Cooking

It was a beautiful Saturday when she arrived at his house with some ingredients in her basket. She was wearing a simple pink shirt and a long white skirt.

She was about to knock on the door when it suddenly opened, showing a shirtless Goku who had a towel around his neck. His hair was a bit wet and water drops were running his neck to torso and-

"Serena? Your face is very red," Goku stated with a confused stare, making Serena want to die.

"W-WEAR A SHIRT!" she managed to shout before pushing him inside his house as she entered. She had her eyes closed, refusing to look at him. But she could feel his chest-

NO! STOP THINKING ABOUT THAT!

"But I just got out of the shower."

"I don't care!" she said turning around as she stopped pushing him. "Please wear a shirt!"

Goku, puzzled by her reaction, decided to follow her orders, wondering why she suddenly got so red.

He went to his room and took out his loyal black shirt. He put it on before leaving his towel on the bed and went back to the living room where Serena was. She was still facing the door.

"I have my shirt on," Goku said with a smile.

"Good," she responded as she turned around. Her cheeks were still a bit red, but she looked more relaxed. "Just don't do that when someone's coming to your house to visit."

"But you're my friend. I trust you," Goku said innocently, not getting the real reason why Serena was flustered.

Serena looked at him and without thinking, she decided to act.

"Goku, can you sit on the sofa?" Serena asked shyly. "Please?"

"Ok?" Goku was confused as he went to the sofa and sat down.

She walked towards him, leaving her basket carefully on the floor as she stopped in front of him.

"Can I hug you?" she asked, trying to hold her emotions back.

"Oh, sure."

She went for it and hugged him. His head was on her chest and her hands on his head.

Why was this young man so adorable? He was taller than her and stronger than her, but he sometimes acted so innocently. Almost like a child and she just couldn't help it.

"Serena?" Goku asked quietly. She was soft and the way she was embracing him was incredibly distracting for some reason.

"Let me hug you for a few more moments," Serena said with a tone he never heard from her. "Please."

Her plea was enough for him to let go of the subject and, to his surprise, he didn't want to break the embrace either.

Serena was cutting the vegetables fast and probably bad, but her mind was in a place far away.

Reliving the hug over and over again in her memories.

What the hell I was thinking?! Like sure, he acted cutely and I wanted to hug him, but WHY DID I REALLY DO IT?!

And what happened after that? She was so damn distracted that she didn't notice how much oil she put in the pan and her piece of beef literally caught fire.

Both Goku and her managed to put out the flames, but her beef was gone and most of her food was toastier than she intended.

Who I am kidding? Most of it got burnt.

Serena knew she wasn't a good cook. Heck, she only had tried making egg omelet before.

Maybe I should have brought a book of recipes and followed it step by step.

She was so focused on feeling pity for her cooking skills that she didn't notice how the knife was touching her finger for a moment. Until she felt the pain.

"Ouch!"

She stopped and noticed a small cut on her finger. It was bleeding a little.

Good job, Serena.

"Hey, Serena, what does this package-" Goku walked towards her with a box in his hand and saw how she was looking at her finger. "You're bleeding!"

"Oh, sorry, it was my fault since I was-" she began feeling ashamed of herself.

Before she could react, he took her hand and put her finger in his mouth, sucking on it.

She was pretty sure she died.

Then he spat the blood out into the sink and ripped off a part of one of his kitchen handkerchiefs with his teeth.

"Sorry, don't have a box with those healing things," he began to wrap the piece of cloth around her finger slowly. "This will have to do for now."

"Thank you," she said quietly.

Later on, when they finally were eating, she acted shyly while eating her food that tasted a bit burnt. Still looking at her finger, she felt a lot of things just by what had happened.

"This is delicious!" Goku said while eating quite fast and she looked at him with excitement. "This is way better than the food I tried to cook and the food I bought at the store."

"Really?!" she exclaimed, smiling brightly and Goku stopped eating just to gaze at her. She held her cheeks with both of her hands and let out noises of excitement.

Goku felt his heart beat faster and he wasn't certain it was from the food.