Gifts From Home

[sakuracchyan]

Sakura lead Alphonse back to her dorm room with a faint smile, and dug into a large blue duffel bag as soon as she was inside the room. She pulled out a few things wrapped in paper and covered in Japanese characters, frowned at another few and put them back

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[kitty__fetish]

Alphonse picked one of the boxes in front of him, turning it around on all its angles; he couldn't exactly read anything that was written on them (coming from a different country and all). "What's this, those simbay things you said you had?"

[sakuracchyan]

"The one in the middle," she said. "That one's the pocky." She tapped it. "Unwrap it. Since you liked the chocolates from Valentine's Day so much, I thought you might like these."

[kitty__fetish]

He stared at the box oddly, but opened it as Sakura suggested. After tearing one of the little packets inside open, he pulled out a... biscuit stick thingy? Whatever it was, it was chocolate covered and very much so edible. Alphonse took a little nibble at the end of it to try it out. "Ooh... these are kind of like, I dunno. Stick cookies?" He began eating the rest of it in approval.

[sakuracchyan]

Sakura laughed. "Stick cookies? Yeah, I guess that's one way to describe them. They're chocolate covered biscuit sticks." Stick Cookies. Silly Alphonse. She leaned backward on her hands, watching Alphonse for a moment before letting her eyes wander to other things. The room felt oddly empty, she realized. Whether that was because of Jessica's absence or because she knew in a few months it would be even emptier, she wasn't sure.

She resisted the urge to climb onto her bed and cling to the oversized bear that her brother had teased her relentlessly about. And who's name was totally not "Squishy".