"Cupid!"
"Are you looking for Cupid?" One of the members of Class A-2 poked his head out of the door and asked.
"Um…I need his help. Have you seen him around?"
"No, he seems to have gone somewhere."
"Oh…Well then, thank you."
"You're welcome."
After that person left the Class A-2 hallway, the student of Class A-2 turned around and asked the Class A-2 class president, who was still arranging documents, to report to the student council.
"Hey, class president?"
"What's the matter?"
"Have you seen Cupid? Nova kept disappearing from class two days ago, and now even Cupid is nowhere to be found…?"
"Uh…" he closed his eyes and thought for a while, then the class president said, "It's almost the season…"
"What season? Season…season of love?!"
"Stop with the nonsense…the festival is coming soon. As usual, we will have the winter festival first, the school will hold all kinds of sports activities, and then at the Spring festival, where we will award prizes to the winning class, then…"
"I know, I know everything about this, stop suddenly teaching me about this…it's a bit off-topic…"
"You still don't understand…?" The class president sighed: "The person who is both free and willing to work the hardest, the most suitable person to ask for help for the festival…is Cupid."
"Huh?!"
"You guys never work, you're always saying 'I'd rather sit back and solve math problems', 'I already have the homework, I can't help you guys'. No wonder some of the weaker classes are also being favored by the teachers. Every year, every class has to join the sports festival. Last year, Cupid was also the one who won second place in the running competition."
"Second place!…wow…"
"Are you done talking? I still have to submit this to the student council."
"Ah…sorry, sorry…"
Walking out of the hallway with a stack of papers in hand, he walked through the club corridor to the student council room.
"This is the class president of class A-2, I came to submit a report on the high point of class A-2 student…" The class president was suddenly stunned by the scene he encountered when he opened the door to the student council room.
Is that…Cupid?!
Cupid was holding a tray with little cakes on it, wearing a pink apron with cute white flower patterns, and his hair was all tied up.
The vice president of the student council was sitting at her desk, hand reaching out to take a cake from the tray, but also froze when she saw the door suddenly open.
Everyone looked at each other, frozen for a while, until the student council president spoke up.
"Riley…how many times have I told you to knock before entering if you come in to deliver a report."
"Ah…I'm sorry, President!"
"It's okay, it's okay. Oh, and can you give me one to try, too? I just finished making tea."
Cupid, still expressionless as usual, without any sign of surprise, walked over and handed the tray of cakes in front of the student council president.
Since when were a student in his class forced to be slaves to make cakes for the student council president?! Riley smiled but screamed loudly inside.
I mean…the student council has the right to ask other students for help if needed, but…isn't this a bit too much?!
"You can only take one." Cupid said
"Can I choose a pretty one?" The president asked with a smile
"Okay." Cupid nodded in response.
H…he acts so friendly with them too!!!
"Ah…it's not like what you think…" the vice president awkwardly explained after finishing the cake she had just taken from Cupid: "Cupid just invited us to eat cake…then this bastard president said that this cake should be eaten with tea, so he runs into the room, took out a cup of tea and made it himself…"
"Would you like some tea? Rose?"
"Not now!" The vice president slammed the table and shouted loudly, causing the class president of class A-2, Riley, to turn pale: "Get back to work! We still have a lot of things to finish before today, please go back to your desk and start writing!!!"
Cupid walked up to Riley, gave him a cake: "This is for class president." and walked out of the room.
"C…Cupid!" Before Riley could turn around, he suddenly remembered that he still had paperwork to submit to the student council…
The president still had a bright smile on his face as if he didn't even hear what the vice president said: "It seems like the cooking club is preparing cakes for the upcoming festival. Ahh~ It's almost time to eat delicious food again, I hope he comes back with a new tray of cakes~ By the way, is he a student in your class?"
"Yes…yes! That's right."
"Uh…I don't remember any students from class A-2 joining the cooking club…"
"Get back to work, you lazy bastard!!!" Rose continued to scream, making Riley wish he could dig a hole to hide right on the spot…
-o-
"Oh…Cupid! How did you give out all the cakes so quickly?" Yunne was surprised to see Cupid return with an empty tray in his hands.
"The student council president made tea to eat with the cake so it took a while…"
"S…student council president?!" Yunne opened her mouth wide: "C…Cupid how did you get in there?! Why did you…no, nothing…it's fine…it's just that I didn't expect you to go all the way there to offer cake…"
"The president was bringing some documents back to his room when he saw me walking by with a tray of cake so he asked if it was from the cooking club, I said yes and he thought to himself "Oh, this goes delicious with tea" and told me to go to the student council room and wait for him to make tea."
"Oh…so that's how it is…"
"I don't like drinking tea so I refused."
"Huh…!" Yunne jumped up in surprise: "To even refuse the president…that's amazing…what an iron spirit, Cupid."
"President or not, he's still a human being, right?"
"Uh…that's not it…if you don't know, usually when the council president invites someone to drink tea with him means that they're in trouble, it's rare to see him invite tea this way…but it looks like he's in a good mood today, I was worried that I might get you into trouble…look like you doing things just fine." Yunne sighed, took the tray of cakes, and put it back in the club room: "Anyway, thank you very much."
"It's nothing."
It all started with a walk around Cupid's hallway when suddenly a hand appeared out of nowhere, grabbed Cupid's hand, someone's gloomy whispering voice said: "Help…help me…Cupid!"
