~Chilled's POV~

He hasn't called. He hasn't messaged. I feel like an abandoned puppy, abandoned by his owner after just getting the owner. The feeling: very lonely despite always having Ze message me worryingly I just ignore them and search for another message in particular. Without a single message I sigh and let the phone slide down to the floor and turn over outside the window. It's snowing. I love going outside when it's snowing usually. Pulling up my knees I stare outside emptily until I notice Ze walking back up to the door and excited for company I nearly get up but wince in a sudden pain and flinch back, falling back while shrinking in size, the sensation still hitting me with the same amount of pain as always. I watch Ze enter the house and turn in all directions until seeing me, smiling and patting my head before taking off his jacket and tossing it lazily towards the couch before falling onto the couch, seeming to be exhausted.

It's been a couple of weeks since the sickness started and as each day passes Ze is looking more and more excited. Usually we get a lot more business than usual this time of year but with the two of us it's always been handable. Whenever I ask him how he seems to be so exhausted when he has Gassy's help he just...doesn't answer. Because he's a douche. At least I'm assuming he's just pulling a douche move because the alternative, that he's hiding something from me, doesn't seem all that favorable to me. I'm getting better too, it's a slow process. A lot slower than Nanners apparently since Ze has explained to me that he's completely fine now, his sickness disappearing with just one night. Damn bastard just passed the sickness onto me, and I have more strings attached to being sick.

It doesn't take long for me to turn back, holding my knees just like I was when I had changed to a plushy. I find that the more I think about happy thoughts the faster it is to change back, though it could just be a coincidence and I'm actually just becoming better health-wise. It could also be the placebo effect, if I believe I think enough happy thoughts I'll turn back. Well at least it isn't some weird placebo effect that if I think about depressing shit I'll turn back, because it's a lot better to be back with happy thoughts in mind. Jumping off the small perch I approach Ze, laying down on the couch probably asleep at this point. One thing I've learned from living with Ze: the man can sleep. Another thing: don't be around him when he wakes up because he is a terrible morning person if he even wakes up. Backing off from Ze I begin to poke around, wondering if I can possibly find anything that may tell me what Ze is hiding from me.

After searching around I find a small paper within Ze's jacket I pull out in curiosity and widen my eyes in realization. Oh shit, the Winter Festival's soon. Is Nanners still helping? Are Nanners and I in a fight right now though? What is this moment in time in which he seems to think I'm angry at him which makes me think he's angry at me? Holy shit, is this a couples fight? I shake my head and smile sadly, of course it isn't. I want to go though. I sigh in annooyance when I remember I have one obstacle in my way from going, but it's one huge one: Ze. I'm not fully sick, but I'm definitely not fully better. If there's even the slightest chance I can change without my preparation Ze will not take the risk. That must be why he's keeping this away from me, because he doesn't want me to figure out and be interested enough to go. I glance back towards Ze, still fast asleep on the couch. Well, if he doesn't know I remembered about it I can still go without a big lecture because he didn't tell me not to go.

"Chilled," Ze calls out and I jump before glancing over at him. "What are you doing?" I glance down at my hands, typing away furiously at the keyboard.

"I was emailing Galm. He said he move here in the future as soon as he finishes up some things," I explain and Ze immediately strides over and leans down by the computer screen.

"Oh shit it's true. We'll have to throw him a welcome party or something," Ze comments, backing away and entering the kitchen. "Anyways, I won't be home until late. Will you be fine on your own?" 

"Why are you gonna be late?" I ask and Ze immediately tenses up, so obviously guilty it'd be hard not to tell that he's hiding something from me. Ze laughs nervously and shake his head and hands in front of him as if I've accused something to him.

"It's nothing. Just - uh - meeting up with some friends," Ze explains and before I can ask any other questions bolts from the room and towards the door. "Well see you probably tomorrow, bye Chilled," he calls out before the slam of the front door echoes through the entire room. I roll my eyes at the man and his so obvious behavior. I wait a couple of hours before getting ready as well to leave, sure to bring in the required materials to make sure if Ze sees me he doesn't recognize me. This has to work, it has to.

