Meet The Parents - ~Gilding The Lilly~ Ver. Featuring Apple & Amelie

[onaroll]

Well, it's finally happened. After the Duck connected them to Moon, Amelie knew it was only a matter of time before she would go home and introduce her wife to her parents. She is a little worried about how it's going to go, however - from her perspective, it's been three years since she saw them; from their perspective, it's been a little over a month.

She's pretty sure there aren't many good scenarios where a sixteen year old girl drops out of society for a month and then returns married. However: there's nothing to it but to do it, because there is not a single part of her life Apple isn't a part of. As she throws open the door to her old house, she calls out in a voice she wants to be cheerful but isn't quite up to snuff.

"I'm home, Mama! Can you set an extra place for dinner? I bought company!"

Comments

[onaroll]

Grace has just. Covered her face with both hands for a little while before looking at Apple.

"A normal Trainer battle will get you enough money for, perhaps...a bottle of lemonade and a sandwich? Professional Trainers like Amelie are apparently so far beyond that we have no frame of reference to teach her how to budget."

Amelie looks confused and indignant.

"I can budget!"

At this, Tadashi turns to her.

"My little flower. You just casually suggested we spend more on our lunch than I make in a month."

[cidery]

"While our combined inter-dimensional wallets could feasibly afford it, we should probably figure out where and when to spend so extravagantly," put in Apple with a little ruffle of Amelie's hair at her cheek.

"But then again, it'll be fun!"

[onaroll]

"What about Restaurant Le Yeah instead? It's much more afforda..."

Tadashi trails off at the Look Amelie adopts the instant he mentions Le Yeah. Grace snaps her fingers in front of Amelie's face to get her attention and raises one eyebrow as she looks at her.

"Le Yeah has two stars because they use avant-garde ingredients to cover their substandard techniques. I would not trust them to produce a croque monsieur properly, much less something I would be expected to feed to my family. If I went somewhere based on price, it'd almost certainly be Le Nah, which is much more worthy of two stars than Le Yeah."

Amelie has very strong opinions about the Lumiose restaurant scene, and it's kind of sad more people don't ask her about them.

[cidery]

"She was like this during the restaurant crawl too," said Apple with a quirky little smile. "At the least, it gave us a good view of food."

[onaroll]

“It took me an entire month to set that up, too.”

The restaurant crawl is one of Amelie’s greatest triumphs, and her mood is instantly improved thinking of it.

[cidery]

"And I enjoyed every minute of it," said Apple with a little impish grin. "There was so much food, I could barely keep up. Even though I could eat that much. Poor Megumin though, she was so full for almost a week."

[onaroll]

“Ah, Megumin’s another friend of ours...she’s a little strange, but a good kid.”

Amelie’s underselling it.

[cidery]

Underselling it is right, Megumin is a very strange kid.

"Still, we should probably all figure out where to go for dinner then," said Apple.

[onaroll]

Amelie hums thoughtfully.

“Ah...I like Le Wow, but...”

Amelie glances up from beneath her lashes, looking almost shy.

“Could I...could I show you my favorite cafe?”

There’s a pause as Grace reaches out, a tender smile on her face...and gives Amelie a light cuff to the back of the head.

“That’s all we ever wanted, you silly Swanna. Don’t try to impress us with expensive places. Just take us somewhere you’re happy. Honestly, where did you pick up that bad habit...”

[cidery]

"I'd be happy with your favorite place too," said Apple with a little impish grin. "You should be happy with everything you do, you know?"