Note: There is yet again, another thing I forgot to tell you all. Yes, yes I know, I keep forgetting so forgive me. Anyway, if you haven't already noticed, Pirika is the same age as everyone else... I never had much chance to talk about the other characters much... Horo and the boys live a few blocks from Pirika, Tamao and Anna who live around the corner from Kanna, Mari and Macchi. This chap takes place like... A day or so before Valentines Day... Hmmm that's about it for now... More notes later lol.
Chapter 4- Cookie Love
As Hao hit the sand, his shoulder kind of showed through the sleeve of the jersey and Anna gasped when she saw something she thought she'd never find. It was a red four leaf clover mark on Hao's right shoulder. Anna's eyes widened and she looked at Tamao who's eyes widened as well, clearly seeing what Anna was seeing so Anna wasn't seeing things. Anna turned back to see if the sun was playing tricks on her but it wasn't. Right before Hao got up, Anna saw the mark. Was Hao... Her true love?
"Did you see him Tamao?" Anna asked as they picked up their books and bags.
"I thought I was seeing things but Hao definitely has that four leaf clover mark." Tamao said nodding.
"Can't be... Are you sure?" Anna asked. "I mean, out of all the boys in the world, Hao has the mark?" Tamao shrugged.
"Well you saw it and I saw it so it must be true." She pointed out.
"So that means..." Anna blushed. "Hao is my true love..."
"He is?" Anna and Tamao jumped and turned around to see Pirika smiling hyperly.
"N-No!" Anna yelled.
"I heard it all Anna." Pirika told her. "But don't worry, I won't tell anyone!" Pirika winked. "But you owe me!" Anna rolled her eyes.
"Really, it's... just a joke." She told Pirika who wasn't buying it.
"A four leaf clover mark on his right shoulder. He must be my true love!" Pirika teased and laughed. Anna turned red.
"Shut up." She muttered.
"But really. Is that why you came here to Cali? To find you 'True Love'?" Pirika asked quoting True Love with her fingers. Anna sighed.
"Kinda." She mumbled. Pirika nodded.
"So what's with this... Four leaf clover thing?" She asked.
"Why don't I tell you the whole story so that you don't get confused..." Anna said with another sigh. "You see, it all started out when I was 5. I loved fortunetelling and one day, a fortune teller told me that I am forever cursed if I don't find my true love before I turn 16." Pirika blinked and laughed.
"And you believe her! Everyone knows that fortune telling is fake!" She yelled.
"Go ahead Pirika. Yell it out so that the whole word can hear you." Anna said folding her arms. Pirika smiled and covered her mouth.
"Sorry." She said quietly.
"Anyway, Kino-Sama doesn't lie. She told me that I have to find my true love before I turn 16 or else I will be cursed forever... And the only way I will know who he is, is if he has the four leaf clover mark on his shoulder." Anna told Pirika.
"But the mark was on Hao's back... Well the back of his shoulder... Somewhere close to there..." Pirika said thinking.
"It's still considered to be on the shoulder." Tamao told her as them walked off. They heard someone calling their names and turned to see Macchi and Mari run up to them.
"Where are you going?" Macchi asked as she stopped. "Kanna's giving us a ride home remember?"
"What am I suppose to do?" Anna asked as she plopped down on the sofa. "I mean, what are the chances of Hao ever liking me?"
"Ummm, 1 out of 10?" Pirika asked taking a seat across from her.
"Pirika, come on. You aren't helping." Tamao said putting her bag down.
"She is right though..." Anna said with a sigh. "Oh what am I going to do!"
"Oh don't worry. We'll think of something. I'm not going to let you be cursed forever." Pirika said with a grin. "Why, oh why couldn't it be Onii-Chan who is cursed and not you?" The girls giggled and Anna felt a little better.
"Good morning students and teachers." The school announcements came on and the class settled down.
Note: The school morning broadcast can be heard all over campus. No matter if you in the swimming pool or running on track. Amazing right?
"I am Jeanne."
"And I'm Macchi!" Macchi yelled out cheerfully in the mike. "It's pretty warm out today! The current temperature is 75 degrees and rising! It feels more like April then February!" Jeanne smiled.
"Speaking of February, tomorrow will be the school's traditional Cookie day." She announced.
