
@croccin-champagne
"I did! You know, maybe I should get a chicken." She mused. "Do you think I should get one? Or would it be too messy?"
"I did! You know, maybe I should get a chicken." She mused. "Do you think I should get one? Or would it be too messy?"
"Landlord would kill me. Funny thought, though. Hey, is Jaiden still asleep?"
Emma nodded, xmiling. "I shut her door so she couldn't hear."
Manon blinked. He said that as though she lived there now. "Well, that is good. I am going to start making some eggs, Emma, would you like to assist me?"
Emma nodded, and Eli set her down, his smile disappearing as soon as the little girl's back was turned.
"You go check on Jaiden, and we will get started on the best breakfast you have ever had!" Manon smiled brightly, her eyes still a bit sad. She held out her hand to Emma.
He nodded, making his way up the stairs and coming back down with Jaiden a few minutes later.
She pulled Emma into the kitchen, lifting her and setting her on the counter as she pulled a few things from the fridge. "So how do you usually eat your eggs? Scramble? Fried?"
"Crunchy." Emma said as Eli laughed from the other room. "Eli isn't very good at cracking eggs."
"Ah, well, how about you try my eggs, and tell me what you think. And then next time, if you prefer them crunchy, we will have Eli crack them." Manon said, muffling her laughter with her hand as she cracked an egg with the free one, in a practiced motion.
"Hey, they aren't that bad," he said as he walked in, Jaiden following him.
"Eggs," She said, pointing at him. "Are not supposed to be crunchy." With that, she continued to crack eggs into the bowl she had pulled out.
"They are in Casa de Rogers." He smiled, watching her prepare. His eyes were so bloodshot it had looked like someone colored them in with a red marker, but the girls never noticed.
"Well, we are changing that, at least for today. Grab a pan and put it on the stove, set the burner on medium heat." She instructed, pointing at him with the fork she was about to whisk eggs with. "And I need butter."
"Alright." Jaiden made her way over to a pantry as Eli turned the bburner on, handing him a pan. "Thanks, baby girl," he said, kissing the top of her head, then walking over to the fridge and grabbing a stick of butter, setting the pan on the stovetop.
"Now we melt the butter!" She looked fairly happy, spinning around the kitchen as she whisked the eggs, humming.
He grabbed a butter knife from the fridge and cut off a little slab, plopping it onto the pan and dragging it around to spread it out evenly.
She poured the eggs in as it started to melt, grabbing a spatula and using it to scrape the eggs as they cooked. "Is there anything else you three would like with your breakfast?"
"Are you asking me, or them?"
"Well I did say three, so yes, I am asking you as well as them." She smiled, looking up at him.
"I'm fine," Emma said. "Fine," Jaiden echoed, which made Eli smile. "I'm good," he finished.
"It is like you have some sort of hive mind." She quipped jokingly as she seasoned the eggs, and finished cooking them.
He grabbed four plates from the cupboard and set them down on the counter.
She scraped the eggs onto the plates, one of them with a bit less than the others, which she took for herself. "There!"
He walked over to a tiny table in the living room with only two chairs, setting two of the plates there before grabbing 4 forks. He set two on that table, and offered one to Manon.
She took it with a smile. "Thank you."
"Of course." He sat down on the couch, chowing down.
Manon sat on the arm of the couch, eating slowly. She closed her eyes, smiling at something.
((If I drop off the face of the earth, it's cos I fell asleep lmao. It's almost one am here.
((Almost 4 here
"Thanks, by the way," he said, scooting closer to where she sat. "I have to admit, this is better than crunchy eggs."
She was startled out of whatever she was thinking, and after her brain caught up she smiled. "It is nothing. My eggs will never be better than those of the woman who taught me though. Brilliant woman, in the kitchen and out."
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