Its been about a month sense Zeref and I have been on a date. With thanksgiving coming up, and we have the rest of the week off. My parents invited Zeref over to help make food and to also get to know him better. I give my parents the normal 'Please don't embarrass me.' Talk and they agree, but we all know parents do it anyway. I get a text from him, he's just down the road and I'm not even dressed really. 

I throw on some warm clothing and legging. Putting my hair up into a messing bun, I make it down the stairs just in time to hear a knock at the door. I look myself over one more time, flatting down the fly aways in my hair. I open the door to see him in front of me. 

"Hi Zeref, come in."

Stepping aside, I take his coat off for him. He seemed a bit tense from it but before I could ask my parents come in, there smiles are bright and big. "Zeref, hello. Welcome to our home." My mother's cheerful voice seems to set his shoulder even more tense. My father pats his shoulder with a kind smile. "No need to be scared, we've heard a lot about you." 

I grip the jacket hard, I feel my cheeks begin to red in color. I can't believe he said that. I don't dare to look up at Zeref as I hang his coat on the rack. "Um, were going to go cook now. Come on Zeref." I take his hand and take him into the kitchen. Bowls, mixers, everything we could possible need to cook with. I put an apron on then put the larger one on Zeref.

"What are we making today?"

"We're making pumpkin pie. It's my favorite."

"I don't think I've ever had that before."

How is that even possible? It's like an American treasure for thanksgiving.  Poking his nose, I assure him that everything will be fine. I already have the ingredients and instructions on everything we need todo and how todo it. There is no way this can get messed up, I've seen my mom make these all the time and I've even helped, I know what I'm doing. 

"How did it come out so wrong?"

Zeref and I look at what we created and we can both agree, something somewhere went very wrong. The middle which is supposed to be nice and wet like is dark and hard just like the crust. I don't understand. I followed the recipe to a T.

"Um, what the heck happened?"

"I don't know. We did everything right."

I look over everything, playing back each step we took. I look at him with confusion as I shake my head. I mumble to myself when it hits me. I throw the book down, cupping my forehead on how dumb I was. "I'm so stupid, we put way to much flower. I read how many cups we needed and it came out so bad. I don'k know why I thought I could ba-"

Zeref wraps his arms around me. He rest his chin on head while rubbing my back. "You need to slow down. You're talking mile a minute, you're gonna hurt your head. Just breath."

I do as he says and catch my breathing. Hiding my face him his chest, I hear the rhythm of his heart, the feel of his chest going up in down, how his shirt smells of old spice. He strokes my hair, asking if I'm alright now, my only answer is me nodding. A moment later, I hear him chuckling, looking up a big smile is coving his face. 

It's like all of time stopped, it was just him and me in this whole house, the whole world maybe. That smile, is something I hardly get to see, and when I do everything ins the world seems to make sense. "Wh-What's making you laugh?"

"In a weird way, I still want to try it."

Even thought, its not gonna taste good at all, I want to taste it too. Getting out of his arms I grab a plate and cut a slice for us. Oddly enough it smells alright but that won't be the case when we eat it. I'm so glad I went to the store to get some whip cream so maybe that will save it in some way. 

With forks in hand, napkins right next to us and water even we both have a good sized chunk of the pie. I try to hype myself up, but I would be lying if I didn't say I was scared. "How about on the count of three we each take a bit." I nod over and over. I can do this. I got this, the water is in front the napkin right next to me and the sink across the room. 

"1...2...3..."

We each take our bites, we both hear the crunch from each others teeth, the taste feels like I just ate a huge spoonful of flour. My face twists the more I chew and I give up before running to the sink. I spit out the food, gasping for breath and drinking water. "Bad idea." Behind me, I hear Zeref charing for the sink as well. He too spits out the pie, and drinks some water. 

"Not our...best...idea." 

He sighs while he slides to the floor, I follow after him so we both can rest on the cold floor. We look at each other, bits of water is running down his chin. I can't help but begin to laugh at him, he doesn't look so good. He knits his eyebrows together, and then he too begins to laugh even louder than I.

As our laughs die down, we look at each other once more. He grabs my hand and holds onto it. Looking down a smile blush crosses over my nose. "Thank you for this date Mavis." Date?  Thinking it over, this does seem like out very first date. "Thank you for this date too Zeref."

Leaning in we share a small kiss first before it gets heated and intense. He cups my cheek bringing me even closer to his lips, my hand reaches the back for his head, gripping at his neck. Just as it started it ended, we both gasp for breath as we lay against the sink doors. "What a great first date huh." I giggle, "Yes something I'll never forget."

Squeezing my hand he looks over to the pie still left on our plates. "I won't forget it either, especially the taste of the pie."

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AGH!!!!!! I'm so bad at updates ;-; I'm sorry but I hope this makes up to those who have been waiting for some time. Anyway, hope you like it :)