Me: Okay, okay. So, don't kill me.

Kashino: Why aren't you updating MJMS?

Me: Because, I don't feel like writing the chapter... Sorry guys. I'll get around to it soon, as for now, I don't feel like writing the next chapter of MJMS, so please be patient and wait for me to get over my writer's halfblock with it and read this instead. It's all about Lynne. And I swear, the ending will blow your mind.

Kashino: ...

Me: I do not own Yumeiro Patissiere :)


Chocolate Eyes

Michael: 9

Lynne: 4

Dylan: 1

XxXxX

"Mama what do you like about Daddy?," Lynne asked her mother on a sunny afternoon. Ichigo was sitting on the couch watching children shows with Dylan, while Lynne coloured on the floor.

"What's with the sudden question Lynnie?" Ichigo asked in response. It wasn't usual for Lynne to ask questions about love. She tended to be a tomboy as she grew up with brothers.

She shrugged, "Well, Michiko said that her mom likes her dad because he has blue eyes."

Michiko was one of Lynne's friends from kindergarten. She tended to fill Lynne's head with imagination and crazy ideas. "I'm sure there are more reasons for Michiko's mother to love her dad. Not just because his eyes are blue."

"But why do you like Daddy?" Lynne asked again.

"You'd understand better if you were older," Ichigo tried. Dylan tried to crawl off her lap, but she pulled him back and cradled him. It was about time for his afternoon nap anyway.

"But I wanna know now," Lynne continued.

Trying to keep it simple, Ichigo replied, "Your father is very nice, isn't he? And I guess I have to agree with Michiko's mother. I love your father's eyes."

"Do you like mine?" Lynne asked.

"Of course I do! They're just like mine," Ichigo assured her daughter, "Beautiful and warm. They look like the colour of chocolate, don't they?"

"Chocolate!" Lynne gasped, excited, "I want a boy with chocolate eyes too!"

Ichigo laughed, "Oh Lynnie, don't you think you're too young to be thinking about boys?"

Lynne shook her head, "Nah. They're cute! Like Daddy!"

Ichigo smiled at her daughter, "Alright, alright."

XxXxX

From then on, Lynne dreamed of what it might be like to meet the boy with chocolate eyes. She pictured a prince, with a shining gold crown. Fancy velvet robes and a stunning smile. She drew pictures in her colouring book of princesses and dragons.

She was just a four year old girl, waiting for her prince charming.

One Saturday morning, she asked a special request from her brother Michael. "Mikee!" She called him. Her older brother, already nine years old, didn't have much interest in playing with her anymore.

"What do you want Lynne?" He asked her. He wasn't speaking harshly, though it didn't mean he was excited either.

"Do you wanna play princes and princesses with me?" Lynne asked. He was sitting on the couch watching morning cartoons, so she crawled up on the couch and showed him her colouring book. "This is the plan!" She cooed happily, "I'm the pretty princess, see?" She pointed to a stick figure with a puffy pink dress and tiara resting on her head.

"I see..." Michael responded, leaning back. He knew this was going to take a while.

She pointed to the next drawing, a stick figure with a red cape. It could have been mistaken as a superhero had it not been for the golden crown on his head. Lynne had taken the liberty in drawing in the boy's face, clearly emphasizing the brown eyes. "And you can be my prince with the chocolate eyes!"

Michael's eyebrows lowered in confusion, "Lynne... You do know I don't have brown eyes right? I have golden eyes, like Dad."

The blonde frowned at this, "But... My prince has to have brown eyes! Can't you change your eyes?"

Michael laughed at such a ridiculous idea, "Yeah right. If I could've changed my eye colour, I would've done it a long time ago. Nope. I can't change my eye colour, so suck it up buttercup."

Lynne looked displeased, "Well... We'll just pretend you have brown eyes!" She decided finally. "I'm gonna go get my tiara from my dress up box!" She jumped off the couch and ran for the stairs.

"WAIT!" Michael called after her, "When did I agree to play with you?"

XxXxX

Lynne came down, sporting a plastic tiara on her head. It had fake red jewels glued on and little pink feathers at the base. Scrunched up in her hands was a pink tutu, red cape and plastic crown. "Here!" She exclaimed, throwing the cape and crown at her confused brother. "This is your prince outfit!"

She wiggled into the tutu and clapped her hands together excitedly, "And this is my princess costume!"

"I never agreed to this..." Michael sighed. Though he knew it was no use. He was already sucked into his sister's vortex of princess and fairytales. He clipped the cape around his neck, so the metal clasp rested on his collar bone and the cape flapped at his ankles. He stood up and Lynne jumped onto the couch.

"I dub you... Prince Michael of the Chocolate Eyed People!" Lynne proclaimed boldly, placing the crown on his head.

The boy reminded her, "I don't have brown eyes though..."

"JUST PRETEND!" Lynne exclaimed, fed up with her older brother's complaining. Grabbing her colouring book off the couch, she pointed to the next picture in her plan, "We're gonna play save the princess!" She instructed. "I'm going to be trapped in the castle and you have to fight a dragon to get to me!"

