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Oct 3, 2017 22:03:15 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 22:03:15 GMT -7
He said he would give the cookie dough a try and Kinsey couldn't help but wonder if he was excited to try something new or if he was just doing it for her. Not that she cared. If he was doing it for her, that was flattering and encouraged her quite a bit, but knowing that didn't stop the curiosity. "Good," she teased, leaning close and giving him a quick kiss on the cheek. She still felt a little stunned that she felt comfortable enough with him to want to do things like that. Physical touch was not something Kinsey was normally all right with, but with Riley it just felt normal and good. She never wanted that to stop. He asked if he just poured it in and Kinsey grinned and nodded, "Yup! Just pour it right on in there and then we'll take turns stirring it. Since you're pouring, you can start stirring," she instructed, her excitement rising by the moment. Once it was stirred well enough and forming the right consistency, she could eat some dough! And see Riley do the same, which was almost as exciting as getting some herself. She hoped he would like it because that would just be icing on the cake.
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Oct 4, 2017 8:45:51 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2017 8:45:51 GMT -7
He poured the batter into the flower mixture and began to stir the mess with a wooden spoon. It was surly a work out and began to understand why his mother never wanted to do it. His biceps were hurting after just a minute of stirring the thick substance. However by the time he gave up and allowed Kinsey to take over, it was beginning to all stick together and he could see how it could become a cookie. It looked like something that resembled what the pure blood man would assume that a raw cookie would look like. They hadn't added in the chocolate yet, but he figured they were going to separate the batter, or, dough, into halves before he was allowed to contaminate with mixture. "So you do this for fun sometimes?" Riley asked his girlfriend, watching as she finished up mixing the dough. "What other secret hobbies do you have?" he asked, teasing a little.
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Oct 4, 2017 21:32:35 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2017 21:32:35 GMT -7
He did a good job of doing the mixing the batter, and Kinsey watched with a smile as it got thicker and thicker. That was the hard thing about making cookies here in the castle. They couldn't use a mixer! A part of Kinsey wished they could use some muggle technology in the castle, but apparently the magic made it not work, so that was that. Still, mixing by hand could be quite a pain. She was glad she had some help. Eventually, Riley let her start to mix the dough and she realized it was a little too sticky. They would need to add some more flour or it wouldn't cook right. Sometimes cookies were unpredictable like that. She shrugged at his question. "Sometimes. Not as much here though because mixing by hand is annoying," she smiled up at him innocently, "but during breaks when I'm at home, I make lots of cookies and brownies and ... treats. I mostly like to cook for my sweet tooth," Kinsey admitted, not even caring if he teased her about it. Sweets were worth any possible teasing. She giggled softly at his next question, thinking it through as she continued to mix the cookie dough. "I like Quidditch. Like, I don't think I'm good enough to ever be on the team, but I like it ... what about your secret hobbies?" She asked, pausing in her mixing and dipping the tip of her finger into the dough, pulling it out and wrinkling her nose. "It's too wet. We'd better add a little more flour," she commented, reaching past him for the flour. The measuring cups were on the other side of Riley, so Kinsey decided to just use her hand (the one she didn't dip into the dough, of course). After dropping almost all the flour into the bowl, something occurred to her and she kept the last little bit of flour in her hand, which she put behind her back. She turned to face Riley, turning her head as she looked at him, her eyes a little wide in an attempt to look innocent despite what she was about to do. "Want to see something else that's great about cooking for yourself?" She asked, the corners of her lips turning up. She didn't wait for an answer and threw the remaining flour at Riley, aiming for his face and entirely unable to keep herself from laughing. This was going to be fun.
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Oct 7, 2017 21:13:08 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2017 21:13:08 GMT -7
Kinsey insisted that she didn’t cook much at the castle because mixing was a pain. Was it not a pain at home? He wondered. Riley lived a life with muggle technology at home, but only the basics and only because he and his siblings had begged for it. Why not take advantage of all the good the muggles had done for the world? That was what he told his parents anyway that had allowed them to get the TV and DVD player on which they, mostly he and sometimes his sister Lydia, watched all the old movies that he was fond of. A TV was the extent of their muggle mechanisms, for the most part. It was by far the biggest of them and most extravagant. “Do your siblings enjoy what you make?” he asked, knowing how big of a family she had, they must love when she made cookies at home. Or maybe they were like him and objected to the fact that there were no chocolate in the chocolate chip cookies.
