Fourth Floor Common Room | Tuesday Evening | January 5

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Hayley Fitzpatrick was baking again. This time, she was making a cake. A cake that apparently caused a minor flour explosion and more than a few broken eggs on the ground when she'd attempted to juggle them.

Hayley was not a trained juggler, no. But she found that she was able to catch onto the basic idea pretty fast.

But now, she was shoving her chocolate concoction into the oven, and staring at the mess about her.

"...I wonder if I can get away with not cleanin' this," she said, wiping her hands on her jeans. She... looked quite the mess, with chocolate, flour and the like spattered on her white t-shirt, jeans, and exposed skin.

So instead of cleaning up, she went to go sit down and watch some TV. She found an episode of Bitter Woman on and decided to watch.

[ooc: Open!]

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Liir came in, Makejoy in tow, and was planning to use the kitchen--

"Nameless Name..."

Though, unlike most, Liir didn't really start looking for the culprit or complaining. He just grunted something that would have made a sailor start blushing and began to clean up. After a moment, he sent Makejoy to lay down on the carpet while he did it.

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Hayley looked back when she heard the words. And when Liir started cleaning, she just sort of blinked.

"...Gosh, will you marry me?" she joked, not getting up from the couch.

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It took him a minute to register that someone had spoken. He tended to sort of direct inward while he did chores. Eventually, though, he poked his head up past the counter.

"Hmm?"

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Hayley just giggled. "Just don't put away the stuff to make the icing, okay?" she said.

It would be pretty obvious who was responsible for the mess.

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He looked up at the counter and considered what she'd put there.

"I have some vanilla beans. They're better than what you have there for flavor."

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"Are they magic beans?" Hayley asked, a little hopeful.

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He scratched at one ear.

"They're from Oz. I don't know if that makes them magical."

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Hayley decided that was good enough. "Great!" she said, getting up and walking over.

"Ya didn't have to clean up, though. But I appreciate it."

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"I don't like a messy kitchen," he said with a shrug.

"And I use it often enough. It's no trouble."

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"Well, I was gonna clean it up, once I was done," Hayley lied. "But now you definitely got yourself a big slice with your name on it."

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"What is 'it', incidentally?" he asked curiously.

"A cake?"

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"Doesn't it smell like one?" Hayley said, alittle worried. "I mixed it all myself."

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He blinked and took a distinctive sniff.

"Well, yes. But all cakes smell different."

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"Ohhh, right," Hayley said. "Well, it's a special chocolate cake."

Special because she'd added extra chocolate, in the form of big chocolate chips. Nothing bad.

"I think I actually did it right, too. My home ec classes paid off."