"That's ridiculous," Michael told her. Lynne dragged the couch cushions across the room to set up her castle.

Propping them up so that it was like a box, Lynne stepped over it and squished herself in the middle, "It's not! See? This is my castle!"

"Okay... Michael agreed reluctantly, "But what about a dragon? Where are you supposed to get a..."

"Rawr!" Just then, little Dylan toddled into the room, "... Dwagon?" He asked.

Lynne smiled, "Hey Dyl... Do you want to play with us?"

XxXxX

"Why?" Michael grumbled. Lynne reappeared into the room, pulling along her little brother. After a few minutes of struggle, Lynne had gotten him upstairs and changed into a dragon costume from her dress up box. It was sizes too big for Dylan. The sleeves hung an inch past his hands and he was stepping on the legs of the outfit. The outfit itself was a deep green with spikes going down the back, a cartoon like dragon face and pointy red ears.

"RAWR!" Dylan screeched happily.

Lynne sat him down between her cushion castle and Michael. "There!" She told Michael, "Now, fight the dragon and save me!"

Michael was slightly amused at how far Lynne was willing to go for this to work. Regardless, he was a nine year old boy, this was not something he was interested in. But he figured his parents would get mad if he didn't play with his sister.

"Rawr!" Dylan chimed again, giggling excitedly and slapping his sleeved hands together.

"I'm coming to defeat you Dyl the dragon!" Michael announced, playing along. He charged at his toddler brother, who squealed delightedly.

Michael picked Dylan up and planned to seat him on the couch as he saved 'princess' Lynne. Though, when he tried to place his brother on the couch, Dylan latched on tighter, unwilling to let go of his brother's arm. "RAWR!" He growled.

It seemed his little brother wasn't going down without a fight either. "Oh, so you're going to pick a fight to huh?" Michael asked amusedly. He tickled Dylan under the arms, which caused him to laugh and release his hold on his brother's arm. Setting Dylan on the couch, Michael rushed toward Lynne and her cushion castle. "Fair princess!" He called, "Are you alright?" Michael extended his hand to Lynne, who took it and stepped out of the frame of pillows.

"Yes, I'm good!" She replied cheekily, "Thank you for saving me Prince Michael!"

"You're welcome," Michael said casually; ready to be done with his sister's little games. Lynne reached over and gave him a huge hug and kissed his cheek. The nine year old blushed at this. His sister didn't understand he didn't like kisses, especially from his four year old sister. "Okay, that's enough!" Michael continued hastily.

He was about to take off the crown, when Lynne chimed, "No no! Again!"

"AGAIN?!"

XxXxX

Michael had gotten tired of playing Lynne's princess games as soon as they had finished playing it once. However, Lynne herself was satisfied with them for days, leaving the poor boy in misery. But eventually, she got tired of playing princess and princes with her same old boring brothers.

Lynne would see if any of the kids from kindergarten would play with her. On Monday morning, Lynne loaded her backpack with her costumes and her mother took her to kindergarten. Upon arriving, the little girl put her backpack away in her cubby and behaved exceptionally well that day. One play time arrived; she took Michiko aside and told her what her plans were.

"Princesses and Princes?" Michiko asked delightedly, "That's fun! I'll be the princess!"

"No!" Lynne argued immediately, "I'm the princess! I called it!"

Michiko scowled, "No you didn't. I said it first."

"But it's my stuff," Lynne shrugged.

"I don't wanna be the prince!"

"I don't either!"

Instead, the girls decided on playing with lego and making princesses and castles out of the plastic toys. None the less, Lynne still wanted a playmate to play Princesses and Princes with her.

XxXxX

"MOM. I'm bored!" Michael complained to his mother after Saturday lunch. Lynne was still sitting at the table, picking at her vegetables she didn't want to eat.

"It's a beautiful Saturday afternoon Michael, why don't you go play outside or something?" Ichigo suggested, occupied with spoon feeding Dylan his own lunch.

"Go to the park or something," Kashino agreed, clearing the table. He looked at Lynne, who was still finishing her vegetables and sighed.

"Can I go?" Lynne asked excitedly. She loved the swings. Her favourite part had to be the swings. Or maybe it was the slide. No, it had to be the sandbox... Scratch that. She just liked the park.

Ichigo raised her eyebrows at her daughter, "Maybe if you finish those vegetables on your plate."

Lynne then proceeded in shoving the vegetables in her mouth and chewed viciously. Swallowing, she asked again, "Can I go?"

"Michael, take your sister to the park," Kashino said finally.

"What? Do I have to?" He asked.

"You're bored, aren't you?" Ichigo replied dryly, "Go take your sister to the park then."

He sighed, "Fine. Come on Lynne. Hurry up." Lynne scrambled out of her chair and to the door. As she tied her shoes, Michael reached for his blue baseball hat and set it slightly angled on his head as he usually did.

"Be back in half an hour," Ichigo reminded them.

"Yes Mom," Michael replied, opening the door. After closing it behind them, he grumbled, "It's not like I want to stay longer."

