[Of course Junpei has the worst shift of all; opening shift at a sandwich shop on Christmas sounds, for all intents and purposes, like intentional torture. But to Junpei it's just a day; Aldrip doesn't seem to... entirely understand any version of what the holiday is supposed to be, by his estimation, and as long as he doesn't get harassed by any frogs or whatever, it's just another weekday at work.
He's on his way home when Charles' message comes through, and his first thought is to wonder whose birthday it is this time. But then the rest of the display actually sinks in, and the type of cake, and somehow this didn't occur to him at all because they were just pretending it was May, like, two months ago? And yet here's Charles, sending him pictures of a Christmas cake in their very own kitchen. He needs a moment; he honest to god has to go sit on a park bench and stare into the nearest pile of shoveled snow and calm down, which is stupid, because it's just cake, but here he is.
Okay. He's feeling fine. And some other emotions. Okay.]
yeah, straight out of a magazine. where'd you get the hot tips?
[Because even if it weren't Julytember by Junpei's estimate, obviously he's not going around dropping hints about Christmas cakes...]
cake jumpscare
He's on his way home when Charles' message comes through, and his first thought is to wonder whose birthday it is this time. But then the rest of the display actually sinks in, and the type of cake, and somehow this didn't occur to him at all because they were just pretending it was May, like, two months ago? And yet here's Charles, sending him pictures of a Christmas cake in their very own kitchen. He needs a moment; he honest to god has to go sit on a park bench and stare into the nearest pile of shoveled snow and calm down, which is stupid, because it's just cake, but here he is.
Okay. He's feeling fine. And some other emotions. Okay.]
yeah, straight out of a magazine. where'd you get the hot tips?
[Because even if it weren't Julytember by Junpei's estimate, obviously he's not going around dropping hints about Christmas cakes...]