Our 3rd World

Chapter 33: Cookie Challenge

Chapter 33: (Cassie's POV)

*Back at home*

Sadie and I drag Dan, PJ, and Phil upstairs into my flat, while the others go out for ice cream. The two of us are eager to make cookies. "C'mon! I want cookies!!! Sadie yells. With struggle we finally make it upstairs. As I go to unlock the door, it opens. "PRESTON!!!" I scream, jumping on him. He wraps me in a hug and tells me he wasn't gone for that long. He invites us in and instantly we head for the kitchen. "WHAT TIME IS IT!!!" PJ screams. "COOKIE TIME!!" I yell back. I bet the people below us hate us. Hahaha whoops.... Oh well! With that the five of us begin to search for the ingredients. We are using one of my mum's special recipes, that only I know about! "Dan. Stop. That's not what your supposed to be doing." I tell him blatantly. He shrugs his shoulder and stops. Then, Sadie decides to make this a competition. "One last friendly challenge wouldn't hurt..." She mumbles, smiling. We all agree and pull out our own pans. Who ever makes the best cookies wins points for their House!

With the little room we have, we all keep bumping into each other. By now I've stepped on Dan's foot 5 times, bumped heads with PJ twice, bumped elbows with Phil 11 times, and have tripped over Sadie once. I'm extremely clumsy if you couldn't tell... But after a few minutes, the cookies are all in the ovens (We have double ovens). I push myself up onto the island and end up sitting in some flour that Phil left on the counter. I let out a grunt and clean up his mess. Like learn to clean up please. "What type of cookies did you make?" PJ asks Sadie. She giggles crazily as usual and says, "I made triple chocolate cookies!"(Cause she definitely needs more sugar....) I laugh at her enthusiasm and she giddily smiles. Not thinking that I'm watching, she steals a glance at Dan and her face becomes red. Ahh... Young Love... While I'm distracted by thinking about how much I ship Dan and Sadie, Phil taps my shoulder. "Umm... Sorry about yesterday.." He apologizes sadly. The sweetest sadness lingered in his eyes and I just wanted to hug him. "It wasn't me, Liz just grabbed my face and made it look like I was the one who kissed her.." He adds.

I put my hand over his and smile. "It's okay." I had completely forgot about the plan for revenge and sat there staring at his awkward gorgeousness. His eyes light up and he lifts me up off the counter and spins me around. I laugh joyfully and gain an approving look from Sadie. Phil puts me down just as the timer begins to beep annoyingly. "I'LL GET IT!!!!" I scream. I slide over to the ovens and open the up. A blast of heat hits my face, as I pull out the scalding pans. Everyone's cookies look great... That's probably the biggest lie I've ever told. Dan's were burnt, PJ's were tiny and thin, and Phil's were not fully baked, well they didn't seem like that anyway. Sadie and I excelled of course. But the lesson here is to always use instructions. Men and their whole, "I can do it with out the instructions". Pssssh. Yea right.

We all decide to decorate our cookies as well. Sadie pulls out the sprinkles and throws then around like confetti. She of course got a scolding from Preston, but that went ignored. No surprise there. PJ decorated his peanut butter cookies to look like monsters. Phil pretty much just pilled more sugar onto his sugar cookies. Dan threw sprinkles on his and drew random things on them with the icing. His drawings are... well... They're something.. But then there is Sadie. She draws elegant designs on her cookies, while I make decorate my cookies with an Adventure Time theme. Finally, the time to test the cookies was here! We decided to use Preston as out judge and not tell who made what. We placed numbers in front of the cookies, so he could tell us which number was the best. "OI!! PRESTON!!! COME HERE PLEASE!!!" I scream. Like I said, the neighbors probably hate us.

With that said, Preston walks in the kitchen and tells me to be quieter. Nice try bother dear, but quiet is not in my vocabulary. He looks around the mess and havoc we've cause in the kitchen an let's out a suppressed sigh. "Well, let's do this then.." he mumbles. Preston takes a hesitant step toward the table and picks up a cookie from Phil's plate first. He coughs from inhaling sugar and manages to eat the cookie with little struggle. "Way to much sugar," He coughs. After that he tried Dan's burnt cookies. Preston scrunches up his nose and shakes his head. "Nope nope nope, burnt and dry" He says rapidly. Then, he ate one of PJ's cookies. They seemed to to a little bit better. Mainly because they are covered in icing. Then it came down between me and Sadie. Which one of the cookies will he like better? Mine or Sadie's?