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"We can look," She said smiling. "If you don't we'll just have to make it another time." She stood up extending her hand for Ciel.

"Okay." Ciel nodded and grabbed Melissa's hand. For a second, she contemplated getting up and "accidentally" tripping into Melissa. But she quickly pushed the idea away and stood up.

Melissa smiled and held onto her hand. She walked out of Ciel’s room and down the stairs. “So your moms won’t mind us baking right?”

"Probably not. I'll check with them, just to be sure." Ciel peeked her head into the living room where they were sitting. "Melissa and I are going to bake a cake, is that alright?" She whisper-shouted at them.
"Yeah, just don't burn the house down," Ari answered, smiling at Ciel.
"Cool. Thanks!" She smiled at Ari, then turned to Melissa. "Let's do this." Ciel walked into the kitchen and waved at it with her free hand. "Tada!"

Melissa smiled and looked around the kitchen. She kept holding Ciel’s hand trying not to think to much about it. “Nice! So let’s see what ingredients you have,” she said smiling.

"Okay, that's the fridge and that's the pantry. We keep flour and stuff like that in that cabinet, and canned stuff in there." Ciel said, pointing to the places she was describing. "Let's see, fruit and stuff are over here…" She walked over to a bowl and peeked into it. "Well, we have lemons! What else would we need?"

“Umm flour sugar,” she started and then listed all the ingredients of the cake. It wasn’t that much. She stood close to Ciel and only let go of her hand when she had to start getting ingredients.

"Well, I think we have all that, right?" Ciel asked, feeling a small stab of disappointment when Melissa let go of her hand. "I don't know how many we need, so I'm just grabbing them all," she said, grabbing all the lemons she could hold and bringing them to the part of the counter that was free for cake baking.

“Don’t think we need that many,” Melody laughed walking over with a few things she saw and grabbed. She couldn’t find some others.

"Well, at least we'll be prepared." Ciel laughed. "Are you finding everything we need?" She asked, leaning against the counter. She wasn't sure what else they needed, so Ciel elected to stay out of Melissa's way until she needed help.

“Umm I couldn’t find the sugar and vanilla,” she said looking at all the ingredients. “Also a bowl and stuff to mix with.

"Oh, okay." Ciel nodded and walked to a cabinet, opening and pulling out a bag of sugar. She dropped it off on the counter, then walked and grabbed a bottle of vanilla from a different cabinet. "There's those…" Ciel hurried to another cabinet and pulled out a bunch of bowls. "These…" She opened a drawer and grabbed some spatulas and a whisk. "And these! Anything else?"

“That should be all,” Melissa said looking over the ingredients. “I haven’t made lemon cake in awhile but like it shouldn’t be that hard.” She turned to face Ciel.

"Perfect." Ciel grinned at her. "Just tell me what to do." She leaned against the counter, looking at Melissa with a warm look in her eyes. Even if this ended in a total disaster, she would still love it.

“Oh we also need measuring cups and spoons! Sometimes I just eye ball it but we’ll probably need those now,” she said.

"I got it." Ciel pushed herself upright and opened a drawer. She pulled out a handful of measuring cups and a few spoons. "There you go." Ciel set them down next to the bowls. "What next?"

“We put all the dry ingredients in the bowl first,” she said. She started saying specific ingredients and their measurement. She had them memorized.

Ciel nodded and started measuring out one of the dry ingredients. "You know, Melissa," she started, looking at Melissa. "You really are amazing. I've said before, but I'm saying it now and I'll say it again. I mean…" She dumped the measuring cup into a bowl. "You are fantastic." Ciel's cheeks were pink as she peeked up at Melissa.

Melissa froze and blushed. “T-thanks! You are too!” She said turning to her. She wanted to take her hand again but held back. She helped her measure out all the ingredients instead.

"Thanks!" She kept looking at Melissa, loving the blush on her cheeks. What would happen if she just… Nope. She had to stop thinking so hopefully. But there was so much to be hopeful about. "So… I'm guessing we mix it all together?" Ciel asked, shyly tucking a loose lock of hair behind her ear.

“Well first we add the wet ingredients and then we mix,” she said picking up and egg. They only needed two so she handed one to Ciel. She easily cracked hers against the bowl and then split it over the bowl all with one hand.

Ciel watched Melissa with a look of utter awe. "Uh…" She looked from the egg to Melissa's face, a beautiful little smile on her lips. "You know what, I'm just gonna get another bowl." She opened a cabinet and pulled out a small bowl. Ciel cracked her egg into it, checked it for eggshells, then poured it into the mixing bowl. "We can't all be goddesses like you, after all," She sighed, leaning towards Melissa with a smirk.

Melissa blushed hard and laughed. She leaned near Ciel and bumped shoulders slightly. “Hey you still did really good!” She said before measuring the milk. She still stood close to Ciel.

"Well, if I did good, then you did… I don't know, legendary? You did a legendary job. Seriously, how did you do that?" Ciel asked, watching Melissa work. Her face was red, even more so after Melissa bumped shoulders with her. Oh, how in the world did she manage to meet such a lovely person? It was the best luck , that was for sure.

Melissa blushed even redder. “I Umm-I’ve had a lot of practice,” she said smiling. “But like I said you where really good. You may of done it in a separate bowl like I have Lili do but she usually crushes it in her hand so like you didn’t get any egg shells in the bowl.”

"Well, they say practice makes perfect. And you were pretty perfect just now." Ciel smiled, a soft laugh escaping her lips. "Well, thank you. I have to admit, you caught me on a good day. Most days are good days, though, so…" She shrugged, a burst of pure joy rising up inside her. Melissa was just so beautiful, in all the ways she could be.

Melissa nodded and smiled. Her blush cooling down slightly. She poured in the almost forgotten milk and then directed Ciel for the rest of the ingredients. “Okay now we have to mix. I’ll show you first and then you do the rest,” she said.

Ciel followed Melissa's instructions carefully, trying to get the perfect measurement for each ingredient. "Okay." She nodded, watching Melissa. Her face was feeling less warm, but she was still filled with that sunshine-y feeling.

Melissa mixed car fully and then handed the spoon to Ciel. “Here you try,” she said still standing very close to her.

"Alright." Ciel grabbed the spoon. Her fingers brushed against Melissa's for a second, sending a spark of energy towards her heart. They were standing so close… It really was unfair, but she wasn't complaining either. Ciel started mixing, trying to do the same thing Melissa had done. "How am I doing?" She asked, looking over at Melissa.