25 Stairs!!!

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After Doujima's announcement, the students were in their kitchen doing the test runs in preparation for the breakfast assignment. This assignment is not like any other one they did before. They need to come up with a new breakfast menu to please customers they know nothing about. Sleepless, tired, anxious, afraid and desperate. All students share the same feelings...Well, most of them, The talented one like the Nakiris and Alexander group and Soma's group are doing okay.

Alexander's group was already finished from their tests. Well, Alexander didn't do any test runs, he just thought about the ingrediants and accompanied the Aldini's brothers. He was bored and there was no one to stay with him, even Alice was doing test runs and didn't allow for him to accompany her.

At least Takumi is fun to hang out with.

Soma and his group were in the middle of completing their test runs. Soma got his ingrediants to make the dish he thought about after what his father said to him in the past.

"Yosh! Let's try this." Soma materialized his plan in his head and took the ingredients to make his breakfast egg dish.

"Hmmm~♪ " Soma was surprised when he saw Alice on the other side of his kitchen looking at his dish, she had a slight smile on her mouth as she hummed a song.

"Oh! You're my brother's friend, how is it going?" Soma snapped from his moment of shock and greeted Alice who still looking at him.

"Yes, It is me, Alexander's future girlfriend, nice to meet you again, Brother-in-law." Alice gave Soma one glance with her blood eyes before she returns her gaze at his dish.

"Girlfriend?! I never said that!" Soma thought in his head. He was going to say something but Alice beat him first.

"Are you sure about this?" She said pointing at his dish, her smile never left her face.

"Yeah! I'm pretty confident in this."

"It is a pretty good dish...But...Never mind, you'll realize soon." Alice left Soma's kitchen leaving Soma to think about her weird words and their meaning but he doesn't seem to realize it.

When Alice went back to her kitchen, she saw Ryo in his berserker mode yelling as he tests his egg dish " FUCKING DELISH!!!" She reached for his headband and took it off him as he calmed down.

"My lady..." he turned to her with dead eyes " Where did you go?" he asked.

"Nothing far, I just visited my future brother in law." She said making Ryo think " She is still going with that."

"And why did you do that?"

Alice chuckled at Ryo and gestured for him so they can leave " I just wanted to see how is he doing, but it seems this is as far as he can go in this camp." Alice gave a slightly dark smile " Even if he is Alex-chan's brother, he doesn't seem to have inherited his family cooking skills."

On the other side, Soma gave a hard sneeze " Someone is praising my skills!" he said.

On Alexander's side, he is sitting on a chair while rotating in his place. Takumi was still doing some final touches to improve his dishes look to make it pleasing to the eye. They say the eyes eat first before the mouth.

"Hey, Takumi, are you still not done yet? "Alexander was dying from boredom. He even started noticing small black spots on the walls of the hotel. That's how bored he is.

Not yet, I'll still be here for a while, so you can leave..."Said Takumi, he spread some spices on his dish and that's when he remembered: " HEY!!! what about your testing runs, you've been here all the time." Takumi turned at Alexander with shocked eyes, the guy was here for about 3 hours, he didn't even touch one spoon.

"What? is it that hard...This assignment." Said Alexander, he took one Takumi's dishes and started eating

"Of course it is. If you didn't make a plan beforehand will cause big time trouble, and we even need to make a new menu!!!" He shouted as he shook Alexander by his collar.

"oi!! you'll drop the food, man!!"

"That is not important you ironhead!!" Takumi was about to strangle the guy from how casual he is about this.

"Take it easy, I already have a menu in mind. Besides, all you need to do is to visualize and try to foresee the situation, if you're confident in your menu, the customers will flood in. You're just overreacting, Takumi." Alexander shrugged, he was in a similar situation two years ago, he had to host a breakfast menu in his family's hotel in Moscow for an important day in their country.

"Anyway, go prepare yourself, I don't want to see you walking around the kitchen." Takumi snatched the dish from Alexander as he pushed him out of the hall.

"PREPARE!!" he shouted.

Alexander was standing outside the hall like an abandoned kitten. He put his hands in his pants and walked away "Guess I'll sleep." He headed to his room with a dejected expression. Unlike everyone here, Alexander had plenty of sleeping in this camp, whenever he had the chance to sleep he would, unlike the other students who were too anxious to even close their eyes.

Alexander made his way to the nearest Elevator, when he reached it, he saw a green haired boy pressing some buttons, the boy had an annoyed face "Damn it!! I just wanted to reach my bed faster." the boy hit the elevator door with anger.

"What is wrong?" Alexander asked the boy who turned to look at him with his eyes red. Alexander thought it was from being sleepless.

