- Strawberry Stick Cookie: What a relief our parents run a music shop! If they didn't, we wouldn't have any choice but to work right away, right?
- Mint Wafer Cookie: Right. And that's why we should be thankful and make use of this opportunity to spend more time practicing.
- Mint Wafer Cookie: Even without working we're already short on time to practice and make our upcoming performance the best it can be. Especially since they're still learning to play guitar...
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: Hm... Hey, what do you think? What should we do first?
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- Choice 1: Part-Time Work
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- You: The quiet weight of the two Cookies eyes falling on me made it feel like my dough might crumble... Why are they making it my decision...?
- You: I guess it's proof of how much they trust me. I chose to do what I considered best to prepare us for a successful debut performance as a band.
- You: "Practice is important... But I agree with Strawberry Stick Cookie. This is our first performance as a band, so I want us to do it all by ourselves."
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: Spoken like a true lead vocalist! Hehe! I bet we'll find inspiration for new songs while we work!!
- You: "As long as we're careful about how we manage our time, we won't be losing out on practice time, either."
- Mint Wafer Cookie: You've been working yourself too hard to learn to play the guitar already...
- You: Oh... Has Mint Wafer Cookie been worried about me? I smiled to hopefully relieve some of his concern.
- You: "It's fine. I'm sure I can keep up with practice AND a part-time job!"
- You: Mint Wafer Cookie must have sensed my determination, because he simply nodded without arguing against the decision.
- Mint Wafer Cookie: If you're sure you're okay with that, I guess we can get part-time jobs first.
- Fish Shop Merchant Cookie: Mint Wafer Cookie, can you come help on the registers?
- Mint Wafer Cookie: You've got it! Over here, please. Our Fish Jellies today are fresher than ever.
- Mint Wafer Cookie: Fish Jellies longing for an ocean deep blue, when the seas in their heart are blue through and throughs
- Fish Shop Merchant Cookie: All of your hard work is having our Fish Jellies fly off the ice!
- Sandwich Cookie: Strawberry Stick Cookie! One Seaweed Jelly Sandwich and one Strawberry Chocolate Sandwich... Isn't this just what you want to eat?!
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: Hehe, you caught me! I thought if I'm making sandwiches, I might as well make some for me to snack on, too! There's no time to eat with this crowd, though!
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: So many Cookies with so many different tastes... This is so much fun! Look, this Cookie wants a Carrot Salad Sandwich!
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: Healthy and yummy, like a carrot for your tummy!
- Sandwich Cookie: I can't believe you're coming up with songs for carrots on the spot! Or maybe I should say I expected nothing less from you, Strawberry Stick Cookie. Do you have any more songs? Let me hear some!
- Fish Shop Merchant Cookie: You're right. These Cookies' have made our market even more lively! Your songs really take away the day's crumble.
- You: After deciding to take on part-time jobs we ended up helping out around the town market.
- You: At first, it was a bit overwhelming balancing school, practice, and work, but over time we gained a reputation in the market for our music and would even put on an occasional impromptu performance.
- You: "Let us know if there's any songs you want to hear, we take requests!"
- You: I don't know where Strawberry Stick Cookie gets all her energy! My dough's all stiff. That's one more delivery done, so I think I'm ready for a break...
- You: Exhausted from the long day, I took a seat in one of the market's many alleys.
- You: That's when a chilled can brushed against the sugar sweat on the side of my face...
- You: "Hey, that's cold!!"
- Mint Wafer Cookie: Sorry, sorry! I just brought you a drink because you looked a bit stale.
- You: "Mint Wafer Cookie... Thank you! I appreciate it."
- Mint Wafer Cookie: It's a bit late, but I wanted to say... I'm sorry for being stubborn. You two were right. We're more than able to handle working and practicing at the same time.
- Mint Wafer Cookie: I've learned a lot... The market Cookies' kind hearts, the value of Coins earned by shedding our own sugar sweat... Not to mention the pure energy that's in this market. It's given me an entirely new perspective that I can work into my lyrics.
- You: "If anything, it's you two who have given me an entirely new perspective on... practically everything. Including working like this. I never would've done it without you."
- Mint Wafer Cookie: You...
- You: Mint Wafer Cookie seemed like he was about to say something, but he was cut off by Strawberry Stick Cookie's hand landing on his shoulder with an enthusiastic smack.
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: What are you two up to all alone over here?! It's time to wrap up business. Everyone says they're going to have a snack together! We can't miss out, let's go!
- Mint Wafer Cookie: Yeah, let's go. Let's help out, have a snack, and then go to practice.
- You: The oven-y heat of the summer sun was fading as the evening proceeded, and we wrote down another unforgettable lyric in the song that was our precious summer memories.
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: *Yaaawn*... I'm still sleepy...
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- Choice 2: Practice
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- You: The quiet weight of the two Cookies eyes falling on me made it feel like my dough might crumble... Why are they making it my decision...?
- You: I guess it's proof of how much they trust me. I chose to do what ! considered best to prepare us for a successful debut performance as a band.
- You: "I do think it's important that we buy and maintain our instruments with our own money. I'm not against us taking part-time jobs."
- You: "But there's more important things we need to focus on right now. Our debut performance is really soon, so how about we focus on practice?"
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: Hmm... You're not wrong. I do think we should at least take turns going to work part-time, though.
