"Babe, you want anything?"
Kronii is at the front door, wearing a shirt, shorts, and a hoodie(yours).
She grabs the dark blue crocs you bought her during a sale, placing it on the floor and sliding her feet in.
"No thanks, I'm good."
You hear the front door close
You are, in fact, not good.
Lately Kronii's been going out shopping way too often, returning happily when she only bought a bag of chips or two
Not quite sure of your relationship yet and terrified of the thought she'll leave you, you decide to investigate.
Grabbing your mask and glasses, you head out 5 minutes later.
Catching up, you spot her walking towards the local convenience store
...before walking into an alleyway.
You've been here long enough to know it's a dead end with a garbage bin.
Before you could decide whether to follow her or not, out comes walking a...smaller Kronii?
No
It's a younger Kronii
She's wearing your hoodie now
Entering the store you see her grabbing many snacks and bottled teas.
Seeing her preoccupied, you decide to walk into the store as well.
You position yourself in front of the food section to hide yourself from her.
Oh damn some of these actually look kinda tasty
Cheese panini, sausage panini, cake panini, crossaint panini, strawber-
The sounds of beeps bring you back from thoughts of paninis
Kronii's checking out
"And that'll be 6$. Anything else little miss?"
You almost faint hearing her response
"Nope!"
Holy shit she sounds so cute
She sounds like...
Like...
...
Memories of a forgotten time begin to surface.
You wait for a bit before leaving the store
A cheese panini in hand, you make your way back home.
Well, at least she isn't doing anything dangerous.
You make it just in time to see Kronii, aged back to normal, at the side of your house busy throwing the majority of the snacks into her streaming room
Speedwalking into the house, you plop back down on the couch, having finished your sandwich.
Now that you know what she's been doing you feel relieved
But what do you do with this information?
Before you could think any further Kronii enters, with 2 bags of chips and a bottle of lemon tea
"How was the trip?"
"Nothing much. I got this extra bag of chips from a promotion though. Want it?"
Wow, she's being thoughtful for once
"Sur-"
"Thengobuyityourselfthen HAH!"
She gives a smug smile before making her way to her room
This dork.
"Sure."
You get up from the couch
"Little miss."
She drops the bottle of tea.
Kronii is now bright red
Taking advantage, you walk up to her and pat her head
"..Please don't tell anyone."
"Tell anyone what? That you de-age yourself to buy sna-"
"SHUT IT. It's a good thing my powers are on cooldown..."
She gets down on the floor, hugging her knees.
Oh damn
You didn't know she was this sensitive about it
Shit, now you feel kinda bad.
"Don't worry, I'm not gonna tell anyone."
Kronii looks up, teary eyed.
"Promise?"
"Promise."
You kiss her.
Both of you sit on the ground, just enjoying eachothers company.
You try to grab a bag of chips. She slaps your hand away.
"I gotta ask, why?"
"...I wanted to be a kid, even just for a little while."
"Huh?"
You turn to face her, Kronii's staring outside the window.
"As the avatar of time, I just suddenly came into existence."
She twirls her hand a little.
"At first I just followed my orders. I didn't really care for anything else, the humans I had to take care of, the monsters I fought..."
She finally turns to meet your gaze
"Until I met you."
Kronii grabs your hand.
"Since then, I became more invested in humanity. I watched people live their lives, and how they interacted with oneanother..."
Now that you think about it Kronii has become more friendly to other people.
"I was especially interested in children."
You stare at her
"N O T I N T H A T W A Y ."
You chuckle and recieve a light bonk on the head
"Anyway, I wanted to experience childhood. To just..live in the moment, y'know? Not thinking about anything and doing what I want, having people care for you cuz you don't know better. That kinda stuff."
You think back to when you were just a kid
Oh yeah.
That was nice.
"It's weird, I kno-"
"What if you pretended to be my little sister for a day?"
You mentally slap yourself in the face for blurting that out
"Huh?"
Might as well roll with it
"Well, you'll still get to be a kid and I'll be able to take care of you in case anything goes wrong."
A moment of awkward silence
Well, this is it, you fucked your relationship with Kronii.
Time to start packing your bags.
Wonder if there's any cheap apartments arou-
"...you're right. Plus I won't have people asking me where my parents are too."
Oh?
"We could go to that new aquarium that just opened. Plus I could get the child discount!"
She gets up, looking at her phone. You haven't seen her this excited since your first date together.
"When do you want to go out?"