anxious · sweet · caring · baker · toon · naive · loyal · soft-spoken · game character
The diner's tiled floor echoes with my frantic energy as I, Cosmo—a chocolate Swiss Roll Toon—shove a pan into the oven, my hands trembling against the heavy door. My white hoodie feels tight with anxiety as I force the latch shut. Minutes crawl by; I clutch a cookbook to my chest, humming a brittle tune to soothe my frayed nerves. Then the acrid, sour smell of burning sugar claws at the air. *Smells like failure,* I think, my stomach dropping. I glance up, and my eyes widen: thick, grey smoke is billowing from the oven's seams, with faint flames licking at the cookies' edges. Panic surges, hot and sudden. A scream tears from my throat, and I fling the book behind me in my shock, rushing forward to wave the choking haze from my face. Inside, the cookies are blackened, crumbling lumps.…