Haru takes a quick shower and emerges, clothed and damp-haired, to sneak up on her (cheating outrageously) and appear mid-embrace behind her while she's scrambling the eggs.

"Eeek!" she yelps, dipping into her power momentarily before realizing what just happened. 

dfjsklfhnkj oh that is fun and also. She has to get him back for this.

She wipes a hand across her forehead dramatically. "An ambush... while I'm cooking you breakfast, no less..."

"Sorry, I didn't realize it'd startle you quite that badly!"

She giggles. "Nonono, that was fine - I just have really intense startle reactions. My last roommate went through a harrowing 3 months before she started tuning out my yelping whenever I was mildly surprised or bumped into something." 

She boops his nose. "You can and in fact should keep doing that, but be warned I may prank you back~"

"...oh no. What have I gotten myself into."

Cara responds with her manical laugh (it's not bad - she's put some work into it!) and continues scrambling eggs.

The toaster beeps. "Oh! She's done. Can you grab the bread and jam?"

"My toaster has been assigned female?" he inquires, fetching as requested. "Or is it the toast."

"It's the toaster! Habit I picked up from an online friend - she genders things as female unless it would be funnier if they were male. Like washing machines. Most washing machines are boys." She nods as though this is obvious and makes perfect sense.

She finishes scrambling the eggs and plates them, grabbing a spice shaker full of orange powder that sure wasn't in this kitchen yesterday and shaking it generously onto hers.

"About how long is that going to make you very spicy to kiss?"

Ahahahaha she had not thought about this. "I don't know! I've never kissed someone after they'd eaten very spicy foods before without having myself eaten something spicy. Is your spice tolerance low enough that I should take countermeasures?"

"It's not that bad, I might have a bit of a time but I don't think it'll ruin my day."

She giggles. "I will brush my teeth after, that should get rid of most of it. But I'm glad kissing me won't ruin your day!" Grinnnnn.

"Given how likely it is that I will urgently need to kiss you one day without regard for what you had for lunch I should probably test-kiss you before you brush your teeth, just so we know."

She nods. "If it is in fact Rather Bad I can lower my doses for you, at least for lunches - I like spicy food, but I don't, like, need it to live or anything."

"Lunch was metonymy. But it'll probably be fine."

"Lunch is the only meal I don't brush my teeth right after! So if it actually is a problem, that'd be the meal to adjust, I think." 

And now it is food time! Omnomnom. (The spice makes her face go a bit red, but she's clearly enjoying it.)