Chapter 11

As most of the day passed by, you found yourself entering inside the swimming pool area where the club, including you meet almost every single day.

"(Y/n)-channnn!!" Gou rans up to you with a careless grip on your shoulders, making the touch on it ache like a heavy metal hitting it painfully. You struggle to speak as she shakes you. "Why are you lateee?!!!"

Mentally rolling your eyes, after she finally stops almost drowning you with painful-physical, annoyance. You forced a grin,"Sorry, my last period of a biology test was like an extreme verge of throwing yourself in hell."

She giggles at your sentence but you just slide yourself away from her, on the best way possible to show that you aren't annoyed but you really are annoyed.

"This has got to be the most annoying day I have experienced. From piranhas, to bio-hell and to Gou-"

"Squid! You're finally here!" Nagisa cheers as he waved his arm for you to easily see his presence. You send him a smile as you walk up to him, as you did, you saw Rei also coming up beside you.

Rei adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose. "Want a cookie for a reward of accomplishment of finishing hell?" he lends a cookie trapped between his thumb and index to you while on the other hand of his, is gently eating the same cooking in his mouth.

You nod with a warm smile of relief. "Thanks. You had no idea what I was feeling when I was just spinning my pen with my hands like for thirty minutes straight with sweat, and my eyes just staring at the paper sheet blankly-"

Cutting yourself off your sentence as you felt your teeth inject the delicious cookie, your tongue tastes the dough, forming a relaxed expression. "Hmmmm... this actually tastes good."

Rei smirks at my reaction. "I know right? Haru, over there, gave me a jar of this for like no absolute reason. Surprising, you know? Especially coming from him, himself.." you grinds the cookie with satisfaction crossing his face.

Suddeny, you brought yourself back in a short and quick rollercoaster again down your memory lane in your mind with a slight drop on your jaw. You baked this food.

You were about to tell Rei that you were actually the one who made the delicious food, who Haruka gave him like a jar he said. But second thoughts abused your first thoughts so you just kept your mouth shut.

Turning your head in another direction, you saw two figures sitting on the corner of the pool.

Makoto and Haruka.

As you came up to them, you greeted them a smile. And you glide yourself down beside Makoto, making him being in the middle between you and Haruka.

"He-" you silently cracked a chuckle that escaped your lips as you saw them also eating your beloved-yummy made dough. "Nice food you got there." you started, cracking up your chuckle to a laugh now.

"Squidward!!" Makoto forms a shock expression, initially pressing the button to irritate you as he called you that stupid made-up nickname he made for you again.

You nudged your shoulder to his with a bit on your lower lip. "Mak-donalds!" you screeched at him and you chuckle with the nickname you just made up like out of the blue.

Makoto's stupid grin suddenly fades and you saw the sight of Haruka trying to cover his laughing mouth beside Makdonalds.

"How great." he blurted out with a glare to you.

Ignoring his little irritated expression, you teased him more and more ti'll he just stands up and walk away. You frown with a half-smile on your face, if that makes sense. "Hey Makdo-- Mak-kun!! I'm sorrryy!!"

He turns his head on his shoulder to see the sight of you, after a second, he smiles.

You sighed in relief. You thought he was really mad, if he was, a problem would have appear and increase your annoying day upgraded into a bad luck day.

A voice spoke near you making you rather finally stop chuckling like crazy.

"(Y/n)." a soft whisper called your name.

You glanced at your right and found yourself meeting Haruka's crystalline-blue colored eyes. The feeling of butterflies in a zero to a million suddenly obtain again in your stomach with the simple interaction with stoic boy beside you in a tiny distance.

With a feeling of burning cheeks, you slightly smiled to him. "Ye?" you replied with the same position of your mouth.

He stares back at the clear, refreshing water in the pool that is kissing the skin of his legs.

The corner of his lips curves and twitches into his usual tiny smile. He didn't perhaps said anything after doing that action, so you started the convo instead.

"Did you also ate the cookie?" you grinned, from all questions. That was the question the first popped out from your mind that also popped out from your mouth. You cringed at the thought.

"Well.. maybe."

"Everyone here was also eating it! I didn't expect you to bring it to school and like, donate it."

"I didn't want to be selfish by keeping the amazing cooked treats for myself."

After that reply of his, you felt your stomach with the same butterfly-feeling, but way worse.. it felt like real butterflies was really going to exit their ways out of your stomach.

Well, yes perhaps you cook a lot at home. But your made-cooks was only eaten by your mom and only you most of the time. Never have you ever, imagined your friends doing it. The compliment made a slight crimson-color tint on your cheeks.

"...did you.. liked my cook?" you questioned, just making sure with a hint of curiosity.

A long pause tightened the flowing conversationg, he took such awhile before answering. You just sat still as you think that he woudn't answer your question.

"No, miss chef... I loved it."