fandomhigh | In the Cupcake of Good and Evil, Tuesday 2nd Period [3/5]

Smiling sweetly as ever, Summer stood in front of the classroom and, once everyone was settled in, she held up something dark green and round, almost like some kind of tiny dragon egg from times of yore, but most people would recognize it for what it truly was.

Stark, of course, recognized it but he had the advantage of knowing in advance what the theme of the week was. Also he knew what Summer had in her hand was not merely an avocado but a device capable of culinary horrors.

"Avocados!" she announced. "Or, if you're fancy, freesh avah-cadoo, staple for Mexican cuisine and the downfall of many of a millennial. But ingredient for cupcakes? Hmmm. Maybe! Anything could be an ingredient for a cupcake if you try hard enough, and, actually, avocado is often used in a lot of vegan baking, to add a sort of richness without the use of eggs or butter. It's actually known to pair very well with chocolate, a combination of which could make for a really rich cupcake.

"They're also very well known for being the base of guacamole," Summer continued happily, "and guacamole is exactly what I decided to make my cupcakes with this week!"

Stark had been watching and listening with interest. He had used avocados before and that had been fine but guacamole was something entirely different. “With onions, Summer? In the cupcakes?” He sighed and shook his head. “Or something worse?” There were so many options!

“I’ve used avocado with chocolate before. Summer’s right,” Stark continued. She usually was. “It does work well even though it seems odd. So I’ve made some chocolate avocado cupcakes again today. They’re vegan, too.” Maybe Stark ought to offer some to Steven or Watts.

“So, go ahead and try to make something of your own. I would prefer you avoided onions but I can’t stop any of you.” And Stark wouldn’t even dream of trying to stop Summer.

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And that kind of behavior, however fleeting, shouldn'r go unrewarded.

Summer looked Stark up and down with a grin that may have already thought of what a few of those rewards might be.

"Within reason," she said. "I get veto power.

"...line item veto," she amended.

"Line item veto?" Stark echoed. "I'm...not sure what that means?"

He wasn't going to ask for anything too objectionable. He would never.

"That's when I can veto particular parts of it but keep other parts," Summer explained. "No point in throwing out the whole reward just because of a few off details."

"I'll try not to come up with anything you'll want to get rid of," Stark said after a moment.

"I want you to be happy, you know."

Hey, hey, hey. Don't be bringing that sincerity into this, Stark!

But, of course, it was Stark, so it really couldn't be helped.

"I know," she said, her smile a soft, somewhat reluctant concession to that sincerity. "But it is for a guacamole jello shot. Wouldn't want to let it go to waste."

"I'll think on it and try to come up with something good," Stark promised. "But maybe...not too good?"

Summer just sort of looked at Stark for a moment before she decided that, fuck it, she would just go ahead and ask.

"Why wouldn't you want it to be too good?"

"Nothing so good you won't agree to it," Stark told her, grinning.

Summer looked overtly suspicious of that grin, even if she was sporting a little bit of one herself.

"The idea," she told him, "is to come up with something so good, that I won't want to do anything but agree."

"I'll keep that in mind," Stark assured her. "For tomorrow night."

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