Chapter 45 - Glow

"It's gone." Fily suddenly announced while staring at the mixture in the bowl.

"What's gone?" I asked and moved away from the table to take a look at what she was referring to.

"The cyan color." She replied as I tiptoed beside her.

Petunia was still busy rolling around the table when I looked at the bowl and indeed, the glowing cyan color was gone.

"Where did it go?" I asked innocently and noticed that the whole mixture was now glowing faintly instead of having only a few patches of the glowing cyan liquid.

"Do you think it fused with the mixture?"

"On its own?" My amazed self could not help but gasp in response..

"Well, I did not mix it… Did you though?"

"Petunia was playing with my hands earlier."

"You're right." She shrugged and placed the bowl beside Petunia's mixture.

"There's not much difference but when you look at it closely, the glow on this one definitely stands out." She pointed at my mixture while comparing the two.

Fily put her hands on her waist while I crossed my arms as we stared at the two mixtures attentively when suddenly, we noticed that Petunia stopped rolling around.

"It disappeared." I heard her whisper as she fidgeted around her body, looking for something on her skin.

"You're talking about the cyan thing?" Fily went closer to Petunia and grabbed her from the table as the cat nodded with teary eyes.

"Don't worry, the ones in here are also gone." She said with a straight face as she put Petunia beside my mixing bowl on the table.

"What?" Petunia cried even more because of what she said.

"Fily!" I stopped her from teasing Petunia but she was not listening.

"Where did it go?" Petunia said hysterically as she slumped on the table while wiping her tears.

Ahhh I can't watch this!

She's making me cry!

"It disappeared." Fily suddenly shrugged with a pout as if it was not a big deal.

"You're so mean!" Petunia growled at her while throwing a tantrum on the table, dragging tissues and scratching the cloth that was needed for this experiment.

"Fily!" I warned her again after seeing her stifle a laugh.

I didn't know Fily could be this mean sometimes, she was having fun seeing Petunia cry!

"Okay, okay." She whispered at me before calming herself down.

"Hey, Pet look!" She clapped to get Petunia's attention.

"My name is Petunia, not Pet!!!!" Petunia growled even more.

Fily shook her head as she grabbed the two bowls on the table.

"Fine fine! Just look." Fily insisted and showed petunia the gummies side-by-side.

Petunia calmed down a little bit and wiped the remaining tears from her eyes before looking at the bowls.

"What?" She glanced at Fily innocently.

"See the difference? Look!" Fily held the two bowls using one hand and raised her knees as support for it as she used her other hand to point at the two bowls consecutively.

Petunia tilted her head to the side with furrowed eyebrows which made Fily sigh in defeat.

But just as Fily was about to give up, Petunia walked closer to the edge of the table where Fily was holding the bowls and sniffed on them.

"I can't see the difference but I can smell something different from this one." She pointed at the left bowl where my mixture was.

Fily rolled her eyes as she exhaled in relief.

"It smells like me," Petunia said while sniffing herself and the bowl on the left after.

"Can't you see the glow? This one is glowing and this one is not. Come take a closer look." Fily pointed at the bowls and shoved them closer to Petunia who sneaked backward on the table because of it.

When Fily stopped moving the two bowls, Petunia took a closer look at the mixture skeptically. She was still having a hard time figuring out the differences.

Maybe the light from the lamps was bothering her?

Fily and I did not have a hard time seeing the glow… was it because of her cat eyes?

I moved beside Fily to cast a shadow on the left mixture while Fily's shadow was cast on the right.

"It's glowing!" Petunia suddenly exclaimed while pointing at the left mixture, her eyes were going back and forth from the two bowls.

"Finally." Fily exhaled in relief.

"Is that Healing slime I'm smelling from this gummy!?" Petunia said while sniffing the glowing mixture again.

"A bit," I answered her question while remembering what Mr. Gemini told me.

I have been using this 'Healing slime' ever since Venedette found me beside the border but this was the first time I actually saw what it looked like.

A concentrated glowing cyan liquid that disappears after some time after being absorbed.

"Ahh! This is it! The gummy that I have always dreamed of creating!" Petunia squeaked in excitement as she hugged the metallic bowl with the glowing gummy in it.

I looked at Fily awkwardly while being the one ashamed of Petunia's actions.

"Good job." She smiled at me and caressed my back.

I don't really know which job I did 'good' at but hey, at least they were happy with it.

"Gem! Gem!! Can you do it again?" Suddenly, Petunia jumped to the shelf that was close to me, tugging my left hand softly as she begged me to do it again.

"I-i don't know if I can do it again," I said nervously, I don't want to disappoint them if I fail.

"Just try it! If you did it once then you can do it again!" Petunia tugged my hands even more.

"Pet.." Fily tried to stop her but Petunia looked like she was still angry at Fily, probably because of the way Fily calls her Pet.

"Please??"

"I'm not sure if I could do it." I tried to reason with her again but she was not letting me go.

"Please?? Just try doing it again like how you did it earlier," She pleaded while blinking her big cat eyes at me.

"I guess I could try…"