I'm gonna get to you (Bakeson)

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Bunny was starting to get just a little confused. Some of the things Jackson was saying didn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense, like his comments about her cakes (she could make plain ones without a lot of frosting and richness!), but she still didn’t grasp that the two were trying to out-do each other. Her smile had faded a little by the time the blonde talked about doing simple kitchen things. “I guess…” she replied, her voice wavering slightly. “But I don’t know anyone that can’t do at least those things…” But then again, what did she know?

Her smile fell a little more when Jake initially turned down her offer to bake, but brightened again at his offer. “Okay!” she chirped, wondering what she might be able to ask him to provide for her. Fortunately, he seemed to already know. “Oh, that would be great!” she exclaimed. “I do have a lot of questions still…” At the mention of ‘showing’, though, her cheeks reddened again and she remembered what she had seen in the locker room. “O-okay, um… okay…” she stammered, wringing her hands together nervously. “Only, um, if you’re comfortable, though…”

But then Jackson was offering the exact same thing, and Bunny became torn. “You will…?” she asked slowly, turning to look up at him. “Oh… I-I’m sorry, maybe I should have asked you before…” Before she’d sneaked into the locker room. But how was she supposed to know that he wouldn’t think it was weird for her to ask those sorts of questions? Bunny looked down at their hands as Jackson’s wrapped around hers, and her heart started beating quickly in excitement. He was holding her hand! Here, in public! She almost missed the two boys’ interaction after that, so flustered that she didn’t know what to say. “I-I, um…” What were they talking about? Something about… Doing important things…

Whatever it was, Bunny had hit the point where her emotions ran just high enough for her ability to get a mind of its own. Still in the arms of Jackson, the tiny girl shifted and became a tiny boy, still in the dress she was wearing previous to the shift; the bow in her hair became untied and fell on the floor now that there was nothing for it to stay wrapped around. “Oh… Oh gosh, oh no, I’m so sorry…” she whimpered, hiding her face behind her hands. This was so embarrassing! “I-I should… I should go…” Bunny wanted to go hide in the bathroom until she calmed down enough to shift back, and before someone laughed at her for being a boy in a frilly dress (it had happened before).

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Jake’s mission to upset Jackson, to make him feel insecure and jealous over nothing, was working just as planned. Though just to say, if Jackson was aware of Bunny’s habit to fall in an out of love multiple times a day, then it might not have worked. Unfortunately, Jackson was very ignorant of that fact, and as such, he refused to give in to Jake’s provocation, though. At least, Jackson had no intention of directly confronting Jake. After all, if he caused a scene, then Jake really would win. Jealousy, fighting over a girl, all of that was just so uncool. So unmanly. And Jackson had an image to maintain, one which evoked patience and understanding. So he couldn’t let anything Jake said get to him.

At least not on the outside.

On the inside, Jackson was wondering if anyone would notice if a basketball suddenly leapt up from the floor and smashed into Jake's head out of nowhere. He could get away with it….maybe. If his power decided to work ever when he wanted it to.

Jackson was almost too caught up in the exchange with Jake to respond to Bunny’s occasional contributions to the conversation. “They’re pretty rare, but yeah, Bunny, some guys really are that incompetent.” He wasn’t too happy about his offer to tell her ‘what she wanted to know’ - again, Jackson had no idea what that was exactly, but he was game for pretending he did - and especially not to ‘show her’, but luckily, it seemed like Bunny was swaying back to Jackson’s side.

Jake’s rebuttal, however, almost had Jackson knitting his eyebrows in pure…astonishment, to be honest. Was Jake seriously implying that Jackson didn’t uphold his end of the bargain?? Jake was the one who prevented him from finishing the assignment, he didn’t even uphold his end of the agreement, and then gave Jackson ‘permission’ to do his part another time! Jackson wasn’t going to let that go, at least not without a ‘response’ of his own. Jackson smirked. “Actually,” he started, raising his eyebrows as if he just thought of the most novel idea. “Why don’t we both teach you? That way, there’s a surer chance that nothing gets left out. Some guys talk a good game, y’know, but a lot of times even they don’t actually know what they’re doing, so…it’s good to get multiple perspectives. What one person thinks is important might not actually be relevant to what you need, y’know?” Obviously, the subtle insults were meant for only Jake to understand. That is, if he was smart enough to even catch them.

Again, Jackson was paying more attention to his word-war with Jake to notice that things were changing in his arms, or more accurately, Bunny was changing in his arms. From a she to a he. It wasn’t until she apologized that he finally looked down to see the slim figure of her boy form nestled between his hands. “Oh, no….no, Bunny! You don’t have to do that!” he exclaimed, turning her in his arms so that she was facing him. “Hunny Bunny~” he cooed, cradling her cheek in his hand as he leaned down to meet their eyes. “Don’t you even worry, you’re absolutely fine,” he continued, trying to reassure the suddenly distressed girl(boy). Jackson combed his fingers through her hair and casually planted a kiss on the top of her head. Hopefully that would calm her down. Her flustering would actually draw more attention if she kept it up, and Jackson didn’t want to have to deal with that.

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Jake quirked an eyebrow as Jackson offered for them both to help Bunny with her questions. Yes, it seemed now that his teammate was definitely clueless as to what he and Bunny were talking about. There was no way the blond would offer if he really knew the whole story: kid was as gay as a picnic basket, and Jake doubted whether Jackson would ever go all that far with his 'girlfriend' or whatever this child was to him. In complete fairness, Jake didn't have any idea that Jackson wasn't entirely straight before their meeting that weekend; to act like he knew all along that Jackson was gay, or even bisexual, was simply inaccurate and unfair. But he had come to find out through first-hand experience that the Korean was very submissive. He just couldn't see that guy fucking a girl.

"I'd be careful who you choose to learn about guys from," the brunet advised, placing his hands on his hips, accentuating his biceps and triceps which were exposed due to the jersey he was still wearing. "Not every teacher likes to teach every subject." This was vague enough to maintain their whole 'insulting each other without insulting each other' dynamic, but he was implying that Jackson wasn't exactly interested in girls. To most guys, that was considered a diss.

He watched as Bunny shifted into a boy and Jackson tried to comfort her so that she could change back. What, had she arrived to Hammel last week? It seemed strange to him that Bunny couldn't control her power, and this only confirmed his belief that she was quite young. He shook his head; these two were a mess. Maybe they really were meant for each other.

It seemed obvious to him, at this point, that this conversation was no longer productive: Jackson would need to care for his girl, Jake had made it clear that Bunny could hit him up in the future (though he was starting to forget why that had seemed like such a good idea), and he and Jackson had pretty much 'said without saying' everything they were going to say to one another. Not liking for his time to be wasted - or to waste the time of others - he decided to make his exit.

"I'll let you two... take care of this," he stated, taking a final step closer to the smaller of the two younger men, who looked somewhat ridiculous still wearing a dress. "But I'm sure I'll be seeing plenty more of you real soon." He smiled down meaningfully at Bunny, before looking up at Jackson and meeting the boy's eyes with the same powerful gaze he'd used in the locker room a week before. "You too," he said, before pushing past the boy on his way towards the door.