~Nanners' POV~

"Adam, you look beautiful," Mrs. Pennington cries out as she reviews my outfit. It isn't even anythign special what they dressed me in, just pretty must a white shirt and dark blue pants, a small design of snowflakes on the shirt but otherwise it'd be a shirt I wear everyday. The very limited amount of make up they put on me and the wig on the other hand is very uncomfortable, different from my own unique style. My hair now falling onto my face every once in a while unlike my usually short cut. I have it usually short to avoid having to deal with this hassle every time I just want to do something as simple as turning my head.

"Go out now, go out and woo the crowd," Mrs. Pennington hurries me out of the tent and having me stumble out onto the stage where the musicians are preparing. I nod to the familiar band, having helped them set up for this day when Mrs. Pennington practically had me running around with a huge sign on my forehead saying "useful errand boy here". Glancing around I notice Ze made up his stand to be some sort of game to win the plushies, which make a whole lot of sense rather than being just a boring stall. Gassy must be the one having to stay back at the shop, sad enough for him who usually enjoys these types of festivities. I step down from the stage and I do notice a few women glance over at me in shock but only stare from a distance with their very creepy eyes. I guess I really am just "eye candy".

Stepping over the snow I wander around, several women staring at me but none approaching. Is there some sort of forbidden rule not given to me that says not to touch me or even speak to me while wearing this silly wig? I sigh and glance around, searching for anyone familiar and failing dramatically. Being isolated like this isn't really the greatest fun. Feeling boredom begin to rise I enter the nearby mirror house. Might as well go through some of these attractions while they're up, I helped make them anyways.

~Chilled's POV~

Glancing into the mirror right in my face I nearly ran directly into the mirror. Why are these damn mirror houses always so confusing? It doesn't help that everytime I look at myself in the mirror it feels like I'm looking at someone else from the strange way I'm dressed. A long white coat goes down to my ankles while my long black haired wig seems to conceal my true personality all too well. As long as I use this long hair as a cover too I'll be able to avoid Ze's detection. Although I convinced myself of my long hair's safety and precaution of the hair the moment I spotted Ze I got nervous and walked right into the nearest attraction which happened to be this huge mind fuck. I gently touch the mirror on my right as I continually walk towards the right end from my training in all the maze papers I used to do as a chi'

Ow. I fall back and wince in pain, having walked directly into a mirror like a moron. Who just walks right into a wall with my hand clearly noting it was a wall, I touched the mirror in front of me too but I was too distracted gloating in my mine about my awesome abilities to notice.

"Ow," someone else's voice cries out in the mirror house and immediately my chest rises with the presence of the extremely familiar voice. I dash through the maze in a hurry now, only running into walls enough for dentists to be impressed I haven't broken any teeth yet. Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel I quickly dash forward and raise my hands up in victory, causing the nearby girls to giggle at me. I laugh and scratch the back of my head, nervously talking to the girls how my nose isn't broken it's just deformed. Someone brushes against me and I immediately turn around abruptly, as if the small gesture indicates it'd be Adam. Wrong. A man walks right past me, longer light brown running down his neck and a ridiculous snow flake shirt. Someone is way too into this I guess.

The girls leave and I just watch the exit., waiting for the moment the banana man were to walk out and I surprise him with my surprise shortness of my vacation. I end up imagining the event so much I stop paying attention of the people who leave the attraction. Wait, was that him? I quickly turn but the man was just another guy with a similar hair cut. He could have passed when I wasn't paying attention. I sigh in disappointment and walk over to the nearest food stand, ready to fill my belly with some popcorn.

~Nanners' POV~

I rub the front of my face in pain. I shouldn't have gone through that mirror maze, I always forget that I'm absolutely terrible at those especially when I can't focus. Pulling out my phone I find I always check frantically for any sorts of messages or calls from Chilled, even if he were to text me he was done with me I'd be completely fine with that. Instead he's leaving me believing I really do have a chance with him when I haven't even seen him or spoken properly with him since that night. I continue through the festival grounds. Strange what the variety of people come to these things, I hadn't even figured we had this many people in the town. Glancing over I suddenly smell a sweet smell of popcorn and feel whatever I had in my stomach empty.

