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Chapter Three: Meeting in the Kitchen
Arina was feeling bored so she picked up her recipe notebook and walked down to the kitchen. She set up at the furthest away kitchen and got out the ingredients she needed to make her chocolate, lemon tartlets. She went into the back room to get some tempering tools and other utensils. Then she went back to her kitchen island, plugged her MP3 ear-buds into her ears and starting cooking. The chocolate melted easily and she poured it out to start tempering.
Back and forth the tempering tools swept over the board in time with her music making the chocolate smoother and lighter. Arina started to get lost in the rhythmic actions and her music.
After a while she looked up and noticed the light on at the end of the kitchen. 4 islands were lit up and a group stood there practising and talking. They hadn't noticed her in the quiet corner she was in so she kept studying their movements. One of them looked familiar. 'That's Kashino' Arina realised. Quietly she went back to her work.
Soon she noticed someone at her shoulder. She turned around, to be startled by a boy with green hair and a large smile. "Hello. I'm Hanabusa Satsuki. It is my pleasure to meet you" he said brightly. He held out a candy rose.
"F-for m-me?" Arina stuttered. She took a step backwards only to crash into…Kashino.
He smirked. "Is this going to be a habit Arina? Crashing into me? This is the second time today", he teased.
Arina blushed. Then she realised something. "How do you know my name? I never told you."
"Everyone knows your name, Arina", piped up a voice behind Kashino. A tall boy with dark blue hair and glasses stepped out of the shadows. "You are one of the two new students that have arrived this late into the year."
"Ummm, who are you?" Arina asked feeling a bit overwhelmed by the amount of new people standing around her.
The boy smiled kindly. "I'm Andou Sennosuke. Pleased to meet you. Oh and the girl that's working over there is our friend Amano Ichigo. She's the other person who recently transferred. We're helping her to catch up to the rest of our class. We've found that she just can't cook so we have to teach her."
Arina looked around at all the boys and noticed something similar about all of them. She wondered whether she should ask but soon her curiosity got the better of her.
"So who are the little people with wings on your shoulders?" she asked.
A/N: Ha-ha-ha. Bad I know. R&R so that I can get better. Thank you.