"OH" Akane exclaimed as she ran over to the stove

She stirred the pot quickly and turned the heat down. After it had calmed down a bit she began to add the remaining ingredients. Ranma just stood there staring at her,

"You know… instead of staring at Akane you could sit down." Anna stated

Ranma's head snapped towards Anna and he quickly sat down, over at the stove Akane froze for a second before returning her attention to the stew. Anna sat down across from Ranma.

"So your Ranma right?" he nodded in response

"Wow, it's god to finally meet you. I mean Akane talks about you all the time, but it's still good to meet you in person."

Ranma looked up, he was interested now. He looked over at Akane who had frozen again.

"She talks about me?" he asked, still looking at Akane

"All the time"

"What about?" he was still looking at Akane who looked really uncomfortable.

" Oh I can't tell you that. That would be betraying Akane's tust."

That seemed to snap Ranma's head out of the clouds. Akane relaxed and turned around

"I think it's almost done. Can you check Anna?"

"Sure." She stood up and walked to the stove "Why don't you serve tea."

"Uh… why?"

"Because we have a quest"

"Oh… okay…"

Akane made some more tea and got out some tea-cakes. She sat down across from Ranma and poured them some tea.

"Did you make the tea cakes too?"

Akane nodded. She watched as he took one and ate it without any suspicion that it was bad. She smiled at him.

"These are good"

"Thanks"

They had some small conversation about school and martial arts. They got so into it they didn't even notice when Anna joined them at the table. Their conversation ended when the timer beeped. Akane stood up and took the stew of the stove. Ranma's mouth started to water.

"That smells good"

Anna and Akane looked at him and started laughing.

"What?"

"Y-your f-face. Ha ha ah ha" Akane managed out

"A drool filled stare" Anna stated

Ranma was a little embarrassed, he just sat there and waited for them to finish laughing. When they had finally calmed down enough to speak to he asked

"What are you going to do with that stew?"

"Duh. Were going to eat it Ranma."

"… can I have some?" he said quietly but hopefully

Akane gave him a warm smile.

"Sure"

PAUSE

"That was great Akane" Ranma stated as he rubbed his full stomach. Akane seemed to glow under his praise.

"Thanks, I gotta say that was the most peaceful time I've ever spent with you."

"Huh? How's that"

"Think about it Ranma, no Shampoo, Mousse, Ryoga, Ukyo, Happosai, Kuno, Kodaich, our fathers and Nabiki wasn't here to spy on us. It was just peacefull"

"Yeah I guess your right"

"Geez, sounds like you guys have it rough"

"Yeah" was there answer

Anna looked at them. "You know that your always welcome here if you need some quiet time."

"Really?" Anna nodded "Wow, thanks"

Akane stood up "Bathroom" and she left. After she left Anna looked up at Ranma.

"You know Ranma" he looked at her "there's a new movie Akane was talking about. All her friends and their dates are going. She said she wanted to go but she didn't have a date"

Ranm perked up a little, this was intesting.

'A movie? She hasn't said anything to me about a movie.'

"If your wondering why she hasn't said anything to you about it, ask yourself this: If she had told you about it, what would you have done?"

Ranma stopped, she was right. He would have wanted to go with her but he wouldn't have asked her because of his pride. While he was thinking Akane came back in.

"Ranma we should get going, my lesoon was over 10 minutes ago."

He stood up "Ok"