Chapter 51: – Peaceful evening
"Don't worry, we have a lot of ti to compensate for that from now on. I don't mind doing it for you anyti you want."
She nodded and smiled happily, agreeing.
"You're right. We have all the ti in the world now."
Benjamin smiled back and concluded.
"Let's stop here for today, we need to get ho now."
She agreed and they put their clothes back on, opened the door, and left the room. Since it was quite a while after the end of classes, the school was almost empty, with only a few students here and there. They headed for the exit and were soon on their way ho, both keeping quiet, sothing that didn't change much from any other ti they were alone together. The only difference was that she was now openly looking at him from ti to ti and every ti she did that, he grinned at her, which pushed her to grin back in turn. She was obviously in a superb mood after resolving a problem that was gnawing at her for so long in such a perfect way. He also felt the sa, happy to have gotten closer to her, and happy that she was happy.
Once they reached their house, Benjamin thought about sothing.
"Nova, what do you want to eat for dinner today? I will prepare whatever you want."
"Anything is fine if it's you making it."
"Thank you. So, what do you want?"
She laughed a bit at how casually he took her praise and thought about it for so ti before answering.
"What about lasagna?"
"Hm, alright but I will need to go to the super to get so more ingredients. The fridge was getting empty anyway so it's not bad timing."
"I will go with you."
"Nice, that will speed up things a lot. Wait a second."
During the past two weeks, he has learned that his Mom had given him access to a debit card linked to an account with so money on it, which he could use for groceries or house-related supplies shopping. He was the only one in the family allowed to use it and, apparently, the one ti Chloe had discretely stolen it from him to buy sothing for herself, she was t with very severe punishnt after it was found out. In fact, she was exposed almost imdiately since their mother was monitoring every transaction on the card, making Chloe's attempt a very stupid move.
Benjamin quickly went to get the card in his room before coming out again and they left for the supermarket together. Fortunately, there was one close to their place and they were back with bags of groceries in their hands within thirty minutes. They put everything inside the fridge and the kitchen and Benjamin started preparing lasagna after looking for a decent-looking recipe on his phone. Nova decided to sit on a chair and watch him work, a happy smile on her face. Benjamin, on the other hand, struggled hard to prepare the dish which was one level higher in difficulty than what he was usually cooking. In the end, after a long fight with the béchal and the at sauce, he managed to output sothing acceptable, putting everything in the oven and setting the tir for a good hour and a half. Since the ti in the oven was so long, he and Nova went back to their rooms to relax in the anwhile. He took that opportunity to change into a long-sleeved top to hide his bandaged arm and not alert the rest of his family.
When he ca back down, he was t with six very hungry females. Since everything took longer than usual, it was way past their normal dinner ti and his family mbers looked at the oven ravenously, the pleasant sll of lasagna exacerbating their feeling of hunger. Benjamin thought they were funny and asked them.
"How long have you all been waiting here?"
"Thirty minutes."
"Since it started slling good in the whole house."
"Forty-five minutes."
"Sa."
That made him laugh. He noticed that they didn't even set the table.
"You are funny. Were you just looking at the oven for that long without even setting the table? That's not going to help speed up things, you know."
They suddenly realized their mistake and hurried to set the table, in one rare mont of cooperation. Benjamin took the lasagna plate out of the oven, satisfied to see that the result seed to be decent. He put it in the middle of the table, which was already magically set, and they finally started their late dinner. They devoured his dish, not forgetting to praise him exaggeratedly.
"Too good! It's too good, Ben!"
"It's delicious! Give seconds!"
"Are you aiming to beco a chef? I will support you!"
"I love you, Ben!"
The last one was from Chloe and he answered nonchalantly.
"Yes, yes, you an your stomach loves ."
"How can you doubt my pure love? I am worried you are turning bad, these days!"
"Oh yeah? Talking about good and bad, when is your next test?"
"Ugh... It was yesterday."
"Interesting. And, when do you get the result?"
"...On Monday."
"Nice. Rember, you will receive punishnt if you don't get a perfect score."
"What?! You didn't say anything about that!"
"I say it now. High risks, high rewards, right? That's only fair."
"Not fair at all, you can't add stuff like that after the facts!"
"Of course I can. But ok, let's be fair about this. What do you girls think about this? I promised Chloe a reward if she gets a perfect score. Don't you think it's fair to get punished if she doesn't get it?"
"Fair."
The five won agreed and the verdict was unanimous.
"You are all too much! My own family is betraying !"
"Yeah, yeah, so anyway, be ready for it, Chloe."
"Ugh, I tried very hard for that one. I have a good feeling about it. I will get that perfect score, you will see!"
"I pray every day and night for your success."
"Huh, you're just saying whatever to make fun of . Enough, I will show you on Monday!"
"I will think very hard about your punishnt."
"Stop it!"
Benjamin stopped teasing her and laughed, the rest of the family mbers following him, except for Chloe. After their al, they spend a nice evening watching the TV and chatting together, relaxing after a long week of work or school, forgetting about their worries in a mont of enjoynt in the family.
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