Prologue

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America pov.

'Alright let's get this over with.' I thought to myself. I walked out of my room with my work suit on, and walked to the living room to find NATO, DC, CDC, NASA, the territories, and the states gathered there.

"Morning guys, how did you all sleep?" I asked my kids.

"We slept fine dad, we should be asking you that. You have dark circles under your eyes, and your stance is slouched slightly." DC spoke up, and I saw some of the others nod in agreement.

"I'm fine DC, it's nothing to worry about." I assured her. "Now, NATO I need you to come with me, UN needs us to attend a meeting, I'll give you more information in the car, go get ready quickly so you have time to eat breakfast." I told my daughter.

"Ok dad." She responded and ran to her room. I nodded and started on breakfast and finished cooking everything in a few minutes I grabbed the plates and sat them on the table with the food.

"Alright everyone, breakfast!!" I called out to everyone. They scrambled for the table and NATO joined us not long after everyone had sat down. Once everyone finished Louisiana took care of the dishes, and Delaware took the rest of his siblings back to the living room, to start the homeschooling process with DC, NASA, and CDC. I smiled proudly at them, and nudged NATO towards the door. She got the hint and slowly walked in that direction. Once we reached the car I slid into the driver's seat and NATO sat in passenger.

"So what's this one for? UN almost never asks for me that specifically." She questioned.

"Yeah, I thought that was weird, but then I looked at the list of Countries attending and saw that Canada and Mexico were on the list as well, along with BRICS, ASEAN, FVEY, and EU." I told her.

"So, I'm not the only organization there? That's cool, but I'm still worried about you dad." She told me.

"I know, but let's try to get this over with as soon as possible." I told her, she nodded and welcomed the silence of the ride. Once we reached the building, I parked the car and got out, NATO mirroring my actions. We walked inside and walked into the meeting room, a bit earlier than some of the others. We waited for a bit before some of the countries started to walk in for the meeting. Pretty soon we were all waiting for the UN to show. My phone started to ring and I checked the caller ID, I immediately passed it to NATO and she got the hint. She quickly and quietly made her way out or the room to answer her siblings. No one paid any attention to her sudden disappearance and that was a good thing, once the call ended she came back and wrote something down before passing it to me. I opened the note.

'The homeschooling is going well, DC is taking a nap, and somehow convinced Florida to take one as well, Texas, wanted to go hunting so they sent him off with Marine, CDC is working on lunch and everyone else is hanging out with each other.'

I nodded to NATO and she nodded back, I shoved the note into my pockets right as UN walked in.

"Alright, now that everyone's here let's get down to business." UN said, walking to the front of the room. "I gathered you all here for a proposal, a social experiment if you will, everyone will be grouped with different countries of my choosing, and you have to spend a year together, if the parties in other households vote to remove someone from that particular house they will be moved into a different household and if that household votes them out they will no longer participate in the experiment, the reason the organizations were involved in the meeting is to maintain peace in the households of the hosting country and the guests. NATO, I believe you could manage with a large group, yes?" UN asked my daughter.

"Depends on the size of the group sir." She responded quickly and respectfully. I beamed proudly, not showing it outwardly.

"Alright then, America you're housing; Canada, Mexico, France, United Kingdom, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Japan, Belarus, Australia,  and New Zealand. " UN told us, and NATO wrote down the group members name's and other notes. I stopped paying attention to the meeting and inwardly panicked, 'They were going to find out about my kids, they're gonna find out about my babies.' I thought. NATO tapped my shoulder so I could catch the tail end of the speech. "Everyone will return in two days with a year's worth of clothing and other essentials." UN finished.

NATO led me out of the meeting room and down to our car, with her at the wheel and me in passenger.

"So, do we tell the others that we're going to have company?" NATO asked.

"Yea, I'm just glad that the second house was finished a while ago, and no one is using it." I told her.

"Ok, though I'm pretty sure that Alaska might get clingy, because of Russia though." She told me, I nodded and said the same about Hawaii. She giggled lightly and agreed. Once we pulled in the driveway, I saw Texas riding his horse round the house. He noticed us as well and strode up to us.

"Hey, how was the meeting?" He asked.

"It went well, can you get your siblings and have them gather in the living room please." I told him, he nodded and rode back to the house, and fired a flare into the night sky. We got out of the car and walked inside. Once we were inside I looked at the living room all of my kids are there.

"Why are we here dad? If Texas fired his flare it must have been important." Washington spoke up.

"Yea, its a big change, a temporary one, but its big." NATO said, joining her siblings on the couch.

"Alright, in two days, there will be a total of 12 other countries staying with us, you all remember Canada and Mexico right?" I asked, everyone nodded. "Well they're staying with us, along with; France, United Kingdom, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Japan, Belarus, Australia, and New Zealand. I will have them stay in the second house with Canada and Mexico in this one." I told my kids.

"So we have two days to prepare everything don't we dad, that house doesn't have the appliances or any bedding of any kind, two days isn't a lot of time, and this house is big enough for everyone, and I think most of the rooms aren't occupied because most of us share rooms anyway." NASA spoke up, I sighed knowing that what he said was true.

"Alright, that's fine. Now it's time for bed, I'll set up the rooms for the others and have everything prepared." I told them, and sent them to bed. NATO, NASA, CDC and the Military branches stayed back. "You guys want to help me don't you?" I asked them.

"Yup, and we know how you like things set up when you have guests over, which is rare, and mostly only Uncle Canada and Aunt Mexico." NASA told me with his siblings agreeing to the statement. I let out a small laugh and gave them their assignments for getting the house ready.

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