At first, when he began working for her grandmother and she began pestering him, he found her a little annoying. She wanted to learn how to cook but he was too impatient and sarcastic to teach her, so she settled for stealing any unattended food he left sitting around. At first he wanted to yell at her when she kidnapped a soup meant for a customer, and at first he wanted to smack himself in the head when she responded with childish taunts and even crying once. After he made her cry and Yolanda scolded him he tried harder to be nice, to not smack her hand with a spoon when she reached for the pot. He tried an exercise about which he'd read in a magazine, an exercise where he tried to notice little things about her that were good.
He noticed how kind she was to everyone who walked in the door, how delighted she could get over the smallest things. He noticed that her hair was bright like sunshine and like her laugh. He noticed that, suddenly, he loved her.
He noticed then that she loved him, too.
AUTHOR'S NOTES
Aw, Chase and Maya from Tree of Tranquility. Who doesn't love a love story that involves food? *sighs*