{Crust and Crumbs} never too old to be young {Geri}

Crust and Crumbs was always a nice place to wander into when one had little to do on a weekday afternoon. Kendrick wasn't on shift at the moment and Jo was still at the Ministry for a bit, so rather than sit at home twiddling his thumbs he'd decided to go somewhere, anywhere. It was a nice spring day and on this kind of a day Kendrick just had to move. Besides, he hadn't dropped in on Geri for a little bit. He'd first met Geri as Ingrid's older brother, but as they'd been in the same house and on the same Quidditch team he'd soon stopped being just Ingrid's brother. Of course, Ingrid always gave them baleful looks when they did anything at all in the same vicinity, but Ken's reaction was usually just laughter.

Truth be told, he'd been a busy man the last few months with wedding planning and all of that. Kendrick was a responsible man and with something like this he preferred to stay busy with what he had to until it was done, but one afternoon in between the bustle was something he just had to take once in a while to keep his sanity and his humor. No one wanted to be around Ken when he couldn't crack a joke. Interestingly enough, though, he was far from exhausted in his general spirit. After all, he was getting married to the love of his life in just a few weeks. He was on cloud nine for the afternoon, same as he'd been for the last months--as long as he didn't have to think too hard about any sort of logistics for a few hours.

In any case, Apparating to Hogsmeade usually ended up with a visit to Crust and Crumbs, and Kendrick drew a deep breath of the delicious odor of baking goods. "It smells delicious as ever, Geri," he declared within a second of walking inside and spotting his friend, sporting a cheeky grin on his face in typical Kendrick style as he interrupted a perfectly fine work day. "And I'm going to stuff my face with a custard eclair. You better be proud of these smells, I guarantee they give you a good 76% of the business you get."

Today had been a fairly busy day. With Valentine's over the busy holiday rush had subsided and normal business began once again. With half the day gone, Geri began to start cleaning up the kitchen. Once it got to this time of day, there was no need to keep baking things. Usually Geri would still have things leftover after closing shop. Since he didn't like to sell cakes and sweets made from the day before, he brought those upstairs to Lyall and Sorely. It's a wonder both of them weren't already fat. Thank Merlin the Trickett family had a high metabolism, otherwise they would all probably be as large as houses. Another reason why Geri woke up at five every morning to do his daily run with his dog Dusty. It was also good for Dusty to get out of the flat since Geri spent long hours at the Bakery. Thank Merlin for magical spells that helped the dog be able to get out through some back doors to use the bathroom and then come back in. Otherwise he would had to clean up a huge mess at the end of the day.

Rinsing the last mixing bowl, Geri headed to the front of the counter. There coming through the door was his good friend Kendrick. Grinning at the man he use to run wild with in Hogwarts, the twenty-nine year old leaned against the counter. "Thank you Ken, it's good to hear you haven't lost your sense of smell." Joking with his friend, Geri moved to get the Order member a custard eclair. "I believe they do and then Lyall's charms keeps customers coming back." It was good to hear others beside his family compliment on how well Crust and Crumbs was doing. Not that he didn't believe his family, it was just they were usually bias towards each other anyways. Except himself, for Geri had always been the honest one in the family. The one that said outright how he felt and thought without caring how it affected the other person. It was this bluntness towards others that usually led Geri to be the one most of his family comes to for advice or opinion on something.

"So how is Wedding Planning going?" Setting the custard eclair in front of Ken, Geri folded his arms across his chest and position himself in his comfortable stance. "I bet your excited. I would be if I was getting married. Don't let Jo run you around like a chicken with it's head cut off. Otherwise you may not make it to the Wedding Day." Giving Ken a playful wink, Geri wondered if he'll ever have his own Wedding to plan. Maybe one day. Hopefully he wasn't fated to forever be alone and be the Uncle and not the Father.

"I know, it reassures me that I'm not old," Kendrick grinned. "Don't worry, you'll lose yours before me. Someone told me once that old men are the least likely to have a good one. We'll know when your cakes start smelling funny," he laughed, plunking his coins on the counter. He was in a playful mood, as evidenced by his mock horrified expression. "Are you telling me you're tricking your customers into becoming sucked back here again and again? There should be regulations against that, you know," he admonished. "I'll have to report you to...somebody," but it was about there that his act broke down. Kendrick was never very good at acting completely contrary to his nature, and this just didn't sound at all like him.

"It's going well," he replied, running his hands through his hair and then pulling out another coin just to fiddle with. Kendrick liked to fiddle with something most of the time. "Well, as well as wedding planning can ever go. It stresses most of us out on a regular basis, but that's to be expected. I am indeed excited," he grinned, his happiness inevitably displaying itself all over the man. Stressful or not, Ken couldn't be happier. The war was over, Bri wasn't really mad at him anymore, Ingrid was...getting there, and he was getting married. Sometimes he couldn't believe it, but there it was. "I'm always more graceful than a beheaded chicken though, don't worry. Men are supposed to have more coordination than that. You might be losing yours if you eat too many of your own sweets, though--I hear getting fat can throw off your kinesthesis." Not that Geri was getting fat, but he was like a brother and Kendrick couldn't resist the jabs. It was nice having someone to joke around with--Jo could get a little snappy with him if he was being frivolous when she was stressed, and being sensitive, Ken had been refraining.

"Speaking of which," he said, leaning against the counter, "There's the groomsman thing, but we were also wondering if you'd appreciate some big-event business. Cake's a necessity at weddings, I hear. But if that's okay, then let's talk about it in...a week or something. I've had enough of logistics for a while," he said, shaking his head. "Wedding planning is complicated. Even when I'm doing nothing since it's her day. But enough about me, what's going on with you? We haven't done much for a while."

[ooc: you don't actually have to reply to this or anything, since it's from like five months ago. I was just bored and felt like posting something somewhere XD]