Hooray celebration for 10 chapters! dance ...anyway...
I'm sorry this chapter took so long. May is the absolute worst month of school, as my teachers are all cramming as much as they can. But its almost over!!!! YAY!!!! And then vacations start and I'll be gone a lot...but I'll update as much as possible. I've also got the most random idea for the very last chapter in this story! It hit me randomly a couple days ago. I have no idea when the final chapter will be, but not for awhile. I still have alot of things I need to do.
I'm also still asking for chapter ideas. I've gotten one, but its a lovely one :-)
I'd like to thank my Betty Crocker box of cake mix with helping me write this chapter. Its not my favorite chapter and forgive me if its seems kinda jumpy and rushed. I was in a hurry.
I also realized that I used the word "hell" a hell of a lot of times in this chapter. Why I don't know. But I did. Enjoy anyway
Disclaimer: See Chapter 1
Chapter 10
Pink Frosting
Roxas-
"Boys, I'm going to run some errands and go visit some friends. Any one need anything?" Everyone answered Mom with mumbles of "no" and "not that I can think of." But why would Mom be going to her errands tonight? She never went shopping at night, especially on a Friday. I couldn't dwell long on it though. I was racing my brother on the playstation, and he was beating me on the final lap. He had beaten me in the last two races and I couldn't let him beat me a third time.
Mom kissed us each good-bye and left without another word. The room fell silent for the sounds coming from the t.v.
"YES!!!! IN YOUR FACE!!!" Sora jumped up, happy dancing and laughing at me. I glared at him and grabbed his ankle, playfully knocking him back to the floor. Within minutes we were wrestling, rolling across the living room floor. I had finally pinned him on his back when Axel suddenly sat up, his eyes shining.
"Let's make Mom a cake." He jumped off the couch, pacing across the living room excitedly.
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Axel-
"A cake?" Zexion looked up from his Sodoku, raising an eyebrow. I stopped to stare back at him.
"Yes. A cake. It's what you make people on special occasions for other people." By now everyone else was staring at me too.
"What for? Her birthday isn't for another like five months." Demyx said, setting his guitar down on the couch.
"Well for….for……oh I don't know just because we should!" A gazed around at each of them in turn. "She makes us muffins all the time, so why don't we make her a cake!" It seemed like a logical idea to me. And whenever she went out to run errands, she was always gone for awhile. Long enough that we could make a cake.
"Come on." I pushed through the kitchen door, the rest of them following behind me.
Luckily we had cake mix and eggs and butter. But we were missing something…"Frosting! We don't have any frosting!" I said, setting down the cake mix and other things on the counter. I quickly glanced across everyone, setting my eyes on Marluxia and Demyx.
"Go to the store and get frosting. And some of that frosting that you can write with too." They left and I turned to everyone else.
"Come on guys. It can't be that hard."
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Marluxia-
"Where the hell is frosting in this place?" I had only been in this store two or three times, so I hadn't memorized where everything was. It was rapidly growing late outside, so the store was nearly empty as we made our way through the store, glancing down each aisle.
"I have no idea. I haven't really been in here much either." Demyx hadn't lived in the house much longer than I had. Finally after we had almost gone through the entire store we found it. There was pretty much an entire frosting aisle. Demyx and I stood stupidly in front of all the containers.
"What color and flavor are we supposed to get?" I shook my head silently. They seemed to have every color in every flavor imaginable.
Demyx shrugged. Another couple of minutes went by as an elderly couple passed us, giving as an odd look as we stood stationary in the same spot.
"Hell."
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Zexion-
"Ok so just mix all of that together I guess." Sora pulled the mixer out from the cabinet underneath the center island, handing it back to Axel. Roxas was cracking open eggs into the bowl of cake mix, butter, and water. I was sitting at the kitchen table, watching them silently. They had no idea what they were doing.
"How does this turn on? Like this?" Axel shoved the plug in the socket and pushed a button. The beaters fell off with a soft pop, landing noisily on the counter top. They reattached the beaters and Axel pushed another button. This one turned it on, the familiar sound of the whirring beaters filling the kitchen.
Cautiously Axel placed the beaters down in the batter, causing flecks of it to fly all over the place.
I can't watch this anymore. Someone is going to end up in the emergency room. Sighing softly I got up from the table, taking the mixer from Axel and getting a wooden spoon out of the drawer.
"Watch." I said, turning the mixer down and swirling the batter around, starting at the middle and moving out, using the spoon to scrape the batter that splattered across the sides of the bowl back into the middle again. Once it was all mixed together I stopped the mixer and pulled it slowly out of the bowl, placing it in the sink. I stirred the batter around a few more times and handed the spoon to Axel. Calmly I started to make my way back to the table, but I could feel everyone's heavy stares on my back. I turned to face the other three, who were all staring at me in mild disbelief.
