Me: I hate writer's block.

Ichigo: Why?

Me: It held me from writing this chapter again.

Ichigo: It's here now, so don't worry about it!

Me: You're right! ^^ Please enjoy!

Kuuga re-tempers the chocolate, and pours it into the mugs. He makes an extra serving for me, after being in the snow for so long. I drink it greedily, instantly warming up.

"We should finish the cookies. The dough has been cooling for 30 minutes now." Kuuga points out.

"Yeah." I agree, taking the dough out of the fridge. We take out a lightly floured cutting board, and start rolling the dough into a thin sheet of dough. Then, Kuuga and I take out scalloped round cookie cutters and start cutting pairs of cookies. We hollow out the middle of one of the pairs of cookies with heart shaped cookie cutters. Then we proceeded to bake them for 9 minutes. I sit down on the ground, hugging my legs to my chest. I sigh. Kuuga plops beside me.

"What's wrong?" He asks.

"Nothing, I'm just thinking about something." I say, trying to sound reassuring, but failing miserably.

"Come on, you can tell me anything." Kuuga says. I sigh. This guy just won't stop, will he? How did I fall in love with him?

"I- after the argument, I thought a lot about whether or not I should tell my parents about us. I mean, our relationship was going smoothly, but then the argument came in, and I-I just don't know anymore!" I exclaim, my voice cracking.

"I'm sorry. For yelling at you." Kuuga apologizes. "I'm sure you can change your mind."

"B-but I don't know HOW to!" I stutter. Kuuga starts to stroke a few locks of my hair.

"What the heck are you doing?" I ask, swatting his hand away.

"Helping you change your mind." Kuuga says, pulling me into a long, loving kiss. My eyes are wide open. He holds it for what seems like two seconds, and before we know it, we have both run out of breath. I don't say it out loud, but that felt like a shot of steroids gone wrong. Like they put too much at once. I am filled with energy, trying to calm my overexcited nerves down.

"Kuuga... I-I don't know what to say... Like always, you left me speechless. Umm... I think that I shoul-" I start to say, getting cut off by the ovens' ding.

"Uh, we should take the cookies out of the oven." Kuuga says disappointed that I didn't finish my sentence.

"Yeah." I say, putting oven mitts on, and taking out the cookies. We gently transfer the cookie parts to a cooling rack. They cool for 10 minutes, and Kuuga starts to sift confectioner's sugar onto the cookies whos' centers have been cut out. While he does that, I spread a thin layer of raspberry jam on the bottom cookie. After that, we assemble the cookies, making 'sandwiches' out of the parts. I take a fancy plate out of the cupboard, as well as a serving tray. Kuuga puts the mugs of the chocolate on the tray, while I put the delicate cookies on the plate. Then, we bring the cookies into the living room.

"What took you so long?" My Dad asked worriedly.

"Umm..." I glance at Kuuga, with a look that says: Should I tell him the whole story? He nods. And so, I continue. "We sorta got into a fight..." I trail off, waiting for Kuuga to continue.

"I yelled at her for getting water in the chocolate I was tempering, so she got sad and I got mad, and she ran outside to cool off and think things over."

"Oh. I see!" My mom says cheerfully. "Did you guys work everything out in the end?" She asks.

"Yup." Kuuga and I say at the same time. My Mom takes a cookie.

"Mmm! This is good! You have definitely improved, Aoi!" She says. My Dad decides to try one too.

"Yes, a lot better since you first started baking." My Dad says, a hint of pride adorning his voice. My parents take a few sips of the Chocolat Chaud. "Did you make this?" My dad asks Kuuga.

"Yeah." Kuuga answers nervously.

"It's good. The chocolate is well tempered." He praises.

"Thanks." Kuuga say, embarrassed.

"Well, we should go to bed." I say to Kuuga, realizing that it is 10 o'clock in the night.

"Yeah. 'Night." He calls to my parents, as we walk away together.

"So, where is my bedroom?" Kuuga asks me.

"Right here." I say sleepily, pointing to a room.

"Okay." He says, walking in. I decide to go to sleep too. I brush my teeth, then head off to bed.

~Review Replies!~

RedNeko22~ Thanks! :) I try my best to impress! Oh, the gingerbread house? Aoi and Kuuga put it in the fridge so the school could use it for the Christmas party!

Creek Where Snow Falls~ Yep~! In this chapter!

StarlightFangirl~ Well, I had to! ;) You are one of my awesome friends! It is a real recipe, so you can use it if you'd like. Everything that they make will be a real recipe! (Does that make sense?) I just had to put Kuuga's POV in that chapter, it was just so intense! Did you like this chapter?

Wow! Three reviews! That's the most I've gotten on one chapter! Keep up the good work guys! ;)

Me: Did you like that chapter? Something bad's going to happen next, so be prepared! ;D