Chapter 7
(Cake)
In the elementary's classroom at St. Marie, our protagonists were gathering in their cooking station…
"Yo Ichigo! Are you okay now?" Hanabusa asked, putting his arm around Ichigo's shoulder.
"Y-Yeah…" Ichigo replied.
"Hmph! What was that? Putting his arms around her shoulders like that! He doesn't even care about the people watching him," Kashino thought, snubbing them.
"Groups A & B come to the office after classes," Ameya-sensei, the teacher with brown eyes and hair who was wearing eyeglasses announced, cutting Kashino's thoughts.
"Why all of a sudden?" Andou, asked.
"Who knows…?" Hanabusa replied, looking at Ichigo.
Kashino interrupted and said, "Hey you two will you stop that lovey dovey thing? It disgusts me you know?!"
"Kashino it's just for friends you know," Hanabusa replied with a polite tone, staring at Kashino as if saying MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS WILL YA?!
-After class at the office-
"Group A & B we have special assignments for you… You need to make cakes for the kindergarten students at this school," Ameya-sensei said, pointing at the monitor of her laptop which was having the picture of a school.
"But, to know if your cakes are safe we need to judge and test it first…," the other teacher stated.
"That's all?" a girl named Ikue Nakajima, the girl who had a pinkish hair and eyes and the one who hates Ichigo who's a member of group B butted in.
"Yeah…," the teachers said simultaneously.
Ikue, wanting to take Ichigo down thought of a plan to take advantage of what was happening now:
"Sensei… can I suggest something?"
"Say it Ikue," Ameya-sensei said.
"Can we have a competition about this matter? The one who'll win would be the Group A…," she added, "What I mean is on our part, we of course also root for being Group A like others. Of course Group A will agree unless they're scared of being defeated."
"Who's scared? Bring it on," Kashino said.
"Hmm it's a very interesting idea… since the both sides agreed to this, it's settled now then. You guys will be having 'that competition' 2 days from now at this place 5:00 pm," Ameya-sensei said, nodding.
"Um sensei one more thing… could you please choose a theme that we're going to use? I think it's easier 'that' way," one of nakajima's group mate suggested.
"Come on why do we need that thing in this competition? You're treating it as a match of professionals…," Kashino replied back.
"No… I think that's a good idea!" another teacher said.
"Yeah that's good," other teachers murmured, complimenting the idea.
"But—
"No buts! You need to accept what has been decided," a male teacher holding a book exclaimed, cutting the Group A's word.
After some minutes of their meeting, the teachers finally had the theme…
"Okay! You need to make a cake that can represent a human's life."
The entire group A & B nodded. Though the nods of the group A was preceded by a sigh…
-After the meeting-
"Ugh what was that!? They're overreacting so much!" Kashino shouted.
Ichigo, Hanabusa and Andou glared at Kashino.
"Why are you three staring at me?"
"You're the one who dragged us in here so don't complain," Hanabusa sighed.
"Whatever…"
"Let's just think about the cake that would match the theme for now," Ichigo stated, cutting they're conversation.
After 5 minutes of thinking, nothing came up to their minds.
"Maybe we're just too exhausted now. If you don't mind I would like to design the cake," Ichigo suggested.
"Okay!" Andou and Hanabusa exclaimed.
-Next day after class-
"Ichigo-chaaaaaaaaaaaan," Hanabusa called, waving his hands at Ichigo.
Ichigo walk towards Hanabusa's direction and said:
"Hello Hanabusa-kun," Ichigo stated, smiling.
Hanabusa wrapped his arms towards Ichigo's shoulders and they headed to the kitchen.
"Do you have the design with you?" Hanabusa asked, holding Ichigo's shoulders, walking through the kitchen.
"Yeah…," she replied, opening the door to the kitchen.
Their conversation was cut by a familiar voice…
"Ichigo-chan, Hanabusaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Andou called walking towards Ichigo, "Have you decided for our cake Ichigo-chan?"
"Yeah..."
Then Ichigo took out a sketchpad revealing her design. It's a round cake filled with black ink and was surrounded by the butterflies…
"Wow! Is it a chocolate cake?" Andou asked.
"Yeah..," she replied.
"So how is it related to life?" A familiar voice, not knowing who it is, interfered.
"Because the life of a person is like a chocolate garden full of butterflies which is beautiful and mysterious," Ichigo replied, gasping once she knew Kashino was the one who asked her.
