yumemigaoka | Theater Kid is in the Dog Days of Summer

[The Tohoku Regional Fair is on!

And there are stalls serving local foods. Junna can be found perusing and looking through them. She has a small canvas shopping bag -- she doesn't cook as much as Lisa, but she can get ingredients for her trips. And, more than that, she can get things to surprise Lisa with! There's advantages to having a girlfriend who likes to cook. But it's also a good way to have a lunch as she walks.

She's sampling things here and there. Various delicious foods: things like a little bowl of fried rice, some takoyaki, and a couple of foreign foods. She's had a crepe and a slider, too. She also usually has a drink -- something nice and cold, like iced tea or a bottle of water.

It's time for a food adventure!]

Edited 2025-07-07 16:30 (UTC)

[Junna was in Tsubaki Department Store when the air conditioning failed.

She was on an upper floor. And despite her best efforts... no, it's too hot. She cannot carry on. This is why she is lying in the middle of the floor, arms and legs spread out, eyes unfocused and staring at the ceiling.]

...it's...

[She's trying to trick her brain into cooperating.]

...cool and relaxing here. Heat is a state of mind...

[Keiwa is likewise suffering with the insane heat. He's almost entirely empty handed too, his attempt to go shopping apparently thwarted by the fact that he can't find what he was looking for (maybe he forgot, his brain scrambled like an egg from the heat) or anyone who was coherent enough to help him out. So he settled on buying a few cool drinks to put in the fridge at his apartment when he spots-]

... Junna-san?

[he crouches down next to her, a towel wrapped around his neck and his hair sticking to his forehead]

Are you okay...?

[silly-billy, she's clearly not! After a second, he reaches into his canvas bag to pull out a small bottle of (still cool!) water and offers it to her without a word]

Keiwa-san... remember me as I was...

[There is a weak wave up at him. But when he gives her the bottle of water, she puts it against her forehead. Then she sighs, opens it, and drinks down several gulps.

Junna sits up after that and wipes the sweat off her brow.] Ah... aaah. Thanks...

Ya~y, it worked!

[spoken like he's cheering on a young child with their project. His head really must be empty... Or at least struggling like everyone else is]

No worries. Even though the air conditioning has broken down, at least it's not a power outage. [he raises his bag slightly] Fridges still work!

Though buying ice cream seems like it would still be a bad idea.

[When the aquarium offered a two-for-one deal on tickets, Junna and Lisa knew they had to go. This was one of their very first dates as a couple, after all. In a way, it's nostalgic; it gets back to their beginnings as a couple. That, alone, amazes Junna a little: they've been together long enough to feel nostalgic on things they did together.

They're on their way back, now, having had time to see all of the cute fish, for Junna to make faces at the penguins, and -- of course -- to get a picture together in front of a tank with the dolphins behind them. They've gotten off the train, and it's the walk back to their apartment. Well, Karen's apartment -- but it's also theirs. Junna has her phone out, with the photo of her and Lisa together in front of the tank. Junna's wearing the same button-up cream-colored shirt and skirt that she is wearing, her bag over a shoulder. In the photo, one arm is around Lisa -- and the other hand is making a peace sign.

Junna looks sideways at Lisa. She smiles, cheerfully, at her.] I'd say we make a cute couple, hm? [A beat.] Want me to send it to you?

[Her other hand, the one not holding her phone, is in Lisa's. She has been a little clingy on her way home. She imagines Lisa doesn't mind. The sun is getting lower in the sky; it's still warm out, if not scorching hot, even if it's later. After dinner. Such are the woes of daylight hours during summer.

But Junna doesn't mind that much, either, right now.]

[Lisa's been going to the aquarium on Marine Day, and more generally, since before she had someone to take with the free ticket - she still remembers meeting the director a couple years ago, right after she first got her Sandglass. Then making memories with Junna, and now, well... she couldn't be happier to mark another Marine Day, and her birthday being six weeks away. Not that she's counting; she's happy to savor every day, right now. It's all she can do not to swing their joined hands with her excess cheer, and as she looks at the picture on Junna's phone, she giggles. Photo-Lisa is mirroring Junna's gestures - the unmatched half-heart is kind of lame to do to her girlfriend on purpose, though she definitely thought about it - with a bright smile, in a bright red top and a brown skirt, dressed for the heat as well as she can manage.

That same bright smile is on her face now, as Junna's question comes to her, and she nods enthusiastically.]

I'm a little biased, but probably at least top three that were in there today. And yes, please! I'm going to try really hard not to show it to everyone I know like four times? [Lisa laughs warmly.] But no promises.

Hmm. I agree with you, so... that's a larger sample size. No bias here, I think. [She smiles back at Lisa and she is proud of her nerdy joke, dang it. But in her current sunny mood, she will probably find most things funny. That's what a moment of happiness can do for you, she supposes.

She sends Lisa the photo, then slides her phone into her bag.] Share away! I'll be doing the same, no doubt.

I have to say, though... going home together is an improvement.

And if we're both really biased then it doesn't count because it cancels out! Yep, agreed, everything is totally fine. [She could do this all day. She won't, because the joke will get old eventually, but she could and she would. Her phone pings; she doesn't check it because she already knows what it is, and she nods.] Everyone is going to be tired of seeing how cute we are. They won't be able to deny it, though.

[The last comment, though, makes her grin, even as something melts inside her into a happy, gooey mess.]

You have no idea. I got so used to going back to an empty apartment... this makes my days so much brighter. You make my days brighter, even if I think I tell you that several times a day.

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