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“Did you get the flour I asked for?” 8-Bit asked as Wireglasses came in through the front door with some grocery bags that she seemed to be slightly struggling to carry. “Yep, got it.” She placed the bag on the counter beside the other ingredients that 8-Bit had on the counter. It was honestly a huge shocker to Wire when she found out that 8-Bit was into baking; he had never seemed like the type at all, considering how short-tempered he could be. When she first found out about the hobby he had, she was a bit skeptical until she actually tried it but surprisingly, 8-Bit was genuinely good at it. “Sooo.. what are you making?” “Brownies.” 8-Bit responded, grabbing his apron designed with tiny little apples scattered all over it and tying it around his waist, looping the crimson ribbon into a bow in the back, which was impressively perfectly tied, before pulling the flour out of the bag and tearing it open, getting a small bit of the fine powder on the counter.
“That apron is really cutesy, don’tcha think?” Wire said and pointed at the apples on his apron. 8-Bit’s head immediately snapped up from the bag of flour to look at her. “Wha- what’s that supposed to mean–!” he stammered, “Now you're all red, kinda like the apples y’know.” Wire snickered and gently pinched 8-Bit’s flushed cheek. “Whatever..” he muttered and turned his attention back to the bag of flour.
“Need any help?” Wire asked, “Uh, I guess.. Here.” 8-Bit tossed her a spare apron, which was plain compared to the one 8-Bit had, it was just a simple beige one. “I’ll deal with the wet ingredients, you can deal with the dry, just tie your apron first,” he said, sliding the flour that he was just about to pour towards her side of the table as she tied her apron.
Wireglasses slid on the apron and basically attempted to tie it the same way that she’d tie her shoes, but worse.. The knot ended up looking like a lumpy ball of yarn rather than the bow 8-Bit had that she was trying to imitate. “Just– Let me do it..!” 8-Bit grumbled and went behind him to undo the knot. “Have you always been such a perfectionist?” Wireglasses questioned as 8-Bit picked at the knot with her fingernails. “Just stay still..” he mumbled as he tied the ribbon into a bow around Wire’s waist that was similar to his own. It was actually pretty nice to Wireglasses having her boyfriend close to her like this, even if it was in the smallest way possible, small gestures always meant a lot to her even if unintentional and with the bows it was kinda like they were matching now, it was adorable.
8-Bit reached for a red bowl out of the wooden cabinet and placed it down on the counter before closing it shut. “Can you melt the butter for me?” he asked as he poured the sugar into the bowl.
“Yeah sure, how long?” She took the bowl with the stick of butter in it and stuck it in the microwave. “Uhh.. I’d say like- thirty seconds.” He responded and leaned against the counter as the microwave hummed. Once the microwave went off Wireglasses carefully poured the butter in the bowl, she knew she was supposed to deal with mixing in the dry ingredients like the flour and all but the bottom of the bowl was hot and she didn’t want him burning himself. 8-Bit whisked the mixture together eventually finishing up with the wet ingredients and Wire started pouring in the dry ingredients “I kinda wanna taste the batter after we finish mixing it..” Wire said as she poured the cup of flour into the bowl. “Ew– you'll get salmonella!” 8-Bit grimaced, “Wait, you really believe in that?!” Wire stared up at her with a raised eyebrow.
“It has raw eggs in it of course!” he responded and started to fold in the flour that Wireglasses had poured in. “Seriously, who do you know that’s genuinely gotten salmonella from that? You mean to tell me you’ve never eaten I don’t know– cookie dough or something?”
“No, I haven’t because you're not supposed to..” 8-Bit said and paused for a moment and tilted his head, “Anyways do you think I should add chocolate chips to this?”
“Of course!” Wire grabbed a bag of chocolate chips from a nearby cabinet to pour into the mixture. As much as she wanted to dip her finger in the brownie batter and eat it she knew that doing that would probably upset 8-Bit.. So she held back on that. After the chocolate chips were poured into the brownie batter 8-Bit slid on his red kitchen mittens before placing it into the already preheated oven. “Your mittens match your apron.” Wire commented as he took them off and put them back where he got it. “You're still talking about that..?” 8-Bit said and looked over at her, he had meant to glare at Wireglasses but it more so came off as a pout. Wireglasses chuckled at the look 8-Bit had given her and pointed to the dishes behind her “Want me to finish up with the dishes?”
