I'm backkkk!!! It's been a while, so sorry, but hopefully this chapter will be longer. At the time of writing this, I've decided to take more than just one day to write this, but maybe 2-3 days. So yeah. Disclaimer: I don't own Shokugeki no Souma.

Erina

Erina stepped through the hallways of the ever so huge Nakiri mansion, almost slipping because of the near zero friction from her socks sliding against the very polished and shiny floor. She made it to her room safely, and released her feelings there. "WHY?!?!" She scenes in her head. "Why does it have to be Hisako and not me? Why?!" She hated Souma. She hated him for choosing Hisako over her. She hated him for being so oblivious and stupid. She hated his stupid grin and everything about the stupid boy! She whipped her phone out, deciding to delete the picture once and for all. Tears falling on the screen, she tried to navigate to her gallery, but couldn't. Frustrated, she turned her phone off, wiped the tears and tried again. This time, she made it to her gallery and opened Souma's picture. She pressed the delete button, and her finger hovered over the confirmation button. She had an Android phone and could not retrieve deleted photos. She struggled and struggled. She gripped her red phone case so hard, one might be afraid of it breaking. She struggled so long, that she didn't even notice Hisako leaving. But in the end, after a long debate on her head, she could not delete it. After all, who in their right mind would throw out their nightlight if they couldn't sleep? Erina just resorted to staring the picture and weeping. She thought of why she was so distraught in the first place. After all, he is just an insolent idiot man who couldn't cook. Then why was she so sad? What brought on these feelings? She didn't know the answer to a single one of her questions. She didn't. So, Erina went to dinner with these questions. But that dinner, she didn't have an extravagant dinner as she normally would. Instead, she had instant ramen. She remembered that Souma had brought this ramen a while ago. At that time, Hisako aided Erina in kicking him out of the mansion. Erina smiled to herself. Her stomach growled as she took the boiled water and poured it into the instant ramen bowl. She took it carefully to her room, this time barefooted so that she would be able to walk more steadily. She got to her room and let the noodles soak as she got her chopsticks. She moved her papers away from the ramen. She had a bad experience with food and papers before, and her clients were not happy. "Itadakimasu." Erina said before eating. She raised her chopsticks, picked up some noodles, and blew on them. She raised the noodles to her mouth and put it on. She chewed, then swallowed. After one taste, she made a very sour face. She didn't even need her God's tongue to describe how disgusting it was. How could anyone eat this?! Scratch that, Souma could. She bet that he would add some crazy ingredients and improvise to create soon messed up, Souma-style dish or something. Unconsciously, she smiled while thinking about this, reading her cheek in her hand. Her elbow was proud on the table, and only did she notice what she was doing after she almost feel off. "Shoot, I have to eat or the noodles will get cold." She thought. She hated the instant ramen, but she also hated wasting food. She wondered how Hisako and Souma were doing right now. She felt a surge of jealousy course through. "Shouldn't I be there instead of Hisako?!" She thought, angrily. She noticed what she was thinking, and quickly called herself. She took the deep breaths, and let herself calm down. Now, she just felt sadness. She pulled her phone out, and navigated to the place she always went to at times like this. She smiled sadly at the picture of the man in it, wishing she could be there with Hisako and Souma and his friends. It was then she realised, she was crushing on that man. She was crushing on Yukihira Souma, and she was crushing on him a lot. Multiple feelings coursed through her body. Shock, disbelief, warmth, realisation; but she knew, that she didn't even have to look deep down on her heart to realize that she liked him. Not as far as love, but a very far version of like. And she knew who she had to confront about this. Alice. Her cousin whom she hated, but also adored. The one she knew she would always need. That's right. Nakiri Erina needed Nakiri freaking Alice. That was bound to go wrongly, no matter the outcome. Erina prepared herself.

I'm a time skip so thing because author is on mobile and mobile doesn't let you insert line thing.

"So.. why are you here, dear cousin? Your facing is reddening by the moment and it's so cute, fufufu." Alice teased. She secretly pressed the record button on her phone and placed it in a place where the camera could see Erina's face, but wasn't too obvious.

"C-c-c-c-could um.. could Ryo-kun leave for now? Thank you." Ryo nodded and left the room in a quick and silent manner. Alice listened seriously now. When Erina spoke like this, it was time to get serious and pay attention.

"So.. what is it that you wanted to talk about, dear Erina?" Alice asked.

"So.. um.. basically.." Erina stammered, flustered.

"Sorry, I can't really understand when you talk like that, fufufu. Speak a bit clearer, you know?" Erina glared and started again. "So um.. earlier this day, I noticed something about me."

"Is it your period? Don't worry it's normal and happens to all of us girls."

"N-NO it isn't!" Erina yelled." Um.. I noticed that I, er.. kinda like S-souma-kun."

"Hmm. Okay." Alice said.

"A-aren't you surprised or anything?!"

"No, not really, by the way things have been going. You're as easy to read as a picture book. But isn't he dating Hishoko or something?" Alice asked. Erina ducked her head.

"Yes he is. What of it?"

"Well, you can't really tell him that you like him or anything, since he's dating Hishoko. My advice here is to just wait it out and see if they break up. Drop a few hints here and there, and just see what happens. But don't interfere with their love, you know?"