"Ooooo, I love cookies! Love em, love em, love em!" Macchi said in a sing along tone. Jeanne laughed.
"But these cookies won't be for you Macchi. Sorry. No, these cookies are for the boys." She said. "You see, this is a special day because the next day is Valentines Day."
"So? Cookies and chocolates are two different things Jeanne. Chocolate is addicted and makes me fat, fat, fat. But cookies are delicious and... Well not that addicted." Macchi said laughing.
"Yes, but that is the whole point of the Cookie day." Jeanne told her. "You see, the girls all go home and bake a batch of cookies for the boys." She explained.
"Why? Boys should do that! It's way more romantic like that." Macchi said folding her arms. "One thing I am bad at is cooking." Jeanne giggled.
"Anyway, the girls all bake a batch of cookies and give them to boys they like. You can make as many batches as you like and give them to whoever you like too. Most likely, the boy your like of course." She continued. "There is a legendary rumor that if the boy you like eats the cookie in front of you, you are him are meant to be together."
"Cool!" Macchi yelled.
"But like I said. It's just a rumor. I'm not positive that it's true. And you can't force the boy to eat it in front of you or else you are not meant to be together." Jeanne explained. Macchi sighed.
"There goes whatever hope I have left." She said into the mike. "Anyway, in other news, congratulations Anna Kyoyama for making it in the beach volleyball team! You are pretty lucky for someone who just transferred to the school. I hope you wrote your will because coach will work you so hard, you will be dead and buried right outside campus before you know it!" Jeanne laughed.
"True that he does work the team hard but he does that only because he wants us to win.' She pointed out.
"True..." Macchi said and looked at the clock. "Oh wow, it's time already."
"Oh, well that concludes today's morning broadcast. Enjoy your day!" Jeanne said as she too looked up at the clock. "This is Jeanne."
"And I'm Macchi. Over and out!" With that, she flipped the air switch off and sighed. "Wow cookie day! Watch out Nichrome! A batch of cookies is coming your way!"
"Wow, Cookie day huh?" Anna said as she closed her book and put it back into her bag. "Sounds cool."
"Oh it is." Tamao said nodding. "It's really fun." Pirika nodded as well.
"And it will be the perfect opportunity for you and Hao." She said. Anna blinked.
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"Hello? If Hao is your true love, then he would eat the cookie in front of you." Pirika pointed out. "So all you have to do is bake a batch of cookies and then give it to him."
"But isn't that just a rumor?" Anna asked. "I mean, rumors aren't true."
"So? It's worth a shot." Pirika said with a shrug. "Now come on! Up up! We need to get to the library before other girls do." Tamao and Anna blinked.
"Why?" They asked at the same time.
"Hello? Cookie equals baking which equals to cooking which we don't do very well?" Tamao said in an impatient tone. "Well Tamao can cook but baking cookies? We never tried it before so, come on!" She had to almost drag the girls out of the classroom. Horo watched her sister and the girls walk out with a laugh.
"Pirika seems determined to bake a batch of cookies." He said as he swung his book-bag over his shoulder. Ren shook his head.
"This day is pointless and stupid." He muttered.
"Not for the guy who gets the most cookies." Horo said with a grin. "He would be the most popular guy in school. And that of course will be me." Ren laughed.
"You must be taking drugs." He told Horo. "If anyone is going to get the most cookies, it would be Hao and Yoh." Horo was surprised at his answer. He would expect Ren to say that he would be getting the most cookies but he had said Hao and Yoh instead.
"Even if girls give me cookies, I would not accept them." Ren went on. Horo blinked.
"You're weird man." He muttered.
"C... C... C..." Pirika muttered looking up and down the shelves. "C... C... Here!" She yelled out. Tamao and Anna quickly rushed towards her.
"Now we just have to find that cookie recipe book." Tamao said as they started looking through the shelves of "C" books.
"Hmmm... I found cooking." Pirika muttered. They continued searching but didn't find anything. Anna sighed. This was going to take forever. The girls probably borrowed them all. Anna walked through the B section and looked through the shelves.
"Maybe they are under the B section for Baking." She muttered. She found a few baking cake books but no baking cookies book. She sighed and was about to give up when she spotted 3 baking books. She took one out of the shelf and opened it to the index. Maybe they have a short recipe for it in here. She yelled out a small yatta as she turned to the page of the cookie recipe.
