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A dark shadow loomed behind Mot, wriggling and writhing closer..and closer...until a pair of glowing green eyes from within the dark shadow peeked around the boil's shoulders, wide and curious. Oooh, a coffee cake! That sounded yummy. "Aw, Mot. You don't have to go through so much trouble for me~." Junko teased affectionately, grinning up at the boil.

Junko giggled and stepped back away from Mot as he yelped and jumped, kneeling down to pick up the magazine and flip through it. Her hands were free, her hair held the handle of a basket of ingredients to make various chocolate treats. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." Liar. She smiled, offering him the magazine back. "It's been so long since I saw you! I wanted to surprise you~. I guess this keeps you on your toes though, yeah?" Silly Mot. You needed to be on alert if you wanted to be a boogeyman! Obviously.

"I didn't know you could bake! Who's the cake for?"

Oh...he'd never really baked before and he was doing this? Well, okay. Junko blinked, tilting her head to one side as Mot blushed. Oooh~? Who was it for who was it for! "Ghoulfriend?" She gasped, clapping her hands. Gene! She knew Gene! Kind of. She'd met her once but hadn't really had a chance to hang out with her at all since, but she'd seemed like a nice enough ghoul! Oh, she was glad! Mot was such a lovely boil. "I'm so glad to hear that! I'm making chocolates for everyone. I didn't know you loved coffee, I'll see about adding some to the ones for you now~." Helpful information was helpful.

It wasn't often Junko splurged on things that wouldn't profit her monetarily, not out of selfishness but simply because she couldn't afford to, but these chocolates needed to be quality. Homemade but not cheap tasting. Scarentine's was a special exception to her spending rule.

Hm...if he was making a cake and chocolate covered beans for his ghoulfriend he would want it to be perfect, right? Gene would probably love anything Mot presented her with but... "If you'd like, I can help you with your cake! I could probably use some help making all these chocolates too, my list is kinda long." Teamwork!

Mot was sparkling. That was new. But hey! This was good! Junko couldn't help but smile over how happy Mot was about her gift. "It's my pleasure! I love making things, and everyone loves chocolate, right?"

When Mot agreed to help she gave a happy cheer, throwing her arms up in the air. "YATTA--oh!" In the process of throwing her arms she'd smacked the basket in her hair and sent its contents flying. "Oops..um...so what do you still need? I can help you find it and then we can go back to the school and use the home ec room! I'm sure Miss Ginger won't mind." Her hair was already picking up some of what she'd dropped, snapping at her ankle once or twice to get her attention and make her step closer to a few things.

Everything was picked up and put away in time for Junko to catch the look in Mot's eyes.

...Waaaait..

Her eyes narrowed suspiciously.



Were Mot's thoughts pure?

"Uh huh..."

"No...you didn't.." The suspicious squint remained.

She was quiet for a long, drawn out moment...

"Should...should I.."

"YA NEED A MOMENT ALONE, BOILY?"

Welp. That settled that. Junko went completely stonefaced. "I am so sorry about Her."

Junko snerked, a bit of hair coming up to cover her mouth as she gave the boil a sly look from the side. "Methinks the boil doth protest too much." She giggled and finally reached out to put a hand on Mot's shoulder, giving it an affectionate squeeze. "I'm kidding, I'm kidding! Come on, show me what kind of coffee you like and I'll add it to your chocolates." She then led the boil along, leaving behind most all most all thoughts of Mot's supposed perversions in public.

They chattered at each other, shopped, paid and then headed straight back to school, eventually arriving in the home ec room where Junko emptied her bags and organized everything she needed to make her chocolates. "Okay! I have molds in myyyyy..there it is!" She found a box she'd hidden in the furthest corner of one of the bottom cupboards along the floor, picking out a selection of differently shaped molds to pour the chocolates into. Skulls, both adorable and 'badass', cats, hearts of different styles, all kinds of things.

"We'll multitask. Cake, chocolates and beans. They all take different amounts of time to make so...yay! Wash your hands and make sure all your hair is tied back~." As she said this she had taken several ribbons to tie her hair into sections to be secured back as much as she could manage; it was hard when her hair was ten feet in length and still growing.