395 – Smile
Felicity was smiling.
The Grunts were concerned.
She wasn't wearing her normal painted attire.
Crest was concerned.
She was being nice, even pleasant.
The Executives were concerned.
Except Archer.
The grumble of stomachs forced everyone into the kitchen where they found Felicity.
She was cleaning up her mess.
She was smiling rather than cursing up a storm.
Petrel coughed and her attention flicked to them.
If it was possible her smile got bigger.
"Oh good, I don't have to go looking for you. Breakfast's ready." Felicity said dusting off her hands. On her apron. She grabbed a pair of oven mitts and reached into the oven. Everyone flinched; Felicity laughed.
"What have you done?" Crest asked to no one in particular.
"I made pancakes, silly. Go sit, I'll bring them over." Felicity giggled at the looks Proton, Crest and Arianna gave her. Petrel and Archer sat down as asked.
"What did you do to them?" Proton growled just as Crest asked,
"What's in them."
"Flour, cream, eggs, sugar, vanilla, butter and chocolate chips." Felicity said her smile fading for a second as she tried to remember.
"Am I not allowed to make breakfast Crest? Is that why you all, sorry guys," Felicity said to the Executives at the table,
"Are so jumpy? I promise there's nothing in it that Nurse Joy wouldn't put in chocolate chip pancakes. Don't you all trust me?"
"No." Came the short reply. Felicity deflated and her smile disappeared, tears formed in her eyes and her bottom lip began to wobble.
"Oh Arceus." Crest mumbled and she glared at the two Executives behind her.
"Feli, I'll have some." Felicity stopped pouting but her smile didn't return. Instead she got three plates and stacked four pancakes on each, grabbed a canister of whipped cream and a couple strawberries that sat in a small bucket beside her. Crest sat down across from Archer as Felicity placed the plates in front of them.
"If she dies, I'm going to kill you, pest." Proton growled at Felicity as Crest took a cautious bite of the pancakes. Felicity let the comment pass without retorting but kept her eyes glued to Crest.
"Feli, these are amazing." Crest said through a second mouthful of pancake. Everyone relaxed after that and the offensive pancakes where eaten with much gusto. Only Arianna had a problem.
"What's the matter with you?"
"Ask Archer." Felicity said in a sing-song voice and everyone turned to the teal haired Executive. Except he wasn't there.
"How-?" Crest started turning back to Felicity.
Neither was she.