Chapter 31: A crash course in cooking!?

“Claire!” Amy yells at me while putting me between herself and Saunderson.

“Seriously. Just learn to live with it already! You’re the one that agreed to it in the first place!” I yell at Amy who was hiding behind me.

“But… it was too sudden!” Amy’s face goes red.

“All you did was hold his hand! How is that sudden!? Are you a sheltered princess or what!?” I grab on to Amy’s head and start squeezing, “A pure maiden!? Is that what you think you are!?”

“Ow! It hurts!” Amy quickly pries my hands off her head. “I’m sorry I just wasn’t expecting it!”

“This one apologizes for being too forward, and will remember to proceed in the relationship with caution, so I declare.” Saunderson bows slightly as he apologizes.

Please… someone end this torture!

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“So Claire… do you even know how to turn on a stove?” Amy looks at me with frown.

“Um…” I look down, depressed, “No… I don’t.”

“I figured as much. Remember, it is okay to ask questions if you aren’t able to understand something.” Amy shows me how to turn on the stove…

Why couldn’t I figure at least that much out?

To be fair, I have never had to cook before…

Amy has ‘convinced’ the club that was using the foods room to give us a cooking station and access to the food in the room. Amy then decided to make a full breakfast including cereal and bacon… really, how hard could it be?

She decided against using the stove and grabs a box of cereal, then an unlabelled container that had something that may or may not be milk.

“Hey… Amy… is that really milk?” I look at the container and frown.

“The other foods people said it was…” Amy also frowns as she looks at the mysterious fluid that should be milk.

I carefully open the lid and smell it. It smells like milk… so it should be milk… right?

“Then I’ll start on the bacon.” Amy pulls out a pan and starts heating it up in order to cook the bacon on it. “Where did Saunderson go?” Amy blushes as she asks me.

“Remember he said he had some things to take care of before he could spend time with you? Also, it must have been really sudden for him considering the fact that he has only taken orders from others, so having someone that was blushing every time they even looked at him probably made him feel uncomfortable.” I give Amy a sigh as I pour the cereal into the bowl.

“I guess…” Amy looks down at the bacon as she places it on the hot pan. It starts to sizzle loudly.

Why am I just making a bowl of cereal… seriously… why? Amy is making bacon and teaching me how to do so by example…

“Flip it over after a little while and when it looks like this is it almost done cooking. If it stays on for longer it will get crispier, but if it stays on for too long it will burn. Burnt bacon is a crime.”

“I definitely agree.” I nod my head and agree with Amy as I start to pour the ‘milk’ into the bowl.

I look at the cereal as the pieces start to sink in the liquid… isn’t it supposed to float? Did I mess up cereal!? I bring the bowl over to Amy and she almost starts to laugh at my expression.

“It should be fine. Let’s ju-” As she is talking the bacon makes a loud popping noise. It silences us as we see a stray bit of grease fly into the bowl…

It lights on fire….

“Why is the cereal on fire!?” It’s not the first logical thing to shout when seeing a fire, but it seems to be the case here… my cereal lit on fire…… HOW!?

The flames instantly go out before they even have a chance to do anything more than give a quick scare. The students on the other side of the room start laughing.

“I can’t believe they didn’t taste it before using it!”

“I can’t believe it worked! Cereal caught fire! Ha!”

Amy and I smile at each other and nod. She slowly walks to her bag as the room goes silent and I go to the door of the room and lock it from the inside. Anyone could just unlock it, but this should slow them down slightly.

“Now then.” Amy smiles as she finishes her part. “I am Amy Gardner, head of the disciplinary committee. I will now be leading in a search for dangerous activities. Claire Redwood, a member of the student council, do you agree to be a witness to attest to the actions of these students?”

“Yes!” I smile mischievously as the students start to shiver slightly from the cold atmosphere being emitted from Amy.

They should learn not to mess with us!

*Logan’s POV*

I’m so bored!

