Everyone, thank you for your support on the first one shot. I hope that you will enjoy this piece as much as the last one.
"Knightwalker-san, this is…" the cooking instructor was at a loss of words. It wasn't often that she had to encounter one of Edolas' more… frightening students, so she didn't know exactly how to say that Erza's cooking wasn't… up to par with the other girls. "I think you might have baked it a little too long." The said pastry immediately deflated when she poked it. "Or under baked it…" Erza glared at the instructor. "I'm sorry!"
The instructor ran out, nearly in tears. Erza sighed from frustration. Was it not obvious that she was glaring at the so called muffins? Really, people these days… If there was one thing that Erza hated, it was cooking classes. The teacher never exactly told her what went wrong because she was too scared, along with the other girls who didn't want to associate with her that much. Not only that, but whenever Erza cooked, it ended in a disaster. She doesn't even know why she tried anymore.
"What?! You're giving it to Mystogan-kaichou?!"
Erza's ears perked up at this. She knew that the boy was popular, but never knew that people in this day and age actually did those things. "Shh! I don't want the entire class to know," the girl told her over excited friend. Too late for that. Erza glance at the girl's pastries, which not only looked properly cooked, but also looked rather delicious...
"Looks like someone's confessing to your dear little king," a blonde stated, directly towards Erza who glared at her.
"Ashley."
"Knightwalker," Lucy Ashely snorted back. It wasn't that the two hated each other, they just strongly disliked each other. "Looks like you're as useless as ever when it comes to cooking."
"Like you're any better. I'm surprised that Dragion hasn't died from your cooking yet. Of course he's going to eventually at the rate that you're fucking him."
"We are not like that!"
Erza ignored the girl's protests. She could care less about what Lucy did, there were more pressing matters that her mind decided to focus on. She had some vague remembering of the times where Mystogan would be asked to be spoken to in private, but she didn't really think too much of it. The boy, often, let the confessor down gently with something along the lines of 'There's someone better for you', or 'I'm sorry, there's someone that I've liked for a while'. How she knows this is not the point, the point is that there is another girl who has come to like him and who will very well be rejected by him. Not like she cares or anything.
Besides, it's not like she hasn't gotten confessions before. Of course, all of those guys were after her looks or wanted to be known as the one who tamed her, but of course, they were all rejected with a kendo sword in their mouths.
It's natural that someone would get a confession at least once in their life, but why the heck was it actually concerning her this time?
"Erza? Erza! Erza?"
"Shut up! Can't you see I'm busy?" Erza snapped.
"Erza, do you want cake?" Mystogan offered, holding out a delectable slice of strawberry cake. "You're grumpy when you don't eat anything for lunch." Erza glared at him, but when her stomach growled and she took the cake from him. He smiled and began to eat his own lunch.
Really, what part of this guy is that likeable? It had to be more than just his appearance… Sure he's nice, but that can't be all that girls look for in a boyfriend. "Has anything happened lately?" she inquired the teen.
"Recently the stock market has been collapsing and I think-" Erza punched him in the shoulder to get him to stop. Mystogan rubbed his hurt shoulder, "Well what do you want me to talk to you about?"
"I don't know!"
"Hughes, Sugarboy, why Vice President Knightwalker is so upset?" Coco asked, cluelessly.
"Well, it's either something to do with Kaichou or it's that time of the month again- Eep!" A fork somehow found itself embedded in the wall right next to his head. "Knightwalker please! I still have things that I want to do with my life!"
"Then shut up Sugarboy, before I make you shut up," she deemed with eyes that could bring death. If she could solve the reason why she's so angry about this, then maybe she could focus on something else. Something not relating to the blue haired Kaichou.
"Um, Mystogan-kaichou?" A beautiful, soft looking girl was standing in front of the teen who seemed unsurprised by the girl. "Would you mind coming with me for a minute? Out to the school's garden? I swear that it won't take that long."
"Sure." The girl looked so happy, which caused a certain someone's vein to pop. "I'll be back soon."
