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She pottered around the kitchen, trying to be as quiet as possible but miserably failing. She was trying to make Ghastly a birthday cake, he hadn't exactly told her it was his birthday the next day but Skulduggery had alluded to the fact.
Currently Ghastly was in his workshop creating a new suit for Skulduggery and an outfit for Valkyrie. Tanith had told she was making dinner and he said he was going to try and stay out of the way. Her only worry was that she would drop something and he'd come and see what had happened and ruined the surprise. She weighed out the self raising flour, sugar and butter. Next all she had to do was deal with the eggs, Tanith didn't particularly like dealing with eggs. The goo the yolk was in made her want to vomit.
"You're a part time bounty hunter, you've helped save the world from god know what. And a unborn baby chicken stops you in your path." She chanted over and over to herself while she cracked the first egg on the side of the glass. Pulling the shell apart she heard the egg plop into the bottom of the glass. Taking a deep breath she did the same with the second egg but somehow missed the glass completely and dropped the yolk and goo on her bare foot.
She shrieked and retched
"Tanith?" she heard Ghastly question from the other room getting closer to the kitchen
"Yeah?" she tried to sound as normal as possible with a raw egg on her foot.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, i'm okay. Dinner isn't ready yet" she shouted reaching for the kitchen roll. Ripping a piece off she dropped it on the offending food and scooped it up.
"Are you sure? Normally when you make dinner you don't sound like you're going to be sick" he said from outside the kitchen door wiggling the handle, but the door wouldn't budge she'd used her power and locked the door – only she could open it.
"I'm sure" she tried to put a smile in her voice as she wiped her foot again for good measure.
"Then why did you shriek and why's the door locked?"
"One: I dropped a bit of raw food on my foot and it was colder than I expected and two: it's a surprise what I'm cooking so you can't come in"
"Okay, shout if you need anything"
"Yes dear" she heard him chuckle as he walk off.
She turned back to the task at hand and cracked another egg into the glass. The rest of the cake went well, about twenty minutes later she heard something knocking on the kitchen door.
"Yes?"
"Tanith it's me" she heard Valkyrie whispered through the door. She rushed towards the door and opened it, Valkyrie ran through the door behind her Tanith saw Ghastly and Skulduggery walk towards the kitchen, quickly she slammed the door closed and whispered.
"Lock" and "withstand"
"Tanith" Ghastly groaned as he tried to open the door.
"You're not coming in, dinner isn't ready yet"
"But I smell something nice cooking"
"Ghastly" Tanith warned leaning her back up the door.
"Okay" Ghastly sulked, she heard Skulduggery laughing then a thud and the laughing stopped.
Moving back towards the middle of the kitchen Tanith turned and looked at her friend who was trying to stop herself from laughing.
"Shut up" Tanith said a blush creeping up her neck and into her cheeks.
"What's the plan for later?"
"Party food?"
"What have you made?"
"Cake"
"That it" Valkyrie gave her friend a funny look
"I never learnt to cook Val, my parents cooked when I was little, then there was a canteen of food. Before I met you guys I ate takeaways and now Ghastly normally cooks" Valkyrie doubled over laughing.
"Yeah like you've learnt how to cook" Tanith snapped at her, checking the cake in the oven.
"No that's true, but I get Skulduggery to get me food"
"Nice for some" Tanith muttered.
"Order a Chinese"
"Thought of that, but how am I going to get it in here and make it look like I've cooked it?"
"You could go out the window, run to the shop come back and in though the window and plate it up"
"That's an idea, don't let Ghastly in whole I'm gone" Tanith said moving to the window.
"See you in a bit" she waved, Valkyrie waved back.
Half an hour later, Tanith returned arms full of different Chinese foods, egg fried rice, soya noodles, sweet and sour chicken and crackers.
"Back" Tanith paced Val one of the bags and pulled plates out of the cupboard "How's the cake?"
"Ready and iced"
"Thank you, any noise from Ghastly and Skulduggery"
"Not a peep" Val smiled.
Together the girls made up the plates and carried them through to the dining room, Ghastly and Skulduggery were no where in sight.
"You want to go and find them" Tanith asked
"Yep" Valkyrie moved off down the corridor and Tanith went back into the kitchen to get the drinks, placed them on the table but there wasn't anyone else there yet.
She walked back into the kitchen and put candles in the cake, she wasn't sure how old he was so she put all the candles in the pack on the cake. She heard everyone gather around the table and Ghastly asked
"Where's Tan?" that was her cue, she lit the candles and moved out of the kitchen with the cake and joined her friends as they sang happy birthday to Ghastly. His face was a picture, he seemed really shocked that she knew his birthday.
"Thank you Tanith" he stood up and hugged her tight
"You're welcome" she hugged him back and kissed his cheek
"Did you make this food?" he asked her as he sat back down, Skulduggery had put his face on and was trying a bit of sweet and sour chicken
"Yes" Tanith answered, Out the corner of her eye she saw Valkyrie open her mouth to say something but Tanith stomped on her foot, making everyone at the table look at her. "What?" she asked innocently.
"Well done" Ghastly said, his friend at the Chinese take away had phoned and asked if they wanted the an extra dish of what Tanith had just brought. He smiled it was the thought that counted and Tanith didn't have to know that he knew she didn't cook it.
Thank you for reading, I'm getting bad at not writing stories regularly and I'm sorry. but enjoy