"The elevator is under maintenance now, it won't open." The boy said with a shaky voice, his hands are trembling "Guess, we can only use the stairs." he said.

Alexander frowned at that, his room is on the 74th floor and they are now on the 20th floor.

"Oooi!!" Another boy came from behind running at them, he had black hair "I asked the staff and they said that all the elevators are under maintenance, they will be back to work in 2 hours." He stopped in front of them to catch his breath.

"Are you for real?!!" The green haired boy said with disbelieve.

"Well, let's just use the stairs, I don't want to stay here for two hours." Alexander turned to the stairs and climbed up with the other two boys in front of him.

"Man, I can't believe that they made us spend 6 hours without sleeping just to make breakfast. And not only that, they said we need to bring up a new menu, do they think we're some kind of robots that can work tirelessly." The green haired boy complained. It sounds like he was talking with the everyone but he was only talking with the other boy, they seem to know each other. from the looks they give each other occasionally, Alexander concluded that.

"If you can't take this, you can drop out at any time you know." The black haired boy said with a harsh tone.

"WHAT?! are you saying I don't deserve to be here." the green haired boy looked at his friend with a threatening look.

"All I am saying is that all of the 2nd year students went through this, maybe you're not fit to be a chef."

The argument becomes a lot more intense, Alexander wished he wasn't here. It was so awkward. Like your friend is being yelled at by his parents and you have to just sit there and watch with a blank face.

"APOLOGIZE TO ME NOW!!" The green haired boy caught his friend by his collar and pushed him against the wall.

Alexander becomes worried, they are on the stairs. If they fought they'll end up falling.

"Hey, you two, this is dangerous. You should stop." Alexander went up to them to try and stop the fight before anything bad happen.

"NEVER, YOU'VE BEEN LIKE THIS SINCE WE ENROLLED!! MAYBE YOU SHOULD JUST GIVE UP!!!" The black haired guy pushed his friend away from him causing him to crash into Alexander who was trying to help them.

At that moment, an unfortunate thing happened, Because the boy was pushed at him unexpectedly, Alexander was pushed back and his feet slipped on the edge of one step, his feet were twisted and he was falling back.

Realizing he was falling, Alexander quickly covered his head with his arms to not hit the floor and he may end up with some serious injury.

He rolled down to the ground from 123 steps to the floor, his body was getting harmed from the fall as his speed was increasing.

When he reached the ground and stopped rolling, Alexander was fortunate that he didn't hit his head but he suffered multiple injuries on his body. He tried and immediately felt pain in his leg but it wasn't any bad injury, it was just a little twist from earlier, it will be alright after a few minutes his leg was giving him hell. The problem is His left arm seems to have a crack in the bone as he can't move it without feeling hellish pain.

"OH MY GOD!!! ARE YOU OKAY?!" The green haired boy who was pushed against him came down with his friend to help Alexander. "I really didn't mean it, i'm really sorry, please forgive us."

"It's okay, just call someone for help, I can't move my body," Alexander grunted from pain, If anyone was in his place they would've passed a long time ago and wouldn't even be able to protect their head.

The green haired boy left running to call for someone to help him, his black-haired friend stayed with Alexander and was still begging him to not make the school expel them. His eyes were desperate and he was sweating from head to toe.

"Just shut up, my whole body is giving me pain, I don't want to talk." Alexander was annoyed by the pain and the boy in front of him

Soon, people arrived and carried Alexander to the infirmary to give him first aids treatment. Doujima came after he heard a student fell down the stairs. When he found it was Alexander that was hurt, his shock was beyond belief. He prayed that this wasn't caused by anything related to his hotel. No one could imagine how relieved he was when he heard that there was just a small fight between students that caused this.

"Doctor, how is his situation?" Doujima asked the doctor who was done patching Alexander's hand.

"He is okay, the only problem is that he has a small crack in his arm bone from the strong impact. It will take a few weeks before it is healed completely, but for now, it is adviced that he doesn't do any hard labor." The doctor looked at Alexander who was very annoyed at his arm being harmed, especially at this crucial time.

Doujima asked the doctor a few more questions before he asked for him to leave them alone

"Are you okay, if you feel like you need to go to the hospital, please tell me." Doujima walked to Alexander's bed and asked, he was really worried about his health. If word reached his mother or worse his grandfather, there is no telling what can happen.

"Nah! it's good, but what about the assignment? did the doctor say anything?"

"About that..That would be hard with just one hand, I'm afraid that I can't allow you to participate." Said Doujima with a tone filled with regret.

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