just out for a nice long walk... mostly to see if she can find her Latvia. She has been worried about her since she came since she had no_

idea where the younger girl was.

walks along, mind pretty blank for a change except for a notion of what he's on the hunt for. Pauses for a second at the woman in front of

him. "..."

turns her head a bit as she looks around. She spots the oddly familiar boy and decides that it would probably be a good idea to talk to him.

"Hello," she said walking a bit towards him.

stares and doesn't know why he thinks he knows her. "Hello... have we met? Th-that probably sounds silly b-but you seem familiar.."

smiles a bit. "I'm pretty sure we haven't since I've never seen such a cute boy like you around here, but I'm pretty sure I know you a bit_

indirectly. Do you happen to know an Eduard?"

blushes at being called cute. Lights up when she mentions Eduard, "Yes, Eduard is my neighbor," he says as he nods, though neighbor is an

understatement.

giggles a bit. Oh how she loved to see others blush. "Are you Latvia then?"

confused how she knows Eduard, "Yes, I am. Who are you?"

points at herself like it helps what she'll say next. "I'm Evelin von Bock."

processes that. "So.. you're like his sister? W-wait he didn't have a civil war did he?" Is confused.

about that first one for a moment. "I guess it kind of makes me his sister... in a weird way. But, no, I'm not in a civil war so you don't_

have to worry about that. I'm his counterpart from another world if that's the best way to phrase it."

goes from being confused to worried and now back to confused. "From another world? Wh-what kind of world?"

truly resisting trying to hug him. "A world where all the nations are the opposite gender from yours."

about this. Light goes off. "S-so there's another me too? O-one that's a girl?" Wonders what that would look like.

nods. "Yep, she's cute too~"

blushes, "Oh uh thank you... er I guess that doesn't have anything to do with me." Thinks he looks simple and plain, "That's nice."

's control somewhat breaks. She hugs him. "You're both so cute~"

surprised, "Ah um I-I-- th-thank you," he says even thought he doesn't believe her. Her hugs back. "I-it's nice to meet you."

he probably should get used to this. She likes hugging even if she doesn't admit it. She lets go of him. "It's nice to meet you as well._

Anyways, what were you doing before I interrupted you?"

straightens himself out. "Oh, I was going to get some groceries... what about you?"

rubs the back of her neck a bit. "I've been doing some hopeful searching, and I'm done with that for now."

, "hopeful searching?"

laughs meekly. "For a time, I thought I was the only Baltic here."

that sounds sad. "Oh, so you haven't seen any of the others, then?"

nods. "Ja, I even tried to call. I think my sisters are still back home." She smiles again. "But I found you, so it's better now."

"I probably won't be much of a replacement... but if you get lonely--and no one else is around... I would keep you company."

pats his head. "I'm not looking for replacements. I just want to know I'm not the only one here. I'm not so much lonely as I am worried._

Though I would enjoy your company."

"Oh, well you're probably right... I'm probably not going to be very interesting..."

realizes he didn't ask an important question, "you guys don't switch places right? Eduard is still here somewhere?"

frowns at him for saying that first part. "Of course you'll be interesting." She thinks. "No, I've met Thora and Iceland here, and Sweden_

told me that Astrid's here. I'm pretty sure that the nations I know are coming here and not that we are switching places."

it's nice of her to say that. "Oh, that's good, it must be hard to just... be in a different world like that."

shrugs. "Somewhat. I've gotten used to everything pretty easily."

ponders that. "Oh, well that's good." Thinks it's hard to get over that she's also Estonia.

been really accepting to the thought of two being the same country by now. She nods. "It's good that things here aren't too different than_

at home. It would have been harder to get use to all of this if the worlds didn't have many similarities."

"Yeah? So it's basically the same except for the genders?"

"For the most part. A few other differences here and there, but mostly it's the gender that makes the the major differences."

nods. "Oh, that's not such a big deal though. D-did you bring the female Russia with you...? O-or the male Belarus?"

shrugs. "I haven't seen either of them." And she would not like to think of a male Russia being here. Though she's felt that presence around

anyways

fidgets a little, "Th-that's good.. one of each of them is enough.."

nods to that. "As long as they don't come round soon." She doesn't know if she would have the courage to go against a male Russia...

nods back, "Y-yeah... I h-haven't seen either in a while."

smiles. "Good. Anyways, you were going to get groceries, right?"

"Hm? Oh right, ja."

| "May I come with you?" She did run out of lettuce again.

