ICING ON THE CAKE
Genre:Friendship
Rating:T
Pairing(s):Makorra
Summary:Mako wants to cheer Korra up, since he feels he hasn't been supportive. Bolin suggests taking her to a dessert shop (aka the shop where he got his cupcake). So Mako takes Korra to a dessert shop. Awkwardness ensues.
A/N:A prompt from makorradotcom.
Mako didn't understand why he had let Bolin talk him into this. He nervously tugged on his scarf as he looked around the shop, waiting to see the familiar water tribe girl.
"Girls like cake," Bolin said as if everyone knew this. Mako didn't. Mako knew nothing about girls. "So take her there. She'll like it. All the cakes and things are really pretty, flowering and-and girly!"
Mako had been unsure from the get-go, but now he was here and his nervousness grew tenfold. This was not the type of place Korra would like. He should have taken her to a pro-bending match or-or started a street fight so she could beat someone up. Anything but this overly pink and cream cake shop.
Then Korra was inside and he realized there was no time to retreat.
"Um, hey," he rubbed his neck and tried to keep from fidgeting. "Do you want to go somewhere else?" please, please, please let her say yes.
"Oh, no! This place has great cake!" and then Mako was dragged along behind her to the counter.
She ordered for them and he fumbled out the last bits of Yuans he had from his factory job to pay.
"You have cake on your face," Korra pointed out after a few silent moments of nomming her own piece of cake.
He tried to find the elusive cake, but he just pawed at the wrong side of his face.
"Here," she leaned over and her fingers nimbly swiped the frosting up before he could even struggle to come to terms with her space invasion.
He could only stare as she licked her finger. "Yours is better."
There was nothing he could say as she devoured his piece of cake, too.
