[Closed] Turkey Day Hijinks

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Title: Turkey Day Hijinks
Characters: Misono and Meisa (maybe Yesung?)
Location: Misono's and Yesung's apartment
Date/Month: Thursday, November 24th/noon-ish
Rating: PG
Warnings: None at the moment

Meisa was a lot later than she told Misono she would be. Stupid turkey, why you gotta be so big? She had spent... well... too much time trying to find a small

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Was Meisa hungry enough to eat lunch? She decided yes, besides it was probably better to eat a little now and not be picking at the food they were going to make. Dinner would taste so much better that way anyway. Well. Maybe she'd sneak a sip at the gravy. It was one of those childhood quirks that stuck around long after thinking it had been outgrown. She was still a sucker for really good gravy.

Kitty von Catcat meowed once and plopped herself down on top of Meisa's feet, probably thinking that Meisa was the better bet to get scraps from. Giggling, Meisa bent down, picked the cat up slightly, and scooted her feet out from under the cat. "I won't be able to move around if you're on my feet," she said. "How will you get scraps then, I wonder?"

"Papa was the cook during Thanksgiving," she told Misono as she stood up. It was the one holiday where absolutely no Asian food was allowed on the dinner table - rice, of course, was the exception. "But he always bought pies from a family friend. So I've never really got to bake pie before. A lemon tart sounds delicious, it'd taste refreshing and balance the flavors I think." Meisa watched Misono pull out all the kitchen equipment they would need. "Baking first and then the actual dinner dishes?"

A crowd. They would definitely need a crowd to help them finish all the food they were about to make.

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Misono hummed as she sorted through things--dinner things here, pie things there, stuff for everything in the middle. And lunch things. "Your papa cooked? That's nice! First Papa could cook, too! First Mama had a weak body after Sister was born so sometimes he took care of us more." She could remember the way he'd leaned over her and Misono, teaching them by feel how to stir the rice and test the leaf-fire sweet potatoes. "It's nice, right? Yesung, he has trouble making toast. I think that's kind of cute, though!"

But that was neither here nor there! "Anyhow, we can make lunch and I think we should have something light since dinner will be big. You want to make fox-udon?" She would let Meisa pick what to have for lunch. "You can look and see what we've got and pick what to have for lunch, you know. You're the little sister so it's your choice!" She smiled at her, feeling warm and happy.

"Meanwhile, I'm going to measure out for pies. I think the lemon tart and the cheesecake and an apple pie would be good, right? Pies are easy once you get used to it. The main things are have all the liquids and the butter cold and don't work it too much because that makes it tough. I can show you how to roll the crust up on the pin to put it in the pan--only that's just the apple pie because the tart has shortbread crust. But anyhow! It's easy! I need the grater to shred the butter, that way I only have toss it through with the fork instead of working it in by hand. And we're starting now," she went on, remembering Meisa's question, "because we have to refrigerate the dough a few times between steps so that it can settle. And after they bake you have to let them sit for a little bit, too. But we don't need to bake them right away, that can wait. I just want to get it all prepped."

Really, the only thing that needed to be done right away was the turkey--they had five hours to do everything else. "This is going to be a relaxing day for cooking," Misono said thoughtfully. "Lots to do but plenty of time!"

Kitty von Catcat jumped into a pot that Misono had set on a chair earlier. "Oh! Thank you for the reminder!" She had to start reducing the apple cider if she was going to make apple-cider syrup for using on the carrots later. "Meisa-chan, I'm super, super glad you're here for Thanksgiving! It's nice to cook with you."

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Thanksgiving was really the only meal that Papa ever cooked. Ask him for anything else and he'd serve up spam musubi. Which, now that Meisa thought about it, she hadn't had in a long time. "Do you have spam and nori by any chance, Neesan? I've got a craving for spam musubi. I can make lunch while you measure out stuff and then help with the baking and other stuff!"

