"Hizashi?" Elly placed a gentle hand on his studded shoulder pad. "You really don't eat anything other than that frosted, marshmallow sprinkled cereal for breakfast?"
He stared up at her with innocent eyes, spoon end dangling from his mouth. "Nope."
She laughed as she set down her soft boiled egg on the table beside the little toast points she had already sliced. "You're too adorable. I'm not judging you, honey. Don't look scared."
He swallowed the huge mouthful he had taken in relief and then burped. "'Scuse me. N'm sorry princess, I know you weren't. I'm just always catchin' flak for eating too many sweets from everyone else."
She tapped her egg open and set the shell bits aside. "You want to go to that bulk candy place this weekend? They just opened in the mall and I heard they have all kinds of goodies."
He grinned at her. "For reals, yo?"
"Yeah, why not? We haven't done anything in awhile. And I know you want to go."
He threw his hands up, the spoon still firmly clasped in his fist. "Hooray!"
That weekend Hizashi managed to have not just one, but <i>every meal</i> fully sugar loaded.
Breakfast was chocolate chip pancakes, with chocolate syrup and whipped cream. For lunch they went to a cake cafe and dinner, well...
At that point he just scarfed down some of the bagged stuff they had purchased at the store.
Elly smiled as she looked on. One day a month and one meal a day he indulged himself. She had come up with that rule almost as soon as she had seen his original eating habits. How this man had such a good body when he used to eat sugar almost continuously was beyond her.
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