Heating up the Kitchen 2

Chapter Two

Gina sat in her room after working in the cooking building on her recipe for finals. She had three weeks to perfect it, and she would need almost all of the time. She had designed the cake to be five layers of different flavors. She wanted to try something new, something that wasn’t anything she had tried before. She designed the outside of it as simply as she could, but she knew she needed something that would set the whole thing apart from all the others. She continued to look at the design and knew it wasn’t the design on the cake she wanted to think about. It was a certain blue-eyed man who had called a few days ago.

She had talked to her mother, who laughed and said it, of course, would be okay if she spent the time over at Maleek’s house instead of the family’s house. Her newest brothers and sister were still so young that she didn’t know how to relate to them. The fact was tha