I feel weird for already being on my 4th chapter, since I wrote my first three in the same day. Is that normal for people to write like that? Don't most people write…like a sentence a day? Whatever. Just because I write so much, doesn't mean I have no life. Enjoy! And feel free to leave a review! PLEASE! :D
Matt POV
I was under my covers, hearing the steady breath of Mello's sleeping in the bed above me, the room so quiet. I waited until my watch, that could glow in the dark, told me it was 1.
I clicked the small button again, and it glowed. 12:29. Crap.
I turned in the bed again, this time to where I wasn't facing the wall, but facing the other side of the room, seeing Near staring at me from his bed through the faint moonlight.
I held up my wrist and clicked the button so Near could see the time. He nodded, and I let my wrist drop. I know, I'm a bad ass. I have a freaking glow-in-the-dark watch!
I stared at the ceiling, or should I say the bottom of Mello's bunk bed, and just waited until I thought it was time.
"Pssst Matt! PSSSSTT!" I opened my eyes and saw Near staring down at me, stopping shaking me.
"What time is it?" I whispered, realizing I was asleep.
He grabbed my wrist and held it up, clicking the button. 1:10.
I immediately jumped out of bed and grabbed his wrist, running out of the room, and yanking him behind me.
"You're hurting me Matt!" Near whispered as he stumbled behind me through the nearly pitch black hallway.
"Sorry!" I said and let go, him keeping a surprisingly well pace behind me.
We ran to the elevator and went to the middle floor, where the kitchen was, and found that Anna and Yuri were standing next to the door, arms crossed and looking fairly pissed.
"You are both late…..of coarse…." Yuri said, monotone as usual, and bent down on her knees, started to pick the heavy metal lock with a paper clip through the bottom.
"What took you guys so long?" Anna asked as Yuri skillfully picked the lock.
"I fell asleep on accident, but Near woke me up…" I said, pointing a thumb at Near.
"Such a good boy!" Yuri said, but I wasn't sure if that was sarcasm in her voice or not, as I heard the tumblers turn in the lock, then it unlocked then, and Yuri stood, not showing how she was satisfied with her own talents, taking the lock off the door, and ruffling Near's hair. She leaned in and whispered in his ear: "Keep an eye on Mello for us, k? And Matt…he can get a little crazy…" she whispered, a smile towards me.
"I heard that you know!" I said.
"That was the point," she said.
"Stop the chatter, we got a cake to bake bitches!" Anna said, swinging one side of the silver double doors to the kitchen, a nice cool breeze hitting us.
The kitchen was a big one, and modern at that. There were dark wood cabinets, filled with food, dishes, spices and many other snack type of things. Underneath the cabinets were gray/brown granite stone counters, a stainless steal sink on the middle, a dish washer next to it, and another separate table type of thing, with the same granite, empty, there for space to cook. On the right wall, was a stainless steal double door refrigerator, stocked with all types of food, and a secret drawer in one side, that only Mello showed me, he hid his chocolate in. On the left wall was another steel door, leading to a huge room filled with other necessary ingredients, that there was just not enough room anywhere else to put it all.
"Alright, let's do this," Anna said, and ran to the fridge. Yuri, in the meanwhile grabbed one of those tall chef hats, and put it on the top of her head, her black hair hanging down over her shoulders.
"Ok, I need milk, eggs, sugar, chocolate bars, cocoa extract, vanilla extract, chocolate icing, salt and baking soda. I also need someone to boil some water as well. AND STAT!" Yuri yelled, and we all scattered around everywhere.
As Anna got out the milk, eggs, and the chocolate bars from the fridge, and Near got the extracts, I ran to the cabinets and frantically looked for either icing, salt or baking soda. I heard the beeping of an oven, and saw Yuri, in the corner of my eye, setting the oven to 176 degrees Celsius, and grabbing pots and pans, setting them on the counter.
When I opened the fifth cabinet, I saw, along with a box of opened up Cheez-its, goldfish, random things of macaroni, I saw a cylinder canister of salt, a small box of baking soda, and a thing of icing.
I moved around the different flavors of icing, strawberry, lemon, and even kiwi, then found the chocolate icing in the back.
I grabbed the three ingredients, and then set them on the small counter in the middle, at the same time as Anna, and Near.
"YAY!" Yuri said and threw her strange hat somewhere in the corner. She took a black scrunchy that was on her wrist, threw one to Anna who caught it, and then took the other one off and put her hair up in a high pony tail. "Anna, put your hair up. I don't want your blonde hair in my, er….Mello's cake…"
I didn't blame Yuri, for they both had fairly long hair, and I didn't think that Mello wanted to eat a hair cake.
"Selfish much?" Anna mumbled, as she put her hair up. Yuri playfully slapped her arm.
"You know what I meant….."
Yuri grabbed a round silver bowl and a wooden spoon, handing it to Near. "I want you to stir together four eggs, two cups of milk, four cup of sugar, two teaspoons of vanilla extract, and 4 teaspoons of cocoa extract. Oh, Anna, get some vegetable oil, one cup of that. Got it math genius?" Yuri said, and Anna ran up to the counter, slamming down a bottle of vegetable oil.
