บท 5: Fortune Cookies?!!

I have a grammar exam tomorrow so I won't be able to publish tomorrow and probably after tomorrow too.

This chapter is short. I didn't want to leave you like this.

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In the same day of the entrance ceremony, the first class started. All first-year student went to their designated class. They wore their cooking white uniform. As for Alex he didn't have his uniform and had to settle with his suit. It completely slipped his mind. Because of his 'Special Case', the past schools he went to didn't insist for him to wear a uniform so he got used to wearing whatever he wanted.

After his and Soma's speech at the ceremony, most of the student don't hold a favorable opinion about Alexander and kind of hate. All of them looked down at him as they were whispering and murmuring between themselves.

'Sigh! It is always the inferior student who talk behind the others back.' Alex thought with dissatisfaction as he was getting impatient about the teacher being late.

Finally, the teacher arrived. He was an old man who looks like a Chinese person due to his traditional Chinese clothes.

"Sorry for being late. This school is too big for an old man like me." The teacher stood in front of the student as he reached to scratch his back.

"Ehh... Today you're all tasked with making a Chinese dish."The old's voice suddenly becomes harsher and more powerful." The dish you'll be making is..." The student embraced themselves, all of them were in Totsuki's middle school division and they were all warned about the harsh nature of the teachers here

"...Fortune Cookie!" He said. "Ah! before I forget, make sure you write your own ambition in the paper. You don't know maybe it will come true."

The room became quiet for a moment before all kind of reactions burst out. Some were relieved. Some were ridiculing the dish. While some bragging about their abilities to make such a simple dish.

Only Alex was looking at the teacher with a smirk. ' Cunning old man!'

He knows what this old man trying to do. Fortune Cookies sound like an easy dish but if you're not careful from the beginning you'll end up breaking them and the most difficult part is how to get that tiny paper inside without mixing it together with the cookie. The students who are relaxing now will face the most difficulty as they are not expecting what is ahead of them.

Alexander got straight to his work. The trick to fortune cookies is making sure the batter is even. It's also important to remove the cookies from the oven at just the right moment.

Alex decided that he will make a fortune cookie with strawberry flavor instead of the standard one. The ingredient to make are all here.

After mixing the necessary ingredient and Taking his time in baking the cookies and not rushing his work. Also adding that ambition paper there with slick moves. Alex managed to take the cookie out from the oven at the perfect moment. All that is left is the finishing touches. There is enough time before the time limit so he didn't rush.

Some students were fast as they presented the cookie to the teacher. He took it and broke the cookie, Immediately he said with a monotone voice " You get an F..." he then throw it in the garbage can.

"WHAT!! how is that an F. Please reconsider." Said the student whose work got thrown out.

"Your cookie had paper mixed in, Also, it's not folded probably. "The teacher took a cup of green tea as he commented. "You better go back and make another one. There is still enough time. If you hurry up that is." he smirked at the student making him shudder with fear. Failure is not permitted in Totsuki.

5 more students presented their dish. 4 got an F while 1 got a C. He somehow managed to pull it off. But even then the teacher's bitter tongue didn't let him rest.

Finally, It was Alex's turn, in his hand is an iron plate with one single pink fortune cookie. It was glittering because of the strawberry flavor that is added to it. This cookie can somehow be considered a mini cake if it wasn't for its small size.

The teacher's eyes opened at the sight of Alex's work. Everyone for the past years had been going with the standard cookie recipe so much that it got him bored of this plain pancake with a hint of vanilla taste. He was looking for originality. And now it seems he will finally taste something he was looking for.

"Here. Please..."Alex presented his cookie with a smile. The teacher took the cookie and tried to break making the small paper fall to the ground. Rather than breaking it, he split it. It opened without any resistance as some of the strawberry fillings that Alexander put between the layers leaked out. He took the whole thing as the strong flavor of raw strawberry assaulted him and showed his the vast field of the red strawberry, the smell of it attacked his nose making him shiver out of pleasure. The sun warming his body as he burst out in joy.

The students looked at the teacher's reaction with awe, never once did he show this reaction before.

"I..It seems like you're not just a talker." The teacher was there when Alex gave his speech. He was impressed with all honesty, no one dared to say he is at the top in Totsuki, The all want the top as a common goal. But...an unknown student came out of nowhere and proclaimed that title for himself is unheard of. But now it seems like he wasn't lying. "You got an A. If I could give more I would do with pleasure." The teacher wiped his mouth with a napkin as he smiled at Alex before giving him permission to leave.

" Food Was Served," Alex said before leaving the class with all of the students' jealous gazes following him.

Out of the classes area. Alex pulled out a piece of paper and looked at the information on it. It has information about his class schedules and his Dormitory location.

"The North Star Drom?" Alex was wondering about this Dormitory since his mother told him she was part of this Dormitory back when she was still a student. She recommended it for Alex to stay in.

According to Alexandra, The North Star Dormitory has such a big territory in the past and it had many students. This Dormitory and Another one called the Polar Star Dormitory were rivals for years. Almost every year one of its members will be part of the elite 10 of Totsuki. But it's now in decline with its Rival the Polar Star Dormitory. Both of those dorms had the best of the elites fighting for the top. They alone were recognized as a self-governing territory.

Alex had been walking for about an hour in an unknown direction road surrounded with woods giving an eerie feeling.

'I should buy a motorcycle.' He made a mental note for himself. No way he was gonna walk every day all this distance.

After another half an hour, the scenery started changing, the eerie feeling at the road started to fade and more of civilized scenery showed up. Way ahead he can see a large European style white mansion.

According to the picture in his hand. That was it.

Alex reached the huge iron gate and before he could open it suddenly opened alone ' Automatic gate?!' he wondered. After walking another long distance he finally reached the mansion. At its gate he found an old platinum-haired lady wearing clothes like that of a butler. she had a huge smile on her face as she said.

"Welcome to the North Star Dormitory. I am this place's Mother, Call me Madam Natasha" She laughed with joy and if one looked carefully, you can see small tears forming at her closed eyes.

She stoped laughing and came down the steps as she put her hands on Alexanders shoulder. " You're the first resident of this Dormitory in years." She said. Finally, her home can be saved and come back to life.