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"What have you cooked for dinner, Cade?" Asked Harriet as she tried stepping into the kitchen but I blocked her way and didn't allow letting her through. There was no way in hell was I allowing her to step into the kitchen when I knew she had the ability of wiping it clean with her tongue, the whole kitchen.

Yes you read it correct, I had cooked for today. It was Hailey's suggestion that I cook today in order to show our friends my culinary skills since they didn't know well about it. I was of the opinion that we should order takeout rather than cooking anything. I was already very tired after the long day or rather night and due to sleep or rather the lack of. Hailey waved off the idea of ordering takeouts saying how everyone ate takeout almost every other day. And she also said how everyone could know about my cooking skills, that weren't all that extraordinary according to me, at least not in the comparison of my mother. She was what you could call an extraordinary cook.

I had prepared some classic American dishes since it was Halloween and we, British, didn't celebrate Halloween. It only seemed fair at that moment to cook American dishes, the dishes I wasn't exactly confident about. Since I was British, the only dishes I was confident were the classic English ones and a few from all around the world that were world famous or internationally well-known. And the dishes I cooked today didn't really top my list of proper cooking, satisfactory ones. So basically I had to spend the whole of afternoon watching YouTube videos on the recipes and read many books on Classic American dishes.

After a contemplation of about an hour, I decided to cook Creamy Potato Salad with Bacon –because almost everyone loved bacon but hesitated to admit it­­­-­­­­­­­­­ Scalloped Potatoes with some not-so-sloppy Joes. And for the desert I had settled for the Classic Apple Pies that everyone found fascinating. From the all dishes I mentioned above, Apple pies were the only ones I was familiar with. The other ones I didn't even know existed until today when I spent my afternoon, after waking up that is, searching for some easy yet classy American dishes. After I was done deciding on the dishes, I started cooking. It took me around three hours to complete everything properly. I looked like I was a mad woman in MasterChef on a rampage. I was actually expecting Gordon Ramsay to pop out and into my kitchen saying how my American food was not up to the mark in his not-so-subtle words.

Mark once entered my room when I was stuck in front of my computer watching YouTube videos on Scalloped Potatoes and asked if I was okay. I lied, of course, something I was getting very good at these past months.

"No way, Harriet, there's none chance I am letting you in when I know you have the ability to wipe every container clean of food," I said, glaring at her pouting face.

"Bu- but," She started off in her slightly whiny, complaining tone, "Your cooking skills are exemplary! And besides you need someone to taste the beauties you have cooked."

"It's already taken care of," I muttered.

"By whom?" Frowned Harriet.

"By me," Hailey's voice rang from inside the kitchen. Yes, I had asked Hailey to taste all the dishes because she seemed to be fitting the description of tasting the food. Mark couldn't really point a difference between salted food and non-salted food. Harriet was definitely a big no-no since she could eat everything in there in the name of tasting and Taylor on the other hand would have been worried about gaining an ounce of pounds just by tasting the carbohydrates. I asked if she would eat all that stuff I had cooked and she said she had worked out way too much than necessary and burned m any calories than she normally did in order to keep her body in check after she ate the fattening, delicious food.