Deciding to look in the pantry, she rooted around, finding the nori easily, but not the spam. Meisa pulled her head out and smiled fondly at Misono. "Thanks for having me over. I love being around family for the holidays." In her mind Misono was family and someone she was very thankful for.

[misono_soup]

"We've always got nori even though Yesung doesn't like it very much! Spam..." She tipped her head to the side, mentally taking inventory. "Yeah! There's Spam! We bought a few cans a while ago because of this thing on the show and I think we only used one of them!" It was in one of the cupboards--Meisa would find it if she kept looking.

Because she liked cooking and because today was Thanksgiving, Misono went right to measuring and, with the back of her mind, began grating frozen butter. "Thank you for coming! I love being around family!" Full stop! She'd have hugged Meisa but her hands were full. "I want a hug but I'm all hands-full! Go hug Yesung!" Meisa hugging Yesung would be almost like her hugging Meisa!

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Meisa didn't doubt that Misono would have nori in her pantry. If she didn't, Meisa would be beyond surprised. Nori was a staple in the pantry, or at least she thought so. Opening another cupboard, she found the spam staring at her straight in the face. "Found it!" One can or two? There was her, Misono, and potentially Yesung should he wake up and feel hungry. And Kitty von Catcat. Deciding to make more, just incase, she took two cans out, opening them both and checking to see if there was cooked rice available. It looked to be enough, but, "Neesan, do you mind if I use the rice already cooked for the musubi?"

She needed to pee. Maybe she should go before getting distracted by cooking. "I'll be right back. I'll hug Yesung on the way back from the bathroom." Meisa looked down at the cat. "No sneaking spam. I'll give you a piece when I get back."

On her way back to the kitchen, she looked for Yesung in the living room. Weird. Didn't Misono say he was there? Peering around curiously, she was about to go back to the kitchen and ask where he was when she noticed feet. From underneath the coffee table. Huh? Meisa bent down to see Yesung peacefully sleeping then made her way to the kitchen with a quizzical look on her face. "Why is Yesung underneath the coffee table?"

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"Go ahead and use whatever you need!" Misono trilled as she moved around her kitchen. "I want to watch you make this stuff!" she added. She liked to learn new things to make and maybe Yesung would like this and she could get more healthy nori down him. As long as he didn't know it was there.

Kitty von Catcat meowed at her. "No, she said no for now. You get meat when she comes back. And don't you beg, Kitty von Catcat, that's rude and beneath you and already you're getting a lot of treats today." She could hear Meisa coming back and then pause. And pause and pause.

Oh! "I couldn't get him to his bed and I couldn't lift him to the couch and he was taking up a lot of room on the floor so we put the coffee table over him to make more room. He's a big guy." He totally was. That was part of why she loved him so much--he was tall! "Did you hug him? It's okay to move the table to get at him!"

The cat meowed again and Misono gave her a tasking look. "What did I say about that being beneath you?" She looked at Meisa. "I'm going to ignore Kitty von Catcat for being rude, okay? You can sneak her treats if you like, though." She turned her back on the cat. "Also, also, I forgot to start the cider reducing again." She set up the pot with a quick rinse and turned it to a simmer. "Okay, okay, when are you going to make your thing? I want to watch!"

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"Ah, oookay." Meisa didn't understand exactly why the coffee table needed to be over Yesung, but well. "I'll just give him a hug when he wakes up." She didn't want to inadvertently wake him up. It always scared her when people started when got woken up. Best just to let them wake up naturally. "I'll get started on the spam musubi. It's not difficult."

Kitty von Catcat meowed and Meisa chuckled as Misono gave the cat a light scolding. Winking at the cat, she smiled when she got permission to sneak treats. "Got it." The cat followed her to the counter, weaving between her feet as she tore the nori into strips. "Hold on, hold on." Finally opening the can of spam, she began cutting slices, saving a bit for Kitty von Catcat. She snapped and charmed the piece of spam to hover in front of the cat. "There you go. Nibble on that while I finish making lunch."

