Haven't updated this one in a while now. It was about time for a chapter wasn't it? I think I still have at least five more drabbles to complete Blossoms. Let's get to it then. You guys haven't come to hear me talk about my laziness!

Kaleido Star isn't mine in any shape or form. Neither are the characters! Etc etc.

Cream Puffs
Theme #30: Cooking

"You've got whipped cream on your nose, did you know? And on your cheeks and chin too...you would make a good impression of a snowman during winter! It's such a pity that I don't have a camera yet."

"That would not have happened if someone wouldn't have wanted to play with the whipped cream instead of actually using it to fill the profiteroles and eclairs. Like that person was supposed to."

"You can't tell me you didn't enjoy it! You were the one who decided to put the whipped cream to better use in the end, remember?"

That was probably why they were sitting on the floor - embrassingly naked - in the kitchen in the middle of the afternoon...trying to decide if they were going to go through with their cooking lessons. And if there was anymore chocolate or cream to do so.

"I did, though the counter was too hard..."

"I don't remember you being the one pressed into it, with the cupboard half digging in your back mister!"

"...and as far as I remember it was you who started the whole affair." Leon added, looking unperturbed.

"Hmph. You have the guts to say something like that consi...is that my bra and your shirt hanging from the ceiling fan?" Sora exclaimed, suddenly noticing where her missing undergarments had - literally - flown.

Leon blinked down at her and then looked upwards, unable to hide his satisfied grin. Things had gotten a little out of hand after he'd immobilized her hands on the counter. Again. "My, my, so that was where my shirt had gone. I thought that I was going to have trouble finding it in this mess. Well, I suppose that neither of us need those right now."

"Of course we do! Weren't we trying to make some eclairs and cream puffs earlier? Don't we need clothes on to do that?"

"Says who?" He replied, feeling his amusement increase steadily. Sora probably had no idea whatsoever that her skirt was on the top of the fridge or that his pants were half sticking out of the sink. It was all so horribly ridiculous but the sight actually brought a smile to his face.

Sora made him happy.

"What do you mean says who?" She exclaimed outraged, poking him repeatedly in the chest. "Says me! I'm not doing anything here in my bare tush...we've already done more enough of that to last us a whole life time.

"Hmm, I didn't realize you had such low expectations of our relationship. Already this romp was enough for you?" He asked, looking too puzzled for normality. At least that's what Sora thought, feeling her jaw drop in fascinated disbelief.

"Y-you don't have to be so frank about it." She replied stuttering like an idiot. "Don't you have any inhibitions at all?"

Leon smiled indulgently and leaned down to kiss her nose.

It took Sora a few moments to realize that he was having fun at her expense.

"You were playing with me!"

"Yes."

"I'm going to kill you," she hissed, pouncing him with all her Kaleido Star might. They fell back in tangle of naked limbs and muted laughter. At least on his part. Sora still thought that finding an egg beater was the best way to get at it.

"Eager aren't we? Won't you even give me some time to recuperate?"

"Leon! I am not a pervert!"

I really think that Leon was like this before Sophie died and also that Sora could bring a lighter side of him out too. Just in case you guys were wondering why I'm choosing to write him this way.

I fully intend to write him seriously too. Just...in other, longer stories!