Charging forward on the task of getting popcorn I search for the nearest stall. When I find one I notice a figure, a very familiar figure stuffing his face with hands full of popcorn. Chilled...Chilled always talked about how much he loved popcorn right? If... if this were to be Chilled in front of me righ tnow how would I react? How should I react? Would I react at all? I shake my head, afraid of the answer to all of the questions and instead go forward, acting as if nothing is wrong as I pull on the man's shoulder aside as I go forward to order my popcorn. Very slowly and cautiously I turn my head to peek at the man's face.

Definitely not Chilled's face.

I sigh in some sort of relief and don't even feel too appetited to eat any popcorn at all just wondering about how much Chilled apparently loved it. The man looks at me in confusion as I just walk away from the stand. I hadn't even noticed at first but soon I feel a tugging at my arm and glance down to see a little girl tugging on the sleeve of my shirt.

"I can't find my mommy!" the little girl cries out and I quickly glance around, searching for something - anything - to please and comfort the child. The nearest solution is: popcorn. Food warms the soul, right? Some girls believe that. I charge forward to the popcorn stall but before I can even order popcorn I glance back and notice the small girl has a small bag filled with popcorn and I glance up to see who gave it to her. Some man with long black hair walks in the other direction, holding his hand up waving towards me. I look back down to the girl and sigh in relief to see she's stopped crying and is nibbling onto her popcorn.

~Chilled's POV~

Where the fuck is he? The "eye candy" as Mrs. Pennington calls them can't move around the festival from corner to corner so quickly can he? I must have passed by him at one point at least. Knowing Mrs. Pennington he's prbably dressed ridiculous like she had dressed me last year: so many ribbons and snowflakes I felt like I was done with winter for the month. So far I haven't seen anybody so ridiculoudly dressed as I had been last year, so could it be that Mrs. Pennington took it down a notch for this year? 

"Excuse me, have you seen my daughter?" a woman suddenly cries out to me and I freak out momentarily but shake my head quietly. "Oh dear, I am the worst mother out there."

"Yeah you are, who the fuck loses their child?" I ask straight forwardly and the woman immediately glares at me and shakes her head.

"I will - find - her...." slowly the anger dissolves and she begins crying loudly where she stands making me freak out as the people around me begin to stare as I made the grown woman cry. Shit, seems like she's even more like a baby than the child I gave popcorn to earlier. I pull the woman away from teh crowd and hide her behind the haunted mansion, ordering her to stay still for once. Quickly I escape and look all around, searching for any young child who is all alone without anybody else to help them. No one, I spot the child with the popcorn but that light brown haired guy has to be her dad from the kindess he's showing her.

I return to the mother after failing only to see the mother hugging her daughter in a tight embrace only leaving me shocked aside. I glance up and see a figure walking away, teh same guy with light brown hair I've seem to run into a countless amount of times before, or at least his back.

"Hey, thank you!" I shout out but he doesn't seem to hear as he continues on walking. I turn back to help the mother and child in case they need more help. I need to thank that light brown hair guy the next time I see him.

~Nanners' POV~

Finally getting rid of the leaky eyed child I wander around again, still a bit phased by thinking I had run into Chilled before. If he were to come in Winter Festival it wouldn't be a surprise but I don't think I'm really prepared to see him again just yet. Glancing around I notice Ze is no longer at his stand but instead Gassy is making hilarious faces and voices to a little girl who giggles loudly and holds at his face. I smile and step over to the stand making Gassy glance up and me and stand up fully.

"Look at you Nanners. So handsome and.... With a head full of hair," Gassy comments and bursts out into laughter staring at my head. I roll my eyes but glance down at the girl who stares right back up cautiously. I smile warmly and kneel down.

