[CLOSED] you're tellin me a catboy fried this rice?

[silentabyss]

Who: Noah & Nene
What: Throwback to the first time the nenoahs met. There will be rice.
When: April 1st, dinnertime
Where: Dorm kitchens
Warnings: Excessive cuteness, Noah's cooking


[Whenever dinnertime rolls around, Noah will go and fetch Nene for a surprise, and then drag her cheerfully off to the dorm kitchen where he has set up what appears to be... a date? Maybe? There's a white sheet on a desk he's pulled from the study hall (in lieu of a tablecloth) and he has plates set out and a vase of cut flowers in the middle of it.

On the plates? Piles of fried rice. And nothing else.

It's not the greatest fried rice. It's edible and decent, but it's forgettable. He didn't flavour it very much and some of the rice is a tad bit crispier than it should be. But all in all, it's an attempt.

When Nene goes to sit down, Noah pulls her chair out for her. Like a gentleman. And then, stupidly, he opens the conversation with:]

Do you remember when we first met and you taught me how to fry rice?

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[mermaidcursed]

Oh gosh, what happened?

( even as she continues eating, she's clearly trying to not giggle at the little annecdote- she wants the details, honestly. )

[silentabyss]

[Noah buries his face in his hands for a second. Don't do this, he's cringe...]

Well... you put eggs in pancakes, usually. Except Clamor can't have eggs, because he's vegan, so we tried using oil as a substitute. I thought that, since you normally use two or three eggs for pancake mix, that you should have that many eggs equivalent of oil.

...

So that's not correct, apparently.

[mermaidcursed]

... Oh no. Oh noooooooo-

( except the small 'noooo' trails into barely stifled giggles that she is deeply apologetic for, even though she cannot stop them from happening. )

M-maybe we should get you a recipe book so you'll have it on hand-

[silentabyss]

I mean, it's not like Clamor has to eat anymore.

[Noah points to his bad eye; it's covered as it normally is, but he's more or less indicating the spirit pact without saying anything. Wherever he kicked Clamor off to so that he could have his little lunch date is a mystery.]

Where would we even get a cookbook? The student store? I haven't... been there recently.

[He's been casually avoiding it because Keigo used to run it and Keigo makes him think of Amami and Noah is sad.]

[mermaidcursed]

But we do. ... And I wanna cook with you. I think it'd be fun.

( maybe that's too domestic for a place like this. but... ...

the student store. nene hasn't been there in a while either. during the past couple months it felt like she was in a daze... and then she woke up in the aftermath of so much hurt and loss. she still doesn't understand.

her grip tightens around the fork and she doesn't say anything for a while. )

... There might be some in the library.

[silentabyss]

Oh, yeah, I know that. I more meant that we don't have to do vegan recipes.

[Disastrous, truly.

...]

Yeah, we can try the library. I bet there's all kinds of old stuff in there. Some of the books in there are... pretty musty.

[Jello salad time :0]

[mermaidcursed]

Ohhhh. Okay, yeah.

( get BACK demon, away with ye and your salads of jello!

anyways.

nene pauses and then... leans over across the table to press a soft, brief kiss to noah's cheek, because she thinks it's cute how he gets flustered. )

Ehehe, yeah, they're kinda old, but some classics are well worth knowing! And I'll write down my recipes for you, too.