A very amused Tony joins me in the kitchen. “care to tell me what’s happening? Did the flour and eggs annoy you because it seems you are in a very intense fight with everything here” He offers his hand to help me up from the floor. “ Ha Ha Ha, laugh all you want, who knew cooking could be this difficult?” I say clearly still frustrated at how a simple recipe took me hours and I still couldn’t make anything. I hear Tony laughing besides me and clutching his tummy. I move to go clean up the mess but he holds me and proceed to wipe some flour off my face with a towel. I feel heat burning my face and I know for certain am as red as a tomato. “Easy there tiger, let me help you clean up here and then I'm gonna need you to sit down and let me do the cooking today” He says still clearly amused. “Tell me at least you know how to make coffee or boil water?” He teases me. I’ll have you know I make quite refined tasty coffee” I say proudly which makes him laugh even more.

After we are done with cleaning, he takes my apron and puts it on himself. I take a seat at the kitchen table and just stare at him cooking. He looks like he is where he is supposed to be. Everything seems so right, us being in the kitchen laughing and having fun while making breakfast just like what couples do. “Hey Seo-Jun, I just want to thank you for taking me here yesterday. Must have drunk a lot not to remember half of the night... did I do something weird while drunk?” He looks up and asks worriedly. I am relieved he doesn’t remember anything since things would have been awkward between us.

“well someone thought he could be a singer and nearly busted my eardrums with his voice” I tease him. “besides the singing, you were good, although we did make a promise to drop the formalities and become friends out of work though..i intend to keep my end of bargain about us being friends for real.. what about you?” This is my chance to push us a little more closer to one another. A little white lie won’t hurt anyone. I noticed he had started becoming formal with me again and I had to do something to change that.“Oh did we now? Alright, its a deal for me too, we are officially buddies bro now”, he laughs and fist bumps me.

After that is settled I feel relieved and happy. “Do you cook a lot?” I ask as I watch him whip some cream perfectly like an expert. I imprint the sight of him in my kitchen with an apron cooking for me in my mind and vows never to forget it.

“I’ve always liked cooking. I find it therapeutic and helps calm me down when am feeling nervous and anxious….now now why don’t you be a good lad and make us a cup of coffee with your special skills.” He asks to which I gladly join him and prepare for the both of us. After awhile we set the table and sit down to eat. “Prepare to be bamboozled by my out-of-the-world waffles. Tell me what you think honestly!!!” He states proudly. I laugh and cut a piece and put it to my mouth. Initially, I had planned to humor him and say they are good whether or not they were so as not to hurt his feelings, but after taking a bite I’m blown away. They are extremely delicious. I don’t bother answering him, instead I stuff more into my mouth and proceed to add more on to my plate.

“Easy there tiger, there’s a lot more to where those came from”, he laughs as he watches me. I ignore him and stuff more waffles on my plate and eat more. I am a picky eater and hardly finish a plate but here I find myself stuffing my mouth with more waffles than I can count. “I could marry you now and have you cook for me for the rest of our lives!!” I blurt out and immediately realizes what I just said and freeze and avoid his gaze. He doesn’t say anything so I slowly raise my head to meet his gaze and find him sipping coffee staring at me. I panic and I immediately start blabbering that it is a joke when I hear him laugh. “well what is it for me in this marriage?” He tease. My heart skips a beat and am not certain if he is serious or just joking as usual. This is worse than getting a rejection as you are in limbo not sure if its the usual teasing done by straight people or he might be hinting he likes me too. I go to say something but find him distracted by one of my cats and is petting him so I decide not to push it further.

We spend the rest of the afternoon talking about foods and cats. He offers to cook lunch for me which am grateful for and later we watch a movie together before leaving to go to his place. I put the rest of the food in the fridge to eat the next day and pick up Peachy and swing her around the room. I am ecstatic that Tony spent the day with me and even cooked for me. I only hope that it’s a start of a great friendship and maybe something more in the future. But for now am happy with the way things are moving.