(no blossoms not cooking the members. it's a play off of the title of a video game 'cooking mama')

[editing note: this chapters really long and i dont have the patience to change all the capitals in this to lowercase so please understand]

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December 2017

How did this happen.

Actually its a pretty simple explanation.

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Blossom was at her desk playing video games one evening with her friends from back in the US since she didnt have dance practice that day and they liked to stay up late anyways. Blossom also didn't have to worry about recording since she already recorded her parts in the songs for their special album that would be coming out a couple months into the new year.

"Willow watch out theres a creeper behind-!" Blossom's friend Ayden warned his girlfriend, Willow, a little too late as she had already walked too close to the green monster that would soon blow up half of the house that the group of 5 had been meticulously building for the past 2 hours.

"Dumbass!" Blossoms other too chums Gwen and Evan yelled at the same time, causing the idol to pull one side of her headphones away from her ear to block out the noise.

"I'm the dumbass??" Willow exclaimed in faux offense "No I think you three are just blind. Maybe if you had told me about it sooner then I would have moved."

"Willow creepers literally make a distinct noise. How could you not hear it????" Blossom, who had been too busy laughing this whole time to say anything, finally spoke up.

"I have my volume down!" Willow defended herself "I can barely hear any of you! I cant turn it up because my parents are sleeping."

silence rang from all ends off the call before the sound of one person disconnecting played. then another. soon everyone had left.

Almost immediately following that theres a knock at Blossoms bedroom door. The door opened to reveal Mingyu peeking his head in.

'Are you off?' he mouthed

"yeah" Blossom replied, standing up.

"Okay i didnt want to interrupt. I know you get excited to talk to them. Especially with schedules and time zones." The older smiled, putting his hand on the youngers head. "Can you help me cook dinner? Shua-hyungs mom sent a recipe for a soup i wanna try making since its cold but Jun-hyung is still at the practice rooms with Soon-hyung and everyone else is recording with Jihoon-hyung"

Mingyu sounded desperate and even with as little knowledge Blossom had about cooking, she couldnt say no. She was about to answer when she felt a buzz in her pocket.

"Okay oppa. I'll be down in a second" She smiled as Mingyu ruffled her hair as he left the room.

Checking her phone, she saw that it was a groupchat she was on with her friends she just got off calls with.

help

Tree Girl Bitches😞

Ayden Next time dont blow up the house

Tree Girl Im breaking up with you

Gwenith🤓 Damn

Evan Hansen Nah wait please no

Evan Hansen This is gonna be so awkward at school Ayden. Don't let her do this. I have to do my semester final with her😩

Ayden Whatever. At least i can pull other bitches🤡

Flower Girl Wow i leave for 5 years and suddenly all of you are toxic af😨

Tree Girl Yall i was kidding😭

Ayden sure

Flower Girl As interesting as this is I need to go help a certain beanpole cook something other than my legendary Kraft boxed mac n cheese

Gweneth🤓 May your members rest in peace

Evan Hansen Blossom why are you about to kill those poor men

Flower Girl SHUT UP

Flower Girl MY COOKING ISNT THAT BAD

- everyone thumbs downed  "MY COOKING ISNT THAT BAD" - 

Flower Girl bitches

- Flower Girl has disconnected -

Sliding her phone into her back pocket, Blossom stood up out of her chair and stretched out her poor muscles that have barely moved in the last 2 hours since she sat down.

Walking down to the kitchen she found Mingyu pulling out (what she could only assume were) the ingredients for the soup.

"Hi Gyu-oppa" the maknae greeted, stopping at the counter next to the older looking up.

"Hey sprout" Mingyu smiled, turning to face the girl, "Okay so its broccoli cheddar soup. Do you have a general idea on how to make it?"

When she was handed the recipe she was looking at the picture at the top of it grinning as it was one of her favorite foods and she hasn't had it in years.

Snapping out of whatever food-lover state she was in she replied, "Not a clue but I know how to eat it!"

Mingyu stood there staring at her before sighing. "Okay. First it says to make the actual soup part." he read "I'll measure and you pour it in."

"Alright" The young girl chirped as the taller started taking out measuring cups. She watched him pour the milk into the cup but when he lifted it to carefully pour it in the pot just like Mingyu told her to, she was a little too careful so the milk started running down the bottom outside of the pyrex onto the stove and her arm into her black sweater sleeves.

"Awh that was my favorite sweater!" Blossom pouted as Mingyu stared in shock at how the former had just failed at pouring milk into a pot.

"Hey its alright," Mingyu reassured, grabbing a paper towel and wiping up the liquid as Blossom took off her sweater, leaving her in a T-shirt "We just gotta wash it and then it will be fine."

"I'll just re pour the milk myself and why dont you-" he trailed off as he looked through the paper "grate the cheese."

Mingyu then took out a chopping board, a cheese grater, and cheese. "Alright so what you do is you take the block of cheese, hold one hand on the handle of the cheese grater to keep it on the board, and with the other hand you slide the cheese down. The cheese should fall into the middle of the metal and once it gets too small to shred anymore just stop and thats it."

Blossoms head was spinning. Sure he showed her how to do it but why did he word it in a way that made it seem so difficult?

