cup•cake/ˈkəpˌkāk/(Noun)

1. A small cake baked in a cup-shaped container and typically iced.

2. An attractive woman (often as a term of address).

Kuki loved sweet things – she much preferred the taste of smooth, sugary goodness to a hot, spicy flavouring that set her tongue on fire.

Not that she didn't like it, she would just much rather eat a cupcake.

But cupcakes weren't the only sweet things that Kuki was found of.

It seemed that if you looked back at her short dating history, all of the boys on it were undeniably sweet to the core.

First there had been Patton Drivolsky. He was her first boyfriend in her Junior year and for all of his army training and the drills that he put the football team through, he was kind and gentle and he always treated Kuki with respect and she loved being with him.

Then there was the brief relationship that she'd had with Nigel Uno at the beginning of her senior year. He was impatient, hard-working, calm and someone who Kuki had felt an instant bond with, as if she'd known him for forever. That might be why she just knew that underneath the smart, leader façade that he had that he was affectionate, tolerant and willing to go on adventures with her. He too felt the heart-breaking pang that was his lost childhood, just as she did and they stayed firm friends well after their relationship had, ultimately, ended.

And her last (and current) boyfriend was so macho, tough and some people thought that he was rude, mean and a stereotypical bad-boy…and they would be right. But that wasn't all Wallabee Beatles was. In fact, once you got to know him, he because the sweetest of the lot – he gave Kuki his hoodie if he had even an inkling that she was cold, would walk her home in the dark and was fiercely protective and loyal to his friends. It's a shame that people don't see that about him, just write him off because of what he shows people…If only people cared enough to see the sweet boy underneath, the bumbling, awkward boy who was so flustered on their first date the he dropped the menu and spilled her drink over the table.

Speaking of Wally…Kuki grinned when she caught sight of him in the hallway and he made his way over to her, sliding his arm around her shoulder with ease as she leant into his side and he pressed a kiss to her temple. The sweetest thing about Wally was his open affection to her, how the way that he felt about her was written across his face, sparkling in his green eyes.

He was the sweetest thing in Kuki's life and she loved him.

Although cupcakes did give him a run for his money.