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"At least I was cute, si?" Florida said more than asked with the sweetest, most innocent smile he could manage. He'd always been into his little misadventures as a child and there had been times he'd nearly driven their boss crazy running off without notice and returning whenever he was done fighting pirates or helping some marine creatures migrate. Or at least those were the sorts of stories he would tell them when he came home. It was hard to tell how much of it had been true or Rutilio's wild imagination. He had always sworn he could talk to aquatic creatures in a way eerily reminiscent of how England told everyone he could see magical beings.

"I was not that cute!" Florida objected when his cheek got pinched and blushed faintly, but couldn't resist chuckling at the big brother like gesture. "My classes, huh? Um... I think I like science best, but I wish it wasn't so early in the morning. Math was horrible because I don't have space shuttles anymore." Somehow those two facts correlated in his mind. "It was also a little weird because a horse invaded our classroom... with England."

Landon jogged up to the two gulf neighbors, his hands full of desserts he had snagged from the appropriate table. He had only fallen behind because of his love for licorice and chocolates, but it seemed that his delay had led to Florida's starting a conversation with another nation he had seen only in propaganda ads, and not very nice ones at that.

"Hey! Quit leaving me behind, bro!" he exclaimed too loudly with an expression of hurt. "Who's your friend here?" he asked, indicating the tall Hispanic.

"And since you were so quick to abandon me, I guess that means you don't want to join me and Kartlos on an adeventure." He frowned. "I was planning on going to that new beach the admins discovered not too far away from here, too, and showing you all up in a surf-off! It's perfect for all that too, I heard; it's got white-sand beaches, fantastic tidepools, and all the water you can imagine!" California's voice had risen considerably as he spoke about the beach, and his eyes sparkled with eagerness. He didn't care how many nations cast funny glances his way.

Then he paused. "Wait a minute; how exactly are we going to get there in time?" Landon asked the two. He knew he didn't have a car, and the only other way he could imagined getting there wuickly was by that horse England was riding.
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||~You wish You were the Golden State~||

Before Florida could tell Cuba more details on the mysterious horse that had invaded their classrooms he noticed California running up to them with plenty of treats in hand.

"Quit being slow. My retirement community is faster than you sometimes," Rutilio responded to California's complaint with a grin, not seeming too worried about his little brother being sore at him. Especially since the moment said little brother started talking about visiting the beach he got all sparkly eyed and hyper. Sometimes he reminded the Floridian of an eager, well meaning even if slightly troublesome puppy. "No, no, I will go with you! I want to surf, too!"

Florida glanced at Juan and chuckled at the confused look on his face. "Alta has changed a lot since he was a baby, si~?" he said more than asked, knowing if they had ever met before it was probably when Landon was still an itty bitty thing living with Mexico.

“Yeah. Just who are you again? You haven’t introduced yourself yet.” Alta California blinked blankly and innocently up at the Hispanic nation. By the looks of him, he was a swarthy one, used to pirating and living at sea. He took a guess. “Cuba?”

To Rutilio, Landon lit on fire. “Hey! I was hungry, ya know! If you don’t eat a little bit of sugar, I’m going to wipe the seafloor with you when we go surfing!” he hollered unnecessarily loudly. Despite having already eaten just last period, California had a tendency to metabolize fast, hence his constant energy.
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||~You wish You were the Golden State~||

Florida would have loved to make a comment about California probably gaining weight because of his crazy eating habits, but he fully believed his brother about his metabolism considering he was unfortunately proven to be skinnier than Rutilio in a recent physical