Cake was supposed to be fun

Tsaaq: Hayley had rode her bike all the way to OCH and ran up the porch to hide from the rain that was apparently coming down. She frowned and patted her hair that she worked really hard on today, so fuck the rain, she glanced into the window and decided to smoke a cigarette before knocking or trying to go inside or anything.
Alexithymiaa: -Adam sat at the kitchen table, two full cakes already on serving dishes sitting on the kitchen table. He leaned back in his seat, his eyes turning over to watch Gabe stirring in a bowl over the counter. "You're going to clean up when you're done, right?" // Gabe scraped the sides of the bowl with his spatula, moving over to the cake pan he had set out and beginning to pour it into one until it was halfway filled, quickly shifting over to fill another. "Yeah yeah, why are you so concerned about it? Is that guy really that bad?"-
Tsaaq: She finished off her cigarette and tossed it in the bushes cause why not? It was raining, she crossed her arms and knocked on the door before turning the knob and stepping into the house. "I'm here for my cake." Hayley called out instead of saying hello or anything, going towards the kitchen.
Alexithymiaa: -Adam shook his head. "It's not just him. Other people live here and it's not right to leave the kitchen a mess for anyone else." Hearing Hayley's voice, he turned in his chair to rest his arm over the back of it, sendign her a quick smile. "Hey Halo. Cake's in here." // Gabe opened the oven and grabbed both cake pans, sliding them onto the rack and closing the oven door, setting a quick timer before turning to Hayley. "Alright, first cake is an apple spiced cinnamon, and the second is a peanut butter banana nut. Which do you want to try first?"-
Tsaaq: "Hey." She replied in a monotone. Hayley went straight to the table and leaned her elbows against the kitchen table. "I guess the apple first." She shrugged her shoulders at Gabe while looking at the cake pans.
Alexithymiaa: -Adam shifted forward in his seat, leaning on the table in front of him as he nodded to Hayley. "He's been waiting for you to get here to try the cakes. You're the first." // Gabe reached to grab a plate and a knife, carefully cutting Hayley a wedge of the apple cinnamon cake and sliding the slice onto the plate, setting it down in front of her. "Okay, be honest. Too sweet, not enough cinnamon... hit me with it." He grabbed a fork from the drawer, placing it down next to her plate and crossing his arms, staring at her.-
Tsaaq: She stared at the cake itself while Adam spoke, slightly hypnotized by it because she was hungry. "Welp..." Hayley trailed off, trying not to sound too excited about it. "I'm here now." She muttered then picked up the fork, immediately digging in and putting a goodly amound in her mouth. Hayley rose her eyebrows and stabbed her fork into the cake slice and shovelled more into her mouth. "This is good, give me more." Was her criticism
Alexithymiaa: -Adam laughed, curling his hand into a fist to prop up his head as he glanced to Gabe. "Told you." // Gabe reached for the knife again, waving it around. "Well try the peanut butter banana nut before you fill up on the spiced apple cinnamon." He leaned over to cut into the other cake, portioning out a slice to place on Hayley's plate.-
Tsaaq: Hayley narrowed her eyes and pursed her lips. "Fine." She grunted and licked her fork for a moment, waiting for the next piece. She squinted her eyes at the cake and hesitated to get a forkful unlike the first slice. She stuck the fork betwixt her lips and chew slowly. Hayley slowly nodded her head and glanced at Gabe. "You know, usually I fucking hate peanut butter but this is alright." She said with her mouthful and went to devour the rest.
Alexithymiaa: "I told him that. He said you'd like it. Somehow..." Adam trailed off, rolling his eyes over at Gabe. // Gabe dropped down into the chair beside Hayley, starting to talk. "I really didn't use that much peanut butter. It's more there for the texture and consistency than anything else. It's mostly banana nut, with just a small hint of the peanut butter. Any critiques on either before you eat the rest?"-
Tsaaq: "Oh so HE KNEW  I hated peanut butter." She said, glancing at Adam then pursing her lips. "Uhhhh..." She trailed off then looked between Gabe and the plate. "Uhhhh." Hayley furrowed her eyebrows then shrugged. "Make this one taste less healthy please." She pointed down at the crumbs of the peanut butter banana cake thing. "Other than that it's cool now give me the whole cakes I can take it from here." Hayley demanded reaching for the knife.
Alexithymiaa: "Well he knew after he told me what he was experimenting with..." Adam started in, his eyes looking over to Gabe. "Do I get to try it now?" // Gabe laughed and pushed the cakes toward Hayley, climbing up from his chair to walk over to the oven, pulling it open and grabbing the cake pans to set them down on top of the stove. "This ones watermelon. And sure, Adam. Oh wait... Abs." He started to crack up, shaking his head as he pulled the oven mitts off his hands.-
Tsaaq: She furrowed her eyebrows. "This is my cake." Hayley said flatly and went to cut another piece of the apple one, this slice was entirely too big but she didn't care. She began to chomp it down before glaring in Gabe's direction but said nothing.
