Chapter 2: Lousy Cook

Elena's heart goes faster, as she sees the little girl's face become clear, and then suddenly appears in front of her.

She feels like her whole world has stopped, as she peers at the familiar face she knows. She can't believe it, but the look of the child is certainly the same as hers and Maria's.

The little girl smirks at her. She starts to have goosebumps, when she opens her mouth, to speak words that ring in her ears.

"Cold blood Princess--" she didn't hear the next word because of the noise she had been hearing.

"-ake up! Elena! wake up wake up!!"

Elena knits her brow as she opens her eyes, and wakes up in trance.

She sits as then looks at Maria Victorina, as her eyes roam on her body and start to shrink.

"Waaaaaaaah!!!" Elena shouts at Maria Victorina.

"Waaaaah!!!" Maria Victorina, doing the same.

"Maria?" Elena says in surprise, as she tries to calm her running heart.

"Elena." Maria Victorina answers back, looking at her innocently.

"W-why do you have blood on you?" Then Elena points to Maria Victorina attire.

"Blood? Where? The last time I remember having my period on was last week, and when did you ever have an eye

on my back Elena?" Maria Victorina asks while she still tries to look at her buttocks.

Elena facepalm. Why did she ever ask this twin of hers? She knows sometimes that Maria Victorina is a bit of an airhead.

She sighs, as she looks toward her twin, still trying to see if she really has a stain of blood behind her.

"It is in your apron---" Elena's words stop halfway and a look of horror can be seen in her eyes.

"Oh, you mean this one," Maria Victorina asks as she points at her apron innocently. "I got this while cooking."

Elena's eyes turn bigger when she hears what she said. "YOU COOK!"

"Ouch, Do you really need to shout? My eardrum hurts sis ah," Maria Victorina says as rubs her ear. "Yes, of course!" she adds with obvious pride in her voice and a cheeky smirk on her face.

Elena stands up fastly from her bed, and runs out of her bedroom, not caring about Maria Victorina she has left behind, toward the railway at the end of the hall. Not caring about the stairs, she jumps down from the second floor and starts searching for butler Lee, and asks where the kitchen is.

Lee feels a bit confused about why she asks, but still, he points where it is.

And then Elena runs as fast as she can as if their life is at stake.

Because for her, it really is. Maria Victorina is too much of a lousy cook. As in super.

When she reaches the kitchen, she starts to find Maria Victorina's dish.

Only to facepalm because she can't find it.

If she only knew this would happen, she would have bound her twin sister.

She got the same way as her mom cooking. Poisonous cooking and sometimes it is uncooked food, with a lot of weird things put inside. She doesn’t know why it is, but Maria Victorina has a talent for cooking poison.

Elena stops thinking when she hears a footstep and the voice of a girl behind her.

"Lady Elena, Master Bryan, and the others are outside, waiting for you." calls the maid respectfully.

Outside?

When Elena heard that word, she runs outside as fast as she can. There she found them in the poolside eating with a bowl in their hands.

"You cook this Maria?" Bryan asks as he sips the soup from his spoon.

"Yup, did you like it my dear Brye?" cutely asks Maria Victorina toward Bryan.

"Delicious? Heh, maybe you put poison in it." Justine says with a bit of bitterness and mocking in his voice. Then he gets a bowl and takes some soup of what Maria Victorina made. "Wait, why does it have a container here? The eff- do you really know how to cook?" Then he lifts a small container of spices.

"Of course, you need to put pepper on it." And then gives Justine a sullen glance.

"Are you crazy? You only put a bit of pepper, not a pepper container." Mocks Justine

"I-I did put pepper. I-it was just that the container fell off. Besides, there is only some that are left." Maria defensively says.

"Guys, Isn't this Rubix cube?" asks Lorenzo as he lifts the Rubix cube.

"Because the instruction said that you need to put a cube in it," replies Maria Victorina.

"What the eff is going to your mind. What kind of instruction did you read?" asks Justine, only to receive a glare from Maria Victorina.

The next thing that happens, Bryan falls as his mouth starts to foam.

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Everyone is in the living room, waiting for the resident doctor who is checking on Bryan's health?

Maria Victorina is fidgeting while holding the hem of her skirt

"Next time, don't dare try cooking. Please, have mercy at least," Elena as her hand touched her forehead.

Maria looks at her and pouts.

"Not just stop cooking, but never step in the kitchen," Justine, adding oil to the fire.

"Hey! Why? Do you think you can do better?" Maria challenges Justine with her teary eyes.

"Obviously, I can cook far better than you," Justine says as his arm was on the backrest of the sofa.

"Just you watch. I will cook the most delicious food you ever tasted," Maria Victorina says, with a voice full of conviction

"Don't you dare Maria," Elena warns as she glares toward Maria Victorina, while Justine snickers on the side.

"But baby Elle---" Maria Victorina.

"I told you not to call me with such a disgusting name," Elena says as her mouth twitches.

"Ehhh, but you are still our baby." Maria Victorina teases as she pokes Elena's face.

"I'm not a baby. And stop that" Elena says then catches Maria Victoria's finger keeps poking to her cheeks.

Everyone's attention diverts when they hear the sound of incoming footsteps on the stairs. It is the resident doctor who is checking Bryan's health just now.

"Don't worry. Master Bryan is fine now. Just a little bit of a stomach problem." The doctor says as he smiles, behind him is Lee.

"Master Justine and Master Lorenzo, Lady Elena, and Lady Maria. Please take a rest now. Don't worry about Master Bryan. He'll be fine by tomorrow. You should all rest assured." Lee smiles at them.

They all sigh in relief.

"Welp. I'll be sleeping then," says Justine as he waves toward them yawning.

"He really is heartless," Maria Victorina pouts and glares in Justine's direction.

Elena also stands up and walks upstairs, toward her room.

She then remembers her dream just now.

Who is that kid?

Is it her or Maria?

Frustration starts to flow out of her head, as she enters her room.

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It's already 1 am.

Elena is in her room, still can't sleep because of that dream and the crazy things that happen just now.

She sits down then gets off her bed, and wears her jacket, then walks out of her room, going to the swimming pool direction. She needed to pass through the bushes, which were blooming with beautiful kinds of flowers.

Her ears perk up and stop when she hears a sudden noise behind her, and the feeling of someone is peering at her.

"Who are you?!” She then looks around as she ready herself to attack if someone suddenly tries to harm her. “Show out yourself!"

Suddenly something comes out of the bushes.

"Ahcatstreet!" she jumps back in surprise. "Oh, It was just a cat," she sighs as she looks at the black cat that leaps out of the bushes, "And here I thought it was somebody. Haist, Elena, you been thinking way too much lately. Maybe I am just sleepy," she says to herself. "Now, I feel like an idiot talking to myself." She whispers and then decides to enter the mansion again.

Behind the tree, just a meter away from where Elena was, a shadow of a man can be seen, watching Elena enter the mansion.