Author: Chibi
Color: Blush (you and I)
Story: Original GL
Styles and Supplies: Calender Page, Silhouette, Life Drawing, Graffiti
Warning: implied child neglect at the end
Wordcount: 437

It started with a piece of pecan pie she got at the traveling bakery.

"... I want a simpler life." The princess mumbled, her fair hands lying in her lap. "There are five men my father allows me to marry, but I don't love any of them. And my sister envies me! Sometimes I just want to run away..."

"Run away, you say?" The baker girl smiled, her rich skin reminding the princess of dark oak wood. "... I'm leaving for the next kingdom tomorrow." She stared off into the air. "Perhaps I'll forget to check for stowaways..."

"But if I disappeared, then... they'd look all over for me..." The princess took a bite of her pie, and chewed on it melancholicily.

"Do you wanna hear a secret, little rose?" Without even waiting for an answer, she kept talking, taking a seat to sit down. "My name's Melinda. I used to be important."

"... And you think the same thing could happen to me? But... everyone knows I'm Princess Rose! Even you do!"

"... That was your name?" Melinda chuckled. "Anyways... I used to be a knight who made her own meals. One day me and Biscuit-"

The cat in question just so happened to jump onto Rose's lap, and Rose stroked her cream and white fur as Melinda spoke.

"... One day we went to a clearing we weren't supposed to, and I activated a curse. When I came back..." She took a breath. "Nobody remembered me. The guards, their dogs, everyone-- I was a stranger to them."

"... How close is this clearing?"

"Truth is, I was originally from this place." Melinda kept speaking as Rose internally thought about any and every forgotten moment she could have had with her-- "... I still remember how to get there. Lets take a walk."

"So... Just a few more steps and then I'm free?"

"Just a few more, little rose."

"But... Won't you forget me?"

"Nope! Little Biscuit seemed to remember me, at least."

"... Won't you get forgotten again?"

"Eh. Doesn't matter."

Rumor has it that Rose, one of the two bakers that run The Walking Biscuit, and who has pink hair to match, is perhaps Queen Tulip's long lost sister or King Thorn's illegitimate half-child, but the royal family of Glostria deny such claims...

"... Melinda?"

"Yes, little rose?"

"I love you."

"... So do I, little rose."

And so, they smiled, laughed, and baked as one...

Until one day, a child came to the bakery, having not eaten for days.

"... Mommy and Daddy don't care enough about me to notice if I disappear."

"Then we'll be your mommies!"

And so, a happily ever after...