"Oh yes, o-of course, I'd like that."

giggles a bit. "So cute~" She pauses a bit. "Let's go then~"

blushes again "..." Starts walking toward the grocery store.

just smiles as she follows him. She mostly is watching him a bit to spot any differences (besides the obvious ones) between her Latvia and_

the one in front of her.

ambles along, looking back at Eve occasionally. "It's just up ahead..."

nods. Done with trying to find differences, she takes longer strides to easily get next to Latvia.

reflexively grabs Eve's hand now that they're walking side by side.

smiles at him. She is glad that he's pretty similar to her Latvia back home.

walks along, "Are their all the same buildings in your world?"

looks around. "Yes. It seems from just the building that this world isn't any different from where I'm from."

about that. "Oh, s-so I guess you know where we're going?"

nods. "I can at least make a guess. I can't predict what differences can be in the mind. For all I know, you could be leading me to a_

place I'm not expecting."

supposes that's true. "Ah. I'm thinking that one," he says pointing with his free hand.

looks towards where he was showing. "Well, then that isn't a difference."

"Ah okay," and walks into the store with Eve.

looks around before looking back at him. "So, what did you need?"

"I needed milk and sugar."

nods. "Okay then." She bends over to pick up a basket. "I need a few heads of lettuce."

"Oh, let's get that first then since it's just over there."

nods again as they walk over before grabbing three heads of lettuce. "Sugar next, right?"

nods back, "Mhm."

pulls him along, which probably looks a little silly to anyone who was in the store. "What are you thinking of making with the milk and_

sugar?"

does not fight being pulled. "I was going to make Buberts."

probably doesn't notice she is pulling. She thinks for a moment. "Oh, those~ That sounds good."

"Yeah, I haven't had any in a while." Continues being pulled.

stops as they get to the sugar. "Then you should definably make them."

smiles and picks up a box of sugar. "Ja, did you want to h-have some with me?"

(definitely... definably? What is math doing to me?))

smiles back. "It would be nice... if you don't mind that is."

blushes a little, "Of course not, i-it would be a good opportunity to know you better... I-I mean since we just met. N-not like uh... yeah."

just giggles a little. "Yes, it would be. Meeting the other versions has been pleasant so far, and I haven't had buberts in a while."

stares ahead. "Have you met a lot of us?"

a bit. "A few. Besides you, I've met Peter, Sweden, Iceland, and Francis as far as I know." She probably has met more without realizing.

nods along while she lists them off. ".....Um I-I'm not sure how to ask this... b-but is your France like our France?"

nods. "Yes, they are very similar."

at a loss for how that would seem. "Huh... Y-your world seems like an interesting place..."

doesn't mind France much. "You think so? It really isn't much different than here."

nods "Maybe I'm just picturing it wrong..."

"What are you picturing it as then?"

mulls it over, "Well... how do I put this... I suppose it would just be foreign to me to seeing girl nations doing what the boy nations here

do..."

hums at that while nodding. "Well, I guess it's the same way the other way around. It's just what we are used to I guess."

considers that. "That's true."

"And we aren't exactly the same, so it probably fixes any problems that couldn't be possible between the two worlds anyways."

nods "Oh okay. Maybe it'll all make more sense o-once I've met more of you guys."

nods back. "It probably will." She is guessing somewhat herself.

continues to think about this and starts walking toward the milk.

follows obediently. She'll let the other think as she gets to look around more.

looks back at her to make sure she's there and keeps going until he gets to the milk. Grabs some. "D-did you want to get anything else?"

wouldn't just leave. What if he was accident prone like her Latvia? "No, I think I'm fine."

"Me either, guess we can go then."

nods as she turns to go towards the front of the store.

follows after Evelin.

gets to the front of the store before buying her things. Don't mind if the idle chat she has with the cashier seems like she's flirting.

reminds himself that it isn't any of his business if Eve flirts with a cashier but still feels weird about it.

probably doesn't even realize she's flirting. She takes her items as she waits for Latvia to finish.

buys his items with limited conversation and joins Eve.

takes his hand unconsciously. "Shall we go?"

holds her hand back and nods. "Yeah."

leads the way as they leave before slowing down. She wasn't exactly sure if all the houses were in the same place that she thought they were

.

looks over at Evelin. "...So uh... where are we going?"

shrugs. "I'm not sure. Either of our houses will be fine..."

about it. "I think mine is closer. B-but we could go to yours if you'd rather!"

pauses a bit. "We can go to your house. I haven't been there in a while anyways."

nods "Okay."

points in the direction she remembers Latvia's house being. "This way right?

"

nods "Yeah." He begins to walk toward his house.

walks next to him. "Good, I hoping it was this way."

gets momentarily ruffled, "I-I'm not sure it's really together or anything.. It might be messy"

nods. "I don't mind. As long as it's walkable, it should be fine."

"Oh y-yeah it should be." Doesn't think he has enough stuff for it to be that bad.

nods once more. It wasn't like she didn't make messes, especailly on work desks.