Bittersweet (Yumeiro Patissiere fanfic)

Chapter 4: New Beginnings

"Really? How cool." Lucy beamed.

Sakura smiled. "Well, I'm glad you think so. We're here to help you with your cooking."

"Well, I don't need any lame, pixie thing to help me cook." I said turning around and crossing my arms. Suddenly Raspberry flew in my face and started whacking me with her spoon. "Ow, ow, ow, ow. Stop it."

"No! Not until you take it back." That little devil screeched. It was hurting and I wanted her to stop, so I gave in. "Ok, ok, I take it back."

She then stopped and I sighed in relief.

"So, you guys want to become patissieres?" Sakura asked. Lucy nodded her head vigorously. "Well then we should probably get to cooking then." Lucy grinned and got to work.

I was going to sit back and watch when Raspberry hit me in the head again. "You may be able to make miru crepes, but you're still a beginner so you're going to have to practice too." I sighed and rolled my eyes.

We spent the entire night practicing and cooking. I was practicing tomorrows lesson and Lucy was perfecting the miru crepe. Once we were finished we walked back to our room with our new sweet spirits*.

The next morning we had to get up to go to the regular part of school. I'm pretty sure Lucy didn't think we would have to do this. I know she's my friend, but sometimes she's an idiot. No matter what kind of school you go to, you will always have to do the normal subjects also.

Our first class was math. Kashino was called to solve one of the problems on the board and I snickered until I was also called up. Good thing I'm good at math, even though I hate it. Next we had French, and I also knew a bit of it and I think I'm pretty good at learning different languages. So I know a bit, because I have this friend that I'm pretty close to and she had decided when she was older she was gonna move to Paris and then she said that I should go with her and obviously I agreed, so I started learning French with her, but I don't know that much. I could tell that Lucy was struggling, so I would help her every now and then.

After that we had science, and Lucy blew up the classroom by putting the wrong ingredient into the mixture.

"I'm so sorry!" Lucy cried out.

"Don't be." Hanabusa said smiling.

"It is quite refreshing." Andoh replied softly chuckling.

"How so?!" Kashino growled. "Luciana. What are you doing?"

When science was over Lucy and I were walking down the halls and she suddenly said, "I'm so stupid."

I nodded and she looked at me like she was about to start to cry. "I'm kidding. You're not stupid, you just don't excel in school. You have other talents."

"Then what am I good at?" She sniffled.

"Well you're great at music, geography and history. You're also really creative and are open minded, so you have really great ideas other people wouldn't think of." I smiled at her and she immediately brightened up.

"Yeah, you're right." She giggled.

"Of course I'm right."

While Lucy was skipping ahead of me, we walked by a room that had a bunch of easels in it and I thought of Tristan. He loves art. Lucy saw that I had slowed down and she asked me what was wrong. I said that nothing was wrong then we continued on our way.

"I heard that the teacher for the flower arrangement class is Hanabusa-kun's mom! Isn't that cool?" Lucy exclaimed.

When we got to the flower arrangement class, Hanabusa's mother started talking about how arranging flowers and baking desserts are the same as in they are both done to please others. I made mine with purple chrysanthemums surrounding purple roses and purple and blue crocuses. Lucy made hers with pink daisies and roses, lavenders, and light orange lilies.

The teacher came by us and was surprised by our arrangements. "Girls, these are really good. I'm pleasantly surprised. Carson yours represents you in that you have a simple kind of beauty to you. Lucy yours shows how happy and bright you are and how you enjoy doing what you're doing."

I smiled softly at Sensei in response, while Lucy beamed at the compliment.

After class, I informed Lucy of the french assignment she didn't know we had. She also sucks at it, so I helped her out. It was getting pretty late, so I had decided I was going to go to sleep, while Lucy said she was going to study the sweets made tomorrow.

It had been a long day, and a great way to end it.

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I'm sorry it's been so long since I've last updated, but I think I'm going to make another update this week and finish writing the third episode. I hope you like the new chapter I don't think it's that interesting though, so please just wait til it gets to the cake grand pri, where it will get more interesting. The thing about Carson learning french with her friend is actually true for me XD. K, comment, vote, kisses ^.~

Oh and question. *Do you have to capitalize sweets spirits?

Goodbye my laughing monkeys.