cafeteria | mid afternoon | wednesday | 25 november

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Apparently, there was a holiday tomorrow. From what Jonas had gathered from the books he'd read, it revolved around a lot of food, togetherness and was descended from a shared meal by two very different groups long ago.

Needless to say, Jonas had never celebrated Thanksgiving in the Community. Besides ceremonies for Days of Birth, nothing had really been celebrated so Jonas found these specially singled out days as half a curiosity and half enjoyment.

And, while today wasn't the holiday, Jonas found himself in the cafeteria, idly picking at his food (mashed potatoes had a very strange texture) and paging through a book on various holidays. Christmas would, undoubtedly, be the next thing he looked up that. That holiday just seemed...complicated.

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[vanillajello]

"Hey Didi," Kate greeted the other girl. She was a little suspicious of the food on her tray. "Do you think this food's actually edible?"

[living_endless]

"It's definitely edible," Didi said. "The question is if it's actually food, or if it's some kind of high-tech simulation."

She smiled."How are you, Kate?"

[vanillajello]

Kate poked at her mashed potatos with a fork, frowning, then smiled at Didi. "I'm pretty awesome, thanks." And she really meant it, for once. "You?"

[living_endless]

"I'm always awesome," Didi said cheerfully. "Class was fine, it was just a movie, and now we have a long weekend. Are you going home?"

[vanillajello]

Kate shook her head. "No. It's only a month 'til Christmas, I'm gonna go then. Thanksgiving isn't a massive thing in my family."

A massive stress-inducing thing for her mother, though, which was reason enough to stay in Fandom.

[living_endless]

"Same here," Didi said. Of course, that had more to do with the fact human holidays weren't important to the Endless. "It'll be nice to be here. Kind of a weird little school family."

[vanillajello]

"Exactly," Kate grinned. "And interesting to be around people who've never even celebrated Thanksgiving before."

[living_endless]

"It must seem so bizarre to some of them."

[vanillajello]

"To say the least," Kate nodded. "But that's kind of what's so nice about this place. Seeing people deal with cultural differences."