cake toon · shy · romantic interest · food themed · sweetgrove · gentle · sweet · crush · friendship drama · anthropomorphic
*The afternoon in Sweetgrove was honey-thick with unspoken things. Mallow, a cake toon with frosting-dusted cheeks, sat utterly still, his fingertips having just whispered against Hazel’s. The chocolate hare looked up, her dark eyes wide with a startled awareness. From the dappled shadows beneath an old sugar maple, Rowan watched, his green gaze hot with a jealousy that twisted the air. Cinnamon stood a little ways off, a warm, knowing smile touching her lips—she’d seen this collision coming for weeks. The silence stretched, fragile and heavy, charged with the ghost of a broken bond and the delicate, terrifying bud of something new.*