Riese's P.O.V

100 appeared on the screen and everyone gasped. As if it were the first time that they had seen a perfect score appear on the screen.

The host began stuttering, "Oh w-wow! W-with this score Riese Hayashi takes the lead and moves on to the next round!" People began clapping and I kept my neutral face on. I began to make my way back to my station then I noticed that Akira-kun was already watching from the audience. Maybe Group A had finished earlier.

"Told you." I mouthed as I stuck my tongue out making him huff and steer away from my eyes. I began busying myself with putting my equipment back into my bag and we were all dismissed. I was supposed to go and check how Group A was doing but realized that most of the audience would migrate there and that it would be too noisy.

Then I noticed a pair of amber eyes on me. He still had not left. I hastily made my way out of the arena so that I would not run into him.

'Why is he here?' I cringed at the thought of him. Unwanted memories would begin to make their way to me and I attempted to shake them off.

"Riese?" The only voice that enjoyed hearing in this school called my name, my heart began to feel lighter and mood better as I turned and saw a certain white eyed person making his way to me.

"Eishi-kun, you said that you wouldn't be able to make it." I gave him a sweet smile. The smile that I would only give to him. The smile that only he had the privelage of seeing.

He grinned, "What? You thought that I would miss watching you cook? Don't you know me, Riese? Did what I tell you earlier make you like me less?" His worrywart attitude began to show and I laughed.

"Eishi-kun! You're worrying too much again."

During the past few days that the two of us had been hanging out, he would smile more and worry less. I liked to think that somehow my presence would make him feel more comfort or something. But of course, I kept that thought to myself. I wasn't even sure yet.

"Hahaha, sorry Riese." He began ruffling my hair and I gave him my trademark glare which would usually make other people shiver or freeze. But he was different, he knew that all my acts were just a facade to keep people from making friends with me and hurting me.

'But didn't that give him the chance to do that?' A random thought crossed my mind and I dismissed it. I was confident that he wouldn't ever do that.

I looked at his face and felt my heart clench for some reason, 'Why do I feel like I've known you before?' He must have noticed the look on my face and another worried look graced his features.

"Are you okay, Riese-chan? Are you feeling sick? Did you cut yourself earlier? Do you want to go to the clinic?" His nonstop questions began once again as I smiled.

"No, I'm fine, Eishi-kun... I just began feeling that maybe I knew you before."

I noticed his eyes widen and appeared to have a glimmer of hope. It quickly returned to his normal look.

"Maybe you are just mistaking me for someone else." He began to mutter the last few words and avoided my eye contact.

'Yeah, maybe.' I began to dismiss the thought as we made our way out of the building. I offered to assist him with his paperwork so that he could finish it earlier.

As we were making our way out of the building, Yukihira and the rest of his gang were waiting outside and cheering.

"Let's celebrate later!"

"It's okay, Megumi-chan! You did great!"

"Hey look! It's Tsukasa-senpai and Hayashi-san. Isshiki-senpai, why not invite them later?"

With that being said, a chestnut haired guy, named Isshiki, made his way to us. "Congratulations, Hayashi-san! Nice seeing you here, Tsukasa-senpai."

"Thank you." I murmured giving a small smile.

"We would like to invite you to our celebration party later!" He gave a cheeky smile, "We're having a celebration for the members of PSD who are getting into the quarter finals."

"PSD?"

"Polar Star Dorm, Hayashi-san."

I looked at Eishi-kun, making him decide. I wouldn't mind going if got to mingle with the people who actually seemed capable of cooking a worthy dish.

"Sure. We'll pass by." Isshiki-san seemed shocked but it quickly went away. He put on his cheerful demeanor back, "Very well! See you both later!"

~'~'~

Satoshi Isshiki's P.O.V

How strange, never had I thought that Tsukasa-senpai would ever visit us in the Polar Star Dorm. For a party! What a surprise.

I watched as the two light-colored hair pair walk farther away from us.

'Maybe that girl is changing him.' I couldn't help but put a smile on my face. Ignoring the fact that my juniors were looking at me strangely and poking me.

