Pretty much as soon as they got home, BDubs collapsed on his bed and went straight to sleep. Jimmy assumed he was just a bit dizzy and/or sleepy from whatever smoke was in the vial that Viridian had thrown at him.

Jimmy assumed BDubs would just sleep it off, but if any other symptoms showed up, the dark blonde would just take BDubs to see a doctor and lie about his roommate getting caught in one of Viridian's attacks while on a walk.

So Jimmy ended up sat in the kitchen by himself while his friend was sleeping. This wasn't an uncommon occurrence- BDubs slept a lot- but that didn't stop him from feeling slightly bored.

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Jimmy stretched up, opening the cupboard. I feel like baking, man. What do we have- uhhh, some self-raising flour, sugar, cinnamon... I know we have some butter in the fridge, and- The dark blonde glanced sideways at the bowl of fruit by the microwave. Are those baking apples or not? He couldn't remember. They'll do, if I can find a recipe that has apples in it.

Jimmy paused thoughtfully. Maybe Sausage still has the recipe for that apple crumble he made for our date one time? His ex boyfriend, Sausage, was an avid baker, and even now (after they had broken up Sausage had moved to the next city over, but they were still friends) whenever his friend visited he brought some sort of sweet treat along.

Jimmy-

yo
Sausage

Mythical of the J Sausage variety-

Hiya :D

Jimmy-

Do u have the recipe for that apple crumble that you made that one time :D
BDubs is sleeping and I'm bored so I wanna bake

Mythical of the J Sausage variety-

I shhould have it somewhere?
One sec lemme look through my texts :D I think I sent the recipe to my sister a couple months ago

Jimmy-

Thank youuuu :)

Mythical of the J Sausage variety-

Found it! >:)
One sec

There was a brief pause before Sausage sent Jimmy the link to the recipe.

Mythical of the J Sausage variety-

There ya go :D

Jimmy-

Thank youuuu :)

It took him a couple of minutes to get the ingredients together, and as soon as he started baking there was a series of messages on his phone during that time.

Huh? The yellow-winged man stared at the phone as he started to weigh out the butter. I'll- check it later. Probably just Cleo. Maybe Lizzie. Or- Sausage giving me tips for how to bake the apple crumble? Jimmy added to himself thoughtfully as he added the butter to the bowl along with the sugar.

The rest of the baking went pretty well. He did end up dropping half of the ground cinnamon onto his shirt and had to go change into the one that he had borrowed from BDubs once and never given back. It was a plain white t-shirt, and it was a little small on him, but it was still a nice shirt.

He was waiting for the apple crumble to finish in the oven (there was only about two minutes left) when another notification appeared on his phone. Sausage, I'm done baking, you can leave me be now- The brown eyed man paused as he stared at the phone. That is not Sausage-

Unknown Number-

Hello, vigilante -🌊

Unknown Number-

Don't ignore me, little canary. -🌊

Jimmy-

why are you signing off with an emoji
are you like a tumblr anon or somethinf
should I call you 🌊 anon

Unknown Number-

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🌊

Jimmy frowned at the screen. Weirdo. Should probably be concerned that they know I'm Canary, though. Has to be someone who knows me, right? BDubs' voice cut into his thoughts and he switched his phone off quickly, practically slamming it down onto the worktop.

"You been baking?" His roommate queried, stretching with a yawn.  The dark blonde looked him up and down with an amused expression- BDubs still had a blanket draped over his shoulder and there were marks on his face where it had clearly been pressed against the zip on his pillow or duvet.

"Good afternoon to you as well, Sleeping Beauty. Or should I say good night?" Jimmy added thoughtfully, glancing at the clock on the wall- it was 7 pm.

"Oh, shut up." BDubs grumbled, squinting at the mirror on the other side of the room and attempting to fix his hair, which was incredibly messy. "What are you making? It smells great."

"Apple crumble." Jimmy said proudly. "Got the recipe from my friend!" He added with a grin.

"Ooo. Tasty." BDubs watched curiously as the timer on the dark blonde's phone went off.

Jimmy paused, carefully putting his oven gloves on (Lizzie had made them for him- they were dark gray with yellow birds stitched onto them) and, after struggling to open the oven for a moment, took the apple crumble out, carefully placing the dish on the chopping board (he didn't want to put a burn on the worktop but he didn't have any cooling racks).

Immediately, the brunette next to him reached for the apple crumble and Jimmy slapped his hand away. "No. It's hot. You can wait." He scolded. Is he stupid? It literally just came out of the oven.

"But it smells so good." BDubs whined, looking longingly at the apple crumble.

"And it'll cool down in a bit. Sit down and wait." The winged man huffed, taking a step sideways to stand in front of the dish. His friend rolled his eyes, sitting down at the kitchen table and adjusting the blanket wrapped around him. "You feeling any better after- getting... chemical warfared?" I guess? "Or do I need to take you to a doctor?" Jimmy added curiously.

"I'm fiiiiine. Just a little groggy. I guess. Oh, groggy kinda sounds like froggy, huh?" BDubs mumbled, yawning again and rubbing his eyes.

"It... it sure does, bro." Jimmy said with a laugh. He glanced back at his phone, which was still face down on the worktop. I'll just... leave it for now. If I get any more messages, I'll tell him. Probably. If it's someone who knows I'm Canary, it's probably someone who knows me messing with me, so it's not exactly a cause for alarm.

Not too long after, the apple crumble cooled down enough to eat. BDubs finished his portion relatively quickly, which he expected, but Jimmy just kind of picked at his.

BDubs noticed this pretty quickly. "Are you- not hungry or something? I'll take it if you don't want it." He added with a grin, and Jimmy huffed out a laugh.

"No, I am, I think I just put too much cinnamon in it." The brown eyed man said with an awkward smile. "Sorry about that."

"Are you kidding? This is like- the best thing I've eaten ever. This has like, the perfect amount of cinnamon." His roommate declared.

Jimmy squinted at his piece of apple crumble. "Huh. You sure?"

"You are not getting self-conscious about your apple crumble recipe, are you?" BDubs squinted at him uncertainly. "It's great, dude."

"I'm not, I'm not, I'm not- if anything, it's Sausage's dumb recipe so he should have- been more specific with the cinnamon measurements." Jimmy huffed, using his spoon to scoop up another mouthful of apple crumble and staring pointedly at his roommate as he ate it. "There." He mumbled around a mouthful of food.

"See? It's amazing. Loser." BDubs added with a grin as he slowly slid the dish with the remaining food in it towards him.

"Do not eat all of it, I want to take some for lunch tomorrow- do you know how hard it is to buy food when you work at a pet shop in the middle of nowhere, BDubs-"

"Try and stop me, birdie boy."  Jimmy stared darkly at his roommate.

"Excuse me?"

"I'm sorry, please don't kill me, you can have the apple crumble back-"

Wooo update

comments and votes are appreciated :D

Also yeah Jimmy has a lot of exes in this- Scott, Sausage, FWhip, Tango (not really, they dated in Highschool lol), Joel

He is a guy magnet frfr

But he's pretty good friends with all his exes apart from Scott, Joel and Tango (he's only not friends with Tango because they drifted apart a bit after Highschool, they'll probably run into each other again and become friends via both knowing Etho)

Man I really want apple crumble after writing this chapter 💔