Scotland stood outside the door that marked the territory of the southern states of America. All other entry's into their half of the mansion had been barricaded and blocked off, leaving just this door. He hesitated for a second as his hand touched the door handle. He chuckled to himself inside his head, 'why would I be scared? It's just a bunch of kids.' He thought. But the blood and handmade weapons littered around the mansion said otherwise. He decided he needed to do something about it and then opens the sturdy door.

The first thing Scotland saw was a three knives directed towards him. The faces at the other sides of the weapons looked shocked. "Scotland?" One who he identified as Tennessee asked, confused.

"In the flesh lad, now would you kindly lower your weapons." He said calm as ever. Tenn lowered his weapon, followed by the two others he recognized as Alabama and Arizona. "why what are you doing here?" Asked Tennessee. "Uncle Nada and Aussie got a little concerned when you guys started to form gangs and attack each other." Scotland said plainly. Tennessee scoffed, "I don't know if I'd call,them gangs..." He trailed off. Scotland sighed, "look lads, could you just tell me why you decided to attack each other, last time I was here you all got along all too well." Alabama chimed in, "Georgia just disappeared, then suddenly the Yankees start to get aggressive. The last straw was Nevada. He was pretending nothing was wrong, and I swear I saw him laugh when we were talking about how to find Georgia. Suddenly, they block off half the house and claim we can't leave it. Anytime we try," Alabama slaps his hands together, "they come after us."

Scotland was stunned. The house had been so peaceful and happy when he had last been there. The states got along in perfect harmony, aside from standard sibling bickering. But he felt like this story had a few gaps. Scotland turned around without saying a word to the states, and enters the no mans land that was the middle of the house. He was gonna talk to the north about this.

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So I have had trouble with writing this story recently. The reason for my long delay wasn't because I had given up on the story, it was because I couldn't get a satisfying chapter done. It felt like whatever I wrote wasn't presentable or didn't make sense. I have like 30 outcomes for chapter 6 which I scrapped. I wouldn't call it writers block since I'm able to come up with ideas, I.just can't execute them. That's also why the chapter have been shorter recently. I've cut away sections of them. So I think I have two solutions. Either A, I write a short one or two section chapter a week, but I also try to write a few side stories. Or B, I write longer chapters but they're realised every 2 weeks. Please comment which you prefer. Also, side note. I'm considering writing another state humans story about Georgia and everyone else. But its probably gonna be pretty low effort and just kind of written so I can use those ideas. The good news is I should have more time to work now that schools out. Also what do votes do?