[MINGLE] chocolate and roses

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It's Valentine's Day, and that means just one thing for the inhabitants of the Velvet Room: chaos.

And chocolate, possibly. Or even something else? Or perhaps you're spending the holiday entirely by yourself?

[[ooc: just a quick catchall post for any toplevels or threads people might want to make for the holiday! Feel free to make inbox or journal posts as well.]]

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[vessel_ken_amada]

Ken wakes up later than usual, as today is a rest day.

[Little does he know, there is a reason the schedule designated today as a rest day.]

It smells... differently than usual. A pleasant food smell. He goes groggily to the bathroom, does his morning routine, and then leaves, a little more alert.

There there is... Jay cooking, seemingly watching tutorials at the same time. It seems a little involved. It's not the first time Jay tries his hand at cooking, but he doesn't usually spend that much effort in the morning. That was weird.

[fledglingcrow]

Mini was certainly not skilled in the kitchen. But the video was helping.... kind of. It went too fast some times. And there was definitely egg parts... where egg parts should not be. It would be alright he'd clean it later.

But he had three well cooked eggs to eat, five attempts in the trashcan. There was bacon cooking on the pan. Then he had two slices of toast on each plate. Each bread was hand cut into a heart, it wasn't perfect on any of them, in fact it was quite bad on one of them.

He just had to not throw away too many bacon slices and he'd be able to wake up Ken. Success. The perfect valentines day morning.

[vessel_ken_amada]

"Hi. Were you so hungry you absolutely had to cook a large breakfast?"

[fledglingcrow]

Mini jumped, doing his best to hide the food behind him. But the jig was mostly up.

"No, actually, I had planned on waking you up. But now you are here."

[vessel_ken_amada]

"Sorry, I woke up fifteen minutes ago," he says while giggling at Jay's surprised reaction. "What are you making? I've never seen you prepare such a big breakfast like that."

[fledglingcrow]

"It's just, eggs, and bacon, and toast." He said trying to shove the phone that held the video down so it would stop showing the world what was on his screen.

"Just something simple." He smiled, "go sit, I'll bring it to you in a second!"

[vessel_ken_amada]

"...okay?"

That was weird. But he supposed that if Jay wanted to make a nice breakfast for them, why couldn't he?

So he just sat down at the table, as instructed.

[fledglingcrow]

Okay, he could do this. It was just making sure it wasn't raw or over cooked, that was easy, right? It had to be easy. He stilled himself to take a breath then went back to making sure it was finished.

He carefully put the bacon on the plates, and then to the table he went. "Happy valentines day Ken!" He grinned widely.

[vessel_ken_amada]

"V-Valentine's...?" he repeated, dumbfounded.

There was no understanding in his eyes, as if he forgot the very existence of Valentine's Day.

[fledglingcrow]

"Yeah?" Ken knew what that was right? Jay looked him over. "Do you not know what that is?" he asked tilting his head just slightly, smiling like a cat who had just caught a mouse.

[vessel_ken_amada]

Ken was just staying there, jaw slightly ajar, not moving.

Ken Amada has ceased functioning.

[fledglingcrow]

"Valentine's day is a holiday. People exchange gifts for each other and show how much they care about each other." at least that's what he read on fanfics and what his mother told him. Now was the perfect opportunity to show Ken how much he cared about him.

[vessel_ken_amada]

"I- I know what Valentine's Day is!" he eventually sputtered. "It's just... it's just..."

He took a deep breath to steady himself, then resumed in a quiet voice.

"It's just that with everything going on, I completely forgot about it."

[fledglingcrow]

"I guess there is a lot going on, I hadn't considered forgetting about it." He smiled.

"I'm still here though, you still have something to come home to," he thought that sounded cool enough.

[vessel_ken_amada]

...he did. He did have something to come home to.

"Y-yeah," he simply answered, tears in his eyes.

[fledglingcrow]

Oh shit did he say something wrong? Ken looked like he was going to cry. "Hey, it's okay." He said reaching out to pull the other into a hug.

[vessel_ken_amada]

He didn't expect that at all. After a moment of shock, he chuckles a little.

"You keep surprising me today... Do I really matter to you that much?"

[fledglingcrow]

"Well, of course. Why wouldn't you?" he said a little red at his confession.