Chapter Ten (Chase's POV)

We walked inside. Angela moved over to the kitchen table and I made my own way to the refrigerator.

"What would you like to eat?" I asked her. I didn't really know what she liked.

"Um, an Omelet would be nice." She said.

I nodded and pulled out the eggs and butter from the fridge and began to whisk the eggs in a bowl.

"How long have you been cooking?" Angela asked.

"4 years. I have always had an interest in it." I replied. As I continued to make our breakfast there wasn't really a conversation. Angela waited patiently for the food.

After about 10 minutes I had two plates, each with their own omelet placed on it. I grabbed the plates and walked over to the table. I laid one in front of Angela, whose eyes lighted up at the sight of the food. I couldn't help but grin at her reaction as I sat down across from her.

She grabbed a fork and peeled a square of the egg off and tossed it into her mouth.

"Chase, this is amazing." She said taking another bite.

I chuckled a little bit "It's just an omelet." I stated taking a bite of my own breakfast.

Angela continued to eat. Praising my cooking often. I chuckled a little each time.

There was a lot of silence, but it was a comfortable silence. Something I didn't feel often.

Angela and I both finished after a while.

"So what are you planning to do for the day?" She asked when I took her clean plate.

"Just to find some new things to cook." I shrugged and laid the plates into the sink for cleaning.

"What about you?" I asked.

"I'm not sure." She replied standing up.

"Wanna help me cook something?" I asked. Did I really just ask her that?

"Sure." She said prancing over beside in the kitchen.

"What do you have in mind?" I asked grabbing a cook book I had stored in a cabinet.

"Something sweet." She said.

"Cookies or a cake?" I asked as I flipped through the book to the desserts section.

"Cookies." She said. "Chocolate chip."

"Your favorite?"

"Yup."

"Mine too." I said smiling at her. I hadn't felt this comfortable with a girl in a while. I didn't know why I was smiling and laughing so much.

"Then let's start." She said looking down at the ingredients.

I nodded and dug out everything we needed. Flour, Milk, my last few eggs, chocolate chips, ect.

Angela measured and dumped the ingredients into a large bowl. I mixed everything together and soon we had a large ball of dough sitting in the base of the bowl.

"There is so much." Angela said looking down at the bowl.

"Yea, we can probably make a few dozen." I said bending down and pulling out three large pans to place the cookies on. We both headed over to the sink and washed our hands before handling the dough.

I grabbed some and rolled it into a makeshift ball and laid it on the cookie pan. Angela did the same.

We did it over and over until all the pans were full.

"We still have a lot left." I commented. We had probably a handful.

"Eat it." Angela said, sticking her hand and pulling off a chuck that was full of chocolate chips.

"A-Angela!"

"What?" She asked grabbing another slightly smaller ball of dough.

I started laughing and I grabbed some dough too.

"See, it's good." She said giggling. I couldn't help but smile at her. She smiled back.

Soon we had finished off the dough and the cookies were finished; now we were left with a ton of dirty dishes. As the cookies cooled we cleaned the dishes.

"The only bad thing about cooking is you have to clean stuff up after you are done." Angela said as she dried a bowl.

"Yea, the only thing I don't like about it." I said handing her a dripping wet plate.

We hadn't had many conversations, but it was comfortable, like earlier at the table. Soon all the dishes were cleaned, dried, and put away. The cookies we had made were cool enough to eat.

I handed Angela one then took one myself.

"These are amazing." She complimented.

"You helped make them." I pointed out so I wouldn't get all the credit.

I found a plate and placed it on the counter. I scooped up a dozen cookies and placed them on the plate and wrapped them up.

"Here, take these back with you." I said handing them to her.

She took them gratefully and glanced at my wall clock.

"Oh wow, it's already almost 5." She said. I followed her gaze and it was.

"We used up the whole day." I said pulling my hand through my hair aimlessly.

"Well, I guess I have to go now." She said heading to the door.

"See you tomorrow?"

She nodded and left.

My day off was better than I originally thought it would have been.