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Happy summer, popstars! Hope you are enjoying the warm weather and hot outfits!

Our theme for the fashion contest is "The Summer Date" and we have a super secret surprise for all our contestants in next month's collaboration with the seasonal magazine team. 


In honor of these happenings, we wanted entrants to have a chance to share about their entries:
☀️What event or setting are you going to?☀️
☀️Who's your date? (friend, lover, or self-care)☀️
☀️What's the background story?☀️
☀️And any other details you want!☀️

Your story can be as long or detailed as you want!

This isn't mandatory for the FC, and there isn't a prize,
just a casual chance to write fun stories about the avatars and share them!
Ask each other questions and have fun creating together!

Feel free to dress up and share a summer date story/activity even if you couldn't join FC!
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Sample story:
Chat0yant and Elisia's avatars
(sorry it's so long...)




Summer skate date:
The sky caste a pink hue on the busy park as it set behind the cloudless horizon, but few of the parkgoers made to leave. The food stalls and musicians lit their soft lights and continued their activities. Soft music, different styles here and there, enhanced the summer ambiance for all the attendees, nightly joggers to youthful revelers alike.
 
Through these sanguine merrymakers came a nervous looking girl in red and grey. She smiled at the various attractions but couldn't focus on them long. Cat was here to meet her friend, Eli. They had been good friends in high school, even competing in roller derbies together, but Cat hadn't really talked with Eli since moving away for college a couple years ago. Despite their friendship, Cat couldn't help but feel anxious at the thought of meeting her old friend.

Had she changed since then? Eli was super sweet and well-liked in high school. She was fashionable but also approachable. Cat, on the other hand, was a social awkward combination of serious student, punk, and otaku who never quite fit into any social circle... Even in high school, the two had seemed an odd combination. After losing contact with each other for two years? 

Cat was thus circling the drain with half formed worries when the girl with untamable red hair appeared behind her and called her name. Cat nearly jumped as she turned to face Eli. "I was beginning to think you stood me up" Eli beamed. Cat shifted awkwardly. She had been fashionably late (+ a few minutes) trying to find an outfit that was not super intense until finally giving up such aspirations. "Sorry" Cat said sheepishly, "I didn't see you." "I know" responded Eli "I called your name five times" she said laughing.

The two girls hugged, a little awkwardly, and proceeded to skate through the stalls, catching up their various life courses. Cat bought a bubble tea, and Eli teased her about her inability to pass anywhere selling it without buying some, while Eli bought a sweet dessert on a stick, which she couldn't name but swore tasted like apple pie.

Their refreshments eaten, Eli pointed with her kabob stick at an empty sidewalk path veering towards the lake and announced "Let's race to that guard rail!" Cat started to question that idea but found it futile since Eli was already picking up speed down the vacant path veering towards the lake.

And so, the two halfheartedly rushed down the concrete pathways for the few minutes until they both caught themselves on the guardrail before the water. "Heh, you always could beat me in speed" panted Eli. "I only won by a second or two!" responded Cat, also winded. "You've kept up skating?" "I wish" replied Eli. "Between work and chores, I've hardly had time to spend outside!" Eli stared out at the lake for a few seconds as her breathing evened out. "I've missed it, though. I should really make time to spend at the park more this summer." "You should." encouraged Cat.

The two girls watched the last traces of the sunset colors fade over the surface of the darkening water. "It's funny" Cat started, "I was worried about coming here. Seeing you again, I mean." "Am I that scary?" Asked Eli in mock indignation. "No, no. Not like that, but... time passes, people change. Friends leave. I thought maybe... we'd meet to find our friendship had dissipated like the colors drain from the sky."

The two were quiet again until Eli spoke: " I was worried to, actually" echoed Eli, smiling awkwardly. "Really?" prodded Cat. "Yeah. So many things from my life--things that were nice, happy, innocent--seemed to fade away for adulting and work. I was kind of scared asking you to come out would be confirming that our friendship was another happy memory that belonged only to the past now."

Another minute of silence. "Yeah... I feel that." answered Cat. "I'm really glad I came, though." "Me too" said Eli. "Let's do this again. "We have the whole summer to skate around the park" suggested Cat. "Heck yeah, burn some calories too!" chimed in Eli, who seemed to have forgotten the snack stick she was gesturing with. "Maybe I'll even beat you in a race!" Cat smiled teasingly, "You couldn't even beat me in a race in high school, you think you can now that we're old?" "We're not OLD, we're TWENTY!!" yelled Eli in horror as the two girls skated back up the hill towards the main path, laughing. 

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