Close To You 4

Jin, Yuhan, and the servants' expression instantly changed once they tasted Yumi's cookies.

Yumi's proud smile slowly faded when she noticed their expressions.

"W-Why?" She asked with her knitted brows.

All of them looked at each other with doubts on their faces, except Yuhan.

"Sister Yumi, your cookie is too hard," He complained.

"W-What?!"

Yumi took another cookie and take a bite of it.

Indeed!

It was too hard and tasteless!

Yumi looked at the cookie in disappointment, "What happened?"

"I've mixed the right amount of ingredients, but why it tastes like this?"

"Uh, it's alright tho, I can still eat this, you know, I don't like foods that are too sweet," Jin said.

Yumi twitched her mouth as she looked at Jin, "You don't have to force your self if you don't like it!"

Yumi snatched the cookie from Jin's grip, she put it on the food tray and then she headed to the trash can to throw it away, but Jin was quick to stop her!

"Wait!"

"Why are you throwing them away?" He asked.

"Can't you tell?"

"Because it's a failure!"

"It doesn't even taste like cookies!" Yumi replied.

Jin snatched the tray full of cookies from Yumi, " Nope, I can take and eat all of these," Jin insisted.

"You don't have to!"

"I know that this doesn't taste good ---"

"But you put all your efforts to bake these cookies," Jin cut Yumi's word.

" It's a shame if it would go to waste." He added.

Yumi let go of the tray of cookies.

"Maybe, it lacks ingredient, " Jin spoke again.

Yumi looked up to Jin.

"I'm sure I mixed the complete ingredients," Yumi insisted.

"Well, they said, when you're cooking you should dedicate your whole heart to what you cooked, same goes when you bake, you should bake it with love, or just think that you are baking for the most important person in your life," Jin said.

Yumi froze when she heard Jin's word, there is only one person who appeared in her mind, and the pain of losing that person hit her again!

Yumi took off her apron, "Let's cancel our tutorial for tonight," She said as she removes her apron.

"Why?" Jin asked with his knitted brows.

Yumi put the apron on the table, " I am not feeling well," She said, and then she left.

The people inside the kitchen watch Yumi walks out of the kitchen.

"Oh! I think the Young Miss was disappointed because of her baking," One of the servants said.

"Yeah, I think so," The other servant agreed, their gazes followed Yumi.

"What if she will not bake again after this?"

Jin just listened to the female servants as he watched Yumi walks away.

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Yumi went straight to her bedroom, she sighs as she tilted her head to the photo that is hanging on the wall of her room.

"How did I become like this, mom?" Yumi mumbled as she looked at the photo of her mother.

"How did I forget the things that I used to love?"

Yumi's eyes are full of sorrow.

"It feels like, I also died when you died," She added as if she is talking to the person on the photo.

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The next morning,

Dimitry is currently buttoning his polo shirt when Alicia suddenly spoke.

"I heard Yumi baked again,"

Dimitry's hand stopped moving, he looked at his wife through the mirror beside the closet, " What?"

He thought he heard it wrong,

"The servants were talking about Yumi baking cookies yesterday," Alicia replied.

"S-She baked again?"

"That's what the servants said.

Dimitry fell in deep thought.

It's been a long time since the last time Yumi baked.

He still remembers, she always left him the sweets that she bakes, it's been a few years and he missed those sweet treats that his little princess used to offer him every time he comes home.

Dimitry sighs as he continued to button his polo.

He is hoping that this could be a good start that Yumi possibly comes back to her old self.

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National Comprehensive School,

"Hey Jin," Margaux greeted Jin as soon as she passed on his seat.

Jin just nodded his head as a response.

"How does it taste?" Margaux asked Jin.

Jin froze, he doesn't get Margaux's question.

"Taste?" He repeated.

"The cookies?" Margaux reminded Jin.

"Ah," Jin remembers the cookies that Margaux gave to him yesterday.

"Have you tried it?"

"Does it taste good?" Margaux asked.

Jin froze again, 'Does it taste good?' He asked inside.

How would he know?

He doesn't even taste it because Yumi took it from him!

"Jin?" Jin's silence made Margaux anxious.

"Um..." Jin tried to find a word to say.

He couldn't tell Margaux that someone took it from him!

'Well, you really have to lie sometime!'

"Y-Yeah, it was good!" Jin said, but in his mind, he is thinking about the cookies that Yumi baked for him.

Margaux heaved a sigh of relief, "That's a relief!"

"I thought you didn't like it!" She said.

Jin smiled, "Of course I like it!"

'Even if it was a bit hard,' Jin said inside as he raises the corner of his lips.

"Hey, Jin, everybody here is curious about you," Margaux spoke again after a while.

"Some are even asking where you live," She added.

The truth is, she's one of the curious ladies who want to know more about Jin.

"Sorry, I don't usually tell where I live," Jin replied straight forward.

He is a private kind of person. He doesn't have to tell everybody about him. Let them work for it if they want to know more about him!

"Ah,..." Margaux just nodded her head.

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In the afternoon, Jin did not notice the taxi that is following him home.