When the Lion Roars [House of Anubis]

eleven. Cake & Comfort

Jerome trudged grouchily back into his room, where Alfie had been sitting patiently on his own bed waiting to console him. Like almost everyone else in the house, he had heard most of what went on in the living room.

"You ok?" He asked.

"Never been better," he replied with a sarcastic smile on his face as he sat down on his own bed.

"It'll..." Alfie hesitated, not really knowing what to say to Jerome in this situation, "be okay?"

"That helps," he still spoke sarcastically, however the smile on his face had disappeared.

"Sorry," Alfie looked down before perking right up again, "Do you wanna help me bake my extreme triple chocolate fudge cake?" He showed Jerome his laptop screen with a recipe on it.

"No, Alfie, I-"

"I really need someone to help me"

"Alfie, I don't want t-"

"With Trudy gone there's no one else I want to help me and you know I will set the kitchen on fire if I do it by myself"

Jerome chuckled at his friend's attempts to cheer him up, and decided to go along with it, "Fine, I'll help you"

"Yay!"

*~*~*~*

Willow was sat on her bed when Joy barged through the door.

"How did it go?" She asked expectantly.

Joy just responded by stopping walking and looking at Willow. It was at this point that she broke down into tears.

Willow immediately stood up from her position to walk over to Joy.

"Oh Joy" She wrapped her in a warm hug, "What happened?"

Joy pulled away slightly, "I think he broke up with me"

"Really?"

"No, Willow, we're fine. I'm doing this just to trick you," she lied sarcastically.

Willow took a step back when she believed her. "Well that's wonderful!"

"No, Willow," she groaned, "He did. He did break up with me"

"Oh," she said looking down, confused, "Well, in that case, I think you need some hot chocolate" Joy nodded. "Sit down. Wait here. I will be back in a minute"

And with that, Willow left Joy alone in the room to wallow in her own self pity.

*~*~*~*

Jerome and Alfie had made their way to the kitchen with the cake recipe on Alfie's laptop and were laying all of the equipment and ingredients they would need out on the table. That was until Willow skipped in through the kitchen door.

"Willow!" Alfie slammed his laptop, which was open on the island, shut, "Hi!"

Willow stopped skipping when she saw Jerome, and stood directly in front of him with her arms folded. "I am very cross with you"