"I uh, think I got it. Th-thanks Alice. B-bye." Erina left really red-face and flustered. Alice stopped recording and played the video back. Alice

"Beautiful. Amazing. It's worth more than just a thousand words, it's worth billions of words, laughs and blackmails. Fufufu." Alice laughed to herself. "You can come in now, Ryo-kun." Alice called. "Heh, you know, I'm kinda getting interested in Souma-kun too." Alice smiled and laughed. She would have some fun with Erina and Souma while she could. Maybe Hishoko too, while she was at it. "Ryo-kun, get a car and tell them to take me to Yukihira's." "Yeah." Ryo said in his bored voice as he left.

I'm a time skip so thing because author is on mobile and mobile doesn't let you insert line thing.

The car arrived at the diner, and Alice got out. "Thank you!" She said cheerily as she headed towards the doors. She walked in.

"Sorry we're close- Oh, Alice. Hey." Souma greeted her from where he was cooking. His friends were watching in awe. Hisako was cooking too, but Souma took the spotlight. "This is my other friends that I was talking about; Alice."

"Helloo~" Alice waved from where she was. The others waved back. "Mind if I join you, Souma-kun?"

Narrator

"Why not?" He said. To his friends, he said, "Alice is one of the best cooks I've ever seen. She works with this molecular gastronomy thing or something, and she makes the best food. You guys have to try it." They nodded greedily.

"More food for us!" A girl laughed loudly. "By the way, I'm Koganei Aki, but you can just call me Aki. That's Mayumi Kurase, Makoto Gin, and that's Ikuda Shiro. Nice meeting you!" The others said the same thing and Alice replied with a cheery "You too!"

"Hey Hishoko!" She said turning. Hisako narrowed her eyes and glared at Alice. "Don't call me that! And also, since when were you on first name basis with my Souma-kun? The only people I know that call him that are his close friends."

"Oh, but I am a close friend, aren't I, Souma-kun?""Hmm? Yeah, yeah you are I guess." Alice stick her tongue out at Hisako behind Souma's back. Souma leaned forward, and Mayumi asked,

"A-are they always like this?"

"Like what?" Souma asked, confused.

"Like, you know, arguing and bickering." Gin filled in for Mayumi.

"Yeah they are. All the time." Souma smiled and laughed. Even now, they were arguing about who-knows-what. Souma realized that what he was making was done and passed it to his friends and Hisako and Alice. So did Alice and Hisako. Once they were finished they began to mumble to themselves about heaven or something. "Whose was better?" Hisako asked, waking them up while leaning over. "Mine or hers?" She pointed at Alice.

"Um.. they were equally great." Shiro said for them nervously. This tension, these arguments made them nervous, but entertained them at the same time. The cooks looked at him weirdly. "What? Did I say something wrong?"

Souma leaned in and told him, "You don't say that they were equal when you're judging food." Shiro mouthed an Oh.

"Well, Souma's was better." Aki said confidently.

"That's for sure." Hisako said, Alice nodding from beside her.

"Yes, Souma-kun's is better, fufufu."

"Guys, don't be modest, there's no way." Everyone just started at him, making him uncomfortable.

"Wait, what about you, Souma-kun?" Alice asked.

"Huh? What?"

"Yeah whose was better in your opinion?" Hisako asked. Souma panicked at this. He didn't know, and he didn't want to hurt one's feelings.

"Oh gee, you know, I really gotta go to the washroom. Sorry guys." He started to leave and mouthed a "Help me" to his friends. Souma stared in the washroom extra long to think over what he should do, but when he got back, he saw that his friends had distracted them and made them forget about the competition.

"No, molecular gastronomy is basically..."

"Herbal foods are pretty simple, actually. They're just..." Souma mouthed a thank you and IOU to his friends and sat down with them to talk.

Hisako

Once they started to realize it was getting late, Hisako and Souma were the last to stay. They shut everything and left. As they were getting in the bike, Souma said, "Did you know that Yukihira's got robbed before? A long time ago, when I was a kid."

"Really?" Hisako asked in disbelief.

"Yeah. And we weren't when too popular back then. No one knew about my dad."

"Wow, that's amazing."

"I know. My dad and I slept at the store back then, and we didn't realize until we saw what happened then next morning."

"Hopefully my future restaurant won't get robbed." Hisako said confidently. "Since people will know my name everywhere."

"Ha." Souma laughed. "Since people know my name, hopefully they won't rob me of you, because you're one of the most priceless people in my life right now." Hisako blushed, and took off their helmets. She leaned in for a kiss and she got what she wanted. After a while of kissing, Souma said, "We should get back now." Hisako nodded, too flustered to say anything, and put on her helmet. This was why she loved Souma and never wanted him taken away from her.

So much thanks for reading! My first 2k word chapter, and it feels awesome! Thanks for the PMs and reviews! I'm adding Alice in, but don't worry, this won't become a harem story, although I sorta like harem anime. Actually, tell me if you want this to be a harem without ecchi(inappropriate stuff) with a different ending for each girl, so that all readers will be satisfied. I know I'm relying on you guys a lot, but I just want to satisfy you guys. Tell me if you guys want to have choice or little choice as to how the story goes on (this is kinda ironic). Till next time, bye!