"What? You found it?" Pirika asked as she and Tamao walked over to her. Anna nodded.
"Check those other 2 baking books to see if they have different cookie recipes." She told them. They flipped through the pages and squealed when they too found a baking cookie recipe.
"Shhhh." The girls turn to see the librarian standing there in front of them. "This is a library not the mall girls. Please keep your voices low." The girls nodded and giggled.
"Hmmm, Hey Kanna. Do you know how to make cookies?" Macchi asked as she bounced downstairs.
"Why are you asking me such a question?" Kanna said looking up form her magazine.
"It's Cookie day." Macchi told her.
"Oh... That annoying holiday." Kanna muttered. "Well don't ask me. I never cooked in my life."
"Mari went to the library and took out a book." Mari aid holding the book in her hand.
"Great! Let's start baking!" Macchi yelled dragging Mari into the kitchen.
"Hmmmm, these smell nice." Jeanne said smiling as she took her cookies out of the oven. She bit into one and licked her lips. "Yum." She said taking another bite. "Everyone is going to love these." She wasn't baking cookies for someone special. Just for everyone. Well for her friends that is. She counted the cookies to make sure she made enough. "Hmmmm, only 36... I need to bake some more." With that, she started making cookies again.
"Ok... baking a batch of cookies... This shouldn't be so hard... Right?" Anna said looking at the recipe. Pirika rolled up her sleeve.
"Please. It should be easy as 1, 2, 3!" She yelled and tied a white bandana over her had so that he hear wouldn't get covered with flour. Tamao and Anna did the same and they started making the cookies. A hour or so later, they took the cookies out of the oven.
"Wow they smell so nice!" Pirika said as Anna put them down. "I wanna try it first!" Tamoa laughed.
"Go ahead." She said as Pirika eagerly picked one up and bit into it... Only to spit it out.
"Ewwwww, they taste bad." She said rushing to the sink for a cup of water. Tamao and Anna both picked one up and tried it.
"It's just not sweet enough." Tamao said licking her lips.
"I say we stick with my plan." Pirika said dumping the batch of cookies in the garbage. Hey! You are wasting food! "Go to the market and buy a pack of Chips Ahoy Chocolate chip cookies and say that we bakes them." Tamao and Anna laughed.
"Come on. It would mean more if we made them ourselves." Tamao told her and they started to bake again.
"But the chocolate chip idea rings a bell." Tamao told her.
"Good morning students and teachers." Jeanne in a cheerful voice. "Happy Cookie Day."
"Hold up. Back up! Rewind! Happy cookie day? Please Jeanne, we have to have a better name for this... Err traditional day." Macchi interrupted her. "I mean, Happy Cookie Day! It sounds lame and short. Blah. Happy CookieLove day sounds a bit better."
"I really don't think so but we will leave it at that." Jeanne said with a giggle. "Anyway, I am sure all the girls are excited and can't wait to give them boy of their dreams their cookies so without further ado, please go on and find him and give him your cookies."
"Wait! Hold up! Chotto, chotto! Don't we have class?" Macchi interrupted again.
"Nope. First period has been cut off for the girls to go find the boys of their dreams." Jeanne explained.
"Lucky." Macchi yelled out. "So what happens if the girls can't find the boy they like?"
"There is always passing time and lunch." Jeanne told her.
"I see... Well I bake a few batch of cookies myself." She said laughing. "You can not believe how much flour I wasted." Jeanne giggled.
"Well I too have made a few batch of cookies and really would like to hand them out, so let's just finish this up and go." Macchi nodded.
"This is Jeanne."
"And I'm Macchi. Until tomorrow! Over and out!" Macchi flipped the on air button off and rushed out of the room.
Boys all sweat dropped as girls everywhere rushed around, handing cookies to boys.
"Here have my cookies."
"No take mine."
"Eww, no. Mine is a heart. Take mine."
"No way. She has germs."
"And her has the cooties."
The boys all gulped and sweat dropped some more as the girls battled it out.
"Hey Horo. Here, I made you cookies." Horo smiled.
"Ah, thanks." He said taking the cookies.
