Balkan x Tat & Snowboy x Gussie HC - Baking Lesson
A/N: This one is based on a request from @yellowcorals. I hope you enjoy!
Tat and Gussie had been working in and around their uncle’s bakery since they were little girls. It wasn’t just that they each got a sweet tooth fix from all the delicious treats that were made (though that was certainly a perk). The twins found that they actually really enjoyed being creative in the kitchen and getting to bake all different kinds of fun and unique desserts. Tat, in particular, loved to make people smile by baking them their favorite treats.
As the girls got older, they started working more frequently behind the counter of the bakery. Their uncle teased that their pretty faces would draw more customers than his ugly mug. Still, they loved to get their hands messy in the kitchen and pitched in with the baking whenever possible. Tat specialized in a wide variety of cookies, while Gussie was particularly skilled at baking and decorating cakes. As they did with most things in life, the twins always worked side by side. With their hair tied back in identical ponytails, most of the other bakery employees had a hard time telling them apart.
Two people who never had a hard time telling the girls apart, however, were Balkan and Snowboy. No matter how similarly they may have dressed or worn their hair, the boys could always pick their girls out of a crowd. Balkan could recognize the affectionate twinkle that shone in Tat’s eyes and Snowboy would know Gussie’s laugh anywhere.
Knowing how much the bakery meant to the girls, the boys often joked about getting some baking lessons so that they would be able to keep up with them.
“Well, why don’t we actually do it?” Tat suggested one night when Balkan and Snowboy were escorting her and Gussie home from a group date with the Jets. Balkan had been playfully teasing her about getting the recipe for the cookies she’d brought to share with the gang that evening.
“Do what?” Balkan blinked, gazing down at her as he strolled with his arm around her shoulders.
“A bakin’ lesson! You an’ Snowboy have been jokin’ about it for months now,” Tat said, winking at him.
“Time ta put yer money where yer mouth is,” Gussie chimed in with a smirk, nudging Snowboy laughingly.
Balkan and Snowboy exchanged a look, both clearly never having thought that their girls were going to seriously take them up on their innocent teasing.
“Oh, well…” Balkan murmured, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly with his free hand.
“Scared?” Gussie asked mockingly, always glad for any opportunity to poke fun at her sister’s boyfriend.
“No,” Balkan shot back with an all-too-familiar eye roll. “Snowboy, on the other hand…” he added with a grin, lightly shoving his fellow Jet’s shoulder.
“I ain’t scared!” Snowboy insisted, squeezing Gussie’s hand when she slipped it into his.
“Good, then it’s settled!” Tat beamed, smiling sweetly.
Once it was decided, Tat and Gussie got permission from their uncle to bring their boyfriends to the bakery the following Sunday after they had closed up for the day.
“This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen,” Gussie laughed, crossing her arms over her chest as she and Tat stood surveying Balkan and Snowboy in the aprons they had just finished tying around their waists.
Tat hid a giggle behind her hand, leaning up to press a kiss to Balkan’s reddening cheek. “Yous look very handsome,” she insisted, squeezing her boyfriend’s arm.
Snowboy scrunched up his nose at Gussie, knowing she was only teasing. As if to prove that point, she stood on her tiptoes to press a kiss to the tip of his nose, tugging on his apron affectionately.
Chuckling, Snowboy glanced over at Balkan. “Imagine if the Jets could see us now,” he grinned, already having a pretty good idea of what their friends would say at the sight of them.
Balkan shook his head, grinning ruefully. “They’d give us shit for sure,” he replied. “But ya know Diesel would throw an apron on the second Mamie asked him to, so we ain’t the only ones,” he added with a knowing smirk.
“Alright, alright, time ta get started!” Tat announced, walking over to the counter in the center of the kitchen, where she had already carefully laid out all the ingredients and supplies they would need.
“What are we makin’?” Balkan asked, wrapping his arms around her waist and nuzzling her neck.
“Figured we’d go easy on yous an’ start out with somethin’ fairly simple. Our grandmother’s chocolate chip cookies,” Gussie said, smiling up at Snowboy, who had wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
“My favorite!” Tat chirped brightly, eliciting a doting smile from Balkan.
“Time ta get ta work,” Gussie exclaimed, pushing her boyfriend towards the counter. “Tat’s the cookie expert, so she’s in charge.”
“Snowboy, you an’ Gus can start mixin’ the butter an’ sugars together. Gussie’ll show ya how,” Tat said, pointing at a large bowl. “Balkan an’ I will mix together all the dry ingredients,” she went on, pointing to the flour and baking soda, among other things.
“Sounds like a plan,” Snowboy nodded, grinning as Gussie handed him a stick of softened butter.
