The clock was at 20 o'clock, I still immersed myself in an online games I recently interested. Just when I'm about to do some raid, I heard a growling sounds. It was my own. It seems I was kinda hungry.

I went AFK and go to kitchen to cook and eat something.

I spotted Stella on the couch, playing with her phone.

"Stella, have you eaten yet? I was gonna cook something."

"Nope. Cook for 1 more portion, please~"

"Sure."

I make something simple because this is already almost into the night, my appetite ain't big at this hours.

I put the food on the dining table.

"The food ready."

" 'Kay~"

She sat down.

"what is this haha"

"some say, cooking equal to experiments, so I just....you know, trying things."

When I look into my "experiments" again, I guess that response was...understandable?

"What the heck was that? This is really, I don't know."

"Don't worry, at very least it was edible enough."

"Wait, this is actually nice. what."

"Happy to hear that, but for me, this isn't salty enough. Gonna add some for my own."

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"You really is weird, have anyone told that to you?"

"No, but I kept telling myself that exact line~"

"Hahaha."

The dining table was lively for once.

"Well, I guess I'm also weird for liking you~"

"There's no such thing as 'weird for liking something', that just human nature."

There is smile from her face.

"Okay, mr. Professor."

Her laughter follows after such sarcastic remarks.

It seems that I was genuinely showing faint smile expression to her, if I took her expression as basis as I can't see myself without a mirror.

"Your smile is nice you know? Should've let it out some more~"

"Then, make me do it."

Such events was repeated with some slight changes, but repetition of doing things together bring comfort and happiness.

We tries to always priority doing something together, I doing it for her's sake, and she said it was so I'm not lonely. But we still give each other some personal time simply because I asked her for it. Is this what a relationship was, or this is an anomaly? I don't know, I'm not everyone that experience everything, so this is my reality at very least.