#b'ig

“Move it a little to the left Cherry!” 

Cherrypit went ahead and moved the sign to the right.

“Oh right!” Babycorn giggled, “I forgot we don’t know our directions!” It was a hard thing to remember-much like directions themselves. 

At that very moment, Butter happened to come out of the mansion, watering can in hand he also just happened to notice the project Babycorn was working on right outside of the mansion gates. “Babycorn?” He thought she wasn’t going to be home today, on account of her saying she was gonna be super busy tomorrow. 

“Is that you? Do you need any help?” Butter tilted his head to try and get a better view at Babycorn hanging off what looked to be a fairly large sign, her baby brother sitting on the opposite side of the sign. Her legs were kicking in the air as if that was gonna help keep her balance. 

“Butts?! Hiiiii! It’s me Baby-!” She raised her hand to wave at him, forgetting she kinda needed that right now. “Oppsie.” Seconds later she faceplanted on the ground, Cherrypit falling right next to her albeit at a much slower speed. 

As soon as Babycorn was able to pick her face up from the dirt she noticed that Butter was already at her side. “Are you okay!?” He held out his hand towards her to help her up. Babycorn thought that what Butter was asking was a funny question. 

Babycorn giggled, taking Butter’s hand. “No! I’m Babycorn Corn, silly!”

Butter felt himself start to blush. His crush was just so silly and cute, did she know that? Was she aware how much of a grip she had on his heart? “You sure are…” He swooned, pulling her up. 

His eyes were still glued to her as she tippy-tapped her way over to what could only be assumed was the exact thing that was going to be keeping her busy all day today. Cherrypit followed right behind her, excitedly waddling and giggling right behind his sister. 

“All ready?” Cherrypit asked. He and Babycorn had been at this since last night. Not that he was tired or anything, the word tired wasn’t anywhere in his dictionary. If anything, Cherrypit was wondering if he was gonna get to bite more pieces of wood. 

“I think we’re all finished!” Babycorn happily declared. “And we have extra wood so you can bite as much as you want now!”

“YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!” Cherrypit loudly cheered, grabbing the nearest 2x4 and started to nibble on it like it was nothing more than a baby’s teething toy. 

With all this hard work, Butter couldn’t help but wonder just what was Babycorn working so hard on? It looked like some sort of booth but it was probably better to hear it from the Bebe’s mouth. “What are you working on?” He figured that it was a little too late for him to ask if he could help but maybe there was still hope.

Babycorn’s pom stood up in surprise, but it still felt nice to hear Butter ask her about it. (she couldn’t really think of why…) “I’m making aaaaa whatcha-call-it…?” The wheels in Babycorn’s head had to spin just a little faster for her to remember what she was doing. When they did, a lightbulb finalled dimmed on. 

“Booth! Tada! Doesn’t it look awesome!” She got down on one of her knees and gestured to her genius project. Made of all sorts of different types of planks of wood that Cherrypit made himself and painted with his hands. It was actually kinda cute. 

There was however, one thing that caught Butter’s attention. 

The sign on top of the booth had two words written on them. 

Two very specific words that made Butter’s eyes widen and sent a cold shiver up his spine. 

“Kissing botth” 

…Okay, it was a little misspelled but the message was still there. 

Of course Babycorn didn't even notice the despair written all over Butter’s face as she just kept talking. “I had K’achow write the sign for me! Since no one else wanted to do it!” She initially had a lot of trouble imagining why no one wanted to help her, but as long as the sign still got made she didn’t really mind. 

To Babycorn’s credit she did correctly guess Butter wondering why the heck she would make something like this. “I’m saving up gil to buy my own house!!” Babycorn leaned in closer to Butter, as if she was telling him a secret no one else should know. “Did you know you can use gil to buy things with?!” Who could have known those delicious looking circles were good for more than just snacking on? Not her!

“Yumee!” Cherrypit felled over, still chewing on his plank of wood. 

Enough time had passed that Butter was finally able to form a coherent sentence. “Is that so…?” 

“Yeah! I had a book read to me that told me that these kinds of things make a lot of money!!” To be fair, at the time Tilika had no idea that Babycorn would be so delusional to actually make a physical kissing booth and put herself out there. 

“And you decided to set it up…” Butter looked around, they were currently in the 14th ward of the Lavender Beds at plot 6. “.right in front of our house?” 

“Yeah! I got the idea from B’iggy!” 

Babycorn pointed at her friend, B’ig Nunh, who was right over there. Just right over there. Do you see him? B’ig Nunh? Right there. Right under the tree, sitting on a bench. 

B’ig looked up from eating his sandwich that Vertical made for him earlier, stopping mid-bite. The heart on his lovely moogle hat started sweating alongside him. He very quickly noticed the death glare that Butter was giving him across the way. 

That Butter guy tended to do that a lot to him lately. 

B’ig Nunh looked more frightened than confused about what Babycorn was talking about “I’ve never had a kissing booth?????????????” He was pretty sure he would remember something like that!!!!

“Yeah you did!” It took a minute but Babycorn was able to pull up her proof from under her booth where she was just keeping a bunch of stuff like her lunch and her dinner. Out from below she pulled out a copy of ‘B’ig Nunh tales to tell in the Dark. Vol X’ 

Babycorn flipped through the book until she found the page she was looking for. “Here!” Her finger stopped right on top of the exact words that she remembered being read to her. “Chapter 5! B’iggy opens a kissing booth and he kisses like seven people in a row!”

