But Eve thought for a second, looking down and a decent smile came on her face and she replied, "I think I will be fine...I have never tasted big brother's meals, who knows that he would make decent, which would eatable? And I will have fruits as well...so if the situation is worse, then maybe..."
The woman smiled with a sweat, no one believed in me and my cooking skills, things are different. I don't think it would be so bad all because my tea tasted bad for them? But whatever it would be, I will make anyways, who else will feed Eve and give her dinner and breakfast? Grandparents have already left and the plan to leave the shelter and move somewhere far has some time left.
Fifteen minutes passed and finally the dinner was made and I put a little bit more salt and finally smiled, it was prepared and ready to serve now! I kept the meals on the plates and started walking to the dinning table. The woman, the driver and Eve looked at the meals...and it was looking completely burnt, it was definitely not looking good, it was looking horrible and Eve smiled with a sweat and gulped...she asked again from herself...should she still have my handmade food or meals?
The driver's mood was completely destroyed by just watching the meals and he stood and slammed at the table and shouted, "Are you serious?! You really think I will eat this, poor and not even eatable food?!!! I can skip the dinner but not going to eat it for sure! You all already have no standards and this is how you will treat your ups who are way too up from you?! I am leaving and staying at my house rather than living in this poor house where just the lantern light! Just come quickly and let's leave this poor house!"
The guy...actually said too much, his words and speech could end that he's not going to eat, but he still moved ahead and came on the standards, then lights, and then at the shelter...Eve and I looked at each other, does it even makes sense? He spoke too much that Eve and I were completely bored, she would chose to eat than listening so much rubbish which was making her bored, at least a new taste would be fun, making different expressions on her face and reacting over it.
Eve and I weren't hurt by the words, we were just bored, and his loud voice was just depicting that he has a way too big ego and thinks he's another king under which everyone bowed down and he would step on their heads without any problem...too much overacting and attitude it was.
But the woman was speechless...she looked at Eve and I and smiled with a sweat and apologized, "Please ignore him, he just talks rubbish. He thinks being a slave of the noble will make him someone else rather than normal human, I am sorry from his side."
I kept the plates in front of Eve and the woman and I took my seat with my plate and looked at the woman and said, "No, you don't need to apologize, Eve and I aren't hurt...but who is that guy? I have never seen him before, who is he?"
The woman with a disappointed face answered, "He became a driver at the mansion just a few months ago, so you wouldn't have even heard of him...if he would have know you, then he would have manners, I guess. But...whatever, let's just ignore that and..."
The woman looked at the meals...and she started sweating more. She doesn't know how she would eat, she was hesitating to have it but I immediately picked up a little bit of piece of the meal from my plate and took it...and a smile bloomed on my face, old days came in my mind. I looked up and said, "My cooking skills are still the same...that's surprising, but I am happy."
The woman looked at the meals again...and she couldn't had courage to even take a single bite by just watching the meals. She looked at Eve, she was ready to deny with the dinner and was just going to ask from Eve, she wanted to save Eve and make the dinner for her...but the woman was frozen, watching...Eve closed her neck by her fingers and she just took a huge bite and took in her mouth.
Eve was just going to gulp everything at once, but she couldn't the piece was too big and she had to bite and chew a little bit...and she was speechless, shocked and her eyes widened. She looked at me and asked, "...You know cooking, big brother?"
I smiled, I continued having my dinner, looking at the meals and replied, "I used to make some times for a few and they used to love it, the first time I ever tried cooking and showed them, they were hesitating by looking at it, but they liked it...do you like it?"
The woman couldn't understand, she looked at Eve and Eve smiled and she just started having her dinner, looking up at the ceiling thinking a little bit and said, "Yes...I liked it. But never made it in front of me? Did you make it ten years ago when I was just born or even earlier than that?"
I nodded my head, "Earlier than even you were born...or maybe you were, but never saw me and never tasted it before I guess."
"The taste is something new, something different but it's nice, I like it."
And the woman was speechless, shocked...she couldn't believe that even Eve liked my dinner, she couldn't accept it...but by looking at others, she felt like she had no choice but to just try it. She looked at the meals, hold the spoon while her hands couldn't stop shaking and she started taking her hand to the meals...Eve and I smiled with a sweat, watching her, she could leave and not try it either, it would be fine but she didn't look in good conditions because of forcing to herself. But we both didn't say anything either...because we both wanted to prove how it actually tastes than just already telling how it is looking. Eve and I kept our hopes, even we couldn't eat anything and just lost watching her fear and the spoon coming near to her mouth.