Alexithymiaa: -Adam lowered his eyes, pulling his hands from the table to jam into his pocket, pulling out his phone to look down at the incoming text. "Okay... I guess I won't try any then..." // Gabe moved to grab another dish, flipping th first cake pan over onto it and grabbing his bowl of basic vanilla icing, slathering some on top of the cake before stacking the second layer of sponge on top of it. He turned around and walked it to the table, placing it down. "Wait on that one, it still needs to settle."-
Tsaaq: Her eyes glanced over to him and she tried to fight a groan that wanted to escape her throat. "You can have one fucking slice, jesus." She said, sounding annoyed then went back to gobbling down her slice. Hayley cut herself another slice before she was even done with her current one, glancing at the watermelon cake. "How long?" She asked Gabe with her cheeks stuffed.
Alexithymiaa: -Adam smiled into his phone, pushing his fingers over the screen and not looking up. "It's fine. You can have the cake. He'll make more eventually." // Gabe leaned over to glance at the time on the microwave, shrugging his shoulders. "Give it like ten minutes or so."-
Tsaaq: She continued to stuff her face before glancing at him once again. "Texting while you're hanging out with people is fucking rude." Hayley muttered under her breath after she swallowed, she had pretty much downed almost half of the apple cake and went to tear into the banana peanut one. "Alright, ten minutes." She said.
Alexithymiaa: -Gabe looked over at Adam, his brows raised. "Adam...." // Adam looked up from his phone at Hayley's comment, his eyes flicking over to Gabe before slowly pushing his phone onto the table. "Sorry...."-
Tsaaq: "Yeah, you're sorry. I'm sorry, everybody's sorry."
Tsaaq: ((FUUUU-))
Tsaaq: "Yeah, you're sorry. I'm sorry, everybody's sorry." She sighed, taking another forkful and staring at it. "I thought food would make me feel better but I don't." Hayley said under her breath before sighing. "What's next the watermelon thing?" She lifted the knife and motioned it over the cake.
Alexithymiaa: -Gabe eyed Adam for a second longer before pulling the watermelon cake over toward her for her to dig in. "Yeah, the watermelon cake. It's supposed to be very sweet which is why it's got a vanilla frosting instead of cream cheese." // Adam chewed on the tip of his tongue, watching Hayley devour cake. "I said I was sorry...."-
Tsaaq: Hayley nodded and cut a more than generous piece for herself and put it on her plate before licking her fingers. "Yeah but how many times can a person say sorry before it means absolutely nothing?" She said softly to Adam then went to dig in.
Alexithymiaa: "Really?" His voice was short as he shook his head, pushing up from his chair and looking over to Gabe. "I'm grabbing a shower." He turned around and walked out of the kitchen, climbing the stairs and going into the upstairs bathroom, closing the door behind him. // Gabe raised his brows as he watched his brother walk out of the room, turning his attention over to Hayley. "Okay, so is someone going to clue me in or do I have ti put the pieces of this puzzle together all by myself?"-
Tsaaq: "Yes really." She muttered then wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. "You do that." Hayley sassed as she watched him go up the stairs, she finished off her slice and furrowed her eyebrows at Gabe. "What are you talking about?" She asked in a monotone.
Alexithymiaa: -Gabe stuck out his hands dramatically, swinging them around in front of him. "This whole display of whatever that was. What happened? I thought ya'll were like best friends."-
Tsaaq: She stayed silent for a moment. "We are." Hayley muttered then shrugged her shoulders. "That's how we talk to each other all the time, we're just playing around." She lied.
Alexithymiaa: -Gabe stared at her, moving his forearms to rest over the table in front of him. "Oh yeah? Does he know you're just playing around? Because he wasn't."-
Tsaaq: "Yeah he knows it's like, a two sided thing. Both sides." She continued to murmur, now picking at what was left of the cake.
Alexithymiaa: "Uhuh...." He watched her for a second before starting in again. "You know he wasn't kidding, right? He's actually annoyed."-
Tsaaq: She pursed her lips and bit the inside of her cheek. "Whatever, I might be actually annoyed too and nobody babys me." Hayley grumbled as she stared down at her plate.
Alexithymiaa: -Gabe let out a groan, dropping his head down to his arms for a second before lifting it up to stare at her. "Did I not just ask you what was going on? That was your cue to open up about whatever seems to be bothering you/"-
Tsaaq: "I don't know." She shrugged and leaned her head on her hand. "What's the point? Talking about shit doesn't make me feel better." Hayley grumbled. "I don't even know why I came over here. I should've just stayed home with my cat." She sighed.