"Chocolate cake huh— so that's my duty then,"
Hanabusa, Ichigo and Andou all nodded.
Then they started baking the cake.
"Psst Hanabusa! Don't you feel like the one who's baking there isn't Kashino? Like his movements— it's different," Andou murmured, getting the sugar.
"Yeah I wonder why," Ichigo suddenly interfered.
-After baking--
"Yay it's finally finished!" the sweets spirit exclaimed, getting a card/picture from the cake.
"We're digging in!" all of them said except Kashino, "Wha—it's bitter… whose cake is this?"
"That's mine…," Kashino admitted.
"I… think we should let him alone first so he could concentrate-desu," Caramel stated.
They all nodded and left Kashino and Chocolat in the kitchen. While walking, Andou suddenly opened his mouth and said:
"I think the way he feels greatly affects the sweetness of his cake…," he added, "Ichigo-chan maybe your fight the other day was the cause of it. If he goes on like this in the match—"
" Wait wait wait, so you're saying she should make-up with Kashino?" Vanilla asked, jumping out of her bag.
"I—I'll do it!" Ichigo stated.
"Well then I'll be counting on you."
-Ichigo & Rumi's room-
"Aahh even if I said I would do it!" Ichigo exclaimed, messing her hair.
After few minutes of thinking, she finally thought up of an idea and she shouted:
"TADAAH!"
Then she slept. Tomorrow morning, she hurriedly went to the boy's dorm and once she reached it, she talked to herself:
"Plan #1- Kashino would walk out of the door and once he get here I'll carry his bag and he would thank me and we've made up!"
"That's so not going to work," Vanilla said.
After some minutes of waiting, Ichigo finally got the guts to ask the dorm holder where Kashino was.
"Um… dorm holder-san was Kashino still in his room?"
"Nope… he left earlier— he told me that he is going to practice baking."
"Wha-Wha-Wha …," that were the only things she can say when they left the dorm.
Vanilla couldn't take it anymore so she hit Ichigo's head.
"Ouch Vanilla, you meanie!" she screamed.
Vanilla made a funny face and went to the kitchen as fast as she could.
"Geez Vanilla…," Ichigo said, opening the door to the kitchen.
After opening, she saw Kashino tempering…
"Plan #2: KISS him on the cheeks," Ichigo discussed, winking.
Vanilla sweat dropped.
Ichigo quickly kissed Kashino on the cheeks.
"Idiot! What was that for?!" Kashino shouted, blushing.
Ichigo just realized what she had done and that she really planned it so she didn't say a thing and got embarrassed so she ran out of the kitchen leaving Kashino.
"Whaaaaaaaaaa! What did I just do?!" Ichigo shouted.
After some minutes of depression, Ichigo came back to reality and got her energy back.
"Okayyy!"
"Whoa! You sure recovered fast!" Vanilla said.
"Plan #3—"
"Stop that IDIOT plan right away!" Vanilla said, hitting her head. "Could you just talk to him properly?"
"Y-Yes ma'am…"
Ichigo took time by catching a chance to talk to Kashino. When he went to his room, Ichigo pleaded the dorm holder to take her in to Kashino's room. Then at last, he agreed to let her in.
"Vanilla's special plan: Just talk to him," Ichigo murmured with her eyes shining.
They made it through Kashino and Hanabusa's dorm. They knocked and Kashino was surprised to see Ichigo there.
"Wha- Why are you here? Aren't girl's prohibited here?" Kashino stated, letting them in.
"Because um… I'm—"
"Hello Ichigo-chan," Hanabusa from Ichigo's back suddenly called, walking forward to hug her tightly.
"If you just came here to be lovey dovey to him just get out of here! Hmph!" Kashino said irritated, throwing the two of them outside.
Chapter 8=
Ichigo's voice:
The competition is tomorrow! And, Kashino's cake is still bitter… what am I going to do?! What?! If we don't maintain in Group A our grades would be affected? And Kashino would be dropped off by his mother if he wasn't the top 1 at our class?! I need to think of a plan that would beat the group B's work! I'll stay up all night on the middle school's kitchen…Wha?! Why did I slept ? And the other thing is Andou-kun saw my true self! Whaaaaaaaaaaaa what am I gonna do?!
P.S.
SugarCrazyGurl-sama and Guest-sama thank you for the idea ;) it helped me alooooooooot… THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! ;)))))))
