United High (On Puase :3)

Custody Battle

Moscow's POV

I felt very lonely today, Texas was suspended, California, Alaska, Arizona, and Florida are all sick, and New Mexico, NH, and Alabama decided to spend time with their other siblings, which made sense, this entire school year so far they've been with me, but since the others are not here, so there was no point in hanging out with me, I get it. I sat by myself in the Cafeteria in the morning, just playing this weird matching cake game I downloaded, it was sad, I know, but I was bored as shit and had no one around. I probably could've gotten dad to let me hang out with him, but he'll probably make me go find more friends, which is gross because I like my small group of friends, and my medium sized group of acquaintances that were most of the European capitals and some Asian capitals, so making new or more friends will be hard.

I noticed that Jerusalem was on the phone with someone, they looked annoyed so it was probably one of their parents. They had a hijab on with a floral print and wore a long purple turtle neck with a pair of blue jeans, and black sneakers with long socks. 'Dad said to make friends, and I did kind of go through a custody battle myself when I was younger, maybe we can "bond" over that?' I got up and walked over to them. "No mom, dad doesn't drink all day, you know he only drinks when I'm not with him," they said, I waved to them, "hold on mom, the baby bear wants to talk, I'll call you during lunch," Jerusalem ended the call and looked up at me, "really? 'The baby bear'? I have a name," I said, "I know, but I like to call people easy names that I can remember," they replied with a deadpan undertone, "my name is already easy? Mos-cow, moss, cow," "easier as in it helps me remember who is who, there is a lot of people to remember, so instead of thinking or moss-covered cows, baby bear reminds me that you're a bear, and son of the other bear, Russia, even though you look more like USSR if anything, are you sure you're not adopted?" "I forgot you were mean," I glared down at them, pissed off that they thought I was adopted, "thanks, now what do you want? I was on an important phone call with my mom," they continued to have an emotionless expression, "my dad says I should make friends, I already have friends but they're not with me right now so I'm bored, and I know you're going through a custody battle right now, so with my personal divorce experience, I thought we could "bond," or something like that," I was starting to think it was a bad idea to talk with Jerusalem, "oh? Who was Russia married to?" They asked, actually looking interested, "oh, not my dad, my grandpa, for a brief time USSR and Riech were married for (plot) government stuff, that pact thing, I was only 5 or 6 when they got married, and around 7 when they got divorced, Reich kept trying to take custody of my dad, even though he was a grown adult by then, so he could take me, the capital, because apparently that's how everyone thought taking over a country happened. But anyways, Reich failed cause dad was an adult and tried to kidnap me many, many times, dad told me to scream "help, he's trying to kidnap me, he's a pervert," whenever I saw him, I didn't understand as I was only 7 and 8, but I still sort of went through a divorce," "huh, you know what's funny? I don't care about your sad childhood, now go away, I'm busy!" Jerusalem pulled out their phone again and started to scroll, possibly calling their dad. 'Such a dick, at least their parents are nice, when they're not around each other,' I finally gave up on trying to be their friend and walked back over to where I was sitting, but before I could sit down, I heard Jerusalem sigh and call to me, "hold on, I'm sorry, I'm just stressed, we can talk, or something," Jerusalem walked over to me and we both sat down, the phone call forgotten. We chatted for a while and all seemed good, they actually seemed to be nice, they were just upset because of her parents. We talked all throughout the entire morning until break ended.

~Time Skip~

I sat in папа's class room, waiting for his work shift to be over as I did some homework, just like I did everyday, unless Texas wanted to hang out. "So, Moscow, your teachers told me that you were more quiet today, what's wrong? Is it Texas?" Папа asked, I looked up at him before I said, "uh, sort of, Cali, Alaska, Florida, and Arizona are all sick, Texas is suspended, but you knew that, and NM, NH, and Alabama wanted to hang out with their siblings, so I was alone all day, I tried to talk to Jerusalem, but they didn't want to talk to me," "aw, sorry bud, hopefully your friends come back, it'll be ok," папа patted my head and went back to his dumb papers. The clock hit 5 pm and папа finally took me home, I didn't want to be outside anymore, I was ready to be anti-social again and watch videos in my room. "Oh, Moscow, before you go to your room, I bought you that Sonic game you wanted, what was it called? Sonic Frontiers? It's on your computer already so no need to download anything, how come you decided you like Sonic now?" Папа said before I could disappear, "oh, uh, London showed me, he liked it and said I would like it too, apparently it's popular in our country as well," I replied, "oh, alright, well have fun being alone my cub, dinner will be ready at 6:30," I walked upstairs to my room and curled up on my bed, wrapping the blankets around myself while I watched some Sonic comics as I wanted to know more about it before playing Sonic Frontiers. There was this one video with Sonic and this black and red hedgehog on the thumbnail, 'what the fuck is Sonadow??? (Haha I've seen so much Sonadow on YouTube that I no longer am phased by it lol, i am always on the wrong side of the internet) it must be the name of the black hedgehog, probably Sonics brother or something, why the fuck does he have red eyeliner'. I clicked on the video and watched half an hour of 2 hedgehogs being all lovely dovey and making out. I needed to stay off the internet for a while, especially the sonic side, maybe I'll just play the game and figure everything out myself.

At 6:30, папа called me down for dinner. I puased my game and went down to see a table full of food, a mix of Traditional Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian foods. "Who's coming over?" I asked папа as I sat in my spot, "Japan, NK, SK, China, and their kids, I wanted you to connect with the capitals again as it's been a while since you've seen them," папа explained as he set out plates and silverware, "alright папа, I'll interact with them, I guess," the door bell rang and папаhad me answer it.

"Good afternoon Moscow, how are you?" Japan said when I opened the door, I nodded to him and moved out of the way so the 8 of them could enter. Everyone sat at the table and I was forced to sit with the other capitals and we sat in silence as we ate, only the adults were speaking. The only thing I remember of the other capitals was that Beijing was a pervert, Pyongyang was a crybaby, Seoul acted just like his dad, and Tokyo was mute, which wasn't much to base a conversation off of. "So, uh, how's life?" Seoul asked as he stuffed his face full of beef from a bowl of Korean Bibimbap, "uh, fine, I guess," I said, just looking down at my food, "Tokyo asked if Texas is your boyfriend," Seoul said, I looked up but before I coukd say anything, Pyongyang piped up, "yeah, I wanna know that too!" Beijing just glared at me, "no, he's not my boyfriend! He's just my friend," I sighed, I didn't want to have this conversation because it was stupid. "I don't by it," Pyongyang said, giving me an accusatory look, even though he looked lind of ridiculous with his little tiger ears, "I'm telling the truth, I'm only friends with him," I argued, "now shut up, I don't want to have this conversation with you four," I looked back down at my food and tuned out everyone around me until dinner was finished.

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My head hurts ._. Also I remember when I read Life of Pi, it was kind of boring imo, just not my cup of tea, I like fantasy, also Jerusalem is just emo so they hate everything, like me irl✌️also Palestine and Isreal weren't married, just shared custody because they have the same capital and I thought it would be hard to make two different Jerusalems when it could just be one