The Gourmet's Lil'snack

Tired and pineapple

And things went quiet again. A little bit later. Alex wakes up, a little groggy. With a pain in his neck.

"That will teach you to not fall asleep anywhere but your bed," Kaël said, arms crossed.

"Geez~ give him a break! He just wakes up dude!" Zalifer complains.

Thorne had left a gift of some candy she'd borrowed once on his desk while he was asleep. She remembered it as a kind he seemed to like and left a note that she hoped he had fun with his friends and that he sleeps well.

He grumbles at the agitation from when he just woke up though he didn't get up yet.

"Come on! Thorne has dropped some candy for you!" Zalifer pokes him, trying to motivate him.

Meanwhile, Thorne was still in her room and looking for things to do. It had been a while since she'd had so much free time and with her new life she didn't need to do a lot of the other chores she used to. Normally she might have taken the time to look around for things she could borrow or gather supplies and food but....now she didn't have to. Snacks were still good to have around if she needed them, but she didn't go out to search for food or borrow items in secret to survive. If she needed something she usually just asked Humbert if it was okay or something. "Huh...." She never realized how different things really were in her life until now. This was the first time she had....nothing to do?

Meanwhile, Humbert was looking at the watch. They have been out for quite a while... But Kian looks like she is having way too much fun for him to evoke them going home. He scratches his head, recalcitrant to follow her while he knows that he has been leaving his daughter longer than usual...

Alex finally walks to the kitchen, candy in his mouth. He checks his phone when he gets a new message, expecting to be one of his friends but it was from Kian.

"Huh...look like they will be only Thorne, Raymond and you to eat tonight..." Kaël took note.

"Look like this... I should warn Thorne that her dad will come home later then." Alex nods as he knocks at the wall, hoping that she will hear him.

Just as she was considering just taking a nap, she perked up at the knock. Who could that be? She headed to the nearest tunnel entrance and peeked. Alex was awake.

Thorne looked around carefully before cautiously coming out. "What's up? A-also how did you sleep?"

"Hello! Yeah, I kinda did? Anyways, I just wanted to warn you that Humbert will come home later. I don't know exactly when but we will be only us tonight..." he informs her as he puts on the apron and looks into the filled fridge.

"O-oh, okay." She nodded, then watched him put on the apron. She moved to the kitchen tunnel, coming out on the counter. "W-whatcha making? Can I help?"

He hummed thinking as he checked the freezer too. Something simple maybe? Maybe some pizza! Sounds good to him!

"Pizzas I guess?" he said as he took the pre-ready frozen pizzas out. Mozzarella, some spices, some corn too and...pineapple.

Thorne tilted her head when she saw the frozen pizzas. Would they be making them or hearing them up? She looked at the pineapple, blinking. "What's the pineapple for?"

"Well, you see, with those pizzas you can make any topping you want. I like them with lardon and corn grain with a lot of cheese...Raymond likes it with curry sauce and pineapple and some chicken too...

Well, I know that the pineapple on the pizzas is a...hot topic about the pizza... Some people think it an insult to the pizza and while others, like Raymond, simply like them on it..." he explains somewhat.

"Lardon...?" She tilted her head. She didn't know what that was, but everything else sounded fine. "I don't think they really had pizza much at the restaurant I lived in, but I've heard there's all different kinds." Thorne wasn't one to judge people on favorites for food. Putting fruit on a pizza sounded odd, but it didn't sound too bad either. "What can I do? I wanna help." She smiled up at him, tail wagging slightly.

"Sure! Can you put the pardon and the half of the pizza, please? Is that a small bacon cube." he instructed as he put some curry sauce on another pizza and opened the canned pineapple.

Ah, so that's what lardon was. "Sure!" She went over to the bacon cubes and spread them on one half of the pizza as instructed. There was a little trouble getting them towards the center, but she managed to toss them a little and get them in the right spot with only a few misses. "Do I put all of them on or only some of them?" She looked at the lardon still left then the pizza.

"Oh, you can put them all," he answers as he cuts some breast chicken. He washes his hands and opens the corn grains and puts the bacon in.