The woman just ate the first bite with finally surpassing her fear and she was expecting that it would be the worst dinner she had...but after first chew and realizing the taste, she was speechless and shocked. She looked at the meals, not able to understand and she took another bite and she couldn't believe.
"Why it is tasty?" The woman said and couldn't believe that how it was looking and what she was expecting, the meals was completely opposite than it. The woman's cheeks turned a little bit red, she looked at me and asked, "Can I have more?"
She also liked it...I smiled and nodded my head and served more and Eve finally started having her dinner again. I took my seat again and started having the dinner and they all liked, it doesn't matters how it looks but what matters is it eatable or not.
The dinner was over, I picked up the plates but the woman also stood and said, "You are going to wash the plates, Ichiro?"
It was confusing, from a very long time I am only washing plates, even when our grandparents was there and they used to prepare meals, I have been doing it since I was a child. But I answered her question with a reply, "Yes...?" And she smiled and said, "Then leave it all to me, you should take rest now, Ichiro."
But Eve herself caught her hand and with a bright smile said, "You are our guest, you don't need to work. You can rely on him."
I was surprised but just smiled and nodded my head and started walking to the kitchen. But the woman looked at me leaving and said, "Ok, but can you answer my one question?"
I stopped and looked back at her with confusion, what's the problem, and she was having a question and really curious about it and asked, "When did you even make anything at the kitchen except the tea you made? I never saw you ever before, making anything."
I started sweating...what I would even say about that? I made like...in my previous life, and who will explain her that I meant by my previous life.
The woman looked at me with the same confusion on her face and said, "You said that you made it before Eve was born, you were with me and everyone at that time...but you never make it, did you?"
I smiled, and nodded my head, "I guess I said wrong, now I remembered that I made when Eve was just of thirty days, and grandparents wouldn't have ever known that because I made it on own secretly at the midnight when everyone would be asleep. And you know me very well, don't you?"
Eve and the woman were surprised but the woman smiled and replied, "That makes sense, you used to wander everywhere at the midnight when you were a child, you were just of two when you scared everyone of us. That makes sense, you can go now."
I lied, by I had no other option either. I looked ahead at the kitchen and started walking again and the woman sat next to Eve and started talking to her. I came to the kitchen, kept the plates and started tap water and started washing and cleaning the plates while Eve and the woman continued talking and enjoying themselves in the talk and fun.
"By the way...ma'am..." Eve looked at the woman with curiosity and the woman looked at her with a decent smile and Eve asked, "What did big brother do when he was just of two? Was he a troubling kid or silent?"
The woman smiled and sat properly, looking at Eve straight and started telling, "Your big brother wasn't a troubling kid nor a silent kid, he was just of one when he didn't show attitude or acted like a child but he was understanding the surrounding and trying to recognize what he should do. He just used to crawl when he was of one but one day he walked to washing area and he used a cloth, covering his own clothes and he also started washing clothes. It looked cute, we just thought that he would just be doing for his own fun...but by the end of the day, he had washed fifteen clothes non stop...he was definitely not like everyone, he liked to work and help others, and sometimes he also used to prank, in which one of the midnight prank was also there."
Eve was now more curious..."What was the prank...?"
And the woman smiled with a sweat...she doesn't wants to remember that prank...
Years ago, around 14 years ago, it was night time and everyone was sleeping. But I used to remain awake, but sleeping with my caretakers. But at the midnight, they just opened their eyes...and I was nowhere. They panicked, although the one who gave me birth never cared, but the servants were because we had a connection with each other because most of the time I used to spend with them. They all started searching for me...but suddenly, they all heard a creepy and scary tone coming from a room. The music was so scary, that no one had the courage to walk to it, even the nobles' sleep was spoiled by that because it was scary for them and the music was even going to them. But the servants wanted to find me, so they had no other choice than checking...so they stepped to the room, opened the door and everywhere was just darkness. They all looked in the room--
Suddenly a thunder fell somewhere close spreading the light and for just a second they all watched a little baby sitting and they all shouted with fear, they all thought that it's a baby ghost...but suddenly they all remembered, that I was missing...and I was also a baby. They opened the lights and I was giggling...they all were speechless and I laughed loudly.
"He could even make scary music which haunted us..." The woman said and her whole body shook. Eve was surprised by listening the story but she smiled, she never expected that her big brother's childhood would be like that.