[All for the best, really, since it took her more time than usual to get things ready. In part because she had to look at reference material on decoration and try to figure out what it all meant, and what colour of icing went with what could best be described as extra chocolate cupcakes.]
[Many had indicated pink icing, but she hadn’t cared for that. Too gaudy and, in some way she couldn’t quite define but was certain of, just ‘Not Alice.’ She’d gone with a sort of autumnal red instead.]
[She is wearing an apron when she approaches, which paints a picture since the icing apparently put up a bit of a fight. There is even a small unnoticed glob on her hair. But she smiles as she places down the tray, with a dozen cupcakes on it, half for each of them. And she’d used dark sprinkles on the ones for Alice, very precisely placing them to spell out her name.]
[Many of the decorations had done that. Not necessarily that way, but. The incongruity of the sixth cupcake had been solved at the last minute by making a small heart shape, which she understood was fairly common practice.]
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[Many had indicated pink icing, but she hadn’t cared for that. Too gaudy and, in some way she couldn’t quite define but was certain of, just ‘Not Alice.’ She’d gone with a sort of autumnal red instead.]
[She is wearing an apron when she approaches, which paints a picture since the icing apparently put up a bit of a fight. There is even a small unnoticed glob on her hair. But she smiles as she places down the tray, with a dozen cupcakes on it, half for each of them. And she’d used dark sprinkles on the ones for Alice, very precisely placing them to spell out her name.]
[Many of the decorations had done that. Not necessarily that way, but. The incongruity of the sixth cupcake had been solved at the last minute by making a small heart shape, which she understood was fairly common practice.]
Right, I shall fetch some milk.