C is for cupcakes…

Piper pulled the twelfth dozen of cupcakes she made for Jason. He volunteered them to make cupcakes for the company picnic totally forgetting that Piper had a job herself. Jason walked into the house and kissed Piper on the cheek. She kissed his cheek and then handed him an apron. He looked at her.

"Since you're home you can help me frost and decorate the cupcakes." Piper said. She had given up on her interior design, it was actually really boring. She had opened a bakery that's actually going well.

Jason had volunteered her to make her most time consuming cupcakes but everyone loves them. They're her signature pudding filled cupcakes, and she was the only one in the area who did that.

Jason smiled at her and pushed up the sleeves on his white dress shirt before tying the apron, which happened to be purple and white polk-a-dotted, around his waist, "Where do you need me boss?"

She handed Jason a couple piping bags to ice the cupcakes, "The vanilla and the pistachio ones are ready to be frosted. The vanilla get the pink frosting and the pistachio get the red frosting."

"So what kind of frosting is this?" Jason asked as he set to work.

"The pink frosting has a subtle hint of cotton candy and the red has a cherry flavor." Piper said as she popped the other cupcakes out of the pans and onto one of the seventy cooling racks in their kitchen.

Jason smiled, he was happy that Piper was fitting into life so well in California but then he remembered that she had grown up in California. He supported her to start her business when it came to the time when she was about to give up.

They continued to work on the cupcakes until it was late. Jason looked at the clock and then at Piper, he could hear her stomach, "Do you want me to call for a pizza?"

Piper looked at him like he was hero for suggesting it, "Please, order like two."

Jason chuckled and wiped his hands on the towel that he draped over his shoulder, "Sure thing, tomato basil with sausage?"

Piper nodded. She had a wake up call when she was eighteen that involved a week in the hospital due to the fact that she didn't have enough iron in her body so she compromised with Jason and began to eat meat again. Neither of them wanted to spend the week in the hospital again.

Piper was now filling the cupcakes with pudding and Jason was icing the butterscotch ones with chocolate frosting and the chocolate got a mocha frosting. Jason called for the pizza that wouldn't arrive for another hour.

Soon enough all the cupcakes were finished and boxed and she and Jason finally got the chance to enjoy their dinner. Jason smiled at her, "Thanks for making all those cupcakes hon."

"Anything for my wonderful boyfriend." Piper smiled.

"Well then speaking of the cupcakes, Thalia wants to know if you can make her wedding cake. She and Luke wanted to ask you because they know you're the best cupcake person in the business."

"Thalia wants me to make her wedding cake?" Piper asked.

Jason nodded, "Of course she does. She wants a cupcake wedding cake."

"The next time she calls, tell her that I will…better yet let me talk to her." Piper said.

Then after dinner Piper walked out of the kitchen holding a cupcake. Jason smiled as Piper sat next to him on the couch, "What are these for?"

"Well I know you love pudding filled cupcakes." She smiled and handed him a fork.

"Piper you're amazing you know that?" Jason asked.

Piper kissed him and then fed him a bit of cupcake, "I know but you are too."

At that moment Jason officially declared cupcakes the most amazing dessert in the world. Without cupcakes this moment wouldn't have been possible.