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 Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:38 am
Having woken up next to Kay she at first felt stiff...the couch was not a good place to sleep let alone her sleeping on someone as well. Still she snuggeled into him happy he was still there, happy that he had a peaceful expression while he slept. At least nightmares didn't seem to be plagueing him. Carefully she went to slip off of him, she wanted to make him something to eat...though she was a poor cook ..maybe a ...cake? Yes that was a good plan.
Tip toeing one she reached the stairs she ran up them and into the kitchen ripping open cupbaords until she found a cake mix. She then set about gathering the ingredients . . .
Kay didn't feel Roxy move at all. For all intents and purposes, he slept like the dead. The previous day had been horrible, a strain on everything he was...and he certainly didn't want to have to get up at all. Still, he heard nothing, not the creaking floor boards, not Roxy as she clattered around in the kitchen...nothing. Today the shop was closed, it usually was on this day of the week, and with Switch not coming in, there was nobody to wake him up just yet.
So he slept a little while longer, practically dead to the world.
Roxy was ..struggling that much she knew. Annoyed at the fact the instructions were confusing as she got eggshells into the batter...she tried her best to fish them out but they just didn't want to come out! She figured a little shell wouldn't kill a person and thus continued on her merry way. When she finally slopped the mess into the pan, she knew she couldn't reach the oven and finally relented to go ask her brother for help. Pretty sure Trin would just get annoyed at her mess.
Gera wasn't sleeping..he never slept it seemed though he was reading a new hobby of his to 'learn of the world' and she demanded he come turn the oven on for her. He looked at her..and then compelled moved to do as she asked.
Of course he stood and watched her slip it in and then turn on the timer..thinking HEY if she turned the oven up HIGHER it mean shorter cooking time right? Soon though there was a ghastly smell..it smelt like burning...something. Definantely not cake.
Gera took it out for her..the top was pretty black...but she scrapped it a bit and discovered it was only the top layer...so she slipped it out of the pan..it wiggeled when it hit the plate...and then set about scraping the black off. After she got a knife and went to find icing.
Lucky there was some...an entire jar of it. She opened the lid and then scooped it all out onto the top of her..rather interesting creation and set about spreading it.
The noise still wasn't waking him...hell, even the smell drifting from the kitchen didn't wake him! In the end he woke himself up, drifting back into consciousness...but he was far from awake. The first thing he noticed was that he was on a couch. Okay, a couch, helpful...he could easily think of several places that he could get to that had a couch. Blinking away a little bit of sleep, he focused a bit; okay, so a couch at the shop. Hm...Oh! He came back to the shop last night! He'd fallen asleep while...
Hey, where was Roxy?
Blinking groggily, Kay got to his feet, fixing his cargo pants only to notice...his hands felt funny. Looking down at them, he saw they were bandaged...oh right, the glass. Then, of course, he noticed the smell. Following his nose and sleepily stumbling on occasion, he came across the kitchen, and the...thing...that Roxy was trying to do.
"Mmm...'Cha doin?" Kay asked sleepily, rubbing his eye and leaning in the doorway. Nahual was still curled up in his hair, seemingly still asleep...or at least pretending to be.
Jerking her head up in surprise she had icing almost everywhere except on the cake, the table on her hands and arms and not to mention her face. She looked at him and then gaev a huge smile as she put the knife down and then jumped down off of the chair. Gera had long gone as she had basically told him to bugger off and stop staring at her.
"Kay your awake!" She squealled in a happy manner as she went to go give him a hug completely forgetting she was covered nearly head to toe in icing.
Kay stared sleepily at Roxy, trying to figure out what was all over her (and coming up with quite a few interesting answers). But his musings were cut short when she bounded over and hugged him. Blinking blankly down at her, he lifted his arms and hugged her close to him, bowing his head that little bit to nuzzle his nose into her hair.
Of course, it did one of two things; one, it made him feel better about waking up, and two, now he knew what the substance was! Laughing suddenly, he removed his hands to press his bandaged palms against the side of her face, tilting her head up a little bit while again bowing his head, licking some of the icing off of her forehead in one swoop.
"Makin a cake, so early?" He asked as though he hadn't done anything at all.
Roxy was giggling happy to have Kay hug her happier still when he he licked the icing off her forhead, giggling madly she nodded her head.
"Yes well its not a great cake but I wanted to make you something so you feel better." She explained as she hugged him again rather tightly. She never wanted to hear Kay or see Kay like he was yesterday, she'd do anything to make him feel better. ANYTHING.
"But you already made me feel better." Kay told her honestly, releasing her face to hug her again, apparently not caring about the icing that was getting smudged on his bare skin. Actually, after that first lick and her reaction to it, he kind of wanted to do the same thing to the rest of her face....
