[E] Brilliant Ideas™

[E] This story contains brief explicit language.

Between Cody and Tony, one of them was an excellent, talented cook and one could set spaghetti on fire.

Spoiler alert: Cody was not the former.

In this case, it wasn’t spaghetti, but something was definitely on fire, according to the smoke alarm and the haze of smoke that had filled the kitchen. Cody had gotten the bright idea to try and make Tony dinner as a totally not-weird friendship dinner to say thank you. Tony was supposed to be arriving soon, and the pizza had about five minutes left on the timer.

Except Cody’s “bright” ideas were usually decidedly not-so-bright.

It was just a frozen three cheese pizza that Cody had thrown various toppings onto before sliding it into the oven. He was pretty proud of himself for thinking to add stuff–sausage, pepperoni, chicken, even some vegetables!–but the smoke alarm definitely wasn’t proud.

Instead of trying to fix the source of the smoke first, Cody tried to figure out how to shut the alarm the fuck up so he could think. The god-forsaken wailing was shredding his sensitive ears and giving him a headache. He ended up standing on the counter, head ducked and shoulder pressed against the ceiling, squinting at the smoke alarm. He couldn’t figure out how to turn it off, so he took the next logical course of action: he grabbed a knife from the block on the counter (his boyfriend’s, technically; Cody wasn’t allowed near chopping knives) and used the butt of the handle to smash the fucking thing.

Silence fell in the apartment and Cody let out a breath of relief.