✬Sakiya had started early this morning. Well she started early every morning. Most of the products in the bakery were baked fresh daily, so she normally got there at 4am to start baking. Of course today was not just a normal day either. Once she finished all the normal baking, she had to start on preparation for the festival. Luckily most things they provided for the festival would be good even if they started making them now. She had special storage for big events like this as well that helped keep everything fresh.
She had been making some of the normal celebration cupcakes she normally made. However she kept one batch separate. A new special she was hoping would be ready for the festival. She was frosting them as the door opened. She lifted her eyes and saw Ryuichi come in, along with Emilio. "Morning, Sakiya," Emilio greeted with a bright grin that equally matched the sunny weather, "I'm here for backup and to mooch." "Sensei! Good morning. Have you missed us?" Ryuichi followed up in a rather chipper tone. "Well good morning. I've missed all the work you guys are going to get done." She teased them slightly. However she glanced at the clock and realized it wasn't morning anymore. It was rather late in the day, but there was still plenty they could help with for the festival.
"Mm. My cute Sensei missed her apprentices." Ryuichi said confirming she missed them. She shook her head some at the comment. She didn't know why he stilled called himself her apprentice.. he had been working with her long enough to not really be an apprentice anymore. He walked off behind her, she didn't pay much attention to it though. He said something else, that she assumed was for Emilio since she really wasn't sure what he was talking about. However then Emilio spoke to her directly. "Y'excited for the festival, Sakiya?" She couldn't help but smile at the question. "Yes.. it's busy but it's still a lot of fun." She said simply.
She noticed that Ryuichi seemed to be making up a whole plate of food. They showed up late and they hadn't even eaten. She tried not to laugh. "I'm just glad that I'm not super involved in the prep of it all." Emilio commented about the festival. She nodded slightly, although today he was helping, or at least that had been her impression. "Eat up Emilio... need your strength to get working." She teased Emilio as Ryuichi slid the food over to him. "Ugh, I love you. Marry me and be my housewife." Emilio proclaimed his love for Ryuichi. Sakiya couldn't help but smile and shake her head slightly at the two. What a bromance they had.
Ryuichi seemed to be content with Emilio being fed and turned his attention to her. "Practicing for the festival, Sensei?" he inquired, visible eyebrow raised as he carefully and precisely rolled up the sleeves of his dress shirt to his elbow. "Oh? New flavor, perhaps?" He was clearly very interested as she sprinkled a sparkly looking decoration on the top of the cupcakes. "Yes... well sort of. This is my newest attempt at the favorite flavor cupcake." She said simply. She had been working for years trying to get a recipe together that would turn the cupcakes flavor into the consumers favorite flavor upon consumption. She had gotten close a few times but hadn't quite been successful. "I figured for the decoration a play on the firework cupcake but it will burst with sparks of people's favorite colors." She was kind of excited about it. She was hoping it would all work for the festival. If not it would be fine, she'd just make her regular firework cupcakes in various flavors.
She had finished decorating... so now there was just one more step to take. It was time to test them to see if the recipe worked. She picked two up and handed one each to Emilio and Ryuichi. "Here... both of you need to test it with me." She said simply. "So if your favourite-flavour cupcake are true to form, these should probably taste like... vanilla bean and coconut. Or something really tropical," Emilio said with a grin. Well she hoped it would be. She took a bite of her cupcake, immediately the decoration went off creating a magical spark of colors much like a firework. Hers came off in red, purple and burgundy. Well at least the decoration was going off with her favorite colors like she planned. She could then taste the wonderful combination of blackberry and bourbon, her favorite. Maybe she had finally managed to pull it off... but it would depend if it worked for the others as well. She hummed slightly. "Wow... that's good." She then looked to the other two to see what they said.✬