This chapter has been edited and updated, but I wanted to make sure the dedication remained, so this chapter is dedicated to YayNessa for reviewing. Thank you for staying with me :)

Chapter 6- Memories

There is a video I found from back when I was three. You set up a paint set in the kitchen and you're talking to me. It's the age of princesses and pirate ships and the seven dwarves.

Jez was rifling through a pile of junk in the attic, when she saw something glinting in a pile. She walked over and saw a picture of her and Morgead from when she was three. She looked at it carefully, trying to remember when it was from. The two of them were smiling and laughing dressed up in costumes. Then she saw the video camera beside it. She picked it up and read the date on the tape inside the camera, November 20th, 1983. That would've been the day of her third birthday. She remembered now. That was about a week after she met Morgead and she had insisted that he be invited to her party. In fact, she had insisted she have a party, even though she really only knew Morgead. Jez was excited to watch it, so she grabbed the tape and ran out the door.

When she reached Morgead's apartment she didn't even bother knocking she just pushed open the door, ran in, and put the tape in his VHS player.

"What the hell are you doing here Jez? Do you know what time it is?" Morgead asked groggily, rubbing sleep out of his eyes. Jez grabbed his sheets and flipped him onto the floor, laughing.

"Get up, sleepyhead. I want to show you something." Morgead sat up, yawned and moved onto the couch beside Jez. Jez hit play and the video started rolling. Morgead watched in awe as he saw himself, at roughly the age of 4, making finger paintings with Jez in her kitchen.

"What is this?" he inquired laughing with Jez at their childish antics.

"I found it in the attic. It's the video Bracken took from my 3rd birthday party." As they watched young Jez announced that she was going to be Snow White today, and therefore Morgead had to be Grumpy, the dwarf, because there was no way he was going to be her prince. Jez and Morgead both burst out laughing as their younger selves got into an argument over it.

"I remember that, I wanted to be your prince because I really liked you, but you insisted on me being some knobbly kneed dwarf."

"Yeah, and you wouldn't give in, so I had to pull the birthday card."

As they continued watching Bracken came in with the cake.

"Oh my god, we didn't" Jez squealed

"We did." As soon as Bracken set the cake down, Morgead shoved Jez's face into it. Jez looked up furious and grabbing a handful of cake she shoved it in Morgead's face and hair. Morgead looked outraged and before Bracken could stop them cake was flying everywhere.

Present day Jez and Morgead burst out laughing, wishing they could do that again.

"You look adorable, cakeface." Morgead joked.

"And you look just peachy with cake in your hair," Jez teased.

"Mhmm. I'm sure I do. But I always look great." They both fell off the bed laughing as hard as they could. When they focused in on the screen again, Bracken was screaming at their past selves.

"Oh god, that was an amazing birthday" Jez smiled, out of breath.

"It sure was" Morgead smiled at Jez, and she felt that familiar tug in her gut, the one she usually chose to ignore. But today, she let it grow.

Morgead smiled at her and felt his heartbeat increase as she looked at him.

"You've always been there haven't you Morgead."

"I guess so, I mean you've been there for as long as I can remember"

"Promise me something,"

"Anything"

"That no matter what happens, you'll always be there for me."

"Of course, I would never leave you Jez." Jez smiled and her heart raced in her chest. Not for the first time, she wondered if what she felt for Morgead wasn't just friendship, but something more. Something that a friendship could pave the way towards, but that a friendship would never sate the desire for. She hoped that if she was right, Morgead could miraculously feel the same way.