- Mint Wafer Cookie: Sure. Let's plan things out so we can work a bit while practicing... I'll deliver the Cookie Herald in the morning instead of jogging.
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: Our tip-top priority is going to be practice, then!! Great! Let's go to the music room, I want to play my drums!!
- Security Guard Cookie: What are you kids still doing here at the school...?
- You: "Oh, hello, Security Guard Cookie...! When did it get so late? Sorry, we were so busy practicing we lost track of time..."
- Security Guard Cookie: Haha, you young Cookies are out here working hard, aren't you! The school's been really lively lately thanks to your band club.
- Security Guard Cookie: Your music is what starts off and wraps up all of our days, you know.
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: You're got good taste in music, then! Will you come listen to us play sometimes?
- Security Guard Cookie: I can do that. It's late now, though, so you all should start heading home.
- You: "We will. Oh, we're performing at the Seaside Town Festival soon. Come see us if you can!"
- You: We packed up our instruments and left the music room for the night.
- You: "We were really on a roll with today's practice, everything was working out so well...! I almost don't want to go home yet..."
- Mint Wafer Cookie: Oh, really now?
- You: "Huh?"
- You: The words that slipped out of my mouth had the two sibling Cookies looking back at me with bright smiles on their faces.
- You: "So... Where are we?!"
- Mom Cookie: Haha, you must be the vocalist in the school band! Strawberry Stick Cookie and Mint Wafer Cookie have told me so much about you.
- You: Before I knew it, the two Cookies had brought me to their home.
- You: Their mother seemed overjoyed, fawning over the fact that I was the first friend the two had invited over.
- Mom Cookie: Come on in! I've already called your parents. Practice as much as you'd like and stay the night!
- You: "What?"
- You: I didn't even have time to argue or express my confusion as Strawberry Stick Cookie and Mint Wafer Cookie pulled me down toward their basement.
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: This is our little hideout... and our practice space! You're the first Cookie to come here, aside from the two of us, of course! Hehe!
- Mint Wafer Cookie: This is Sweet Punch's hideout now, so you can come by any time.
- You: I took a look around the basement studio, already filled with instruments, band posters, and stickers that seemed to express the two's personalities perfectly.
- You: Just from a glance I could tell this was their space, which made it even more amusing to look around.
- Mint Wafer Cookie: I'll go upstairs and get some snacks. Strawberry Stick Cookie, stop drumming for a moment and show them around.
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: Okay, okay! We wouldn't have had the chance to invite you if we hadn't practiced late today! What do you say to doing the same tomorrow?!
- You: "That actually might be a good idea... at least until our performance. I'll have to pass on the days I get guitar lessons though..."
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: I KNEW IT! You were taking other lessons! And here I was thinking I'd found absolute natural vocalist and guitarist!
- You: "Hahaha, I was lucky to meet an amazing guitarist who could help me out. I'll make sure to come practice after my lessons, though."
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: Awesome! We'll work on our solos until then!
- You: "Okay! ... Oh, what's this sticker here?"
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: That skull's the logo of a rock band I love! You can find a lot of skull stickers around here.
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: These are my very first drum sticks! Oh, oh, and this is a limited edition album of my favorite band! Wanna listen?
- You: "Sure! ... You know, this might be out of nowhere, but I'm really thankful to you two. If I hadn't met you, I'd never have done anything special or interesting like this."
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: If anything, we're thankful to have met YOU! If we hadn't met you, we might not have been able to try for the Seaside Town Festival!
- You: "Strawberry Stick Cookie..."
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: Not much longer until our debut performance... Let's keep working hard! I've got a good feeling about this!
- You: Our eyes met and we broke out into laughter. As I wiped away the few tears that had gathered at the corners of my eyes, I noticed something up on the wall...
- You: "You look so cute!"
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: O-oh! That's...
- You: "You're so tiny! This is you when you were younger, right? And Mint Wafer Cookie, too!"
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: It is. This is from when we had a family band! The band was called Sweet Family.
- Strawberry Stick Cookie:I can't forget the first time I held drumsticks in my hands... My parents joke that even when I cried as a baby I was practically beatboxing! Haha!
- You: "That's amazing. You were meant to make music."
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: Haha, but our real career is just now starting! Our debut performance is going to be unforgettable!
- You: "I think so, too."
- Mint Wafer Cookie: Hey, what were you two talking about? That's an old family picture... I'm getting a bit embarrassed!
- You: "Why would you be embarrassed? You look cute!"
- Mint Wafer Cookie: Cute? Haha, whatever you say... Mom said we can snack on these Strawberry Mint Jellies while we practice. Let's run it through 10 times and then go get ready for bed. Ready?
- You: The sweet and refreshing flavor of the Strawberry Mint Jellies spread through my mouth as we created yet another memory for this unforgettable summer.
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: *Yaaawn*... I'm still sleepy...
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- Mint Wafer Cookie: And I'm not surprised. You were writing songs until the sun rose again, weren't you, Strawberry Stick Cookie?
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: Yeah... I may be tired, but I got inspiration from watching the sunrise! I think this song is going to be one of our best yet!
- You: "Haha, I barely slept out of excitement... Are you two ready?"
- Strawberry Stick Cookie: Of course! Let's take 'em all out with a Sweet Punch!!!
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