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"What are these things anyway?" Sens takes one candy corn in their mouth and hums. "Sugar sponge?"
"Whatever it is, it can't be better than what we make for the party. That thing tastes horrendous." Twitch is occupied with a lab beaker with purple fluid in her hand. She has about forty-nine silicone molds on the kitchen counter, with myriads of beakers that have different colours in each. "Get working, Néon! We still got another batch to go through."
"Girl, please. I really think we should have gone the easy way with this." Sens shakes their shoulders and takes the beaker with white liquid. "Like, can't we buy some pride flag jellies from Temu?"
"But they are NOT in the shape of candy corns. We are supposed to bring something that's pyramid and layered, so this is it." Twitch has just finished topping off the bisexual corns. "Julien, which one are you working on now?"
"Asexual?" He bends down to check the label. "Yeah, it's that one."
"So why are you using blue?"
"There's no blue in asexual?" Rook peeks at the tablet and frowns. "Oh. Yeah, I mean I didn't mean to put this in there."
"Julien, you did. I saw you doing it." Twitch has been their chef tonight and right now, her laser gaze could put Gordon Ramsey to shame.
"No, maman. Maman, please." Rook puts his hands together for mercy.
"Did you put anything else in that mold?" With her hands on both sides of waist, she is about to unleash the stress she gained from exhaustion.
They aren't making a candy that has the exact same texture as candy corns have. At first, making tipsy jelly cones felt achievable so they bought tons of jello powders and stirred them already with vodka. The hardship came when they realised each layer had to be refrigerated before adding another on the top, so this became extremely time consuming. The margin for mistakes are very thin here, just like her patience with Rook who has been too forgetful for his own good.
"Just this one." Rook smiles sheepishly.
"Then we will make it as androgyne. We haven't made that one yet."
"Uh, I did." Sens pulls one out from the fridge and shakes it a little. "It's not settled in yet, but I did label this as androgyne."
"Agh." Twitch throws her hands in frustration. She takes a bottle of nearly empty vodka and downs it in one go. "AGH!"
"Invalid crashout, but I guess we will keep on going with what we gotta do." Sens reaches out for their phone that's still connected to the bluetooth speaker. "Time for some Yamê." And hip hop plays out.
The flavours are quite basic and intuitive.
Red - Strawberry
Orange - Orange (like, what else?)
Yellow - Pineapple
Green - Apple
Blue - Blueberry
Purple - Grape
White - Condensed milk
Grey - some food dye and vanilla
Black (more like super dark purple) - Boysenberry
Any shades of pink, baby blue, light blues are white and base colour mixed (pink - strawberry condensed milk flavour.)
So they manage to finish the project. Alcoholic jellies in shapes of square based pyramids, in the layered colour schemes of Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Nonbinary, Androgyne, Rainbow, and Pansexual (which was meant to be Asexual) flags.
Their costumes for the party are ‘Wizard of Oz’ themed. Twitch as witch, Rook as tin man, and Sens as the wizard. They met the rest of the group at the Stadium with Montagne as the scarecrow, Doc as Dorothy with a twin tail wig, white shirt and blue checkered dress and all, and Lion is dressed up as a dog. Toto, to be exact, because he got sick of being a lion all the time. Since this is an outdoor event, there are quite a number of people gathered to enjoy.
Games are also abundant too, such as BOSG shooting range with neon-green fluid filled pumpkins, catch the skeletons (whoever manages to catch Skopos’ robots in obstacle course earns a prize,) arm wrestling competition against the big demon lord Oryx, 24 hours movie marathon of Rocky Horror Picture show. Some people have their own games brought from home, like a whole foosball table(?) and air hockey (??), and some gathered to have a pumpkin carving competition.
People definitely put some effort in food, varying from a massive pyramid cake of vanilla icing with pumpkin in the middle and lemon as the bottom layer, cookies that have candy corns drawn on it as a pattern, and yes, somebody builds pyramids of candy corns by using hot glue gun. There are savoury finger snacks in the colour theme of orange and yellow, which are mostly cheese, potato, corn cobs and other carbs.
“I think ours is too… different.” Rook’s voice comes out muffled under his mask. He sanded the edges down and took the stickers off from the largest can of cream soup last week, but the holes for eyes and mouth weren’t cut as quite nicely.
“Don’t worry, they will love it.” Twitch shrugs. “Even if they don’t, we will eat it up and get hammered.”
“Naughty, madam Witch. But count me in.” Sens tips their ragged hat down and smiles.
And so the party begins. Please feel free to comment on which one of your fav(s) or OTP(s ate which jellies, and what costume they wore for extra details. Since I am in a mood for Montagne/Doc/Lion ship, I imagined them having some of the Rainbow, Bisexual and Pansexual jellies. Montagne and Doc commented on the weird ensemble of the fruitiness, while Lion loved the mix of pineapple, strawberry and blueberry.