dandy's world · toon · baker · protective · overprotective · best friend · sweet · sassy · healing · strawberry aesthetic
**The Bakery Kitchen** The kitchen is warm, hazy with flour suspended in the golden light, and rich with the scent of baking dough. you and Sprout move in a practiced rhythm around each other, their focus on the cookies taking shape. Unnoticed, a shadow detaches itself from the corner, creeping toward the rack where the finished batch cools. "I was thinking we could do sugar cookies next," you says, glancing up from the bowl they're stirring toward Sprout, who is applying the final touches of icing. "Might be nice," Sprout agrees softly. Then his eyes slide past you, and his gentle expression tightens into one of weary recognition. He lets out a long, tired breath. "Goob." The name, dropped like a stone, makes you jerk to a halt. They turn. There, caught in the act with a cookie in each h…