I Will Love You Endlessly (Sequel to i dare you to love me)

Part 13

"Tell me you love me," Louise says one day when she walks into the shop.

"I would if you weren't late," Dan replies teasingly, throwing her smock at her and stepping out from behind the register.

"Pretend I wasn't late and tell me you love me," Louise tries again.

"Okay fine, I love you," Dan says, and just for good measure, he gives her a little peck to the cheek before grabbing a bag of fertilizer from the supply closet and going to sprinkle it in the plant pots. "Now tell me why I love you."

"Because," Louse grins cheekily. "I just booked an appointment for you and Phil go to sample some wedding cakes."

Dan nearly drops the fertilizer. "You didn't," he say, trying to contain his excitement. He had been looking at cake ideas online for ages now but hadn't had the time to move past that stage. "Lou, you're a lifesaver!"

"I am, aren't I?" she can't help but agree with him, and Dan lets her have her little moment in the spotlight, because she really did save his arse.

She gives him the details of his appointment - telling him that it had to be today, apologizing for how last minute it is, and then telling him where it is - and on his lunch break he rings Phil and relays the information to him

Apparently, Louise had done much more than just arrange a meeting for the two of them. When they meet the baker, he's already got a cake sketch designed for them and it's absolutely breathtaking. It's four layers of cake with white vanilla icing covering it and diamond designs etched into the cake itself and butterscotch cream dots in each crease. The best part of the cake has to be the calla lilies winding down the cake, starting at the top and twisting all the way down the side to the bottom layer.

"It's perfect," Phil says, because Dan's been rendered speechless.

They discuss prices and transportation for the cake, and Dan and Phil taste a few samples to decide on flavours.

"Not that your design wasn't gorgeous," Dan says to the baker, his voice muffled by the slice of cake in his mouth, "but this has to be my favourite part of the process."

When they leave the shop, they find themselves debating on if they're counting down the days until their wedding purely because of their perfect cake.