After taking a well-deserved shower, Malindi made her way downstairs. She decided that it would be a good time to start making dinner. Ever since Malindi's mother had left, the three remaining members of Maison Marino had devised a scheme for who was going to make dinner and when. It was her turn to cook this week.
She made her way into the kitchen without stopping to acknowledge her sister, who was currently sat in front of the flat screen television, catching up on Slanderous Schoolgirl. She knew what she wanted to cook fish and quickly got started by gathering all the ingredients she would need to make the meal from the fridge. Malindi took a bowl from one of the overhead cabinets, into which she poured out an entire bottle of lemon sauce.
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After chopping off the head, she removed the skin and deboned it. When that was done, she took the fish and plopped it into the lemon sauce bowl. She used her fingers to ensure that the entire fish was coated. She turned the stove on and let the fish sit in the bowl for an hour.
She grabbed a frying pan, gently rubbed olive oil onto it and put it on the stove. She picked up a bottle of German white wine called Auslese and then poured a little into the pan. She took the fish out of the lemon sauce and placed it in the pan, letting it cook until it was a full crisp.
After the fish had finished cooking, she put it in the centre of a large dish, sprinkling thyme on it. Around the plate, she placed small helpings of caviar and surrounded the whole thing with lettuce dipped in vinegar. She called everyone to the dining room once the table had been set. Everyone must have been pretty hungry because they ate their dinner in relative silence. Malindi learned long ago that a quiet dinner table meant that the food was really good, or everyone was really hungry. In this case, it was
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Please don't do this to me. Please don't leave," she begged as Tucker turned away from her. "I love you," she whispered.
Her heart thumped in her chest when he turned back towards her slowly. When he met her gaze, she noticed tears forming. Was he crying? Why would he be crying? What reason could he possibly have to be sad? "No. You can't love me. I'm a monster," he managed to choke out.
She rolled her eyes. Not this again. "You're not a monster."
He nodded. "I'm an abomination," he shouted. "I don't deserve you."
She nodded. "Yeah, you don't deserve me. That part is completely true, but the first part of your sentence isn't." He laughed despite trying to keep a straight face. She smiled at his reaction and continued her speech. "You're not a monster. I would never be in love with you if you were one!" She declared, slowly closing the distance between them. He didn't move or reply in any way. He was completely still. "No amount of time spent with you will ever be enough, but we will start with forever," she said, stealing a line from the popular teen book Dawn is Breaking. She reveled in the fact that Tucker wouldn't know that, he hated teen fiction and steered clear from it. He would simply assume she was trying to be