A Birthday Party for Molly

[Gildarts]

Gildarts nodded and swallowed his bite of tender lemony perfection. His eyes looked at her earnestly, “Would you say this is… Complicated?”

“Not so much anymore,” Guu concluded with a growing smile.

Blinking, Gildarts scraped some rice into his fork and nodded to himself, “Alright,” he agreed and continued to eat a large stick of asparagus. The vegetable poked through his skin and created a lump in his scruffy facial hair as he chomped it with his sharp jaw…

Soon enough, his plate was empty and more words had spoken and been etched into his memory. His stomach was mostly full and he took a moment to snap a picture of Guu in her dazzling adult form with his mind.

Her hair was long and beautiful as it ran past her shoulders and past her hips. Her crimson eyes matched her dress and she had a graceful womanly charm to her, one that he hadn’t identified in her child-form. But nothing had changed, and her voice still had that Guu tone to it. He smiled as he thought about it and realized they’d been sitting there well past the completion of their meal. He smiled to her, content with the good company, and good memories being made.