GOLD-PLATED LOVE

Title: gold-plated love
Prompt: home
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They’re eating their dinner in silence, Yu and Yu’s mother. A western-style meal, the leftovers from Yu’s mother’s meeting with two American businessmen, here in their private home… In her mind, Yu imagines her mother asking her something like “your line dance practice – are you working hard on it?” or “have you made your decision in regards to your stage name at last?” Her mother, however, only opens her mouth around the next bite of steak. But it’s okay. Yu knows. Yu knows that her mother loves her in a different currency and Takarazuka has been nothing, if not expensive.