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Chapter 4

What did he mean by but? Now he had my curiosity bouncing all over the place, but I couldn't ask with Rima looking like she just did the right thing.

"I had a little company" Ikuto continued motioning toward Tadase and Nick, who were looking over a piece of paper that they had clutched in there hands, "They wanted to ask you something."

"Um yea," Nick smiled shyly while stepping forward, "We were kind of wondering if you would walk us through the Tart recipe." I just smile and nodded, motioning for everyone to follow me up to my apartment.

I never noticed before but my apartment seemed pretty small with five people in it. It made me think it was even cozier as I made my way to my pantry pulling out all the ingredients that they worked with earlier today except for the tart shells. Looking up to find Rima and Ikuto engaged in some conversation on my living room couch while searching for a suitable channel to watch, I sighed and motioned for Nick and Tadase to grab chairs and sit down while I showed them how to make a tart.

"Ok." I started to say while pulling out a bowl, a whisk and my cutting board and sitting it on the counter, "First we have to make the dough." I said while dumping the right amounts of ingredients into the bowl and started to check them off out loud, "Flour, Sugar, Baking soda, Salt, and now for the eggs, vanilla extract, and Milk." I continued while adding them in and then stirring, occasionally adding more flour till it looked like regular dough. "Next time to kneed it," I said happily while instructing Ikuto to go get my ipod and sit it on the table, and also splitting the big pile of dough into two. "Nick and Tadase you each get one, don't forget to spread the flour out on the cutting board."

Watching them work was funny; they got flour all over themselves and didn't know how to kneed the dough in the first place. After I got them started I flipped through my ipod and found a song I had completely forgot about, Face Down by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Dancing to the music and continuing to instruct them on what to do, I was slight surprised to notice Rima and Ikuto pull up a chair and see what we were up too.

Thirty minutes later we had gotten the tarts baked, decorated and ready for eating. Tadase and Nick didn't stay long they just stayed to thank me then made a quick leave while whispering about something.

"Finally they're gone," Ikuto said under his breathe and grabbing my ipod to change the song. "So I was going to ask you earlier if you want to hang out with me more often, you're interesting." I wasn't sure if that was a good thing and I saw Rima grabbing for her keys and trying not to laugh.

"Hey Amu I gotta hit the road," Rima said while heading towards the door, "He means that in a good way," Turning to Ikuto she waved and said "She accepts~ She's dense you have to be patient with her." What was that supposed to mean? Grabbing my ipod from Ikuto and waving good bye to Rima I settled on the song Get Crazy by LMFAO.

"So I guess that means you'll be seeing me around more." He said while smirking and leaning back in the chair to watch me dance. "Fun."

"Don't you have somewhere to go?" I shot back already getting tired of his attitude. "If you remember this is MY house." This just got me a smile and a laugh. Holding up his hands in surrender he backed away towards the door.

"See you later Amu."

I didn't exactly get what Rima meant when she said that I was dense and he needed to be patient with me, I'm not dense what so ever. Cleaning up the mess that Tadase and Nick left all over my counter I couldn't help but sing along to my Ipod that was now playing Lost in You by ThreeDaysGrace. Instantly I thought of Ikuto for some strange reason and shook my head to try and pretend that thought never came into my head.

With the dishes done and drying, I thought it was about time to start studying for my Exam tomorrow. I still couldn't believe that I had an exam when I currently a student teacher, but at the same time I still had to graduate and get my Degree from College. Heading into the small study across from my room, I grabbed my book and decided to go over all the basics I learned in my first year of college. Such a long time ago that seemed. After the basics I was pretty sure I'd have to write down a few recipes that they choose so I decided to go through some old ones that I had kept in my binder.

Yawning every so often made me realize that I was tired so I decided to quit studying and see how I do tomorrow. Placing everything back were I'd gotten it from I changed into my nightclothes and climbed into bed. I was way too tired to take a shower tonight I'd have to do it tomorrow morning. Sitting my alarm clock for about 9am it felt good to be able to sleep longer then I normally can.

***Next Morning (Tuesday)***

My dreams where the same as normal but when my alarm woke me up I couldn't remember it, no matter how hard I tried to bring it back. Shrugging it off I grabbed the clothes I would be wearing and dragged myself into the bathroom. Turning the water to hot and waiting till the bathroom was steaming, I stripped and climbed in sighing happily to feel something warm. Twenty minutes later I was dressed and ready to take my exam in my baggy grey sweats that read "Yea I'm a Smart Ass." Down the side and a tight old Boys Like Girls concert T-shirt that read "Boys Like Like Like Girls" in pink on a black background.

Grabbing an old black backpack that had Rocker Girl written all over it in different fonts, I shoved all my books and stuff in it, yawning widely and went for my keys. Once in my car I sighed heavily, it had started to drizzle, placing the key in the ignition and turning up the heat I combed my fingers through my hair so it wouldn't be dripping down my back. Finally turning the heat down and backing out of the parking lot I started to go through everything I had studied last night in my head.

By the time I'd made it to the building I would be taking my exam it was 9:45 and I still had 15 minutes to go. So I made sure to stall in my car as long as possible so I wouldn't have to get out into the rain. After about 10 minutes it was about time to get out, so climbing out quickly and grabbing my bag I slammed the car door, locked it then dashed up the stairs to the door and headed inside. The exam wasn't challenging to me in anyway, Just the normal how do you use questions and what do you use questions. Not to mention that I had to write down 4 recipes from memory.

Handing in my exam, I noticed I was the first one done and it had only taken me about an hour and thirty minutes. Grabbing my bag from the floor I got permission to leave from the professor and headed toward the Pastry 101 building.