And who could have thought it would be Yunne. Most of the other members were busy, but the dessert cake selection for the upcoming Spring Festival had not been completed yet, so Yunne asked for Cupid's help.
In return, Yunne would make pudding for Cupid using the remaining ingredients.
"I've finished this sample! Please go and consult everyone for me, I also have to take notes on the recipe."
"Isn't the recipe already in the book...?"
"Well…the book only have some basic knowledge. You have to note down the exact amount of ingredients I used to make the cake, what's off, what's extra. If the sample I made suits everyone's taste, then when the Spring Festival comes around, I'll use this note to make that type of cake again."
"So persistent…but good for you, I guess…"
"Sorry…you're the only one I can ask for help, other is either busy for reject it…so sorry…"
"There's no need to feel bad about it, I've already taken the job, might as well finish it."
Cupid took the tray of cakes and invited everyone to eat, but he actually just wandered around; whoever wanted to eat could take it. The reason he wore the extra apron was just to make it look more appropriate, and he thought the apron was quite cute…
"That belongs to…oh well, that person isn't here so if you want it, go ahead, it does make it look like you're really from the cooking club handing out cakes. And it looks cute on you…hehe…"
"C…cute…I'll wear it."
"If…if you want to…I won't force you so…"
"I'll wear it!" Cupid said
Thus Cupid's adventure began.
"Oh my god! A…school idol offers cake…I have to eat it right now?!" Nana, the girl from the school's newsroom who had interviewed Cupid, exclaimed, then took two or three more for the other members of the newsroom.
"Hey, Cupid- Um!" Heos, who had just approached Cupid to greet him, was stuffed with a piece of cake into his mouth.
"You look so cute with that apron on!" The girl who had been helped by Cupid in the past passed by and also stopped to eat one.
"Are you still having fun? Hanging out with your boyfriend and stuff?" Cupid asked.
"Uh, him? Oh, we broke up."
"Oh…"
"It…it's okay, it's because we're not compatible and it's almost exam season so we need our time to focus on studying." She hurriedly comforted Cupid and took two more cakes: "Here, wait a minute, I'll ask my classmates for you and then get everyone's opinion on it, how's that?."
"Hm…?"
"Aren't you going to ask everyone's opinion about this cake?"
"Ah…I almost forgot."
"You forgot…?! Seriously..." Shrugging it off, she handed the cake to her friend and quickly turned back: "It's delicious, but it's a bit dry in the mouth."
"Thank you for your help."
"It's nothing, have a nice day."
"You too."
Yunne listened to everyone's opinions through Cupid, nodded, and wrote them down in her notebook.
"Then… I guess we should serve it with drinks." Yunne then turned back to look at Cupid: "Thank you very much for your help today… I'm bothering you again…"
"It's okay, handing out cakes is fun." Cupid also ate two of them himself, it wasn't his fault though, they just look so…edible.
"I'm just curious, but…you want me to make this much pudding for someone? Or is it all yours?"
"Uhm… this is for my mom, this is for my brother, this is for Nova, this is for…" Oh well, Heos can starve… "And this is for you."
"H…huh? I get to have one too?… But I was the one who asked you to help…you can take it all, as a gift…"
"No, consider this a reward for your hard work in making cakes today."
"T…thank you. Sorry, I'm the one who owes you a favor again…"
"Do you want another one? For…that close friend you mentioned the other day." Cupid handed Yunne two boxes of pudding.
"Oh, sure! She likes any cake I make, she…did say so herself..."
"You two sure are good friends."
"Yeah, we get that a lot. When I made cake, she looked happy and said everything I made is delicious, so…I'll always leave out for her, it's kinda a habit now."
"And that one?" Cupid pointed to the special pudding, which was bigger than the rest Yunne had made for him.
"T…this one…this one is…"
"Is?"
"M…made for…" Yunne's voice suddenly became small: "N…Nova…"
"Oh."
-o-
Heos was currently being overworked by his own classmate, because class A-1 was the top class in the school, so almost half of the class had gone to the excellent student exam.
They were buried in books all day, studying in the morning, studying at noon, studying in the afternoon, studying at night...so the remaining members of the class were assigned to do the work whether they wanted to or not.
He had to return a few books that the class had borrowed from the library. Sighing, he wondered why it had to be him...
Cupid had just stuffed a slightly dry cake into his mouth a few hours ago...then he was dragged away to work instead of the other members of the class, without even taking a sip of water...
Luckily, there was a public water dispenser in the library!
After returning the books, he happily ran over, took a cup, and quickly drank a full glass of water.
His eyes glanced around the library, thinking about whether he should borrow a book to read or...
But then, the water he had just drunk was sprayed out of his mouth...
N... Nova?!
Nova was sitting reading a book near the window, in the silent atmosphere, only the sound of breathing and the sound of pages turning over and over... Nova sat there pensively studying for the upcoming test.
T...today is...Friday?! Cupid had once told him that Nova would usually go to the library to study on Fridays... why did he forget, why did he remember it just now... oh no! Oh god no!!!
He wanted to run away, run far away, but this dam leg just wouldn't move...dam it... Well... just stand here... and watch Nova for a bit... maybe... maybe everything will be fine...
Heos started to regret it just a few seconds later... and started screaming... feeling like his chest was about to explode...
SOMEONE, PLEASE SAVE ME…!!