My dreams are made of gold

[Rain Tseung]

Rain stepped into the culinary classroom; she wanted to bake some cookies. Around this time of year she always baked a bunch of cookies than handed them out to the homeless. She figured it was kind of like her Christmas gifts to them, something that made her feel good, and made others feel good as well. She had a bunch of different cookies she was going to make, sugar cookies, chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodle, ginger bread, oatmeal, and some other ones. All the ingredients to make the cookies from scratch were in plastic bags from the grocery store which she had carried from her dorm to the classroom.

There was something special about taking a Saturday afternoon just to make cookies for other people. She thought about making cookies to hand out to the students in Bellefonte, and while she may do that at a later date she figured it would be nicer if she made them for people in need. Rain did not think about how cookies might not be the greatest gift in terms of healthiness, however, she did think it was a great gift for people who hadn’t had something sweet to eat in a long time. A part of her wanted to also take thermoses of hot chocolate or tea as well, she thought that might be too much work for her to handle, however, she was going to give out water bottles.

Rain placed her bags on the ground, getting only necessary ingredients out as she needed them instead of making a mess by taking everything out. She grabbed a cutting board, a mixing bowl, beaters, and a rolling pin out of a pantry in the back room and placed them on a counter top. Then she grabbed ingredients for the chocolate chip cookies and started mixing the dough together. When she was done mixing the ingredients together she grabbed a cookie sheet, and tin foil, placing the tin foil on the cookie sheet she then began to place spoonfuls of cookie dough on the pan. As she waited for the oven to preheat she began to lick cookie dough off her fingers, the spoon, and the mixing bowl. “Yummy”, one of the best parts of making cookies was to eat the small bits of cookie dough which was left over.

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[Cora James]

Cora had never been one for staying still. Especially now that she had just transferred to Bellefonte, she found herself unable to stay at her dorm room. She had yet to actually meet any of her roommates, though, she also realized it was her own fault. She didn't spend a whole lot of time there, so it wasn't as if she gave them any chances to really get to know her.

Walking down the hallways, she used the moment of solitude to explore. It wasn't until she passed one of the classrooms that she heard noise indicating someone else was out and about. Curiosity struck her then as she moved closer, eyes narrowing at the sign outside the door. "Home ec.?" she muttered to herself, brows furrowing.

Opening the door, Cora peeked her head through the door, blinking at the sudden light and movement inside. Her green eyes finally fell upon a young girl who, apparently, was cooking. Whatever she was cooking, it looked delicious.

"Hey," she announced herself, stepping through. "Whatcha cooking?" she asked, looking over the various bags and equipment.

[Rain Tseung]

Rain would like to think that she was friends with her roommates, even if they didn’t consider her their friend. Rain was a gentle soul who liked to get to know people, which meant she was quite a friendly person. Even outside of her roommates she was a friendly person, she liked to make people feel happy, and one way to do that was to just make them her friends.

The girl really wasn’t paying attention to the doorway, or the hallways. She did not think there was any rule against students using the home ec room for recreational purposes as long as she cleaned everything and didn’t break anything. The actual school kitchens were crowded with workers, and she did not want to disrupt the people who were actually getting paid to work in that kitchen. Because of that she really had nowhere else to cook except this room she was currently in.

The brown eyed girl looked up at the girl who just walked in. Blinking a few times, she realized she did not look all the clean from the saliva and cookie dough on her fingers. She went to the sink and started to clean her hands with the water. “Hello! I’m baking cookies. Do you want to help? If you don’t want to that’s fine, you can still stick around, I can bake you a batch if you want.” She really wasn’t sure if the girl was on a diet or not, but did not care for now, she would still like the company either way.

[Cora James]

Cora's eyebrows shot up at the apparently chatty girl's response. She was offering to do all the work and then share her goods? Well, Cora was never one to say no to something like that. "I'm not much of a baker," she said honestly as she stepped further into the room. "But people tell me I'm good at fetching the things they need." She furrowed her brows then. "Granted I know what it is that they want me to fetch..."

She shrugged her shoulders sheepishly as she stepped towards the counter and leaned against it, elbows resting against the surface. "Whatcha cooking?" she asked, head tilting curiously. Not being much of a baker usually meant that Cora wasn't able to name any dishes - then again, that also went for food and not just sweets.

She looked at the girl then, studying her from top to toe before offering her a friendly smile. "I'm Cora."

[Rain Tseung]

Rain was giving talkative, and also very generous. The girl did not mind baking everything and then sharing with other people. This was something she did a lot, and a part of her wanted to open up a bakery when she got older, it is on the top ten list of things she wants to do after she graduates. Rain raised her eyebrows and smiled at Cora, “That’s not a problem, not a lot of people are. Baking takes quite a bit of effort to really get into, I just have a lot of time on my hands I guess.” She rubbed the back of her hair and gave a small chuckle. “When it comes to baking cookies the ingredients are pretty basic, you have your flour, butter, vanilla extract , your chocolate chips, and other basic things depending on the type of cookies you want to make.”

Rain was pretty sure she had already answered the question on what she was cooking, she also thought it was quite obvious she was making cookies. “I am baking cookies.” Rain did get all out of sorts when people confused cooking with baking, they were two different things, which meant two different things. However, Rain wasn’t the type to draw attention toward, everyone had their moments and were ignorant about one thing or another. “Is there a type of cookie you prefer? I personally love oatmeal raisin.” If the other girl say she had a favorite cookie, Rain would probably make that type next.

“Oh! I’m sorry, I’m Rain! I would shake your hand or something but mine are just a little dirty at the moment.” Dirty as in covered with flour, not so much as dirty with germs and well dirt.

[Cora James]

"You make the simplest thing sound difficult," Cora chuckled, her eyes darting between the various ingredients. No, she wasn't much of a baker. Or a cook. Or a cleaner. In fact, she would make the lousiest house wife ever - good thing she wasn't interested in getting married. Or get into a serious relationship for that matter. Some things, like the girl said, wasn't for everyone.

The other girl's question had the brunette considering. She wasn't much of a sweets person to begin with, and cookies weren't something she ate all that often. Answering the question with a shrug, Cora pursed her lips. "I don't know, if I'm being totally honest." A sheepish smile formed on her lips then.

"Nah, it's cool." Cora's eyes wandered over the room once more. "Most of the people back at St. Bethany seemed too stuck up to ever bake," she explained then shrugged. "People seem more relaxed here."

[Rain Tseung]

Rain frowned, she guess to someone who didn’t cook or bake much that what she had explained would have sounded almost like she was a rocket scientist. “Oh… Sorry. I didn’t realize how complicated it might sound to someone who doesn’t bake or even cook.” She wasn’t trying to make it should difficult to do. However, Rain never believe a woman should have to do the house work, if their partner was completely fine with doing the house work then there really shouldn’t be a problem.

Rain smiled at the girl gently, “that’s okay, I know some people aren’t into sweets or don’t care enough to have a favorite. Well, we can make sugar cookies next! There are kind of fun to make after you get the dough done, because you can cut them in shapes with cookie cutters.” Even if the girl didn’t want to mix anything, she might have fun cutting them into fun shapes. Also, what could go wrong with sugar cookies?

The brunette looked at the other girl with a curious look, she never been to another academy, therefore she couldn’t really say much about how different they were. “I do not believe wanting to bake has anything to do with a person’s personality. I believe it’s more of a passion, and everyone is entitled to their own different passions. Baking it not as easy as it looks, and if you ask anyone who cooks they would tell you they don’t bake because baking is harder.” She smiled at Cora, she was never one to judge people, and she wasn’t going to start now.