Chapter Seven: Cookie scouts and sugar cane prawn

When Spike looked at me, I knew what he was thinking. Damn. We communicated by expressions and I signaled to Cinnamon that we were going to talk in another room. Seemingly wary, he nodded. Quite honestly, my mind went blank. All that time spent thinking about that moment and when it finally occured, I couldn’t say a word. ”H..hello, my name is Toffee.” It was the first safe thing I thought of. ”… Toffee? I… It’s Spike. Do you remember me?”  Cue wince. I was hoping that the pain wasn’t showing in my face. It probably was. A brief silence, and we heard a knock. Cinnamon opened the door and came in. Cinnamon looked confused, and slightly excited. He thought we were simply childhood friends. “You know each other already?”  I tried to look unaware of things, and glancing out of the corner of my eye, Spike wasn’t. He looked as uncomfortable as I felt. ”Uh, yeah. You can say that. Spice, I think I’d like to have a private chat, if the both of you don’t mind too much. It was… nice, um, meeting you, Taf—uh, Toffee.” The awkwardness literally hurt. I felt my heart drop. This wasn’t that “what have I done” heart drop. I felt no guilt, he was the one who did something. Thinking about this made me want to slap him in the face right there, regardless of it being my children’s birthday or not. Cinnamon shooting a glance at me snapped me out of my thoughts. “He’s normally a lot more fun. Trust me.” He gave a signature smug little smile, shrugged his shoulders and I left the room, heading downstairs. I found Vanilla. Thinking as one, I knew she would help so I walked over, and she decided to help so she walked over, bringing some delicious, spongy sugar cane prawn in paper plates. She knew Spike, because we all used to hang in one group. Hence, she was pretty intrigued. ”Oh, hohoho,” She chortled with a knowing smile, tilting her head. “If I’m not mistaken, that was Pinehead. That is awkward.” ”I can’t even talk straight, Vanilla. This is a nightmare.” All I was thinking was bleugh, I want to eat my feelings. “Taff, let’s watch TV.” And so we watched tv. “First of all. This is not the end of the worl-“ “No, no. It is. It’s definetly the end of the world.” “Talk to them when they come out of the room, settle things, tell them everything. It’s simple, ok?” “Nilla, you know what I should do? I think I should just tell them everything. Much simpler.” “Bu-” “Hold on Nil this is my favourite bit.” *sigh* “What?” And so we waited. Mingling with the others and eating for comfort, I also had Creme Brulee come up and sit next to me. “Mum?” “Yes, Brulee, what is it?“ “Well.. can I join the Cookie Scouts? Also,” and she lowered her voice to a whisper, “Tiramisu would like to take chess lessons but he doesn’t want to come out while there’s so many people here.” ”Sure. Just call up Girl Cookie Scouts and then- “ She shook her head, furrowed her brow and stopped me, which surprised me. What did she mean? “No, Mum, I want to join the Boy Cookies. Girl Cookies do silly things.” . I wasn’t sure how you signed up your daughter for that. “Well, I’ll see about that, and I’ll check on chess lessons for Tiramisu ok?” She walked away with her hands in her pockets. We heard the footsteps. I mean, I think Nil heard them. It’s not like I was listening. The first thing he looked at was us, then Cinnamon followed behind him. They stood together in conversation at the bottom of the stairs, glancing at us awkwardly. Vanilla nudged me with her knuckles as if she was knocking on a door. I stood up. While difficulty, I lifted each foot one after the other, and took Spike’s arm. Walking up the stairs, I grabbed the doorknob to my room and walked in, searching for somewhere to sit. With no couches, I awkwardly sat on the bed. _____________________________________________ Hayyy guys. I would just like to note several things:

• Yes, I do want to end chapters with a cliff hanger.
• Stay tuned for me telling you guys the url of my new Simblr.
• I lost some cc in the computer transfer soo… people have different hurr and stuff. It’s not a big deal.
• The style of the scene where Toffee and Vanilla talk is inspired by the talking scene in InFamous 2. They just stop the usual chaos of the game, sit down, have a beer, and watch tv. It’s easily one of my favourite game scenes.
• IM SO SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG YOU DONT UNDERSTAND THERES SO (MANY OTHER GAMES AND I GOT A NEW COMPUTER AND ITS STILL SLOW BECAUSE OF CC AND I HAD TO TRANSFER MY DATA TO TWO OTHER COMPUTERS AND THAT TOOK AGES AND CHRISTMAS CRAP AND I HAD YEARLY EXAMS BEFORE AND IM SORRY) MUCH STUFF IN THE WAY