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Nohea smiled at Ai.

Well if Sakura says its ok...then I guess I should stop worrying... Nohea thought

Kyoshi waved to them, without turning, as he walked away.
He stopped suddenly.
The ground under him became dark, almost black.
Kyoshi was standing on, what look like a small patch of the grass at night.
Kyoshi's body slowly was consumed by the spot, soon he and the spot dissapeared.

Nohea turned to Sakura and smiled cutely,

"Ok, so now that the storm is gone, what would you like to do? I mean...what does one do at a potluck anyways?"

Nohea had only been to 1 or 2 potlucks in her lifetime, but that was when she was very young. All she did was eat and play tag with friends, but now that she was older, what else was there to do at one of these events? But Nohea was willing to do whatever Ai wanted.

Makie pondered what one does at a pot luck as well. Misty told her that you talk to friends and eat, but to the brunette, that was too short. Pot lucks would have to last around 5 minutes if all you did was talk and eat. She guessed that you would have to do something special.

On all sorts of holidays, you always do something special. On birthdays, you eat cake, play games and give the birthday boy/girl gifts or money. On Halloween you dress up and go trick-or-treating and on Christmas, you exchange gifts with your friends. On New Years, there is usually a count down and then fireworks which is shown on tv. On Valentine's day you give chocolates, or flowers and valentine cards to your friends. On St. Patrick's Day you dress in green and stuff. So what would one do at a potluck that is special?

Makie knew there was some kind of cooking contest going on at this potluck, but the judges haven't called all the people that have brought food to get ready for your food to be judged. Or something like that... So what are we supposed to do now? Talking seemed like the only thing to do at the moment, she wasn't sure if Nohea or Sakura wanted to play something, so Makie kept her mouth shut. The brunette merely stared up at her lavender haired friends with her milk chocolate brown eyes.

Misty who found silence and question rather boring and stupid, she turned on her heels and left without notice. Or at least she didn't look back or say anything, so she wasn't sure if any one noticed her sneaking off. Her hands were burried in her pockets and her face in the tall black collar. Not a smile nor frown was placed on her face, she was just walking around. Actually, Misty just wanted to go inside the green house, or something. It was better then being out in the boring Courtyard.

Misty slowly looked down at the box on one of the tables. she stared at it for a couple of seconds before opening up the lid. Actually, the midnight haired teenager had no clue what was inside, but it didn't hurt to look. Reaching in, she slowly pulled out... A cake.

The cake was shaped as a square, and pretty big too. It could be mad for 24 people or more. The top of the large cake had a thin layer of caramel sauce with soft brownie pieces sprinkled on top of it. Lines of chocolate sauce made little designs around the brownie pieces, on top of the caramel layer. Snow white icing outlined the caramel layer and had a few chocolate truffles on each of the four sides. The sides of the cake were plastered with white icing with both dark chocolate and sticky caramel sauce oozing down the sides, creating small streams of sauce. The bottom of the cake was outlined with chocolate icing.

On the inside of the cake, there were three layers. The top and bottom layers had both rich milk chocolate ice cream and creamy vanilla ice cream mixed together. The middle layer was basically just crunchy brownie bits.

This took hours for Makie to finish and the kitchen looked like a hurricane had hit it after. Ice cream and icing were splattered on the walls, counters and floors. The brunette nearly ran out of supplies to make it, so she had to improvise. She used up all of her ice cream and icing, and most of her supplies to make brownies.

"Note to self: If Makie eats a large cake, eat while she's gone, so I don't have to carry it and she doesn't have to keep telling me she can carry it." Misty said still looking at the ridiculously large cake. She shrugged it off and eventually just turned on her heels and walked towards the greenhouse. It seemed like no one was there, and solitary was one of Misty's qualities. When she wasn't following Makie, she was alone in quaint solitary sharpening or practicing with her sword.

Eiyah had been stunned at the statue being her father. It was is if he was everywhere she went. His power was so far beyond her imagination. He was not only powerful but rich and kind and had obviously at one time or another donated money to pull the high school out of despair! YES HER FATHER HAD RESCUED RIA FROM FINANCIAL DISASTER!!

By the time Eiyah had come to this conclusion both Violet and the boy had walked off.

"HEY! GET BACK HERE! Oh wait. That guys annoying I dont want to talk to him. Hehe. Thanks girl for standing up for me." Eiyah didnt know or well at least she didnt remember the girl's name. She had a very short attention span. "I've gotta go into the greenhouse and judge the food. I hope I see you later!" Eiyah gave a big smile to Chise. She loved that she had made a friend on her first day here. Eiyah waved and skipped off to Violet and the greenhouse.

"FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!"

Makie listened to Sakura, her hands clutching the sides of her skirt. She didn't know why she was wearing a skirt that ended a few inches above her knees during winter, but the mages did help... Slightly. Even though they were trying their hardest, nothing can stop a winter's fierce climat. Nothing really could, except the Spring. Letting go of the ends of her skirt she looked back at Nohea, to see if she would say anything, and then back to Sakura.

