THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT ~ Daniel Seavey

Eight

December 12, 2019

Daniels POV

"You are going out to get cookies again?" Jack asks me in disbelief.

I shrug my shoulders as I quickly get into my car.

"Simp!" He screamed at me causing me to flip him off and drive away.

I arrived at the small bakery and I noticed it was packed. The line was out the door and I could hear people angrily talking. I pushed past everyone to get inside the store. I noticed no one was standing at the counter and I could hear pots and pans clanking like crazy from the back. I hoped over the counter and snuck my way into the back. I opened the door revealing Vanessa frantically running back and forth. She was trying to frost a tray of cookies as she placed another tray into the oven.

"Hey? You okay?" I ask her causing her to look up at me.

"Uh..." she stuttered as she continued to move around the kitchen quickly.

"How can I help?" I ask her softly.

"Start frosting those cookies please." She says frantically as she points at a tray.

I nod my head as I grab the frosting and start placing it on the cookies.

"So..... what happened? Why isn't anyone here to help you?" I ask her curiously.

"Caroline didn't show up and the oven wasn't working for thirty minutes and all these people showed up and then the oven started working and now I'm rushing to get everyone their stuff." She rambles as she quickly puts frosting on the cookies.

I watched her in amazement as she somehow made the cookies look amazing even when she was rushing. She rushed out the door with the tray in her hand. I heard her talking to the customers causing me to smile. She came back a few minutes later.

"Daniel." She says playfully as she takes the frosting out of my hand.

I looked down at the horribly frosted cookies and gave her a weak smile causing her to laugh.

"Good thing you are cute or I would kill you right now." She mumbles as she try's to fix the cookies.

"So you think I'm cute." I say playfully as I lean on the counter.

"Shut up and frost the cookies." She tells me sharply as her face gets red.

"But I suck at it." I mumble as I grab the frosting.

She sighs as she grabs my hand sending sparks through my body. She guides my hand as she squeezes out the frosting.

"See... easy." She says softly.

My eyes lock with hers as she keeps her hand on mine. She quickly looks away and goes back to quickly frosting the cookies. I squeeze frosting into my mouth causing her to glare at me. I just laughed as I wiped some frosting on my finger and placed it on her cheek while she wasn't looking at me. She gasped as she looked over at me laughing at her. She quickly placed frosting on her finger and smeared it on my face. We both now had red frosting on our cheeks. I got a glob of frosting on my hand causing her to quickly run away from me.

"Daniel!" She screamed as I chased her through the small kitchen.

I quickly caught up to her and wrapped my arms around her waist. I smeared the frosting across her cheeks as she squealed. She grabbed more frosting and smeared it across my forehead causing me to laugh at her.

"I deserved that." I say playfully as I lick the frosting off of my cheeks.

She sighed as she wiped the frosting off her cheek and placed it in her mouth. I smeared more frosting on her lips causing her eyes to lock with mine. She smeared frosting on my lips as our faces got closer to each other. I felt the sound of the crowd outside the door fade as the felt the sudden urge to kiss her. BEEP!
The fire alarm started going off causing Vanessa to start to freak out.

"Crap!" She yelled as she stared at the oven that was now on fire.

She quickly grabbed the fire extinguisher and quickly put out the fire. I looked at her in disbelief as she grabbed the cookie tray and walked back to the customers as if nothing happened. I ran a hand through my hair as my mind imagined what it would be like to kiss her.

"Don't just stand there Daniel! Frost more cookies!" Vanessa yelled at me as she peeked her head into the room.

I quickly went back to frosting the cookies that didn't catch on fire. She walked back into the room and took the cookies from me and then quickly went back to the customers. I heard her sigh as the crowd noise quiet down. She walked back into the room and sat down in her chair as she took a deep breath.

"Thank you so much... I couldn't have done it without you." She said softly.

"No problem... it was actually really fun and delicious." I say playfully as I grab a cookie and place it in my mouth.

She placed the burnt cookies on the counter causing me to laugh. They were so black and ugly.

"And I thought I was a bad cook." I say sarcastically causing her to nudge my arm.

"You distracted me with your stupid blue eyes... I don't normally burn things." She huffs under her breath.

"My stupid... blue... eyes." I say playfully as I look over at her.

She rolls her eyes as she stares at the cookies. Her eyes meet mine causing her to take a deep breath and quickly look away.

"I gotta clean this mess up." She mumbles as she looks around at all current mess in the kitchen.

"I'll help." I reassure her as I grab a towel.

She put all of the pans in the dishwasher as she scraped off the burnt cookies. We both start wiping the table cleaning up all the flour and frosting. Our hands accidentally collide causing us both to awkwardly start laugh. 

"This frosting is so good." I say in disbelief as I put more in my mouth.

She just shook her head at me as she snatched the frosting out of my hand. She still had frosting on her cheek and I could feel the frosting still on my face. She dipped her finger into the frosting and smeared it across my cheek.

"Never gets old." She says playfully as she hands me back the frosting.

I grab her by her waist causing her to gasp. Our faces were now inches apart as I used one hand to smear frosting on her face as I laughed at her.

"Sorry I was having fun with Jake if you now what I mean!" Caroline slurs as she burst through the door.

Me and Vanessa quickly break apart as we both awkwardly look at her.

"Did I interrupt something?" She asks us as she points at the two of us.

We both shake our heads as we awkwardly look at each other.

_____________________________
I suck at frosting cookies 💀