@harimakii said: 25
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It had been a truly misfortunate situation. That was everyone’s thought, except for the person currently in the thick of it.
It had been arranged for the duration of Sonia’s time at Hope’s Peak to have her clothes sent out to a laundry service, if just for the ease of focusing on her studies while she insisted on living the life of a ‘normal student.’ But when the cleaners both suffered a flooded basement and a loss of power after a recent storm and the Ultimate Princess was left without clean pajamas, cotton shirts, and the like, she’d politely waved away the prospect of purchasing new, clean clothes to tide her over until the business re-opened in favor of washing clothes herself in the Hope’s Peak laundry room. A place she’d never had much reason to visit before yet her classmates (those who lived on campus, anyway) seemed to congregate.
For the blonde, it would, without a doubt, be an adventure she needed to embark upon. And so with two baskets of clothes (one under each arm), she trudged her way into the laundry room which was mostly deserted save for one student: Maki Harukawa, her underclassman and very talented with the caring of children. If not for her own clothes, that must have been why she was there on an afternoon free of classes, Sonia supposed as she set the baskets down in front of two washing machines (she guessed. Inside, visible through the clear panel in the door, there were soap and suds. That seemed appropriate for the washing of clothes!).
“Good afternoon, Harukawa-san! Are you too cleaning the laundry today?” She asked cheerily, dumping the contents of one basket, her various light colored attire, into one machine and in the other, the few amounts of bold or dark colors she had. “It seems unfortunate to remain in doors due to our chores, but that is the life of ‘normal students!’” Her words did not match her demeanor: all smiles with excitement in her blue eyes as she reached for a set of coins in her pocket as well as the bottle of liquid detergent that remained in one of the baskets. Picking it up, Sonia gave it a quizzical glance before shrugging her shoulders.
And promptly dumping half the bottle into one machine, the other half into the other. There weren’t very clear directions on it after all, and in Sonia’s mind, more soap had to ensure things were cleaned properly!
“Now, I think each machine requires a 100 yen coin to operate,” She insisted, closing the tops of each machine and inserting the coins in the proper slots. With a chuckle, she pushed the tray into the machines to activate them. “Though there are so many settings! It’s incredible how one can keep them all figured out. I suppose...yes, I read the whites go on the warm setting and the colors on the cold!”
It truly would be one of her less-bungled attempts at domesticity, if she hadn’t put in twenty times the amount of detergent needed into each machine.