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Chapter 5: Cocoa at Your Service Miss

Arina trudged down the corridor, confused and tired. Those guys and their weird fairies- What had they called them…? Umm Sweets spirits! - hadn't done anything for her overly active brain. To put the "icing on the cake" she now had one of those weird things following her too. Arina sighed. All she wanted to do was sleep and try to forget about the weird happenings in the kitchen.

Back in the kitchen the boys had gathered around their work station once more. The conversation was of course about the new girl and her supposedly secret sweets spirit.

"I really need to talk to Cocoa about this" grumbled Chocolat. "She can't just choose people and not tell them like that." She flew down to the bench-top and settled against Kashino's cooking bowl. "Can you help me Kashino?" she asked tiredly, her shoulders sinking. The group looked at her in astonishment. She was normally so bossy and lively, it was strange to see her so tired looking and depressed.

Vanilla floated down and put an arm around her and Chocolat leaned into the hug. It seemed that the two could get along when one of them was having a hard time. "It's okay Choco. I'll help you out" Vanilla said, trying to comfort her depressed frienemy. Chocolat just nodded in response.

The boys looked at each other and started to tidy up. The mood had soured and no-one felt like working anymore. This incident had taken everyone's energy out of them.

Finally Ichigo broke her silence. "That poor girl…" she murmured quietly while packing away her tools. Hanabusa put an arm around her shoulders and ruffled her hair with his other hand. "You're so caring you know? You don't even know her but you feel pity for her. But why?" he asked smiling at her.

"She's all alone" came Ichigo's simple answer. She shrugged Hanabusa's arm off her shoulders carefully and slipped her apron off. She walked over to the other side of the room and stowed the item of clothing away in her cooking locker. "Maybe I'll go check on her tomorrow" she said, thinking aloud.

Everybody was ready to leave by this point and so the foursome walked out of the cooking room to their respective dorms and went to their rooms.

Meanwhile Arina had finished with her shower and was settling down to relax in bed. She pulled some of her school books and a small diary out of her desk drawers and onto her bed and she began reading.

Cocoa had been following Arina around awkwardly since being found out, not saying anything out of fear of what the human girl would do. Now the sweets spirit was nervously standing on the table, rocking back and forth on her tiny heels. She got the shock of her life when Arina stopped working and beckoned her over. She floated over to Arina, wringing her hands and biting her lip.

"So what's your name again?" Arina said, rubbing her eyes. The little fairy in front of her was trembling inside her little boots. Arina took pity on the little character and patted her knees to inform her little friend that she could perch there.

Cocoa nodded and flew over to stand on one of Arina's knees. "I-I'm C-c-cocoa M-m-miss" she stuttered. She bit her lip again and thought about getting off Arina's knee.

Arina smiled. The little person was obviously scared out of her wits. She looked Cocoa in her tiny red-brown eyes. "How about you stop shaking and say that a bit more confidently Cocoa?" she said kindly.

Cocoa took a deep breath. "Cocoa at your service Miss" she said as confidently as she could manage and she nervously put out her little hand for shaking. She wasn't shaking as much as she'd been before but slight shivering could still be seen.

Arina took the hand and shook it lightly. "Well I guess you know who I am" she said looking at the nodding Cocoa. "I just have a couple of questions. The first: Why were you hiding in my hair? And the second: Why choose me?" she asked. Cocoa was shifting a bit on her knee now and the feeling was starting to tickle. Arina bit back a laugh remembering that her room-mate across the curtain was still asleep.

Cocoa looked down at her feet. Arina's questions had been really easy but she didn't want to answer them. She blushed and let her hair cover her face. She shifted from foot to foot and didn't look at Arina face but when she felt a small vibration she looked up instantaneously.

Arina was shaking in silent giggles. Cocoa's movement really tickled but she couldn't wake up Kana. She tried to signal for Cocoa to stop moving and the little spirit seemed to get the idea and floated off her knees.

"I'll forget about the questions for now huh? We need to get our sleep. Big day tomorrow and we don't want to be tired" she whispered putting her books back on her table. Then she lay down and pulled the blankets up towards her. The sheets got to her chin but she didn't drop them though. She waited for a while and then gestured for Cocoa to get in too. "You'll freeze on the table in this kind of weather" she whispered when Cocoa reluctantly slipped under the sheets. She made sure that the spirit was okay and then fell asleep.

Cocoa tried to relax. Sure she'd been found out but the girl was nice and soft spoken. She didn't seem nasty or unforgiving and with that thought in her head she fell asleep too.

I'm sorry about the long wait again. School takes up so much time *cries* Anyway hope you like this chapter. Review please. Thanks!