✤ twenty six; (you can't take it anywhere)

[windmill]

[The phone is picked up. For a while, there's silence and the sound of a cigarette being lit. And then,]

Happy Birthday, Canada. Even if it's here, I wish y'the best. Y'deserve it. All of it.

[A long pause, and then Netherlands' languid tone turns hard and determined.]

Listen th'fuck up! Today's Canada Appreciation Day because I goddamn say so!

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[bornwithskison]

[STARING.

AT THIS

FROM HIS BACK YARD.

Also, don't mind the puppy running up to tug on the ends of that scarf that dangle down.]

[windmill]

[ARRANGING HIS PAPERS

LOOKING SMUG WITH HIMSE--

what's tugging on his beautiful Canada Scarf?! he looks down.] --Ah. Hey. What're you doin' over here? [talking to the puppy. he hasn't noticed Norway yet.]

[bornwithskison]

[tug, tug, grrr.

Translation: PLAY WITH ME.]

[windmill]

[makes sure the pamphlets are out of reach for the puppy and tugs back on the scarf.] We can play s'long as you don't rip it...

[wafels]

*Belgium blinks. She knows that her brother and Canada are close, but...*

...boy, you really went all-in, huh?

[windmill]

[hands her a pamphlet]

[wafels]

*Takes... the pamphlet?

Opens the pamphlet.* Did you draw all this on your own?

[windmill]

[a loooooooooooong pause

he just

nods.]

[commie_island]

[Waling by because. Hey, someone else noticing Canada...what is this craziness?]

Nice display you got there. Mattie see it yet?

[windmill]

[hell yeah he notices Canada.]

Nah. S'a... surprise... kinda. [seems sort of embarrassed.]

[commie_island]

[Just grins still. Cuba=friendly unless America]

Bet he'll like it. Most people can't even remember who he is half the time. ..Idiots.

[He remembers him...he's just blinded by the hatred of America...totally different.]

[windmill]

[nods.] America's a good guy, but he's so obnoxious that he steals th'spotlight a lot. [a shrug, and he shuffles the pamphlets.] So I'm doin' this.

[paaaause] How're you settlin' in here, anyway?

[vaimoksein]

[Passing by with two boxes and Hana-Tamago in tow.... and have a wave!]

Moi, Hollanti! Is this for Canada?

[LOOK, HE REMEMBERED. That counts more than the fact that his question was a little too obvious, right?]

[windmill]

[holy hell you remembered] --ja. Ja, it is. Lots 'a people just kinda... I guess he slips their mind, dunno why. Thought I'd do this.

[vaimoksein]

[Forgotten people stick together-- Okay, it's because it's his birthday and Finland would feel like a failure if he forgot it. Can you tell that he's memorized them all?]

That's really nice of you! I was just about to go to his and Hong Kong's house to give them their presents.

[windmill]

[s-so cute, Finland]

-oh. [DIDN'T REMEMBER/KNOW ABOUT HONG KONG AT ALL, SORRY] Th'one you got for Canada is better, right? [may or may not be looming.]

[rhymes_with_wit]

[Grins and has to laugh when she see's it. And is also wearing red and white. Whoo, Canada day!]

Happy Canada day.

[windmill]

Happy Canada Day! [a rare grin. he still likes you a bunch.]

[rhymes_with_wit]

[Hooray. Bonus points for being Canada's only citizen]

How's the day going?

[Picking up a brochure to look in it]

Drilling some education into peoples heads I take it.

[windmill]

Goin' good. What d'you think of it? Did I get anything wrong? [he knows everything he wrote is correct. HE PAYS ATTENTION, OKAY]