Cake in the face

Alexithymiaa: -Steph had had a video interview earlier that day so she was a bit more dressed up for spending so much time around the house than she normally would be, including her Kitten ears. She also hadn't stopped fussing over Felix because her guilt wouldn't let her combined with her affinity for taking care of him. Her guilt also wasnt doing her any favors in the eating department which she'd been struggling with since he came home and because of this, she hadn't stopped cooking for him. Displacement. She was bustling in the kitchen waiting for the layers of her cake to cool and washing dishes in the meantime.-
Covet: Felix had been in the living room munching down on a brownie from yesterday. He looked over at Steph who was doing some baking, again along with other things in the kitchen department. He looked her over then called out, "Hey Red, you know who you look like right now?" He asked.
Covet: [Sorry had to get the cheddar bay biscuits into the oven]
Alexithymiaa: -She turned off the faucet and reached for a dish towel to dry her hands before turning around to face him. "Who?" She asked before gently touching the two round sponge cakes to check their temperatures.-
Covet: "Sabrina from the new series on Netflix." He said with a smile. "Which... we could be watching the new holiday special here in a couple hours....but not if you're in the god damn kitchen." He said chastising her a little bit.
Alexithymiaa: "I will take that as a compliment." She retorted, setting one cake layer down and grabbing for her bowl of homemade frosting, adding a thick layer. "We can watch that if you want to. I just want to finish this cake. Which by the way, is going to look amazing."-
Covet: "Why are you making this cake now?" Felix asked her through a mouthful of brownie, then started to have a hard time swallowing. "Milk! Milk! I need the nectar of the moocows!"
Alexithymiaa: "Because I wanted to. And that way you can have some as a snack over the next few days." She said absently, hearing his request for milk. "I got it, I got it." She rushed to the fridge, grabbing the milk to pour him a glass and speed walking over to hand it to him like it was her job.-
Covet: "Woah, slow down, I need it but I'm not going to like, give you lashes or something if you don't get it to me in a timely fashion." He said furrowing his brow. "You wanted to make a cake, or you felt obligated to make me a cake." Felix asked her before taking a big drink, then wiped his lips off on his sleeve.
Alexithymiaa: "You were in desperate need of milk to wash down your brownies so I got it for you. Quit complaining." She spoke, cringing as she watched him wipe his mouth on his sleeve. "I wanted to make a cake, I feel obligated to get you a napkin."-
Covet: "This will get washed tomorrow anyways, and taken off tonight. It's fine." He said flapping his arm at her. " Really... nobody just wants to make a cake... not when they just made brownies yesterday, and cookies the day before. Now I'm not one to complain about the the surplus of baked goods, but not at the cost of guilt baking."
Alexithymiaa: "I'm not guilt baking. I enjoy baking. I always have. I just aren't usually home for the extended periods of time to do this much baking and right now I am." She justified even though she was lying just as much to herself as she was to him. "And after decorating your birthday cake and having fun with that, I thought it might be fun to do another one."-
Covet: "I will give you that you enjoy baking. But I totally don't buy it not being about guilt. So you can keep lying to yourself, but I know better." He said giving her a beady eyed look. "And beacuse I know what stress and guilt does to you.... How's your nutrition been lately?"
Alexithymiaa: "You can tell yourself anything you want to, but your focus should be on healing yourself, not worrying about me and my baking habits." She turned around and walked back into the kitchen, picking up the second layer of cake and setting it down on top of the frosted layer.-
Covet: "I am doing all the healling I possibly can right now. I'm laying here, relaxing. Eating and keeping my fluids up, I've been sleeping. So guess what.. Check that off the list, so guess what that means you're next." Felix said. "And you didn't actually answer my question. So spill it, Red."
Alexithymiaa: "Because we're not talking about me, we're talking about you." She said quickly, adjusting the layers and then going to load it up with frosting.-
Covet: "No, you're avoiding talking about you by talking to me." Felix said shaking his head. "Red... I know you pretty well by now... you're deflection tactics are only going to work for so long, so you could just make it easier on yourself."
Alexithymiaa: "What's the difference?" She asked, not looking up because she didnt want to look him. She worked on smoothing out the frosting on the outsides of the cake. "Please just.... stop. I don't want to talk about this right now."-
Covet: "Why not?" Felix asked her. "Talking about is better than avoiding it. Hell I'll take acknowleding it at this point."
Alexithymiaa: "Because... I'm busy. I'm doing stuff." She blurted, focusing way too intently on getting the frosting smooth so she'd be able to cleanly decorate it. "I'm trying to focus."-
Covet: "Doing stuff you don't actually have to do. But I get it you're not up to the challenge." He said with a regretful and painful shrug, but he masked his groan of discomfort well.
Covet: [Felix Uses Reverse Psycology!]
Alexithymiaa: (Its SUPER EFFECTIVE!)
Alexithymiaa: "What?" She asked sharply when she heard his words, lifting her head from the cake and just holding the dull knife in her hand. "What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Just because I would dominate multitasking doesn't mean I necessarily want to split my focus."-
Covet: [hahahahahaha]
Covet: Felix saw the knife in her hands, but he knew she wouldn't actually do anything to him, because he was already broken. "I wasn't talking about the multi tasking. I was talking about talking about the conversation you're blatantly trying to avoid. Your game is weak, Red."
