First Term Love Story

Chapter 39: Keeper

He takes the clothes from me and I follow behind him as we enter the laundry room and Eugene dumps my clothes in it for a wash.

He leads me into the kitchen and looks through the overhead cupboards, "Is microwaved mac and cheese okay for lunch?" he asks.

"Sounds good," I reply and he pulls out two packets of it and prepares them before putting them in the microwave.

I take a seat on one of the bar stools at the island and look around the kitchen. Most of the ingredients were already laid out on the counter and so were the equipment. Eugene places the mac and cheese into bowls and places one of them in front of me.

We tuck in quietly as we eat up the delicious mac and cheese.

"Have you baked before?" I ask, breaking the silence.

"No... But I can cook so I think I can help out with some of the stuff,"

"Like smashing bananas?"

"Yes, I can do that and you can teach me how to do some of the other stuff too."

"Okay, but if you mess up, keep in mind I'm not the one who's going to eat the cookies."

"Yes Camilla, the baking specialist," causing a choke of laughter to escape my mouth.

"Does your father know what we're doing?"

"He shouldn't know and it's kind of a surprise thing,"

"Cool,"

We finish the food and clean up together before we start on the baking.

"Could you pass me your phone so we could load up the recipe?"

"I brought yours," he says and passes it to me.

"Good, then I'll just need to go to my notes," I say and open the app and the recipe.

I put it on the counter so that both of us to see and ask him to take out the eggs and butter from the fridge while I start measuring ingredients. I quickly get all the ingredients measured and I give Eugene the task of mixing the wet ingredients while I did the dry ones and once we were done, I combined the two together while Eugene got the parchment paper and places it on the baking tray.

"Do you have a piping bag?"

"Umm... No why do we need one? We're decorating them?"

"No, we need it to put these on the baking tray."

"Oh, my bad." Eugene says as he looks at the recipe again.

"It's okay... You have zip lock bags?"

"Yah," he says and looks through the cupboards, pulling out two of the bags.

I instruct him to fill up his bag and I do the same with mine. I push the paste to one corner, snipping off a bit of the corner so that there's a hole for paste to flow through.

"Okay, this will do, now we'll just pipe circle shapes onto the sheet," I say, demonstrating to him how it should be done.

He nods and tries it out, squeezing too much at first, forming a big cookie at the corner but he carries on fine once he got the hang of it. We filled up the baking sheets with circles of paste, putting them into the oven that had been preheated.

We quickly start on our second batch, the chocolate banana cookies. I let Eugene start by smashing the bananas as I get the rest of the ingredients measured. We mixed the ingredients together, similar to the previous batch, and once everything was mixed, we put them aside as we waited for the butter cookies to be done.