A/N: Hey everyone! Thank you for the reviews they seriously made my day :). Anyways, special thanks to Itisjustmyself for the idea of this chapter. Anymore ideas from anybody would be appreciated :). Enjoy the story!
It was a slightly chilly Saturday morning. A few birds were out and taking flight around the trees. The pool was empty besides a few passerbyers. An old couple were walking down the path of the Palmwoods garden along with a small kid who was racing away with a dog. Most of the Palmood residents, however, were inside just enjoying their lazy Saturday morning.
(In apartment 2j, around 9:00)
Katie was snuggled up in her bed. Saturday was her major sleep-in till 1:00 day and she was sub-conciously enjoy every single minute of it. She was woken up by a burning smell. What if there is a fire? she asked in her mind. The brunnette jumped out of bed walked out of her room in to the family room sleepily.
She yawned and looked around seeing no fire, just four boys playing a football video game. Wow. Typical.
The boys barely noticed Katie as she sat on the orange recliner and rubbed her eyes. "Guys?" They didn't answer, they were so involved in their video game. "Guys!" Katie practically yelled. Ugh that stupid video game.
Katie shrugged and put her finger on the Xbox power button, threatening to turn it off. The boys snapped out of their trance and glared at Katie. "Katie, you don't know what your doing." Logan warned. " This is blashphemy!" Carlos yelled out and pointed towards Katie accusingly. "Step away from the Xbox." James cautioned. "I swear baby sister..." Kendall raised his eyebrow.
Katie rolled her eyes and stood up. "Calm down guys. Geesh, all I wanted to know was what was that awful smell!" she wrinkled her nose, "Its like somethings burning."
"Holy Crap!I totally forgot my cake in the oven!" James hopped over the couch and sprinted to the kitchen. The rest of the boys shrugged and returned to their prescious game. Katie followed behind James.
As soon as they entered their small kitchen and James opened the oven, grey smoke poured out and flooded the small space. Katie coughed as it embraced her lungs. James opened the window and fanned the smoke out with a dishtowel. As soon as all the smoke was pretty much gone, Katie jumped on the counter.
The brunnette was trying as hard as she could not to show James how funny she thought this all was, she didn't want to hurt his feelings so early in the morning. After all, she had promised to be nicer to him. But that was a whole different story.
James looked down in dissmay at his black (it was suppossed to be vanilla) cake. He sighed a deep dramatic sigh.
Katie didn't notice, she was texting Jessica and Danny on her phone, still sitting on the counter.
James leaned against the oven and let out an even more dramatic and deep sigh.
This time Katie looked up from her phone and raised a curvy and plucked eyebrow.
"If only I knew someone who is good at cooking," James sighed, still in his dramatic manner, "That could help me make an actuall tasty cake for the bake sale at school." James widened his eyes and gave him his best attempt at a puppy dog face.
Katie snorted and jumped off the counter. "Really James? What is that face anyway. It kindof looks like your like constipated or something."
James looked offended. "It's my puppy dog face for your information."
Katie snorted again and broke into laughter. James waited patiently for her to finish. "Please teach me how to make a cake Katie. Please!"
"Fine. I guess I owe you one from sometime along the road."
James hugged her. "Your a life saver"
Katie couldn't help but want to stay in his arms. They were so muscular and warm and it just felt so... right. He smelled like his cuda spray. It just smelled so... okay to tell you the truth it smelled really gross. It wasn't gross like body odor, it was more like how strong it was. But that was besides the point.
Katie snapped out of her little dream and pulled away from James, a little embarassed. She cleared her throat and decided to start the cake, before he looked into her eyes and saw any trace of her embarrasment or her flushed cheeks.
"I know I am!" She perked up, "So we will need 2 cups all-purpose flour ,2 cups white sugar ,3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder ,1 teaspoon salt ,2 teaspoons baking soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder,2 eggs ,1/2 cup vegetable oil,1 cup milk,1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 cup cold, brewed coffee, 1/4 cup all-purpose flour, 1 cup milk,1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar,1/2 cup butter,1/2 cup shortening,1 teaspoon vanilla extract." Katie said this all in one long sentence and took a big breath as she finished.