I walked through the door while Ikuto was instructing how to make Icing flowers. Walking to his desk quietly I sat down in his chair and watched also, noticing how his way of doing it was slightly different from mine. But in the end result they both came out pretty much the same.

"Okay everyone else try, I'll be around in ten minutes to see how they look, remember they count as a grade so don't goof off." Ikuto said before turning to me and leaning against the side of his desk. "So how'd your exam go?" That took me by surprise, I was pretty sure I hadn't mentioned anything about an exam to him.

"Pretty good, it was fairly simple." I replied while stretching then pulling down my shirt. He just nodded and looked me over then shook his head in what looked like disapproval.

"What's with that outfit?" He questioned mockingly before winking at me, "Your shirts perfect though." I smirked and tried not to laugh knowingly.

"Yea just tight enough to see my stomach when I stretch and much more" I winked back then stared at the class and noticed Utau was staring me. I waved and she sneered at me before going back to working on her flowers. Whoa attitude much. Before I could stare at her partner Lulu, Ikuto leaned close to me, so that he was practically in my face.

"You owe me remember?" he said suddenly, which made me remember how he grabbed the tart crusts for me.

"I'm Pretty sure I owe you nothing, I could have reached it myself." I said while blushed acutely aware of how close to me he was. Before I could say anything else he looked back at the class and left me sitting there looking as red as a strawberry. Grabbing my notebook from my bag I started to flip through recipes I hadn't even tried yet and decided I would try "donut shapes" later.

"You all did well," Ikuto's voice broke through my thoughts and made me remember how close he was just to me. I was pretty sure he was going to kiss me; I stopped immediately already feeling my face get warm. "Since we're waiting for the icing to harden just a bit so you can move them, you should read about the history of Icing flowers, since you have a quiz on it next close." A collective groan rose through the class, and I couldn't help but laugh at them. My laughter didn't last long because he looked back at me after telling what chapter the class should read and walked back over, pulling up a chair. "You really do owe me you know…"

"Fine~" I groaned, he wasn't going to let me forget it would he, "What do you want?" I was hoping it had nothing to do with this weekend.

"You're going to hang out with me all next week." He stated matter of factly. I couldn't help but stare. Did he seriously mean all week? "Yea you can pick what we do on the weekend I suppose, but the rest of the week I'll choose." He continued while smiling dangerously at me. This was lovely, I was wishing that It wouldn't have to do with this weekend, and it happened to be.

"Okay I guess," I muttered while pulling my shirt down again," But this isn't a sleepover is it?" I said mockingly knowing that, that wouldn't happen.

"Actually…" Ikuto replied while pulling out his cell phone and flipping through it to show me a text from Rima that read: "Amu, If your reading this then you already know about the plan, yea your even going to spend the night, fun fun~ Be good ;)

P.s I'm going to be coming to take your spare key and hand it to Ikuto, have a fun week and maybe you'll realize what I've been trying to tell you"

"No way in hell." I said sternly, while digging through my pockets and pulling out my keys. My spare key was gone.

"She already predicted you'd say that," He said smirking while holding up my spare key, "I'll be over on Friday, maybe I can even give you cheats about what's going to be on your exams all next week." He continued while standing up and started questioned the class on what they just read, while I went around picking up the icing covered utensils that everybody had used.

What the hell was the matter with Rima? I didn't have time to worry about having a pervert around my house when I should be worrying about exams, and possibly some extra cooking classes I should be taking. I'm determined to start that business me and Suu decided when we were younger.

After I had finished cleaning up the room after everyone left I decided I would go and see what Suu was up to about now, this was her last week in French Cuisine but she still had a while to go before she could graduate, she was a year behind me. With that decided and walked over to the desk grabbed my bag and slung it over my shoulder, and left without a word to Ikuto. I was still pretty pissed about the whole him staying over at my house for a week.

Making it to the French cuisine building I pushed my way through the door and into the huge room and took a deep breath it smelled nothing like the pastry 101 room, this room smelled like spices. Looking around I spotted Suu bent over a cutting board, cutting mushrooms and a few other things I didn't recognize from afar.

"Hey Suu" I called while moving to stand across the table from her.

"Hey Amu…" She said slowly like she was trying to concentrate. After she had finished cutting everything she used her knife to scrape everything off the board and into a huge stock pot. Then she turned to me smiling, "So how's everything for you in Pastry 101?" She asked while hugging me tightly, "You smell like sugar…"

"Is that a bad thing?" I asked while sniffing my shirt, she was right I did smell like sugar "And it's all going fine…"

"It's not a bad thing and that's good…anything new happening with the instructor." Suu asked while smiling at me so widely it had to hurt. Why did everyone who knew about him look at me like that?

"Nope nothing new, except he's going to be staying with me for about a week starting this Friday.." I said slowly making sure she understood it so I wouldn't have to repeat myself. She gave me this bugged eyed look of excitement and then went quickly over to her stock pot to make sure she was doing everything right.

"It's going to be one crazy week for you" She replied as if she was reading my mind. Freaky. "Things are going to happen so fast its going to make your head spin. You might even graduate with a boyfriend." Suu continued and turned to me winking.

Whoa whoa~ is that what everyone thought was going to happen? So you're telling me everyone was trying to get me fall for him. No wait that doesn't seem right…there has to be something more to it. I shook my head then gave Suu the crazy sign.

"You're delusional if you think something's going to happen between me and that…that…..Amorous Instructor." I still couldn't believe that Rima and now Suu were thinking that something was going to happen, if I have to make sure it doesn't myself then I will.

My last year of college was going to be something I'm probably going to fear, if not love to death. My last year of college, that has a ring to it doesn't it…?

Ookay the storys going to start picking up speed from here, i want it to be finished in about 6 more chapters :)

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Tama-Chan