#it's premix blueberry muffin

[ryllen]

Cupcake for bebé

[if-you-built-yourself-a-myth]

Yellow Curtains - Chapter Two

Lucas Lallemant happens upon several people online who appear to be living lives quite similar to his own– maybe even the same. (Or, all the alternate Isaks find each other online when Even becomes famous)

Find part one here.

By the time the notification popped up on his phone sometime the following week, Lucas had almost forgotten he had sent the message at all. On Monday, he went with Yann to a skate park for the first time in a long while. He spent Tuesday with Eliott reorganizing the flat and shopping for kitchen utensils they were now missing since Manon moved out. Who knew that Mika didn’t actually own any of the pots and pans?  Wednesday brought some much-needed alone time for he and Eliott to enjoy. On Thursday, he was too busy throwing little handfuls of flour into Eliott’s hair as they attempted to make muffins to think about Isak and Even.

His phone dinged, and he remembered.

 isakyaki: Who are you?

 Lucas paused in the flour fight to read the words again and check who sent them. Isak responded! A pseudo-famous person responded to a message he sent! The only problem was that the response was in English, which had never been Lucas’s forte, and that meant all their future communication would have to fall under the same language. He should’ve paid more attention in English class.

Eliott used this opportunity to rub a batter-covered finger on Lucas’s nose and dance just out of reach when Lucas made a move to grab him back. No doubt, today his boy was in rare form. Despite the perpetual dark circles under his eyes, Eliott managed to look happier and more awake than ever. His red shirt—stolen from Lucas’s wardrobe a while back—clung to his form like a second skin and sported a fine white dusting like powdered sugar on top of a fruit-filled cake.

“That’s not fair!” Lucas protested. He set his phone down on the countertop to dip his fingers in a cup of milk and fling the droplets at Eliott.

Eliott dodged. “You’re the one who got distracted.” He picked up a couple chocolate chips and moved as if to throw them, but decided better of it and popped them one by one into his mouth. Instead, he rubbed the excess melted chocolate from his fingers onto Lucas’s white shirt. That wasn’t going to come off in the wash. Damn it. Lucas rubbed the stain and found it only clung to the fabric further.

“Distracted with something important.” Lucas turned the phone so Eliott could read the message on the screen. “Isak answered.”

Eliott approached slowly, one arm behind his back. He put his forearm on Lucas’s shoulder and rested his chin there. “You messaged him?”

“Last week. I didn’t think he’d answer.”

“Well, I wouldn’t have. That message is creepy as hell. I would have blocked you the second I saw it in my inbox.”

Lucas felt Eliott’s free arm moving behind him, but didn’t realize the potential consequences until he felt something sticky crack on the top of his head. He didn’t need to touch the substance to know that it was raw egg.

“Fuck, Eliott!” The egg white dripped down Lucas’s forehead and beaded on his shirt. “Do you hear what I’m trying to tell you?”

“I win!”

“You haven’t won shit.”

There was a second where he was actually kind of upset about it, but he could never stay peeved when he looked up at Eliott’s smiling face. He’d seen Eliott’s sadness enough to cherish every moment Eliott was happy—even if it was at his expense. And the shirt was already doomed to the trash can. He could get another one. Instead of snapping at his boyfriend, he smiled right back.

“But seriously, what do I respond?”

Eliott shrugged. He threw a blueberry into the air and caught it in his mouth. When he smiled, blue stains covered his teeth. Lucas backed away, but Eliott advanced a little bit to wrap his arm about Lucas’s neck. “You want to taste?”

“You’re gross.”

“I’m not gross, I’m baking. Which we’re supposed to be doing together.”

Right, meant to be baking together. They’d had this Thursday planned since three weeks ago when Eliott wasn’t feeling so well. Lucas put down the phone on the counter once more and took Eliott’s hands in his own, palm to palm, where he cycled them together so that they formed a heart on the air. The stringy portion of the egg from Eliott’s fingers ran into his own, thickened by the flour and the premixed batter on Eliott’s fingertips. Disgusting. He pulled Eliott down towards him for a kiss.

“You know I love you, Eliott.”

“Me too.”

“How long is that going to be a joke for?”

Eliott tangled his hands in Lucas’s hair and kissed him once more. “For as long as we’re together, I’m not going to let it go.”

As long as we’re together, as if there was an expiration date? No, not in Lucas’s apartment, not when they were both so happy. “So… forever?”

Eliott laughed. Fuck, it was nice to hear Eliott laugh. “Yes, alright, forever.”

Their lips locked once more, a moment of domestic bliss. These were the moments worth living for. He felt Eliott’s hand slide up his shirt at the bottom and along the bare skin underneath, and then lower and lower and—this probably wasn’t the best thing to do in a kitchen, while making food, with their hands covered in muffin batter. Paint was bad enough, but food?

“I appreciate your offer,” he said, pushing away slightly, “but this relationship…” He trailed his lips along Eliott’s cheek. “…isn’t going to last…” He kept just far enough away that Eliott could feel his breath but couldn’t kiss him yet. “…if you don’t support me.” He gave Eliott a split-second peck and drew away to pick up the phone again.  “What do I write?”

