Sweet as Sugar

"Okay." Mu smiled. He picked her shirt back up and handed it to her. "I love you, Pretty Melly"

"Welcome, Cute Mu," replied Melly, slipping her shirt back on. "Now, where did I put my paper at?"

"Hmm, what paper?" Mu asked with a small purr.

"Paper to draw on, silly," Melly answered, hunting through her stash of supplies. "Ah, here we are!"

She brought over a pile of white loose-leaf paper. "Do you want to use your crayons, or something else?"

"I'll use my crayons" Mu smiled, pulling a handful of clearly used stubby crayons out of his pocket

"Okay," Melly replied. "I'll use crayons too, when I can find them. Are you just going to doodle, or do you want something to look at and draw?"

"I'm fine on my own" Mu smiled "You do what you do and I'll draw you something pretty"

"Alright," Melly replied, taking a piece of paper for herself and sitting elsewhere. She fiddled with a crayon as she tried to figure out what to draw.

Mu took a piece of paper and started drawing. He grinned goofily as he did so.

Melly started by drawing little rabbits all over the page. They were cartoonish and of many bright colors.

Mu was drawing the cirque. All his favorite people were in the picture.

When Melly got bored with the rabbits she drew a group of raccoons huddled together. They looked a little like Mu. She wasn't sure what an actual red panda looked like, but she guessed it was something like this.

Mu finished his picture and set it aside, taking another sheet to draw Hao and Gao.

She started drawing some birds and flowers to go along with the rabbits and raccoons. The flowers were mostly rose-like while the birds looked like doves.

Mu smiled when he finished. "Want to see Melly?" He asked

"Sure," Melly answered, setting aside her own doodles to look at Mu's.

Mu showed her his drawing of the cirque proudly. "What do you think?"

"Aw, that's cute," Melly replied, beaming. "Can you tell me who's who?"

Mu nodded. "That's summer, Dirvin, edwin, teddy and Hailen in his tank with Kail next to him."

"Oh okay," Melly replied. "Are you not going to draw yourself in?"

Mu shook his head. "No, I don't like drawing myself much." He showed her the other picture as well. "The big one is Gao and the little one is Hao"

"I see," Melly replied, studying the picture. "Why don't you like drawing yourself though? Do you find it hard?"

"Kinda. I always make myself too big." Mu admitted.

Melly giggled. "Most people have trouble doing themselves right, even professional artists. I'm kinda like that too."

"Really?" Mu asked