"Who are you exactly, Riese Hayashi." I whispered silently, I knew that no one would hear. My hair was gently being blown by the wind and the sunset's rays made it shine.

"Uhm... Isshiki-senpai." A timid voice destroyed my limelight. I looked and saw Megumi-chan.

"Yes, Megumi-chan?" I asked her sweetly.

"You've been dazed for 5 minutes now. Are you alright? The rest have been heading back to the dorm."

"Right, sorry! Let's get going." I looked over her shoulder and saw that I was not the only one lost in thought. A certain red haired boy had his face show no expression.

"Let's go, Soma-kun." Megumi-chan also called him out, which he had responded to. We began walking back to our dormitory in order to prepare for our party.

"Yukihira." A deep voice was heard from behind, and we all turned to see an amber-eyed man whose hair was the color of corals.

"Shinomiya-senpai!" Yukihira gave a sheepish grin, "I didn't know that you were here!"

"Keep your voice low, brat." He sighed in annoyance and neared us. He gave Megumi-chan a look which almost made her shrink. He handed Soma something.

"Do me a favor and give this to Riese Hayashi." I couldn't see what it was. Soma stared at it and nodded as Shinomiya-san began walking away.

"Don't tell her who it's from."

~'~'~

Riese Hayashi's P.O.V

I was hanging in Eishi-kun's office. I was originally supposed to help but he told me that it was confidential things so instead, I was sitting on the couch talking with a scarlet-haired beauty. She went by the name Rindou Kobayashi.

"Oh! And then after that, Eishi-kun freaked out when he first saw an alligator in one of our kitchens!" This girl was extremely interesting.

"Why was there an alligator in a kitchen?" I sweat dropped. And her cat-like eyes flickered.

"I needed it to be fresh! I killed it myself." She proudly said.

'This school surely is made with a lot of strange people.' We continued talking and I would explain to her my experiences in Reuder University. She seemed interested and sincere when she looked. She was also very cheeky. She reminded me of someone.

"Eishi-kun here is a perfectionist." She stated while pointing a finger at him as I had my back turned to him. "That's why he does all the paperwork."

"You just don't do yours, Rindou!" He exclaimed as I giggled. They were quite the pair.

We ignored him and we continued to talk. After a couple of minutes, we heard his chair move back and he stood up stretching.

"You done?" Rindou-san asked looking at him as she stood up too. I followed.

"Yes. Hopefully, no Shokugekis or anything extreme will happen during the next rounds.

We began to make our way out, I was in front of them. As I turned to look at them, I saw that Rindou-senpai was whispering something in his ear which made him blush.

My heart clenched at this.

"Oh, well. I had a lot of fun with you today, Riese-chan." She began to walk towards the other way. "Enjoy your party!"

Were they together?

~'~'~

Eishi Tsukasa's P.O.V

'How did Rindou notice? Did Riese-chan notice that I was looking at her too? That every once in a while, I would smile at her giggling figure when they and Rindou would talk? What if she thinks of me differently now? What if she finds my strange? What if she doesn't-' my train of thoughts were interrupted when a certain girl who's eyes were blends of different colors stood in front of me.

"Earth to Eishi-kun! Are you there?" I sighed in relief. The fact that she acted this way only towards me made my blush.

"Sorry, Riese-chan. I was just thinking of something."

"Oh." Her mood seemed to dampen as she was quiet the entire walk.

"Riese, are you okay? Is something wrong? Did I do anything wrong?" I could ask more questions, but I tried to hold back as I didn't want to annoy her.

"I'm okay," she went silent before continuing. "Are you and Rindou-senpai together?" Her random question made my eyes.

"Hahaha!" I couldn't help but laugh.

"Eishi-kun!"

"Sorry, Riese-chan. But your question just sounded too cute. And to answer it, no we aren't." I gave her a smirk, "Could you be jealous?" Her expression suddenly changed as she began stuttering.

"Of course not! What are you saying! I'm not jealous!"

I simply smiled. Why would she be jealous in the first place?

A/N - Here's a long chapter for you guys! Anyways, I'm sorry if Eishi is a bit OOC. Hahaha. Will work on it.