“I never did that???” 

Specifically the part with the kissing booth, somewhere along the line he might have kissed seven people in a row. Who knows? B’ig Nunh works in mysterious ways. 

Babycorn pouted, not happy to have B’ig Nunh lie right to her face. “It says right here you did!! Liar!” 

Cherrypit had no idea what was happening but he liked seeing B’ig Nunh’s heart pom wiggle all over as he panicked over what Babycorn was saying. “Hehe! Wiggle! Wiggle!” He kind of wanted to jump up and bite it. 

Amidst the chaos no one seemed to notice that Butter was suddenly nowhere to be seen. 

At this exact moment in time Lunya was enjoying a nice moment of peace and quiet and trying her best to figure out what was going to be the least stressful way of getting a whole wheel of cheese into the kitchen without either Coco or Babycorn trying to get a bite out of it.

She tapped a pen against her mouth, “No we can’t lock the doors…Babycorn would chew her way through and Coco would ram through it with his head…Hmmm…” 

The door to her room suddenly slammed open. 

Before Lunya could even ask who it was, Butter was already at her desk, gently slamming his hands on it. “Lunya, can I have my allowance for the week and also my allowance for the next five weeks?!” For some reason he had the desperate look of someone who was about to start crying if the answer was anything other than yes. 

“...Whyyyyy?” 

The answer would in all honesty be yes but Lunya still couldn’t resist being curious about why exactly Butter needed almost a million gil for. 

“Babycorn opened a kissing booth.” 

That was all it took for a massive bag filled with gil to manifest itself into Butter’s hands. It was just a little heavy but Butter guessed this would probably be enough to buy Babycorn at least two houses! “Thanks Lunya!” He squeaked out from behind the comically large sack of gil. 

“No problem~!” Lunya waved her hand at him, urging him to hurry up and get going “Now go go! Go, my son!!!” 

“Right! Okay! Okay!” Butter moved his little legs as fast as he could. There was no time to waste! “Thank you Lunyaaaaaaa” He yelled as he ran out into the rest of the mansion. 

As Lunya proudly watched a giant bag of gil with Butter’s legs run out of her room a single thought suddenly crossed Lunya’s mind.

“...Does Babycorn know what kissing is?”

“Wowza!!”

That was Babycorn’s reaction to seeing Butter suddenly drop a whole bag full of gil onto the counter in front of her. It was honestly a little bit scary. She bent down, to where her brother was playing with marbles under the booth. “Cherry, do you think we’ll be able to count all of this?” Neither of them could count very high.

“Lulu!” Surely she would help them figure out how much was in there. Of course Cherrypit said this not knowing where this gil had come from. 

“Ooooh! You’re right!” There were a bunch of people that could help them!

With that issue out of the way Babycorn sprang back up to face a blushing and frozen Butter. “Does that mean you want a kiss from me Butts?” With all this money it could only mean that he did! 

“a.”  

Well, of course the answer was a resounding YES but Butter wasn’t prepared to hear her say it!! His heart was beating faster than ever and his face and ears were turning a bright red, almost glowing eve. “Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-” He couldn’t even get his answer out. 

That was good enough for her! “Okay Butts go stand all the waaaaaaay over there!” Over there referred to a giant X in the grass that Cherrypit had marked earlier with bright red paint. Specifically he chose that color so it could look as non-suspicious as possible. 

Because red is such a cool color! 

“otay…” Butter’s voice sounded like he had shrunk to be at least one ilm tall, but he still went ahead and scooted his way to where Babycorn was pointing. 

“Get reaadddyyyyyy…!” Babycorn giggled. She jumped over the counter to the booth, her hands were covering her mouth but it was still very obvious that Babycorn was grinning from ear to ear. 

Before Butter could say anything, or burn any more redder, Babycorn let him have it. 

“MWAH!! MWAH! MWAAAA~!!”

A storm of hearts flew in Butter’s direction, most of them flew around him like flower petals, but there were a few that actually hit the mark of landing right on his cheek. “Wa….??” Some of Babycorn’s stray kisses landed on his hair and his coat. 

“That’s kissing! I kissed you!” Babycorn laughed loudly, swaying from left to right. “Someone a long time ago taught me how to do that!” That someone, who Babycorn was never going to elaborate on, was actually M’yusa. Who personally taught her how to do that in case she would have trouble with potential suitors in her future.

‘Hey! It always worked for me!’ 

Still, apparently all that was enough to send Butter spinning in place and falling on his back to the ground, muttering a few nonsense words. A few of his own hearts were rising up from him and floating above him. “Wuh oh.” That wasn’t supposed to happen. Probably. Babycorn had never really done this before. 

Cherrypit went ahead and waddled up to Butter. He was now wearing a nurse hat on his head that violated the geneva conventions. “Hmmmm…!” He went ahead and put his tiny little hand on Butter’s forehead. It felt very warm. Not only that, his eyes were spiralling all over the place and when Cherrypit read his mind all he could see was a vision of his sister staring at him with her sparkly yellow eyes.

Cherrypit hated to deliver the bad news but someone had to do it. “Butts dead!” Was his professional diagnosis. 

Babycorn let out a loud screech, “WHAT?!” This wasn't supposed to happen!! Butts was her bestest friend in the world! She never meant to kill him!! “Lunyaaaaaaaaa!!! I think I killed Butts!!!” Babycorn ran back inside the mansion, tears streaming down her face as she cried enough to give the mansion a brand new river.