Alexithymiaa: -She set her jaw because has tactic was getting under her skin. "My game is not weak. Just because I don't want to get into this now doesn't mean my game is weak. My game is perfectly fine, thank you very much. Why don't you put another brownie in your mouth?"-
Covet: "I dunno, sounds pretty weak to me, just like that defence." Felix looked over at the now empty plate and pointed to it, being a smart ass, "Because I'm all out of brownies."
AlexithymiaaAlexithymiaa : -She turned on her heel and walked into the laundry room, grabbing an unopened bag of chips from the shelf and making her way back into the living room to set it down on the couch next to him. She wanted to throw it at him, but his condition prevented her from giving in to that. "There. Now you have a snack to put in your face instead of opening your big mouth."-
Covet: "Eh... Chips are salty, I'm not really in the mood for salty right now. That seems to be what you're craving right now." Felix said, but he needed to stop because his being broken would only save him for so long.
Alexithymiaa: "I am not salty!" She yelled at him, waving her arms dramatically. "What do you want me to tell you, Felix? That I feel like shit because you got hurt? I feel like shit because you got hurt. Okay? Are you happy now?" She snappedm her arm waving pushing the bowl of frosting off the edge of the counter to spill onto the floor. "God dammit." Like clockwork, Nugget came grunting around the corner so she quickly dropped down to her knees to prevent him from getting at it as she grabbed the dish towel.0
Covet: "No, I know that you feel like shit. You've made that pretty fucking obvious that you feel like shit. I want you to tell me when the last time you ate was because you feel like shit." He told her, starting to lean up so he could go help, He whistled for Nugget to come to him, "C'mere Nugg, doggos don't get frosting."
Alexithymiaa: (NEITHER DO FELIXS, NUGGET.)
Covet: [Hahaha]
Alexithymiaa: -She leaned over and started to wipe it up with the towel, grabbing for the sponge to remove the chocolate residue that was left behind. She let out a huff because she was irritated and feeling attacked, but also super on the defense about this by default even if she knew she was in the wrong. Old habits die hard. "I don't know!"-
Covet: "Thank you. You didn't have to make it this hard y'know." He said to her because he was on a roll and didn't know how to stop. "I know you probably won't want to tonight, but we're definitely going out for breakfast in the morning."
Alexithymiaa: "No we're not." She shot back, climbing up to her feet and tossing the sponge into the sink. She grabbed for the pastry bag she'd set out, filling it with chocolate syrup.-
Covet: "Yes we are, because you have to drive and I will whine until you finally cave in and take me out for French toast. Then I'll order a veggie omlette in the senior breakfast size and whine until you take a couple of bites." Felix told her.
Alexithymiaa: "You're going to whine regardless of what I do so I might as well do what I want." She said, frowning at her cake. "Would you get up and spin this cake while I drip frost it?"-
Covet: "Yeah, I'm coming." Felix said as he got up with a bit of a groan, but nothing too terrible, discomfort more than pain. He got over to her and offered up his good hand to help her.
Alexithymiaa: "Just spin it slowly." She said as she leaned in, beginning to pipe syrup onto the cake, holding it in certain spots so it would drip over the sides. "If you want french toast in the morning, I'll make you french toast."-
Covet: "I only want french toast in the morning, if you're going to eat with me." Felix said to her as he spun the cake slowly. "This looks delicious."
Alexithymiaa: -She connected the edge and then moved to the center, piping a spiral to fill in the top with syrup. "Can you drop it? You're annoying me."-
Covet: "And how is that different from any other day?" Felix said to her in a flat tone.
Alexithymiaa: -She set the bag down and turned to face him, her eyes narrowing on his face because all she wanted to do was shove and punch him for being so annoying. Which just frustrated her even more because she couldn't. Setting her jaw, she picked up the tray the cake was sitting on, pushing it up and slamming it into his face with all the fresh syrup gooeyness. "Any other day I wouldn't feel bad about punching you." She spoke sharply and then stepped around him, marching her way out of the kitchen and into the living room to pick up after him.-
Covet: Felix just kind of stood there with cake all over his face. He licked his lips and just kind of sighed. "Yeah... I defintely asked for that..." He took his capable hand and started wiping the cake and icing off into the sink, trying to get himself cleaned up as much as he was able to with one hand and broken bones. Nobody feels sorry for you Felix.
Alexithymiaa: -She grabbed the bag of chips he hadnt touched from the couch, picking up the empty plate of brownies and his glass and marching back over into the kitchen, shoving the dishes into the sink and turning into the laundry room to replace the chips.-
Covet: After getting as much as he possibly could off, he looked at her, "Can you help me a little here, I've kind of got a handicap, more than usual."
AlexithymiaaAlexithymiaa : "Sucks." She said bitterly, but she couldnt not help him because she would just feel even worse than she already does. She ripped off a paper towel, running it under the water and then reaching up to wipe his face off. When she was finished, she pitched it into the trash and walked by him into the bedroom, grabbing her pillow from her side of the bed.-
Covet: "Thank you..." He said as he looked at her watching her walk away, then looked at the rest of the destroyed cake all over the floor. He sighed and went to get the broom to clean up that as best as he could.
Alexithymiaa: (Yeah, that's all him.)
Alexithymiaa: -Marching herself out of the bedroom with the pillow in her hand, she stopped to look at him for a moment cleaning up the cake before continuing on to the guest room and slamming the door closed behind her.-
Covet: Felix heard the door slap, then sighed even heavier. "You done fucked that one up kid." he mumbled to himself as he struggled to get the floor cleaned with the broom and one good arm.
Covet: *slam not slap