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Putting the ingredients together takes focus, which works really well to keep him from getting bored, and two hours later he's got 48 cookies cooling on plates all over the kitchen.

When his mom walks in a few minutes later, she raises her eyebrows. "You got a bake sale or something?" she asks.

"No," he says, and eats a cookie.

She eats one, too, and then smiles at him. "Yum."

They are pretty good. - So really, getting into baking was sort of an accident. But his extended family quickly catches on--well, his mom's side, anyway. His dad's side has been out of the picture longer than his dad has. But for Christmas his Abuela gives him a cookbook with traditional mexican recipes in it--most of which are more savoury than sweet, but there's a section of desserts in the back. He gets good at making Conchas.

His mom buys him a cooling rack because "Using all those plates amps up the water bill."

His cousin, Miguel, teaches him to make empanadas. "I can't afford to give you anything," he says, shrugging. "But I can show you a good method for this..."

FAST FORWARD TEN YEARS LATER to when Scott is literally the best baker in the world (maybe; he hasn't gone to any competitions).

Now Scott has a Mexican bakery in Beacon Hills which is doing okay. Mexican pastries aren't highly coveted there, but people like them enough that he still makes a profit. Lydia is always ordering tres leches cakes and Stiles could keep him in business based on the amount of pastel de queso he eats alone.

He has a couple high schoolers working for him, and he hired his cousin Miguel to help out in the kitchen, but he can tell Miguel is getting antsy. Beacon Hills was never his home, and his real dream has always been to move back to Mexico. Tio Juan had moved back the year before, and Miguel missed his dad.

But in the meantime, they keep turning out the best empanadas this far north in Cali.

Scott hardly ever goes out to the front of the bakery, except to check on the displays and whoever is working out there. He's a busy guy, especially on days when Miguel isn't there.

So it's just luck that he walks out while Kira is looking over the display case, arms crossed and smiling slightly.

Luck, because she's really adorable, and he feels something twist in his gut that he hasn't really felt twist since he got over Allison.

He's not in the habit of denying himself happiness, so it's no big feat to wander over to where she's standing. "Do you have any questions?" he asks. From what his employees have told him, a lot of people don't really know what they're buying. When they see pastries, they're expecting creamy stuff, but a lot of Mexican pastries are fruity, and they never expect that for some reason.

She jumps in surprise at being spoken to, but smiles at him. "No, I'm just trying to decide if I'm in the mood for empanadas or a piedra."

"I make the piedras," he says, totally casual. "If you wanted a recommendation." He hopes he's looking as alluring as Stiles always says he does.

She dimples and shyly looks down. "I guess I better try that, then," she says. "Can I get two?"

Scott is reaching for a bag before his cashier even has time to react. He chooses the two best looking piedras, though they all look kind of like rocks, so he's not sure he succeeded in that. But he grabbed the two with the most sugar, so that makes up for it, he's sure.

The cashier rings it up, though, eying Scott like he's suspicious of whatever he's trying to pull.

"I hope you like them," Scott says, ignoring that.

"Me too," she says. "I wouldn't normally trust a Mexican Bakery this far north of the border, but your paint job looked promising."

He raises an eyebrow.

She blushes a little and shrugs. "You can just normally tell which ones are trying too hard to look Mexican." She hands her credit card to the cashier and smiles at him. Her arms aren't crossed any more, and he's pretty sure that's a good thing.

"Well, we really are Mexican here," he says, and hands her the cookies. "I'm Scott, by the way."

She smiles. "Kira."

And listeners, he fell in love!

1. What’s your ideal alternate universe for yourself?

2. Favorite trope in movies?

3. Do you like musicals? Are you the type of fan who sings along in the theatre?

4. Describe your favorite pair of socks.

5. Tell me who your favorite female character is and why.

6. Do you prefer your hair to be curly or straight?

7. ugh idk tell me your top 5 otps

8. tell me your favorite headcanon

9. i'm stealing kara's because i want a cool one and it's cool. If you had to be one of the Four Horsemen, who would you be?

10. if u and me went on vacation where would we go

11. do you make anything cool? like art or brownies

I'm only tagging five six people so that everyone's will show up in the tag. ur welcome.