'its alright...i got this....'

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needless to say based off of the outcome she did not get it. The cheese had come out in big chunks and she kept getting it caught so by the time Mingyu finished the liquids she was only 1/4 of the way through the block.

"Too tough?" Mingyu looked down from above in concern as Blossom scoffed.

"What no! Im-" she grunted as the cheese got stuck once again, eventually being too hard to push down anymore so she gave up, "not fine."

Mingyu sighed looking around thinking of anything else she could do before his eyes landed on the broccoli.

"Do you wanna try cutting the broccoli?" He asked as Blossom nodded firmly. She wasnt gonna mess it up.

She got out another cutting board and a kitchen knife as she started cutting and Mingyu took over her cheese job.

Blossom was actually doing pretty good with the broccoli. She had cut almost every peice perfectly (according to Mingyu who the 15 year old felt the need to ask every chunk or so to make sure she was doing it correctly) when she reached the last part.

She was really focused on cutting it into 3 equal pieces to match everything else when her hand slipped and the knife slid across the side of her left hand and finger.

"Shit" Blossom cursed in a high pitched whisper as she dropped the knife. She grabbed her hand, wincing as the pain increased by 10. Tears threatened to spill as she weakly called out to the other.

Mingyu turned around from stirring the soup only to see the young girl holding her blood stained hand, facing him as tears ran down her cheeks.

He immidiately stopped what he was doing and rushed over. "Hey hey how did this happen?" he asked in concern as the girl shook. He grabbed the injured hand to look at it but Blossom screeched (more like a wince with a high pitch tone but it was obvious she was in pain)

"I was cutting the- the broccoli and i slipped" Blossom said in between breaths. "Oppa it hurts so bad"

"Alright, its okay, come on..." Mingyu reassured as he led her to the bathroom with a towel under her hand to stop any falling blood.

She stood next to the counter as Mingyu turned on the sink faucet and slowly stuck her hand under the cold water.

"Shhh its okay. You're okay.." The older did his best to comfort the girl as the youngers tears fell faster but as much as he tried to calm her, he was also trying to comfort himself. "I know it hurts sprout, just hold it under there until I get a bandage out. Alright?"

Blossom nodded as Mingyu hurried to rush through the medicine cabinet, finally finding a bandage roll and cotton pads along with some disinfectant water.

He turned off the water and patted the cut, which thankfully didnt seem too deep, with a towel to dry it. Blossom hissed as the taller cooed.

"Hey Bloss im gonna have to disinfect this." Mingyu frowned as he easily lifted the girl off of the floor onto the counter. "Can you stay still for me?"

Blossom pouted when she heard that, "Doesn't that stuff hurt? Oppa it hurts already why make it worse?"

"We need to make sure nothing got in the cut from the knife," the older rubbed Blossoms knee in sympathy. "its quick though and then we can put the bandage on it."

"okay.."

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long story short the disinfectant did sting quite a bit but true to his word, Mingyu did make it quick.

Blossom was now sitting at the table 10 minutes later as she drank a hot chocolate with her one good hand and a straw while she watched as Mingyu finished making the soup on his own.

"Hey Blossom?" Mingyu called out from where she turned off the stove. "Do you know how to cook?"

silence

"Blossom?"

"No. I mean unless you're counting boxed mac n cheese and instant ramen. Then I belong on Top Chef."

"Ah." Beanpole acknowledged. Thinking for a moment. "Why not? You always talk about what amazing cooks your moms are. Didn't they teach you?"

"Nope. Thats one of the downsides of me leaving for training so young. They didn't even trust me to use a microwave without one of them in the proximity." Blossom huffed, lying her head in her arms while resting on the table. "I guess its for the best though; based on everything that just happened."

"You know cooking isn't for everybody. Mingyu sighed. "Maybe you can try baking? You might be better at it AND I'll guide you through it."

"If its okay," Blossom trailed off, looking at her bandaged hand "I think i'll stay away from the kitchen for a while..."

"Understandable-"

Mingyu got cut off by the front door opening.

"Gyu-ah! Ssom-ya! We're home! We even got Hoon to come back with us!" Soonyoung yelled from the door. The two looked over to see their bandmates walking in.

"Why's your hand in a bandage? Oh my god! What happened!?" Jeonghan said in a panic as he pushed past the other members to reach the female maknae sitting at the table.

"Knife" Blossom put it shortly.

"What do you mean knife?? Gyu!" Seokmin panicked walking forward towards the young girl but still looking at his fellow 97' liner.

"She was helping me cook and accidentally sliced her hand." Mingyu said, rolling his eyes at how dramatic the other was being. "Shes fine"

"Oh my poor baby!" Minghao cooed, wrapping his arms around Blossom.

"Oppa im fine. It doesnt hurt anymore."

"Thats good. No more cooking for you though." She heard come from Seungkwan on the other side of the room.

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Notes

Hey guys, sorry i haven't posted in a while. For a while after Moonbin from Astros passing i felt that it would be wrong posting a new chapter so for that reason, i didn't come back until now. Although, i will post more during summer since i don't have school. Thanks for waiting if you've been here since the last chapter.

-Lili