plushies

The blazing summer heat has finally been replaced by the crisp, fresh autumn air. Marshmallow could see her breath in front of her and the stream rolling out of her freshly brewed cup of coffee. She was clenching the cup with both hands to bring feelings back into her fingers. She was shivering despite being clothed head to toe in extra layers of clothes. Despite her body hating her, she was so excited to be out and about today. Marshmallow was on her way to the toy fair, which only came once a year. 

Marshmallow has been impatiently waiting for it to come back all year. Last year, she bought at least 10 new imp plushies. Five of them were made by Peter himself. She is convinced that the man is the greatest plush maker alive. All his stitches were expertly placed. All his fabric was of the highest quality and fiber count. Also, all his toys smell distinctly like freshly baked gingerbread cookies. 

Also, to nobody’s surprise, Marshmallow had actually taken a sneak peek at the new plushies already. Yesterday, she saw Peter pack his new goods into a box in front of his house. Every single plushie she caught sight of, she would love to own! The plushies she wanted the absolute most were the new bearly and rabebe plushies. Those are Marshmallow’s absolute favorite imps. She has 2 rabebes and 1 bearly in her huge menageries of pets and those 3 were her smartest and best behaved imps. They were also the most adorable out of all her imps. She can’t wait to get the stuffed versions to cuddle with at night especially because her rabebes and bearly liked sleeping in their own beds and not hers at night. Apparently her snoring was awful. 

Marshmallow finally caught sight of the entrance to the toy fair. It was as colorful and bright as last year’s with giant striped blue and red banners everywhere. Two giant teddy bear statues guarded each side of the colorful entrance. The smell of cinnamon and vanilla also grew stronger as she got closer. 

When she went through the entrance, she saw all of the shops set up neatly in rows. So many people were there with different toys from Holland with his gachas, Hutch with their imp toys, Dove with their knitted dolls, to Harley with her very special toys. Marshmallow quickly glanced at everything with awe and wonder. She even stopped by Dove’s stand to quickly buy a knitted patentia with an evil smirk. Marshmallow couldn’t stay too long, however, as she needed to get to Peter’s stand as soon as possible. 

She almost started running when she caught sight of Peter. She almost cried when she saw that the bun who’d arrived just before her had already bought all the rabebe plushes. Marshmallow walked even closer  and saw that almost all the cute toys were sold out. She was teary eyed at this point. Peter caught sight of her and quickly asked,  “Are you ok?” Marshmallow tried to hold it back, but started sobbing as she weakly said, “...noooo.” Peter patted her back, “What’s wrong?” Marshmallow sobbed, “I really wanted you rabebe and bearly plushies… but you’re sold out.”

Peter chuckled a bit and pulled out a box from underneath his stand. Inside were one of each variation of the rabebe and the bearly plushies. Marshmallow stared in disbelief. Had he really saved all of this for her? Peter spoke, “You were the one who inspired me to make rabebe and bearly plushies after your rant last year about how they were the cutest imps ever. Additionally, I have seen you come by to spy on my toys so many times throughout the last month that I knew you were going to want these stuffed animals.” Peter put the entire box in Marhsmallow’s hand. “You can have this for free! The rabebe and bearly stuffed animals sold super well, so consider it thanks for the inspiration you gave me.” 

Marshmallow looked at all the rabebe and bearly toys in her hand. Every single variation of rabebe and bearly were in the box, including an extremely cute black and white variation.” Marshmallow cried even loudly as she pulled in Peter for a bear hug. This was the best day of her life!