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the rain [🇲🇾🇮🇩🇵🇭]

[indirect sequel to the ukelele short; edited: july 1 ;; updated dec 2022]

It was the end of another ASEAN meeting.

As always, the members would start heading back to their homes. Brunei would go first, Myanmar would follow, then Vietnam and so on. The place would decrease it's population, until there were 4 people left in the conference hall.

Indonesia.

Malaysia.

The Philippines.

And ASEAN himself.

For ASEAN, the MaPhilIndo trio was the most hardest members to take care of. They would often go into fights, most likely Malaysia and Indonesia, and sometimes even pull pranks on any member of the organization. Another thing, they were literally part of the founding five. People really think that they would take things seriously, but of course the exact opposite would happen.

Indonesia was the biggest country in the entire organization. He is the most protective and also the most quirky of the group. He is the one who mostly starts arguments, some which were really dumb and doesn't make sense and all, and he never get tired of it. He is also the emotional support of the entire group, as they (with ASEAN) did talk to each other calmly the other day. The meeting hall was located in Indonesia anyways.

Malaysia was the one who pulls out the most jokes. He was the mastermind of all of the pranks given, and has an extreme obsession over a specific chocolate drink. He's really just a kindhearted guy, but to the fact that he gets loud and sometimes even distracting.

The Philippines on the other hand was ASEAN's "best country" as people joked. He was a widely successful country in terms of industrialization (aside from Singapore and Brunei), and the oldest one in the group. He has the most difference between the trio and the entire ASEAN (he was influenced by Spain, the only country that doesn't share land borders, etc.) so people treat him as a Got of some sort. He is also culturally sensitive as well.

The trio have always been there since the beginning. The three of them share the same love for their own countries and some cultures were also shared as well. They unintentionally influenced ASEAN himself to not be serious at all times, which they were glad about. ASEAN seemed like the person who would hate them, but the truth is, he really enjoyed their company a whole lot. They would secretly cheer him up on whatever he was doing. Their comedic timing still needed work, however.

ASEAN was still on his seat on the meeting table, scribbling some notes he remembered from the meeting on his tablet. The trio was actually across the room, playing some sort of mobile game. It wasn't a huge deal for the organization though, as they respected his presence there and kept quiet at the side.

Eventually, he finished taking down notes of the meeting and closed off the notes tablet application. The three boys were still enjoying themselves playing that video game. He sighed, stood up and decided to organize the papers left on the table into their respective file cabinets. It wasn't that much left anyways, a lot were eventually organized by the other members, including the trio.

He turned back to the countries. It's been like 40 minutes since the meeting ended, they really should be home at that hour.

He asked, "Hey, when are you three leaving? You three aren't usually here for that long."

"Not now..." Malaysia mumbled.

Indonesia sighed, and pulls down the phone. "Oh you've got to be kidding me- We actually got caught up with the rain, so we decided to stay put for now."

"It's raining outside?!"

"Yeah," Philippines and Malaysia both responded in unison.

"Hm," he crossed his arms. He really can't give them a ride, he did just walk to the meeting hall by himself. That means he's stuck in the building too.