The Grateful Rejection
Chapter 8

"MAAAAI!! LOOK AT JACOBI! HE ATE MY BACON!" Arora screeched and yelled at Jacob as he smuglyate her bacon

"Eat your own food, dipshit!" Ariana snapped at Andrew as he went to take the sausage kept on herplate. Andrew pouted, "Is this the way to talk to your elder brother, Ari?" Andrew said trying to guilttrip Ariana, who just rolled her eyes, "Well young sister are also not supposed to kick out her ELDERbrother's fling everyday saying they'll call her back" she said making Drew scrunch his face."MAAA!! HE DID IT AGAIN!! I AM GOING TO KICK HIS ASS TO OTHER REALM!" Arora finallysnapped as squirted the bottle of ketchup on her brothers face making his gasp. That's all it took asa fight began, food flying around along with wooden spoon and empty bow. I sat on the couchwith Stephan eating my cereals watching the scene unfold with amusement.

Mom and gone to the pantry to look for something else a few minutes ago as dad wanted to eatsomething different. Dad followed after her as he too wanted to help her.. sureeee. It weirded usout, but we were toooo freaked out to ask.

Ariana threw a poached egg on Andrew, hitting him in the left eye. The yellow yolk slid down hischeeks, leaving a trail of sticky smelly yolk and it got stuck in his beard meanwhile Jacob pouredorange juice all over Arora’s hair, knowing fully well how much she HATES when someone tried toruin her hair. Arora screamed bloody murderer and punched her brother square in his jaw. Andrewsnarled at Ariana and went to kitchen and came out with a bowl that had pancake batter in it.Ariana screeched and ran with Andrew hot in her tail. I heard Stephan belly laugh, I turned to look athim with my mouth full of cereals.

He had his phone out recording everything. I started chewing faster when I heard Ariana yelled ontop of lungs and lunged on Andrew and strated pulling his hair. Andrew grabbed her ankle andpulled her upside down and as she was tightly gripping his hair, him pulling her only resulted inmore hair being pulled out of his scalp. It was all a mess and I was thoroughly enjoying the showwith wide eye and a creepy smile on my face.

Mom came running from pantry with her hair disheveled and lips swollen followed by dad whodidn't look any better.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THIS HOUSE???" Mom yelled making everyone freeze. Mom wasglaring at everyone except for me and Stephan, dad came beside her with a disapproving and..frustrated? Look on his face. Suddenly my nose twitched, I took in the most horrendous smell,Mamma-Papa's arousal.

"MOomm!!" I scrunched up my face in disgust, "Seriously?? When we were literally next door??" Ishuddered in revulsion. I was about to leave when mom's voice boomed, "You're going no whereyoung lady! Stay right there. How do you think we had your siblings??" She snapped at me makingme pout.

She put her hand on her hips, "Line up” she said calmly.

Oh shit!

I heard everyone's heart stop for a second.

"NOW!" She said making us all stand in no order in particular.

"Now who started it?" She asked with a murderous look on her face, making me gulp even though Ididn't do anything.

"Jacob ate my bacon!" Arora said crossing her arms

"She had more bacon than me!" Jacob pointed a finger at Arora.

"Andrew was eating from my plate after he finished his!" Ariana sneered at Drew.

"I was hungry!" Andrew defended himself.

They all said that in the same time then started telling at each other again. I looked at Stephan whohad an annoyed look on his face. Then mom yelled at the four of them and banned them three daysof food from home. Then she looked at the two innocent people in the room, me and Stephan,"And what did you guys do?" She asked raising a brow.

I scratched the back of my neck, "I ate fruity loops" I said not knowing what to say. I saw her lipstwitch in a smile but she controlled it. "I was watching TV" Stephan said with a shrug, "We hadnothing to do with them" he said and walked up stairs.

In the end, the four of them were punished. Yeah, centuries year old were punished.. by theirmother. They had to do all the household errands for the next week. While me and Stephan werebanned tv for not stopping them. I smirked knowingly, who the fuck watches TV nowadays? It's allNetflix baby!

Now before you say how are we still living with our parents, here is the thing.. we all stay in ourparents house for a month every year. It's a tradition, no one can say no. And for the rest of 11months we all stay in different places.

The three of us, Arora, Ariana and me we live in the city. We have our own penthouse that we share,the three of us didn't want to live away from each other so we got a penthouse. Where as the twinslive just few blocks away from us in another penthouse. Stephan on the other hand.. he movesaround here and there, he never stays in one place.

As the clock stuck 8.30 am, I groaned and went to work. I parked my car at the owners parking lotand got out. I looked up at the three floor restaurant that took me years to build, a smile made itsway on my face. The building stands tall and proud, the one sided glass full length window makesthe building look classy and elegance. The ground floor was a bakery, the one mom had openedyears ago, Cakery and the rest of the floor was the restaurant.

I became passionate about cooking when Mom used to bring me here, I would always awe thebakers and the chef in the kitchen. When I turned 19 I asked Mom if I could study culinary. Threeyears after getting my bachelor's degree in culinary, I started to work in her bakery as an employeeand also applied for masters in the same year. That's year Dad gifted me Cakery, I was officially theowner of the bakery.

I was the valedictorian when I graduated my masters, soon after that I began working withinternational chefs while also investing money on expanding the bakery. In the end of that year Idecided to make a restaurant above Cakery, called Aurelia's. So there is a Cakery under a multicuisine restaurant.

Within a year Aurelia's became so famous that it was mentioned as one of the top restaurant in theworld. Months after working with world renounced chef I left and started working full time in theCakery and Aurelia's. I became a food critique just a year ago, it was one of the most prestigioustitle I was ever given

I headed for my office while greeting every employee with cold eyes but a kind smile. As soon as Ireached, I hurriedly changed my clothes to my work clothes, i.e a black chef jacked lined with redand black trousers. Thank God for the uniform is made up of pure cotton or else I would have diedin the kitchen due to heat stroke.

Some of the special treats in the Cakery were only made my me, like gourmet chocolates, cookies,soufflés and Créme brlée. I prepare them every day and keep it in the fridge and when ever acustomer wants to order either soufflés or Créme bralée, they'll be served with ones just out of theoven

There are six chefs with six assistant chefs with each of them. They all make different cuisinesranging from Italian to French to Mughlai and many more. But there is a special menu, thosecuisines are made by me, they are available to customers from 12 pm to 5 pm, after that they won'tget any food made by me.

I start making all the things for the bakery and within two hours I was done with everything, I calledone of the bakers and told him to keep an eye on the cookies. I went inside the kitchen once againa and washed off all the dirty cutleries I used. It was already 12 by the time I went in the restaurant,the rush today was considerably moderate seeing that sometimes people have to stand outside therestaurant in a big line.

I was done from work by 6, I was exhausted by then. I went home slouching accompanied by Arorawho was in the same state. Arora is an accountant in the bakery and restaurant. We came backhome looking like zombies. Mom was sitting on the long couch reading some magazine while Dadwas laying down with his head on mom's lap, watching TV. Mom cooed us both and told us to sitwhile she went to get some water for us. I sat down next to dad and put my head on his shoulder. Itook his hands and played with his fingers. I didn't know when but while playing I dozed off in thewarm embrace of my father.