Eliott gave an exaggerated sigh. He leaned onto the counter with both elbows. “Fine. I say you should lay it all out. Tell the whole story.” He ticked a list off of his fingers. “Where you saw me, what happened there, Chloe, the joint, and then what we had after.”

“Isn’t that a bit forward?”

“It’s a bit forward to have messaged in the first place. If I were you, I’d give some specifics and wait for him to react to them. When he doesn’t, we move on.”

“Okay.” Lucas calculated a sort of summary and typed it all down. He let Eliott read over it before he pressed send, in case there were any typos. Eliott had a better handle on English than he did.

 lucallemant: I met my boyfriend, Eliott, at a group meeting organized by our friend Daphne. When it was over, the two of us ran into each other again at the bus stop and he offered to smoke a joint together. I hadn’t even gotten his name yet when this girl Chloe showed up. She sat right in between us and shared the joint. I ended up dating her for a little bit after that, before cheating on her with Eliott.

 He attached an image of Eliott from their last date, to give his story some authenticity.

 lucallemant: I saw your interview and it sounded really similar to how you met Even.

 Lucas almost turned off his phone to focus on Eliott, expecting the next response to come in another week like the first one, but Isak replied within seconds this time.

 isakyaki: Weird.

isakyaki: So that’s Eliott?

 That wasn’t more than a minute. Isak must have read something in that story that sounded even more familiar—or maybe he stalked Lucas’s Instagram and saw something there. Either way, Lucas knew a quick response meant something important.

“Look at that,” he told Eliott, passing him the phone.

Eliott didn’t take it; his hands were covered in enough gross shit to destroy the thing. Come to think of it, Lucas’s hands weren’t exactly the cleanest specimens to use for handling electronics. He wiped them on Eliott’s shirt.

 lucallemant: yes, that’s him.

isakyaki: He looks like someone I know, I think

 So he wasn’t alone in noting their similarities.

Lucas smacked Eliott on the shoulder. “He thinks you look like someone he knows.”

“I look like a lot of people.”

“Like who?”

“I don’t know.”

The oven dinged; it was preheated for the muffins. Eliott dumped the blueberries into the batter and began mixing it with a corkscrew; Manon took the whisks and no way was Lucas going to pay 7.12€ for a new one. They could get along fine with limited utensils. Manon also took the muffin tin, so this batch would be baked in the new mugs they bought on Tuesday. Eliott said several times that this would be a bad idea and that they’d probably set fire to whatever vessel they tried to cook in, and Lucas enjoyed ignoring his boyfriend’s voice of reason. Eventually, the older boy caved.

Eliott poured the batter into each of the mugs and arranged them in lines on a sheet pan. “How long does the recipe say to bake it for?”

Lucas didn’t want to exit the Instagram app to get back to the recipe, so he estimated the amount of time it took Manon last time she made any sort of baked good. “Thirty minutes.”

“And you’re sure about this?”

“Positive.”

“If it blows up in our faces, it’s your fault. Mika won’t get mad at me again, do you hear?”

The last time they did something like this, Lucas accidentally lit the pasta on fire and activated the sprinkler system in the flat. Mika had threatened Eliott with death if they did something similar again. It shouldn’t have made him sad, but it kind of did, to know that Mika really didn’t care for him that much and he was the outsider in their flat either way. Maybe if they kicked him out, he could move in with Eliott for good.

“Totally my fault,” he confirmed.

 isakyaki: There’s a picture on your Instagram captioned “21hr21.” What’s important about that time in particular?

 Well, that was when they took the photo. Because it seemed right. Because they were out with Yann and Arthur and saw the photo booth and thought, fuck it, and it just so happened to be at that perfect time. Did that time mean something to Isak?

 lucallemant: Is it important to you?

 He waited for a couple seconds, eyeing Isak’s typing bubbles on the screen below. Then they vanished. Isak had seen his message, but wasn’t going to answer right away. He supposed this was fair.

Eliott wrapped his arms around Lucas’s waist from behind and began to sway them back and forth together. “Pay attention to me,” he sang, to the tune of a song Lucas knew but couldn’t put his finger on. “Pay attention to me. Love me. Put down the phone and love me.”

“I do love you.”

“Then show me.” Eliott hooked a finger in Lucas’s belt loop and kissed him on the neck.

Lucas let himself melt into the touch. “Who would’ve thought that the man of my life would be so needy.”

“Oh, so I’m the man of your life?” Eliott recoiled with a smile.

“I sure hope so. Otherwise, things are going to get awkward.”

He brought the two of them together once more. Screw it. If they could make out covered in paint, muffin batter and egg really wouldn’t be that different. And if Lucas hadn’t gotten poisoned from acrylics right in his mouth, the chances of him getting salmonella were far slimmer. He hoisted himself onto the countertop for better access (why did Eliott have to be so damn tall?) and set the phone down beside him so he could cup his hands around Eliott’s face.

When his phone buzzed next, he didn’t hear it.

 isakyaki: I just got another message. It’s from someone called Martino Rametta.

[foodieflavors]

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[chiseplushie]

I made coffee and blueberry muffins (premixed kind) today before 9am.