"What?" I raised an eyebrow, sweeping my eyes across their astonished faces.
"You know how to cook?"
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Demyx-
"Let's just get pink. I'm pretty sure she likes that color anyway." Marluxia nodded in agreement. "Yea, and we can get white frosting in a tube to write whatever the hell Axel wants to write on it." As Marluxia reached up to get the pink frosting, I gazed around past him.
"Uh-oh." Coming down the far end of the aisle was Mom. Of all people to be here at the same time in the same aisle, it had to be Mom.
"What?" Marluxia had retrieved the frosting and was looking at me. Wordlessly I pointed behind him. He spun around to face Mom's direction. Luckily she hadn't seen us, and was examining something on the shelf. Quickly we fled from the aisle, making our way to the self check out just as Mom stepped away from what she was looking at and came down the aisle towards us.
"Hopefully she didn't see us." I gazed around as Mar fought with the self check-out, which was being horrifically slow.
"Get down!" Mom had come around the corner and was walking in our direction. Not knowing what else to do I reach behind me and grabbed Marluxia's sleeve, pulling him down with me behind a candy display. Mom passed next to us, humming softly to herself. She came within 3 feet of us, but never sensed our presence as her shadow passed over us. As soon as she turned the corner Marluxia shot up, quickly finishing paying and pulling me towards the front door and out to the car.
'This is the last time we are the ones sent on a random errand." Marluxia mumbled as we hurried across the chilly parking lot as it started to rain softly.
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Sora-
"I think it's done now." We all stared down at the goop that was sitting in a cake pan. Zexion had ended up doing most of the work since he was secretly this master chef that no one knew about. Slowly I picked the pan up as Axel opened the oven door. As carefully as I could I slid the pan onto the top rack, setting it down softly so it would splatter out of the pan.
Closing the oven door the four of us sat down in front of it in relief.
"30 minutes and it will be done." Roxas said, leaning against my back.
"See? I told you it would be easy. Especially since we have Iron Chef over here." Axel laughed and elbowed Zexion in the side.
"Yea, since when did you know how to cook?" I asked. Zexion looked steadily at the oven door. "Since I took cooking back in my old high school." He replied, turning his head to look at me.
"I wish you would have told me that before I had to make dinner that one night." Moaned Axel, but it obvious that he was joking. He turned to Zexion and stuck out his lower lip, pretending to pout.
Zexion smirked and elbowed Axel back. We all gazed into the oven door at the slowly rising cake.
"Where the hell are Dem and Mar?" Roxas asked
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Marluxia-
"Come on people move! Its rain not ice!" The rain was pouring steadily now as crawled down the street. All the other cars were going about 10 miles per hour, and I knew if we didn't hurry Mom would end up catching up to us and maybe even get home before us.
The car in front of us hit its brakes again for the third time in the past minute. By now even Demyx was getting agitated too. He kept gripping onto the door handle every time we were forced to slow down. The windshield wipers streaked quickly across the windshield as the rain continued to pound down on the heavy traffic.
At the next stop light I turned onto a neighborhood street, flooring it up a hill.
"We're going to beat her home."
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Roxas-
"I think it's done." I pulled the pan out of the oven, setting it on top of the stove. Axel stuck a tooth pick in the middle of it. It came out clean. We waited a few minutes as Zexion instructed before flipping the cake onto a platter.
The cake was almost fully cooled when Mar and Dem finally got back, dripping wet. Sora and I started to frost the angel cake with bright pink frosting as quickly and as neatly as we could. Mom was due home any minute now. Once it was completely covered we looked at one another.
"So who's going to write on it? I'm not." I said, placing the white tube of frosting on the counter. Everyone turned to look at Zexion.
"What now?" Zexion sighed, rubbing his eyes. He was tired. We all were. No one had really slept well since Wednesday.
Axel put on his best smile. "Well since your mister cook and have the best handwriting…." Zexion snatched the tube up. "Oh fine what do you want it to say?" Everyone exchanged glances.
"How about…..To Mom: We Love You." Demyx said, shrugging. "I don't know what else to put on there." Everyone agreed on his idea as Zexion quickly started writing the message.
He had just finished the last word as the front door opened.
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Axel-
"Well what's all this?" Mom said as she entered the kitchen, carrying various bags of groceries. Sora dragged her over the counter where the cake was, its frosting only slightly running because the cake hadn't fully cooled yet.
Mom smiled, silently beckoning us all to her. She hugged us to her, planting her usual kiss on top of each of our heads.
"Thank you boys. It's lovely."
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