Valentine’s Day Cooking!
Jurina sighed. “It wasn’t that they were awful - well, I guess the bullying about my height and hair colour was rather bad. But the Centre Nova thing was different, since I was born and raised on Akibastar. We’ve got pretty high standards for people who want to get to that point, y’know?” She smiled a little forlornly. “Sometimes, I think the standards are perhaps too high. But that’s what happens when you live on Akibastar, where every girl secretly wants to be part of 00 and get to Centre Nova, but everyone’s too scared to proclaim it out loud.”
“A feast?” Jurina’s eyes lit up again. The only thing she liked better than running was eating…And boy could she eat. Whereas the other girls stuck with half portions or one portion of what they were given by Chef Papa, Jurina was notorious for always attempting to challenge Mayuyu’s massive appetite - of course, she had never succeeded. But eight portions was still impressive. “I’m not sure about whether it’s a big deal on other parts of Akibastar, but in our neighbourhood we always host a Easter egg hunt! It’s more for the kids, but it’s always fun to participate in.”
“That makes sense. After all, Akibastar has to see 00 everywhere, so they’d certainly start to get picky for the big jobs!” Inwardly, she breathed a sigh of relief - hopefully that means less pressure for the name of Aanya!
“We do that too! But it’s more of a school activity thing, to keep kids active and make it more community based, since Atamistar is just a bunch of islands.” Well, one main one and few dotted ones, but hey.
“But the feast is amazing! Even though there are so many people, nobody goes hungry! It’s really colourful and there’s usually a performance as well while everyone eats!”
Whipping out her phone, Seika started texting. “I’ll send Mama a message now, asking if you can come stay with us!” Honestly, Seika didn’t know if she was allowed to go home for the holidays, or if Jurina truly wanted to come, but forward thinking wasn’t really her forte.
“You can sort of it look at it this way - Akibastar is so big in the entertainment industry, it’s sort of like the universe’s Holllywood…There’s so much pressure to be perfect here. Everyone says to be yourself and dream big, just like in Hollywood, but if you do dare to dream big they’ll condemn you for it if you don’t meet their expectations.” Because 0048 was so big on Akibastar, there were even specific schools just for girls to learn how to become idols. Jurina herself had attended a normal school, but she could only imagine how fierce the competition would be like in those specialised ones.
Jurina almost started drooling at the word ‘feast’ again. If there was that much food there, she was sure she would want to just stay at the table and eat her way through the entire trip. The performance though…Jurina’s eyes lit up as she thought of something.
“Performance! Why don’t we perform? I’m sure that what we learned in 00 would impress them!”
