The way you love me [private for me and MsJacobL]

[zajawa]

Going to where Harumi and Sangre were he started to write when he was sure the cook would see that. 'Can I first make something to eat for myself? I didn't eat anything yet..' Now that he thought about it master didn;t eat anything too. But now it was too late to take care of that.. 'And my throat is all sore.. Is there something for that..?'

[RedRose4]

Sangre pre-heated the oven for the time being and looked at Akira when he began to write. Without an ounce of hesitation Sangre answered. “Of course you can. The fridge and kitchen are free for you to use. And there is kettle and teabags on the counter over there for tea, we also have some peppermint drops, it’s a very good tasting medicine to relieve sore throats. Should be…” Sangre looked around before pointing to the nearby cupboard. “In there, blue label.” The chef smiled while Harumi grabbed a pan and bowl. “Help yourself.”
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A sudden loud knock made Josh focus on the nearby double doors, looking at the it for a few long seconds and taking a very deep breath before opening it, seeing the person he was dreading to have to talk to.
“Josh!” Elizabeth smiled, her arms wrapping around him without giving the male a chance to breath. Her white and pink dress was just as extravagant as all of the others she wore, and her dark hair was perfectly pinned up in a tidy bun.

Wordlessly standing still, Josh felt the hug loosen until Elizabeth drew back, looking at him with a creased brow. “What’s wrong?”
Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, Josh opened them to look at Elizabeth, speaking in a firm voice. “We need to talk.”

[zajawa]

Akira nodded and soon made himself two sandwiches. Pouring some water he ate them and then made himself a tea. Reading how it should be taken he put inside nine drops, not really liking how it smelled. He would prefer for it to taste like something sweet.. but since it would help he took few sips of the tea. Akira smiled looking at Harumi and Sangre. They.. looked right.. standing there. After cleaning he stood beside them. 'What can I do to help?'

[RedRose4]

When Akira made his way back, Sangre had already began cracking the eggs, putting in the wet ingredients but waited for Akira before adding the dry ones. When he returned, the chef moved over, allowing both him and Harumi to help. “You can stir the batter. Harumi will add the flour, baking powder, sugar, all of the dry stuff and you just keep stirring okay? If your arm begins to cramp up after a little while just let me know.”
Sangre passed Akira a whisk and stepped aside, letting the other two focus on the batter. He wanted to get their minds off of what had been going on, and baking just seemed…easygoing and carefree.

Harumi smiled, her eyes moving from Sangre back to Akira. “Okay, ready Akira?” She asked with a soft voice, taking the flour first and putting it over the bowl, beginning to very slowly add it into the eggs and milk, making sure not to add too much at once.
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“What do you mean talk?” Elizabeth’s happy and demure personality began to drop slightly when she asked that.
Josh took a few seconds before speaking. When he did, he brought up what she did to Harumi, mentioning the few things he heard about the staff, how she was rude and demanding whenever he left her alone with them.
Of course Elizabeth looked taken aback. She frowned, the look on her face something Josh hadn’t seen before. “I didn’t do any of that! They’re all lying.”
“I doubt that everyone is lying Elizabeth. Listen….the wedding next month. It has to be….we have to call it off.” Josh said the words hesitantly, the look the woman was giving him was making him uneasy.

“What!?” Elizabeth’s eyes widened, the look of anger appearing instantly. “Who is she? Tell me? Who‘s the whore you‘re sleeping with?” She began to scream, her eyes beginning to tear as her frustration increased.

Josh creased his brow, looking down at the ground and shaking his head. “No one…I’m not with another woman.” he said truthfully, not having the courage to tell her about being gay yet, or that he was with Akira sexually. That would only put a target on his servants back.
“You’re lying.” She screamed back.

“I’m not!” Josh’s voice began to raise as well, some of the people in the castle watching from afar. “Listen Elizabeth, I can’t deal with this right now. Just…we’re young, we have a lot of time to discuss marriage, there’s no reason to rush into it. And from now on, you can’t come over here, I’ll go to you from now on. Take a step into my home and I’ll get my guards to drag you out. Got it?”
Josh was nearly breathless by the time he stopped yelling, almost regretting the tone of voice he used on the woman standing in front of him. Putting a hand to his forehead, Josh sighed and closed his eyes. “I’m sorry Eli-”

“Fucking bastard.” Elizabeth whispered shakily, shaking her head and bunching her hands up into fists. “You’ll regret it Josh. You’re a…disgusting, worthless man! Fuck. You.”
Before Josh could reply, he felt a hard slap across his face, his jaw going slack and his eyes furrowing to glare at her, not saying another word. Instead he watched her leave, storming out of his home and slamming the door behind her. The silence then overwhelmed the room, the people watching slowly disappearing while Josh stood there, frozen.

