♥ Binks!

Kronk knocked on the door and then waited patiently for her to say it was okay for him to come in. He first popped his head in through the door and grinned before holding up the plate of the cake for her. Yet, it was only when he reached her bed that he noticed it wasn’t just Cap who laid beside her. It was also a small creature with orange fur that he was sure had not been living with them until now. The boy stopped halfway and looked over at his friend with his eyebrow arched as he chuckled, “I don’t want to alert you, Binks but your hair may have come to life.”

Laying on her bed, on her side, her hair splayed over the pillow, she watched Cap very carefully sniffing the new friend. Cheese, as she'd named her, was simply adventuring across the bed paying no mind to the Corgi. The kitten jolted when the knock came, darting up the bed closer to Binks' face to stare in the direction of the offending noise. Bianca giggled, beckoning her roommate to enter. She sat up slowly, scooping the kitten up as she did so and smiled at Kronk, "she does look like that, doesn't she?" Holding her up towards his face, she introduced though half of her focus was on the cake in his hand, "this is Cheese. She's new."

"If she ever comes back? Dash?" it was hard to hide the alarmed tone in her voice. He couldn't just word something like that and not have her worry even more than she previously was, "do you mean she won't come back? Is she a danger to herself or in danger in another way?" Binks shook her head, trying to calm herself down and only managing to feel more sick to her stomach with worry than she already way. She needed to keep everything in perspective. She knew Mel and if there was one thing she knew better than anything else, it was that she wasn't selfish. She wouldn't leave her loved ones wondering forever. There was probably a more likely answer than the one her brain jumped to first. "Okay, I'll do what I can here but Dash, you'll keep me updated? I- you'll let her know that I love her and want her to be safe, right?"

"Like gone for good gone?" Binks stared at Barrel, hoping that by sheer willpower she'd be able to read his mind because he wasn't being overly helpful with his words. She understood that whatever was going on was bothering him, so his demeanor wasn't a surprise but she did wish that he'd feel at least comfortable enough by now to treat her with the tiniest bit of explanation - they had known each other for a while. "It is a big deal, Barrel. If it wasn't than she would have said something but she didn't," she offered before tilting her head to see if she could catch his gaze, "are you alright?"

"Wait, what?" her voice was laced with surprise, not expecting to hear that Mel had gone anywhere. "But, she was supposed to be on the schedule for work this week.." Bianca trailed off, in the back of her mind she knew what Barrel had meant by her having gone but she didn't know how to admit it to herself. She shook her head before asking, even though she knew how dumb it sounded before it hit the air, "are you sure? I mean, did you know it was something she wanted to do? Maybe she's just taking an impromptu vacation?"

Binks felt her stomach sink, a cold rush of worry settling itself on her shoulders. She'd already heard as much from Barrel and though she believed him, she wanted that tiny part of her mind that thought it might've been a cruel prank to be true. Her brows knitted together as she tried to comprehend it all, lately there were a lot of questions swirling in her head about how Mel was and if there was anything she could have done to help. If there was anything she'd missed in regards to the brunette asking for help. Bianca felt hopeless, "surely she can't have just disappeared, she must've..she must be.." She bit her lower lip, the distress on her face unable to be concealed, "what can I do?"

Bianca tipped her head to the side, her brows furrowing in confusion. It wasn't abundantly clear to her what she'd said that had made him take such a stance, maybe he was lost in thought and she'd interrupted him. "Sorry to interrupt your--" she looked at the skateboard and just dropped the topic, not really knowing what he was up to in the first place, "I'm sorry to bother you, it's just I hadn't really heard from Mel since she started with the community service and I just figured she was so busy she couldn't get back to me or anything but now I just, I'm not even sure. I haven't heard from her, do you think it's possible she's still sleeping?"

Mel shrugged “Any person Fauna would choose would be a great choice.” Melody tilted her head slightly to the side pondering their participation on the competition, it would be a fun experience but the cameras and every little thing they were doing frightened Mel a bit. “To be honest I think I’d have a meltdown. I can’t deal with competition. I take hours to bake because I like to take things slow.” She plopped on the couch, crossing her legs under her and letting her head rest on the edge of the sofa. “Although your mixing abilities are truly fabulous, that’s not magic! That’s the work of those little timers shaped like an egg. “ Mel explained gesturing at the 2 egg timers on the counter. “Egg one is for batch one and egg 2 is for the batch you just put in. Easy as pie.”  Mel let her jaw drop in shock “What the fucking fuck. Either that tasted like heaven or I have no faith in these type of competitions anymore.” She crossed her arms over her chest. Melody looked at Bianca at the corner of her eye “If she doesn’t I will personally present it to her on a silver platter.”

Binks glanced over into the kitchen at the egg timers Mel referred to, "I still don't know why you don't have cute animal shaped ones. Or if you do, why you don't bring them here. Maybe afraid Jelly will hide them from you?" As if on queue, Kronk's ferret darted across the room with one of Cap's stuffed toys to squirrel away in some random corner. She ran her hands over her face before continuing to stare in disbelief at the screen. "They told us where she worked at the beginning of the episode, right? If she wins, I think we'll have to take a road trip to see just why this woman won because from what I'm watching, I can't believe she's gotten this far." Grinning over at Mel, she added, "or we can just do it so you can deliver her a butt shaped cake simply because I want to see you present that to her with a straight face." A fit of giggles overtook her as her hands once again covered her face, her voice coming out muffled, “oh my gosh, by being friends with you I’ve turned into such a menace. I’m suggesting butt shaped cakes and the only thing that went through my head was ‘who’s butt would be best.’“