“Yeah, whatever..” 8-Bit said, still visibly flustered from Wire’s comment “I’ll be in the living room..” he pulled off his apron and hung it up before heading towards the living room. Once Wireglasses was done she walked into the living room to see 8-Bit leaning on the edge of the couch messing around with the old cd player on the side table that Wireglasses had brought a while back. “Some of your CDs don’t work..” 8-Bit complained and took out the cd that was in it before. “Yeah I know.. A lot of them are old, or damaged..” Wireglasses placed the cd back in its case and opened up her drawer “Why do you have these anyways?” 8-Bit asked.
“I like collecting them!” Wireglasses pulled out another old cd from the drawer and dusted it off with the sleeve of her sweater. “Try this one.” she said and handed the new cd to her boyfriend. “Alright..” he placed the cd into the player and pressed the play button and the disc started to spin steadily, the disc played a soft jazz song that was sort of calming for 8-Bit he let out a pleased hum as he gazed at the spinning disc. “Wanna dance?” Wire said and playfully held out her hand with a bow that you’d see in some cheesy princess movie. “You're serious?”
Wire nodded and inched her hand closer. “You're insufferable..” 8-Bit mumbled and took his girlfriend's hand and their attempt at slow dancing together was a mess to say the least.. 8-Bit had almost tripped over Wire around four different times; they were pretty close together with their hands interlocked and all. “This is so corny..” 8-Bit commented and shifted her eye contact back to the cd player hiding the warm flush across his face which resulted in her accidentally tripping over Wireglasses foot which luckily she managed to catch 8-Bit. “You're such a klutz y’know that?”
“I’m not–!” Wire leaned in and placed a gentle kiss on her cheek and the words instantly died in 8-Bits throat and Wireglasses pulled away with a smug look on her face. “..You’re irritating.” 8-Bit mumbled and folded his arms over his chest. “You know good and well you don’t mean that” Wireglasses teased, “Anyways let’s go cheek on those brownies.. I could smell them from over here.” 8-Bit rolled his eyes at her and started heading towards their kitchen. The strong rich smell of sweet dark chocolate with the slight hint of vanilla almost made his mouth water, 8-Bit reached for his red kitchen mittens and pulled out the warm pan of freshly baked brownies from the oven. “Can you hand me a fork?” 8-Bit asked and Wire pulled one out from the kitchen drawer with silverware in it. “What’s the fork for?” Wireglasses asked and peeked over 8-Bit’s shoulder to see the tray of brownies.
“To make sure it’s fully done, if it comes out with brownies batter on it it’s not ready.. A few crumbs on it are okay though.” 8-Bit responded and poked the fork into the center of the pan and it came out with a few brownie crumbs on it. “See?”
“Can I eat it off the fork?” Wireglasses asked and 8-Bit sighed holding the fork towards her mouth. Wire smiled and took the fork into her mouth and the brownies crumbs were perfectly fudgey “Holy shit.. Who taught you how to cook?” 8-Bit smiled. He actually enjoyed it when people complimented his cooking. “I mostly taught myself back in high school, I had a cooking class back then but that’s the only teaching I really had.” he said confidently and started to cut the brownies into medium sized squares, “Get me two plates.. and see if there's any tupperware I could put some slices into.” Wire eagerly grabbed some plates out of the cabinet and placed them on the counter before going back for the tupperware. “Is the tupperware for Ocho and Shady?”
“Yeah, I’ll give it to them the next time we go practice.” he said and slid a brownie onto each plate and then placed two brownies into the tupperware before closing it and placing it in the fridge. “Hey wanna watch a new horror movie while we eat?” Wireglasses asked.
“What? Too scared to watch it by yourself?” 8-Bit teased and handed Wireglasses her plate. “Oh please.. You're gonna end up being the one clinging onto me.”
“Wanna bet?!” 8-Bit challenged and turned over to look at Wire, “Sure but if you lose you owe me..”