"Hey sweety you having good fun with Maxy here?" The girl nods awfully dramatically nodding her head up and down.  "Why don't you try to win one oft hose plushies?" I ask handing to girl a dollar and immediately Gassy turns around, setting up the pins once again as close as be possibly can to the person throwing. As soon as the pins are set up the girl throws out the ball letting it go at the worst moment possible causing the ball to just drop right down. Despite her obvious and terrible failure Gassy just chuckles and hands her a small pink bunny.

"Hee hee, I already have this guy," the girl giggles, taking out a smaller Brown plush matching the mascot. Well dang, this is the same girl as always. The girl turns to me and hands out the pink bunny and as much as I'd rather have the other plush in his other hand I accept the bunny.

"You can have him. He will keep you company. Ah, mommy's calling, bye bye Gassy, Nanners," the girl calls out before waving happily and dashing off to her mother who smiles to us, waving friendlily. I stare after the kid and glance back over to Gassy who is squinting off into the distance.

"Mrs. Pennington seems busy. It seems as if she's looking for someone though. I wonder if Chilled is around today," Gassy comments making me tense up and glance over at him, a bit troubled. "What's the matter? Don't you want to see him?"

"Even if I do, I wouldn't know what to say and he wouldn't look for me. Do you know if Ze's told him yet?" Gassy glances at me with a shocked expression. "Yeah I know you told Ze and I don't mind. I'm just worried if Ze told or will tell Chilled."

"God damn Adam, you brought this on yourself. I'd root for you if you hadn't already fucked it up," Gassy snaps and I just laugh, already aware of my mistakes. I really did fuck it up. For once I felt like getting to know someone more than just as a friend and I completely fucked it up when so many other things could have been done. A familiar figure gets my attention and I glance over to Ze in the distance approaching an immediately move away from Gassy.

"I'll be back," I claim before leaving and after a while of hastily walking and bumping into several people I sigh, soon finding several women approach me.

~Chilled's POV~

"Ow, excuse you bastard," I call out as the man bumps into me and I widen my eyes when I see his back and notice he's the same one as the light Brown haired guy. "Wait, hold up," I call out but he's already completely ignored me and surrounded by women. So he's a woman's man. Somehow it disappoints me a bit. Glancing down I notice a small pink bunny on the ground, something usually sold at my shop. I pick the little plush up and glance over at the stand Ze had set up and immediately spot the little bunny sitting up.

Looking at the stand I almost feel jealous that Gassy gets to have fun watching everyone fail when he's the newer employee. I would have loved to help out and play with all of these little kids. Gassy seems to be having a blast, making funny faces and voices to the smaller children. It really is all technically Nanners' fault for making me sick in the first place. I sigh and just stare at the stand just ad someone passes by me towards the stand and nearly makes me freak out. Ze walks right past me and approaches Gassy. I shake my head and immediately turn around and escape the situation just as I feel a hand on my shoulder. Jumping at the sudden touch I glance over and see Mrs. Pennington grabbing onto my shoulder.

"I knew you were here. You have to make up for last year," Mrs. Pennington demands and pulls on my arm and as much as I'd like to pull away I don't feel like pushing away the old woman.

"Adam you're doing wonderful!" Mrs. Pennington shouts and I immediately turn to where she shouted but I have no time to see who it is before Mrs. Pennington drags me into a random tent and immediately I'm jumped by two other girls.  I completely resist their every action but their pulling and painting on my face seems so determined to make me look beautiful. The girls slowly back away when they're satisfied with their work while Mrs. Pennington looks to me, inspecting me fully and nodding.

"You better get out there and make up for last year!" Mrs. Pennington orders as she pushes me out of the tent. "Join Adam, he was going to go by Ms. Flora's stand," Mrs. Pennington orders and for once I don't feel exhausted or annoyed by her orders. I smile and nod before bursting out into a sprint and hurry towards Ms. Flora's stand. Once arriving I pant in exhaustion and glance around, spotting a familiar figure and smile as I notice the same light brown haired guy was Adam. I should have figured, and yet there were so many times I just casually passed by him without even noticing.