[zajawa]

Akira smiled and nodded. While he kept stirring he looked at what was Harumi doing. It all felt so perfectly.. relaxing. With a deep sigh he started to think about master, hoping he was just fine.. Shaking his head he focused his attention once again at the baking. Worrying now wouldn't give him anything more than stress.. and wouldn't help anyone. Though it was easier said than done. His hand soon started to cramp taking his mind off of anything else.

[RedRose4]

Harumi poured slowly until she was done with the flour, adding the sugar, baking powder and a pinch or two of salt before stopping. “Okay that’s it.” she said while glancing at Sangre, not being the best when it came to cooking or baking. Flowers were more her thing.
Walking over to them both, Sangre made sure Akira wasn’t slowing down too much, knowing that stirring took a lot of muscle after the batter started to thicken.

“Thanks you two. Here…” Sangre gently took the whisk from Akira’s hand, mixing for only a few seconds since he did rather well. “Good job. Now we just need to add a little colour. What’s your favourite colour Akira?” he asked and then asked the same for Harumi. “And yours of course?” he smiled.
Harumi looked at Sangre for a short minute before looking down at the food colouring, picking up a few and furrowing her eyebrows. “Purple.” she stated instantly before curiously looking at Akira to see what his was.
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After standing in front of the door for a good minute or two, Josh began to walk. Instead of going to the kitchen right away, he made his way outside. Taking a step into the fresh air, Josh closed his eyes, trying to stop from getting overly upset. His jaw hurt a little, he had no idea Elizabeth was so strong, and now his face was stinging in pain because of it.

Despite wanting to desperately punch something, or someone, Josh reached down again into his pocket, taking out the stone and looking at it. Good luck…it might have seemed as though it didn’t work, but Josh knew he wouldn’t have had enough courage to tell Elizabeth all of that if it weren’t for Akira. If the servant wasn’t in his life, Josh probably would have been marrying her in a few weeks still.

Grasping the stone in his hand, Josh sat on the grass for a short while, just holding onto the small smooth stone and looking at the sky, calming himself as best he could although of course anger was still pent up inside of him.

[zajawa]

Akira smiled, really glad that he did well. There was after all some things even he couldn't mess up. Asked about the favourite colour he wasn't able to tell right away. Actually he liked all colors equally, every and each of them was beautiful.. in a bit different way. 'Can we use them all?'

As Josh was sitting there, on the grass, he could hear quiet meowling.

[RedRose4]

While waiting, Sangre purposefully got some flour on his index fingers, wiping them underneath Harumi’s eyes like a football player. She looked up with a flushed face before laughing.
“You need your bakery stripes.” Sangre smiled, doing the same for Akira’s cheeks just like last time, and then his own. Seeing him ask if they could use all colours, the chef nodded in reply.

“I like that idea.” Harumi pointed out. “We can pour them into the cupcake pan, add the colours in there, and then mix it so that we have all the colours. Good idea Akira.”
Sangre nodded in agreement, carefully pouring the batter into the molds and allowing Harumi and Akira to add the colours. “Just stir it with this.” Sangre passed each a small wooden chopstick to stir while he finished pouring into the two dozen cupcake molds.
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Josh stood up, keeping his fingers around the stone and turning to go back inside, but he instantly stopped at the sound he heard. Looking around, Josh furrowed his eyebrows and curiously began to walk around. There was slight hesitance, although he made his way closer to where he thought the sound resonated from.

[zajawa]

Akira closed his eyes only to laugh a bit when he heard about the bakery stripes. And he was glad that Harumi liked his idea as well as Sangre. It would be really hard to pick only one colour. Stirring it with wooden chopstick he observed how the colours were mixing. It looked really nice.

Meowling came from under some of the bushes. It was a young cat.. looking a bit like it was starving. His fur was white and he was lacking half of it's tail and the back, left paw.

[RedRose4]

Harumi coloured the other half while Akira stirred in the other. Once they had all the colours of the rainbow, Sangre was the one to take the pan and put it into the oven. “Twenty minutes tops and it’ll be done.” the chef leaned back against the counter, the sudden silence making him remember that Elizabeth was coming over, or already had.
In an attempt to make the atmosphere a bit lighter, Sangre spoke to Akira while looking at his chin. “You feeling better? Your throat and chin?” he asked with a hint of concern.
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It took Josh about four minutes to actually find what was making the noise, and when he did, all of his anger left him. Seeing the small, injured young cat, Josh frowned and kneeled down in front of it. Instead of reaching his hands out and grabbing it, he slowly put his hand out towards it for him, or her to sniff his hand.
Seeing the bad shape it was in, Josh frowned a bit more and mumbled. “You don’t look so good…how about I take you inside and give you some food huh?” he spoke while steadily getting closer, not making any sudden movements just in case it ran away.