Ashley Coulson
10 Feb 2021, 19:19
To Heck With No Sugar!
@Katie Palsorette
This thread is for the Frosting for Sweethearts errand.
Ashley peeked through the large doorway into the Great Hall nervously. She didn't like big crowds of people, but she would just have to deal. She needed to get out of her comfort zone every once in a while, to try something new. Ashley straightened her glasses and fastened her long red hair into a ponytail before slowly walking into the large, cavernous room. It was the day before Valentines day, a holiday that Ashley disliked for several reasons. One, she felt it put too much pressure on people to be romantically involved. Two, it made people who didn't have anyone to spend the day with feel bad. And three, red and pink were the colors that went the worst with Ashley's long, flaming red hair. But oh well. She was going to march her butt in there and decorate some cookies, and so help her god, she was going to have fun doing it.
Ashley hadn't decorated cookies in almost a year.Her father was obsessed with baking and and sweets of all kinds, and he often roped the rest of the family into helping him make a lattice top for an apple pie, or tasting a triple chocolate cherry brownie he had invented. But his favorite things to make were cookies, so Ashley had decorated quite a few in her twelve years. Ashley's mum, on the other hand, was disgusted by the large amounts of sugar that her father fed Ashley and her sister, Sybil. But her father always grinned, slinging his arm around her mum's shoulder, and he would say, "To heck with no sugar!" Ashley smiled at the memory.
As she entered the room, Ashley was handed six unfrosted sugar cookies, and she watched as house elves busily rushed around with tubs of pastel colored frosting and many varieties of sprinkles. Ashley sat down at a nearly empty table, staring at her cookies. How should she decorate them? Ashley bit her lip. There were a lot of options. Finally, she carefully spread a layer of thick snow-white frosting on her first cookie. She then picked up a piping bag filled with a deep pink frosting and piped a large, only slightly lopsided heart in the middle of the white-frosted cookie, finishing it off with a pinch of fine red sprinkles. Ashley smiled. She was actually enjoying herself. She picked up another plain cookie and bedazzled it with red and pink swirled frosting and white heart shaped sprinkles. Ashley had just finished her third cookie (light pink frosting with a border of multicolored sprinkles) when she noticed that a girl, around her own age, had sat down across from her, decorating her own cookies. Ashley smiled. "Hi, I'm Ashley."
Word Count - 451/400
18 Feb 2021, 12:45
To Heck With No Sugar!
Katie lightly smiled as she gracefully bounced into the room. She grinned at the girl across from her. She had lately felt slightly more rash, but not significantly. She really wanted to cut her hair though. The ponytails seemed too childish and girly to Katie. She kinda just wanted to chop them both off. It was a shame that her parents would never allow it, but they were traditional that way. She sighed and got back to focus on the task at hand though. Katie and her partner would be frosting cookies today! Katie grinned in internal excitement and enthusiasm. "Hello", Katie said, "I'm Katie and I am looking forward to working with you Ashley," Katie added, introducing herself.
Katie looked down at the table with cookies and frosting supplies scattered around. She picked a cookie, and while holding a tube of deep navy blue frosting, swirled a pretty pattern of loops, swirls, and checkerboard marks onto her sugary sweet cookie. Katie stood back and grinned at her cookie in delught. She dusted a few dark chocolate shavings on top of the cookie's frosting, and barely caught herself in time to not eat the cookie right then and there.I
Katie set the cookie down on a tray, and picked up another cookie to decorate (with purple frosting this time).
@Ashley Coulsen
219/400
Katie looked down at the table with cookies and frosting supplies scattered around. She picked a cookie, and while holding a tube of deep navy blue frosting, swirled a pretty pattern of loops, swirls, and checkerboard marks onto her sugary sweet cookie. Katie stood back and grinned at her cookie in delught. She dusted a few dark chocolate shavings on top of the cookie's frosting, and barely caught herself in time to not eat the cookie right then and there.I
Katie set the cookie down on a tray, and picked up another cookie to decorate (with purple frosting this time).
@Ashley Coulsen
219/400
Katie Palsorette
Stats: Stamina: 6 Evasion: 6 Strength: 5 Wisdom: 7 Arcane Power: 6 Accuracy: 5
Ashley Coulson
19 Feb 2021, 19:30
To Heck With No Sugar!
@Katie Palsorette
Ashley smiled at the girl with the brown hair, Katie, and bent down again to decorate her last three cookies. On the fourth cookie, she piped a white circle around the very edge and filled it in with baby blue frosting and dark blue sprinkles. For the next one, she paired champagne pink and light yellow frosting with white sprinkles. Ashley stared at her last cookie with her hands on her hips. Finally, she decided on violet frosting with light and dark pink sprinkles. After she finished, Ashley looked at her hands. They were covered in frosting and sprinkles, and, as a result, were very sticky. When she looked down, she found that her clothes had suffered the same fate. She was now decked out in her pink, purple, yellow, red, and blue make-shift tie-dyed finery. Ashley laughed. Usually, this kind of thing would have bothered her, as she was a huge neat freak. But today, she just laughed. Maybe it was okay to get dirty every once in a while. Ashley managed to find a few napkins to wipe off her hands with, but her clothes would have to wait until later. With her somewhat clean hands, she boxed up her decorated cookies. She had decided to donate them to be distributed to unsuspecting staff members and students. In the process of boxing them up, Ashley managed to get even more frosting on her hands and clothes.
"I don't even know how I got so much more frosting on myself than on my cookies!" Ashley quipped with a smile to Katie, the girl across from her.
2456 + 451 =719/400