Near nodded, and walked off to do that, while Yuri looked at Anna and I.
"We get the fun part! The chocolate making! Well, we don't exactly make that chocolate, but we get to cut it up, and make it into designs, and I'll teach you guys alllll of that stuff, k?" she said, and turned around, grabbing tons of Mello's chocolate bars.
"Yuri is the cook out of the two of us," Anna whispered to me, then Yuri turned around, three scalpel looking tools in her hand.
It felt uneasy to me, to let the two of them rip the chocolate bars open like that, but this was for cheering up Mello right?
In the end, we had a square of 20 by 50 chocolate bars next to each other, the name Hershey in each little square of chocolate.
"Ok, so first, this!" Yuri pulled out a rolling pin and a strange looking light, that was thin and hot, out of nowhere, and started waving the light around the chocolate, making the chocolate start to melt.
"Where did you get this?" Anna asked, trying to take the heater out of Yuri's hand, but Yuri dodged, and nearly hit my face with the hot part.
"E-bay," Yuri said, and slammed the rolling pin into my stomach, my bending forward in pain, but she didn't seem to notice. "As the chocolate melts, roll it out into a thin and even layer."
I slowly recovered, taking full grip onto the rolling pin, and looked at Anna, who was making a 'she's crazy' sign to Yuri, who was too busy with her heating. I nodded in agreement.
I heard the light click on, and that remembered me that we actually never turned it on in the first place. I thought we were caught for a second, but then saw it was only Near, turning the light on.
"Hey, pay attention, start rolling," Yuri said.
"Right…" I mumbled, and started rolling the chocolate into a thin layer, about a half inch thick, but covering a long distance of the table. The chocolate was smooth and easy to move through, and just the feeling of it made me happy, for I knew that Mello would be happy when he ate it too.
"That's good Matt, thanks!" Yuri said. "Now throw it in the sink." I tossed it in the sink, and it made a loud crash noise, that made us all look around like crazy, as if teacher ninjas would pop out of the ceiling corners and attack us with detention notes. But that didn't happen, no matter how cool it would be to see all of the teachers go ninja…
"Don't do that again! We might get caught!" Anna said.
"And I didn't mean literally!" Yuri said, and I smiled apologetically.
"Now what?" I asked.
"We wait for it to cool…" Yuri said.
5 minutes later
"So now that it's all cooled down, we can start." Yuri grabbed a knife and cut the chocolate in half. "This half for in the cake, and this half on the outside."
"Damn, Mello better be happy after this…" Anna said, smiling and looking like she wanted to eat it all herself.
"Don't even think about it Anna…" Yuri warned.
"So what do we do with this?" I asked, holding up the scalpel type thing.
"We're going to make chocolate chips. For the inside right now. All we have to do is this. Just watch me," Yuri grabbed her scalpel, which was what I was deciding to call it now, and dug the scalpel in the chocolate diagonally, and with the flick of a wrist, got a perfect chocolate chip out.
"Just keep doing that." And so, we did, cutting the chocolate to hundreds of chocolate chips, just for the inside.
"I finished the batter…." Near said, holding up the bowl.
"Ok, so, for the batter, uh, we need to put them into two circular pans to bake the top and bottom half in…." Yuri picked up two circular pans and brought them to Near.
"Pour them evenly into here please, but first," Yuri looked back at Anna and I.
"Let's start putting the chocolate chips in the batter." Near set the bowl down again, and we all started picking up the chocolate into the bowl, nearly overflowing it with chocolate chips.
Anna started stirring it all together, gently though, so the chocolate chips wouldn't break, and then we poured it into the pans, and put it in the oven.
"Wow. All I can say is…..wow." Anna said, staring at the finished product, all of us messy from the icing and other events that happened while waiting. The chocolate cake was at least a foot tall, the outside and in covered with chocolate chips, like a snow of chocolate pilled up evenly on it.
"MELLO'S GONNA LOVE IT! THANK YOU!" I screamed, hugging Yuri so much that I picked her off the ground, but she didn't hug me back, maybe too shocked to speak. "THANK YOU TOO!" I said to Anna and hugged her the same way, except she laughed when I picked her up, and hugged me back.
I set her down, and then Near spoke. "Where are we going to put it?"
"Shit. Where can we?" Anna said in thought.
"I don't know!" I said in a panic. This kitchen was the only fridge in the building….
Yuri held up her cell phone, an Iphone 4, and on the screen was a picture of a refrigerator.
"I can buy it on E-bay and ship it here in two seconds."
"What's with you and E-bay?" Near asked, and Yuri started typing on it.
"My 4th cousin worked in the E-bay corporation. I even got this phone from E-bay too. 9 dollars," Yuri shrugged.
"9? Why didn't you get me one?" Anna asked.
"There was only one left. Duh." Yuri put in phone in her pocket. "Ok, you guys can sleep. We got it from here. Just bring Mello to our room when ever, k?"
"Alright!" I said, and ran out of there, dragging Near with me, and my excitement overflowing.