Alexithymiaa: "Hey, talking about some stuff makes you feel better. And if we can fix whatevers bothering you, you bet your pretty little head that you'll feel even better." Gabe laughed, peering into her face.-
Tsaaq: Hayley stared blankly at him with scrunched up her face. "That rarely happens." She grumbled. "But okay..." Hayley sighed and shifted in her seat. "I'm just annoyed with everything and I'm tired of caring about shit and I guess I was taking it out on him because obviously he'd rather be hanging out with Harper right now so why not just do it? Like, I don't need anybody's pity." She ranted a bit.
Alexithymiaa: -Gabe sat and listened to her rant, letting her settle into silence for a long moment before he spoke. "Obviously not if he was here and not where ever she is. If he waned to go hangout with her, he would have. And he didn't. So what are you so worked up over?"-
Tsaaq: "Yeah but he was obviously talking to that bitch and smiling and shit." She muttered begrudgingly. "Which is fine." Hayley blurted out. "Just don't do it around me. I'm miserable enough as it is, I don't need to add to it. I don't even know what the point is in caring or having friends is anymore. I'm starting to think that I should just be alone or something."
Alexithymiaa: -Gabe scratched his hand over the top of his hair, a gesture that mimicked Adam's to a T. "I thought all of ya'll were friends. Are you and Harper not as close as I was led to believe?"-
Tsaaq: Hayley groaned a little. "We are friends... But I don't know, things are different now." She muttered. "Three's a crowd." She shrugged again. "I'm just going through my own shit I guess."
Alexithymiaa: "Three? I thought you had a boyfriend..." He mumbled, his brows furrowed as he stared at her. "Unless that's changed more recently."-
Tsaaq: "I mean like, in general... Like, I've always hated being a third wheel." Hayley rose her hands defensively. "And I really like Tony but I don't think he feels the same way." She said with a pained voice then cleared her voice. "And I feel more alone with him than I do by myself but, I want him to love me. But he doesn't. And that's just it..." She trailed off. "I'm no one's number one choice. Ever." Hayley lowered her head.
Alexithymiaa: -Gabe leaned forward to rest his elbow on the table, propping his head in his hand with a goofy grin plastered over his face. "Oh, no? You're wrong. I know for a fact you're wrong. And you shouldn't think that way about yourself. To enjoy your solitude is one thing, but to prefer it because t's just easier isn't right."-
Tsaaq: "It isn't right but you said it yourself it's easier." She whispered. Hayley picked her head up. "How do you even know?" She scoffed  with skepticism as she looked away. "Every guy I've ever been with only liked me cause I was hot, only one said he loved me and that's because he was an idiot." Hayley crossed her arms over her chest. "And even he turned into a horn dog."
Alexithymiaa: -Gabe rolled his eyes, pushing up to his feet to grab the empty cake pants, tossing them into the sink. "Do you really need it spelled out for you? You were Adam's first choice, and then you started dating that other guy and now you're whining because he's not still making puppy eyes at you? Which he is, by the way. That's not fair Hayley, and you know it."-
Alexithymiaa: (cake pans. Not pants. No pants.)
Tsaaq: ((LOL CAKE PANTS.))
Alexithymiaa: (CAKE PANTS.)
Tsaaq: "I'm not whining because he isn't-" She began to shout defensively before frowning. "But every time we-" Hayley stammered. "He always was like 'Oh it doesn't count' or 'Oh friends don't do that with friends' so I always figured he just thought I was hot like everybody else..." She finally said before staring blankly ahead. "I didn't think he liked me, at least not anymore, not that much. He's always talking about Harper and how likes her. I just assumed I never deserved him." She shrugged and lowered her head onto the table.
Alexithymiaa: -He shook his head and grabbed the sponge, running it over the counter to clean up but not really. "He does like Harper. Doesn't mean he didn't like you first, and doesn't still." He walked back over to her, leaning his hand down onto the table. "Considering the fact that he never came back down, he's probably brooding over whatever exactly all this is. So I'm going upstairs to sleep and tell him to stop. You should probably do the same thing."-
Tsaaq: Hayley pursed her lips. "I mean, I do that all the time but the way I am towards him these days? I'm pretty sure if he did? He doesn't now." She muttered with a frown. "Go upstairs and tell him to stop brooding or just stop brooding? Cause the latter is really hard for me cause my life sucks." Hayley said.
Alexithymiaa: -Gabe rolled his eyes, gently patting her on the back. "Sleep and stop brooding. Just do it." He walked by her and to the stairs,climbing them two at a time to get to the top befor turning to walk into Adam's closet room.-
Tsaaq: She kept her face scrunched up as she pushed up from her seat. "What's the point?" She sighed to herself and went towards the door, still seeing the rain pouring outside. Hayley scoffed and looked back at the cakes on the table and took as much as her arms could carry then went back towards the door to bike away from OCH.