"No Horo! Don't take her's! She put poison in it!" A girl ran over and pushed the girl aside.
"Mine are better. I added the blue and white sprinkles " Horo watched them fight and slowly slipped away. He sighed.
"Man, this is wild!" Yoh laughed.
"I know." He said. "But it's nice. Everyone is happy." Horo nodded and then his mouth fell open.
"Yoh! How many bags of cookies did you get!" He yelled pointing at Yoh's desk which was over flowing with cookies bags. Yoh shrugged.
"Don't know. A lot?" He said with a grin as he opened his books bags and more cookie bags fell out. Horo's mouth dropped. He got A LOT of cookies! No wonder Ren said that he and Hao would be the most popular guys in the school.
"H-Horo-Horo-Kun." Horo turned and blinked. Tamao stood in front of him, face a bit flushed.
"Hey Tamao." Horo said with a grin. "What's up?" What else you dummy? There a bag of cookies in her hand. He thought to himself but ignored his little mind comment.
"Ummm..." Tamao's face flushed again. "Ummm, well... You see... Here." She shoved the bag of cookies in Horo's hand and rush out of the room. Horo stood there, dumbfounded and blinked. He looked down at the bag of cookies in his hand. Yoh laughed.
"Tamao is shy isn't she?" He asked as he took yet another bag of cookies. Horo smiled and nodded.
"Yah, she is." He put the cookies in his bag as more girls rushed into the room to hand out their cookies.
"Hmmmm... Ren... Ren where are you?" Pirika asked looking into all the rooms that she passed by. Still, no Ren. She checked in the library but still, no sign of Ren anywhere. She sighed. Where was he?
She walked out onto the school campus and passed Nichrome who had just received quiet a bundle of cookies from a group of girls.
"Hey Nich-Kun." She said with a smile. "Have you seen Ren anywhere?" Nichrome shook his head.
"Sorry Pirika. I haven't." He told her. "Maybe he is in his usual favorite spot." Pirika blinked. Of course. How could she have not thought of that place?
"Thanks Nich-Kun!" She yelled as she ran off. Nichrome smiled.
"No problem!" He yelled but was sure Pirika couldn't hear her.
"Niiiiiiiichrom!" Nichrome turned around to have Macchi fly strait into him, making him tumbled backwards.
"M-Macchi! What gives?" He asked rubbing his head.
"Hello? Once in a lifetime I bakes cookies!" She yelled. "Amazing right?"
"Yes. The discover channel should hear about this. The strange Macchi creature can bake cookies." Nichrome said in a teasing voice. Macchi made a face.
"Whatever. Anyway, here. I made my very first batch of cookies." She said lifting a bag of cookies. "Here." Nichrome blinked.
"For me?" He asked. Macchi rolled her eyes.
"Who else?" She asked. Nichrome studied her.
"Are they safe? I mean you made them after all. You might have added salt instead of sugar. Or even worse, you might have added poison!" He said backing away a bit.
"Did not!" Macchi yelled sticking out her tongue at him. "Well if you don't want them, then I will just have to eat them myself."
"I never said I didn't want them." Nichrome told her.
"Ok. Here." She said stuffing a cookie into his mouth. He let out a muffled yelp and fell backwards.
"So? How is it? How is it?" She asked plopping down next to him on the grass. Nichrome chewed and then swallowed.
"Its..." Macchi held her breath. "Quiet god actually." Macchi blinked.
"Wait I'm sorry. I just had a fever. Repeat that again."
"I said, that it was good." Nichrome told her as he took another cookie form her bag and took a bite. Macchi gasped.
"Really? Is it that good?" She asked. She was more excited that he had eaten the cookie in front of her. If the rumor is true, then she and Nichrome was meant to be together! Nichrome nodded as he took another bite out of the cookie.
"I knew it! I proved to Mari that I can bake cookies!" Macchi said throwing her fist in the air. "And you are my witness! Well actually taste tester but close enough!" Nichrome laughed.
"Cookies are probably the only things you can make. Or maybe you just got lucky." He said as he took another cookie out of the bag and took another bite. Macchi made a face and snatched the cookie out of his hands and bit into it.
"Mmmm, this is good!" She said licking her lips from the crumbs that stuck onto the side of her mouth. "Yum."
