Not So Pretty Arrangement

chapter 4

“Long time no see you, Cassandra,” a deep voice greeted from behind her, Cherrie stiffened, damn, she cursed inside her head, what the hell, the first, okay, second day after she’s back and she already met him? Inside a bookstore from all the places?

“What’re you doing here Liam?” Cass asked him curiously

His gazed bored into her, “Nothing,” he said after a minute

“Nothing?” she asked incredulously, she couldn’t help herself, ,”You aren’t the type who want to hang around in a bookstore,” she accused him

A small laugh escaped his mouth, and she couldn’t resist to saw his face, which was a mistake, since all she could focus in were his sensual mouth, “No, I’m not,” he admitted, “I saw both of you come here and I’m kind of curious when you stopped in this section”

“From where?”

He nodded at the café across the street and she stared at him like he was some kind of alien, “You know what section we stopped into?”

He shook his head, “No, but I had a feeling that I would see something rare if I came in here,” he looked at the cookbook in her hand, “Don’t tell me that you don’t know how to make a salad?” he asked her and she could hit his smug face

“I could make a salad, thank you very much,” and added, “These are for Cass, now, if you would excuse us, we’ve much more important thing to do,” she drew Cass with her before Liam could said anything else

“Really, what happened between you and him?” Cass asked her curiously, and she sighed loudly, she hadn’t give up the subject when she told her to shut up in the car, and certainly not now, if this was any indication

“Come on, Cher, you couldn’t blame me for want to know, you know all my secrets”

She glanced at Cass, who was more concerned about Liam than her bet, “I’ll tell you about it if you could make three dishes perfectly, or at least edible”

“It’s not fair!”

“All is fair in war and love,” she said calmly

Cass gave her a dirty look, “Just remember you’re the one who said it,” when she nodded, she went to kitchen and proceeded to prepare everything

“What do you want me to make anyway?”

Cherrie thought for a while, maybe she was a little rash when she said that to Cassandra, but she remembered the memory as if it just happened yesterday instead of three years ago, and she shut her memory down before it could affect her, no, she thought, it’s necessary, even if it was Cass

“You don’t have to make those dishes today, Cass”

“I want to,” she just smiled when she heard the determined voice of Cass, this would be a long day, she thought

“We’ll see about it,” she smiled, and then added, “For appetizer, how about Chef Salad?”

Cass didn’t say anything about it, even if she clearly wanted to, instead she just nodded and started prepared everything

An hour later or so, Cherrie had to stop her from her attempt to destroy her kitchen, even if she wasn’t aware of it, and smoothly she took care of whatever left from the ingredients

“Seems like you wouldn’t know what you want to know for quite some time,” she smirked at Cass who glared back at her

“It just that I don’t have enough ingredients to make that stupid salad,” she snapped