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“So what are we missin’ from the list?” Lighter asked, arms resting on the handle of the shopping cart, gazing over the products inside all to bake a cake with Wise, during the special occasion of Lighter’s birthday.
They had bigger plans but due to a few commissions on both on their ends it had to be canceled, but a wise solution came along the way, Wise told Lighter to just have cake together at his place, though it would've made more sense for wise to go to the birthday boy’s place they both found making a trip to lumina square and then Wise’s place would be way more convenient, it held the thought on lighter for getting a place together in the future, not that he’d discuss it now, but it was nice to think about.
“Just some fruit to make jam for the filling, want some fruit on top too?” Back to the present moment, Wise shot in response, patting Lighter’s back signaling to keep walking over to the fruit aisle leaning over his arm walking side by side.
“Fruit is nice, how do you feel about raspberries? I like apples too..”
“We can get raspberries, they go best with chocolate cake, its that tanginess with the bitterness of the chocolate, it's perfect really, I like those type of flavours a lot” Wise said, already over on the berries side of the fruit aisle, trying to pick the perfect box, trying to be careful not to pick one that had rotten ones at the bottom and get the most picture perfect ones for any possible inter-knot posts on Wise’s personal account, a nice archive for his fondest memories.
“I much rather sweet things, ya know? Keeps me runnin’, like you sweetheart” arms wrapped around Wise's waist, hovering over his shoulder to nibble at his cheek, Wise pulls back whispering small stops to then bite back at his nose finally making lighter pull away. “Aight’ aight’- got it- god you'll make me bleed if ya bite so hard-” he wined very much fakely, pouting, very much fakely as well-
“Sure, big guy” Wise eyed over his shoulder so his face could meet with lighters pout, scratching his under chin, giving him a playful glare “there, there, lets go checkout now” Lighter pouts now for real, pulling away heading again to swing the cart around, wise leaving three boxes of ripe, fresh, nice raspberries, and one of strawberries, lighter knows god for what, but like he would question his boyfriend, nonetheless over strawberries.
They head over to the self checkout, and once finished with that and everything wrapped up in bags, they make their way back to random play, and then to the kitchen.
“Alright, you can go ahead and separate everything, I'll get the kitchenware we need” like if dog ears popped, and a tail wagged, lighter got to it right away, separating the wet ingredients from the dry, getting what was already on the fridge for room temperature out, and get what needed to be refrigerated in, meanwhile wise got a few tools like spoons, knifes, bowls, molds and a pot out. “Let's start with the jam, that way its gonna be cold when we’re finished”
“Makes sense manager, gonna wash those up for you then manager, wanna get the pot and the sugar set up?”
“Right away sir!” Wise pecks Lighter's cheek, and gets going to measure out the sugar they need, meanwhile Lighter got two boxes of the berries and deep washed them on bicarbonate to get them nicely cleaned.
“Wise where do you have the paper towels?”
“Oh they're besides the microwave” wise responded grabbing the strainer that held the berries, letting all liquid well, strain, while lighter placed down some paper towels folded oven the kitchen isle, wise following up by putting the berries spread out on the towel, letting the paper soak up the moisture and pressing paper on top, letting wise dry them out, lighter went ahead to light up the stove and get it ready.
In a way this whole process made them feel dreamy, even if they both very much suck at cooking and were kinda nervous about the end result, they were enjoying the silence all the way, boyfriend and boyfriend cooking together as if it was their day to day life, and it somehow it just made the day way more special, made lighter think about how this birthday could ever be topped off, he loved the girls back at blazewood but no party would ever get close to the warmness and tranquility he was feeling in this moment. He snaps back to reality to look for Wise, his eyes eventually meeting with him to see him carefully pouring the berries on the pot. “Wanna get me the sugar, love? Right beside you”
“Of course, baby, right away” lighter grabbed the bowl of sugar and was about to hand it to wise before thinking twice and better pour it in while wise stirred ‘I can bother him up a bit-’ Lighter thought before leaning in and pampering wises face with kisses, pretty quickly backfiring as he was very quickly hit on the head with a spoon.
“Idiot, i love your kisses but if i get distracted it can burn, go start the cake mix instead, I'll be done with this soon” Wise kisses lighters forehead going back to mix up the jam “ if we get over with this quick enough, while the cake gets baking i can give you some well deserved birthday cuddles,,,” oh the way Lighter’s eyes lit up. He got to work, getting everything he needed for the cake mix, thankfully they were smart enough to buy box cake (Wise was not into the idea of getting yelled at by Belle when she came back from nicoles) so all he needed was oil and eggs, easy enough to follow right? Not a challenge for the undefeated champion, yeah, undefeated-
Oh how he wished that title carried outside of fighting people, because now he was fighting with a four step cake mix, and losing.
