Second Floor Common Room- Wednesday Afternoon

[furrybluefreak]

Kurt was a bundle of nervous and excited energy that afternoon. This was the day he and Libby were going to work on decorating cookies together. Not only that, they were going to have a very special instructor teach them! So, it was no wonder Kurt was looking forward to the afternoon date as he shifted around the common room kitchen.

With the focus being on decorating rather than the actual baking for this date, Kurt had spent all morning baking up several batches of sugar cookies. That was why dozens of (very moddable) cookies were on the counter, many in basic shapes and designs for maximum creativity. The kitchen was already cleaned up from the early morning baking effort and Kurt was busy setting out everything else they would need, which thankfully wasn’t a lot.

“Ok…. That’s all set and ready… cookies are cooled and ready… I think that’s everything…” Kurt muttered nervously as he went over everything.

“Kurt, stop fretting. And hold still! You’re going to wear a hole in the floor if you keep that up!”

Kurt stopped his pacing and looked over at the computer sitting on the corner of the counter, FaceTime already up and running, a smile unconsciously tugging at the corners of his mouth.

“Sorry, Mutti…” he said somewhat sheepishly as he stopped in front of the screen. “I can’t help it. I want this to be perfect for Libby.”

“And it will be. Now stop fretting and text the girl already.”

“Just… promise you won’t embarrass me,” Kurt said with a somewhat pleading smile as he pulled out his phone and started sending out a text to Libby.

“Hey Libby! We still on for cookie decorating today, right?” Oh please let that still be happening… “Got everything ready if you still want to!”

And with that done and sent, all there was left to do was wait for Libby to show up...



(Kurt is of course expecting someone, but the common room is definitely open and anyone is free to ping in for a chat or to use the area before Libby arrives in the oh so handwavey timeline XD )

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[outofthequiver]

"Oh, we have cornflowers in Tennessee, too!" Libby said, brightening especially after leaning in to have a look at the picture to confirm it. "They really are beautiful, aren't they? Obviously, we'll need to make some of them cornflowers, too, then."

And she felt a little bit of a blush creeping onto the cheeks at that, because, well, wouldn't you know it. Looks like she was getting her blue icing after all.

[furrybluefreak]

"Two shades for the sunflowers and two for the cornflower?" Kurt offered as he started setting out the other colors. "We could trade off working on them... team effort all around," he said with a somewhat shy grin. "I made mostly circles because I figured they would work for a lot of different designs... so we could make a whole cookie field of sunflowers and cornflowers! To celebrate home. Both of them," Kurt added with a smile and nod towards Libby then one to his mum on the computer stream.

[outofthequiver]

"Well, if we were celebrating all our homes," Libby noted, as she, too, got to work on mixing up some yellow for her icing bag, "we should do a few of them with irises on them, too. That's the Tennessee state flower, you know."

She sounded far too proud to have that knowledge to share.

[furrybluefreak]

"Oh, I've heard of iris. I'm pretty sure we had wild types that used to grow along the riverbank on the farm," Kurt said fondly. "What do the irises in Tennessee look like?"

[outofthequiver]

And that would mean it was Libby's turn set down her icing and pull out her own phone, which she was proud to say she was getting much better at using, though she frowned a little when she saw that she'd accidentally swiped frosting on it when she went to open it, quickly rubbing it off with the heel of her hand, although now she had frosting there, but she'd worry about it in a second.

"Like these," she said, turning her phone toward Kurt when she felt she'd found the best picture. "They're usually purple, so we can do that color, too."

[furrybluefreak]

"Oh, those are beautiful! Much fancier than the ones I remember," Kurt said after studying the picture for a moment. "They will make beautiful cookies I am sure!"

[outofthequiver]

"They certainly are a bit more unique than other flowers," Libby agreed, tucking her phone away again, trying to be careful with the icing still on her wrist, but failing to avoid getting some on herself anyway, and she shook her head. "At this rate," she laughed a little sheepishly, "I'm going to have more frosting on myself than on the cookies."

[furrybluefreak]

"Can't say it's been a productive time in the kitchen if you aren't wearing at least a little of what you were making by the end of it all" Kurt's mum said with a laugh.

"Aye, I usually end up with flour all over my fur and something splashed on my clothes" Kurt admitted with a small grin as he handed over a dish rag for Libby, pointing to his own face to indicate a little had even gotten there.