Food Stall (8)

"Then you have to finish the rest of this workbook until our break ends," Luke decided to acknowledge the effort I put in.

This was how I somehow managed to get through all the breaks until the classes finished for today. It was the beginning of the difficult part since Luke and Alex were separated from each other now. While Luke was almost guaranteed to stay inside our room to work on the rest of the fraction work, it wasn't the same for Alex. I knocked on his door, beside my room to make sure he wouldn't leave his dorm room as well.

"Michelle isn't here," Alex opened the door.

"I'm here to use your massage chair," I entered their dorm.

There was no way Alex would trust me to stay inside his dorms without anyone there. I laid down on the amazing chair while ignoring his cold gaze. I never entered his dorm without Shelly inside before. I smiled as this was a great excuse since he knew how I had just spent the entire day in trying to purchase the same thing.

"Do you have a blanket?" I planned on sleeping here.

"Then I'll bring one from Shelly's room," I decided since he may not let me in again.

"You're not thinking of staying overnight, are you?" Alex began to call Luke.

"You can always gift me your massage chair," I dragged the blanket from Shelly's bed.

"Rika, come back to our room," Luke watched me enjoying the massage chair from the call.

"I'm not staying overnight," I smiled while my muscles relaxed.

My ears wiggled when I heard the sound of Luke knocking on the door. When Alex opened the door, Luke had brought some of his documents with him. I couldn't believe how well my plan was working since they were in the same place now. When I opened my inbox of messages after classes ended, Sienna let me know that sales were going great. They also managed to procure more ingredients after sharing the profits with the food and agriculture research club.

The team was split into two. One who was selling the food and another making them to keep up with the demand. Meanwhile both Luke and Alex never heard about the rumors since I was keeping them far away from others. Luke sighed, not knowing the true reason why I couldn't stop smiling. Seeing how I wasn't going to budge from the massage chair, he decided to work in Alex's dorm until Michelle returned.

"This is more than I thought it would be," Alex watched Luke move piles of the documents from his to this room.

"The Impalia fraction is still in the process of giving more," Luke didn't have the time to stop working.

"I can help with the ones from our fraction," he pitied Luke.

"Can you take this pile then?" Luke didn't hesitate to take Alex's offer.

Ever since Lucius and Belle had graduated, most of their work fell onto Luke than Alex. By the time Shelly came back from selling the food for our club, she was surprised with the sudden piles of documents in her room. I yawned before stretching up to get up from the chair. I had done my role for today. When I was about to help Luke move all the work back to our room, Alex shot me a glance not to even touch them.

"We managed to sell everything we made during the past few days," Shelly whispered inside ear.

"How are we keeping up with the inventory?" I wondered.

"We're a little bit behind for tomorrow," she admitted.

Even though I believed their words that our sales were out of this world, I didn't anticipate the huge crowd gathered even before we had opened our stall for business. It was like the entire school was here, including the teachers. The president had already gotten permission from the school to raise funds this way. We just needed to make sure none of the people here would let Luke or Alex who would definitely tell Luke know.

"There's more people than yesterday," Cillian was also surprised.

"Did we really make enough for all of them?" I gasped.

"Eight cups of smoothies for our class!" One of them yelled.

"Twenty orders for the seafood balls for the teachers!" A teacher joined in.

"Sixteen smoothies and seafood balls each!" Another member in the crowd shouted.

"You're making sure they keep the rules, right?" I shot them a look.

"Yea, we made sure each of them made a pledge," Cillian answered.

Since we were very behind in making the food, only Cillian and I were assigned to selling them at the stall. At this rate, I didn't know if it was a good thing that we would manage to gather our funds fast. I couldn't see an end to the line as most of the break quickly passed by. I had no time in taking even a second worth of a break as everyone impatiently waited for their orders to arrive. Shelly was covered in the smell of batter as she teleported to deliver more food. She looked more exhausted than we were.

"This is all we have for now," she gulped as the crowd increased.

"You know how we still have one more break and the period after classes for today?" I was starting to fear the aggressive crowd.

"We need to recruit more people," she sighed from our only solution.