Author's Note: You know, I hate reading stories that include a recipe in it but doesn't tell you if it's really usable, so I'm telling you now that the recipe I added here is really usable and easy to make, you can try it at home. And actually I made this chapter out of boredom so it's not really well-written.

Chapter 7:

Season: FWPCMH, YPC5GG

Main Characters: Hikari K. Urara K.

Summary: Someone went to learn how to make pancakes for a certain someone else

Bold: emphasize

Italics: thoughts

* Itadakimasu means "don't mind if I do" which is something you say before you eat in Japan

At Tako Café

Urara: Hikari, I'm here! Hello to you too, Hikaru-kun.

Hikaru: Good morning, Urara-san.

Hikari: (stick her head out from the mini-van) Urara, I've been expecting you, come on in.

Urara: Huh? Akane-san is not here?

Hikari: She caught a cold yesterday, me and Hikaru will be running the shop until she gets better, it's summer break anyway.

Urara: On your own? That's incredible! But why do you need me here so early in the morning? And why did you tell me not to eat breakfast?

Hikari: Well, a few days ago, Akane-san suggested that I should add a dish to the menu that I enjoy to make, like how she enjoys making takoyaki, but I have a few recipes in mind so I thought maybe my best friend would like to sample them for me. Sorry that it has to be this early, since there won't be many customers here yet at this time.

Urara: I'd be glad to, so what are the dishes you have in mind?

Hikari: I have four dishes in total, though I haven't finished making the final one yet so you'll have to wait a while for the fourth one. The first one is just plain chocolate chip cookies but I made them with a little more butter so they taste better. The second is a blueberry cupcake but I used egg white only so it's a comparatively healthier recipe. The third is a crepe and I thought that if I really use this recipe, I would make two flavours: strawberry and banana, both with chocolate sauce, but I made yours banana since I know you'd like it better.

Urara: That's what I expected from my best friend, they all look so delicious! Itadakimasu!

Urara: These are all so good! So, what's the fourth one?

Hikari: It's… pancakes! I know they're plain but I like them.

Urara: Oh… yeah, I like them too, um… they sure smells great! He-heh.

Hikaru: She's acting kinda weird…

A while later

Hikari: So, which one do you like most?

Urara: I like the blueberry cupcake and the crepe, but I can't choose between them. Which one do you enjoy making more? Akane-san did say 'a dish that you enjoy to make'.

Hikari: Now that you mention it, I haven't give thought to that at all. Well, I do enjoy making the crepe more, and somehow I feel the crepe matches the store's image more than the cupcake.

Hikaru: Yeah, it fit the store more for some reason, I can imagine that, so have you decided, nee-chan?

Hikari: Yup, but I guess it'll still be a while before we can add it to the menu, Akane-san can only taste it after she's recovered.

Urara: Um… actually, I've got a favour to ask…

Hikari: What is it?

Urara: … Can you teach me how to make pancakes? (Slightly blush)

Hikari: (smirk) Sure! I have spare ingredients anyway, I guess we can make it toget…

Customer: (interrupt) Excuse me, can I order please?

Hikari: Oh. (Shouting to the customer) Yes, please wait a second. (To Urara) Guess you'll have to measure the ingredients on your own first, here's a list of them. Oh, and in case something Kurumi-san told me happen again, do not add anything extra(episode 21)! (Go out to serve the customer)

Urara: Alright. Let's see, 250 g of all-purpose flour, 30 g of sugar, 10 g of baking powder, 5 g of salt, 1 egg, 250 ml of milk and 40 g of melted butter. The last one can take a while.

Hikaru: Oh, nee-chan have some melted butter in the oven already.

Urara: I see, thanks.

Hikaru: So… why did you want to learn how to make pancakes.

Hikari: (suddenly comes in) You will understand when you get older. And go drink your morning serving of orange juice.

Hikaru pouted.

Urara: You sounded like a mother more than a sister. (Giggles)

Hikari: It's not like I can help it, Hikaru grew up without receiving any familial love, without being taught of trust and kindness, I need to care for him; plus, this is for his own health.

Urara: (giggles) That sounds even more like a mother. Wow, you can make takoyaki by yourself now? Impressive! Oh, and I've finish measuring them.

Hikari: Good. (Hand Urara a whisk) Now, mix the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar, then make a well in the centre. Then pour in the egg, melted butter and half of the milk first, you should add in the milk while whisking because they blend in more easily this way. Hikaru, help me take this takoyaki outside, and take orders, I think some new customers arrived just now.

Hikaru: (sigh) Got it…

Urara: Hikari, are they well-mixed now?

Hikari: Let's see, no, look, there are still lumps in there.

Urara: …... Now?

Hikari: Great! Now heat the frying pan with medium high heat, then add in a little oil, you don't need too much oil for frying pancakes. Then pour in the batter, how much depends on how big you want the pancakes to be. Wait until several air bubbles formed on the surface, then you can flip it. Got that all?

Urara: I gues…

Hikaru: (interrupt) Nee-chan, another order, two servings of takoyaki.

Hikari: Coming.

A while later

Urara: Are these good enough? Hikaru-kun, mind helping me sample them?

Hikaru: Sure. (Eating) These aren'tf justf 'gfood enough', these are amafzing. (Eating ravenously)

Hikari: Table manners, Hikaru. But judging by how he much he likes them, these are really delicious, are you sure this is the first time you've made pancakes?

Urara: The first time I didn't mess up.

Hikari: (smirk) Good for you, now you can make pancakes for Syrup-san on you own.

Hikaru: Oh, so that's the reason, nee-chan you could've just tell me. (Giggles)

Urara: (blushing a very red colour) You two…!

And they all burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter.

End of Chapter 7