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[Duck has been quite a busy girl for the past few days. Upon learning about what exactly Valentines day entailed, she decided that she wanted to do something for it. While there wasn't anybody here that she had a "crush" on, she certain had made a lot of friends here. She wanted to make something for them too. The only problem was.... she didn't exactly know how to bake that well. She had started to practice for the sake of working in the bakery with Aang, but she had to redo her stuff a few times.

As she was in the middle of the fifth time of try to make chocolate hearts, the communicator ended up turning on as she tried to look for the recipe she was using. She didn't seem to speak much, but she was fast at work in the kitchen working on molding the chocolate. The kitchen has flour and all sorts of things everywhere as she's cooking. She'll clean it all up later. suddenly one of the bigger hearts snapped in half.]

Ugh! Maybe I should do something else....? I didn't think chocolate would be this hard....

[Going to look back at the recipe with no idea that it was on... You suddenly see mostly just her face.]

What else would work though? I need to get better....

[OOC: Feel free to bug her as she figures out how to make her chocolate... and has no idea that her journal has been on this entire time. She'll pretty much have something for the people she's spoken to enough. If you're a cast mate or a good friend of hers, she's trying to make bigger hearts for you.]

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[She is right now! Maybe?! But that can all change very quickly!]

Wonderful! I had hoped you would think so. Could you please take these two pans and preheat them on the stove?

[Erica rummages through one cupboard and pulls out two small saucepans and holds them out for Duck to take. That's one pan for making the chocolate in and one for... Well, just in case they need another. You are meant to preheat pans, right?]

Sure!

[So they were doing the stuff here. Okay. Well... She'll just have to clean up the kitchen back at home later. Taking the pans.]

Preheat the pans? Isn't that a bad idea?

[Sorry Duck, consider it a good thing they're doing the chocolate thing here. At least this way Duck's kitchen won't be getting any messier!]

I don't think so, I always thought it was a good idea to preheat what you're going to cook with.

[It adds that extra layer of flavour to the food. The kind of flavour you can only get from burning a metal pan.]

Now let's see, I'll get the cocoa powder, butter and fruit ready for the chocolate.

[That's probably a good thing. She just hopes Sheena is okay with it.]

Okay.

[Oh no... Well.. Might as well do as she says. She seems to know a lot more than Duck does. Don't let her down.]

[Looks can be deceiving, she knows no more than Duck does about making chocolate. Or food in general. But she wants to help out so bad that it shouldn't matter how much or how little she knows!

Erica gathers up the ingredients she needs and starts chopping up some fruit to be thrown in later.]

We have the pots, and the ingredients, now we need some water so we can mix everything together... But maybe chocolate syrup would be better since it's chocolate we're making? Or melted chocolate ice cream...

[As Erica wonders out loud she turns to look at Duck. What do you think would be best: water, syrup or ice cream?]

[Oh my.... This will be interesting then.]

I don't know.... Syrup would probably be better.

I was thinking that as well! You can't go wrong with adding more chocolate when you're making chocolate.

[Erica roots around through a few more cupboards and... Ahah, here we are, chocolate syrup! About half the bottle should do, right? That sounds like a good amount.]

Let's put the syrup and everything else into this pan, it should be hot enough by now!

[Cue Erica squirting chocolate syrup all over the inside of the pan.]

[She's still not certain this is the way to do it, but what does she know? So she's doing as Erica says.]

Like this?

Just like that! Yeah! [She quickly flashes Duck a v-sign with her fingers. They're all but done at this point!] Later when the chocolate is set we can make the bread for pain au chocolat. This all went really well, I'm so pleased that you decided to help me!

[Except wasn't Erica the one offering to help out in the first place? And there's that second pot on the stove that's been heating up for sometime now to think about.]

Okay! Thanks for the help!

[Well, whatever she says right?]

What about that pot?

That pot? [... Oh right. The other one she asked to be heated up.] I'm not sure, what do you think about it? These pots look like they're very durable, perhaps they're not cooked with often.

Isn't there something we need to do with it?

Ah! That's right, there was something wasn't there. [...] Eheheh, Erica has forgotten... But perhaps we could use it to make hot chocolate now!

[And she's supposed to be helping her.....]

I guess so.

[She is helping. Helping make hot chocolate! BUT WAIT there's no time for that now, the normal chocolate needs seeing to.]

The chocolate should be ready now! I can smell from here, it's enough to make you hungry.

[Erica quickly finds a baking tray to pour the lumpy, sweet smelling but fairly gross looking chocolate mixture onto... It'll look better once it's set! Probably. Maybe? ... Hopefully.]

Look, you can even see some of the fruit in the chocolate still! Doesn't it look delicious?

[Well... it's the thought that matters, right?]

Yeah! I wonder how it tastes.

It probably tastes very sweet... And sugary... And of love, if love were chocolate.

[With all the sweet stuff that was put into it she's certainly expecting something sweet. Buuut in reality with the fruit, chocolate syrup and other barely stirred in ingredients in there it's only going to end up tasting very, very weird.]

You can stick your finger in and try some now before it sets if you like! I won't tell anyone if you want to.

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