Wonderful Pumpkin Pie
Chapter 2: Let's cook!
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Miyu stretched herself. She was in her room. "Waah~, now my school homework is finish." She put down her pencil and rose from her seat. Her alarm clock already showed 6pm. "Now is the time to cook some dinner. Maybe I can cook some pumpkin soup with the pumpkin I bought earlier." The blonde girl rummaged her school backpack before heading out her room.
She head down to the kitchen with the dessert magazine in her hand. Before started, she flipped the magazine pages until she saw the 'Pumpkin Soup Recipe' and started to prepare the things she needed. She takes out the pumpkin from the plastic bag and washes it before cut it. Thank goodness the pumpkin is not too hard to cut into small pieces. The blonde girl then places the pieces and put into a pressure cooker to soften it. In the meantime, she prepared for the soup.
Several minutes had passed. Miyu opened the cooker and checked whether the pumpkin soft enough. She pokes the pumpkin with a toothpick she has got earlier "I think the pumpkin is ready." Humming one of her favourite song, she carefully took out the pumpkins and places them in a bowl. Using an ice-cream scoop, she gently scoops the innards out into another bowl.
"Eh. It stated here that I need vegetable broth or chicken broth for the soup. But I didn't buy it just now. Maybe I can substitute it with normal water. Supposedly the taste don't make very large different." She placed a pot on the stove and turned on the fire. She poured 2 spoons of olive oil and dunked the chopped onions into the pot. Then she emptied the bowl filled with the pumpkin into the pot. "So, I need to continue stirring about 8 to 10 minutes before poured the broth." She nodded as a sign she understood the recipe book's instructions.
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-Somewhere in Heiomachi's-
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"Kanata, I'm glad you came."
"Yo, Santa. What the fuss about?"
"This shop is holding a sale right now! It's not an ordinary sale. They are selling all episodes of Tofu Man for a damn cheap price."
"So, buy all of it. This is the time you're waiting for right?"
Santa looked at Kanata. He walked slowly to Kanata and held his shirt. His eyes were big and sparkling as if trying to beg Kanata. Like a puppy dog. "I already spent my money for my food earlier. I don't have enough money to buy those CD. Plus the sale only lasts today."
Kanata sweat dropped. How could he resist Santa's eyes when he doing like that. Plus, he was Kanata's best friend ever. "Okay... Okay… I get what you mean. Now take the VCD you need and I pay them for you first."
"Thanks Kanata! You're the best!" He exclaimed and hugged Kanata before started to find his CD throughout the CD shop happily.
'I wonder what would Miyu cook for today. If I'm not mistaken, I think I saw there was a pumpkin in one of her plastic bags. I can't wait to eat it.'
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-Saionji's Temple-
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A blonde girl is pouring some milk into the pot. Based on the magazine, supposedly the girl need to pour double cream to thickens the soup, but she replaced it with milk. After the mixture boiled, she then pureed the mixture with a hand blender. "There. All done!"
Happily humming her favourite song, which is 'Pretty Boy" by M2M, she starts to tidy up the kitchen. Then, she sat down on the chair with her hand supported her chin, waiting for the soup to fully complete. The aroma started to fill in the kitchen. "Hmm… I can't wait to try my own first-time pumpkin soup. I wonder how it will turn out. It may taste better than Kanata"
The anticipation from waiting has erased all traces of sounds in the room. The only sound exists in a form of running water from the sink. She glanced to the clock on the wall. "Oohh~. I wish Ruu and Wannya would come back. I miss them so much. I miss the time when we played together.-sigh- This place seems not complete without them. I wonder how they are doing right now."
As the thoughts of Ruu ran in her head, she slowly closed her emerald eyes and dozed off…
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-Minutes later-
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'Where am I? And what is this smell?' The blonde opened her eyes and scanned her surrounding. It was not long as she remembered something, "OH NO! MY soup!"
She sprung up so quickly the chair banged to the hard floor. She put off the fire on the stove, took the glove from the top of it and opened the lid nervously. Thankfully she put the fire on low or the kitchen might burnt down. 'Ooh~my soup..! My first time made soup" a wave of sadness struck her as she stared down on her half burnt soup. Using a ladle, she stirred the soup but it already become too thick. Carefully, she scooped into a small bowl. It still looked appetizing this way. 'Hmm… maybe I could taste it. It's still soup although it is burnt.' She takes a spoon inside the kitchen drawer and picked up some courage to try the burned soup…
"It's looks okay… But I doubt it… Well, there's goes nothing." Miyu closed her eyes and swallowed the soup…
"Eww~… gross!" she hurriedly went to the sink and spitted it out. "Is this even edible? Am I doing this? Ohh~… Now I can't prove to Kanata I can do it." With sorrows filled in her heart, she took the pot and emptied the contents into a plastic bag before throw it out. 'I better take a shower before Kanata comes home'
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CREAAKK!
The slide door opens.
"Tadaima!"
A dark-brown-hair boy walks into the house. He was untying his shoe lace when he smelled something burnt inside his house. He rushed into the kitchen. There's no single person there.
'Miyu!'
Kanata search in the living room. And even the bathroom. But he didn't see any figure with long blonde hair along the way. Then his feet dragged him to the last room that he hasn't check yet. Miyu 's room. Without any permission, he slided the door open.
Blink..blink..
He closed the door again with a crimson face. Then he heard she says,
"KANATA! YOU PERVERT!"
He heard some things being threw to the door behind him. Kanata knew it was a mistake to hold the door. It was a even bigger mistake to slide it open. Now he had saw Miyu struggling to put on her pants. (A/N: Kanata being a baaad boy XD)
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xoxoxoxox
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Kanata were about to get into his room as he saw Miyu was sitting at the place they always moon gazing. Feeling curious, he made his way to the veranda where the blonde girl was and sat next to her. Her thought seemed to wander to a very far distance might be to other space but her emerald eyes are glued to half moon in the sky. Sometimes some sighs comes was heard coming from her.
The silentness made him feel a bit odd. Kanata tapped her shoulder. "Hey, what are you doing here?"
"Ahh… Nothing, just hoping to see any wishing stars today" answered Miyu, a bit shock.
"What a childish act!" He smirked and lifte his head up to see the sky. "Well, is there any yet? By the way, what are trying to wish now?"
She blushed. Thankfully the dark surrounding covered her pinkish cheeks. "Umm… Hi-mi-tsu (English: se-cret). What about you? What are you doing here?"
The brunette boy leaned to the pole next to him "I'm actually on the way to my room as I see a girl sitting down wishing for something that maybe won't happen." He smirked to the girl.
Miyu sticks her tongue out.
"You look a bit down today. Is there anything happens to you? Well you can talk to me about it, you know. I will be willing to help you. At least if the thing still can be helped though"
Silence. She showed no reaction. She was so silent that he could hear the wind whistling between his ears. Kanata put both his hands on Miyu's shoulders. She snapped back to reality as she feels the warmth of his hand.
When she realized her situation was, she sprung up. "No. I-Its nothing. I'm going to bed right now. Oyasumi nasai, Kanata." She rushed to her room, tried her best to hide her reddened face after the situation she was in just now.
Being left alone outside, Kanata wonders if he was doing something wrong just now. He sighed. Slowly he rose up and went inside. He then slid the door to close it before going to bed.
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xoxoxoxox
End of chapter 2
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