She told him she liked Quidditch, something else that he had never known about her. She didn’t think she was good enough to play, but he suspected that like most wizards and witches, she liked watching the sport. “Uh, I really like movies, like muggle movies. It took a while to convince my parents to get us a TV, but yeah, that’s why I was able to quote Frozen to you on that first night.” He told her, he wondered if she had ever wondered how he had known about the movie with his family being as pureblood as they were. She then went on to say that the batter...er… dough was too wet and needed additional flower. She scooped it out with her hand and added it to the mixture. She asked if he wanted to see something else that was fun about cooking on your own and he nodded, he was interested in learning about all of the reasons that she loved the act of cooking. As he was nodding, she tossed the last bit of flower in her hand into his face! Ugh! She laughed as she did so. How very evil. Or, was it fun? She seemed to have a smile. It was all in the name of fun. “Kinsey!” he gasped, without thinking he reached his hand into the flour and tossed some on her as well.
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Oct 7, 2017 23:54:38 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2017 23:54:38 GMT -7
At his question about how her siblings felt about the treats she made, Kinsey smiled. "I think they like them. They eat them, at least, so if they don't then that's news to me." She leaned in closer to whisper conspiratorially, "but if they don't like them it's just because they can't cook them as well as I can. It's jealousy," Kinsey said with a laugh, not really being serious about anything except for the fact that her siblings ate the treats, so they should like them.
He admitted that he loved movies and Kinsey grinned, listening to him explain that he had to convince his parents to let them get a TV. "I think muggle movies are fascinating," she agreed without hesitation. Obviously she got his reference the day they met, so he knew that she watched muggle movies sometimes. Her parents didn't have a lot, but she enjoyed the ones they did have. When she was young, before she got her gift, Kinsey would ask her neighbors if she could borrow a movie so she could see new ones.
His reaction to the flour in the face was perfect! The look of shock and surprise, the way he instantly said her name, all of it was exactly what she wanted. What she didn't expect was the retaliation. She blinked when he tossed flour at her face. "Hey!" she said defiantly, a grin spreading across her lips as she reached her hand toward the flour. She threw it at him, this time aiming to get it in his hair, suddenly wondering what Riley would look like with white hair. Well, there was only one way to find out ... she threw another small handful before he could stop her. She winked at him, silently asking him what he was going to do now.
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Oct 9, 2017 12:31:15 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2017 12:31:15 GMT -7
She told him that she was pretty sure at least that her siblings liked her cooking. He had asked, partly to make sure that she was actually good at cooking and other people liked what she made. Not that he thought that he wasn’t going to like the cookies, or was skeptical about them, he was just curious. He’d eat them anyway, even if they weren’t great, because it was the polite thing to do; but, knowing Kinsey and her gift, she would be able to tell that he was just being polite. So, if she thought that people liked her cooking, they must really like it otherwise she would know, right? “Well I’m excited to have them too, then.” he nodded. She then agreed that muggle movies were fascinating and he smiled at her, glad that she didn’t think they were weird or silly or something like he had known some Wizards to believe.
She also freaked out when he threw the flour onto her, the expected response for sure. Was this something that really came along with baking or was it just something that Kinsey had done right now for fun? Did people who baked regularly have flour fights while they waited for whatever they were baking to bake? Muggles were so weird, he thought, not knowing anything different. But, it was fun at least. She threw some more flour in an upwards motion and it came sprinkling down into his hair. He gasped before using his hand to scoop a large bit of flour out of the bag and tossed it back to her, aiming at nothing in particular.
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Oct 11, 2017 23:40:48 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2017 23:40:48 GMT -7
Kinsey beamed when Riley said he was excited to try the cookies. She hoped he'd like them, but couldn't see why he wouldn't. They were just normal cookies, nothing special about them. She was really grateful that he was being a good sport about cooking with her and everything. It was a lot more fun down here with him, not to mention that she felt safer knowing Dominic couldn't walk in and find her on her own now.