Anna walked around trying to find Hao. She knew it wouldn't be easy. Tons of girls had a crush on him. She didn't think, she knew. She walked around looking here and there. She had spent all first period trying to in him but couldn't. It was now lunch time and she tried yet again to find him. She walked here and there but no sign of Hao. He probably fled the school just to live because with all those girls rushing towards him, god knows he won't be able to get out of the mess alive. She rushed out to the volleyball court to see if she could find him but still no sign of Hao. Anna sighed. There was no way she could find him. She turned and tripped over. The bag of cookies fell out of her hand as she fell.
"Ow..." She mumbled.
"Anna, you ok?" Anna looked up to see Yoh standing there with a whole bag of cookies inside... Add one more bag and it would definitely explode. Anna blushed a bit.
"Fine..." She said quietly. Yoh bit the bag of cookies down and extended a hand to help Anna up.
"Hey, is this for me?" He asked picking up the bag of cookies Anna bakes... For HAO.
"Ah, wait!" She yelled but it was too late. Yoh had already opened it and took a bite out of one of the cookies. Anna's mouth fell open.
"Oishii." Yoh said with a smile and licked his lips. "These are really good." Anna blushed. Yoh... just ate a cookie... her cookie... in front of her... which means... Anna shook her head. No way. The rumor can't be true then because Hao was her "True Love." Yoh doesn't have the fur leaf clover mark on his shoulder so she and him can't be meant for each other.
"They aren't for you Yoh." Anna told her. Yoh blinked.
"They're not?" He asked. Anna shook her head. Yoh's eyes got big and round. Anna blushed and as she looked into Yoh's puppy eyes.
"Fine, you can have them." She muttered. Yoh immediately brightened up and smiled.
"Sank you." He said happily and took another cookie out of her bag. "Want? You made it after all. You should try it." Anna took the cookie in his hand and bit into it. It did taste good. Not too sweet and not too salty/plain either. Anna smiled.
"They are good." She said as she took another bite but then gasped. "Oh man. You eat my cookies..." Yoh handed her a bag of cookies in his bag. Anna blinked.
"I have too many anyway." He told her. "I'm going to get a stomach ache if I eat too much. And plus, I kinda ate your cookies without your permission so I guess I owe you." Yoh said scratching the back of his head with a small smile. Anna blushed but covered it up with a smile.
"Thanks." She said taking the bag of cookies. Yoh smiled.
"No problem. Just bake me another batch of these cookies." He said with a lob sided smile. "They are really good."
Pirika almost had a heart attack from running up all those flight of stairs. She finally reached the top and opened the door to the school roof top. Ren of course was no here to be found. She sighed with disappointment. She spent so much time baking these cookies and Ren was no where to be found. She walked out and looked down form the side. Everything was so small when you look down from a high place. She sighed again as she leaned against the bars. The wind flew by her, making her hair twist and untwist as it died down. Pirika looked t the clear bag of cookies in her hand. She might as well eat it herself since Ren was no where to be found. She started to open the bag when someone interrupted her.
"You know, the whole point of CookieLove day is to bake cookies for boys and not for yourself right?"
Pirika turned to see Ren standing above her. She noticed that he was also using the made-up name that Macchi made up so that Cookie Day couldn't sound so lame.
"Ren! Where have you been?" She asked looking up at him.
"Here." He simply told her and jumped down. "Why are you here?"
"I should ask you the same thing." Pirika countered.
"It's quiet." Ren answered. "No one will bother me up here." Pirika nodded.
"I see..."
"And you?" Ren asked studying her.
"Oh yah. Here." Pirika said handing her bag of cookies to him. "I made them yesterday with Tamao and Anna's help." Ren blinked. He knew that Pirika was never the best at cooking so it was amazing that she was able to bake a batch of cookies.
"You know that I am not a big fan of cookies right?" He told her.
"And I am not a fan of Onii-Chan. You don't see me complaining." She told him. "Now come on. Try it. I tried real hard to make it." Ren hesitated before slowly taking the bag of cookies with blush rising to his cheeks. The only reason he took the cookies was because he didn't want the girl to start crying.
Ren slowly not to mention silently took a cookie out of the bag and bit it. Pirika tilted her head to the sides and watched him.
