Backyard Girl ∙ T. Kageyama ✓

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there's a sentence of vegan slander. sorry lol <3

Being the gentleman that Kageyma was, he had decided to make his neighbour a thank you gift.

Now - Kageyama Tobio was good at lots of things.

Baking was not one of them. But, that was something he was yet to realise; and so, he had decided to make a chocolate cake.

After watching a short video, Kageyama was convinced that he was already a baking pro. Pulling out the ingredients that 'BakingKitty300' had listed, he got everything ready to make a super easy, only 3 ingredients cake as the video had instructed.

He replayed the video titled, "Super easy chocolate cake: only 3 ingredients! not clickbait!"

Halfway through making the dough, he had managed to make it way too hard and gotten the spoon stuck. It took a lot of effort to take it out again, but he realised that it was definitely a lost cause.

He moved on to written recipes.

As he scrolled through this slightly more complex article, he decided that this seemed trustworthy (and actually not clickbait).

"Sift the dry ingredients together," Kageyama muttered, holding up a sieve. He picked up his measured flour, dumping it onto the sieve; which caused the flour to spill everywhere.

Frowning at the mess, Kageyama sweeped the flour off the platform, getting flour all over his clothes.

He got rid of the flour still in the sieve and put the sugar into the sieve instead. The sugar crystals, being too large to fit through the sieve, stayed inside.

Kageyama groaned, deciding to just put all the dry ingredients in at once.

"Stir in the liquid ingredients and mix well," He looked at his egg, oil (it said vegetable oil and he wasn't sure if his oil was okay) and vanilla, adding them to the bowl one by one and mixing it all together.

He remembered how it was important to stir in one direction only, so he decided on one.

Before he got a call and forgot what direction it was supposed to be in, and messed it up.

After greasing the pan (the first thing he did right), he put the batter into the oven.

It said 177 degrees for 30 minutes, but since his oven didn't have a temperature feature, he decided to just keep checking on it to make sure it's ready, which was not a good decision.

He had checked on it about 7 times in 20 minutes, and while the oven had become considerably hot, the cake looked nearly the same as when he put it in.

After the 12th check, it started smoking, but the cake had just started forming crusts on the side.

And as Kageyama coughed, opening windows to let the smoke out, his doorbell rang.

"I swear to god-" He muttered, rushing to open the door, and obviously, it had to be his neighbour.

"Oh," Kageyama said, his tone slightly surprised. "Backyard girl."

The girl stared at Kageyama in confusion for a split second before bursting into laughter. "What did you call me?"

Kageyama's ears felt hot as he realised what he said.

"I just called you backyard girl since I didn't know your name," He fiddled with his fingers, suddenly conscious of how much of a mess he was right now. Why was he so worried about it though?

He decided to take the conversation to his advantage.

"What's your name?" He demanded, gathering all the dignity he could while being littered with flour, egg shells and lumpy batter.