#crumpet

all this crumpet talk got me thinking. How lovely would it be for them to realize their feelings as a result of a very pregnant Maddie telling Buck his baking is gross and she's sorry, but she cannot eat another bite of this pie? Not anymore! She needs to speak her truth! And then Chim runs out of the room the minute Buck tries to ask him if it’s true. When he calls Hen on the way home, she fakes a bad connection and hangs up. Buck gets home to the house he shares with Eddie, who is eating a comically large piece of coffee cake, mouth half full, just grinning at Buck from the table. And Buck will be like, "Eddie. I am NOT a good baker, why didn't you tell me?" Eddie will just chew thoughtfully, and finally say, "but you ARE a good baker????" and Buck will whine, "noooo, Eddie, Maddie told me that the crust of the pie I made tasted like Jee's sandbox *after* it got infested with ants, and the filling reminded her of Chimney's expensive face cream! WHY didn't you say anything? WHY are you eating the coffee cake now????" and both Buck and Eddie just sit there, having their own, individual mmm whatcha say montage flashbacks because Buck's baking DOES stink and yet it never occurred to Eddie that it might. It never occurred to him to not love it. He just does. The products objectively suck, but Eddie enjoys them regardless, in spite, despite, without thought, immediately, intrinsically. He would eat a million brownies with hidden pockets of solid, unmixed butter happily over anything from a 5 star restaurant. He DID eat all those cookies that Chris tried one of and immediately said tasted like windex watered down. And come to think of it those snickerdoodles tasted more like sour cherry warhead candies than cookies...and huh, isn't that something. It's certainly Not Nothing. And Buck is just like "fuck. It wasn't so crazy. Why is he still eating that coffee cake??? I AM in love with Eddie. He's got horrible tastebuds, probably has something wrong with him for real medically speaking, but I LOVE him. Oh my god I think I put in a cup of vanilla extract in that coffee cake, why is he still eating it??? I love him so so so so much.” And Eddie is like, “oh my god, I think if he made rat entrails in garlic mixed with maple walnut ice cream I’d eat it and I would enjoy it and I would love it.”