“Merry Christmas Gray” she cheered as she handed him a small blue bag inside a framed picture of the two of them as kids. Of course gray wasn’t smiling. “Thank you for all these years”

█▐ ❆ ࿐ᐤ  AND HE LOOKED on in anticipation as the bag was so graciously proffered to him. His eyes implored her quietly, brows knitting to cater to his intrigue before ebony lashes bowed at the sight to come…  

                         ❛ —– Oh. ❜  

         Gray felt his own throat constricted as the token was REVEALED, and his chest immediately wrenched at its context. The pad of his thumb briefly ghosted over the rugged frame &&. he felt the weight of the artifact heavy as lead like iron crippled his entire being ; the wistful MEMORIES reverberated through the walls of his mind and Gray is burning with the pace of his heartbeat.  

    ❛  What the hell, ❜  he nearly choked, sentiment clawing at his throat as his gaze remained rivet upon the pane of glass. For reasons unbeknownst to himself, the smile that he couldn’t muster then, was now UNVEILED upon his lips.

      ❛  God, we looked awful.”