Who: Deryn (Derpy Hooves) + Laura Kinney What: Cake testing When: 4/23 Where: Huntington Beach Rating: Lower than you can go in limbo. Status: Complete
Sometimes it seemed like everyone was getting married these days. Both her friend Applejack and now Laura, in any case. Deryn wasn't the type to either be jealous or feel like she was falling behind in life -- instead, she just found herself happier than usual and wondered just exactly how she might use up all that extra energy. Surely if she sat still it might just come bubbling out of her. And while a gigglefit was fun, there were better ways.
Cake tasting? Definitely one of the most fun ideas she'd heard in a while, and so happily bounced in place at their normal meeting spot while she waited for Laura to arrive.
Laura was alone, because cake testing was serious business that no puppy could help with. She pulled up next to Deryn, honking her horn playfully. “Get in! I have a map of all our stops!” She was smiling so wide it almost hurt, but this was the first thing she was doing for the wedding, and it was exciting!
“Oh, wow!” Deryn said, and didn’t take more than a second to pile her exceptionally slight frame into the passenger’s side seat of the car. “I didn’t know you had a car!” Deryn didn’t. But she did have a little brightly colored scooter. Which was nice for one, but not really more than that. “Also hi!”
“It’s Jubilee’s.” Laura admitted with a sheepish look. It screamed Jubilee, too. It was a yellow convertible VW bug. “Hi! You look so cute today!” Laura leaned over to hug Deryn.
Deryn kind of loved it. If she had a car, this would definitely be the kind she owned, too. Same color and everything. The image of Sam, her giant boyfriend sitting in one made her giggle.
“You too!” Deryn said with a giggle and hugged back tightly.
Laura grinned and sat back, starting off toward their first tasting destination. “All the bakeries agreed to give us free samples! You get free cake when you get married!” Laura was so pleased about that.
“That’s amazing,” Deryn said in something close to awe. It was probably bad to think so, but maybe she oughta get married. Free cake was a hard thing to pass up. “I hope they have strawberry.” Strawberry cake was amazing and totally underrated.
“Oh, strawberry is awesome. It would be a pretty color, too.” Laura drove out to the bakery, smiling brightly. “How is the farmer’s market going? I need to go sometime.”
“Super pink,” Deryn agreed, twiddling her thumbs in her lap as they drove along. Sometimes it was hard for her to sit still. “The Farmer’s Market is good! I’d wait a few more weeks -- soon all the super summery foods will be for sale. All the best berries, oh my gosh.”
“Ooooh.” Laura said with a grin. “That sounds like fun! I need a job, I get bored sitting around the house all day.” She wondered what she’d be good at.
“You should come work with me!” Deryn said, bouncing in her seat a little. “Seriously -- when summer picks up it gets really really busy on the weekends! I bet I could help you get one if you wanted?”
“Oh, yes!” Laura said, gleefully. “I would love that! Thank you so much! I can sell berries for sure!” It would be nice to be out in the sun, talking to people. Doing normal things like a normal person. She grinned at Deryn. “You’re so nice.”
Deryn let out a jingling laugh at that, and could only shrug a little. “I try! No use being mean, right? I’ll see what I can do! I’ll let you know after this weekend when I talk to my boss for you about it!” It would be really fun to work with another friend. Deryn was under the impression that the more fun you had at work, the better.
“I can’t wait! Even if you can’t get me a job I’ll stop by a lot.” She needed to get out and see people more often, obviously.
“I’ll be able to,” Deryn said -- because she was fun and friendly and nice -- but not altogether innocent and she did know how to get things that she wanted when she wanted them. People didn’t give her enough credit, sometimes. “Don’t worry.”
“Thank you so much.” Laura said, before parking the car in front of lucky bakery number one. She hopped out of the car and bounced around to meet Deryn on her side. “You said you have dreams about flying, is it scary?” She held the door for Deryn, curious to know more about her friend’s dreams.
“No way,” Deryn said, bouncing through the door and looking around the bakery with bright blue eyes. She was excited for cake. Probably more excited than she should have been. Maybe while she was here she should buy some muffins for her friends, too. “It’s not scary. It’s fun. And pretty easy, I guess. But I’m kinda clumsy.” She was here, too, to be fair.
“Oh, that’s no fun.” Laura said sympathetically. She bounced up the counter, smiling brightly. “Hi, I’m Laura Kinney, I called about the wedding cake samples.”
The lady behind the counter smiled at the girls and nodded. “I have some samples made up, if you want to have a seat.” She motioned to a little cafe table, and Laura trooped over to it.
Deryn sat down too, on the other side of the table -- she flopped into the seat as if bones were something that were optional. “This,” she told Laura in a conspiratorial whisper. “is so cool.” Cooler than flying? Maybe.
Laura nodded, grinning widely with excitement. “I know. It’s probably the most awesome thing ever.”
She squeed a little when the baker brought out all the plates of cakes, and began serving them out to the girls.
It really was though. They also handed over a little book of photos of cakes -- probably to show off what the frosting and stuff would look like when they were all made -- and Deryn flipped through that, oohing and aahing even as she tasted all the bits of cakes. No strawberry here, though.
Laura looked at anything that seemed to really catch Deryn’s eye, but nothing really stood out as the cake-y symbol of her love for Jubilee.
“How yellow can you make the frosting? Is neon an option?”
The baker assured Laura that neon was, indeed, an option. Any color was an option. She was nice enough to not give her opinion on neon wedding cakes.
Deryn, on the other hand, loved yellow. She wore it nearly all the time, herself. It looked good with her hair and her eyes. She nodded a firm approval at the question, even as she finished looking through the photobook of cakes.
“Hmmmm.” Laura thought for a little bit. The chocolate cake was pretty good, and she did like the icing. “Okay! I’ll let you know when we’ve made a decision!” She smiled brightly. “I’ll have to talk it over with my wife-to-be, after all.”
The two girls were left with a card and a little bunch of papers with information about the shop and specialty cake orders on it.
“Did you like any?” Deryn asked, raising her eyebrows and licking frosting from her fingers.
“Yeah, the chocolate with raspberry stuff was pretty nice.” Laura made a note on the papers. “But a lot of the cake designs are a little frumpy. We need something cool and really, really bright.” She stood up, grinning. “The hunt continues!”
Deryn was only too happy to bounce up, following Laura out of the place. This was fun. It was like a very delicious adventure, and she was fairly sure there was no better kind of adventure than a delicious one. “I bet you found find someone to special design something for you if you wanted,” she pointed out as they piled back into the adorable yellow car.
“That’s true. I wonder who does stuff like that?” She didn’t want some standard couple’s wedding cake, she wanted something special. She started the car and drove off to baker number two.
“Dunno,” said Deryn honestly -- sure, she frequented bakeries a lot (because muffins), but didn’t really look around for wedding cakes too often. “I could probably ask around for you, though. Farmer’s market employees are good for everything.” Buy and sell local, kids.
“That would be great! I want everything to be awesome, Jubilee means so much to me.” Laura wasn’t sure how she’d found someone so honest and fun. She’d never wanted to date at all, and here she was getting married! It was amazing.
Deryn could only smile at that, pleased for her friend. She’d never met Jubilee, but the blonde could only imagine that she was pretty darn great if Laura seemed so happy about it. “I’m sure everything will be just as awesome as you want it,” she said, honestly.