Wise busy with getting the jam ready and making sure it didn't burn, getting little distracted by deciding to put on some music, wasn't able to notice-
“Wise, I know ya torn on either putting emo boy to tick me off or the Guardians of the galaxy soundtrack but I could ah, kinda your yer help right here-” wise shot up from his phone only to be faced with a lighter, cake mix all over himself oiled and eggy fingers with a bit of mixture spilled- all over-
“Oh god- Lighter-” Wise looked shocked, almost dropped his phone, but then- “Pffff- I’m- H-How?? PFFFFF-” Laughing burst came out of him, tears even, hunched over, hand on his mouth and everything “oh god you're adorable i'm sorry-” wise calms down to find a not so pleased, still caked up (pun intended) Lighter, Wise in response a little bit giggly still got himself closer to Lighter who was leaned over the isle face to face with him, he cupped his cheeks giving him a big smooch on the nose “I know I'm no master chef, but how did you make this mess out of cake box mix-”
“I-I couldn't do it properly with my jacket on-” he shooted, averting his eyes from the boy in front of him.
“Oh sure fire-spit, let's mold the mix and get you cleaned up” Wise said getting a bit of powder off Lighters face with his thumb around the taller man's cheek “ you should have some spare of clothes on my room, go ahead and shower I'll finish up the cake in the meantime” pulling away from the man's gaze Wise made his way to grease the mold to pour the mix in and compliantly Lighter made his way to Wises room, does as he’s told, afterall he was a bit dirtied up.
Finishing his shower, for decency's sake he dressed inside the bathroom, putting on christmas pajamas he got with Wise to match that same week's christmas a few days prior. Heading out he found Wise layed down on the couch with coincidentally the matching pair of pajamas.
“Did you have a nice shower?” Wise cooed getting a bit more sat on the couch so he could give Lighter some space to get beside him “I owe you some cuddles don't I?” wise spreads his arms open welcoming lighters embrace, which he happily complied to, getting on top of the proxy nuzzling his face on the smaller tummy, closing his eyes almost dozing off, Wise only calmly running his fingers through the champions hair “don't fall asleep on me, we still have a cake to set up”
“Cake can wait, birthdays can be without cakes, I have a much better sweet here right now,,” muffled by wises body, Lighter fought back against the suggestion of ever letting go of his boyfriends warmth, smiling to himself and wrapping his arms around and gripping a bit so Wise cant bulge.
“C’mon big guy, the cakes gonna get burnt” He says, but really, he's not even trying to >move< out of Lighter’s grip, not that he could ever could, the man doubled him in size and weight- but the weight on im was nice and not to mention petting him was nice, he almost found himself dozing off to it, and maybe he did, just 5 minutes he told himself, and he gave in, closing his eyes with his lover in his arms,,,
10 minutes later, yeah, he woke up from a rather unpleasant smell.
“Lighter,, Lighter,, LIghter!! Move!! The cake is burning!!”
“Huh,,, What!!??” lighter shot up right awake giving Wise space to get up and run to the kitchen, Lighter right behind him, Fortunately it was barely burning, it was only a few minutes overdue afterall, but upon opening the oven, a bit of a mess was found
“So babe,,, how do you feel about lava cake,,,?” Lighter leaned in over the kneeled Wise, Taking a glimpse of the cake, now looking very much like a volcano, cake mix spilled on the sides, puffed up and burnt, with a bit of a runny center, very reminiscent of lava cake, but they were pretty sure that wasn't what they were trying to achieve there. “I mean, it's mostly cooked through, maybe if we remove the top part, ist edible,,,?”
“I’m pretty sure the ‘top part’ is the first half of the cake-”
“Its fine, cake without filling is still cake” Wise said, very much trying to be positive about the total cake fail.
They let it cool down on the fridge and decided to get started on the frosting, since neither of them were fans of store bought frosting ( Lighter likes sweets but even he knows not to have a sugar rush) they went ahead and bought stuff to make chocolate ganache, two ingredients, easy enough. And surprisingly due to both being able to be there, at the same time, cooking the same thing, nothing got too messed up, but not to say they didn't mess around, once the ganache was done wise didn't think twice before getting a bit from the spatula to his finger and smear it on lighters cheek, looking away innocently from lighters gaze, licking what was left of the ganache on his finger.
