Mayday Stories: Day 20 Family Gathers in the Kitchen

 

Today we got to think about food as our inspiration. You can check out the prompt here on Storyaday's website. 

Honey Cake & Roll

Isle Sanders found the buzz of bees to be rather soothing. She was away from her quaint home and her best friend was watching over her beehives. Moments of homesickness occurred when she would look out the window and see her cousin Lake's ranch instead of her flowers. But the sound of bees buzzing through the air made her feel more at ease. She was visited her cousin Lake Sanders for the week as part of her aunt's annual bake sale which this year would go towards reinventions to expand the bakery. Isle had just perfected the final touches on her honey cake rolls when her cousin came through the door. Lake was her opposite in nearly every way. Where Isle was tan, Lake was fair. Where Isle had her mother's dark chocolate hair, Lake had her mother's fair strawberry-blond hair. Isle had a vintage style, Lake dressed like a rancher. Where Isle loved to dance, Lake preferred to spend hours on horseback. They had argued for hours yesterday about what dessert to make for the bake sale. Isle wanted to make her mother's honey cake rolls, while Lake wanted to make her grandmother's strawberry jam crumble bars. They compromised with each teaching the other how to make their specialty, and combined their passions into one treat. Isle was at her best when it came to honey while Lake preferred preserves so they compromised with making honey-sweetened strawberry jam.

Their first attempt to bake together ended with both cousins covered in sticky mixtures of honey and strawberries. Isle scoots over to make room for Lake. Now that they've reached an agreement, she hopes it'll go better. She gets a jar of her Isle Honey while Lake sets about washing the strawberries. The cousins smile at each other. As they set to work, Isle thought about how something a simple as baking could bring a family together.