Culinary Boy

Warnings: Yummy foods, hormones, college drinking, and some other stuff I haven't thought of yet

Pairings: Cid/Vincent at the moment

Comment: Dun ask how I came up with this one, I just like the idea of Vincent in a chef outfit and hat.

Culinary Boy 01

It may not have been his real dream, but it was supposed to be something necessary to make a living. Vincent needed a job, something he was familiar with and didn't mind doing. And then again maybe that was just an excuse he made up in his head to ignore the true answer that lay in his heart. He was doing what any high school girl would do when she had a crush. Granted Vincent wasn't a girl, he was following the same tactics at least. He was going to college to follow the person that made his heart beat like a well tuned drum. The person, a male in fact, that he was after happened to have a thing for machinery. It explained why he went to a certain art college that had a strong focus when it came to anything electronic. It was the perfect place for said male to go to follow his lifelong dream in creating planes and other such things.

As for how it worked out for Vincent well...

"Hey these cookies are awesome as always, Vincent!" Zack, a roommate of his at the college, said. They'd been friends with each other back in high school. Well it was more like Zack had given him no choice in the matter, being the happy-go-lucky guy that he was. The two of them shared the small college room with another of their friends, someone that'd been introduced to him through Zack. The blond male went by the name of Cloud and was about as antisocial as Vincent was...well...except when it came to talking with Zack whom he was shyer around more than anything. At the moment the shy male was currently out of the room and at one of his classes. Much like Zack, Cloud was in training to become a social worker. Ok...so let Zack tell it, they were planning on becoming part of the FBI or some other high paying agency, good luck with that one. So what did Vincent do to prepare for his dream job?

"So how are the culinary classes going?"

"Hm?" Vincent looked up at Zack watching the male eating away the cookies he'd barely given a second glance to since bringing them back to the room. "It is going well."

"Got the girls eating out of your hand already huh?" Zack said laughing slightly at he nibbled on the cookie. In all honesty...yeah...Vincent did have the girls eating out of his hand...or wanting to anyway. It seemed like every day there were more and more girls gathering around the kitchen area to watch him dabbling around in the workings of becoming a chef. At times, it was a little more than unsettling. The same had happened when it came to him being in high school. For some reason, he drew the masses of women to him without even having to do anything or even acknowledge them.

On the one hand, the one person he did try to gain the attention of seemed completely oblivious to him. He knew Cid had his own handful of fans and friends, and there had even been a rumor a few times of him dating a girl. He was the type that was nice to his friends but pretty ornery to everyone else.

"So what's the plan for today?" Zack asked, finishing off the last of the cookies looking like a happy little puppy with a bone. "Cloud and I were thinking of going to a little club I heard about downtown. If you come along, we might be able to get twice the amount of girls to fawn over us."

"I'm going to take a quick shower before heading to bed," Vincent said getting up from the bed as he went to his dresser to get his clothes. "I have class in the morning," he added, not even looking at Zack when he said it, knowing the other had been full intent on figuring out why.

Zack pouted and was probably giving the back of his head the puppy eyes treatment. "Aw come on! It's not even a hard class for you!"

"I'd rather be well rested than fighting to stay awake," Vincent finished off, glancing at Zack before he started for the door. "Try not to make too much noise when the two of you come back." The door was opened, and just like that he was gone slipping out into the hallway and closing the door behind him. He would have given a sigh, but he felt it would have put him a bit out of character. There was another reason for why he wanted to be well rested. He knew Cid, the male who unknowingly had stolen his heart, would also be in that class. It was one of the rare classes they both shared in fact. Yet despite all of that, he'd never gotten a chance to even talk to the other male.

