Ello, again. I just thought of this one-shot when I figured out that Vaughn hated carrots, which I find … different, but in a good way. Anyway, I ended up thinking a way around that. Soooooo.. Here it is!

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That Orange Abomination

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Vaughn stared at Julia for quite a while, with an expression of confusion and disgust, then he looked down to the plate in her hands and deeply scowled. He eyed at the orange abominations that should have never been discovered, which were rolling around a plate with a small dip of ranch to the side.

"I'm not eating that." He stated lowly.

"Why not? It's not that bad Vaughn. Just try it." She urged, pushing the plate toward him.

"No, I'm not going to eat it. That's final."

Both of their eyes veered away from each other as they both heard the door's bells ring, meaning a customer for the shop, but it happened to be their regular visitor, Chelsea.

"Hey, Julia, Vaughn." Chelsea grinned widely and innocently. "Whatcha doin?"

Julia sat back on her chair and pouted. "Vaughn here won't eat his carrots."

"I hate them." He argued.

"But you never tried them!"

Both bickered and Chelsea watched them silently. The thought of the brooding animal dealer hating the orange vegetable rose curiosity in the rancher, but she decided to be on his side for now.

"Well, is there anything else he hasn't tried? For instance… Fish." She inputted.

It was now Julia's turn to frown. "Mmm.. Not the poor fishes in the sea. It's just to sad seeing them being fried and eaten." Out of no where, Julia's mother's voice called for her and she answered, leaving the two together.

The animal dealer looked at the girl who stood before him. "Since when were you on my side?"

"Who said I was?" She smiled again. "But she just can't force you to eat what you hate."

"… Thanks, anyway…"

"Your welcomez. Now, need to go buy some fodder for Oreo, my beloved cow." She scurried off to the counter to where Julia and Mirabelle were.

It was later that day when another event happened to come across Chelsea as she came from the beach. She found Eliza sitting nearby the well in front of Chen's shop. And there's was no loud Charlie running around either.

"What are you doing here sitting alone?" Chelsea asked sitting next to the small blonde girl.

Eliza looked up at her with her greenish eyes and sighed. "Charlie will never grow up…"

Chelsea raised a brow and asked, "Why is that?"

Eliza pouted. "He hates carrots, but I absolutely love them. I don't see why he has to be so critical about it though…"

Chelsea blinked, finding this conversation quite similar to the one before. An idea popped in her head, which showed a smile on her face. "Say, Eliza? How about you bring Charlie to Mirabelle's shop tomorrow. I have an idea that might just work."

Eliza jumped up and leaned on Chelsea's lap. "Really?!" Her eyes gleamed brightly. "Oh, please tell me! What is it?"

Chelsea raised a finger to her lips. "It's a secret."

Eliza went down on her heels and brought her lower lip over the upper. "You can tell me, right?"

The rancher stood up from the bench and shook her head. "Just come tomorrow. Or else we might have to wait for another whole week. Bye-bi!" She waved and ran off toward her ranch.

Eliza blinked watching the older sister leave, her mind deeply wondering what it was she was thinking.

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The Next Day…

Julia looked up to see the door's bells had rung to find two kids walk in with confused faces. It also brought confusion to Julia's face as she wondered what business they had there.

"What are you two doing here?" Julia asked as they both trotted up toward her, taking their seats around a nearby table.

"Big Sister Chelsea told us to come here today, and I had to drag him over."

Charlie looked around excitedly, until he spotted what he was looking for. Jumping off his chair, he began to run toward his target. "BIG BROTHER!!"

Vaughn immediately shot his hand out and stopped the boy from embracing him. He glared at Julia and asked quite irritably, "What is this kid doing here?"

Julia shrugged and pointed to Eliza. Eliza repeated what she had just said to Julia. Vaughn tipped up his hat with his free hand and twirled Charlie around, picking him up with his shirt and plopping him down on a chair next to Eliza. The animal dealer then sat across the children and Charlie began to bombard him with questions to his annoyance.

The bells rang again and in came in whom they awaited for, Chelsea, who was holding something covered with a cloth in her hands. She came in saying, "I'm sorry I took so long. I had to do some last minute things."

All eyes stared at the unknown object that was covered with a yellow cloth as she set it on the table before them.

Charlie then sat on his knees, leaning forward on the table. "What is that?" He began sniffing and seemed to enjoy the scent coming from it.

Chelsea untied the knot and pulled off the cloth, revealing a nicely decorated cake. One side was with icing and the other was left alone.

"Cake?!" Both children squealed with happiness. Julia was still in confusion and Vaughn took no interest.

Chelsea happily gave Eliza and Charlie their pieces of cake. She watched them and found to see that they truly enjoyed what they were scarfing down their throats. Julia took her piece as well and was delighted.

"Wow, it has such a light taste…" She took another bite of the one with icing on it. "And the icing isn't thick at all! I didn't know you were a cook, Chelsea."

Chelsea shrugged and held a small plate with a piece of un-icing cake and a fork on it. "Aren't you going to have one too, Vaughn?"

"I don't like sweets.."

"And yet you accept my chocolates?" Chelsea inquired.

"It's chocolate." He replied.

She cut a piece of cake with the fork and pointed it at him. "Come on. Just one bite."

He moved his mouth away. "No…"

"Please?…" Her eyes pleaded. "For me?"

He hesitated, but still denied. After several, failed attempts and Charlie scarfing down his fifth helping of cake, Vaughn wondered if Chelsea gave up since she stopped her attempts.

He saw her sigh and smile at him, saying, "Well, since you're being stubborn, I'll have to go to drastic measures now." He didn't understand what she meant, until he felt this strong force hit his shin and he yelled mouth wide open for…

"And in goes the choo-choo train!" He found the fork in his mouth and the piece of cake finally in the place it was begging to go in. Pulling out the fork, he thought he imagined Chelsea smirking, but when he looked up, the same smile was plastered on her face.

Vaughn gave up and began chewing on the cake, to find it completely different from other cakes. Just as Julia said, it did have light taste and it wasn't as sweet as it looked. His voice quietly mumbled, "It's good." He looked up to see her grinning widely, poking the cake with his fork and shoving it into her mouth.

Chelsea and Charlie were too busy eating their own cake to notice that Vaughn blushed deeply and that Eliza and Julia giggled.

After a while, with all of them being content by the cake, Eliza finally came to answer the question they were all wondering.

"Big Sister, what is this cake anyway?" The girl asked, noticing that everyone else was also curious to see what her answer might be.

"Oh, this? … It was carrot cake!"

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I think it's best for me to end it here. It's late and almost 12 p.m. But anyway, this was also one of the heart events that you can have with Vaughn. He's fun…

Anyway, I believe I could have written this much better, but this is actually my first one-shot-ish thing. I'm still workin on Castaway though! But I suddenly got this … inspiration for writing one chapter things soo..

Oh, yeah. If you haven't noticed, I changed my name. I used to be Nekokikai321, but I got annoyed with the name soooo.. Now it's -DWD0J0-.

If you would like, please review and tell me what you think!