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The morning was peaceful and quiet in a household of three lovers sleeping in bed, as two of the three quietly snuck out of bed into the kitchen, with the intent of keeping their third lover quiet. Ready to set a plan into motion as they grab some food from the fridge and some utensils from the drawers.
“Babe, are you sure about this?” Hunter said awkwardly towards Ally, feeling a shred of doubt in their plan. “It’s not that I don’t wanna do something nice for Tess, but it’s no secret that we’re not the most experienced with cooking here. When Tess isn’t meal-prepping for us, we’re usually just, y’know…. Ordering takeout…..Or heating up frozen food, and even that sometimes comes out burnt.”
“Well we know Tess sometimes likes her food burnt, or at least her toast burnt. Besides, it may not be as impressive as what she makes, but we still have our own cooking potential.” Ally says with a spark of confidence.
“Unless we count preparing frozen pizza bites and ramen noodles as cooking potential, then sure.” Hunter chuckled. Ally rolls her eyes embarrassed slightly before she responds.
“And what about that one cooking game we all played? It's not that different from it, in fact it practically prepared us for moment’s like these.” Ally said, reminding Hunter of the game they played.
“Cooking Nanny? Yeah, I suppose it at least has some good pointers.” Hunter said, his doubts dwindling.
“I mean, who was it that made that speed run for mashing the eggs? Us! And who made that perfect souffle with preciseness, also us! If we can do that, we have just as good of a chance here to apply those to real life.” Ally says amping up Hunter with encouragement.
“Y’know what, you're right! Let’s make an awesome breakfast that Tess won’t forget.” Hunter said with some newfound confidence as they both smiled at each other, ready to step up and cook a meal for their girlfriend.
Tess lies in the middle of the bed, having some pleasant dreams and feeling the warmth of the bed. Before she started slowly waking up. She smiles a bit as turns to her left, subconsciously trying to cuddle with Hunter, before realizing she grabbed thin air. Confused, she turns to her right to see if Ally was there to either explain or cuddle up with her, but sees no one there either.
“Ugh, either I slept in late or they got up early.” She said even growing even more confused and turned to see the clock, confirming it was still fairly early in the morning. It wasn’t normal that Hunter or Ally would be up this early, usually they would be up later compared to her, unless she made them get up or made them breakfast. Seeing this almost made her… proud of them?
She may as well freshen up and see what they’re up to.
Tess slowly makes her way to the bathroom as she washes her face and takes her medication. While doing this, she noticed a funny smell. Almost, smoky…..
“Wait? Smoke…”
Tess rushes her way towards the source of the smoke to see what was going on, which seemed to be in the kitchen. Her eyes widened as she looked in both relief that their home wasn’t burning down and shock at the sight in front of her…
Hunter and Ally covered in splats of food and their pajamas covered in grey, what was likely smoke. As they both turn to her with awkward grins on their faces, having their hands behind their back and their body covering the table.
Tess wasn’t sure whether to laugh at this weird display of her boyfriend and girlfriend, or ask for an explanation. So she decided to ask….
“What…. Haha…. What's this?”
She tried to ask anyway. But to little avail, as she covers her mouth with her hand.
“Well, we wanted to surprise you with some breakfast.” Hunter scratches the back of his head as he awkwardly chuckles.
As he and Ally stood aside and revealed the layout of what looked to be a breakfast. Or at least an attempt, the toast seemed burnt, the eggs seemed burnt and inconsistently scrambled, the bacon seemed burnt. In fact, just about every piece of food seemed burnt, except the juice, kinda hard to do that.
“So, is the theme here breakfast or burnt food?” Tess says with a smirk and a raised brow. Hunter and Ally only recoil.
“Well..nothing a little syrup and butter can’t fix.” Ally responds a bit embarrassed, pulling a small stick of butter along with a bottle of syrup out of the fridge, giving an awkward grin of her own.
Before she knew it, Tess started laughing, soon Hunter followed suit, and then Ally gave some laughs of her own.
As they settle down, Tess takes a closer look at some of the food to inspect it.
“It’s mostly still edible, maybe if we cut around a few parts and throw that dash of syrup, we can make a meal out of this.” Tess says as her partners go along with her and finish prepping the food and sit down together to eat in joy, salvaging the disastrous start to breakfast.
“So why did you do this?” The goth girl says between bites.
“Well…” Hunter says with his mouth full.
“Hunter…” Ally says, putting a finger to his lips.
“Sorry, sorry” The man says, before swallowing his food and continuing on. “Well we know you usually take your time to go out of your way to prepare meals for us and we wanted to return the favor.”
Tess blushes a bit in gratitude putting a hand to her cheek, seeing them be so thoughtful to do that for her made her feel a bit warm inside.
“We’ll, I really appreciate that. But I know your cooking skills leave some… room for growth. So how about I teach you guys for next time you wanna do something like that?” Tess offers. “That way we can make some more mouthwatering goods and less…..”
She gestures to the food splatters.
“Of that.”
“You’d do that for us? Aww, you’re one of the best!” Hunter says holding her close and nuzzling against her.
“Hehe. One of?” His metamour said with a raised brow.
“Can’t forget me too of course!” Ally says getting to the other side of Tess and wrapping her arms around her, nuzzling her from the other side.
All three lovers nuzzled against each other, feeling the warmth swell up in their hearts.
“And this way, if we learn from Tess, we won’t have to have Cooking Nanny teach us how to make recipes.” Ally says smiling.
“Wait, what?” Tess said raising an eyebrow. Neither Hunter nor Ally answered.
This would be a long cooking course for them, but as long as she gets to do this with them, it was good enough for her.
Tess smiles as she enjoys her breakfast with two very important people in her life.