A Dozen Cookies is the way to the Heart !!

It's a date!

Pepper was annoyed. This was Salt's problem, and yet, she was still being asked to do all the harder things. She was the one with a job, and rent, and responsibilities, and yet she was still going into that stupid bakery to snoop today.

Salt's excuse was that she would be noticed. She was 'familiar' to the baker, which was so... So annoying. But whatever. Whatever. She hadn't reached her limit just yet. She was still doing most of the other work, so this was fine. Just this once, and she'd be out of there.

She was lucky the guy was working today, honestly. She had tried this the other day too-- probably making herself look weird for coming here so often-- but he hadn't been working.

He was there today though, so she ordered a drink, and something small, just sitting herself down at one of the tables, and bringing out a laptop to look like she was doing anything important other than just loitering.

Which wasn't exactly a facade. She had stuff to do for work anyways, and it was at least much nicer doing it here in a mostly quiet environment. Quiet enough to both focus on her work, and also be able to listen in on whatever conversations everyone else was having. A win-win, really, especially without Salt whining to her about OJ.

She figured she would talk to Salt about looking into a job after this all wrapped up, but she might need to do that sooner than later, if her bestie was really trying to make this play out for a while. She had forgotten how dedicated she was to ruining lives, seeing as they hadn't done that since they were in college. But whatever. After this, Pepper was probably done helping out for the most part. Surely Salt would whine about this, but she had her own life to worry about. She didn't have time to be petty when she had bills to pay. She loved the girl, but not enough to throw away everything else for her.

But she was getting distracted, tuning back into the ambience of the bakery, her attention caught as the door dinged open.

"Hello!" A greeting more enthusiastic than the others. Pepper glanced up from her laptop to see the baker guy smiling at some... Frankly absolutely built blonde guy that just walked in. She wasn't attracted to men that much, but wow. He looked like someone you'd see in a magazine or something.

"Hey," He greeted back, just pointing at one of the many muffins behind the display. They made what had to be entirely casual small talk, giving away the idea that they were closer than just an employee and some random customer. Honestly, the vibes she was getting from this-- as intrusive as it was, was something closer than friends, but not quite anything else yet.

Which... Was odd. Very odd if this was the guy seeing OJ currently. And then a stray thought caught Pepper very off guard, wondering if this guy was getting around or something... But even just the vibes she was picking up today from just being here, he didn't seem like the type of guy.

And not to brag, but she was really good at reading other people. Like, really good. But the undertones were far too strong to just ignore. If he wasn't 'getting around', he was at the very least seeing OJ, and was clearly interested in this guy, too.

"Hey, do you want to come over tonight?" A clearly impulsive ask from the baker as he handed over the bag of baked goods that had been picked out.

"... Yeah, sure. I don't have anything going on," The guy accepted the offer almost immediately.

That confirmed her suspicions. There was definitely something going on here. She just needed this guys name--

"See you later then, Trophy,"

"Yeah, see you tonight," The guy just gave a small wave, before turning to leave. Pepper quickly looked back down at her laptop to make it seem like she wasn't just snooping.