Harry Styles Imagines

(104) - serious business

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"Mum please, you're not thinking clearly.", Anne pushed Harry away and Olivia grimaced as her own mother came face to face with Harry's.

"This is serious business, Harold. Kids go in your room.", said Anne once again, making Francesca bitterly laugh.
"You're certainly not giving orders in my house, darling. Go in your room kids.", Francesca said, making Harry's and Olivia's eyes widen.

"You are not giving orders to my son, Francesca.", Anne took a step closer to the woman.
"Neither are you to my daughter-"
"We're both adults-", the younger adults' words were muffled by a loud: "Shut up!", from both women.

"You can't possible have anything to say about my cheesecake! It's a recipe that has been used by so many generations and will see so many more-"
"My cheesecake is the best in England.", and Harry knew that his mum was exaggerating a little.
"England? My cheesecake is loved by the whole world, isn't that right Olivia darling?", Francesca looked at her daughter until she got interrupted by Anne's laugh.

"I could invite all the family members and each one of them would admit that my cheesecake is good! That's because it's family-", while the two argued, Olivia and Harry exchanged looks and walked in the livingroom, meeting the hopeless faces of Robin and Alessandro.

"Again?", Olivia nodded at Robin's words and sat beside him.
Alessandro took a sip of his wine and winced at his wife's yelling.

"What is it about today?"
"Cheesecake.", both man huffed until an idea made Harry's eyes widen.
"I have an idea!", Olivia leaned her head on his shoulder, dramatically sighing.

"What if we made them cook something they've never done before?", Alessandro shook his head.
"To make them fight even more, no son. That would cause even more damage.", the man stood up and closed the door, tired of hearing the arguing of the two grown up women.

"I think Harry's right.", all eyes were set on Olivia, making her lightly blush.
"If we made them cook something literally impossible, they would admit to each other that they were stupid for even starting.", Robin raised his eyebrows and nodded with his head.
"I have to agree.", Harry's lips formed a huge grin, very happy that his idea was being used. Also Alessandro agreed and the four of them thought about the challenge they would give to the two women.

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The four of them walked in the kitchen to announce the news and overheard the new topic for their fight.
"My pizza is incomparable-"
"That's because you haven't tried mine!"

As soon as they stepped in the kitchen, they got yelled at.
"We would like to give you a challenge.", Harry said loudly and the women's heads turned to look at him.

"A challenge?", Francesca raised an eyebrow.
"What kind?", Anne's question followed.

"Since this fight won't ever come to an end, we all decided to stop it with a final challenge. You are going to cook something you've never done before with a limited amount of time.", they both looked interested at Olivia's words.

"Robin, please.", Robin handed out a two papers to each woman.
Anne let out a gasp.
"A nine-layer cake?", the two women looked at each other.
"In three and a half hours?", Alessandro smirked and gave a knowing look to the people around him.

"Do you think that you're actually able to do so?", another smirk was given to the two women who still nodded after all the difficulties that would be thrown at them.

"Great. The ingredients are in the living room. The challenge begins now!", and with that, they ran to grab the ingredients and to get started with the cakes.

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The other four members of the family stayed in the livingroom, drinking wine, watching television and occasionally laughing while hearing one of them curse.

Three and a half hours became too much at some point, Harry cheating at Monopoly everytime he had to spend a round or two in jail.
"You'e cheating again! You won't be gettin' 200$ in the next round, that's it. That's my final word, Harold!"
"Please, I have to survive somehow! You already own more than half of these places and I have to pay, c'mon. Have mercy on this cute frog-"

"We're done.", Anne and Francesca showed up in the living room, their hands crossed behind their backs as the other people looked quite surprised that they hadn't killed each other during the challenge.

Robin looked at Alessandro with raised eyebrows and with Olivia and Harry, they entered the kitchen.
The kitchen was cleaned and the cakes stood tall on the tables, and the two mothers stood behind their belonging cakes.

They all looked impressed, but obviously, sugar wasn't truly sugar and milk wasn't milk. Yet it looked good.

Francesca cut a piece of her cake and put it in front of the 'judges', who were all smirking at each other, before spitting the piece of cake in a napkin. Francesca looked shocked and now it was Anne's turn to smirk.

"Too much salt. And pepper.", Robin started coughing and Olivia quickly handed him a glass of water.
Alessandro looked concerned for Robin's health, but his wife's reaction was priceless.

"I added just a pinch of salt, dear. And no pepper. I have no idea how it's possible.", Francesca took a fork and tasted the cake she had worked so hard for, before also spitting it in a napkin.

"Well obviously the winner is not so far away.", said Anne with a bright smile.
"Time to taste mine.", she also cut a piece from her cake and placed it on a plate in front of them.
Harry was the first to try and all he could taste was vinegar.
He also started coughing and Alessandro brought him a glass of wine, Robin pushed him away and handed Harry a glass of water.

"My cake!", Anne exclaimed and Harry's coughing started getting worse and Olivia patted his back with more force.

"There's no winner.", said Alessandro, after washing down a piece of that horrendous cake with some wine.

"They taste like shit.", Robin punched his arm.
"Alright, alright. They taste-"
"Disgusting."
"Awful."
"Terrible.", Harry added and Anne shot him a glare.

"There's no winner. I don't even know why you fought in the first place.", they all rolled their eyes and walked in the balcony, leaving the two women alone in the kitchen.

Yet it didn't take long to understand what had really happened.

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Published the 26th of July 2019.