He refrained, of course. "Is it going to kill me?" He teased, hugging her too tightl to let her get away, swaying from side to side with his icing-covered catch.
Roxy pouted a bit and stuck her tongue out at him for the comment ."Noooooooo course not." She stated in a huff before she tried to pull an arm out to point at it. "Well...maybe...try just a little?" She asked a bit hopefully as she...wanted him to try it..but at the same time was rather worried about its taste. She noticed that she had smudged icing on his chest though and laughed. "Soon you'll taste better than it I bet."
"Do that again and I'll bite it." Kay threatened happily, looking back at the questionable cake when she pointed at it. Her comment made him laugh, leaning down to lick icing off of her cheek this time. "You taste pretty good, how bad can the cake be?" He said good naturedly, finally letting her go and wandering over to the cake. Did he...smell burning? He was pretty sure he did!
Looking around for a knife, a plate and a fork, offering the knife to Roxy first. "Do you want to do the honors?"
Roxy giggled more when he licked the icing off her cheek, her face blushing slightly as she hurried after him like a puppy. She watched he gathered the materials and then offered to let her cut first. She nodded her head and took it in excitement.
Raising the knife over her head she did a rather dramatic WAAAAAACHAAA sound as she brought it down onto the poor mess of a thing called a cake. There was a spattering of icing..and batter. Apparantly it hadn't cooked all the way through. But she managed to ..literally scoop a bit of the mess onto a plate and offer it to him.
Kay just stared at the cake when she cut it; sure the way she cut it was hilarious...but...did she really expect him to eat that? Seriously?! The outside was burnt! And...and the inside wasn't cooked at all! Coughing lightly, the young man took the plate of...science experiment...as it was offered to him. With a curious hum he poked at it with his fork, inspecting the, uh, creativity of it.
"What kind is it?" He asked cautiously, watching as a bit of the gooey part stuck to his fork, pulling with it like an elastic for a few moments.
Roxy watched him with eager eyes. Though nervous at the same time as she was really worried it would taste horrid.
"Uh..the box said vanilla...but I added some licorice peices to it. Do you like licorice?" She asked suddenly dreading that he didn't. She liked it...she hoped he did to. She kicked the side of the table leg a bit in mild frusteration at her stupidity.
"Y..you don't have to eat it...if you don't want to."
"Sooo...Vanilla-licorice then?" Kay hummed, tilting his head. "I do like licorice! I'm sure it'll be awesome." Just....had to try a piece! Just one little piece! This seemed very important to Roxy...and he was sure he had eaten something much worse than this in his lifetime. Not that he could recall anything now.
"Naaaah I'll try it. You tried really hard! How could I not?" He grinned at her despite absolutely dreading it, taking a bit of it on his fork (at least what would stay on his fork), and just...shoved it into his mouth, chewing and swallowing...
Roxy beamed at him when he tried the peice and she did a little dance on the spot. Sometimes it was hard to stell that she grew at all..since her toddler tendancies seemed to have followed her.
"So?? what do you think? did you like it?" she prompted.
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:39 am
Kay chewed the interesting food (despite not needing too...) before swallowing it. It...it tasted pretty gross, actually! Sure the licorice made it nice, but burnt food combined with texture...just...ugh. Still, he smiled, for her. "It's...interesting, Midget. You certainly made it special." Kay was choosing his words carefully, and after taking another quick and forced mouthful, he set the plate down. "Too much sugar for the mornin though..." He assured her with a grin, patting her pretty blonde hair with a bandaged hand, then leaned over to hug her tightly, icing or no. "Thank you!" For making him feel better. One train wreck overlooked another, so to speak.
Roxy clapped her hands together and did a spin on the spot showing her pure joy. She then basically glomped Kay wrapped her sticky icing covered hands and well body against him again.
"SO GLAD!" she sounded relieved that he didn't hate it. "Next time it won't be black though." She stated with a nod of her head.
Kay laughed, tightening his grip to lift her into the air, doing a little spin before setting her back down on her feet. "I'll hold you to that. So...how about some real breakfast? Chit taught me to make awesome eggs. Or pancakes...or both, if you want." With a hum, he swayed with her, not quite wanting to let her go just yet. He liked holding onto her, she was a squirming thing and that was fun.
Roxy gave a laugh as she was spun around and once put back down she just hugged him tighter. Yes she liked it when he was like this, she would make it her personal goal to never let Kay be so sad again.
"Oooooo you know how to cook??" She sonded rather impressed, and then thougt on what he offered. "PANCAKES!"
"Only little things." Kay grinned, letting her go when she decided and wandering to riffle through the cupboards...luckily, finding what he needed. "Eggs, pancakes, toast....mac n' cheese...sandwiches." With a hum he started pulling together everything he needed to make a giant mess...and then to use the mess to make the pancakes. "...Yup, Pretty much everything Chit got tired of makin' for me."
