He takes the flour over to the mixing bowl, finishes off adding the eggs, then folds in the flour (with a metal spoon, thank you very much).

"I actually learnt this from my mum. She's pretty good at cooking when she's not being a workaholic."

"Oh. Really? I'd thought she. Um. Wasn't around. Anymore."

He gives her a confused look at that. "She and my dad split up, ages ago. She works, like, literally all the time. I went over and stayed at her place in the summer and hardly saw her, and I was there for like a week and a half."

"Yeah, just, this is literally the first time you've mentioned her."

"... Is it? Huh."

Oh look, the mixture is ready; Theo doesn't have to dwell. Would Sadde like to eat some? Because Theo would. Nom.

(He gets out two cake tins and starts putting mixture in them.)

Nom...? "You okay?"

"Huh? Yeah, I'm fine, just didn't realise how little I mentioned her."

(And into the oven they go, set timer, woo.)

"Yeah."

"So. We have about 20-25 minutes to kill. Any ideas?"

"We could make out," she suggests.

"Yes, we could. What a great idea."

How convenient that they're so nearby.

Eeee makeouts!

Eee is a good response! Theo likes it.

Mmm.

Mmm indeed! They should probably be careful with the kitchen utensils around, though.

If she's jumping on countertops, sure, but otherwise probably not.

Will they burn the whole 20 minutes away on kissing? It's a definite possibility.

Maybe!

...nah, she'll pull away and ask, "So what brought this on?"

"Kissing? Or the cake?"

"The cake, I brought the kissing on."

"I thought it'd be nice to do something different. Less involving annoying magic and life-or-death situations, and more... cake-making."

"Well, it's cute. You're cute. I should kiss you for it."

And she does!

Theo thinks Sadde is cute, too! Such a great coincidence.

Isn't it?

Now for some wandering hands, not all of them above the waist, just because she can.

Ooh. Well, in that case, there will be wandering hands over both of them, because he can, too.

Yes, they can easily kill the remaining however many minutes with that.

And then the timer goes, and Theo pulls away to go check on the cakes.

They are done! He gets them out and places them on the top of the cooker to cool.