“The cookies and I are the only things hot this season.” >:0(
Since @flowerofgoneril sent the same thing I thought… Why not both?
Somehow, Sylvain isn’t certain how, for the last few weeks the Drama Society meetings had begun to include something like that Great Something Baking Show he’s absolutely does not watch every week and really doesn’t know the proper name of. Don’t look at him like that, you can’t prove anything.
He thinks it happened because he forgot his lines one day, standing centre stage and audience only to his fellow cast members, voice clear and loud and proud, “The king doth keep his revels here to-night: Take heed the queen come not within his sight; For Oberon is…” and rather than splutter and stammer over the words that just won’t come, Sylvain decided to ad-lib, “For Oberon is known as the most talented baker of cakes and sweet treats second to all but one. And one is I, Sylvain Gautier, and my pastries are beyond sublime.”
He’d expected the laughter, but sure, Cynthia’s the loudest. What he hadn’t expected was for anyone to consider it a challenge. Every meeting that followed, someone would bring in some cakes or pastries or biscuits for everyone to share, jokingly expecting Sylvain to judge them just like the hosts on that show he Really Doesn’t Watch.
This week, Hilda and Cynthia brought cookies, triple chocolate chip. Hilda’s, while beautifully shaped, clearly were the product of premade mix, while Cynthia’s were a little rough around the edges. Both trays were, as claimed, hot, not to mention delicious. And, also as claimed, both ladies are hot, though he might lose his teeth if he called either of them delicious.
“Ladies, ladies.” Sylvain says with his customary smirk and flirtatious wink that they know by now is as much of an act as his earlier monologue, this time not botched, thank you very much. That he’s far too smitten, and obviously so about his best friend - a fact they tease him relentlessly over - to take him seriously, “I think you’re forgetting that I am one of the things that’s hot this season. But don’t you worry, there’s plenty of me to go around.” he swipes up another cookie, taking a bite and swallowing before continuing, “Unlike these cookies, I’m eating them all.”
Famous last words, no sooner did he make his intentions known did the girls run off with all of the cookies.
