#he would be so perplexed and fr be so convinced then LMAO making up imaginary tension

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"All of those sound delightful.... maybe cake. Or you can leave it as a surprise." he answers, wondering if he should be paranoid about accepting food off her. It didn't mean he actually had to eat it he reminded himself, he'd just needed to pretend he'd happily accept. "No, I haven't. But I suppose that makes the pie even better, that it's from your own tree." he replied encouragingly, smiling invitingly at Lucy Gray turned Evangeline. "––I only have a rose garden. It's my grandmother's... you should come see it some time." Coriolanus offers, maybe she'll take him up on it.

❝ oh well, there are a few things i could bake -- cookies, cake, pie ! ❞ growing up without having access to the outside world meant that she'd tried her hand at a lot of hobbies. her most successful ones being music, baking, and gardening. ❝ it would depend on what we have ingredient-wise, but those are things that i could bake with one hundred percent certainty that i won't mess up. ❞ the brunette chuckled as she moved her hand from his arm. evangeline was just happy to have put the whole misunderstanding behind them and to actually be making a friend. she was sure that he had no ill intentions, he'd just been hurt in the past and was startled at first, that was all. the one thing that she hadn't learned from her parents when they taught her at home was how to read people and tell when they were lying. probably because they lied to eva her whole life and didn't want her figuring it out. ❝ have you ever had peach pie ? we have a peach tree in our yard, so we pick our own and i typically bake with them. ❞