p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 0px 0px 1.05em; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"America got up at the same time. Two am Eastern Standard Time. He was exhausted but ready to do it all again. When he walked into the kitchen, he found Alaska and Texas making breakfast. "Go to your conference, Dad," Texas said. Alaska handed America a breakfast burrito he'd made using one of New Mexico's recipes. Hawaii was clinging to Texas' leg. America smiled at the things his children would do for their father. "Kids, you know you don't have to do this," America said, yawning. Hawaii sleepily shooed him off. "Okay, okay, I'll go!" America said. When he got out to the car, Massachusetts and Kansas were already there. Massachusetts, despite being on the smaller side, gave him a look that told him he could em style="line-height: 1.7em; white-space: inherit; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"not/em argue. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;""As the law says, 'Click it or ticket'!" Kansas said. Is Kansas one to follow rules? I don't really know. em style="line-height: 1.7em; white-space: inherit; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"Anywho../em It didn't take too long to get to the meeting building, but when they got there, it took a while to get parking because of reporters. This conference was just for the countries supporting Ukraine in the war. Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. And that's just the ones supplying Ukraine with military aid./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;""America, sei in anticipo! È la prima volta dopo un po' di tempo, credo," (America, you're early! First time in a while, I believe,) Italy said. America smiled. "It's 2:30 in the morning in the time zone I'm on," America said, sipping his coffee. Canada spoke up while America was saying that. "Bro, you need to get some sleep!" Canada said. America was on his fifth cup of coffee. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland loudly sipped on his tea. "What the fuck, dad?" America said. "What kind of noise is that?" The UK made one of those meme worthy faces. America yawned, then sipped on his coffee. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;""Пора починати зустріч," (It's time for the meeting to start.) Ukraine said. America ruffled Ukraine's hair, so Ukraine batted his hand away. They all headed in the direction of the huge meeting building. Apparently, Russia and his allies were also having a meeting on the same floor, at the same time. Belarus hurried past the group and into the building. His arms were absolutely full of paperwork. The automatic door opened and they walked through. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"Several different meetings were happening at once, so quite a few countries were stuffed into the three elevators. In front of America was Canada, behind was Belarus, on his left was Russia, and on his right was China. America took his portable coffee maker out of his bag and poured himself another cup of coffee. What no one was expecting was for the elevator to get jammed. China lowered himself to the ground. China was claustrophobic, and the elevator getting stuck was not helping. America took another sip of coffee. There was no need to panic. America knew that Canada had already pressed the emergency button. That means that they would get out soon. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"America sat down and gave China some Tieguanyin, which would hopefully calm China down. Canada had ADHD, so America pulled out the little gadget that would help. Belarus was having a panic attack. "Hey, Belarus? Take deep breaths." America knew this because this often happened to California and Texas. As Belarus began to calm down, America noticed Russia's breathing was uneven and heavy. Even though they were enemies, America was not about to allow Russia to break down in an elevator with some of his biggest enemies watching. On the contrary to more popular beliefs, America wouldn't make fun of someone because they broke down in front of everyone. He wasn't THAT cruel. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;""Russia, are you okay?" America asked. Russia threw his arms up, knocking into Spain. "Please don't hurt me!" It was from that alone that America knew the problem. Paranoia and probably social anxiety. America gave Russia one of Canada's ADHD toys. It wasn't the best way to help, but it would keep Russia busy for the time being. Russia sat down. By then, mostly everyone in the elevator was either sitting down. Spain was on a call with someone, and it sounded quite heated. "¡¿Cómo que en Baleares se hace un batido con la corteza de una sandía?!" (What do you mean Balearic Islands is making a smoothie with a watermelon rind?!) Spain was em style="line-height: 1.7em; white-space: inherit; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"not /emhappy, that's obvious. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;""Hey Spain, can I have the phone?" America asked. Spain shouted one last thing over the phone before handing the phone to America. "¿Quién es?" (Who's this?) the person on the other side asked. "Soy América. Me dijeron que resolviera todo esto." (I'm America. I was told to work this whole thing out.) America said. "¿Qué ha pasado?" (What happened?) The person on the other end spoke. "Baleares rompió la batidora metiendo una corteza de sandía." (Balearic Islands broke the blender by putting a watermelon rind in it.) That's what Spain was so unhappy about? What a weird thing to be pissed off by. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;""¿Y por qué España estaba tan cabreada por esto?" (And why was Spain so pissed off by this?) America asked, glancing at Spain. "Papá estaba muy triste porque era nuestra última licuadora." (Papa was so unhappy because that was our last blender.) America sighed. He knew how to fix this. "Está arreglado," America said, handing the phone back to Spain. America dug through his bag and took out a blender and handed it to Spain. When America heard snoring, he turned around and smiled. Belarus, Canada, China, Russia and a couple others were sleeping in a pile on Canada's huge blanket. Half of them would not be necessarily happy when they woke, but oh well. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"The rest were literally acting like bats, hanging from the ceiling with their arms wrapped around themselves. "Jesus Christ," America said. "How the fuck do they hang from the ceiling like that?!" Finally, the elevator started moving again, and America sighed with relief. At least it didn't take too much over an hour to get moving again. The ride was a bit slow, but nothing too slow. America sat down criss cross applesauce. America texted a bit with the UK. strong style="line-height: 1.7em; white-space: inherit; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"Where are you?! /strongThe UK's text was repeated over and over again. strong style="line-height: 1.7em; white-space: inherit; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"The elevator got stuck/strong, read America's reply. strong style="line-height: 1.7em; white-space: inherit; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"Is everyone OK? /strongThe UK replied. America put down his phone. