Creative Writing: Chocolate Chip Cookies

That leaves me with two bags. I know one is going to be for me, but who should the other one be for…? I thought for a few minutes, and came up with Klaus. Eh, why not? I may not like him very much, but maybe cookies will soften his attitude. Hey, don’t underestimate the power of perfectly made chocolate chip cookies. They better be perfect if I made them--I’ve been making chocolate chip cookies since I was two. I even created the perfect recipe for homemade by tweaking my mother’s recipe and many trial and errors.

Carefully putting them into the top of my bag, I headed down to breakfast. It was about six-forty, and there were a good deal more students here than there were at six. Not tons, just more. According to Isa, the breakfast rush

She smiles as she accepts one.

“Thank you. I’ve been wanting to try some of your sweets--my sister just loves them. I think she brags about your cooking more than our grandmother does about us.” I laughed, remembering how Sarah told me about her doting grandma.

“Wow. I knew she liked them, but not that much.”

Isa smiled, “I’ve got to be going, I’m helping a teacher set up class today, and I just dropped by the dorm to return something to a friend. See you.”

“Bye.” I returned my attention back to Amelia. “Sorry ‘bout that.”

Amelia looked surprised, “You’re friends with Isabelle Ravenswood?”

“Yeah, it turns out that she’s the younger sister of one of my sister-in-laws.”

“That is so cool! She’s one of the most popular girls in school! Everyone loves her.”

“I can see why. She’s pretty awesome and really nice. People like her are easily liked.”

“Many of the underclassmen either want to be like her or are in love with her. She’s just as famous as the Emperor, though for very different reasons.”

“Yeah, like instead of mean and harsh, she’s nice and kind.”

“You just attract the well-loved and powerful people, don’t

You’re being too hard on yourself.” Amelia exclaimed.

“Eh, not really. You should see me on April Fools’ day. You wouldn’t think so highly of me then.”

…. …. ….

I went to my class and gave people their treats. Elias looked downright happy--in his reserved manner--and Yukiya even smiled! It made me feel accomplished. Heck, I even got Luca to stay in all of our classes, with the exception of Professor G’s, with the promise of more sweets to come--he looked bored at points, but it was progress!

After school I went to the prefect’s office again. I just straightened up without asking so I could get started on my homework as soon as possible. I managed to get nearly two thirds of it done before Klaus said it was time to start training. I was pretty proud of myself.

Today wasn’t a practical magic day. It was focused on history for the first hour, non-magic pharmaceutics for the second hour, and we spent another hour and a half on magic circles. That took longer because had to go really slow with my copying of patterns or I knew it’d look wrong. But overall, Klaus actually seemed pleased. He even praised how well I knew herbs--it made me really happy for some reason. I decided to give him the cookies before I left, at about