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]

"We can add them now, I think," she said, because you know what would make the sprinkles even better? Getting mixed in with chocolate.

[long_memory]

"Only two cups?" he asked. "What if we add the whole bag?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I think that would probably get incredibly messy," Rey told him. "I think only so many fit in the dough..."

[long_memory]

"Oh, fine," he said with a dramatic sigh. "I'll eat the leftover ones by themselves."

Oh no, anything but that.

[thatwaslucky]

"You're adorable," Rey told him, grinning. "We can start with two cups and add to it."

[long_memory]

Silver seemed pleased with that compromise, and added the correct amount of chocolate chips. "And now we get to bake them?"

He was getting a little impatient.

[thatwaslucky]

"Wait," she said, and tossed another small handful of chips in to make him happy. "Now we can make them."

[long_memory]

"I love you," he said with a grin. "So we just drop them on the pan and shove it in the oven for a few minutes, correct? There's no special trick to it?"

[thatwaslucky]

"No trick. Space them out evenly so they don't melt together, and then they're in the oven for fifteen minutes," she told him.

[long_memory]

"You're right, this isn't that hard." He would have rolled up his sleeves to get started but he didn't have any right now. "We are less than twenty minutes from cookies."

[thatwaslucky]

"I love how much you want these cookies," Rey told him, giving him a kiss.

[long_memory]

"Well they're homemade," he said. "Everything I've heard tells me that should make them taste better."

[thatwaslucky]

"This is true." Maybe. They at least hadn't made any critical mistakes yet. "Let's get these on the pan and we can test that out."

[long_memory]

"Yes ma'am," Silver said with a small smile.

[thatwaslucky]

"I kind of like that," Rey said, starting to put the cookies on the not-completely sprayed baking sheet.

[long_memory]

He laughed. "I could call you that more often, if you'd like."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm not sure I'm bossy enough for it," she smiled.

[long_memory]

"And I won't be complaining about that," Silver said. "But in this case the bossiness is warranted as there is food involved."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm going to have to keep this reasoning in mind," she said lightly. "I don't want to overstep."

[long_memory]

"I think it would be hard for you to overstep with me," he said, wandering towards the oven. "Look at that, preheated and everything."

[thatwaslucky]

"We might be about to learn a valuable lesson about preheating," she said, bringing the tray over ri put it in.

[long_memory]

"You mean I might learn a lesson in patience?" he joked. "It ends up in having fully cooked food?"

[thatwaslucky]

"It does in fact end in fully cooked food," she laughed, picking up her phone. "I'll even set a timer."

[long_memory]

"Probably for the best," he said. "No need to start a fire."

[thatwaslucky]

"See, you're learning," Rey teased.