His First Love

Matthew always loved maple syrup. It's deliciously sweet taste, pleasant aroma and beautiful golden brown color had captivated him for as long as he could remember. However, it wasn't until he was about five that he fully appreciated how sticky syrup truly was. It was on a Tuesday; Alfred had Arthur's full attention after a loud crash was heard in the dining room where Arthur's antique tea set used to be. Baby Canada took this as an invitation to do something he had wanted to do for a whole week (a very long time for a five year old)! He had smelled syrup, seen syrup, tasted syrup, licked syrup but he had never DRANK syrup. Now was his chance! He grabbed the bottle and wrestled with the cap until it screwed off. The Canadian began to drink the syrup but what started as a simple sip of maple syrup turned into a mission. Matthew was no longer just trying to drink the maple syrup but was determined to cover himself entirely in the sticky, sweet and sugary substance. When England finally came into the kitchen to get a broom after hollering at Alfred for ten minutes Baby Canada had successfully covered himself in maple syrup, a look of complete satisfaction glued to his face. Matthew refused to get up from the seat claiming that he was "stuck" to his chair even though he knew he could get up if he wanted to. Arthur was so fed up with both of them he just went up to his bedroom and wept on the phone to France, nagging him about how he never helps him with America and Canada.

The brothers celebrated their day off from school with cartoons and animal crackers. By the time France came back from work England was drunk and Matthew was a little mosaic. Alfred had decided it was a good idea to take the glass from the tea cups he had broken and put them all over his very sticky brother (who still "could not move" from his chair). Francis eventually had to force Matthew to get off the chair and take a bath. After much soaking and desperate scrubbing Baby Canada was mostly clean…that is for his hair. France was devastated by Canada's now shaved head and England was devastated by his now shattered antique tea set but neither seemed that concerned by Canada being covered in glass at first. The incident resulted in England and France getting into a huge argument about setting their priorities in order. For a week America's PS2 was taken away while Canada lost his maple syrup privileges. To this day that is one of Canada's favorite childhood memories. Although this sticky memory is not at all alone, Matthew had many other maple syrup adventures.

There was that time England purchased several Super-Sized bottles of Maple Syrup because it was on sale and Canada had taken the opportunity to cover his bedroom in with maple syrup so he could learn what it felt like to "live inside maple syrup". Along with that other time he bathed in maple syrup. He also tried to make a meal ENTIRELY out of maple syrup. There was also that phase he went through where he was convinced that maple syrup would be THE WAY OF THE FUTURE, THE NEW GREEN ENERGY! Matthew destroyed the lawn mower and did substantial damage to the car with this new green fuel source of his. As a child Canada and Maple Syrup were inseparable. If Maple Syrup could talk they would have been the best of friends.