4th Floor Common Room, Saturday afternoon

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Saturday was a good kind of day to bake cookies! Especially when it was chilly outside. Because that only made the cookies extra-delicious!

That, at least, was Rapunzel's firm opinion.

And the kitchen in the common room made it super-easy to bake! There were so many supplies! Sometimes, actually, there were too many. After all, Rapunzel knew better than to take all of the delicious ingredients and try to make one crazy batch of Franken-cookies. But that didn't mean that there weren't way too many delicious-looking ingredients.

So Rapunzel had settled for the only reasonable solution: bake different kinds of cookies. So while the chocolate chip were on the wire cooling rack (and weren't those a neat invention?), Rapunzel slid a tray of oatmeal raisin out of the oven and replaced it with a tray of peanut-butter cookies. She glanced at the sugar cookies and estimated they needed another five minutes...

There were far too many for Rapunzel to actually eat by herself, but Fandom had a tendency of helping her out with that sort of thing.

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"But I'm almost ten! That's two numbers! One, zero. It'll only be three years and I'll be a teenager!" Kenzi sighed hugely, and went looking for measuring spoons. "When you're big, people can't boss you around." Big in size, or age, it was the same thing. "Not that you are," Kenzi added. "Just... other people."

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"Well, I'm not that big myself," Rapunzel pointed out.

And the only one who bossed her around was mother.

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"You're almost a grown-up. When you're eighteen you can do anything." Kenzi's view on adulthood was slightly skewed by her cousins dropping out of school, a couple getting married young, another going to jail; but eighteen was still the goal. "I'm gonna go to New York City. And Vancouver. And have my own house."

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"Your own house, huh?" Rapunzel smiled. "That sounds nice."

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"It will be," Kenzi said, determined. "With my own stuff and no closets and a really big bathtub." Yeah!

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"No closets? Where will you keep your clothes?" Or random thieves who happen to break in and get knocked out by frying pans.

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"In great big drawers or maybe a rack out in the room so I can see everything I have," Kenzi decided. The thief would be the one sleeping in the big bed! "I don't like closets." She wasn't scared of them. She just didn't like them. "And and and a shoe tree. I saw one in a department store. You can hang up all your shoes!"

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"That sounds pretty neat," Rapunzel decided. "And I suppose you'd have looooots of shoes?" Rapunzel only had a couple of pairs herself. So a full tree seemed like overkill.

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"I find them sometimes." Walked off with them, sometimes. "Or I borrow my mom's." Same deal. "I will have a hundred shoes."

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"Your mom's shoes fit you?" Rapunzel asked with a teasing sort of grin.

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Kenzi snickered back. "When I put lots of extra socks in the toes they do!" She grinned, measuring out cinnamon and sugar. "Baking powder! Everything needs that, right?"

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"It helps," Rapunzel agreed with a laugh. "But I've already got some of that out."