"Adam!" I shout and immediately wince in pain right afterwards. Adam turns to me and seems shocked with my presence and stays still. I glance at him for a few moments before turning and running. I have the worst timing with these transformations.

~Nanners' POV~

He just... ran? Rather than feeling annoyed with the obvious avoidance I find myself staring after him in amusement as he stumbles as he runs away. He's wearing a strange outfit, hell he was the guy I've noticed several times. I should have noticed when I faintly heard his voice which sounded remarkable close to Chilled's voice. Stepping forward to where he ran I expect to see him dashing away but when I turn the corner absolutely nothing. He disappeared. Again. Damn it Chilled, right when he seemed to want to talk in person for once. I sigh in disappointment before turning away and running directly into Mrs. Pennington who is glaring in the direction Chilled had run off to. 

"That boy ran away again!" Mrs. Pennington snaps and I jus tlaugh, glancing back to where he ran, the usual clutte rof people just walking around while no Chilled is in sight.

"I'm sure he just needed to use the restroom or something," I claim and walk away but Mrs. Pennington stays there, staring at the direction where Chilled ran. Her determination in finding Chilled and her focus on where he ran intrigues me for some reason. It's as if she believes he's somewhere in that direction when he really just probably pulled some jukes on us and got away. It does strike me as strange though, considering Chilled has been repeatedly trying to call me the past few weeks trying to convince me of something. He left with Ze, there was no doubt about it he had chosen him.

"Adam?" Speak of the devil. I turn around and see Ze, but rather than the usual cold and angry hatred-filled expression he shows me right now he seems like he couldn't care less about me and seems worried with something else.

"Have you seen Chilled? He - He went missing on me now too," he comments as if it's normal. I stare at him for a long time, trying to judge between telling the truth or dashing after Chilled myself and convincing him to stay with me. As tempting as it sounds Ze seems worried, and despite his hatred of me I'm aware he's a good man.

"He ran away back there," I explain, pointing behind me and Ze immediately nods a thank you before hurrying in that direction. I sigh as I stare after him, wondering if I had been the one going after him I'd be the one who finds him and saves him. Taking a deep breath and pushing all those type of thoughts out of my head I head down to visit some other stands possibly like Mrs. Pennington had wanted me to do.

~Chilled's POV~

Fuck, fuck, fuck. Not only am I being chased by a mad woman but also a mad man who wants to drag me back home when I wanna stay and play. Peeking my head out the alley on the outskirts of the festival grounds I spot Ze looking around with determination while Mrs. Pennington is charging at every stand, absolutely set on dragging me to work and sweet talk some ladies when, for once, I don't want to. Despite my easy spot of Mrs. Pennington and Ze I can't find Adam anywhere only making me assume he's on the other side of the grounds and the festival is almost over. If I don't even get to see Adam this entire trip and charades would have been for nothing. I tumble my head down to the ground when I recall all the moments I just casually walked by him. How did we miss each other so many times?

Pulling up the pink bunny I stare at the small plushy that Adam had been carrying with him for some reason. Why would he be carrying such a silly toy anyways? Maybe Gassy convinced him into playing that game he and Ze had set up on the other side of the grounds. Since Ze is out here on this side it'd make sense that Adam would be on the other side hanging out with Gassy. Somehow I have a feeling Adam and Ze despise each other, or maybe just Ze towards Adam considering how much he disapproves of my liking I've taken for Adam. After laying down for several moments I sit up, holding the pink bunny with my hands while staring up towards the rest of the festival. I must have missed a large portion considering it's already dark when it had still been light when I was human. For all I know he could have gone home already. Wait...for all I know he could have gone home already.

Quickly I pick myself up and exit the alleyway through the other side, technically leaving the festival grounds and hurry down the familiar streets. He has to be there. Adam isn't the type to stay in that festival for so long anyways and if he turns out to be I can just wait for him at my house. What if he isn't even living there anymore? I find my steps become slower and slower as my enthusiasm dies but I'm already here, at technically my house. Walking up to the steps, I get ready to knock but a voice calls out to me.

"Chilled? You finally home?" Adam teases from behind me.