"Oishii." He mumbled.
"What?" Pirika asked.
"I said it's good." Ren mumbled, blushed raising to his cheeks. Pirika squealed.
"Yay! You like them! You like them!" She yelled jumping up and down. Ren blushed even more but continued to eat the cookie.
"I just said that they were good Pirika." He muttered.
"I know but you like them!" She gave him a hug and a small peck on the cheek. "Thanks Ren. Now you go tell Onii-Chan that I can cook." She yelled as she rushed off. Ren stood there, blushing hard. That was the second time he had his guard down and both those times, Pirika has hugged him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Ren cursed under his breath and finished off the cookie. He then balanced himself on the bar and sat down, one hand holding the bar for safety so that he won't fall forwards and off the roof and the other holding the bag of cookies Pirika made for him. He heard a small giggled and then a tap. He turned around to see a few girls rush off back downstairs. He looked down and next to him were a few bag of cookies. He blinked for a second before putting the bag of cookies Pirika made for him in his bag, jumped down and walked towards the door to go back downstairs... Leaving the cookies the girls made for him there.
"Where is he?" Anna muttered angrily as she walked through the halls and out onto the school campus. She looked here and there as usual but couldn't find him. Maybe she should just give up. It would take her forever to find him anyway. She rang her fingers through her hair and rushed off. She looked for Hao in the volleyball court but like before, he wasn't there. She sighed.
"Where the hell is he?" She muttered.
"Looking for me?" Anna jumped and turned around, finding Hao smirking. Finally!
"H-Hao." Anna gasped. Hao smiled.
"I was looking for you." He told her. Anna blinked.
"You have?" Hao nodded.
"I wanted to tell you that practice has been canceled today and the schedule has been changed." He told her. Anna blinked and tried to hide her disappointed face.
"So... What's the new schedule?" She asked.
"Monday, Wednesday and Friday after school. On Tuesday and Thursday, we practice during lunch." He told her.
"Lunch?" Anna asked. Hao nodded. Anna sighed and bit her lower lip.
"What were you doing out here anyway?" Hao asked. Anna blushed.
"Ummm, well I was trying to find you..." She said quietly. Hao blinked.
"How come?" He asked, although he knew the answer.
"Umm... Well..." Blush rushed to her cheeks. "Well it's... Ummm CookieLove day right?" Hao nodded.
"Well..." Anna couldn't really bring herself up to say it because she had never really had a crush before. Hao just smiled.
"You made cookies for me?" He asked her. Anna's face turned into a darker shade of pink as she nodded and handed him the bag of cookies. Hao smiled and took the cookies, opened it and took a bite out of one of them.
"This is pretty good." He said with a smile. Anna's blush never left her cheeks. He had eaten the cookie in front of her but the cookie wasn't her's. She didn't make the cookies. Yoh... ate her cookies...
"Is it?" She asked. Hao nodded.
"Not bad." He told her. Anna smiled, blush still on her face.
"Thanks..." She said quietly. Hao smiled.
"You see. I knew you had feelings for me." He teased. Anna's face turned even redder. "That's time when you slammed the door in my face is quiet obvious regardless if you said that you weren't hiding your feelings or not. Now, you are just proving to me that you do like me." Anna folded her arms but the blush never left her face. Hao smiled.
"So, you free Saturday?" Anna's face reddened even more as she turned and walked off. Hao smiled lazily as he watched her walk off.
"Hao..." Hao turned to see Mari standing in front of him. She had seen it all. Hao talking to Anna, Hao eating the cookies Anna made, Hao asking her out. She seen it all and she was definitely not happy, but she didn't show it. Hao smiled.
"Mari..." He looked at her. "That for me?" He asked. Mari nodded and handed him her bag of cookies. Hao blinked as he took it. The bag looked just the same as the one Anna gave him. Same color ribbon, same clear bag... Same kind of cookie. "Maybe it was just coincidence." Hao thought as he smiled at her.
"Thanks Mari." He told her. Mari forced a small smile.
"Oh yah, Mari." Mari looked up. "Practice has been canceled today and the schedule has been changed."
"Changed?" She asked. Hao nodded.
"Yah. Monday, Wednesday and Friday after school. On Tuesday and Thursday, we practice during lunch." Hao told her. Mari nodded.
