Here's the next installment!

Meg sighed as she flipped through her sister's cookbook. Her cake was a failure, so were her cookies, so this time she thought she'd make something not concerning baking or frying, or whatever. Hmm… Now what could she make that was easy, not concerning all that heating? Why of course! She'd made fruit smoothies! Without the little known fruits like corn and tomatoes of course! Meg learned from her mistakes, even though Ryu paid dearly that time. Oh well!

"Ha! Now they won't have anything on me for being a bad cook once this is done!" Meg smiled happily as she felt around for the sugar can, uncapped it and literally dumped all of it into the blender.

"And a little bit of this…" she muttered. "And that… and some of these… and BLEND!"

Twenty Minutes Later…

"Kyu!" she called as she banged on his door. "Kyu, are you there?" Meg sighed as she realized that there was absolutely no one in the house. And her fruit smoothie was getting warmer by the minute!

"Maybe he's at school," she thought as she dashed off to DDS.

Ten Minutes Later

"Dan-sensei, have you seen Kyu and the others?" Meg asked as she found her teacher in the library, looking at a book.

"I believe they went to see Kazuma. They said he got drunk," Dan sighed. "Kids these days, getting drunk at a young age. I'm sure you wouldn't have encouraged it, Meg."

"Hahahaha… yeah," Meg laughed nervously. I hope no one tells him it was entirely my fault that Kazuma was drunk… "I mean, I would never have allowed it if I were there."

"I know. You're a good person, Meg. What's that?" he asked, pointing to the pitcher of puce green… glob that Meg held along with some plastic cups. "Did you make that?"

"Hmm? Oh! This? Just something I whipped up!" Meg said happily. "Would you like some of my fruit smoothie?"

"I-"

"Here you go, Dan-sensei!" Meg cheered as she held the cup out to her teacher, but unfortunately (or should we say fortunately), both of Dan's hands were full of books.

"Um, sorry Meg, my hands are full, perhaps another time," he apologized politely before engrossing himself in a book that he didn't even like. Meg would of course, have none of that.

"Oh! Go on, Dan-sensei! Just a sip!" She pestered. "Please?" she begged as she accidentally shoved it down her teacher's throat.

Five Minutes Later at the Entrance of DDS

"Ugh… I will scream if I hear 'Meg' and 'breakfast', 'lunch', or 'dinner' in the same sentence," Kazuma wailed. The time at the hospital had been painful, especially when he woke up. It must have been the worst morning of his life. They had the WORST food, the WORST service, the WORST bed, and they didn't even allow his computer in! Thank goodness when Ryu, Kinta and Kyu came to pick him up. His parents? Some… conference.

"Well, what about this?" Kyu offered with a smug smile. "Hey you know Meg? Want to go over to her house for lunch?"

"Not funny…" Kazuma grumbled. What Kyu had just said was two sentences.

"Hey, is that the ambulance?" Ryu inquired pointing at the flashing lights.

"Yeah…" Kinta agreed. "And isn't that Dan-sensei and… Meg?"

"Her cooking…" they all sighed as they went over for a closer look.

Near the Ambulance

"Meg! What happened?" Ryu asked, though he WELL knew what happened. Something she cooked up again.

"Is he going to die?" Kazuma gasped sarcastically. Meg just scowled.

"Wow Meg, you really did it this time!" Kinta grinned.

Meg just sighed as she turned to Kyu. We ALL know what he was going to spurt out.

"This calls for… AN INVESTIGATION!" Kyu cried, dramatically posing. Everyone just sighed.

Five Minutes Later…

"There are three hints!" Kyu cried dramatically. Need we mention that everyone knew he was going to say that? "They are one: Dan-Sensei's sudden sickness, two: the smell of smoothie, and three: the strange leftovers in Meg's trashcan! THERE IS ONLY ONE ANSWER!"

"One: is it me, or does it always seem that one of the three 'hints' are always linked to a person? Two: is it me, or does it seem that it's always linked to the food also? And three: it's ALWAYS linked to the trashcan, isn't it? And how did you manage to get to my house, check the trashcan, and get back in five minutes?" Meg demanded. Kyu just sort of faltered a bit, mind searching for an answer.

"Uh… that's… anyhow! You did it!" Kyu finished not so smoothly, pointing at Meg. Everyone sighed.

Hopefully the next one's going to be longer.