chapter2:(a) bento
*rrrringgg*
(sound of alarm ringing)
"yawn.."
I woke up an hour before six , I still felt drowsiness pulling back to bed but today I planned to make a special bento(lunch) for my future boyfriend "hehe" I giggled like a kid just by thinking of it , and I am really confident that he is really gonna like it because I am gonna make his favourite dish tempura. But umm... there is one problem its actually my first time cooking it .I cooked other dishes before but never made tempura . yeah sad but true , I was thinking up whole night in how to make him notice my feelings so I thought this might be more best way.
Anyone can cook right just need to follow the recipe and do it right way , so I thought. But 15 min later it was a disaster the dish looked horrible I even got cut while I was chopping vegetables, also the prawn really had kind of foul mell . I literally wanted to cry . "sigh, well aleast I made it". I was really down because I couldn't make it perfect . I cleaned up the mess what I made but something stop me from throwing the tempura . I put a lot of effort into it so I just didn't want to just throw it away. So I packed it with me to eat it later , but I didn't plan on giving to him because I was too embarrassing to give an spoiled bento.
chapter 2:(b)A bit of sugar out of no where
So we met and walk together to school. and as we were walking.
"hey is anything wrong you seem a bit down today"he asked
"huh..oh ..no nothing is wrong I am just feeling a bit lazy today thats all"I replied with a smile so he wouldn't notice .
"you sure?"he kept on asking, " yeah don't worry I am fine".
"hey!? why is your hand covered it bandage did you get hurt?" he keeps shooting for questions .
and I kept on trying to cover it up"oh it's nothing just a small cut "
"okay..."after that there was an awkward silence and we didn't talk much until we reached school.
so we reached school and class went on and as usual , but this whole class I was depressed and kept on thinking if only if I had put more effort into it.
finally the lunch bell rang . Normally I would eat with my friends together , but suddenly Hideyoshi came and said" hey why don't we eat together outside " hearing this my heart jumped for a moment and I almost forgot all the worries.
"sure I would love to.." and my freinds from behind smiled and cheered from behind whispering in hand signs and gestures"all the best Fuko chan "
and so went up to rooftop . there I opened my packed lunch in my bag there I remembered I put two bentos in my bag one made by mom and one made by me. I was planning to eat it alone as I didn't want to waste the food. So took out my mom's bento and started eating . when Hideyoshi said"hey why don't you show me your hand made lunch". I was a bit surprised how did he know!!??.
"come on you can't hide from me your hands tells me everything " he said it with a smile on his face , which made me to tell him"umm...Its a bit spoiled" but he want on asking for it "its alright you made it with your effort right you should not let it go to waste , and besides I have eaten your lunches before too how bad can be , I am sure its ok" after he said that it Gabe me confidence and I gave him my hand made tempura . As he took the chopsticks and ate it I was worried that he might not like it after all but , he replied with a smile "wow this is really great !! I love it!!". Those words were enough to keep me happy for the whole day as he complimented my bento I was really happy . he ate the whole bento and told me "you should keep on making bento more , you will become a good cook one day". "yes , I will" I replied with a cheerful smile .
so in the end what turned out to be bitter in the beginning , became sweet in the end . And then at the evening when I was chilling around at home my mom called me if I used the canned prawn from the refrigerator . And I said "yes I made tempura out of it". then my mom suddenly worried " oh my goodness my dear , did you eat it!? " ."umm...no I did not eat it actually" I was still a bit confused , then mom said"oh thank goodness because that canned prawn was expired , I was gonna throw it out today but it was missing" suddenly I realise that why it had foul smell to begin with . I realised that Hideyoshi had eaten the bento despite being bad . It made me cried a bit and I felt bad again . Truly Hideyoshi is a good man . And the one whom I really want to be with.