Lizzie's Changes
Lizzy continued to sit on Ciel's bed. She looked at her mark that showed a silver rose on the back of her hand. She looked towards the door, "Ciel!"
She looked towards the mark and traced the image of the rose. She sighed. "Ciel! I order you to come up here!"
Lizzy waited, until the familiar pale hand opened the door, and Ciel stepped in, "Yes... Lizzy?"
She smiled at him. "I order you to make a cake with me!"
She pranced over to Ciel who just looked towards the floor and muttered out his frustration, "Yes, my lady..."
He gave her a smirk, as his arm wrapped around hers, and led her downstairs.
He never made a cake before. He stared off into space, when they walked into the kitchen. How am I supposed to do this when I don't even know the contents of which a cake is made!
He walked over to an old cookbook and opened it up, reading off the name of a recipe from the Table of Contents, "Devil's Food Cake... Hm..."
Ciel turned to the page that told the ingredients and what to do. Lizzy walked over, "Find anything?"
He shook, clearly shocked that she found out what he was doing. "I..." He looked down at the cake, feeling a bit uncomfortable, which he didn't understand. He never felt uncomfortable around Lady Elizabeth... considering he's known her his whole life. "I found this cake..."
Heat rushed to his cheeks and he pointed at the Title. Lizzy read it aloud, "Devil's food cake... Sounds delicious!"
The pale hand with the black fingertips wandered down to the ingredients. Ciel read them. He trembled, but he tried to keep his fingers and his hands steady, as they began to heat up. "1 1/2 cups Unsalted Butter... Three of them."
Lizzy ran over to Ciel's gigantic refrigerator and yanked it open, taking out three sticks of butter and throwing them on the counter. "Okay!"
Ciel continued down the list, "3/4 cup Dutch-Process cocoa powder."
Lizzy ran off and fetched it, putting it on the table right next to the butter. "Got it!"
She smiled and giggled at how easy this seemed. Ciel looked back into the old, dusty book, "1/2 cup boiling... water? Where do we get that?"
Lizzy's head cocked to the side, as she and Ciel thought for a moment...
Ciel and her looked at the page, until Lizzy's head popped up with a quick thought, "Bard or Mey-Rin might know!"
She ran out the door and started her search for Ciel's two servants. "Mey-Rin! Bard!"
Her voice sang through the mansion and sooner or later two people came in front of her. She rubbed at her eyes. "How did you get here so fast..." She blinked, "Er...Never mind that. I need help. How do you suppose I get 1/2 cup boiling water?"
Bard looked at her with a smirk, "Flame-thrower..."
Mey-Rin looked at him with wide eyes, "No madam... do not listen to him, there is a simpler way! Here I'll take you to Finny and we can work it out..."
She led Lady Elizabeth out to the garden where Finny was working. "Finny!"
The blond-haired boy looked up from drenching the flowers with water. "Mey! What do you want?"
"We need 1/2 cups of boiling water! Do you know where we can get some?"
"The well... Then, once you get inside you can use the tea-kettle. I saw Sebastian do it once!"
The boy smiled at the two girls. Then, they set off to go and fetch some water from the well, after acquiring a bucket from Finny.
When they reached the well, the two -Servant and Noble- lowered the wooden bucket down and once the water caught in the bucket, they reeled it up by the two ropes. Lizzy struggled against the stone well, she wasn't used to pulling water up by two ropes...
Once the water was up they took it back to the mansion and into the kitchen where they boiled and measured it.
Mey looked at Ciel, "Are you troubled, again?
Ciel looked at her, trying to hide his red face, "No... I am fine... Get back to work." Mey ran out of the kitchen and Ciel went back to the recipe, "2 1/4 cup sugar..."
Lizzy ran into the pantry and threw a bag of sugar onto the counter. "Okay!"
Ciel eyed her out the corner of his eye, "Okay... one tablespoon vanilla extract."
Lizzy sighed and went back to the pantry where she found the bottle of vanilla extract. "Why is it brown? I thought vanilla was white?"
She slowly brought it out to the kitchen where she carefully set the tiny glass bottle on the counter. Ciel's eyes narrowed, as they went back to the book. "Who knows..." His voice lowered... He looked back at the book. "Who cares." His hand fell to the next ingredient and he stopped. "4 large beaten eggs..."
He sighed, while Lizzy spoke up, "Don't chickens lay eggs?"
Ciel's eyes closed. "Yes... Go talk to Finny... or someone who could help you. I don't know where to get eggs..."