By now, she was laughing at the impromptu flour war. Granted, it wasn't something Kinsey normally did when she cooked, despite what she told him when she started it. She was normally very good at keeping things tidy and neat while she cooked, but right now she just wanted to have fun with him. He threw flour back at her and it landed mostly on her right shoulder and her face. Without dipping her hand into the flour bucket again, Kinsey reached forward and wiped some of the flour on his face and shirt, laughing and jumping back to try and get out of his range so he couldn't do the same to her, since so far he seemed to copy whatever she did. She couldn't remember the last time she laughed so hard.
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Oct 13, 2017 21:03:41 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2017 21:03:41 GMT -7
Riley heard her laughing and realized that he was supposed to be laughing too, good because he already was. He wasn't sure, at first, if she was serious and throwing flour at him was some sort of muggle fighting tactic that he had never heard of. He had never taken muggle studies, his parents said it was a waste of time and he shouldn't waste his education on muggles when he would never need to live among them or socialize with them. So he had no way to know exactly what a flour war was, or even about cooking things in general. He knew plenty of wizards cooked, but not in his house. Nit unless his mother was particularly bored, and even then, barely. She smeared flour across his face and then backed away from him laughing, he was laughing so hard that he could barely breath, so, he took the next moment to try and calm down and catch his breath before wiping the flour out of his eyes and looking at his powdery girlfriend. "What are you doing?" he asked her, still laughing. "Is this something that people normally do?"
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Oct 14, 2017 16:40:18 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2017 16:40:18 GMT -7
Kinsey couldn't stop laughing. The whole situation was utterly ridiculous and fun and she was so glad that Riley went along with it even though he didn't know what she was doing. Honestly though, Kinsey didn't really know what she was doing either. Sure, she might have thrown food at her siblings at one point or another while they were growing up, but that was nothing like this. She was just happy that Riley seemed to be enjoying himself as well. At least, she assumed he was enjoying himself. He was laughing too. He started trying to calm down, but Kinsey couldn't stop laughing. She wasn't even trying to stop, because there was no point. "Throwing flour at you, duh," she said, giggling as she spoke and then laughing afterward. Then she shook her head, "No," she laughed, "Only cool people like me do this," she stuck out her tongue at him and bit her lip to try and stop the giggles, but she couldn't. "You should've seen the look on your face," she admitted, giving up as peals of laughter took over again. Kinsey gripped the counter for support, wrapping her other arm around her stomach as she laughed.
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Oct 16, 2017 12:24:16 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2017 12:24:16 GMT -7
Kinsey explained that not everyone did this, only cool people like her, which he took to assume that only silly people did this. Which made a lot more sense. It seemed like something that was likely too much work for muggles to clean up by hand, without magic every time they wanted to bake. But it seemed like it would be a lot of work to clean up from just regular baking also without magic. He was growing a newfound respect for muggles since he had met Kinsey and was learning so much more about them through her. “Well you should have seen the look on your face.” he countered with a smirk. He could only imagine the look on his face during the original confusion that he had experienced over the whole ordeal. “How do we clean this up?” he asked just before she started laughing again. There was flour all over the kitchen, the floors and the counter and he felt bad just assuming that the house elves would do it, since they were all watching from across the room, some with very confused looks on their faces too.
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Oct 16, 2017 20:46:54 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2017 20:46:54 GMT -7
He teased he right back and Kinsey grinned at him as she finally started to control the giggles a bit, inwardly delighted that he was playing this game with her. It would have been easy to just look at her weird when she first tossed a bit of flour at him, but he joined in and she was glad. It was much more fun that way. "I bet. I wasn't expecting you to retaliate so quickly," she admitted, laughing just a few more times after she spoke. She couldn't help it. He asked how they were supposed to clean up and Kinsey shrugged, waving her wand to levitate the flour from the ground and direct it toward the bin. It wasn't like they could re-use it. Then she took a few steps closer to Riley, reaching forward and brushing the flour off of him. She smiled shyly up at him as she did so. "Thanks for being such a good sport," Kinsey answered softly.
