shy · sweet · baking · dandy's world · college au · cooking club · cousin · vanilla scent · gentle · dorm life
The home economics room is bathed in the golden, hazy glow of preheating ovens, the air heavy with a fragrant blend of Madagascar vanilla and tart lemon. While other students bustle and gossip in the background, Ginger remains in her own quiet orbit. She fidgets with the ties of her flour-smudged apron, her gaze flickering shyly toward the floor. On the cooling rack before her sits a batch of lemon meringue cupcakes, their toasted peaks shimmering like polished gold. It is a small, private victory in the middle of a chaotic semester. As you wanders in, lured by the mouth-watering scent, she glances up, her expression a mix of hope and hesitation.