Chapter 3. "Nothing good to look at"

"Aahh…" I flinched and moaned at the sudden coldness that I felt on my skin… When he heard my soft moan, he looked up in my eyes for a few seconds then got back to putting the ice pack…

"It's alright now, I'll do it myself…" he looked at me then gave it to me… I walk out of the kitchen and went to the living room… after sitting on the couch I put the ice pack over my scalded feet, it was red all over near my ankle…

After a few seconds Noah also came to the living room… He looked at my feet, then looked in my eyes and started to scold me "What were you trying to do just now? Is this how you hold a jar that has hot boiling water?"

I looked at him with an aggrieved expression and pouted "How'd I know that it was going to slip from my hand and burn me? And you are also just a kid, don't act like you know better than me… it was my first time doing it just by myself… how can you scold me like that?"

He looked at me and furrowed his brows, then took out his phone and said while browsing through his phone "You are right, I don't know better… but I have brains and I can use it to just order some food for us to eat… but it's only for today… you'll be doing the cooking starting tomorrow as I don't like outside food…"

"You… I still don't know how to prepare a proper meal… how am I going to do that? Can't you just order something to eat for yourself every day and not make me do it?" I said as I felt like it was unfair to me and I was also just a fourteen-year-old… how could he expect me to do all that all of a sudden? It was always dad or grandpa who did the cooking… they only learnt after I came to live with them… sometimes I think about how they used to live before that?

"Didn't you hear what I said just now? Let me repeat myself… I said I don't like to eat outside food… now keep that in mind… and it's not like you're going to stay like this forever… you'll have to learn eventually… think of it as practice or a learning session for the time when you move out to go to the university…" He said it with a straight face and serious tone…

I looked at him and thought about what he just said and came to a conclusion that what he said was right… I'd have to do all the cooking one day when I move out of here to further my studies, it was a justified reason…

After giving it a thought, I nodded my head in understanding and said "Hmm… what you said is right… I'll do the cooking for us but let me tell you one thing very clearly, don't expect it to be like the food you've been eating till now… you'll have to eat whatever I make and however it tastes… no nagging and no complaints… I'll do it only if you agree, what you say?"

"Alright… but, you have to at least try to make it appetizing… look at some cooking videos if you have too much trouble making it…" Noah said as sat down on the couch on my right side…

I looked at him and nodded my head then said as I resigned to my fate "Hmm… fine…"

After that everything went silent… Noah was surfing through his phone… God knows what he was looking at, to have such a serious expression… I felt like the temperature of the room went down a few degrees, as I felt a sudden chill around me…

The next second he held his phone near his ear, calling someone… After a few seconds he said something which I didn't understand because it was in a different language… he didn't speak much, just listening to the person on the other side… After a few seconds he looked at me for a second then got up and walked out of the living room…

'It must be something important for him to make a serious face like that… but what could it be to make a seven-year-old kid to get serious… maybe he forgot his diapers at his place, where he came from... pfft… how hilarious would it be if it was true… hehe… a seven-year-old kid still wearing diapers… hehe…' I snickered and sat there thinking about all the possibilities…

I got bored sitting there alone… I looked at my foot and saw that it was not that red after putting the ice pack on it… So, I put the ice pack on the table and went to my room to take a shower before eating… it was also because I was feeling sweaty after the small amount of time I spent in the kitchen, preparing ramen for him, which clearly failed…

It took me twenty minutes to take a shower… I came out of the bathroom… just as I was removing my bathrobe to change into something else, I felt like someone was looking at me… I had my back facing the door to my room and I had a habit, not to close the room door as dad and grandpa never come inside my room without knocking even if it was open… so I had nothing to worry about…

But I forgot that there was a new person, who was going to live in my house from now on… just as this thought came to my mind, I clutched the bathrobe tightly and turned around… and there he was, looking at me with a straight face…

He raised his eyebrows when he looked at me standing there holding the bathrobe tightly, after a few seconds he said in a serious tone "What are you doing looking at me with a dumb expression?... Don't worry I didn't see anything… as if there is something good to see! Hurry up… put on some clothes and come downstairs to eat… it'll taste bad after it gets cold…"

After saying that he turned around and was about to leave when I hastily said "What do you mean by I don't have anything good to look? Although I'm still young, but I am a girl after all… how can you just barge into a girl's room without knocking and then look at me changing clothes… you should've said something when you saw that I was about to change clothes…"

I was a little bit angry and annoyed at his remarks about my body and was still thinking when he turned around and walked in front of me… there was not that much difference in our heights but still I was a little taller than him… so, he looked at me with his chin high up and said "Oh… really… you think there's something good to look in your body, then let me also see what is so good about it… Hmm?"