Ok, so it wasn't like he even knew what to say to the guy. They had nothing in common...he cooked...Cid couldn't cook...he liked literature...Cid liked science...he didn't smoke...Cid lived for smoking. In fact, Cid's lacking abilities in the kitchen was the main reason he'd joined the profession he was in now. After watching the millions of times of Cid coming to school with nothing but a bag of potato chips made Vincent determined to cook for him. Well...there was that and the time one of Cid's female friends made him a delicious lunch which, after eating it, Cid had complimented as if it were the best meal on Earth. It had been cute seeing that little grin on Cid's face and the way his eyes seemed to twinkle with ever little bite. It wasn't like Vincent was a stalker; he'd just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Shaking his head to get himself back on track, Vincent headed down the hallway heading for the shower that all the males on that floor shared since females weren't allowed in the male dorms. It was...annoying to be honest. Unless something happened to the shower on their floor, they weren't supposed to go to the other floor's bathrooms. It was stupid, but it did maintain order in its own way. Speaking of order, apparently there was something going on with the showers on their floor. Grunting slightly, Vincent kept going walking past the bathroom giving the closed for cleaning sign a brief glare before he kept going heading for the steps leading down to the next floor. It was a four story dorm building and he was on the third floor.

As he got to the bottom of the steps, he ended up head butting into someone and frowned about to apologize as he rubbed his head before he froze seeing the blond standing in front of him. Of all the people to run head first into, it had to be the same blond he'd followed to college just to get closer to him. Luckily, the blond hadn't seen him yet and he was tempted to move away but was too late as one, solid blue eye peeked open looking directly at him, the pain being reflected there.

"Ow...shit..." Cid cursed out in a hiss, holding his aching head between his hands. "Fuck...you have a hard head."

Well...it wasn't like Cid's head was a pillow. Not that he'd tell him that considering. Actually, shouldn't he be apologizing to him? Who ran into whom first? How in the world did this come about anyway? This wasn't how he'd planned on meeting Cid. Granted, the thought of running into Cid even though it resulted in head butting did make him pretty happy inside. But even thinking that, Vincent was still able to keep his facial expression blank, even with his heart beating a mile a minute.

"Hm?" Cid blinked staring at him hard and frowning making Vincent feel a bit on the nervous. Well...this definitely didn't make him feel any more comfortable. Hell, now he could understand how those girls who confessed their undying love to him must have felt. Granted he couldn't return the feeling and more often than not either glared at them, flat out walked away, or gave a quick and abrupt no to the questions they had. Needless to say, he had a lot of girls running away from him crying. Now he was starting to feel bad for it. What if the same thing happened to him? Well not that he'd running away crying or anything. Speaking of running away...

"I have to go," Vincent said taking this as the perfect chance to escape before he got himself in too deep with the man in front of him. Or at least, he thought he was going to get away until he felt the hand grabbing his wrist, the warm, coarse fingers freezing him to the spot and making him look down staring at the hand connected to his wrist and following it up to the big blue eyes staring at him.

"Wait, don't I know you from somewhere?" Cid asked him, making Vincent have to look away from the lips talking to him and try to process what was said.

"I went to Chocobo High," Vincent said quietly, wondering how much of a hint that was to the blond. Would the blond even put two and two together?

As long as he doesn't figure out the real reason I'm here...

"Now I remember you!" Cid yelled letting go of Vincent's hand and pointing a finger at him. "You're fucking...crap what was your nam-Vinco!"

"Vincent," he corrected not sure if he should feel happy that Cid remembered him or frustrated that he got his name wrong.

"Well, it's good I get to see a somewhat familiar face here." Had the guy even heard a word he said? "The name's Cid by the way."

"I know," Vincent said frowning at how quickly he said it, hoping he didn't sound like some crushing girl. No, he was just a crushing guy, that's all. Cid stared at him for a moment before shaking his head with a laugh.

