States Oneshots (Jersey-centric)

Gov is out, crab rave

It was a shit day. Gov was out, and so was the entirety of the West and Midwest, the people who usually (attempted) to keep chaos from happening. Now, it was just the Northeast and the South. Also Maine and Virginia were out, so that was something. A bad thing, but something.

New Jersey was avoiding everything in his room, putting on music. He learned how to block everything out from a young age, because he totally didn't grow up in a dysfunctional family, totally not.

Texas was arguing with the other Southern states about Football, Florida and Louisiana were doing something stupid, the Northeast were in their rooms. For some reason, that gave the Southerners the audacity to think they own the place.

Of course, the Northeast was gonna put them in their place. They'd just wait till later to do that. It wasn't hard to do, the south either had daddy issues or immediate obedience tendencies.

Jersey was walking down the hall to get food, when one of Florida's kids, Orlando, ran at him and hugged him, the girl's arms around his body. Jersey was stunned, but not repulsed, as he knew that Orla wasn't a problem for them. It was when Mia (Miami) got involved that it was a problem.

"How was your day, uncle Jersey?" she asked sweetly, and Jersey gave her a soft smile "It's being going good, honey. Where's your dad?" he asks, leaning down slightly, amd Orlando huffs, folding her arms.

"He's out with Uncle Louisiana." she says, and Jersey nods, offering for her to stay in his room. She accepted the offer, and they went to his room.

Jersey's room was small, but... comfortable? He had posters everywhere, his room was surprisingly neat, and he had a desk with a circle bed, along with shelves with books on them. Orla leaned against Jersey, listening to him breath.

New York and Texas are heard fighting a couple minutes later, and it's pretty clear what about; who's more dominant and who owns the place. The answer should be pretty clear, it's New York.

His arrogance and confidence, with attitude and general personality and appearance alone, it would be clear to anyone who wasn't dumb. But, of course, Texas is dumb.

New Jersey shares his food with Orla, who accepts and is very grateful, while York is talking to Texas out in the hall, giving him a lecture about something. Probably about respecting his elders since the south values respect oh so much.

He's not worried about it, but he can tell by the look on Orla's face that she is, and he distracts her by reading to her. Despite being 13, she preferred to have him read to her. Something about his voice. He could see why, as he bothered New York day and night to read to him when they were younger.

Eventually, Tex gave up the fight, and Orlando was sleeping against New Jersey, who carefully set her on his bed and tucked her in. He stayed by her, working, occasionally getting up to snuggle with her a bit when she seemed to be waking up.

He didn't want to deal with Orlando if she woke up. No one did.

A/N: I know I kinda disappeared but I'm back. And I have more useless texting ideas and everything, so ye. This took me a lot longer because life is hectic. Hope it's something, decided to introduce one of Florida's kids.

Might do a thing with the cities and a couple other characters where I make up questions for stuff? Idk, it's pretty weird. Very weird, actually. But yeah, Happy Halloween 🎃, I know that I'm a day late but I been busy.