| Happy Lowman x OC - COMPLETED |
Sunshine. That's how they, her family and friends, called Cassie Connor most of the time. With her brunette hair, the ocean blue eyes and a smile that was wide but never reached her eyes she was one of the pretties...
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The smell of freshly baked cakes, one chocolate and one lemon, filled the house with an irresistible smell early in the morning already. Since Lily fell asleep right after dinner last night the three year old woke up early, cuddled up between Happy and Cassie with Opie laying by her feet.
She watched them sleep, finding it funny to tap their noses with the tip of her finger to see who's going to wake up first. In the end, it wasn't tapping her nose, but Lily's infectious giggle that finally woke Cassie up and the brunette had to admit that there were worse ways to be woken up. A smile crossed her face as she imagined it could be like this more often if she would keep the baby. But the sight of Happy's arm still wrapped protectively around Lily even though he was sound asleep made her realize how lucky the baby would be with a father like Happy.
To distract herself from the thoughts that were coming up again, and of course also to keep Lily busy, she climbed out of the bed, carefully took Happy's arm off Lily so as not to wake him up and lifted the toddler into her arms. Opie stirred briefly, but continued to sleep just as peacefully as Happy.
And two hours later there now stood two freshly baked cakes in the kitchen, which Cassie put on the table for Lily to decorate. With a gleam in her eyes, the toddler watched her aunt as she placed icing, colored sprinkles, and chocolate sprinkles on the table.
“Can I use all of this?”, she asked as she happily wobbled in the chair and tasted the colorful sprinkles, a soft giggle slipping from her lips.
Cassie nodded slightly as she laughed softly at the little girl. “Yes, you can. You can decorate as you like and then you can take half of each cake home with you. I'm sure your daddy and Benny can't wait to get a bite of it.”
“Can we make the icing pink just like my new shoes?” The girl batted her eyelashes at her aunt, already knowing how to wrap adults around her finger. That one would be trouble once she would hit her teenage years.
“Mhm.. whatever the princess wants”, Cassie winked before she turned around and opened the cupboard behind her to look for the food coloring. Since she often baked with Lily and also liked to bake for the club or at home just for Happy and her, she always had those ingredients in the house. Finally finding the pink food coloring, she went back to the table and colored the icing and handed Lily a spoon to make it easier for her to spread it onto the cakes.
After ten minutes, the three year old finished decorating the two cakes and looked at the results. “These are pretty cakes”, she exclaimed, proudly clapping her little hands together.
“Good job, sweetie! They're really pretty”, Cassie agreed with an eager nod as she kissed the top of Lily's head, meaning her words. For a three year old, Lily had done really well.
That being said, Cassie would probably find everything her niece did beautiful anyway. In general, she liked things that children made themselves. Whether it was something crafted, baked or painted. In her eyes, people should always praise children when they have done something great on their own, it simply strengthened their self confidence. She liked to think back to how happy her father was when he got a painted picture of her or Benny. Each time genuine joy was reflected in his eyes before he put them up on the fridge.