"I-I brought a d-dessert." Makie said in a small voice. She was glad to hear Sakura was in the mood for a dessert, but she wasn't sure if she'd like what the brunette brought. Actually she doubted any one would like it, but that was just her small bit of confidence talking. Sure Makie eventually became confident in herself, but she'd probably lose all the confidence she gained in seconds because of something random.

"I-I think th-the judges e-eat s-some of the f-food, b-but then, e-every one c-can dig i-in..." Makie said a little unsure. "I-I think..." Last night, and through some time before the potluck, she husy making her desserts. Flops, successes with minor faults, and finally one good cake. That was done last night before she collapsed with exhuastion. Before the event Makie was busy putting the icing, and every thing extra on the cake. Misty had to clean up after her, since she went ahead to the event which brought her here now.

In slight pity for Misty and giggles that Misty had to eat her flop cakes, she heard some one's name. Not just any one's name, but her crush's name. Oliver. Her milk chocolate eyes immidiatly looked up at her lavender haired friend trying to listen in on anything she could.

"...Oliver came already?"

That was all Makie could hear, and was pretty sure that that was all Sakura had said. That was the least of her worries or interest as her mind suddenly drifted onto Cloud 9. Oliver was here? She wondered how he was since the hospital. She hated to see him cry and say such terrible things about himself. It made her sad, and she ultimately lost control of herself and almost admitted her feelings for him. But that was past, Makie just wanted to make sure he was himself and doing fine. As long as Oliver was okay, Makie was okay.

( Sorry, did this in a rush. I have a lot of tests coming up. sweatdrop )

"I think we eat food...thats usually what a potluck is. Nohea said smileing

"I think the judges just take a bite...or somthing?"

Nohea really wasn't all that sure.

Nohea looked to Makie after she had said that she brought a dessert.

Nohea smiled warmly,

"I brought a dessert too!! A cake I made myself! Actually...Kyoshi helped out a bit too...but then he got really angry at the cake for some reason and turned it into some black lump thing...so I had to make another one." Nohea scratched the back of of head and laughed a bit as she remembered it, it was quite funny, if only they could have seen it.

The cake was sitting there on the table right next to where Sakura, Makie and Nohea were standing. It was on a plate under a shiny silver covering, so that no one could see the cake.
It was a round strawberry guava cake. It was covered in white iceing, on the side and the rim of the top. At the base of the cake there was coconut shavings sprinkled on. The top part was covered with a bright pink guava flavored jam-like iceing. On top of the guava iceing, in the middle of the cake, there was a small squirt of whipped cream with halves of strawberries fanned around the whipped cream, making it look like a flower. The strawberry's were like the petals of the flower and the whipped cream was like the middle of the flower.

The cake was quite pretty, and it took a while for Nohea to do, but it turned out ok. The inside of the cake was made of white angel food cake that had tiny bits of strawberrys in them. The middle layer of iceing was a soft pink colored strawberry guava flavored type of iceing, not jam-like as the top of the cake was, but creamy.

Just then a man with violet hair had walked over to them and asked Makie what she had made. Nohea smiled at him. She figured he was a judge. Then Nohea turned to Sakura,

"Sakura, what did you bring to the potluck?"

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Kyoshi appeared next to a table, coming out of the shadow hole he had dissapeared in. He looked at the table in awe. There were tons of dishes he had never seen before, and some he had. They all looked so delicious. Inside Kyoshi's heart soared, for he loved food, but to anyone else that might have been watching him, it looked like he was just looking at the table expressionless.
Kyoshi's dark brown eyes looked left, then right, seeing if there was anyone near. He didn't know if he was allowed to eat the food, but frankly, he didn't care.

Kyoshi found a fork and a plate. He bagan to put things on his plate, things that looked tasty, and even things that didn't look tasty but smelled good to Kyoshi.
Then after filling every spot on his plate, Kyoshi sat down on the ground and started to eat. If Nohea was standing next to him, she probably would have scolded him for eating like that. That's part of the reason why he left her and went off on his own. Kyoshi didn't like to be told what to do, but he couldn't go against what Nohea wanted for some reason. So with Nohea not around, he could do what he wanted.

Just then he heard a small 'clunk' on the table of food he was sitting by. It startled him a bit, and he quickly stood up and spun around, his plate of food sitting on the ground beside his feet. A girl was standing there with her arms folded behind her looking around with a curious expression on her face. She kind of irritated Kyoshi, but just because she had startled him. Kyoshi is usually alert, like a cat, but not when he's eating. He just stood there, glaring at the girl,

"Hello..." Kyoshi finally said to her, not really in a friendly manner, but more in a cold monotone way.

Taqune entered into the potluck carrying a plate that was covered he walked up to the table and set the plate down then uncovered it."Ah catnip such good stuff. He took a piece of his snack and popped the little thing into his mouth the chocolate melting and the crunch of the cereal echoing in his head,"Well Ikaika we're here so whats on the aganda first Nohea or eating?"Taqune looked back at Ikaika then around the courtyard to see if he could find the girl already.