Everybody gets mochi at the end

Pham Thi Anh Sang

"Nuh-uh, I think that's-" She stopped and thought for a moment. While it was true that they'd already gone through all of her ideas for posters, was there anything else that they could do to make things more interesting?

"How about stickers?" Anh Sang suggested after a few moments. "Balloons? I don't know if they sell any of those on campus, though. Or how much those are."

Pham Thi Anh Sang

"We could go now?" Anh Sang suggested. "Let's just get everything from the store, then. It seems faster than just walking around and maybe not finding anything at all. We're going to need to choose the colors for the balloons, though. I really like orange but I guess white would make sense, even if that's boring."

White was the color of most of her butterflies, after all. So if the balloons were white, too, then maybe it would remind people of them. Or maybe it would just be like white everywhere ewwww.

Pham Thi Anh Sang

"Maybe we can find some of the ones with the swirled colors," Anh Sang said after a thought, waving her fingers around in circles. "I always like those ones. Maybe we can find some that are orange and white together."

She rocked on her heels as Morgan called for a cab, mentally counting the money that she still had in her wallet. Well, her Mommy and Daddy had given her a credit card for emergencies, and Anh Sang really did think that this would count as one of those.

Anh Sang bounced impatiently at Morgan's side, butterflies fluttering about as she stared through the window. Sometimes, she liked to pretend that she had supersight because it made the waiting so much easier. When her imagined 'carriage' failed to make it around the bend in time, she daydreamed it again and again until it did.

"There, it's here!" At last, the car was pulling up to the building. In her excitement, Anh Sang scrambled out of the room, stopping to at least wait for Morgan by the door of the computer lab. It was only a little wait but to her, it was like an eternity had passed before they were finally settled in the car and on their way.