XxXxX

The park was just across the street and a minute walk down. Since it was a Saturday, there were many other kids there. Lynne, unsure of what to do first, looked around excitedly to see where the most kids were.

Michael found that some of his own friends were also there watching little siblings, so they began hanging around and playing with each other.

Lynne finally decided on playing on the swings. Sitting on the black seat she began swinging her legs as she had seen many other kids do. Although, she was unable to really get herself swinging. At a time like this, she would call to her parents to push her, but they weren't there. Michael too, was busy playing grounders with a bunch of other ten year olds. Huffing, Lynne began kicking her legs more forcefully.

"Do you want help?"

The little girl turned around, a boy with blond hair was behind her, and he looked about the same age. He watched her struggle, with a small smile on his face, amused at her inability to use a swing.

"I don't need your help thank you," Lynne answered slightly snobbishly.

"It just looks like you need it," The boy said again.

Lynne sighed, "Fine. I'd like help, if you don't mind."

He laughed and began pushing her by the small of her back, "I've never seen you before," He told her.

"I haven't seen you either," Lynne replied.

"... What's your favourite thing to do?" The boy asked, as there was nothing more awkward to him then silence.

"I like playing princesses and princes," Lynne giggled, "But I haven't found anyone fun to play it with me."

The boy stopped pushing her. "What's princesses and princes?"

"I'm the princess who needs to be saved by a prince with chocolate eyes," Lynne told him, as if it were obvious.

He crinkled his eyebrows together, "Chocolate eyes?"

"You know, brown eyes."

"Why does the prince have to have brown eyes?" The boy asked her. Lynne didn't understand why he didn't get it. It was just an example of childhood oblivion.

"Because, my eyes are brown. My mommy told me that she liked the colour of my eyes and they remind her of chocolate. I want a prince whose eyes remind me of chocolate too." Lynne concluded.

The blond boy frowned, "But I don't have brown eyes. Mine are gold..."

Lynne gasped, "Wait, does that mean you want to play princesses and princes with me?"

He shrugged, "It sounds like fun. I don't mind. But if your prince has to have brown eyes..."

Lynne jumped off the swing and grabbed hold of his hands, "Who cares? My brother doesn't have brown eyes either. But we can pretend you do!"

Her new play mate smiled at her, "Sure!"

XxXxX

"Fair princess!" The blond boy called to her. Lynne was standing at the top of the jungle gym by the slides and he was at the bottom. "Are you okay?"

Lynne giggled happily. Finally, someone who actually wanted to play princesses and princes with her. "I'm fine!" She called down the slide at him, "How about you prince?"

The boy panted dramatically, "I'm fine princess! But it took time to get past the dragon..." He pointed to the teeter-totter that resembled a lizard type thing.

"Oh prince! You're so brave!" Lynne cooed and slid down the slide to meet her prince charming. He took hold of her hand at the bottom and together they ran so they were under the gazebo like structure where families had picnics. "I'm so glad you saved me!" Lynne exclaimed, still playing along.

"I'm so glad you're all right," Her prince agreed.

"I like the colours of your eyes," She continued, "Such a nice shade of brown..."

This was when the boy frowned. Breaking character for a second, he asked again, "Why does the prince have to have brown eyes? Can't he just have golden eyes instead?"

Lynne sighed, "But he's supposed to have chocolat eyes. That's the plan. I like chocolate!"

He paused thoughtfully, before suggesting, "But aren't golden eyes like caramel? You could have a caramel-eyed prince instead!"

Lynne puckered her lips into a duck-face sort of look, "I guess so... Caramel is just as good as chocolate... right?"

"Maybe even better," He agreed with her. "Now I can really be your prince."

"Yeah," Lynne agreed finally, "I love you my caramel-eyed prince." She cooed, kissing him sweetly on the cheek.

His face immediately turned red. He said, "I love you too princess."

It was sweet, how innocent it was. How naive they were to what love really felt like. The boy's mother watched amusedly. It seemed as though her son had found a new special playmate...

His mother called him. The blond boy looked away from Lynne to his mother, who he looked almost exactly like.

"Yeah...?" He asked reluctantly.

"Tell your new friend goodbye, it's time to go home," She told him.

"Aw!" Lynne exclaimed, "But we were having so much fun!"

Michael called to Lynne from the other side of the park, "Come on Lynne! Time to go home!"

She sighed, "I guess we're both leaving though..."

The blond boy smiled at her, "It's okay. We can play again some time!"

"Hopefully... If we ever see each other again," Lynne agreed. "See you soon prince."

"See ya princess," He agreed before watching her run off toward her older brother.

Lynne sighed as she walked back home with her brother. She was going to find her caramel-eyed prince again someday. She knew she would.

"Come on Kazuye," The boy's mother said as she took hold of his hand. He was still looking down the street to where his new friend had left, "It's time to go home."


Me: KABOOM. Was your mind blown?

Kashino: No. I saw it coming.

Me: Shut up. Meanie.

Kashino: Whatever Mikashi. Just go and write MJMS now.

Me: *sigh* I guess I will... Later.

Kashino: Procrastinator.

Me: -.-

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