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Fourth Floor Common Room, Friday evening [7/11]

Hoshi had a spread of Japanese dishes in the common room, including beef teriyaki, various types of sushi and lots of little pink rice cakes. There was also a delicious-looking cake. What Hoshi didn't bother with were any sort of decorations. It would be hard to tell that this was all for her birthday.

[Open to all! Minor OCD ~~coming~~ is up.]

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Because Hoshi would cook up a storm for her own party.

Because what else do you do at a party?

Because there's always a table for these at a party.

Because she turned 16 this week!

Because I don't want the world to end.

I really wanted to acknowledge Hoshi's birthday even though it's been an absolutely crazy week for me. Some definite SP this evening, but I'm around all afternoon.

Passing by the common room on his way toward perhaps an inkling toward being somewhat social, Cal couldn't help but notice the sheer amount of food laid out in the common room.

To the point where he ducked in long enough to observe, "That is a lot of food."

"Whoa," said Jen, wandering in after work ~~which will get posted in a sec, rly~~. "That's a lot of food."

"...That's what I said," Cal, at this point figuring it wouldn't hurt to enjoy a little bit of it before he headed out, agreed.

"I love the little rice cakes," Jen added. "They're pink!" Which was, of course, the main selling point.

Cal snorted a little at that. "Because, yes," he said, "as long as something is pink, it must be good."

He figured that was a safer direction to take it than just commenting that, of course she thought that. She was a girl.

A girl who, in most other ways, didn't exactly come across as the type to be overly fond of pink, but there you had it.

"Not necessarily," she replied. "My evil alternate mirror-universe self, for one . . ."

Cal eyed the girl a little as he considered this example.

"I know that if my evil alternate mirror-universe self showed up in pink," he observed, "I'd think it was very bad, too. Point well made."

Of course, if he thought about it enough, the person he could consider his evil alternative mirror-universe self probably did wear a lot of pink, if only to emphasize her femininity like Cal emphasizes his masculinity.

Momoko had smelled "home-cooking". She paused in the doorway and saw the room was set up with a large amount of food that seemed awfully like the food she would often see back home. She wandered in.

"Is that... sakuramochi?"

Jen gave him a mock glare. "Hey, can't let one bad experience ruin something for you, right?" she asked, and emphatically popped one of the rice cakes into her mouth.

...well...

Despite his tendency to think otherwise on that, Cal shrugged and gave that one over to the girl. "Another good point. Are you, uh, one of the new students? Have we met and I'm totally an ass for forgetting, or...?"

Jen's brow creased slightly. "We might have met? I don't remember either, though. And since I don't want to be an ass for it, you're off the hook too. But no, I've been here since January. Jen Scotts," she concluded, wiping her fingers off on her jeans and holding her hand out.

"Cal Stephanides," he said, taking the hand with a firm shake. "Nice to meet you. Whether it's the first time or the second, or whatever."

"Likewise," Jen replied with a smile. "You're not new either, are you? You don't have that rookie sort of look."

"I don't know what it is," Jen said, waving her in, "but it's good."

Cal preened a little at that; those were pretty kind words. "Not technically. I started up at the beginning of the summer, but it doesn't take long to really get into the swing of things here."

Momoko bounced in, thankful for the welcome. "Hi! My name's Momoko Akatsutsumi, I'm a new sophomore here and I'm on the wrong floor but no one has said anything about me wandering and I thought I smelled someone cooking good food so here I am."

She picked up one of the pink treats and tasted it. "Mmmm. Did this come from a store in town?" She looked around for a small plate to hold a few more.

"It is!" said Hoshi, smiling at the girl she hadn't met yet. "It seemed kind of appropriate for the occasion."

"I don't like to send anyone away hungry," said Hoshi with a smirk.

"I was actually worried that there wouldn't be enough," said Hoshi, looking a bit sheepish.

"Some people do better than others," Jen allowed, "but then I guess it's easier when you come in during summer."

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Fourth Floor Common Room, Friday evening [7/11]

Food and Drink

Mingle

Presents

Birthday girl

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