a Normal Morning

~yawn~

Waking up from a night's sleep I take a look around the room and notice a figure missing next to me, it seems that Valorie woke up earlier then me and left before me, after seeing this I began stretching my hands and legs and was about to leave the bed when the door to the room opened and a small figure walked in

"Ah, looks like you're awake! I was just about to wake you up for breakfast! come on! let's go!" Valorie was moving towards me excitedly while dragging her usual loud voice with her, even in the morning "Here, let me help you out of bed!" she added excitedly while giving me her small hand

"Good morning, it seems that you woke up earlier than me, do you usually wake up this early?" I asked her while I took her hand, as our hands touched she shuddered and moved her gaze away from me with a blush

"Ahem, of course I always wake up super early you know? I always help around the village in the morning and stuff..." she said while making a prideful face while sweating slightly as she walked to the door with my hand held in hers

"Oh, do you now, young lady?" and as we were moving Alison appeared from the other side of the room and spoke in sarcastic voice

"What is that about you waking up early? you always cling to bed whenever I come to wake you up and cry to me-"

"Urgh! mom!" Valorie shudders in fright and quickly runs up to her mother to dissuade her from embarrassing her any further

After Valorie finished desperately begging her mother to stop embarrassing her, Alison instead asked her a question

"So? what made you wake up so early this morning?"

"Ah? th- that's no- not important! let's go eat now! I'm hungry!"

In response to her mother's question Valorie decide to deflect the topic and ran to the kitchen

*sigh* "This girl, seriously such a hustle to take care of" Alison mumbled something to herself as she looked at her own daughter running from her pranks

After that me and Alison started talking as we moved in Valorie's direction

"I hope our girl hasn't been to hard for you to take care of, she can be quite the hustle" Alison asked me in a worried voice

"No ,actually your daughter has been quite good to me, she gave me a lot of space to sleep so it was comfortable" I answered her to quench her worries

"Really? that makes me glad, I was worried our first guest would have a bad experience staying with us" she responded to me in a relief

As we were talking, we eventually reached the table we ate dinner yesterday, I can see Valorie eating in her seat with an already half finished plate, while two other plates on the table were full, and fourth plate empty

Seeing Valorie's father missing again, I decided to ask 

"Ma'am, why does mister not eat with us?" I asked innocently while looking at Alison with eyes filled with a child's pure curiosity

"Peter is just very busy, he works as a hunter so he leaves the house early after a short breakfast to check his traps in the forest, if he didn't do it early other animals would wake up and steal the trapped animals instead of him so unless we wake up before sunrise he won't eat with us breakfast." 

"Oh? so mister is a hunter, is that why we can eat so much meat?" 

"That's right, whenever Peter gets a good hunt we get to eat a better meal than usual, you just happened to have come at such a day, aren't you lucky?" Alison says to me a with a smirk as she answers me

"Hahaha, yeah you're right, I think I'm actually very lucky, to have met nice people like you that let me stay in their home when I didn't have anywhere else to go." Alison eyes widen slightly as she hears my response to her teasing remark, not expecting such sincere words to her teasing

"Hey! I was the one that convinced dad to let you stay! why are you praising mom when you should be praising me!" While listening to our conversation, Valorie suddenly decides to cut in with a complain to me while pouting

Seeing nothing wrong with her logic I moved on to thank her too in the same sincere tone with a small smile and upturned eyes

"You're right, thank you, Valorie, I don't know what I would be doing without you." 

"O-o-oh..." 

*Cough* *Cough*

"...you're welcome..." Valorie said in a hushed voice and momentum totally crushed 

"It seems like you get along well, I'm worried the food will go bad before you guys even begin eating it." Alison takes the chance to strike at her daughter even more

In pity of Valorie I decided to help her escape from her mother insistent teasing

"You're right ma'am, we shouldn't waste the food you have worked to make us, it would be a great waste."

"Wow, you'll really make me blush if you continue to talk to me like that, your future wife will be very lucky to be married to such a nice man" Alison put one hand on her cheek as she spoke back to me while glancing at her daughter 

{Is it so fun to tease your kid like that? maybe it's because of her reaction but her mother can't seem to be able to stop teasing her}

I thought to myself and looked over to Valorie

*Nom*

*Nom*

*Nom*

Valorie seems to have zoned out after hearing what her mother said, she continues to take small bites, unlike her usual big ones, while her face gets continuously redder 

{Fable's wife? how would it be like to be his wife... will we be life mom and dad? kissing and stuff...}

Her thoughts seemed to be getting out of hand so much that she eventually even stops eating and just sits in a daze with food left in her hands while her face seems to release steam from the heat

Sensing the opportunity, Alison takes it to strike Valorie, again.

"Valorie? since you stopped eating it must mean you're full, if that's the case than you should go help around the village like you 'usually' do, right?" 

"Ah! no! I'm not finished eating yet..!" Valorie breaks out of her thoughts by shaking her head and starts to take even bigger bites than usual to distract herself

I rather follow after Alison's example and continue to eat my food normally 

And finally after all the noise subdued the room is only left with the sounds of eating

{Mhm, cooked meat is quite tasty, I didn't bother with the taste of what I ate in the forest since I could simply choose to not feel the taste, but I also didn't bother making myself taste anything good.}

I should start researching more on food while I'm here...

For science, of course!