Without the cat underfoot, she was able to finish the spam musubi in no time, using the open spot on the stove to lightly fry the spam and molding the rice the way she learned how to growing up. As Meisa finished wrapping the last nori strip around the rice and spam, she looked over to where Misono was. "Lunch is ready Neesan~"

[misono_soup]

Misono nodded. "Hug him later is always a good idea too!" she said. It was obvious that Meisa didn't understand her reasoning with the coffee table but that was all right--Meisa didn't live with her and Yesung. If she did, she'd have probably understood.

But that wasn't so important as watching Meisa make lunch. It looked simple enough--it was onigiri, more or less--and it smelled all right and Kitty von Catcat certainly seemed to enjoy the magically hovering meat. And since it kind of hovered away from them, it kept Kitty out from underfoot. AND entertained her. Misono giggled as she watched the cat try to paw the food down. Then, since her hands were free from the pie crust, she hugged Meisa from the side. "Thanks for making lunch, little sister~~~" she sang, giving her a squeeze. "Let's go eat in the living room! Yesung won't mind if we use the coffee table for a table-table!"

He'd maybe even wake up for food! "This is a good Thanksgiving," she said happily, setting the dough in the refrigerator with no hands. "I keep saying that but it keeps being totally true!"

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"It's no problem. If you say Yesung won't mind, I'll bring the plate out then." Meisa leaned into the hug, feeling content. Even if they didn't make everything they said they were going to make, this was already a good Thanksgiving for her and she was glad that Misono thought the same. "C'mon, Kitty von Catcat, let's go sit at the coffee table."

She managed to spell the floating piece of spam to follow her as she went out of the kitchen, giggling when the cat tried to pounce and bring it down.

"Oh! Drinks!" Pausing at the door, Meisa looked back to where Misono was. The bit of spam continued it's merry little way to the living room with Kitty von Catcat following and trying to bring it down. "Do you have iced tea?"

[misono_soup]

Humming Misono began to bounce toward the living room. She stopped in the doorway however. "Tea? Yes!" She turned and got the tea started, watching as things began to sort themselves out. Still. Just in case she went back and grabbed a soda for Yesung.

"Hey, hey, speaking of things I have and things that people don't mind, I met a guy you know!" She pushed Yesung's arm aside and gestured for Meisa to sit. Then she shoved his leg out of her own way and plopped down on the floor. "I did! Can you guess? He's very pretty and he's kind of very mannered and--" and his heart didn't beat "--and I met him at Come Again!"

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"Someone I know?" Meisa murmured to herself as she made her way to the coffee table. At Come Again? Someone pretty and mannered? Jun maybe, but he didn't seem the sort to frequent sex shops. At least, not to her knowledge. She watched in slight apprehension as Misono flung Yesung's limbs around, waiting for him to wake up in annoyance. When he didn't, she settled herself next to Misono and set lunch before them. "I have no clue," she said, "Nino and Sho are the only ones I know who have been to Come Again."

Something distracted her. Out of the corner of her eye, Kitty von Catcat was setting up to pounce on the piece of spam that had settled on hovering near Yesung's foot. Meisa wondered if he'd wake up if the cat jumped on his foot and slightly wanted to see what would happen if Kitty did pounce. Misono had said he was tired though, so she took pity and sent the piece of meat further away for Kitty von Catcat to play with.

"Who did you meet at Come Again Neesan?" she asked, turning her attention back and murmuring a quiet 'itadakimasu' as she grabbed a spam musubi for herself.

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"Yeah! But it's not Kazunari-kun or Sho-kun!" Misono picked up a musubi and considered it. "Itadakimasu!" she said, taking a bite. It was...well, it was pretty all right, given Misono's feelings for Spam after Yesung's show about it. She hummed around her bite, watching Kitty von Catcat pounce away after her meat. She patted Yesung's leg--their cat was being super cute and he was missing it!

