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Shu had been in the library for the whole week, sitting on the chair that she couldn't reach the floor, humming some melodies and flipping books. When she finished a tower, she jumped down to get another tower of books, slightly shaking when she walked back to her seat. A whole morning was well spent and she left the library with a small tower of books. The petite girl occasionally peeked out from the tower to check the path in front, there were hunters asking if she needed help sometimes but she smiled and rejected. "No, it's fine, thank you." After a while, she brought her books back to her room, piled up on the desk.

"Ok, let's do it." She went out and knock on her neighbour 's door. "Mr. Bashmet, are you home? Can I spare you a few minutes?" Her voice was cheerful and dyed with excitement.

The curious girl might attempt to peek around, but soon returned her focus on the hunter. "I found some books in the library and think some are good for -" She tried to tiptoe so that she would whisper near his ears. "................. So I'm thinking to make something, would you mind joining and teaching me how to do it?" She asked hopefully. "Anytime when you are free, we need to prepare the ingredients and tools and probably take a whole day. I'd like to try some simple one to gather up experience first....." Shu wiggled her body a little, maybe due to nervousness.

"I-I don't know....." Her eyes looked at the floor. "BUT I got some bookmarked! They are in my room...." She peeked at the door next to Kostya. "Do you want to check first? I don't know if you have enough reserve......I might fail - you know, I am not familiar with cooking."

"I might be label too many of them, they all look TASTY, so help is appreciated!" She might be a bit exaggerated in her expression, but a happy and sparkly one when she mentioned the word "tasty". Shu may be blushing from the truth that she was enchanted by the lovely pictures of the confection in those recipe books, she hope no one saw her creepy smiling face when going through them.

"Oh! Just next door." She said in prompt reaction. "Em....that-depends on how much time we have? I usually panic and mess things up when I am not familiar with them...." Then, they were at her door, yes, just a few steps.

She opened the door to her tiny room, told the hunter to wait a minute and disappeared behind the door with just a little. The petite girl looked at how messy her room was, and decided to shove things in wardrobe and covered some with the blanket on the bed. "Ok now, please come in." Kostya might see a tidy clean room with a small tower of books put on the small desk before the girl carried it over. "There they are."

"Really? That's great!" She trusted his words without any doubt, the cakes he made last time was so marvelous that she wanted more. "I will wish hard I don't mess up this time, hopefully." Her eyes looked away out of feeling guilty.

Shu nervously followed where Kostya was looking and sometimes peeked at the wardrobe and her bed, wishing nothing will be spotted. The girl nodded at the hunter made his elimination, his reasons were so reasonable that she didn't think of any words to reject. She admired his carefulness in details and analysis, like Mimsy, she might understand why the two were good friends. Shu was sad about the break up of the friendship, they seemed they could be the best friends. Anyway, back to the topic Shu.

"I think something I can share with my friends if successful, they treat me nicely and some even bring me foods I like and talk to me, so I think it's time for me to return. So how about this.... this-this or...this? Simple enough? We're gonna do six, so I figure out a simple one would be good? Though I really want to try the ombre or the rainbow tie-dye...maybe next time, we have to stay focus on the highlight!" She flipped the pages and pointed, beaming, excited for the plan. After listening to his words, she didn't pick any of the pretty cupcakes, just some like a good snack.

"So do we still need to go shopping?"

Step 1

"Much batter to make," Kostya said, and he sure hoped no one minded that they took over the kitchen. He'd bribed someone to distract her from it, at all costs. "Hand me this spoon."

Step 1

They officially took over the kitchen and currently no one was allowed to enter, the Asian girl even placed a paper with "Sorry for the inconvenience, kitchen is not available for today <(_ _)>" on it, before they started. Six cakes from six recipes, of course they had a lot of work to do. The girl in apron rolled up her sleeves and stood aside, observed what Kostya was doing while delivering the tools from time to time.

Shu handed him the spoon. "Is there any order for the cakes we are gonna to make? What step are we at now?"

Step 1

Kostya preheated the oven. "Hand pie first, so ve can let cool." He began setting out ingredients and measuring them-- it appeared as though he had at least a dozen cup and two cup measuring cups, and a dozen more that were broken into thirds and halves. It was a veritable army of precise measurement, because while he preferred the utility of measuring in grams, no American ever did.

"Most recipe from Americans," he said, "so use terrible cups. Should really be using gram to veigh flour, because you can pack vun cup two vays and have result vith many differences!" Kostya clucked his tongue disapprovingly.

"Technically on step three, vunce you beat these egg and milk together." He handed her a whisk, solemnly, and four eggs and a cup of milk already in a large bowl.