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"That was when America realized he needed to go pee. Really badly./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;""As the law says, 'Click it or ticket'!" Kansas said. Is Kansas one to follow rules? I don't really know. em style="line-height: 1.7em; white-space: inherit; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"Anywho../em It didn't take too long to get to the meeting building, but when they got there, it took a while to get parking because of reporters. This conference was just for the countries supporting Ukraine in the war. Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. And that's just the ones supplying Ukraine with military aid./p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;""America, sei in anticipo! È la prima volta dopo un po' di tempo, credo," (America, you're early! First time in a while, I believe,) Italy said. America smiled. "It's 2:30 in the morning in the time zone I'm on," America said, sipping his coffee. Canada spoke up while America was saying that. "Bro, you need to get some sleep!" Canada said. America was on his fifth cup of coffee. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland loudly sipped on his tea. "What the fuck, dad?" America said. "What kind of noise is that?" The UK made one of those meme worthy faces. America yawned, then sipped on his coffee. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;""Пора починати зустріч," (It's time for the meeting to start.) Ukraine said. America ruffled Ukraine's hair, so Ukraine batted his hand away. They all headed in the direction of the huge meeting building. Apparently, Russia and his allies were also having a meeting on the same floor, at the same time. Belarus hurried past the group and into the building. His arms were absolutely full of paperwork. The automatic door opened and they walked through. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"Several different meetings were happening at once, so quite a few countries were stuffed into the three elevators. In front of America was Canada, behind was Belarus, on his left was Russia, and on his right was China. America took his portable coffee maker out of his bag and poured himself another cup of coffee. What no one was expecting was for the elevator to get jammed. China lowered himself to the ground. China was claustrophobic, and the elevator getting stuck was not helping. America took another sip of coffee. There was no need to panic. America knew that Canada had already pressed the emergency button. That means that they would get out soon. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"America sat down and gave China some Tieguanyin, which would hopefully calm China down. Canada had ADHD, so America pulled out the little gadget that would help. Belarus was having a panic attack. "Hey, Belarus? Take deep breaths." America knew this because this often happened to California and Texas. As Belarus began to calm down, America noticed Russia's breathing was uneven and heavy. Even though they were enemies, America was not about to allow Russia to break down in an elevator with some of his biggest enemies watching. On the contrary to more popular beliefs, America wouldn't make fun of someone because they broke down in front of everyone. He wasn't THAT cruel. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;""Russia, are you okay?" America asked. Russia threw his arms up, knocking into Spain. "Please don't hurt me!" It was from that alone that America knew the problem. Paranoia and probably social anxiety. America gave Russia one of Canada's ADHD toys. It wasn't the best way to help, but it would keep Russia busy for the time being. Russia sat down. By then, mostly everyone in the elevator was either sitting down. Spain was on a call with someone, and it sounded quite heated. "¡¿Cómo que en Baleares se hace un batido con la corteza de una sandía?!" (What do you mean Balearic Islands is making a smoothie with a watermelon rind?!) Spain was em style="line-height: 1.7em; white-space: inherit; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"not /emhappy, that's obvious. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;""Hey Spain, can I have the phone?" America asked. Spain shouted one last thing over the phone before handing the phone to America. "¿Quién es?" (Who's this?) the person on the other side asked. "Soy América. Me dijeron que resolviera todo esto." (I'm America. I was told to work this whole thing out.) America said. "¿Qué ha pasado?" (What happened?) The person on the other end spoke. "Baleares rompió la batidora metiendo una corteza de sandía." (Balearic Islands broke the blender by putting a watermelon rind in it.) That's what Spain was so unhappy about? What a weird thing to be pissed off by. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;""¿Y por qué España estaba tan cabreada por esto?" (And why was Spain so pissed off by this?) America asked, glancing at Spain. "Papá estaba muy triste porque era nuestra última licuadora." (Papa was so unhappy because that was our last blender.) America sighed. He knew how to fix this. "Está arreglado," America said, handing the phone back to Spain. America dug through his bag and took out a blender and handed it to Spain. When America heard snoring, he turned around and smiled. Belarus, Canada, China, Russia and a couple others were sleeping in a pile on Canada's huge blanket. Half of them would not be necessarily happy when they woke, but oh well. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"The rest were literally acting like bats, hanging from the ceiling with their arms wrapped around themselves. "Jesus Christ," America said. "How the fuck do they hang from the ceiling like that?!" Finally, the elevator started moving again, and America sighed with relief. At least it didn't take too much over an hour to get moving again. The ride was a bit slow, but nothing too slow. America sat down criss cross applesauce. America texted a bit with the UK. strong style="line-height: 1.7em; white-space: inherit; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"Where are you?! /strongThe UK's text was repeated over and over again. strong style="line-height: 1.7em; white-space: inherit; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"The elevator got stuck/strong, read America's reply. strong style="line-height: 1.7em; white-space: inherit; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"Is everyone OK? /strongThe UK replied. America put down his phone. /p
p style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; margin: 1.05em 0px; color: #9de0ac; font-size: 13px; background-color: #000000; clear: none !important; border-color: #3c3d44 !important;"That was when America realized he needed to go pee. Really badly./p