224 word, by gdocs
James waited for the explosion. It's not like he thought that Lily would explode at him, it's just that he screwed up. All he wanted to do was to impress Lily for once, instead of her impressing him, and utterly screwed up. He screwed up so badly and now Lily was going to shout at him until his ears fell off.
He loved Lily with all his heart, but she really had a problem with screaming at him.
He just needed to get this over with. There was no time to clean up the mess he made, so he just sat down at their table and braced himself for Lily to come downstairs and see his failure.
He could hear her footsteps. She was coming closer, closer…
"What the hell?"
Snapping his eyes up at her scream, James could see a pregnant Lily standing in the middle of their kitchen. Which was also an utter mess because turns out James has no idea how to cook a Muggle breakfast.
"Happy birthday," he says weakly. "It was supposed to be a surprise."
"Oh, I'm surprised," she says, narrowing her eyes at him. "What is this?"
"I wanted to impress you with a Muggle breakfast," James explained. "I failed."
Lily closed her eyes for a count of three and said, opening them, "Let's just eat out."