"I was not comfortable in telling you and why the hell are you entering my kitchen?"
She too followed him.
He then showed her the soup packet and noodles packet, "I brought food to cook for you."
"Why?" She just had a pizza and was full, she was not hungry and Erica dislikes wasting food, so she had to stop him.
"What why? Have you forgotten how much you cared for me when I was not well? It is my turn now."
Erica went ahead and took away the food packets from him, "I don't feel like eating soup or noodles."
"Oh. Then tell me what you want to eat, I'll go and buy the material."
"Do you even know how to cook?" Erica condescendingly questioned him.
During their high school he didn't know how to cook.
Steve smiled seeing her questioning gaze, so he moved closer to her and bent a little, his face was now exactly in front of hers, seeing his handsome face from so close, Erica couldn't help but gulp in fear, the fear of losing control over herself.
"Miss Miller, it has been over six years since we met, I am not the same old guy you abandoned. Also, right now I am an even better cook than you." Steve proudly told her looking into her eyes.
Erica took a step back, "What the fuck do you mean by I abandoned you?"
Steve chuckled when he heard her words, "I just told you I can cook and am even better than you at it but the abandoning thing is what gets your attention?"
"I don't believe you are a better cook than me, I had a head-start in cooking as I knew how to cook before you, and in the last six years, I only got better and better at it, so I don't care even if you claim you are a better cook as I am sure that is just your wishful thinking."
"Oh, really?" Steve was very happy as it was not that Erica was talking to him normally, since they met she was talking to him formally and for the sake of it but now he felt like his friend is back so he decided to aggravate the situation.
"Yes Mr. Ford."
"Well, then we should have a cooking competition and decide who is better at it."
Erica realized she was getting trapped into spending more time with him so she decided to ignore him.
"No need"
Steve got disappointed as he was finding ways to spend more time with her and she is spilling water on his plans.
"Why? Already accepted defeat?" He tried to provoke her.
"Yes, I accept my defeat" Erica knows him way too well.
Steve indeed got disappointed, "Dude why, you don't want to spend more time with me?" He frankly asked her.
"Yes, I don't want to"
"Where is my Erica? Bring her back, you are not her" Steve started throwing tantrums.
"Grow up Steve, you are not a child." Erica was about to head back to the living room when he suddenly held her wrist and stopped her.
She was startled by his action.
"Erica, why did you lose contact with me?" Steve turned very serious and was not in the happy mood he was.
"Didn't I answer that already? Life happened."
"Seriously? You are going to give me this silly excuse?"