𝙤𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙡 { 𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙟𝙞 | 1 }

Chapter 6:Cooking class

Victoria pov
The day carried on, with me silently questioning about Sanji & Nami's relationship. Often, I've found that I'm literally asking myself...why? Why go through all this trouble for two people that you've only known for like what? A day & a half? And then, the answer wild always be:

"Because I want to get to know my friends better, and so that I will know what is taboo & what isn't taboo."

Its a weird excuse, but it sounded good in my mind.

Last period rolled around, with cooking with Ms Carmen. I had this class with Sanji, Ussop & Robin. According to Ussop, Ms Caremen is supposed to be very..flamboyant.

"She like, dances every time she is cooking!" Ussop said with a shaking head. "She is one strange lady."
Sanji donked Ussop on the head. "She's mot strange! She's beautiful!"
I rolled my eyes. "Whatever you say, bucko."

We arrived to class, and saw a lady who I assumed was Ms Carmen. She had fiery pink hair, and large pink eyes. Strangely enough, she had a ladle in her mouth. She wore a red flamenco dress, and a pair of red high heels to go with her dress.

'Well...I'm never gonna use the ladles from her kitchen unit.'

Sanji greeted Ms Carmen how he usually greets other females (that aren't me), love hearts & twirling motions. Naturally, I rolled my eyes.

'Typical Sanji.'

Soon, the classroom filled up with more students. Finally, Ms Carmen started class. She was giving us a cooking demo on what we were making this week, which was Soft shelled Tacos. And just as Ussop said, she always did this weird thing whenever she did something...it was like dancing. It was throwing me off.

"Well then...I want all you to make this for the rest of the period. There is leftover mince...now get into your units!"

Everyone scrambled to find a partner. I ended up with Ussop as my partner. I got Ussop to grab some leftover pulled pork, while I prepared our shells, carrots, spicy guacamole & sour cream. Because the mince was already made, it was easy to make the tacos, then clean up our mess afterwards. I looked over to where Sanji was, and found that he was actually remaking the taco by scratch. Not only that, but he was doing it alone.

"Hey...why is Sanji all by himself?" I asked.
"He doesn't need a partner. He's the top student chef in all of the school, so he doesn't need help."
I stared at him for a moment, before smiling. "Wow...thats amazing!"
"Yeah, but because of that, Ms Carmen throws him extra work. He even teaches some of the junior classes sometimes, the juniors look up to him."

'Wow....I want to be looked up upon like that.'

When Ussop & I finished eating, I decided to talk to him, and thoroughly get to know him better. I found that he's a really good artist, and is a bit of a liar. But because he lies a lot, he can easily tell stories when he baby sits little kids. From what I can tell, the kids love it when he baby sits. He also has sharp accuracy.

"Hey..Ussop...do you know what happened between Nami & Sanji? Like, I know that they dated...but what made them break up?" I asked.
"Hmm...well I don't really know, to be honest. I didn't even know that they were dating until I found out that they broke up. All I know is, is that it was Sanji's fault."

I raised my eyebrows in surprise. "Really? What..what did he do?"
"As I said, I don't really know the details..but I'm guessing that he might've flirted with another girl while Nami was around? Sorry, I really don't know."
I smile. "Its okay."
"Why do you need to know? Are you going to go after Sanji?"
I blushed. "What?! No! I just want to know what is going on between them!"
"Oh okay..."

Sanji pov
When I finished cleaning up, I walked over to Victoria-chan, who was waiting for me outside the classroom. She smiled at me.

"Glad you made it out."
For some strange reason, my eyes didn't turn into hearts. My heart beated faster. "You waited for me?"
"Yeah. I wanna get to know you better, so that we can be good friends."

'Friends? That word hurts me.'

"Well..." I handed her the taco I made. "Lets start off with this. I made this specially for you."

'You lie. That was for Nami-chan.'

She grinned as she ate it. "Wow! This is really good!" She finished it quickly. "Wow, Sanji! You should open your own restaurant or something!"
"That won't happen until I graduate from All Blue academy..." I sighed. "But, thank you for the feedback..."

We left school, and we walked around town for a bit. Slowly, bit by bit as we walked, I got to know Victoria-chan better, and vice versa. We chatted more over a Starbucks coffee.

"So...do you have a phone?" I asked.
"Yeah."
I scrawled my number down onto a napkin, and handed it to her. "For when you wanna hang out some more.."
She picked it up. "Thanks, Sanji." She handed me her phone (which she unlocked for me). "Here's my number."

When I finished getting her number onto my phone, she typed down my number onto her phone. We chat for some more, until Victoria got a text. She frowned upon seeing the text.

"I gotta go home now." She sighed as she packed up. "Marco needs me home right now."
"I'll walk you home."
"Thanks."

*timeskip*

"Thanks again for walking me home, Sanji." She said said as she turned to me
"Anytime, Victoria-chan. And besides, its dangerous for you to walk out alone at this time of the evening..the night is when all the mafias come out."
She nods. "Yeah..well, goodnight, Sanji."
"Good night, Victoria-chan."

She walked inside her house, and then I left. As I walked home, I thought about the date that I'm planning on taking Nami-chan out to. But whenever I tried to imagine Nami-chan in a seat in front of me, I always saw Victoria-chan in a glittering green dress that brought out her eyes.

'What the...you should focus on trying to build back Nami-chan's heart..not imagining about Victoria-chan on a date with me.'

I shook my head, then arrived home later on.