Roxy tried to help him, course it was mostly finding or pointing out where things were since this was their kitchen. Trin liked things a certian way after all. She bounced around him in a fairly excited manner very excited to be getting eating something made by Kay.
"WOW that is a lot. I don't really know how to cook, Trin does it and Gera on occasion when she doesn't feel like it." She stated with a nod of her head.
"Oh ho? Maybe you should come over one day....get some lessons from Chit!" Kay grinned down at her, happy for her help. Of course he had her help otherwise too, making the batter sort of things. Once it came time to actually cook them, Kay took over completely. Once they were done he put them on plates, then waited for Roxy to choose where they would sit.
Roxy watched his every move not having a clue who Chit was but nodding her head when he suggested she get lessons from them. The smell of pancakes was enough to make her hungry...and she quickly cleared the table of the goopy mess which was dubbed cake and then set out plates and forks and knives and went to find the syrup. She had her head deep in a cupboard when she finally found it and pulled it out in triupmh.
She then placed it on the table pulled out a chair and waited for Kay to sit down.
He watched her pull the chair out for her, raising his eyebrow. "Ah-ha, No way missy." Kay chided, putting his plate down then taking the chair from her, clearly not going to budge until she sat down first. "The food is getting coooold~" He hummed out innocently, just waiting for her to sit down.
Roxy looked at him and then the chair and then back to him.
"Heeeey i offered the chair fiiiirst." She stated firmly as she then went to adhere herself to his side.
"Sides I want to sit with you." She looked hopeful, she wasn't a toddler anymore...she'd be heavy to sit on his lap...
Kay was just about as stubborn as she was, but at least he had the size to back it up. She adhered to him, and he pushed right back, just enough to be stubborn, not enough to knock her over. "With me, or on me?" Of course he didn't forget the times she sat on him when she was younger, just because she was bigger didn't mean those habits died.
Of course, before she could really answer he moved, grabbing her waist as he moved to sit in the chair, pulling her to sit on his lap sideways, so one of her shoulders was against his chest. It was easier to eat that way! "Alright, Pancake time?" He said innocently, like nothing out of the ordinary was happening.
Roxy had been about to threaten to bite him if he didn't sit down but she was then hoisted and sat on his lap. Happy she wiggeled and leaned against his chest a bit listening to his heart a moment before nodding her head.
"yes! I am stttaaaaarrrrvvviing." she said in a dramatic voice. Course that wasn't true but it didn't hurt right?
Kay rolled his eyes, holding her with one hand so she didn't fall and used the other to pour syrup over his pancakes, then going about the difficult one-handed task of cutting the pancakes with his fork and eating them. "So whattcha doin today?" He asked, absolutely loving these pancakes he'd made.
Roxy looked to him thoguh she had been staring at him trying to cut the pancakes with one hand she reached for a fork and tried to help him out.
"Me? I dunno...how long are you staying over?" she inquired sounding a tad bit hopeful that he would stay long long time. Gera ...was only fun for so long.
Kay watched her, instead letting her deal with the whole knife thing...and cutting the pancakes. He ate his share quickly, both to drown out the cake taste...and because he was quite hungry. "Hmm...That's a good question." He said, tilting his head and considering it. "Well...I should go home and tell Na and Chit about...yesterday...." For a moment his expression grew darker, but that stopped quickly, and he stole a piece of her pancake, because he could. "Why?"
"heeeeeyy.." she protested as her pancake was stolen from her, she looked up at him looking 'upset' or rather tring to look upset and then squirmed in his lap so that she was facing him. "That was mine." she stated plainly looking as if she was seriously considering getting her pancake back.
"And I dunno...thought I may do something with Gera..I don't know many people." She stated as she leaned in and poked at his cheek.
"Whattcha gonna do about it?" He challenged with a grin, tilting his head back when she turned to face him, taking a moment to open his mouth to show her what very little remained of her pancake.
"You need more friends." Kay chided with a bit of a tease, putting his fork down and stretching his arms above his head. "Hey, yanno there's a real quiet kid, about your age and one'a us, that lives in the graveyard...no Guardian, weird eh?"
Roxy made a face that was a mixture of amusment and being grossed out.
"Grooooossss." She announced using her hands to close his mouth so she didn't have to see the chewed food. She looked to him stopping her advancement to close his mouth with his announcement of someone new. She perked. She LOVED meeting new people.
"Oh? Well that MUST be lonely. WE should go visit." She proclaimed.
