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“So.”
“So..”
Eren and Levi were standing in their kitchen, looking at all of the various ingredients that they had on their countertop.
“Can we back out?” Eren asked. Levi turned to him and glared, crossing his arms tightly against his chest.
“I remember correctly, “ Levi started. “ I was the one who wanted nothing to do with this, but you being you couldn’t just let that be.”
Eren rolled his eyes as he looked back at the stuff on top of his kitchen counter, completely ignoring the glare that Levi was giving him.
“It shouldn’t be that bad!” Eren said, pumping his fists together and looking at Levi with an optimistic grin.
Levi turned to Eren and sighed.
“Babe.”
“Yes, Levi?”
“We don’t know how to fucking bake, “ Levi unwrapped one of his arms and pointed at all of the ingredients and oven. “We don’t even know how to use the oven.”
“Well there’s a first time for everything.” Eren cheered as he walked over to the various ingredients, picking them up and glancing them over.
Levi stood there, wondering if he would be able to make some excuse to get out of this. Like, he needed to finish a project, or his mother just called saying that his grandma has fallen down the stairs. But, he couldn’t find himself to lie to his boyfriend. Eren looked really happy and Levi didn’t want to miss out on an evening with his happy boyfriend.
Levi made his way over when Eren started grabbing bowls out of the cupboard. Levi looked over at the list that Eren had on the table and he couldn’t fucking believe it, they weren’t baking just one simple cake, oh no, their small kitchen was about to look like a bakery.
“Uh, “ Levi picked up the sheet. “How many are going to be making and what exactly are we going to be making?”
“Mom said she needed at least 40 cupcakes, around 4 batches of cookies and something else but I can’t remember what.” Eren explained as he picked up the carton of eggs.
Levi never wanted to run out of his apartment so fast in his life.
However, Levi nodded and sighed, going over to his boyfriend and helping him out, well trying to help him out.
“Okay so it says that we need to preheat the oven..” Eren trailed off as he turned himself around and looked at the oven in front him.
“Does ‘preheat’ mean turn on?” Levi asked, scanning over the recipe that Eren had left on his phone.
“That’s what I was thinking..ah! There it is.” Eren pressed the button, the oven instantly turning on its lights. Levi turned and looked quite proud of his boyfriend.
“Well done.” Levi smirked as he clapped his hands slowly. Eren grinned and bowed a little, then went over to where Levi had been standing.
“Okay so this recipe says we need to crack four eggs into the mixing bowl.” Levi read out loud as Eren began cracking eggs into the bowl.
“This shit is so easy, “ Eren said. “I wonder why we don’t do it more often.”
“I know right.” Levi agreed as Eren looked up at him, leaning a bit forward and pressing a quick kiss on his forehead.
“You start on the cookies, I’ll finish off these cupcakes.” Eren nodded over at where all of the cooking ingredients for the cookies were. Levi hummed as he went over to it, looking at the sheet of paper which described the recipe accordingly, what had to go into the mixture and what temperature they would have to be in the oven.
Levi didn’t understand why he didn’t cook often, this shit was piss easy to do. All he and Eren had to do was follow the recipe. Nothing could go wrong.
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“D-do it again!” Levi laughed as he took another sip of his alcohol infused coke.
Eren grinned and started juggling the eggs in his hands again, causing Levi to laugh and clap his hands.
They had both decided that they needed a drink after they actually turned on the oven this time, they waited for about an hour after they put the cookies and the cupcakes to realise that Eren hadn’t actually turned on the oven, he only turned on the lights instead.
“You enjoying yourself babe?” Eren asked as he stopped juggling the eggs, switching them out for his vodka and coke instead.
Levi nodded as he moved closer to his boyfriend, putting his head against his warm chest and melting against him. When Levi is drunk, Levi is very needy , especially needy for Eren.
Eren laughed as he put his glass down, wrapping his arms around Levi’s waist and kissing the top of Levi’s head. Levi closed his eyes and hummed against Eren’s chest and did the same action that Eren had done with his arms, pulling Eren closer to him.
“This baking shit is way too easy for us. We are like..cooking pros or something.” Eren commented, feeling quite proud of himself.
Levi laughed against his chest and looked up at Eren, sliver meeting green.
“Yeah, “ Levi started off. “We should go on one of those cooking shows.”
“Oh fuck yeah! We’d be an amazing duo.” Eren agreed. Levi giggled (he fucking giggled, Eren thought to himself) and nodded his head.
“What would our team be called?” Levi found himself asking, as he thought of the names that teams would have on some cooking shows.
“Hmmm, “ Eren pulled away from Levi, grabbing his glass. “Good question. It would have to be something good.”
Levi agreed as he picked up his glass, taking a sip out of it as he put his finger into the left over batter, licking it clean off his finger.
“What about.. Ereri ?” Eren asked, Levi tilted his head to the side.
“What the fuck is Ereri?” Levi asked as he laughed, causing Eren to do the same.
Eren shrugged his shoulders and continued to chuckle to himself.
“God knows babe, just felt like the right name.” Eren said as Levi continued to drink his drink and eat the rest of batter in the bowl that was in front of him.
They had been sharing small talk with each other when Levi decided to go over to their living room that was in another room their kitchen put some music on, he had been searching through the channels when he could smell something, he turned to Eren who had been on his phone typing something out with his back against the comfy couch cushions.
“Hey babe?”
“Hm?” Eren looked up from his phone.
Levi sniffed one more time, confirming the smell that was lingering inside of his apartment.
“Is it just me, “ Levi sniffed again. “Or can you smell-“
Before Levi could finish off his sentence, the fire alarm had started going off in the kitchen. Eren instantly shot up from his seat, running off to where the alarm was going off. Levi had followed shortly after, throwing the remote on the couch somewhere. Eren had gotten into the kitchen and noticed the black smoke coming from their oven, he quickly grabbed the fire extinguisher from the wall and started spraying at it, telling Levi to stay back. Levi grabbed his broom from the other side of the kitchen, using the top of it to press on the button that was on the smoke alarm. Levi kept jumping and jumping and jumping until he finally managed to hit the button and the loud screeching noise of the alarm had stopped immediately. Eren had managed to get the smoke away, using a towel from their kitchen to wave around while he walked over to the oven.
Eren opened up the oven and was met with more smoke, he covered his face immediately while Levi stayed back.
Eren grabbed the oven mits at the side of him and pulled out what could only be considered to be coal at this point.
Eren and Levi both looked at each other for a moment, before bursting out into laughter. They couldn’t fucking believe it, but they also could at the same time. Levi couldn’t even stop the snort that came out of him, maybe it was the alcohol he had been consuming, maybe it was the fact that he and Eren were massive idiots. Who knew?
“I’m starting to think that maybe we shouldn’t go on a cooking show.” Eren said as he pulled out the tray of cookies that Levi had made. It was completely burnt, and also looked like coal.
“Nah, “ Levi shook his head. “We should definitely go on a cooking show.”
Eren laughed freely as he took off the oven gloves and went over to Levi, wrapping his arms around Levi’s waist and kissing him sweetly. Of course Levi had to kiss back, he would be crazy not too.
“So, “ Eren pulled away, much to Levi’s disapproval pout. “Wanna go to the grocery store and buy a shit ton of cookies, cakes, some decorating shit, and some more alcohol? We can get shit faced while we decorate our ‘ home made’ treats?”
Levi grinned as he leaned forward and kissed Eren on the cheek.
“Let’s fucking do it.”