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As per usual, Efflo wasn't ready. His belt was missing the loops of his pants, his shirt was buttoned all wrong and he hadn't even began to try to tackle the tie. He glared at it, sitting on top of his dresser next to his vest and jacket. Enemies, all of them! Excited though he was for the night ahead, the pony boil would be very happy when he could return to his 2 item or less repertoire.

The knock on the door had him scrambling, and he called out hastily, "Just a minute!" A quick glance at himself, and Efflo decided the situation was hopeless, and he nixed the wait a minute, and trudged to the door defeatedly.

He swung it open, looking bedraggled. This was not the dashing gentleman he'd wanted to present to his boilfriend on prom night, but he didn't really have a choice.

"Help," he whined, clinging onto the dragon dramatically, sniffling. He sniffed again, having caught a whiff of something sweet, something that smelled almost... Well, tasty. He took a step back, looking Gabby up and down.

"What do you have? What are you hiding? Is it for me?"

Efflo was too curious to bother being offended at being laughed at, or pushed away. Gabby would have a difficult time pushing him away anyway, as the boil was nosily trying to peer at what Gabby had in his hands, leaning against the dragon’s hold.

When he finally unveiled them, Efflo’s eyes went wide. The bouquet was incredibly huge! He stared at Gabby past the flowers, looking a little teary, and very, very grateful.

“I… Gabby…” he breathed, dipping his face in to take in the flowers’ delicious aroma. “They’re absolutely perfect, thank-you, I love you.”

He ignored Gabby’s earlier protests, flinging his arms around him affectionately. He refused to move, hugging the dragon while he eyed the flowers over Gabby’s shoulder. They really were perfect, he thought, as he leaned up, practically climbing up Gabby, to bite off one of the flowers. His eyes closed in utter bliss as he happily chomped away; he had the best boilfriend.

Efflo froze in Gabby's arms, and tried to swallow the rest of the flower as quietly as possible.

"...No?"

He watched Gabby carefully, bright green eyes unsure of what to make of the dragon’s silence. A cool finger ghosted over his lips, and when it was followed by a kiss, Efflo sighed, relaxing. Flowers were sweet, but Gabby was sweeter.

Maybe. Staring at Gabby’s expression, and the leaf held in his mouth, Efflo couldn’t help but snicker. “Maybe you ate the flower,” he giggled, before dancing away from Gabby’s grasp with the bouquet in hand.

“I really do love them," he grinned impishly, before popping another one into his mouth.

“Why would I put them in water? Did you want me to grow more? Aren’t plants for eating?” Efflo looked just as genuinely confused, and couldn’t help but chew another flower to ease his stress. Then he felt worse… Gabby didn’t sound mad, but he had said they were expensive. Gabby obviously thought they were special, and Efflo did too, but what was the point of having delicious treats around if you couldn’t eat them? He just didn’t understand.

Then Gabby spit out the leaf with a grimace, and things started to fall into place. He stared at Gabby, pulling the flowers away from the carnivore.

“Gabriel, what do you think I eat?”

But he understood now, or at least he thought he did, so Efflo turned and gently placed the flowers in the water bucket hanging on the wall near his bed. It was clean water, since he really had no need to drink from it; its presence in the room was more a comfort thing than anything else. He had to admit they looked quite nice, and they certainly brightened his drab room. Still, he felt they would have felt more at home in his stomach, but Gabby had gone to the trouble of getting him such a lovely gift, and he was going to treasure it properly.

Turning back to Gabby, he sighed, glancing at the half-eaten petal on the floor.

“Better now?”

"Meat?" Efflo asked, looking incredulous. "Gabby, I'm meat! That would be like eating myself. Of course I've never tried it! I'm not going to try it either. Salad is just fine."

But he smiled anyway, despite his tirade, shaking his head at the dragon. Gabby was an idiot sometimes. But he was his idiot and he loved him. Efflo stepped over to his boilfriend, leaning up to kiss him sweetly on the lips.

"I'll eat the flowers when they start to wilt. They're too pretty to eat now. Thank you again, Gabriel, really."

He nodded, stepping back and holding his arms out wide.

"Okay, work your magic!"

A second later.

"And I'm not eating bacon."