smash_logs | [Open Log] Seas of pink are back again~

Who: You!
What: Cherry Blossom Festival
When: April 10th - 18th
Where: All over town & campus. Wherever you find a cherry tree.
Rating: Flower power.

Pink is everywhere. No matter where you look, you're sure to see the signs of soft pink and white blossoms. There's a fresh spark of life filling the air and just beckoning for everyone to come outside and enjoy the sweet scents of spring. Well, except for you, people with springtime allergies. They just want to make you miserable. But perhaps for everyone else, it was a wonderful amazing time to be had.

There are wonderful spots for picnicking! Frolic inducing atmosphere and the space to do it! Every so often you will see vendors selling treats for the event! Cosplayers taking advantage of their natural environments for photo ops! Hot date spots! Blossoms! Sparkles! Everywhere! Even when it rains.

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Having mostly put memories of Ishida behind her, Aoi was doing her best to distract herself from a great many things, the first of which being the events of February and some of March, and the second the constant reminder of her best friend, whose namesake was blooming all around her.

Sakura wouldn't have wanted her to be upset, she decided, so the solution was to peruse the festival booths and use what spending money she had to buy up a varied assortment of delicious things.

"I brought us lunch," she said, inviting herself into Ishimaru's study space with a plastic bag from the food vendors, neatly tied.

This was certainly a much more welcome study break than other things he could think of. Most of those things being bouts of random chaos as were usual in this hellhole of a school. He gladly moved his books aside, making plenty of room for her on the simple blanket he'd brought out.

"Oh! Thank you! What perfect timing, I was just starting to feel hungry!" Something he didn't realize until food was within range, at which point it hit him full force. "What did you bring?"

"Let's see--"

Aoi had, of course, really, really missed good Japanese food, and given the opportunity, she'd basically bought one of everything and eaten at least half of it on the way to Ishimaru.

But he didn't need to know that.

"I got some onigiri, because I know you like that. There's dango and--oh! There was a stall selling little lunch boxes, so I got some of those too."

If Ishimaru ever wondered how Aoi spent her lifeguarding, pool-cleaning money

this was the answer.

And he was absolutely horrified.

Sure, his food intake had increased dramatically since coming to Smash Academy (even adding dinner to his routine, whoa!) but this was. COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS. And that was without anything Aoi may have already eaten.

"I... I appreciate the sentiment, but you really went overboard! Just one lunch box to share between us would have been plenty!"

No it wouldn't have, Kitty, shut up. Even his stomach let out a loud rumble in protest. It would have been super romantic though, too bad he didn't think of that.

The horrified look on Ishimaru's face only served to make her incredibly self-conscious, not only about the pile of food she was offering, but also the pile of food she had already eaten.

"I'll save the rest for later," she declared, unpacking the ONE LUNCH BOX TO SHARE.

"I just saw all those vendors with all this food from home, and I couldn't help myself!"

Granted, Aoi probably would not have been able to help herself anyway.

"I understand that feeling completely." Hey, he was fully empathizing with another human being, amazing. The entire festival was enough to make him feel homesick, not that he didn't on a regular basis anyway. He fished a pair of cheap chopsticks out of the bag and went for some tamago.

"It's strange that this city should have so many events and festivals with clear Japanese influence! Just where on earth are we, anyway?"

"Yeah," she replied, gazing up at the fluffy pink trees above them, trying not to sound wistful. Japan didn't look like this anymore, that much was certain.

"I dunno. I'm not even sure this is a real place, sometimes."

"It shouldn't exist. But here we are."

Unless he was lying half-dead on the stone cold floor of a physics lab and all of this was some awful dream. What an awful thought. No, he preferred the theory that he fell through some hole in time and space and ended up here.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful for a second chance at life! But... everything is so different from anything I ever planned, I... wonder what to do after graduating."

WOW THIS SURE WAS LIGHTHEARTED ROMANTIC CONVERSATION.

[Open Log] Seas of pink are back again~

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