A/N: weee! Vanilla and cake! I'm currently watching Yumeiro Patissiere right now, It's so cool. It makes me wanna eat the sweets that they make. Love the sweet princes! xD So, I made this chapter about sweets. :P hehehe…
Chapter 5: "The Vanilla-cream cake"
"Kaho-san… Kaho-san… wake up. Were here." She gently tapped her shoulder.
Kaho's eyes slowly opened. "Were here? Oh! Len-san, what happened?" she rubbed her eyes. "This is the first time I slept comfortably on a car."
"Well yeah, you should be! Because of you I didn't got the chance to move my legs because the sleepy Kahoko was there. Ow, my legs are aching!" massaging his left leg.
"Hm? You mean I slept on you? Sorry 'bout that and your leg but… thank you though!" she smiled at him and hurriedly got out of the car before Len.
"Hmph." He got out and slammed the door.
"Wow! Is that your house? As expected to Hamai Misa and to her so-called son, Len."
Kahoko roamed around the living room and sat at a comfy sofa. A maid brought her vanilla-cream cake with a strawberry on top and an orange juice. Len sat in front of her, crossed arms. Kahoko started eating her cake.
"Do you like it?" Len asked.
"Are you kidding me? This is my favorite! My mom always buys me this." she continued eating but stopped suddenly. "Want some?"
"Iie… I don't like sweets. So sweets here are just getting stuck on the refrigerator. So you're free to eat all you can."
"I've just been in a cake store with my friends this morning… so I'm quite full on cakes for today."
After Len had woke up, the first thing he thought of doing in the morning was to bake the sweets he had remembered.
And this is what it turned out.
He took out the failed dish out off the oven. It was already his 12th failure this morning. He sighed as he glanced at the failed dishes lined on the table.
Again, he tried and put it inside the oven. He crossed his arms and waited patiently.
"Tsukimori-kun?" someone spoke.
The startled Len glanced at the person, recognizing its voice. "What-are-you-doing-here!" he shouted at her.
"I-don't-know! The first thing I know is that there was this black limo parked in front of our gate… and I got pulled in… and… I slept… and now, I'm here. What are you doing?" the crimson-haired girl, Kahoko, explained.
"I'm not doing anything."
"Then what's the dish you put in?" pointing at the oven. "And what's—that." Her gaze transferred to the failures that Len had tried (so hard) to make.
"Whoa. You sure have wasted a lot…"
"I did not! That's not mine either!"
"Hey, Tsukimori-kun It's burning already!"
Len rushed to take out— another failed dish. He secretly sighed.
"See, it's yours."
"Just shut it." He picked up all of the dishes to be thrown.
"what are you making anyway?" Kaho peeked to the recipe book.
"Vanilla-crea—"
"Dame desu!" he grabbed the book away from her and shut it.
She just stared at him. "I thought you don't like sweets."
"Don't give me that look. Of course I don't!"
"Then, what's that? And I heard from Misa-san yesterday that you don't KNOW HOW TO cook."
He sighed. "Just state you business here and leave. I'm wasting my precious time here."
"My… How did things turned out, Len? Did you happen to make at least one?" Hamai Misa suddenly entered the kitchen.
"Why did you fetch Hino here the first place?" he said as he was about to take his leave.
"You've been practicing it since this morning you woke up. And I thought of having Kaho-san to show you how."
"Tch. I don't need anyone's help."
"Really? You can't even do it." Kaho teased.
"Fine. Then let's see how you do it."
"Kaho-san? Will you do it? If you don't mind…"
"Hai…" she got the ingredients, utensils and positioned herself. Len wasn't really learning anything. He was just staring at Kahoko who's doing her job flawlessly, without any unnecessary movements. She blushed when she noticed he was staring at her. She made three dishes of it. And last, she made the finishing touches.
"Finish…" she said as she wiped the sweat on her forehead. "Yatta." The smell of the freshly baked sweets roamed all over the kitchen. "It smells nice." Len thought as he sniffed the air. But yet, he doesn't like sweets.
"Doozo" She said while serving them their cakes. She sat in front of Hamai Misa where Len is seated next to. Misa and Kaho dug in, but it looks like Len is hesitating to have even a little taste from it.
"Oishii." Misa looked at Kahoko, then to Len. "Come on, Len. Kaho-san made it for us."
"That's because I felt pity for Len who can't even make a simple dish, And to return a favor to Misa-san."
"Oh, it's nothing" Misa replied.
"How can you call this dish 'simple'."
"Just eat it." Len did as she said. He just ate a small piece. It wasn't his first time eating sweets. It was when Kaho forced him to eat vanilla-cream cake that she bought when they were kids. But he could still remember how it tasted like. But this one's different. It was so delicious to Len.
"Anou… How was it, Tsukimori-kun?"
"It's good."
"How odd. You used to call him "Len" back then." Misa butted in.
"U-uh… being formal has been my habit…" she forced a laugh. The phone at the living suddenly rang. Hamai Misa stood up to get it, leaving Len and Kaho alone.
They just ate quietly and no one ever dared to say a word. Kahoko grab the knife beside her plate, but because of her tenseness, her hand dropped it and it left a wound on her left leg before it fall to the ground. "Ouch!" she moaned in pain. Red blood kept dripping.
A/N: Gomen if you find this chapter boring.. xD I was even planning on cross-overing it with Yumeiro Patissiere, but I thought that would ruin the whole story, so... I stopped that Idea. was it too short? *sigh* I'll try to make chapter 7 a little longer. Oh, and I want to say "Thanks" to my publisher. Hey, Onii-chan! thanks for always doing my requestsss xD I still got a lot more so prefer yourself, okay? :D hahaha
*also, thanks to those who reviewed chapter 5 ^_^ i hope who won't get tired reviewing*
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