A young woman stood in front of an unknown front door, taking deep breaths to ease her nervousness. She knew one person that lived there and only that information didn't help her. But she wanted to come there, she wanted to do this. There was something that she had to do. She took one more cleansing breath and knocked on the door, holding a small bag on the other hand. The few minutes waiting for someone to answer her knock almost killed her with anxiety. However, she was immediately relieved when another girl, with black, braided hair and chocolate brown eyes, answered the door.

"Shizuka, you came!" the black-haired girl exclaimed with a smile.

"Of course," Shizuka replied, placing a strand of her violet hair behind her right ear. "When you offered your place for me to bake, I couldn't say no." The young girl gave a more cheeky smile as she yelled,

"Hooray!! Come in, come in!" She moved out of the way for Shizuka to go in the house. As the visitor took off her tennis shoes, she said,

"Thank you again, Lizzy."

"No problem!" Lizzy answered happily. "We violinists have to help each other out, right?" Shizuka nodded and looked around the house. It was a big home, with two rooms off to the side and a set of stairs, all spaced out in the front area of the house. It seemed like there was no one else here except for Lizzy, who began to walk towards the kitchen that was at the back part of the house.

"Where is your family?" Shizuka asked, still scanning the area with her sea-green eyes.

"My brothers should be home after hanging out with a few friends and my parents are working," Lizzy explained.

"Really Where do your parents work?"

"Papa gets called in to help guard the coastlines and the other sectors of the island, while Mama works at the museums during the weekdays."

"So you and your brothers are home by yourselves?"

"Yeah, but I'm used to it now. I mostly help with the cooking and cleaning, but my brothers help out too." Lizzy walked to the back of the house where a huge area was cut into three sections, one of which is the kitchen. "Ta-da!" Lizzy exclaimed, showing Shizuka the kitchen. "What do you think?"

"It's quite a spacious kitchen," Shizuka noted, gazing at the island table surrounded by a set of cabinets, a sink, fridge, and an oven.

"I know, right? You can work here for as long as you want!"

"Thank you so much." Lizzy nodded with her happy smile.

"If you need me, I'll be playing games on the couch!" Lizzy announced. She ran over to the living room, which was on the other side of the kitchen, and jumped onto the couch, pulling out a handheld console from her pocket and beginning to play a video game. Shizuka in turn began to pull out some supplies from the bag that she brought for her baking. She didn't want to bother Lizzy, so the teenager searched for the necessary pans, measuring cups, and bowls for her baking. After a while, Shizuka began to mix the ingredients she had together to make chocolate sweets. She was quietly working until Lizzy asked, "So......who are you baking for?"

"Hm?" Shizuka replied, turning to where Lizzy was in the living room. "What do you mean?"

"Well, I'm sure that you don't just bake for anyone, right? You did ask me at school today to bake at my house because your oven broke down on you. You were pretty set on doing this."

"I-I suppose," Shizuka said softly with a tiny blush on her cheeks.

"Plus, tomorrow is Valentine's Day so that might be a-" Lizzy gasped as she made a realization. "Do you have a valentine?" she asked her violinist friend. Shizuka almost dropped the measuring cup she had in her hand.

"I, uh...." Shizuka began to say, putting down the cup and playing with her fingers, "it's a little bit complicated to explain."

"What are you talking about?" Lizzy asked, standing up on the couch and looking at her friend. "It's a valentine! That's not that complicated to figure out." She then knelt down on the backside of the couch, staring at Shizuka, whose earlier blush enlarged on her face. "Who is it, who is it?"

"I rather not say..."

"Aww, come on! I can keep a secret!! I won't tell a soul."

"...You promise?"

"Absolutely!" Shizuka thought for a moment of what her younger friend said to her. Perhaps it wouldn't be too bad to be honest with her. Besides, she could keep a secret.

"Well...." Shizuka began with a soft smile, "he's a boy that I met at the music club in school. He plays the guitar and I absolutely love his music, considering that I am a violinist."

"So a strings player is attracted to a musician that plays guitar strings, huh?" Lizzy noted.

"it's not just that. He's really nice and funny. He even helps me with my math homework whenever I have trouble."

"Ah, sounds like a gentlemen." Shizuka giggled softly and responded,

"He is! I want to give him some chocolate to thank him for everything up to this point, but I'mnot sure if he'll like it."

"Sure, he would!" Lizzy proclaimed. "What guy wouldn't like chocolate?"

"That's true. But I'm still worried about it." Lizzy decided to step off of the couch to think for a moment.

"Do you know his name?" Lizzy asked, still thinking.

"Yes! His name is Jarod." The young girl froze in her thoughts. It couldn't be the same Jarod that Lizzy knew, would it?