I am lying in bed staring at the ceiling with nothing to do.

Claire is currently hanging out with Amy doing who knows what. Saunderson called me but he sounded flustered more than anything… I wonder what even happened. Saunderson is starting to become reliable again… but he has his moments, there are gaps in the reports like most of it is fabricated… if he is lying to me and something bad happens I will not be happy about it.

On the other side, if something good happens because Saunderson was found and Claire told him to keep it a secret, it would be nice. I might reward him slightly for not spoiling the surprise.

I smile lightly as there is a knock on the door.

“Hello. Can we come in?” I hear Amy’s voice on the other side of the door. If it’s Amy, she must be with Claire.

“Yeah sure, the door’s unlocked.” I shout just loud enough so that they could clearly hear me through the door. I really wish I could use my right arm…

The two girls walk in the room and Claire has a large smile on her face. They are carrying quite the amount of food. Did they order take out? I sit up in the bed, as I was laying down.

“Ah, thanks for bringing food. I haven’t had anything to eat for dinner yet.” I smile as my stomach grumble when the smell of the food enters my nose.

“Good for you.” Amy rolls her eyes and sets some of the food down on a desk in the room. “By the way, most of this was prepared by Claire.”

Claire smiles as Amy says that. I am personally worried… these two know how to cook… right… no. This might have been what they were doing during Saunderson’s falsified reports!

“Awesome! Claire, when did you learn how to cook?”

“The foods club taught me! The whole club!” Claire puffs out her chest with confidence. I think I will ask Saunderson later to tell me how that incident went down. I bet it is an interesting story.

They start preparing the food onto paper plates… sadly the best they could easily bring to the dorms without the help of several other people. I don’t mind it, but why are there paper plates in a school like this?

Ah, even being in the dorms still makes me incredibly nervous. Claire and I were moved to a new room prepared for us almost immediately and have put several people in nearby rooms to be able to hear if anything happens. The security of the school has also been tripled. There are now guards standing at the front gate of the school that check ID’s before you are allowed to enter.

Most of the rich kids just find it a slight annoyance and not too much beyond that, but it makes me nervous that there are so many guards around.

“Logan? You okay?” Claire asks me as she has her face right in front of mine. After jumping slightly in surprise I nod.

“Yeah, I’m fine. I was just thinking about something unimportant.”

Claire visibly relaxes as she sees me smile genuinely.

“Great! Then let’s eat! We prepared a breakfast themed dinner for you. Chocolate chip pancakes and bacon!” Claire passes me a plate.

I look at the food. The pancakes are perfectly golden and it’s even still warm! The bacon looks super high quality! This looks so tasty! There is also a layer of maple syrup on top of the pancakes on my plate. I wonder if it is real maple syrup. Who cares! I shall eat this with a smile no matter how it tastes!

I nervously take a bite with a bit of pancake and bacon together.

“Delifoush!” I shout with the food still in my mouth.

This is amazing! Is this really Claire’s cooking!? Last time I had it had felt like my mouth was dying, this change! Incredible!

“It seems he really enjoys it. You should be happy Claire.” Amy smiles at Claire.

“Yeah… I don’t think I’ve ever seen him eat so quickly… hey Logan slow down, it isn’t going to run away if you don’t eat it all.” Claire smiles at me as I continuously shove the food into my face.

Also, using my left hand to eat is a little odd but now that it’s been a few days I am starting to get used to it. I hate how they messed up my dominant arm.

“So Logan…” Claire smiles as she looks at me. “I would like to start cooking dinners for you until you can fully use your arm. How would you like that?”

“I accept! If it is even half as delicious as this I will die a happy man!” I smile at Claire, “My wife being an amazing cook would just make me so happy!”

“I love you, Logan.” Claire happily starts to eat her share of the food.

“I love you too Claire!” I continue to happily stuff my face with food until I feel like I am about to explode, and then a few more bites after that.

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