The one where you and Conrad bake a cake together.
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It was Susannah's birthday and you told Conrad that he needed to do something special for her. His idea: bake a cake for her. Conrad has never baked a cake before and so he enlisted you to help him. You know it's going to be mostly you making it with Conrad watching, but still you said yes.
Susannah was one of the strongest women you knew, and she had welcomed you with open arms when she found out that you did not have a good relationship with your mom. She had stepped in and been absolutely incredible, and so making a cake for her was the least you could do.
You asked Conrad to pick up the supplies for the cake. You made a list of absolutely everything so Conrad couldn't mess it up. After dinner, Jer took Susannah out of the house to that you could have time to bake the cake. You decided on red velvet with cream cheese icing.
"Okay, I'm ready" Conrad comes into the kitchen smirking wearing shorts and an apron that was far too small for him.
You laugh "what are you wearing? Where did you get that?"
"It's mine from when I was a kid. I guess I grew out of it a little" Conrad does a little spin in it.
"Just a little. And why are you not wearing a shirt?" You ask questioning his bare chest under the apron.
"Meh, I felt like this was right. And plus I look sexy" he made weird eyes at you.
"Okay enough of you" you laugh and put your hand out to stop whatever he was doing and start opening some ingredients.
You get all of the ingredients set up on the kitchen counter while Conrad watches. He knew better than to interrupt you, or even worse, try to help.
"Okay hand me a big mixing bowl" you ask to Conrad as you measure out some flour.
"Uh, I don't know where that is" Conrad says scratching his head. You look over at him with a confused look planted on your face.
"You live here. How don't you know where bowls are?"
"Well I don't cook while I'm here. Leave me alone" he says as he searches for a bowl. After a couple of failed attempts in cupboards, he finally pulls out a big metal bowl from a cupboard "ah ha, found one" he says happily. He puts on the counter as you pour in some ingredients.
"Okay you crack the eggs" you tell Conrad as he paces back and forth in the kitchen, not knowing what to do with himself. "Got it" he says as he grabs an egg and aggressively cracks it on the side of the bowl, his force almost made the whole bowl tip over.
"Okay woah there, you're cracking it not scrambling it" you say smiling as you see Conrad's panicked look on his face. He cracks the next one gentler and smiles, pleased with himself. After he cracks the third egg into the bowl he tosses the shells into the garbage and wipes his hands on his apron. Good thing he put it on.
You grab the whisk and begin mixing all the ingredients together. As you continue to mix you start to feel tired by it.
"Need a break?" Conrad asks as he sees you struggling.
"Actually yeah, this batter is a lot thicker than it looks" you hand him the whisk as he steps into where you were standing.
"Stand back, I've got a lot of power coming through" just as you take a step back Conrad begins whisking the batter at full speed, making splats of batter go flying around the kitchen.
"Conrad!" You shout as a chunk lands right on your bare chest, barely missing your shirt. Conrad looks over at you and around the kitchen as he sees spots of red batter on cupboards and countertops.