"J-Jarod who?" Lizzy asked, her eyes still wide in disbelief.

"Jarod Wood," Shizuka replied plainly. "Do you know him?

"U-Uh................" Lizzy said, sweating a little bit "...........maybe? Did he ever mention that he had a little sister?"

"All the time! He keeps telling stories about her."

"Oh no, what has he been saying about me?!" Lizzy then collapsed on the living room floor and yelled with a groan, "I am doomed when I get to high school!!"

"Are you two related?!" Shizuka asked, wanting to confirm what her younger friend just shouted aloud. The latter sat up and explained while rubbing the back of her neck,

"Yeah, he's my big brother." Shizuka froze up with what Lizzy said and couldn't move. If Jarod was Lizzy's older brother and if she said that her brothers were coming home soon....

"What am I going to do?" the older girl said with a gulp.

"I-It's okay!" Lizzy said with a slight stammer. "We can figure this out. Jarod and James won't be home for a little while, so maybe you can still get you baking done before they come home!"

"Right!" Shizuka quickly went to work on her baking while Lizzy still sat on the living room floor, kind of feeling bad about what happened. It wasn't until Shizuka baked her first set of chocolates that her friend said,

"I'm sorry! I should've asked why you were baking beforehand at school."

"That's okay, Lizzy. You didn't know. I just hope that he doesn't come home any time soon." Suddenly, the girls heard the front door open and a boy's voice that exclaimed,

"Hey, we're back!" The two girls looked at each other and gulped. It was too late. "You here, sis?" the voice asked.

"Yeah I'm here, bro!" Lizzy exclaimed. She ran over to the door to find her two brothers taking off their shoes. "Hi, guys! You're here early."

"One of the guys in our group had to go home early and we just split up from there," James explained, tying up his dread-locked hair into a ponytail. "Plus, the weather didn't look good to play football."

"Hey, is someone else visiting?" Jarod asked, noticing a pair of tennis shoes near the door.

"Y-Yeah," Lizzy said with a slight sweatdrop. "One of my violin friends asked me to help her out. Her oven broke so she asked me if she could use ours."

"Aww, look at you being a nice person!" Jarod ruffled his sister's hair, which in turn made her pout and exclaim,

"I will bite you!"

"You never do!" James said with a teasing laugh.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!" Lizzy growled. "I will now!" She turned to James and started to chase him up the staircase, letting Jarod watch the fun.

"You guys are crazy," he said with a laugh. He walked over to the kitchen and saw Shizuka. His eyes widened a bit, not expecting to see her at his house. "Shizuka?"

"J-Jarod!" the girl exclaimed. She hid a small bag of chocolate that she was working on as she stammered, "H-Hi!"

"Hey, what's up? I heard from my sister that your oven broke."

"Y-Yeah! She was kind enough to offer this oven so that I could bake."

"What are you baking?" The girl blushed quite a bit as she murmured,

"Just some chocolate. It's no big deal..." Jarod glanced at what Shizuka had behind her back and asked,

"Is that what you made?" The girl only nodded at his question as she hung her head, too embarrassed to say a word. "Could I...try one?"

"You want one?" Shizuka asked, looking up at him in an instant.

"Sure," Jarod smiled. "I can be the guinea pig to taste the chocolate."

"O-Okay." The girl brought out the bag that she held behind her bag and gave it to Jarod. "Here..." she said softly. Jarod unwrapped the bag and found some heart-shaped chocolates in the handmade package.

"Wow, it looks like it came from a bakery," Jarod commented in awe. He took one of the chocolates and ate one.

"Do you like it?" Shizuka asked.

"Mmm, this is really good! You should be a baker." Suddenly, the girl's eyes lit up, surprised that he liked her chocolate.

"Really?" she said.

"Yeah!" the boy grinned. "You should try it." He handed her a piece of chocolate and Shizuka ate it slowly, making sure that he wasn't joking and that the texture was balanced with sweet flavor.

"Wow, that is delicious. I didn't think I did a good job."

"Are you kidding? This is the best chocolate I've ever had!"

"You really think so?"

"Of course I do!" The girl eyes sparkled with joy, ecstatic that Jarod liked the chocolate.

"Thank you so much!" Shizuka exclaimed with a bright smile. As the two conversed on, James and Lizzy were in another area, peeking into the kitchen to see what was going on.

"Are they a thing now?" Lizzy whispered to James.

"No!" James murmured back. "This is not a determining factor for that."

"True...that's not how it's done in books." That comment left James facepalming at the girl.

Wow, that took a lot longer than I thought to create this! But anyway, this is the first oneshot I've ever done. What do you guys think? I may do more at some point, but I wanted to do something for Valentine's Day specifically. Thanks for reading! :)