"Mari will tell Macchi." She told him. Hao smiled.
"Thanks Mari." Hao said and kissed her lightly on the forehead. A small blush appeared on her face. She gave him a small smiled and rushed off.
Tamao walked off, trying to find Pirika and Anna. "Where are they?" She muttered poking her head in the lab room. It was empty so Tamao tried a different room. She checked the math lab, her English class and the gym but Pirika and Anna was no where to be found. She let out a frustrated groan and walked upstairs again. They couldn't be in the volleyball court because practice has been canceled. She looked into the library but the only student she saw was Yoh.
"Hey Yoh. Have you seen Anna and Pirika?" She asked. Yoh didn't answer her. Tamao blinked and tapped him. "Hey Yoh?" She got a snore as a response. Tamao sighed. Yoh had fallen asleep. Tamao sighed and quietly left. She rushed back upstairs to check the other rooms again.
"Tamao! Tamao!" Tamao turned around hoping that it was Pirika who was calling her but to her surprise, it was Horo who was running towards her. "Hey Tamao!" Tamao's face suddenly felt hot as he neared her.
"H-Horo!" She finally managed to say.
"Hey, seen Pirika?" He asked. Tamao hid her frown.
"Well... I was trying to find her as well." She said quietly.
"Well come on." Horo grabbed her hand.
"H-Horo?"
"It'll be faster if we look for her together." He told her, almost dragging her from room to room.
"I-I already checked that room." She said.
"It's ok. Better safe then sorry." He told her.
After a few minutes of checking, Horo and Tamao gave up.
"Man, when it comes to hide and seek, you will never win with Pirika hiding." Horo told her. Tamao giggled a little. "Oh yah, I forgot." Tamao blinked. "Earlier today, you gave me a back of cookies. I never got to thank you." Tamao blushed.
"N-No problem." She said quietly. Horo smiled and took out the bag out of her bag.
"Want?" He asked. Tamao shyly took a cookie and bit into it.
"It's good right?" He asked taking another cookie and bit into it. Tamao nodded.
"It's good." She told him.
"Did Pirika make cookies too?" He asked her. Tamao nodded and Horo gasped.
"Who is she giving it to?" He asked her. "It might be poison!" Pirika laughed.
"I made sure it wasn't." She told him.
"I don't know. Pirika can be pretty tricky." Horo muttered taking another bite of the cookie. Tamao smiled.
"These are really good Tamao." Horo said grinning. "I think you would be a pretty good darn house wife." Tamao blushed and Horo smiled, a light shade of pink appearing on his face. "Anyway, come on." He got up and pulled her up. "It's getting late and Pirika is probably home. I'll walk you home." He took her hand and they walked off.
Ahhhhh! What do you all think? I loved writing this chapter. I wish CookieLove Day was real. That would be so cute! Although for me, the only type of cookie making you will see me doing is buying that ready to bake type of cookies lol. I added some RenxPirika, HoroxTamao, NichromexMacchi, HaoxMari, YohxAnna and barely any HaoxAnna. Gasp HaoxMari! Oh wow! Well I did say Spiral Love fanfic so there will be confusing love relationships here. But don't worry, everything will clear up in a few chapters... Then... Maybe I will make it confusing again lol. I'll see. Ahhhhh! I just forgot to add who Jeanne gave the cookies to! Arrr... I am out of time too! So sorry. The people who's cookies she gave to were Marco... Who is the principal by the way, and Lyserg Who had a huge crush on her but... Well Jeanne doesn't seem to notice him... Well his crush I mean. She also made cookies for the whole boys Beach Volleyball team but too many guys to name lol.
Hannah-Asakura: I am not sure when she will see Yoh's mark yet. That is still in progress. Since it is a spiral love FanFic, she will most likely see his mark when she and Hao and settling down or something like that.
AnnaFan: Well I added a LITTLE HaoxAnna in here... Way more YohxAnna in this chap... Sorry! The date idea... Getting to it. The thing is, I'm not that good at writing dating scenes but I will try my best! And I am definitely making Anna blush more. I agree. She is way too controlling so muhahahaha. Anna is a control freak no more! She will be popular once she wins a volleyball game... But until then, she is still pretty normal I guess.