Iowa walked along the path leading to her house. Behind her, she had a bright-red wagon with a mysteriously human-shaped, black bag filled with something. Upon catching sight of the bag, Wisconsin walked carefully over to her, beginning to panic slightly.

"Hey Ohio…" Wisconsin started, not realizing he'd just made a fatal mistake. "What do you have in th-"

"Hey! I'm NOT Ohio!" Illinois walked in at that moment and jumped to Wisconsin's (possibly) unneeded rescue.

"Idaho!" He yelled, pulling Wisconsin close to him, much to the blonde's disapproval. "You can't kill Wisconsin! He's my friend and cheese dealer!"

"Illinois…" Iowa growled, clenching her fist. "I am not Idaho. I. Am. Iowa."

"Oh…heheh…" Illinois laughed nervously for a few more moments before Wisconsin pushed him off.

"Sorry about that Iowa. It's just that from behind you look so much like the other two." Wisconsin admitted, then glared at Illinois. "As for him, he's also sorry."

"I am?" The Midwest state looked dumbfounded for a minute, but when he saw Iowa getting her scythe out, he dropped to his knees. "Kidding! I'm only kidding! Sorry Iowa."

"It's fine…" she muttered, looking at the two through her brown bangs. She did look very similar to Ohio and Idaho, though. Because she was constantly out in her cornfields, having long hair only got in the way. She hadn't realized how much confusion it would cause. "Anyway," she started again after snapping out of her daydream. "What was it that you wanted in the first place?" she asked, now sounding much more at peace.

"What could you possibly have in that bag?" Wisconsin asked her with just the right amount of suspicion and 'innocent' curiosity.

"Um…it's…um…" Iowa stammered, searching for a cover story. "It's…CORN! Yeah, that's it! This is a big bag of corn."

"Is it now?" Wisconsin asked. "May I have some?"

"Um…there's ice in it. Yep. I need to keep it fresh so I put ice in it."

"Sure you did." Illinois pursued. "Can't you just leave the ice in and take an ear of corn out."

"Sure!" Iowa said once she'd calmed down. She'd always been perceived as one of the 'dimmer' states, but that certainly wasn't the case here. "Here ya go!" the brunette shouted once she found the corn ear.

"Thanks…"

"DAD! DAD! DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD-" Utah paused to take a breath while running, but was cut off before he could say any more "dad's" by who he was calling for.

"Okay, okay, Utah." America knelt down by the trembling state. "What's the matter? Did you loose your Book of Mormon again?"

"N-no…" he muttered, close to tears. "I-Iowa had a-a-a dead person a-and she was gonna eat it, a-and…" Utah burst out sobbing, obviously not used to such behavior. America held him, trying to calm the young state.

"It's all going to okay, Utah…" the nation cooed. "Iowa just has some…strange habits."

"Like eating people?"

"Calm down Utah!" Utah jumped upon seeing Iowa. "It's not like I just go out and attack people."

"R-really?"

"Of course not!" Iowa assured him. "That would be inhumane. Only if they already died will I allow people to…y'know…eat other people."

"Oooooooh." Utah smiled, feeling much safer to be in the same house as a cannibal. America mumbled something about eating people to begin with being inhumane, something else, Finland, and something to the effect of 'At least she usually eats corn.'

"…of course. It's fine when she fracking eats dead people, but I get in trouble from breaking a fracking vase." New York said scornfully as he watched the ordeal from the top of the stairs.

"Stop using f'acking as a way of cu'sing, Yo'k. That's a way to get natu'al gas out of the g'ound, not a swea' wo'd." Massachusetts scolded, but soon realized New York was…laughing. "What's so funny?"

"When you say 'fracking' it sounds like-"

"COOOOOOOOOOOOOORN!"

A/N

Hello people! I'm alive for this story collection again!~

First off I'd like to apologize for putting these things off for so long. I have like, four plot/idea things on a note on my iPod, but I've been busy with school, so I haven't gotten around to them. The year is almost done though, so I'll get all summer to put some more thingies up.

Also: fracking. It's a shortened term for 'hydraulic fracturing.' It's a process that takes natural gas out of the ground for us to use. Supposedly, there may be some of this happening at the Marcellus Shale deposit in New York, Pennsylvania, and other states. Fracking has been proven to be dangerous, though. There were some people who had a well in their yard, and the water was always clean. They had fracking wells placed not too far away, and suddenly their water was flammable. O.o
I'm not too sure how often this happens though. But, hey, you all just got a current event/science lesson. ;)

"America mumbled something about eating people to begin with being inhumane, something else, Finland..."
Finland eats livers. Don't deny this. Sweden called him his wife one too many times even though we know Finny is Su-san's wife.

I'll get to writing those, but again, suggestions are welcome. Even though I tend to procrastinate…

I should really do something about that…later…