The Hearts Mirror (Twisted Wonderland One-Shots + Requests)

Sweet Trip (Cater x Reader)

Happy birthday Cater! 🥳🥳
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"Ah, look at this one! It's so tiny~!" Cater cooed as the two of you looked through the cafe menu. "And this coffee has an animal face on the cream... say, d'you think the cream they put on coffee would go well with one of these treats?"

"I mean, isn't coffee cream the same as regular cream?" You chuckled, enjoying Cater's marvelling at the menu. Plus, unlike your companion, your attitude was 'the more, the merrier!' when it came to sweets.

"Ah~ I suppose that's true. The art's just really good! I wonder if Trey can do stuff like that...? Actually, this is coffee we're talking about." Cater shook his head with a laugh of his own as he placed down the menu and looked around the shop.

It was a small place, located in the Rose Kingdom not too far from Trey's family business - that was how Cater had learnt of the place. It was quaint, with white walls splashed with random red and black paint and tiled red-and-black floors. On the wall was a giant pocket watch clock, and on each table were red and white roses in rabbit-themed vases.

Cater had been checking out the place for a while, deciding the best times to enter, when the food was at it best, the perfect time that the natural lighting came through the giant store-front window, etc. Once he'd decided, all he had to do was call you, his good old cafe tourist buddy. He may or may not have made enamel pins.

Not that you minded. Any reason to get off school campus (and away from being Crowley's sla- er, assistant) was a good one. Plus, you got a bunch of free food! What wasn't there to like?

"Did you pick on you liked?" You asked, taking the menu to look at for yourself.

Cater pursed his lips in thought and tapped his chin with his phone. Then he looked at you with his signature smile. "Hmm~ guess!"

"C'mon, again? I swear you do this every time we eat out alone." You reprimanded him good-humoured.

Scanning the list of items, you try to find what items you thought match his aesthetics the best. The cream-art coffee was a given, obviously, since it was something that Cater could actually stomach. So what would he be getting you to eat? The heart-shaped parfait? The bunny pudding? The card suit macaroons?

You settled on an item, pointing to it on the menu with your little finger. "You want the raspberry diamond tiramisu."

"Eh, they have those? I had no idea!" Cater exclaimed, taking the opportunity to look over your shoulder. He was forced back soon enough by your finger pushing him in the middle of his forehead.

"Don't lie, you've probably looked at this menu online like, ten thousand times!" You tell him with a knowing look.

He holds up his hands in defence. "Okay, okay, you win! You were right! I'm paying... again...~"

"C'mon, you didn't really make that a bet without telling me." You laughed, nudging him lightly. "You know I have no money."

"Sadly~ but when you do, I expect at least one cafe date in return, you got me?" The orange-haired third year held out his pinky, grabbing on to the one you had used to point at the menu with.

"Alright, fine. Let's just order already." You smile at his antics before flagging down a waiter.

"Ah, just before that!" Before you could protest, Cater swung an arm over your shoulder and pressed his cheek against yours, his camera pointed to both of you with a wide smile. "Say cheese~!"

"Cheese!"

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You smiled appreciatively at the staff as they greeted you goodbye, then did a short jog to catch up with Cater who'd gotten distracted by the pictures on his phone, not even commenting on the interesting noise the 'bell' made when you let go of the cafe door.

The selection was, admittedly, a lot different than usual. Usually Cater took pictures mainly of the item itself, maybe occasionally incorporated into a selfie-styled photo. Recently though, today especially, the majority of his gallery's new additions were pictures of the two of you. One picture you noticed Cater seemed to linger on was one where you were holding the plate of tiramisu in one hand and catching him off-guard as you tried to feed him a spoonful with your other hand.

"Are you going to upload that one?" You asked.

"H-Hm? Oh, no, my face in it is awful~!" Cater quickly swiped on to the next picture, not realising you'd already caught up with him. "I was thinking more of the one where you were holding the one for the camera~"

"Oh, those were some nice ones. You could see the display case in the back with the right angle." You nodded in agreement.

"My thoughts exactly~!" Cater nods in agreement before turning off his phone. "Ah~ it's such a shame we can only visit a cafe once a day! There's this one in the Land of Pyroxene that's been trending like crazy lately~!"

"Is it near your home?" You threw the idea out there as the two of you turned the corner.

"Well, it's not close, but it's not far either." Cater admitted. "Why?"

"I was just curious. I mean, you never post anything about your home." You explained with a shrug. It was genuinely out of curiosity.

Cater took it a little differently. "You... want to see my house?"

"I suppose." You agreed. "I'd get to meet your family, too. That's more what you consider 'home', right?"

A blush spread across Cater's face, one you thankfully didn't pick up on thanks to the fading light of the sunset. "Well, I guess my sisters have been pushing me to invite a friend home... sure, we can go to one in the morning and the other in the afternoon!"

You smiled sincerely, then laughed a little as an idea hit you. "Maybe the cafe in the morning, so your sisters don't get any ideas?"

"Ah, yeah..." Cater hummed in agreement, even if those ideas were what he hoped would be true. Your smiling face was enough to lift his mood though. "At least the morning lighting is usually good over in the Land of Pyroxene."

"Of course that's what you're thinking of." You say with a shake of your head, then stop walking suddenly, making Cater stop and look back at you. "Although, that reminds me..."

You pull your own phone out of your pocket and motion for Cater to come back to where you were standing.

Once he does, you try putting your arm around his shoulder like he did to you earlier and hold your camera up to capture both of you in frame.

"You have so many pictures of us, while I barely have any." You explain to clear up his confusion. "So, now's the time to get some of my own!"

Cater blushes once again as you turn your face back to your camera, only remembering to do the same when you nudge him, giving a wide smile when he does do so.

"3, 2, 1... say cheese!"

"Cheese~!"