"Another cute girl? Kaichou's so lucky that he gets all of these girls to confess to him," Hughes said loudly, almost groaning. "It would be so awesome if I could get someone as cute as that to confess to me."
"Hughes, keep your voice down unless you want to die!"
Erza scooted out of her chair and mumbled that she was going to the bathroom. She had already finished the sweet dessert that was becoming a tad too tart for her tastes. How annoying was it that she had to listen to people about love. How lasting could something like love be in situations like this?
From the second floor, she could still see the blue haired idiot and the pretty girl in the quad. By their actions she could tell what happened. She offers him the pastries along with a confession, he rejects her gently and doesn't accept them, she probably says something along the lines of 'I'll become the girl that you want, so please go out with me', and he'll still reject her.
"Worthless."
"Knightwalker, Vice President Knightwalker!" Erza blinked, slightly off guard to see Coco in front of her. "Finally you react! I've been calling you for a while!"
She sighed and focused on Coco instead of the window. "What is it, Coco? Are people getting into fights again? Or did the bell ring for class already?"
"Neither, it's just that today's meeting is cancelled because the teachers thought that we needed a break for once," she explained.
Erza's eyes blinked. "This is sudden." And if they wanted to give them a break, shouldn't they have told the student council in advance by at least a day?
"Yeah, but Byro-sensei insisted that we should so the other teachers agreed. Sugarboy and Hughes were perfectly fine with it and thought that we should have fun on our day off. We were thinking about going to karaoke. Can you come along?"
"No thanks. I don't sing."
"Is that so? What a shame, I thought that we could all have fun together. Hughes and Sugarboy said something about partying all night."
Again? Those idiots… How did they even get on the student council in the first place? "Coco, don't follow their example or else you'll become an idiot," she advised.
"Got it!"
Erza lived relatively close to school, she didn't have to take a train or a bus, it was only a 15 minute walk if she walked slowly, so it wasn't unusual that there were other students who took somewhat the same path as her, but… "Why are you sticking so close to me?"
"But we're going the same way, so it's fine isn't it?" Jellal asked, half a step behind Erza. "Besides, it's been a while since we've walked home together."
"You didn't go with them? For karaoke?" Normally he was all for that and almost every time, he dragged her along against her will and forced her to sing something.
"Nah, I passed for today."
"Hm… Was it because you were too tired from breaking girls' hearts?"
"She was a sweet girl, but she wasn't exactly my type," he stated honestly, to prove that he had a logical reason for rejecting her. But it's still strange, was he not a relatively normal teen with hormones? "That aside, I heard about your cooking." The tips of her ears became red from the sound of that. Why does he know everything that goes on in her life?
"And?"
"I wonder what they look like."
"Don't even start with me. I threw them out during break."
"That bad huh? Do you want me to teach you how to cook? You might fail the class at this rate."
Failing was not an option, but she didn't particularly want to be tutored by him in a subject like home economics. What was the point of the accursed subject in a time of instant foods and fast food restaurants, convenient and cheap solutions? On the other hand, if a certain someone found out that she failed, she wouldn't be able to hear the end of it. With a reluctant sigh, she said, "Fine, but if something messes up, you have to eat all the failures."
"Are you trying to poison me on purpose Erza?"
"I merely have confidence that you have a strong stomach," she retorted.
"It's the first time that you had confidence in me for anything. Since we've already agreed, do you want to start at my house or your house? If we start now, we could still find something nontoxic for dinner." With a glare, she punched him in the shoulder. "I'm joking…"
"You wimp. I'm just going to watch you today." And take notes on everything that he does.
"I'll cook slowly so that you can understand. Anything in particular that you want to eat?"
"Strawberry cake," she answered.
"I mean an actual food." She glared at him. How dare he say it's not a food! "That's not what I meant, I mean an food that fulfills some kind of nutrient of the day or something."
"Then, whatever's fine. I just want cake."
"Then tonight I'll show you how to make omurice. I promise you can decorate it however you like with ketchup."
"Don't treat me like a child when I'm the same age as you!"
