Summer Solstice

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June 21st and you were preparing for Litha with theAllies. They knew the summer solstice was coming and as such had cometo help you prepare. They knew it was one of the longest days for youand wanted to help. As such they had come over, seeing as they cameover every now and then even if there was no festival just like youwould visit any one of them you had gotten a bigger bed so all of youcould sleep comfortably.


"You know, seems like this is the time everyone gets married."Alfred said as he saw the fourth wedding planning as Matthew noddedin agreement.


"Well June is named for the goddess of marriage Juno, so to marriedon this month is to be blessed by her, but yes; there is a lot ofplanning for a wedding on one specific day." Arthur pointed out asAlfred looked at him raising a blonde brow. "What? It's true." Hesaid as you giggled.


"Close Arthur, the reason everyone is planning their weddings fortomorrow is because the summer solstice celebrates the marriagebetween air and earth; Zephyr and Terra. It is the most common timefor people to marry on the island, actually it is sixty nine percentof weddings each year." You point out as they blink at you, trueyour island is much smaller than any of their countries but such ahigh percentage of weddings on one specific day is no coincidence nomatter how small or big the number.


Wrapping his arms around your waist Francis gave one of his dramaticsighs, "ah! L'amour (Love!) It sings to me on such a day!" Hecontinued on as you were giggling horribly leaning against Ivan whowas on your other side to Francis.


"Your so silly!" You giggled as Ivan patted your (hair color)head gently.


When all of you are getting ready for bed that night you strechhappily, "tomorrow is the longest day of the year, so I suggest youall get a good night sleep." You teased giving all of them a kissgoodnight as you cuddled, sleeping between Arthur and Alfred, on theother side of Alfred was Ivan and Matthew and the other side ofArthur Francis and Yao.


It is right before dawn you wake up, going to make them breakfast andgive them a bit longer to sleep. After breakfast the festivitiesdon't start until evening so you have the rest of the day to cuddleand enjoy everyone's company which has them all lounging around andresting. You loved the festivals but you also liked about them thatyou could usually have a day off from being a nation.


You make an early dinner so you can enjoy the festivities, as you haddeveloped a taste for their cuisine. You make broschet for appetizer,duck with orange relish with a side of poutine, some birch beer andfor dessert lemon tea with candied ginger.


After finishing your meal you all went to enjoy the festival, "whatis that, aru?" Yao asked motioning to a couple both girls wearing awreath of flowers in their hair, one was wearing marigolds and theother white roses.


"They are one of the couples who married," you explained with asmile, "on Litha couples who marry will either wear a wreath offlowers or a sash of ivy to show that they were one of the ones whomarried." You explained with a smile, "usually it is the maleswearing the ivy and the girls wearing flowers but it isn't unheard offor those to be switched." You added with that adorable thinkingexpression on your chubby face that they all adored.


Tugging them foreword you wanted to dance with them, first dancingwith Alfred who happened to be the closest, then Ivan, Francis,Arthur, Matthew and finally Yao. As you danced with one the othersyou were not dancing with would watch you with slight smiles as theywatched your curvy body move with ease as you moved around holdingtightly to your partners hands.


As the sun set and it got darker you tugged them to a field where youall sat, you leaned half on Ivan's chest and half on Matthew's, Yaoand Alfred each resting their head on your lap while Arthur andFrancis both sat close to your legs their own intertwining withyours.


You had already told them about the fireworks your scientist havemade and you couldn't wait to let them see the fireworks. Technicallythey were liaisons from Russia, America, Canada, France, England, andChina and you treated foreign dignitaries well.


The first colors to go off were silver and gold, to show Artemis andApollo. The next was blueish white and purple to represent your ownflag. Than was theirs; first it was red, white and blue, than red andwhite, than red white and blue again. Followed by red and gold thantwo times as much in one time of red white and blue. The thing wasRussia, America, France, and England flags were all red white andblue while Canada was red and white and China was gold and red.Meaning there was much more red white and blue to show for the factthere was twice as much than the others.


They thank you, all giving you a kiss before the seven of you headhome. You had been awake all day on the longest day of the year anddespite not doing much during the day the festival had taken a lotout of all of you and you were dead on your feet. You barely botheredchanging into pajamas before crawling into bed, barely letting out ableary 'good night' when they joined you and not sure at all whichlanguage you said it in.


The six men smiled at how adorably child like you were when so tired,kissing either your forehead or cheek they all went to sleep as well,holding you close.


I kind ofcheated with dinner since birch beer is Pennsylvania Dutch and assuch technically German. But hell, Americais a land of immigrants which means very few things are evertechnically American. We just aren't about that life. This is short.I'm sorry.

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