"Ooh, alright! I'm going as fast as I can!" She really wanted to catch the end. Lou made quick work of slicing two pieces and frosting one. The other, just for fun, she carefully split horizontally in the middle and added a thin layer of grape jelly before frosting. Raspberry would have been better. Or something that she'd made from scratch. The cake as it was wasn't going to win any awards, but it'd be fun.
She came back to the couch with two plates. "What'd I miss?" She didn't really need him to tell her. Lou had seen the movie often enough, but the question was automatic. Staring at the TV screen, she was momentarily distracted from showing him her offerings. In a minute, she'd let him pick which one he wanted. There was a major standoff she didn't want to miss out on.