Movie Night (Thea/Simon/Ru)

[jarahamee]

Ru tidied up the living room prior to Theadora’s visit, making sure everything was up his cleanliness standards. He always made a point of keeping their shared living space clean, though he did his best not to police the bedroom. Simon’s mess had to be contained in his room, but Ru didn’t clean that up without his partner’s permission, and hopefully no one was viewing that room anyways.

The vampire placed Simon’s Godzilla blanket over the couch, and gently smoothed it over. He had to admire how well it matched the poster behind the couch. He really liked their new apartment. It was nice to have his own space, and a space that he helped decorate.

Using his vampire hearing, he listened through the door for the sounds of their approaching guest. Nothing yet. He scurried over to the refrigerator, and pulled out the carrot cake he had made earlier that night. It looked…the right shape, and he could probably make it cute with a little bit of icing and a lot of love.

“Hey Simon! Help me make this cake cute. I’m…going to draw little bunnies on it once it’s all frosted.”

[beastly]

Simon had always been a bit messy, a little bit disorganized and well at home in it. Since moving in with his boyfriend, he'd made adjustments so as not to drive the poor vampire insane. He made an effort for Ru, and doubled that effort whenever they had a guest over. He'd tidied and uncluttered whatever he thought someone might take issue with, and gotten all escaping socks contained.

He was digging through candles in the bathroom for a properly spooky one they could light, but ran when Ru called.

"Oh! That would be cute," The werewolf slid into the kitchen to investigate the cake, nodding in approval. He got out the tub of frosting from the cabinets, grabbing a knife and the little decorating kit they had stored away.

"It'll show her we... Carrot about her."

He put almost zero effort into the pun as he offered Ru a knife loaded with frosting.

[jarahamee]

Ru accepted the knife with a giggle. That was probably the worst pun that Simon had ever made, but he was going to roll with it.

The vampire took a finger and playfully wiped a smidge of the frosting on the tip of the werewolf's nose, and then got to work for real covering up the surface of the cake, trying not to think about how this was probably the most appealing it was going to look, and everything after decoration was going to be downhill.

"Alright. So uh. What about this bunny? Cute right? Wait...he needs a carrot..."

True to Ru's offer (threat?) the rabbit with carrot was drawn...poorly...with icing. The carrot looked more suggestive than Ru would have liked to admit. His smiling face turned away from his boyfriend when he heard a knock on the door.

NO! TOO SOON!

He started hastily drawing the other rabbits, their forms melting their way off the side of the cake. Quickly its quality had decreased to... a cake made by a child...

[wiltingdaisy]

Nervous, nervous - why is she nervous? This was such a ridiculous thing to get anxious about, but maybe she shouldn't have made last-minute cookies.

But she was here - she was standing outside their door as if it was going to automatically open, dressed in jeans and a crew-neck sweater with her home-countries flag plastered on the front. In her hands was a paper plate (doubled up due to weight) covered in saran wrap with some simple sugar cookies inside. They were still somewhat warm, which worried her a little bit, but she took yet another deep breath.

Now or never, Theadora Deleon!

Knock Knock Knock!

[beastly]

Simon gazed upon the bunny cake, and the werewolf looked like he was going to say something, but jerked his head over at the door. Thea! The bunny cake would have to live the way it was. It'd still taste good, and it was cute that Ru was trying... A smile tugged at his lips. He'd try and talk to Thea for a moment or two so he could wrap it up.

Simon swung open the door dramatically, beaming at Thea as she was revealed to him.

"There she is! Hey, lady!"

Simon contemplated a hug, but it was plain to see that the woman had her hands full of what his nose told him were cookies. Simon put his hand on her arm, gesturing her inside with his big smile.

"How are you? Glad you could make it! Those smell great, Thea."

[jarahamee]

Ru abandoned the bunny cake project just as quickly to go greet their guest. That was the sociable thing to do, wasn’t it? The cake probably looked and uh. Tasted alright in its current state anyways. He tried not to focus on his overwhelming desire to keep fixing the rabbits, and instead helped scoop some of the cookies out of Theadora’s hands.

“Oh hey! You’re here! We uh. I um, I made a cake for you. I hope you like it.”

He looked down at the cookies, doing his best to figure out what kind they were, and the best way to complement her on them.

“Sugar cookies! My favorite. I um. I wish I could still eat them, but I can admire them and watch Simon eat them now.”

The vampire tried not to dwell on how that made things really weird for no reason. Why did he have to say stuff like that? He instead put the cookies down around the cake table, and spent another few frantic seconds trying to clean up the bunnies…to no success.

“Uh, and this is a carrot cake. Please have some if you like them.”

[wiltingdaisy]

She gave Simon a smile - no teeth, she was too tense for a grin - as he greeted her "Hello Simon" Taking his hand on her arm as the formal invitation inside, walking in and looking over at him to answer " I am well - and thank you! I do remember you liking these when I last made them" She had actually wanted to try making flan, but absolutely did not have the time for that.

She looked over at Ru as he approached and greeted her, and perked up with surprise at the mention of them making a cake "Oh!" She peeked over at the cake, though she couldn't see it from her current distance, then turned her attention back to Ru after he took the cookies. She looked a bit embarrassed that she had made cookies for someone who couldn't have them - she hadn't even thought about that! "Oh, I am sorry, I didn't even think that a vampire could not eat..." She coughed "But uh, thank you..."

She walked over to where the cake was, and let out a nervous giggle "The cake is... cute" she summed up, feeling a little better already.

[beastly]

"I did, good! You always make the best cookies, Thea."

Simon walked with Thea, glancing from Ru to their guest with a big grin. His plan to integrate Ru and Thea into his friendship circle was going swimmingly. They'd gotten along well at the bar, and now things seemed to be going just as well. She seemed a little bit stressed, which was to be expected of her, but hopefully things would ease up.

"You want anything to drink?"

Simon was delicately allowing Ru to handle the matters of his own nutrition, standing by to give either of his dear friends an assist if they needed it, or if ice needed to be broken.

He nodded in agreement at the cake. Ru hadn't been able to fix it up too much more... but it was still cute. And funny.

[jarahamee]

“Oh don’t worry. I cook for Simon all the time, and I can’t share. I just have to trust his word. Sometimes I’ll put it in my mouth and chew, and I can kind of taste it? I can taste some drinks at least.”

Ru smiled, doing his best not to show off his rather impressive fangs. His pale eyes shone in the dim apartment but for once, he seemed genuinely excited to have a guest there with them. It wasn’t often that Simon entertained people while he was home, admittedly probably because Ru was shy, and didn’t like being trapped in big parties at home.

He put a hand on Simon’s shoulder affectionately, and then turned back towards Thea, taking out the knife to cut a slice for her. He pretended like he didn’t notice the strangely implicative carrot. Damn his bad decision-making. He was suddenly glad he hadn’t taken a picture of it.

“I’m good Simon.”

The vampire said, though Simon was well aware already.