But then she snapped to attention at Meisa's question. "I should make you guess," she grinned. "I should but I won't at all. It was the guy from the shampoo commercials that Yesung and I like so much! He came in to use my phone and he was kind of shirty with me a little bit but I think that's because he has manners and I wasn't a very good shopkeeper because I was distracted from showing C--but anyhow, anyhow, I met that guy! Your Jun!"

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Spam musubi was spam musubi, but Meisa hadn't had it in so long that it tasted really good. She was still trying to think who she knew who would be likely to go to places like Come Again as Misono dropped hints. Someone from class? From work? But then... shampoo commercials Misono and Yesung liked only pointed to one candidate. Jun.

"Jun?!" She burst out laughing, the image of Jun the gentleman standing in the middle of a sex shop too funny. "Jun was in Come Again. Oh that is just priceless." She'd have to tease him about it later. "This is the Jun that I work with who we're talking about here, right?"

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Meisa had such a fun laugh that Misono laughed too, leaning back on her hands and giggling even though she wasn't sure why it was so funny. She patted Yesung's ankle while she was there. "Yeah, totally that guy from your billboards! And you're in the catalog with him looking all..." she sat up and waved her hands before linking her fingers "you know? Like that!" She beamed and took another bite of spam musubi.

Maybe she'd ask. "Hey, is there something kind of..." what if Meisa didn't know, though? Misono had the feeling, just from the look on that guy's face, that a lot of people didn't. "Is there something special about him? I felt like..." his heart didn't beat "like there was something special about him I should know or something." Like what the hell he was. "Like maybe you told me something and I forgot it?"

Misono wished Yesung would wake up. The easiest way to figure out if her question made sense was to watch Yesung's face. If HE looked confused, then she was too confusing.

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Laughs subsiding, Meisa wiped at the tears at the corners of her eyes. Ah yes, that would definitely be Jun, then. The billboard and the catalog jobs were the only shoots she had done in which a male model had been present. Oh Jun. In Come Again. A fresh batch of giggles escaped, preventing her from taking another bite of lunch.

She calmed down enough to listen to Misono inquire about her friend. "Special? About Jun?" Meisa furrowed her brows trying to think about what she'd told Misono about Jun. The fun they had working together and their crazy photographer. A little bit about his background. (She hadn't told Misono about their pretend courtship, though, given the fact that, well, it was an inside joke.)

"I think I've told you most of what I know about him Neesan. Why do you ask?"

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Misono had learned her humanity and much of it had been done by watching, by careful study. No matter who she was today, no matter what about human behavior threw her off, she could read a face when it was something important. Meisa didn't know about that guy's lack of heartbeat. There was absolutely no shift in her face beyond the faint confusion and the careful consideration. Her guess about his secretive nature had been pretty good.

This also told Misono something else about Jun: whatever he was it wasn't something Meisa could feel, nothing that rubbed up against her magic. She hadn't expected it to, honestly, because she'd barely felt anything even when she'd touched him. So she'd keep his secret and she'd keep an eye on him. She trusted Meisa and if Meisa trusted him, she would give him a small part of her trust as well.

She smiled guilelessly, open as a summer window and bright as sunshine. "I ask a lot of questions!" she chirped. Which wasn't an answer at all but sure sounded like one. "I guess he just has that--" she waved her hands again, food still in one "--you know. That sense about him. Like I should know something about him. Maybe it's because you know him so well?" she tipped her head to the side like she did when she was being thoughtful. "Maybe it's because I see him on television in the middle of the night--right here in the Jade Palace!" Maybe it was because there was some weird magic tangled up in his unbeating heart. Who knew? "Who knows!"

Kitty von Catcat came over and jumped loudly on to the coffee table, her small body landing with a big noise. "No, this is MY lunch," Misono told her. "You ate yours. And that one is for Yesung if he wakes up, you greedy thing!" She made a face at the cat and then wrinkled her nose at Meisa. "She's spoiled because she's the only kid in the house."