Hearts in Twos

Chapps 6: Deja Vu

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"Let's play one more time!" Little Erina couldn't believe she lost 7 consecutive times already

"No, I wanna do something else!" Retorted soma

A Nakiri can't just accept defeat like that and be fine with it

"Why do you keep on winning? This is so unfair."
She suppressed the urge to throw her cards on the floor but instead carefuly placed them down while pinching the bridge of her nose

"Y-You look so red!" Soma clutches his stomach, laughing so hard

Erina lightly slapped him on the shoulder to make him stop

"Stop it!"

The boy stood up and started to run away before the blonde can hit him again

Their banter turned to a chasing game, the redhead running around the house to avoid what he considered as a tiny blonde beast

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Instead of the supposed extravagant dinner they expected to have, numerous heavily built men from the Jouwan University bodybuilder club came as well as the people from the wrestling and football club

One of their instructors gave them the task of serving all of them dinner and those who will finish early are allowed to have their free time

"You will all be preparing 50 servings of a steak set within 60 minutes and fail to do so will lead to expulsion."

As soon as the signal for them to start was given, they rushed to get their stations in the kitchen, bumping and bickering amongst each other

"This is just the beginning of the camp of hell..." Soma said, feeling a sense of deja vu

After some time, he was one of the very first to finish all servings

"Yukihira Enji, All servings complete!" Their japanese instructor announced

Takumi and the others envied him and hurriedly tried to catch up to the red head

Soma first went to his room and fetched his yukata. Just as he was walking down the hallways, humming a soft tune to himself, he bumped onto something soft

"Ouch!" The person uttered while still sprawled on the floor made the red head halt

He averted his gaze, the heat creeping up to his cheeks when presented with a sight to behold. He extended his hand for her to take which the 10th seat begrudgingly took with a huff

"My apologies, princess." He unconsciously squeeze her soft and delicate hand even with working in the kitchen for so long unlike his calloused and cold ones

"Stop calling me that." The mere sight of him irritated her and with him calling her that made things worse

"If I can't call you that... Then may I call you by your name?"

"In your dreams!"

Soma knew what her answer would be but teasing her amuses him

There was this slight bounce when she was finally able to stand that made her chest do the same. Soma looked away again in haste

"By the way," Soma started to say, placing a hand under his chin as he looks over her respectfully. "You have this glowing aura, what made you this cheerful? Going to do something fun like play cards?"

"Am not!" He struck a nerve there

"I've been told this camp is straight from hell and yet I only find it to be tedious and pointless." She looked at him and smiled smugly. "Although, if you were to be expelled then it would make my time here worthwhile."