in now, we the Nordic Five are having some good home-cooked Finnish cuisine," Finland smiled.
"But I want to be with mi wife alone… but he likes this too…" Sweden thought.
"'Ere…" Sweden said, handing Finland the flowers, "'s 'lil 'o 'aley…"
"Thank you, you know I like these flowers," Finland said, "now let's get inside the house."
Sweden then entered Finland's house, following his fellow Nordic countries.
Omake – Estonia: The Nordic Wannabe
Hours had gone by since the Nordic Five had gathered for their Valentine's Day dinner, and everyone eventually settled down well engrossed in the dinner party. Out from the window, one would see anything more than shadows of the Nordics. Yet, one could hear the festive noises between Denmark and Norway from outside.
Unbeknownst to the Nordic states, someone was spying at them from outside. Estonia sat behind from the bushes and looked through his binoculars into Finland's house.
"I envy those guys…" Estonia said, "And I consigned to the Baltics and all alone. Lithuania's most likely with Poland… as always. Latvia's either with Tobago or Sealand. Sure, Finland shares a similar language to mine, but no~ he's Nordic. Then what the Hell am I to you? Today's also my Day of Friendship too! Damn it all!"
Author's Notes
Estonia had desires to be a Nordic country, even making his tricolour flag into a Nordic Cross style.
Estonia's concept for Valentine's Day is similar to that of Finland as well, being a day for friendship and not romance.
Tobago was once a colony of many countries, with Courland (based in modern Latvia) as one of those countries.