cake oneshots || book one

I Thought He Had A Boyfriend

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HIIIIII! How is everyone? Good? Good.

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Calum always loved baking. The way it takes his mind off things, how a simple chocolate chip cookie can make someone's day a little bit better, the praise he gets when he finally perfects a recipe. He bought his bakery the day he turned 18, had been saving his money ever since he made his first batch of chocolate brownies. His mom had to help obviously, so they used the money his parents had been saving for Uni because really, Calum never, ever wants to sit in a boring classroom again.

The bakery is adorable. His sister helps him design it and the walls end up a purplish maroon color with vintage tables and chairs and tiny flower pots on top.

Business is slow at first. It worries Calum. 'What if I go broke and end up living on my parents couch?'

It doesn't happen though. Uni starts up in September and hungry students come in herds late at night just before Calum closes to get some of the Reese's pieces cookies. Luke however, comes in almost every morning. He gets a vanilla latte, a red velvet brownie (one of Calums favorites) and moves to a booth in the corner where he types away at his computer for a couple hours, gets more coffee and waves goodbye to Calum before he goes to class.

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The first time Luke came in, Calum was busy decorating the fresh cherry cola cupcakes when the bell above the door rang. Turning around, he saw a boy with blond hair and annoyingly pretty blue eyes who was currently tripping over his stupidly long legs. Calums mouth went dry as the boy with the blue eyes made his way to the counter.
"Hi" and now Calum can't even breathe, he can't fücking breathe because wow, his voice is so fücking beautiful Calum would be perfectly okay with only hearing the blue eyed boy talk for the rest of his life.
The boy shuffles his feet and Calum realizes he hasn't said anything yet, he's supposed to say something.
"H-hi. What can I get for you?" And really Calum? You can't think of anything more creative than that?
"I'll have a vanilla latte and a chocolate chip cookie please" he said with a small smile and that's when Calum notices it. The blue eyed boy has a lip piercing.

Well, Fück.

Cute boys should not be allowed to have those, they aren't allowed to have those. Behind him, Calum hears his best friend and employee, Michael, trying but failing to hide his laughter at his current state and Calum should have known better than to hire him.
Calum hands him the bag and the boy turns and walks out, throwing Calum a smile over his shoulder. When the door closes Michael forgets all attempts at hiding his laughter and Calum walks into the back room with his cheeks an angry shade of red.

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Calum learns his name is Luke a few weeks later after lots of pep talks from Michael. Luke starts to come in almost every day (except Sundays because on Sundays Luke goes to breakfast with his best friend Ashton) Calum learns that Luke is a creative writing major and that if he goes home, all he does is play video games or sleeps and never gets any work done. So, Luke comes here to write.

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"Hey Luke" Calum says as a smile makes its way onto his face. Luke always does that to him. Makes him all smiley and giggly.

"Hey Cal" and Calum wants to curl up into ball because Luke has a nickname for him now. "I'll have my regular." Calum starts brewing the vanilla latte as Luke walks near the counter and he picks up the biggest red velvet brownie  with the most red sprinkles on top because he knows how much Luke loves them. (Calum does not put extra on one brownie just for Luke. Absolutely not. Okay, maybe he does)
Luke's cheeks are pink from the cold February air and he has a beanie on today with his newest favorite rolling stones t-shirt. Calum noticed that Luke does this thing where he gets a shirt, wears it pretty much every day for a month, and then gets a new shirt.