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 Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 6:45 pm
"It's not like Crystal," laughed Tallulah, putting the sweater back. "We can wear whatever jackets and tights we want at Meadowview." It was definitely too matchy-matchy. Everything she owned was already Meadowview orange - why add to that? Instead, she pulled out a light pink pullover and held it up. "How does this work?" she asked.
She glanced quickly at the price tags and made a mental note to come back another time. This store was promising, and so much more her tastes than New Navy!
"I guess we could try to make eclairs," she said, mind drifting back to the subject of baking.
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 6:55 pm
Bell made a neutral gesture/expression about the pink pullover. "Eclairs aren't that hard, just messy. " After all, if done right, the pastry itself was already hollow.
"I'm more curious as to how this cake batter ice cream will turn out," Bell laughed as she happened upon a pale blue off-the-shoulder sweater, which she placed over her arm with the dress.
Who didn't love cake batter? Who didn't love ice cream? Mixing the two might just turn out to be the best thing ever. EVER.
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:22 pm
Tallulah shook her head on the sweater and went for a pair of two-for-ten-dollar vintage screen printed tees, both for Magical Girl cartoons from the 90s. She held them up for Bell's approval and grinned wickedly as she slung the faces of Cardcaptor Sakura and Revolutionary Girl Utena over her arm. "I'm a big fan of the irony," she explained, then added a thin, cotton zip-up hoody in a shade of seafoam green to her pile as they moved towards the register.
"So you never answered the question about you and Zay," she said as they got in line. "How are things going? I'm going to find out one way or another, he's practically my brother, so you can either spill or I'll go and ask him."
And she would get an answer out of Xavier. She had ways.
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:30 pm
The cashier rung them up, and Bell payed, nary a word exchanged.
Bell giggled, "Well, I'm not exactly keeping any secrets," but the thought of his reaction to interrogation made Bell giggle even more. "But a chance moonlit rooftop exchange leave us, with a 'we'." Tallulah could take that however she would. Bell just smiled.
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:45 pm
Tallulah squealed with delight as they left the store, having clearly decided to take that as a sign of progress. "I'm absolutely stoked for you guys," she said, practically skipping down the breezeway towards the grocery store. "For serious, you are adorable together. I was touched - charmed - by how protective you got at the hospital."
"Just so you know," she added, "I'm honorary aunt to any of his kids. We decided when we were five."
When you were both only children, you talked about things like this.
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:51 pm
Bell giggled, "Thanks, and yo," She reached in her purse and pulled out his henshin pen, "still protecting." Cause seriously, those pens were total Youma magnets, Bell had decided. Plus who knows how tempted he would have been to use it during his recovery. For building hopping, no less! Though it was fun.....
and oh dear, Princess...
"Well, feel free to be auntie to things that meow, cause my motto is, 'have kittens, not kids'," Bell grinned. It was a good motto.
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:14 pm
"Ooh, I like that!" replied Tallulah. "I mean, it's not for me, but you know I like cats. You've met Casper and Wendy, right? And have you met Zay's cat, Tempo?"
That would require Bell to have gone to his apartment. It was a loaded question.
"So you have a shopping list, right?" she asked, grabbing a basket as they stepped into the grocery store. "What do we need to get first? Eggs? And sugar? And I bet baking chocolate--"
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:20 pm
"He never mentioned a cat," Bell said. But she had, indeed, at lest seen her cats. So, though Bell had been to the rooftop of his apartment, she had, indeed, not been in the apartment.
Bell pulled out her list, "It probably wouldn't hurt to pick up some extra flour and sugar. Eggs definitely-" She had used the last two she had for breakfast- "Butter! I have some margarine, but I'd rather use butter to bake with. Canned cherries, blueberries..." She kept reading off the list. "Now, the question remains, do we want sprinkles and frosting?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:58 pm
"Frosting, yes," said Tallulah, without hesitation. "Sprinkles.... eh, no. Why is that even a question?"
"And yeah," she said, perusing selections sugar - organic, brown, unbleached, enriched, fair trade - so many options! She went for the fair trade, of course. "He's got a cat. Little tuxedo shorthair. Her name's Tempo. She's a sweetheart."
"You don't want to use any cake mix?" she asked. That was how Nellie always did it at home, but Tallulah wasn't sure if Bell would see that as 'cheating.'
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:03 pm
It wasn't cheating, it was using your resources.
"I ask about sprinkles because I have an inner child that never got to play with an easy bake oven, and am now getting to play with a real oven.....that's not in a classroom with time constraints." Bell said with a giggle as she picked up some sprinkles any way and a few cake mixes - Funfetti, strawberry, and a couple of white. She also picked up some banana extract. She was going to make a strawberry-banana cake. Two layers, with whipped cream squished between them, and all over it. Which reminded her, "I also want to pick up some fresh bananas and strawberries." Those were going on the cake, too.
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Soon the shopping trip was over, and the bus arrived in front of Olde Town Apartments.
They were greeted with two rows of Olde English style houses the faced a large empty parking lot, used by the cathedral across the road from it. Behind Olde Town Apartments one could see the older part of the down town shopping district - and by old, we mean those building were there when your grandparents were kids,..although all that was on the other side of a set of railroad tracks.
All in all, it was a peaceful, lazy part of Destiny City. The kind of place where most of the residents were over 65.
Bell walked up to one of the houses and pulled out her key. "Here we are!"
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 9:27 pm
Tallulah grinned, looking up and down the block. This actually wasn't all that far from her own neighborhood - it looked like the houses dated to about the same era. "I had no idea you lived so close!" she exclaimed, following Bell in. "Oh, my god, this neighborhood is adorable.
Once inside, Tallulah followed her friend to the kitchen and helped to lay out baking supplies on the counter. They'd amassed quite an array and she wasn't quite sure where to begin. "Um. What has to cook longest? We should do that first."
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:03 pm
"That," Bell began, while reaching up in the cabinet for the ice cream maker, "Would be the ice cream."
She then continued to rummage about the cabinets, getting down on bruised and scraped knees, to bring out mixing bowls and cookie sheets. "I already bought a bag of ice the other day, so we're good there." Not to mention the other bag of ice that had been handy for soothing angry wounds from the previous hell week.
On the table was the large, old, cook book Bell had found when she moved in. She opened up the cover and grabbed the slip of paper that was hidden in it with the recipe.
"Pretty much you do just like you would do if you were going to bake it, only you stick it in the ice cream machine for a few hours.
Again, cake batter and ice cream. This could not turn out bad.
"And while that makes ummm..I guess we can work on some cookies." Bell smiled, "Do you want some music to work by? I don't have much in the way of music, but it's something."
Indeed, her collection was mainly from musicals, or 80's stuff. In fact, she owned a 'best of the 80's' collection. It was right beside her "Best of Andrew Lloyed Webber" CD.
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Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 4:59 pm
Tallulah wasn't particularly knowledgeable about 80s music or broadway, and told Bell that whatever she wanted to play was fine while she perused the recipe books. "Okay," she said. "It looks simple enough - we just add the ingredients, turn on the machine, and wait. You do that and - I'll mix cookie dough?"
She started measuring out flour and sugar, and cracked a pair of eggs into a measuring cup. "So, rooftop encounters," she said slyly as she mixed in oil and chocolate chips. "Remember - if you don't talk, I'll just get it from him."
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