"Ugh, why did I agree to do this?" Marley Rose mumbled frustratedly, while putting ingredients into a bowl to make cookies.
"Hey Marles, what are you doing?" Her boyfriend Jake called out from the other room.
"I'm trying to make cookies for the bake sale to help us get to Nationals. I thought it would be easy, but I think I'm doing something wrong," she said, gesturing to the liquidy substance in the bowl.
"Wait, you've never made cookies before?" Jake asked in disbelief.
"No," Marley admitted. "My mom's the one who's really good at cooking and baking, so she usually makes deserts, not me."
"Well do you want me to help you?" Jake smirked.
"No, I can do this myself," Marley said.
"Alright, well I'll be in the other room if you need me."
"Uh, Jake? Can you come here please?" Marley shouted 10 minutes later.
"Yeah Marles, what is- Whoa! What happened?"
"I, um, didn't know how much flour to put in the mix and I guess whatever I put in was too much and it kind of got all over the place when I started mixing it," Marley frowned. "Ugh, I can't do anything right!"
"Don't beat yourself up, Marley, it's just cookies. Let me help you," Jake offered, scraping the remaining cookie batter in the trash.
"Thanks," Marley said sheepishly.
"I can't believe you've never made cookies before," Jake chuckled.
"Oh shut up!" Marley threw some flour at him.
"Oh no you didn't!" Jake shouted. He grabbed the flour from her and dumped it all over her head.
"Oh my god" Marley shrieked. "Oh it's on now!" She grabbed an egg from the counter and smashed it on his head. "Ha! Take that!"
Jake took another egg from the counter and smashed it over her head as well.
"Okay okay stop!" Marley squealed. "Let's call a truce. I'll let you bake the cookies."
"Alright," Jake said, still laughing. He took a wash cloth and wiped Marley's face until all the flour was gone. "That was fun." He grinned.
The couple made no effort to clean up the huge mess, and it turned out that Jake was a pretty awesome baker.
"Maybe you should teach me how to bake," Marley said after Jake took the yummy looking cookies out of the oven.
"You got yourself a deal," Jake smiled and kissed her sweetly. "But next time let's not make such a huge mess."
Marley grinned. "Fine, but now you need to help me get all this egg out of my hair." She gave him her best puppy dog eyes.
"Oh, alright. Only because you're so cute though," he smirked and kissed her again. "But you're helping me clean all this up."
"Yeah I know."
Jake taught Marley how to bake cookies a week later. It ended the exact way it did the first time, except this time there was a bigger mess.
They were definitely going to bake together more often.