Felicity practically skipped into work this morning.
"Good morning, Caitlin," she floated into the kitchen while placing her coat in the closet.
Her mom followed her into the bakery that morning since today was one of their busiest of the week.
"Well, someone is in a good mood," Donna stated.
"Yes, I am," Felicity responded giving her mother a kiss on the cheek.
"Okay, something is up," Caitlin added, "Why are you acting like you just met the 10th Doctor?"
"Because I got something better than that last night," she hummed while putting her apron on.
"You finally got some!" Donna clapped.
"MOM….and no."
"Did you meet the 10th Doctor?" Caitlin chuckled
"If you must know…Oliver told me he loved me last night."
"Awe." "Awe." Donna and Caitlin said at the same time.
"I know."
"I'm very happy for you, sweetheart…wait, aren't you supposed to be going to his family's today?" her mother asked.
"Yes but I was so happy after last night that I wanted to show you my ideas for introducing fall flavors."
Felicity took out the notebook she placed all her ideas in and showed her best friend and mother the plan. There on the paper was a list of scrumptious sounding cupcakes. One of them was a chocolate cake with their peanut butter icing and a Hershey kiss stuck to a mini peanut butter cookie sandwich to look like an acorn, another was pumpkin spice topped with simple icing sprinkled with cinnamon, then a caramel cake stuffed with apple pie filling with covered with caramel drizzle and an apple slice and the final one was a maple flavor with cream cheese icing and a maple leaf for decoration.
"What you think?" Felicity asked.
"I'm hungry," Donna replied, "Let's get to work so you can get ready for your thing."
The ladies rushed through the mixes and served them to a few customers before Felicity left to get ready. Felicity no longer felt nervous. Her favorite place was in the kitchen and looking at the teacup cupcakes she made for Oliver's family brought a smile to her face.
More like Oliver brings a smile to your face.
Felicity knew her thought was right and she excitedly put her favorite earrings in right as she heard the doorbell to her apartment.
I really should give Oliver a key.
She rushed to the door and let her boyfriend in who immediately kissed her on the forward.
"Hello beautiful," he said in her ear as he hugged her.
He is the best hugger.
Oliver chuckled, "You're not so bad yourself."
Felicity rolled her eyes, "One of these days, I am going to embarrass you with one of my moments."
"Doubtful. I have something for you…I was planning on it last night but I got a little distracted."
"Saying I love you could do that."
Considering we kissed on my couch for hours.
"Yes, well," he blushed before taking a small box out of his pocket," Here."
Felicity looked at the box with curiosity as she took it, "What is it?"
"Open it."
She opened it and found a keychain with a cupcake and a key, "Oliver?"
"It's a key to my apartment."
Did he read my mind?
"Felicity, I love you and I love spending time with you. I want you in every part of my life and that includes a drawer at my apartment and your favorite ice cream in the freezer."
She teared up before jumping into her arms.
"I was going to give you a key to my place."
"I just beat you to it," he replied.
"Let me get the cupcakes out of the fridge and I will be ready to go."
Oliver opened the door for Felicity after stopping in front of the Queen manor.
"I almost forgot how big this place was," she panicked.
"Relax," he wrapped his arm around her, "You've already met my family. All except my stepfather who came after you left at Thea's party."
"His name is Walter right?"
He nodded before walking through the doors.
"Mom," he shouted.
"Stop shouting, Oliver," Moira walked from the sitting room.
Oliver placed a kiss on his mother cheeks before looking at Felicity, " Mom, you remember my girlfriend Felicity Smoak?"
"Yes, dear. We still receive rave reviews from your cupcakes. I was actually thinking about having your sweets at a charity luncheon of mine. It is my experience you ply those ladies with champagne or sugar and they are willing to donate to anything," Moira smiled.
"It has been my experience that sugar makes everyone happy," Felicity grinned, "Speaking of which, I brought some specially designed cupcakes for you today."
"Awesome," said a voice from the stairs which caused everyone to turn to watch Thea.
"Hello Thea, I hope you had a better party than, who was it again?"
"Ashley Bowen and yes, I did," Thea replied haughtily.
"Alright everyone, let's not stand here all day. Thea, why don't you and Felicity go to the kitchen and Oliver, do you think you could check out my computer? It is acting weird again."
Felicity's ears picked up. While her career isn't about computers, she still loves them and dabbles into computer repair as a hobby.
"What's wrong with your computer, Mrs. Queen?"
"Please dear, call me Moira and it said something about an error and shut down on me."
"I might be able to fix it," Felicity offer which caused some strange looks, "Before getting into cupcakes, I used to rebuild computers and fix all the system issues at school. It's sort of a hobby of mine.
"Computers and Cupcakes," Thea asked.
"Hey, that's a good name," Felicity joked, "If you don't have a problem with it, I could check it out."
Felicity and Oliver followed Moira into her office after giving Raisa, the housemaid, the cupcakes. Felicity sat down and looked at the laptop, "Do you have a small screw driver, some tweezers and a flashlight for me to use? It will help me take it apart."
Oliver quickly got Felicity everything she asked far and they watched Felicity in fascination as she took the computer apart and found the problem, quickly fixing it before turning it back on to see it functioning properly.
"Well aren't you just full of surprises," Moira stated, "When did you learn to do all that?"
Shoot.
"Mom, I don't know if Felicity wants to talk about that."
"No, it's okay Oliver. Moira, I am technically a genius and I was always good with computers just like my dad," she said as they walked away from the office towards the dining room, "He showed me how to take them apart and code. When my father left, I had just turned seven and was really angry at everything to do with technology. We, my mom and I, had to move in with my grandma and she taught me how to bake. I stopped being angry after a while and still dabble with computers as a hobby but my passion is cooking."
That was easier than I thought.
Oliver rubbed her shoulders as his mother spoke, "I am so sorry your father did that. You are obviously a very strong brilliant young woman to have turned out as you have and your food is delicious."
"Thank you Moira."
The rest of the day went quickly as they all sat at the table, joined by Walter who kissed his wife on the forehead much like Oliver did with Felicity. As they finished lunch and Raisa brought out the cupcakes.
"Oh these things are adorable," Thea squealed as she took the wrapper off the teacup sweet.
"Thanks, I spent most of last night trying to design something."
"Quite tasty too," Walter said with his mouthful causing nearly everyone to snort at the older man.