"Heh, guess you would. Not a surprise, I guess." Cid grinned as he rubbed behind his head. "I did make some pretty weird shit back then." That was true in some ways. Cid was a creator even back then, though there were times that the school had to be evacuated thanks to Cid's inventions blowing up. "So, where you off to now? I'm actually getting ready to take a shower myself." Vincent hadn't noticed the towel draped over Cid's shoulder earlier. Noticing it now he could feel his nerves getting to him and quickly turned so Cid wouldn't see the towels in his own hand. Oh hell. There was no way he was going to be getting naked in the same bathroom as Cid. "I just finished. I was heading back to my room to rest."

"Alright then," Cid said grinning like an idiot. "See ya later, Vinco!"

"Vincent," he corrected again then grunted seeing Cid was already going into the restroom. Well, his best option was to just walk around the school and just hope that Zack and Cloud were already gone when he got back or head back now and get stuck being taken to the club. He decided to take his chances on walking around, not wanting to hang out at one of those loud, cheesy, smelly, clubs. Maybe he could go to the kitchen and try out making some new dishes.

He'd time it to about an hour then go get his shower later. He tried not to blush thinking about Cid lathering himself up in the shower and quickly made his way to towards the kitchen to help get his mind off these not so unpleasant thoughts.

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"Hey guys! I just met someone from my old high school!" Cid yelled out grinning like an idiot as he burst into the room looking at his roommates Reno and Rude.

"Who?" Reno asked, looking up from the computer he was sitting at and lifting up one side of his headphones to hear Cid. From the look of his swollen eyes, he'd been staring at the monitor for a while now.

"This guy named Vinco who used to go to Chocobo High with me. I didn't think it was fucking possible that I'd meet someone here of all places," Cid said grinning proudly obviously happy to have someone from his school there, even if he didn't really know the guy all that well.

"Do you know why he's here?" Rude asked, reclining on the bed by Reno's computer reading a book about automobile designs. Despite having only known each other for about a week now, they all seemed to hit it off quickly since everyone was pretty much in the same major. Cid had always been the type to make friends quickly. From the looks of it, Reno was the same way and apparently was childhood friends with Rude. The two of them planned on opening up an automotive shop back in their hometown. Cid, on the other hand, wanted to do bigger things with his skills. It wasn't just about cars for him.

"Nope! I just fucking ran into him in the hallway…literally," Cid grumbled rubbing his head still feeling the pain. "Never got a chance to ask what his major was. He seemed to be in a rush to get somewhere or something."

"Probably to get away from your smelly ass." Reno laughed putting the headphones back on.

"I just took a bath you jackass!" Cid yelled out glaring and throwing his towel at the back of Reno's head. His roommate didn't even react to having the wet towel hit him.

"Sorry, you did just take a bath didn't you?" The apology didn't sound authentic, especially when it was accompanied by the cocky grin on the redhead's face.

Cid grunted as he walked towards his bunk, flopping down in frustration. Damn bastards always had to joke around even though he knew they didn't mean anything by it. At least he'd be going to one of his favorite classes tomorrow, chemistry. This was only the third class of the quarter and their first time doing actual work with chemicals. Who wouldn't be excited?!Well apparently these jackasses.

Still, it was interesting to see the guy earlier with the long black hair. He remembered seeing him walking around the campus before and how interesting his red eyes were. He wanted to ask about them, he really did. But the guy seemed very elusive, like he really didn't want to be bothered with anyone. And Cid hated seeing people like that. If they were nice then they deserved some kind of friend, right? Maybe he could befriend the guy or something. After all he did just find out they went to the same high school. That couldn't just be a coincidence right?

Come to think of it, wasn't he in his chemistry class? Well he'd tried to catch up with him a few times before, but for such a tall guy he had a way of disappearing from sight. How in the world did he do that? Was his presence just that easy to lose? And yet he had girls falling out of his palm thanks to his attractive looks. Still didn't hurt to talk to the guy at least once. He was going to make sure to catch him tomorrow before he escaped from class. His name was Vinco right? Yeah that's what he'd said. No way was that wrong.

TBC…

I'm having so much fun with this fic...sadly I'm also working on other fics as well so...three chaps done for this fic at least so far!