James frowned. "Are you kidding me? In this cake," he pointed towards the blsck heap by the sink, "I put sugar, flour, and eggs."
Katie laughed. "Just go look for the sugar and I will find the butter." Katie opened the fridge and searched for the butter. James grabbed the sugar from the pantry. "So uh, how big will this cake be?" James asked as he placed the sugar on the counter.
Katie was still looking in the fridge for the butter. "Oh just about 2 libs I think." She returned to the counter with butter. James raised his eyebrow and smirked. "Libs?"
Katie crossed her arms. "What?"
"You said libs."James stated again.
"Ya. What about it?"Katie asked as she grabbed a bowl and began to pour some sugar into it.
James chuckled under his breath. "Uh. Its actually pounds Katie. Ibs is just the abbreviation."
Katie rolled her eyes and smiled. "James stop trying to trick me. This is why I don't take your words for truth sometimes."
James Diamond raised his eyebrow and shook his head. He wasn't trying to trick her! She always got so defensive and James loved to tease her about it. But now it was a little annoying that she wouldn't believe him for just a small little fact.
Katie was still smoothing out small chunks of mixture with a spoon. "See atleast Kendall doesn't try to trick me! In fact, he corrected me that it was libs not pounds so I wouldn't embarass myself."
James chuckled, amused. "You honestly listen to what Kendall tells you?"
Katie smiled and nodded. Oh so gullible.
James decided that if she was going to be like that, he would just let her keep thinking the wrong thing. "Alright fine Katie its libs."
He was stirring a seperate bowel which was supposed to be the frosting. The whole thing was a sticky mess because he had used marshmellows in the mixture. The wooden spoon that the attractive boy was stirring got stuck in a web of marshmellows, almost like glue. James pulled on the spoon as hard as he could and it finally gave out. The spoon flung and a blob of marshmellow and sugar hit Katie's slim shoulder and stuck to her shirt.
She opened her mouth in shock and shook her head. "Sorry I really didn't mean to..."His apology was stopped as yellowish cake batter hit his shirt. He sighed. Katie smiled and blew at her spoon as if it were a gun.
"Alright so I guess I deserved that."
Katie shrugged and grabbed the bowl so that she could bring it to the pan by the oven. On the way though, she tripped on her own two feet and the entire contents of the cake fell all over james, soaking him in buttery sugary goodness. Oh Katie, so gullible and clumsy.
"Ouch." She wiped dust off her shirt and stood up only to see James glaring over her.
"James..." She said cautiously backing up knowing that when you mess with his hair, his inner demon comes in. "Please don't be mad, it was an accident I swear."
James smiled a devious smile. "Oh I'm not mad. In fact right now I am just so happy I want to give you a big hug!"
Katie shrieked and James grabbed her around the waist getting cake batter all over poor Katie. He spinned in a circle before setting her down on the ground. Katie bit her lip and looked down at her ruined clothes. They both stormed out of the kitchen.
An hour after the food fight, Katie sat on the couch next to Logan and Carlos. Kendall had gone out with Jo. Katie had taken a shower and cleaned up the kitchen and was now playing a game of checkers with Logan. She felt a little bad that James still didn't have a cake for the bake sale. He did need the extra credit after all.
She turned her head from the T.V as she saw a cleaned-up James coming from his room. She smiled an apology glance towards James and he smiled back showing they were all good.
"Listen, thanks for baking the almost cake for me. Its the thought that counts but I am going to just go out and buy a cake." He shrugged. He scruffed her hair as he walked by. Katie scowled at his attempt to mess her hair up.
As James walked out the door he peered back in. "Oh and by the way I'll make sure to get a 2 libs cake" he winked at Katie and shut the door.
"What? Libs?" Logan questioned Katie.
"Oh just an inside joke." Katie giggled. Our inside joke. She liked the sound of that. Alot.
Sorry it was a bit rushed at the end. Please review!