The four of them got to work, the boys spending a good deal of time simply admiring how efficient and knowledgable their girlfriends were. Even Balkan and Gussie seemed to be working companionably, hardly any snarky comments being exchanged between the two of them. Or rather, they were, until Gussie noticed that Balkan kept sneaking the chocolate chips into his mouth as Tat was showing him what to do. If her sister noticed, she didn’t seem to mind, but Gussie found herself getting irrationally annoyed at him. She glared at him, wondering if he would notice and take the hint.
Balkan’s eyes finally met hers as he was shoving another handful of chocolate chips into his mouth. Recognizing her scowl, Balkan rolled his eyes in an exaggerated fashion. “Yes, Yer Highness? What is it now?”
Tat and Snowboy both glanced up at that, looking between them.
Gussie crossed her arms over her chest, frowning. “Last I checked, ya can’t make chocolate chip cookies without chocolate chips. An’ now more than half of ��em are in yer stomach!”
“Oh, quit bein’ so dramatic! There’s plenty left,” Balkan shot back, holding up the bowl of chocolate chips to show everyone. “What, no snackin’ on the job?”
“Other people are gonna eat these an’ you keep stickin’ yer nasty hands in there!” Gussie fired back, hands on her hips.
“Oh, watch out, ladies an’ gents, Gussie’s got her hands on her hips! She means business now!” Balkan exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air.
“Balkan…Gussie…” Tat murmured, biting her lower lip.
“Balkan, just take it easy,” Snowboy interjected, frowning slightly. “Gussie’s right, ya probably shouldn’t be eatin’ all the chocolate chips if we need ’em for the cookies.”
“Fine,” Balkan sighed loudly, rolling his eyes once more. “Last one,” he added with a smirk, knowing it would get a rise out of Gussie as he popped another chocolate chip into his mouth.
“Ya oaf!” Gussie glared, crossing her arms over her chest.
“Ya goody two-shoes,” Balkan replied, crossing his arms as well.
“Hey, enough!” Snowboy exclaimed, always highly defensive of Gussie. Picking up a handful of chocolate chips, he chucked them in Balkan’s direction. Some went flying, however, and ended up hitting Tat in the process.
“Hey!” Balkan exclaimed, picking up the bowl of flour he and Tat had been mixing and tossing it in Snowboy’s face, effectively dousing both him and Gussie.
Letting out a string of curses, Snowboy pushed the sugar at Balkan and suddenly the two of them were engaged in a rather brutal food fight in the middle of the kitchen.
“Balkan! Stop!” Tat cried, trying to tug on her boyfriend’s arm as he and Snowboy covered each other in their baking ingredients.
“Snowboy! Yer makin’ a mess!” Gussie exclaimed, also trying to pry her boyfriend away from his fellow Jet.
As the boys continued to tussle with one another, the flour and sugar began spilling everywhere on the floor, making it increasingly slippery.
“Boys! Ya need ta—ah!” Tat let out a shriek as she slipped and began falling to the floor, pulling Balkan down with her. Balkan, in turn, bumped into Snowboy, who went down and took Gussie with him.
The four of them sat in stunned silence on the messy kitchen floor, flour and sugar whitening their hair and coating their eyelashes. The silence was broken only when Tat burst out laughing, clutching her stomach as she howled with amusement.
“Tat! It ain’t funny! It’s…it’s…” As she looked around, Gussie found it hard to keep a straight face herself. Within seconds, she joined her twin in a hysterical fit of giggles.
Balkan and Snowboy looked at each other with wide eyes and couldn’t help but start laughing, too. The four of them made an absolutely ridiculous sight. For the next few minutes, they just lay on the floor, laughing until their sides ached and the tears started to sting the corners of their eyes.
“Oh, God, what a mess,” Tat giggled, wiping at her eyes with a flour-coated hand.
“I’m sorry, baby,” Balkan said, sobering slightly. “It’s my fault.”
“Yeah,” Gussie nodded in agreement.
“Gussie!” Tat scolded.
“Alright, it’s mine, too,” Gussie sighed, shaking her head and shooting an exasperated look in Balkan’s direction.
“I’m sorry I hit ya with the chocolate chips, Tat,” Snowboy apologized, looking sincerely contrite.
“It’s alright, Snowboy. It was just an accident,” Tat said, forgiving him with ease.
“We gotta clean this place up,” Gussie sighed, brushing some of the flour out of her hair. “No chocolate chip cookies today, I guess,” she said, rising from the floor with Snowboy’s assistance. The two of them brushed each other off before picking up the supplies that had fallen to the floor.
“There’s always next time,” Balkan said with a wink, holding his hands out to help pull Tat up from the floor. Once she was on her feet, he playfully wiped a bit of flour off her face. “Ya got a little somethin’, right there,” he teased, tapping her nose.
“Get a room,” Gussie told them good-naturedly, laughing as Snowboy suddenly wrapped his arms around her waist and pressed a kiss to her cheek.
At the rate they were going, it took the four of them quite some time to clean everything up, but Tat and Gussie couldn’t remember the last time they’d had so much fun in the kitchen.
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