Darc Chocolate

Eliza had really gone the extra mile, Becca thought.

She set the drink tray down on the futon and picked up a glass to hand to Becca. The glass was cold to the touch, filled to the brim with vanilla milkshake, with chocolate nuggets floating around the glass and a dusting of chocolate flakes on the top. "For the kind judge." Eliza said, a pantomimed tone of an obsequies servant.

Becca was a little blown away by the gesture. It almost seemed worth it, now that the memory of feet all over her face was fading.

She brought the glass up to her face, struck by the pungent aroma of vanilla, with a mustier, earthy smell that wrinkled her nose for a second. "Does it have dark chocolate in it?" She asked, innocently.

Tara burst out laughing, when Becca looked over to her the younger athlete seemed to be looking at her phone once more. Eliza had a wide smile on her face, she picked up her own glass and handed the third to Tara. "Yeah, I put some dark and some normal chocolate in - I thought you'd like it."

The brunette settled down on the opposite side of the sofa to Tara, with Becca between them. Becca looked down at the beverage, she wasn't the biggest fan of dark chocolate but the fact Eliza had thought it was what she wanted made it just as good.

She brought the cold glass to her lips and took a long sip, careful not to get brain freeze, and licked her lips after for good measure. It was delicious.

Though she had not noticed, the two girls had been watching her enjoy the first taste, and had made a heroic effort in restraining their own laughter.

Tara read another message from Eliza, "no 'dark chocolate' in ours tho lol"

After taking a few sips, Becca took a larger mouthful and felt one of the tiny chocolate nuggets slide in with a wave of vanilla. When she bit through it, a bitter, unpleasant taste followed - "Ugh that must be super dark chocolate!" She quickly washed the taste away with another mouthful of the admittedly much tastier vanilla milkshake.

"Does the dark chocolate taste like it's gone a little off to you guys?" She offered to the others, glancing to each of them, innocent and unaware. She thought she heard Eliza snorted into her milkshake, but was looking at Tara when it happened.

Tara took another sip of hers, a look of contemplation on her face - the drink held close to her lips, hiding her smile. "Not mine?"

Eliza did the same thing, then snapped her fingers as if realizing. "Oh, I think one of the bars might've had way more cocoa in it, you must've gotten some of that one."

The younger sister pouted and looked at Becca, "Does it taste bad?"

It did a little, but Becca didn't want to say it - first of all it would be rude, second of all she didn't want to dissuade her sister from doing nice things for her in the future. "No, not at all. The milkshake itself is great." To confirm it, she took a large mouthful and gave a satisfied smile. Eliza seemed very pleased with her response, and picked up her phone.

Eliza sent another message to Tara, "so sharts are gross, but foot and spit milkshake is soooo delicious xD" And was pleased to see her blonde friend turn red with the effort of not laughing.