Nate arrived at Yui's house along with Heath, Derrick, Vic, and fucking Zach. Zach was still welcomed nonetheless.
They were split to two teams, tabling and cooking. Tabling was the easier task, so they gave that to the adults. Cooking team was the rest of them. Zach just sat back and watched, really. The cooking were split to three, appetizer, main course, and dessert. Luckily for them, they started at around half to five o'clock, because they were finished at almost seven o'clock.
Appetizer team was Dan, Sam, Volta, and Laura. Main Course team was Heath, Yui, Hiro, Jay. Dessert was Nate, Kris, Vic, Derrick.
Dan wanted something Japanese for their appetizers, Volta and Laura didn't mind anything, Sam wanted something non-Japanese. The two argued and looked for recipes for almost forty minutes. They ended up going both ways, gyozas and bruchettas.
The main course were very little to be argued. Mostly because Heath was yelling all the three all the time—the frustrated and irritated kind, not the angry kind. A little less at Jay and Yui. Yui because it's his girlfriend, Jay because he can actually cook just not as good. Half the kitchen was loud because it was just Heath yelling and complaining. They made salmon steak with a lot of sides. They also made beef and chicken steak. Whole lot of steaks.
Desserts were probably the hardest to make, and the team realizes that. They didn't argue, they were just disappointed in every single one of themselves because they keep failing. They were trying to make a Tiramisu cake, Chocolate cake and Blueberry Cheesecake. They had no idea why they wanted to make three cakes in two hours but they did it somehow. Using magic to exploit.
The twelve brought a dozen plates back to the dining table.
"Took you long enough. Jeez! You guys have shit service."
"Zip it, Kai, You did fuck all." Derrick said
"Hey, I helped set the table." Kai said unconvincingly
"Cathy, did he?" Derrick asked
"He sat down while Ava, Shino, and I did it."
"Didn't know you were such a slacker, Kai." Nate said
"Don't do this to me."
"You did this to yourself. Now sit your ass down!" Shino ordered
They all sat at the long rectangle wooden table. They sat next to the ones they like.
Sam and Dan had their foreheads rested on the table. They were extremely tired.
"What's up with you two?" Ava asked
"They got competitive while making appetizers." Laura answered
"Why did we have to cook?" Sam complained
"You agreed to cook!" Heath yelled
"I didn't think it'd be this tiring." Sam replied
"I feel like shit." Dan claimed
"Hey, lighten up. I bet these taste great." Jay said
"Sure, I nearly threw up eating whatever Sam made." Dan said
"You drank raw egg, the fuck did you expect?" Sam yelled rhetorically
"I don't feel like eating anymore. It's gonna taste bad." Dan said
"Food tastes better when we all work for it."
"Quit the wholesome talk, Jay. You're making me wanna throw up."
"That'd be funny, honestly." Heath chuckled
"Fuck you, Heath."
"I'd laugh, too." Laura chuckled as she pat Dan's back
"Laura, you too? I feel betrayed."
"Gross." Kris said, disgusted
"Shut up, don't you have a mad crush on Hiro?" Dan pointed out
"I-Irrelevant." She blushed
"For real, Kris???" Jay got excited
"Shut up, Jay!"
"That's cute."
"Uhhh..."
"Well, Hiro? What do you have to say?" Kai yelled from far across the table
"Well, I can't really choose." He replied as he turns red
"Who's the other option?"
"It's Jay isn't it?" Dan assumed
"Let's not talk about that."
"Hey, I don't care, you do you."
The question was left unanswered by Hiro and they all started eating. They finished the appetizers within minutes. They were all really hungry, Dan was feeling more sick since he used too much oil for the gyoza.
They talked, they laughed, they argued about a bunch of stuff. This was a fun refreshing for all of them.
All night long they had fun together as a class. They all had rooms to sleep in. The next two days, they trained like hell, while Bright was being evacuated. A total population of three million people needed to be evacuated in a span of four days. Because that was the day they waged war.