Third Floor Common Room, Wednesday Afternoon

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Since the twins were unburdened with classes this fine Wednesday, they found themselves lounging in the common room during most of the afternoon.
Hikaru had decided to get creative and try making cupcakes for the first time. He had found a recipe online for devil's food cupcakes and decided to quell their chocolate cravings with his little experiment. Kaoru, in-between helping Hikaru, was doing some more dolphin and canine review.

//"Are they supposed to be this black..? And salty..?"//
//"You used salt instead of sugar! Try again."// Kaoru shook his head and made a squeaking noise, practicing the dolphin word for "failed".

The plate of rejects and the plate of good ones sat a bit close, but were both ready to be eatten as he tried to perfect the art of cupcake making.

((Open with free food. may be slow at times))

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

As a self-proclaimed cupcake connoisseur, Anders felt some bizarre, inexplicable pull toward the third floor common room. Upon reaching it, the "inexplicable" part was completely explained away.

"Oooh. Chocolate cupcakes?"

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Hikaru turned and grinned, "Yup. Devils food." He nodded toward the plates, not really specifying unfortunately. Perhaps the inexplicable pull could steer him to the good ones.

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Anders stared at the cupcakes like a boy who's just found the Holy Grail (if a boy from another world knew what the Holy Grail was, and never failed to be awed by it even if he saw it every. damn. day) and gravitated toward them pretty quickly. "Can I have one?"

The inexplicable pull, unfortunately, was more enthusiastic than it was discerning, and Anders picked up one of the failed cupcakes instead.

"Wow, this is . . . uh . . ." Blink. Blinkblinkblink swallow blink some more. "An interesting taste sensation."

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Kaoru looked up from his vocab and snirked, "Wrong plate."

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Anders looked ruefully at the cupcake, then set it down and picked up one from the other plate. "Wrong plate, huh? You guys doing a blind taste test or something?"

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"No. Just keeping the rejects to compare." Hikaru shrugged and stirred his little mixing bowl.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"This batch is much better," Anders announced after devouring one of the cupcakes from the non-reject plate. "Really, really frakkin' good, by the way. Oh my lords, the chocolate."

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The twins laugh. "We're making them because we desperatly needed a chocolate fix." Both nod. "How would chocolate frosting taste on them? Do you think that would be too much?" Hikaru poured the mix into the tins to make some more.

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"Dude," Anders said insistently, "there is never such a thing as too much chocolate. Chocolate frosting and chocolate sprinkles wouldn't even be close to overkill."

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They grinned. Anders knew what chocolatey meant. Hikaru dug around in his grocery bag and pulled out both such things, placing the sprinkles and frosting on the counter.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders's grin threatened to split his face in half. "You. Guys. Rock."

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Hikaru handed him a butter knife. "Have a hayday."

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Anders took the butter knife with a flourish and got to work on the frosting, making sure to keep the salty cupcakes separate from the Cupcakes of Chocolate Bliss. "Just leave it to me," he declared, making artsy swirls in the frosting that he was slathering none too stingily onto the cupcakes. And wow is this icon way more useful than I ever thought.

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

The twins had to agree with his technique: the more frosting, the better. Hikaru slid the tin into the oven and came over to do some of his own frosting, bringing out another knife. "What if we cut them open, then 'glued' them back together with frosting....and put more ontop of that?" Hikaru grabbed a good cupcake and split it.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

The sound that came out of Anders's mouth was most definitely a squee, though he'd probably deny it for the rest of his life. "Layer cupcakes! Yes!"

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Kaoru had to put his vocab down to come over and watch them now; layer cupcakes just sounded wayy too indulgent to be true. He laughed. "The way you're going, you might as well fondu them or something." He picked up a frosted cupcake.

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Anders stopped giving his cupcake an armor-like layer of sprinkles and stared at Kaoru in awe. "Chocolate fondue cupcakes. This just gets better and better."

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The twins exchange glances. "We could try." Hikaru glances around, grabbing one of their microwave bowls. "Usually the chocolate has to be a certain kind..." He shrugs and dumps the leftover chocolate from the cupcakes into the bowl.

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"Well," Anders said cheerfully, "if we can't dip the cupcakes in it, we can at least eat the chocolate anyway!"

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"Right!" They take a few little peices of chocolate and put them onto of their cupcakes, finishing the 'art' and eatting.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John does his best Wolverine badger badger badger impersonation as he approaches the common room like a ninja who's out for blood death boobs chocolate.

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

They give him a strange look. "You want some cupcakes..?"

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Chocolate?? Yes. Chocolate always equals yes." John moves to the plates of chocolatey goodness.

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They point him to the newly frosted amazing ones, because the salty burnt ones could probably kill.

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JOhn devours a cupcake or two. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

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They laugh. "Want to take some with you?" Hikaru offers him a paper plate.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John said something with a mouth full. It may have been loosely translated to "ZOMG YES CHOCOLATE NUMNUMNUMYUMALKDJFLAJLFOOOOOOD!"