I’m allllll done for today, I just finished packing away all of these extra pastries, maybe you’d like to take one or two boxes back to your friends for a nice little dessert.

O-Oh! I would love to join you, are you sure?

I know that, I’m just being silly… plenty of you have told me that, and I gotta say it’s made my day every single time~

Well, I suppose you’re right! Then I appreciate that I’m at least /your/ favorite baker in the world, heh

Hehe! Now that’s a title I need to work very hard to keep if given by someone of such a high caliber.

He did?! Well, at the very least she got to watch him sneaking around before he store it away completely. She still had to give him his gift as well.

Noo!! She fears she’s missed his plotted gift giving

Oh dear…

Not…on a cot of some sort?

Maybe he should lie down!

“Heh, I promise not to tell another soul.”

!!

could wear it if you wanted to?”

In her hand, the baker head a leather chord, a few colorful beads closer to the center where they highlighted a small boar’s tusk.

smaller pecks against his lips to allow him a bit more freedom.

“I suppose now that I have you here though, I could maybe give you your first gift—or rather, second gift of the evening?” she snickered a bit, fishing into one of her dress pockets.

“It’s not wrapped though, because I figured you+

ever. I can speak of it now because it /did/ come true. Your existence should not have to feel dreadful, so it brings me peace to know that I’ve been able to make you have something to look forward to.”

She felt herself drawing close again, this time only leaving+

Her own lips began to curl into a soft smile, her cheeks radiating a bit of heat as she felt his warmth so close to her. This was the place she wanted to be in the most, feeling so attached to him in moment like this. It would be difficult to let him go.

“That’s been my only wish+

you are VERY welcome! Don’t tell anyone your birthday wishes, or they won’t come true