“Oh? This is how it is now?” Lighter glares playfully, getting a bit of the mixture on his finger and gettin it on the first place he could as wise started to escape him, obviously he didn't get far before Lighter could catch him, flipping him around to get face to face and paint a stripe of ganache across his lips “we’re even”
“Let's finish up the cake and eat already-”
“Ah ah ah- wait up a minute, now that i look at it im kinda cravin’ the ganache” before wise can process his words Lighter leans down and licks the ganache off Wise’s lips, not completely wiping it off as he was not about to give in to his animalistic instincts just to get rid of all the chocolate, but he does decide that after the second lick to press his lips with the other, Wise complying very quickly and wrapping his arms around the taller man's neck, smiles on their faces as they enjoyed the sweet kiss, unfortunately the moment was cut short by wise,pulling away softly giving Lighter a sweet tiny peck.
“Like the ganache?”
“Best ganache in the entire world”
“Alright, let's set up the cake”
With that said, lighter got the cake, fruit and jam out of the fridge and Wise gets out a big plate and three smaller ones, two forks and some toothpicks.
“What all that for?” Lighter raised an eyebrow.
“Wait and see” Wise only responded, not bulging Lighter proceed to set up the cake on the bigger plate as Wise brought the ganache closer, they cut off the top, messed up part-, fortunately enough the bottom half of the cake is fine- wise worries it’d be to dry but he carries on by spreading the ganache on the cake, a messy job but a job getting done. Jam placed on top and a few fresh berries. “Wanna take the cake to the bedroom, I need to do something really quick”
“Alright, take your time” with his imaginary tail between his legs and walked out with the cake, plates and forks.
On the meanwhile, Wise took out the strawberries they bought, covered them in ganache, realized chocolate ganache might not be the same as melted chocolate but took his chances, tasted good anyways, chocolate is chocolate, placed the strawberries on toothpicks, and the strawberries on the plate, not without getting a bottle of wine he had on the counter along with some glasses and walked himself to the bedroom.
Once he got to the door, Lighter had already set up the cake on the table, his gaze switching from the cake to wise and what he's holding.
“Wine and strawberries? Didn't know it was our wedding anniversary sugar” Lighter said teasingly
“No, but it is your birthday, which is, or would be- just as important and special, first time we spend it together as a couple, and since you always get to be the romantic one, i thought, you know- I could do something nice in return,, plus, chocolate strawberries are the most intimate food, so I've been told” Wise said, kneeled over the coffee table, placing the wine on the table along with the glasses, getting up to get something from his desk drawer, pulling out a set of candles, quickly getting back, and setting them up on the cake.
“Would you hand feed them to me as the most intimate way to eat them as well?”
“If that makes birthday boy happy, I'll do it”
“I’d be the damned happiest birthday boy alive” at this point they were both very, intimately, staring at each other
“Before that let's eat the cake, but,gotta blow the candles first, does the man called Lighter, perchance, have a lighter on him?”
“Can’t live up to the name if i didn't” He responds as he pulls one out of his back pocket handing it to wise who then lit up the candles already on the cake, grabbing it from the table and sitting down on the couch properly with Lighter “C’mon, blow them out and make a wish”
Lighter closes his eyes not evident through his shades and blows the candle. When his eyes opened Wise put the cake back on the table and took out a gift, a small black box with a red ribbon.
“Your gift” Wise handed it out to LIghter with a soft smile and dreamy eyes.
Lighter took it and slowly unwrapped it “a pair of keys? For what?”
“Here”
“What?”
“For the video store, they're keys for here, you haven't been so subtle about moving in, and while we can’t get a place together yet- cuz you know, the whole me and belle trying to find our master thing, you being needed in the outer ring- but, now you can come and go as you please, treat here like your second home, you already have clothes here, for other reasons- but now you can move in a toothbrush and your own self care products and-” Wises rambles were shut down with a nothing short of an intense passionate kiss on the lips, Lighter held him tight and close placing him above his lap and wise only complied to his lovers actions.
“You are, the best boyfriend i could have ever asked for, and this is the best birthday i could have ever asked for and everything about this is perfect, I love you Wise, you know how to keep me” With a softened smile Lighter, shades off which Wise guesses he took off before the kiss, Lighter stares at him with the most tender gaze, enamoured and Wise can only help but do so too.
“I love you too, Happy birthday Lighter” Wise kisses him once again before getting a chocolate covered strawberry and feeding it to lighter “now let's eat”
“Each other?”
“The food, but i can consider that one for later, birthday boy deserves it”
“I Want it to be my birthday every day now”