Both of them have a sweet tooth, but it's not quite as simple as that. For Liam, cookies and candies and the like are a treat, an indulgence to be appreciated after a hard day's work; Break is liable to eat an entire cake for dinner if left unsupervised. Liam prefers chocolates and Break prefers hard candy. Liam likes cake for the cake part while Break sees it mostly as a vessel for the frosting, and Liam likes apple pie while Break loves cherry. Cookies are a bit more dangerous to try to eat together; if there's one thing they agree on, it's that it's almost impossible to make an objectionable cookie, unless you burn them to a crisp or manage to get them completely tasteless. A plate of cookies placed in front of them digresses rather quickly into a free-for-all.

But of course they have their favorites. Break holds sugar cookies above all others, the ones that come in exciting shapes, decorated with all colors of icing and sprinkles. Liam can't get enough of the dark, chewy kind with molasses and spices — he'll eat an entire batch of those on his own in just a couple of days if he lets himself.

It makes it easy for them to miss each other around Christmas, especially when Liam goes home to his own family. It's not as if they spend all of their time apart pining for one another's company. They both adore the holiday, and the people they spend it with. But this time of year, Break is found hovering around the kitchens more often than not, where the smell of cinnamon and cloves is simply unavoidable. And Liam? Liam can take one look at a pile of sugar cookies and know instantly which ones Break would want to eat first. It never fails to make him smile.