|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 5:37 pm
"I didn't want to offend them by butting into their conversation." Otherwise he might have done just that, corrected them, but anyone who knew him wouldn't be surprised by why he didn't correct the girls. It was, as Gabriel said, a shame they'd have the wrong product and not get the right flavors. But maybe they'd fix that? Or they'd like it anyway....he wasn't much for assuming things, it wasn't a nice thing to do.
"I'll take a grilled cheese to." Winking at Gabriel, a smile in place, he went for another bun for himself. "I can cook...but some things are just hard to do." Or just didn't come out right, soup dumplings were a pain to make though he did love them.
"If I'm being honest I think I prefer traditional because of my mother...and how I was raised by her. She did a lot of traditional when I was little....then nothing. She denied everything - like we weren't Chinese. It just...vanished - everything. I think it's wanting to reclaim what I'd once had and to embrace what I was denied as well." He didn't mean to get too deep, and he tried to keep his voice light, but he was being honest here. He knew why he clung to such things, he knew himself well enough to know why he did things. He wanted what he'd once had, when things had been better, and what he'd never even had because his mother had left China.
"Not to pull the mood down...sorry. But it is why." Shrugging as he stuffed the bun into his mouth as a distraction and to silence himself...to not burden his friend and his boy friend. He didn't want to depress them or bother them with his baggage. He was still working on himself and he was mostly doing ok...but some things ran deep, how could they not? He just went with what felt right to him though...what made him feel the best.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:13 am
Gabriel nodded enthusiastically at the invitation to Kai's father's restaurant. He was positive it would be delicious. "I'll be there. And next chance we get I'll make two fantastic grilled cheese sandwiches." He was finishing up his first dumpling as he listened his boyfriend talk about why he loved more traditional foods the most. He hadn't really meant for the conversation to become so serious, he'd only been joking about his love of dumplings.
He wrapped an arm around him and pulled him closer, even as Xi went for another dumpling. "Well, you'll have t be patient with me, but I'm sure I could be quite good at it if I tried." He really should be more concerned about his college classes, but well, making his boyfriend happy came first.
"But well, we're not here to talk about food right? We're here to enjoy some shooting stars. If I wish hard enough, you won't even have to teach me. I'll just magically be an amazing cook." He joked, hoping to lighten the mood again.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
