Chapter 7: Cookies
Later that morning the girls are in the kitchen and Martha is trying to teach Anna to bake biscuits. Anna realises that she's not the greatest cook and tends to be rather clumsy in the kitchen.
First she drops an egg on the floor and then she almost bumps the bowl of dough off the counter. Martha is reminded of a time long gone when Clark was a little boy. She let him help her in the kitchen but he just made a bigger mess.
Anna appears very child-like with dough in her hair and flour on her face and cloths. Martha hasn't had this much fun in a while and despite the mess, it warms her heart to have someone in the house again.
Anna grabs the flour and is about to pack it away when Clark comes through the door. She gets a fright clenches the bag forcing huge clouds of flour to puff out all over her and the kitchen. Clark just watches and laughs to himself. Suddenly Martha begins laughing too and Anna soon joins in.
Suddenly the oven bell chimes and Anna grabs the oven mitts and takes her first batch of cookies out the oven. Oven mitts still on hand, she grabs one of the hot cookies and walks over to Clark promptly stuffing the biscuit into his mouth.
"How does it taste?" She asks. Martha's first thought was careful it's hot but then she realises Clark wouldn't even notice and begins cleaning up the flour.
Clark chews the biscuit and wipes some flour off Anna's face. Quickly, he pulls his hand away realising that Anna is blushing. Anna steps away slowly and smiles before helping Martha clean-up the mess she so easily helped create.
Clark takes another biscuit from the hot tray and heads for the door. "It's really good." He comments. Martha and Anna both know that he is about to run off again.
"You better not be late for dinner." Martha calls after him, "Anna's cooking." She continues. Clark just smiles and leaves, he was just on a lunch break after all and wanted to check in on the girls.
Night fell fast and while setting the table, Martha gets a call from Clark. There has been an emergency in Asia, a train crash and he probably won't make it to dinner. He tells her to not wait for him.
Martha relays the message to Anna who seems disappointed. They are both quiet during dinner and Anna keeps thinking that perhaps Clark might be avoiding her, but soon shrugs it off and remembers what Martha told her once, about how he helps people all over the world and that it leaves little time for anything else.
This got Anna thinking about her own abilities and what was she going to do about them. It was obvious that if she was to remember anything, she should have by now, but she ca not dwell on it and perhaps she should just move on with her life.