Turning back to the cookie dough, Kinsey chuckled and mixed in the bit of flour she added before starting the war with Riley. It was perfect! Kinsey turned to Riley, gesturing for him to come closer. "To me, cookie dough is better than the actual cookies. Want to give it a try?" She reached in and grabbed a pinch of the dough, tossing it into her mouth and sighing in pleasure, closing her eyes to relish the taste. Why had it been so long since she last made cookies?
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Oct 19, 2017 17:25:01 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2017 17:25:01 GMT -7
It seemed that the way was over and they would be going back to baking. Something that actually relieved him. She admitted that she wasn’t expecting him to retaliate so quickly and he was glad to have surprised her. How very cool of him. She also thanked him for being a good sport and he laughed. He had never expected himself to be in this situation, he had never expected anything like this to have happened to him. He was a pure blood man whom had never cooked, let alone touched flour or most of these ingredients and now he was standing there with flour all over his face and hair and so was his girlfriend. He laughed. And then she turned back to the cookie dough, insisting that the dough was so much better than the actually baked cookies. He was skeptical, but he had agreed to try it so he wasn’t going to back down. “Sure.” he admitted. He followed what she had done, taking a pinch of the dough and trying it. “That is good, why don’t people just eat this?” he asked.
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Oct 19, 2017 21:37:03 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2017 21:37:03 GMT -7
He didn't say anything about her comments about his retaliation and being a good sport, just laughed and Kinsey was alright with that. Just being with Riley made her feel comfortable and relaxed, even after they finished with a flour war. Even though she tried to brush most of the flour off of him, he still had a pretty good dusting of white on him. It was cute. He answered with a simple "Sure" when she asked if he wanted to try the dough. Kinsey watched his expression as he did so, wanting to see his thoughts before he spoke. He was surprised, pleasantly so it seemed. Then he told her that it was good and Kinsey grinned. "That's what I'm saying! Cookie dough is way better than the cookies themselves, though I like those as well." She looked up at him and smirked, quirking an eyebrow, "Was it worth coming down here with me and slaving over the dough?" Kinsey teased, unable to help herself. She took another pinch of dough, still watching her boyfriend as she ate it. "Do you want some more before we start to cook it?" Kinsey asked with a sly smile. She definitely was going to have more, but if he didn't want more she'd probably just sneak it when he wasn't looking. If he did want more ... then they could eat it together!
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Oct 21, 2017 13:55:42 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2017 13:55:42 GMT -7
Riley had to admit, this whole afternoon adventure below ground had been fun. He hadn’t thought it would be. He had expected cooking to just be something that he would do with Kinsey to make her happy and get to learn about something that she really enjoyed doing. He was surprised by how enjoyable cooking… or… baking… actually was. “I’m okay with just cooking them.” he admitted, but he wouldn’t care if she wanted more. While the dough was good, he still think that he preferred actual cookies, he liked the warm, baked, gooey goodness that came along with fresh chocolate chip cookies. “Yes, it was very worth it.” he laughed. “Cooking with you was surprisingly fun.” he admitted, kissing her flour covered head.
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Oct 21, 2017 20:08:23 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2017 20:08:23 GMT -7
Kinsey rolled her eyes when Riley said he was good just cooking them. Of course he was. Still, she was glad that he tried the cookie dough and liked it. That was good enough for her. "All right, we'll cook most of it," she said with a shrug, "Let me just separate some of the dough so we can add the chocolate chips into yours and keep them out of mine," Kinsey added, summoning a bowl and quickly taking a bit out dough out of the big bowl. "We can start cooking them now," she told him with a smile, grabbing more cookie dough and plopping it into her mouth. She grinned when he said it was worth it. "Good. I'm glad you enjoyed it," she said, giving him a hug when he kissed her head. Then she started showing him how to roll out the dough. They played around and made cookies for the next hour or so, laughing and having fun just being together. --- the end --- @riley
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