MCA #2 | Thursday Afternoon

[long_memory]

Silver and Rey were going to try cooking lessons again. Well, they were moving on to baking this time. He thought it ended well the last time but when it came down to it he actually hadn't learned anything about cooking. Hopefully this time will end up better on the learning front.

How hard could it be to bake some chocolate chip cookies, really. Children do it on TV commercials all the time.

"There's a lot of measurements on here."

[For the girl!]

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[thatwaslucky]

"Well, I like you," she told him, kissing him back.

[long_memory]

"Now I'm less nervous about messing these cookies up," he said lightly. "Since I'm sure you'll like me anyway."

[thatwaslucky]

"If you give me food poisoning we're going to have a talk," she teased. "But I won't let that happen."

[long_memory]

"Well so far it looks like it's hard to get food poisoning from any of the ingredients we've put in." That's because they had only gotten to the dry ingredients.

[thatwaslucky]

"It's because we're not going very fast. There are eggs involved," she said.

[long_memory]

"Ah, that's where the food poisoning comes in." Possibly. If they somehow made a huge mistake. "You sure you just don't want to buy some cookies?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm not worried," she told him. "Unless you don't want to make them."

[long_memory]

"I want to eat them," he said with a laugh. "So I guess the faster we make them the faster we can get to that."

[thatwaslucky]

"All right, we can do this," Rey grinned. "We can mix the dry ingredients."

[long_memory]

"I think I can handle that," he said with a grin. "Unless I drop the bowl but I'll do my very best not to."

[thatwaslucky]

"If you drop it you get to sweep it up," Rey told him lightly, like it wasn't technically his apartment. "And once you do that, we can beat the butter and sugars with an electric mixer... I do not have that."

[long_memory]

"And you think I would have that?" he asked.

This was why you always read the recipe all the way through before starting, people.

[thatwaslucky]

"No, but I have a whisk. That'll work too," she told him. "Just more work."

[long_memory]

"Let's do that then," he said. "Maybe it'll be one of those things where it's better because you worked hard for it?"

Even he knew that was bullshit, but he could pretend to have optimism sometimes.

[thatwaslucky]

Meanwhile there was Rey.

"That's actually true."

[long_memory]

"These will be really good then," he assured her. "Do you want me to do the manual labor?"

[thatwaslucky]

"You are the one who's learning," she teased.

[long_memory]

"That's fair," he allowed, going to do just that. "Though I think you might be hoping I work up a sweat and get my shirt off."

[thatwaslucky]

"Yes, actually," she decided.

[long_memory]

Silver huffed out a laugh and stopped whisking for a second to pull his shirt off. "I did say something about being shirtless in the apartment more often, didn't I?"

[thatwaslucky]

"You did," Rey said appreciatively. "And I did say I'd ask for it more."

[long_memory]

"Which you did," he said, taking up the whisk again. "We're both keeping up our end of the deal."

[thatwaslucky]

"It's definitely more distracting, but worth it," she told him, going to get the eggs. She wasn't too distracted for eggs yet.

[long_memory]

"I could always put the shirt back on if you find it too distracting." Last thing they needed was burnt cookies due to shirtlessness.

[thatwaslucky]

"I would just ask you to take it off again," Rey admitted.