Kay was laughing when she tried to shut his mouth, making it quite hard for her. Hah, grossing out girls was still fun! Good to know, good to know. A brow lifted at her proclamation. "WE?" He parroted, in about the same pitch she used. "Why we? Ah, but I guess you might not like him...her...it...when I said real quiet, I meant, like, silent. Communicates with nods, shrugs, and paper." Kay poked lightly at her sides, halfassed tickling her. "You might get bored and go crazy."
Roxy stuck her tongue out at him at the proclamation. "I can be good, I mean...maybe they just don't have anything to say to you." she stated looking at him in an accusing manner. "Sides I'd take Gera...maybe he or she would like him...he doesn't talk much either." SHe giggeled a bunch.
Kay shook his head, taking her off of his lap and getting back to his feet, collecting their completed breakfast. "Gera AND Anon? I give you ten minutes before you go crazy from boredom." He was challenging her, teasing her, goading her on...just because he could. Once he was up again, he started to dispose of the leftovers, pointing at what was left of the...cake. "Whattcha gonna do with that?"
Roxy pouted pretty sure she could be patient enough with two quiet people. Sure she could. At the question she turned to him and beamed, "Well its your cake you should take it home!" she announced with a wave of her hands like she was a cheerleader. "And come oooover more often Kay I miss you!"
...He could take it home? Perfect, there could be an accident on the way home. 'Oops, sorry, I don't know what happened, it just fell into the garbage!' sort of accident. "Alright, I'll take it home." He chuckled to her enthusiasm, leaving the cake the way it was for now, settling to start the dishes. Another thing that breakfast with Chit taught him.
Her whine granted her a curious look. "But...I'm here almost every day, Roxy..." In the shop, anyway. His cleaning up was paused in just to stare at her.
Roxy pouted anyway and went to stand beside Kay a hand on his shirt as she leaned against him. Yes..he was here almost everyday but after yesterday she was afriad to let him out of her sight. What if something bad happened?
Still she tried to not look too worried as she smiled up at him, "Not over enough." she stated with a pout. "I like our sleep over it was fun." She contined.
Kay glanced down at the hand, then back up at her pretty green eyes. She...certainly looked worried to him. "Well...I can sleep over sometimes...if you wanted to, you could sleep over at my house?" Not that they had the room...Kale and Switch shared a room, Tek had his own room, and he shared his room with Quinn but...it was possible, right? "Roxy...what's wrong? I mean, really? I see you almost more than I see Na..."
Pressing her face into his side she tried to hide the worry with a giggle though it faltered a bit. She looked back up to him a smile on her face, "I would love to stay over at your place...it would be fun!" she stated trying to brush the question aside. She didn't want to remind Kay of how much he had worried her, and being with him was more than enough comfort. "nothing is wrong..your just a lot more exciting than Gera.."
Kay was...thoroughly confused. She sounded happy, but she was acting strange! Well, strange for her, anyway. He pressed his lips together then sighed, drying off his hands before turning to hug her tightly. "Well, okay...just name a day and I'll see if we can have a sleepover then...Maybe Chit'll teach us something, okay?"
Roxy nodded her head and smiled up at him hugging his leg tightly. "That sounds like a lot of fun!" she excliamed and she was very excited about it. Now for a day...she couldn't really pick a day...she knew she did need to figure that out.
"Um...soon?" she stated with a tilt of her head..she could of demanded right now but that may be pushing it.
"Soon." Kay repeated, ruffling her hair. "Okay, well you tell me when soon is, but I have to go home, and I have to talk to Na." Leaning down, he pressed a reassuring kiss to the top of her head, patting her back then letting her go. "You can call me whenever, I'm sure Na'll know where I am if I stepped out. Deal?"
Roxy pouted yet again...she didn't like the idea of him going home by himself but she nodded her head. Taking his hand in hers and then swinging it from side to side.
"Okay I will make sure to call you soon. " She beamed, the little blonde was smiling away like nothing was wrong in the world.
"Cool. I'll hold you to it." He let her swing his hand then finished up washing the dishes. "Alright Midget, the drying is up to you, I should probably head home." Kay was drying his hands again, before tossing her the dish towel. "I'll be sure to share the cake...you can finish up here, right?" After all, it was just drying and putting away!
Roxy looked to the dishes like he had just offered her a rotten banana. Still she rolled her eyes and nodded her head. Maybe she would get Gera to do it....
"Okay then." She stated with a flash of a smile. She hurried to get a container to literaly slide the cake into and then after snapping the lid closed...after several attempts and generally making the cake an unreconizable blob she handed it to him. Maybe she should of gotten him a bigger container...
Kay stared down at the container of...things. He took it from her with a grin, ruffling her hair up nice and messy before backing out of the kitchen, container in one hand and pointing at her with the other. "Remember, tell me when soon is! I'll Cya tomorrow, okay? Have a good one!" Then, of course, he disappeared to go home.
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