Aye, epilogue #1! x3 this is a short in which Takano does something to make Ritsu mad and now the brunet won't talk to him. In a simpler way to put it, this is a short about Takano's attempt at using his baking skills to win Ritsu's trust again.

Both Aya and Kassandora-chan: GUESS WHO'S BACK-

Me: oh, hey theeeree, welcome back! I missed the enthusiasm XD

Both of them: yep, sAME.

All of us: please enjoy this chapter! :D

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Oh how happy they were with the life they lived!

Takano finally caught Onodera's heart, sure the latter was still a shy, blushing mess when they did things couples usually do, but they were happy.

Until someone decided to turn things upside down.

~flashback~

"I'm really happy you finally opened up to me, Ritsu.", Takano said, leaning his head on Onodera's shoulder. "Mm. Takano-san, that tickles, please stop it!", the brunet got into a fit of girly giggles.

"Hmm, nope.", Takano grabbed Onodera's hand as he bit on the brunet's neck.

Until he accidentally made the younger man flinch and his marker just had to be open when he did.

Now Onodera was mad, Takano just had to move his hand and now his proposal was ruined. A large, red mark was seen on the paper. He worked on that proposal for two days straight without sleep! And his boyfriend just had to tickle him while he worked.

"Ah, I'm sorry Ritsu—"

But the man wasn't cooperating with him, and was also mad at him for goodness' sake! Before he could utter another word, the youngest of the two stood up from the man's lap and stomped his way to the door, slamming it angrily.

Oh shit, he's done it now.

~flashback end~

How was he supposed to know that Onodera worked on that proposal without break? Ah, but, it was still his fault for tickling him and biting his neck anyway.

He tried talking to his angry boyfriend, but every attempt eventually ended up failing.

Just when he finally had Onodera in his arms, he carelessly let go of him again. This time, it was wholly his fault.

What does he like? What's his most favorite thing in the world? What's his favorite food? What was— wait. Hold that thought. FOOD! That's it! Just as some would say, 'the best way to a man's heart, is through his stomach'!, his mind yelled at him.

He mentally fist pumped and went to the store to buy ingredients.

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Once he came back, he immediately placed all the ingredients he had just bought and got his cookbook, which he stashed away in his cupboard just in case something like this happened, or maybe if an important celebration came up and he forgot. "Yosh, let's do this."

He started of with the eggs, flour, water, and some other things he needed for his batter.

He put the flour in the mixing bowl, cracked two eggs, and added the water. He mixed them thoroughly before adding a pinch of vanilla extract, chocolate powder, and a tiny pinch of salt. He thoroughly mixed the batter again and once he was done, he got his scooper and scooped up a portion of the mixture and dropped it in a medium-sized cupcake wrapper. (Which was had Ritsu's favorite color.)

He did so with all the remaining cupcake wrappers and placed them in the oven.

A loud ding! was heard from the oven, inquiring Takano that his chocolate cupcakes were done.

He got them out as he put icing on each one. Turns out, he also bought some candy letters which the store clerk highly recommended for him. He placed a letter "i" on one cupcake, an "a" and and an "m" on another, and an "s", an "o", an "r", another "r", and a "y" on the other ones.

He fixed them all on a large plate, which in turn, spelled out "i am sorry."

He frowned, thinking that if Onodera wouldn't accept even this, he was totally done for.

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Luckily, though, Onodera was outside buying his own dinner ingredients. So Takano had time to prepare.

He stood in front of his boyfriend's door and found the keys under the mat. He opened the door, turned on the lights, and set down the plate on the coffee table. He sighed and quickly went outside, but not without locking the door behind him and placing the keys back to where it was before, as he headed towards his apartment.

By the time Onodera came back, he was greeted with a sweet smell coming from his living room. "What is that?", he followed the sweet scent and found a plate of 7 cupcakes sitting on his coffee table. "Wha...",

His eyes widened as he spelled out the candy letters on each cupcake, and also saw a note on one corner of the plate. He picked it up and read it slowly.

Hello,

You're probably still mad at me, you are, aren't you? Ah, well, it was my fault anyway so I should apologize, but you kept avoiding me so this was all I could do to make you understand what I needed to tell you. You love chocolate, so I thought maybe baking chocolate cupcakes and putting candy letters on them would make it more...sweet. Please, if you can forgive me, talk to me, I miss you so much.

I love you. -Takano ︎

Onodera had to slap himself to keep himself from crying, but come on, this was the second time Takano has done this (the letter thing, I mean). He can't cry now, what he really needed to do was to go to his boyfriend, tell him he forgives him, and hug him, kiss him, and cuddle with him, just like he used to do before this whole thing happened.

He took out his phone and shakily dialed Takano's number.

Tooot. Tooot. "Hello?"

"Ah, Takano-san!"

"Ritsu? Did y—"

"I'm sorry too!"

"...excuse me?"

"I-I..I shouldn't have gotten angry at you! I know I worked on the proposal really hard and without break, but I can do it again and I've only realized that now and I also realized that I want to be with you again and I miss you and I want to hug you, I want to be with you and and-"

"Woah, calm down, you're talking way too fast. I'm coming over. Bye. Love you."

"B..bye.."

Beep.

Sigh. Ah, finally they made up. Man, was he going to cry himself to sleep in Takano's arms later.

His train of thoughts paused, distracted by the the loud knocking on the door.

"Coming!"

He opened the door.

"Ritsu!"

And a kiss has come to take him , to dream world.

"Mmph...I missed...you...", he said in between soft kisses.

"I missed you more.", Takano inquired, smirking as he planted multiple feather-light kisses on his lover's neck, cheeks, eyes, forehead, and lastly, his lips.

"..you better eat the cupcakes. I worked hard on those too."

"Yeah, yeah. Let's share. It's not like I can— mmfff!", Takano stuffed a large piece of cupcake in Onodera's mouth, a sweet taste landing on his tongue.

"It-it's delicious..you really know how to make me happy."

"Well, I am your boyfriend, it's obvious I'd kn— umph-", a whole cupcake was shoved into his own mouth, by Onodera.

"Haha, serves you right!"

"Co' ba' he' you li'l-!", just as Onodera started running around the apartment, Takano took that as a cue to start chasing him.

Ah how wonderful, this is how fun love can be, as bright as the sun.

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I haven't gotten that much sleep, but who cares about that, so this might have come out as stupid or too cliché/cheesy, sorry 'bout that. And since my classes were suspended today because of rain (yay), I took some time to type this. I won't be updating starting tomorrow till Thursday. I'll try to update again on Friday, since tomorrow is the start of my school's mastery tests. Sorry for any mistakes~

Aya: buh-bye!

Kassandora: see you all next time!

-•Momoya An, Aya, and Kassandora•-