301: Staircase Scene

Staircase Scene

The Spark Restaurant, Elffire City.

The night service ended after Theo and the rest cooked the last dessert to be served, but the night was far from over for them.

"You guys think you can handle the dinner by yourselves?" Theo asked his cooks as he observed them cooking some dishes.

"Sure, chef! You can go take a rest and we will be there in a little bit with the dinner." Kimiko replied with a smile.

The thing was that instead of going home after their work was done, that Saturday night they would have dinner together on the exclusive third floor of the restaurant.

They combined this dinner in the morning, so everyone knew about it even if they were not there when this dinner was combined.

After Theo and the girls had breakfast, Sam sent a message in their chat group warning everyone.

That was how everyone knew about it.

"Okay." Theo replied with a laugh as he washed his hands.

"We will wait for you guys up there." Ayia exclaimed with a smile.

Shortly after, Theo and Ayia walked toward the service elevator.

But when they got there...

"It seems it is occupied." Theo commented as he looked at the elevator display.

"It is probably one of the waiters bringing some dirty dishes from the private rooms." Ayia reasoned.

"How about we climb the stairs instead?" He suggested.

"Great idea! Let's go!" Ayia said with her usual lively voice.

Theo laughed and followed the girl.

They exited the kitchen and entered the hall, most of the clients already left, and just a few were still enjoying their drinks as they talked.

Theo and Ayia did not them much attention as they were already used to being distant from the clients.

Even when the clients wanted to congratulate him or Ayia, they politely refused to meet them.

The two of them just wanted to enjoy their cooking time.

But when they were about to climb the stairs, Theo saw some girls he knew.

"You arrived at the right time." He smiled as he watched Sam and Sayuri walking toward them.

"Of course! We want to enjoy some good food." Sam giggled.

"There is no way we would arrive late for such an event." Sayuri commented with a giggle.

"Hey, girls! Let's go! Kimiko and the others will come with the food in a bit." Ayia smiled and pulled Sam and Sayuri up the stairs.

Theo laughed and followed the girls upstairs.

A while later, everyone gathered in the dining room on the third floor.

As it was said before, this was the best room in the restaurant.

Starry ceiling, flowers throughout the wall, frescoes, comfy chairs, mahogany tables, and so on.

Theo, Ayia, Sayuri, and Sam arrived first.

Then June and Aurora arrived shortly later.

And finally Kimiko, Shoko, Max, Lauren, Gwen, and Kin arrived at last bringing the dinner.

It was Hideko and Tim's day off, so that's why they were absent, but they would enjoy dinner, nonetheless.

It was some modified lasagna and modified sea soup.

They were not as pretty as the ones served in the restaurant, but they were even more delicious.

It could be said that these versions were not orthodox.

"Wow! It smells amazing!" Sam exclaimed as she watched the food being placed on the table.

"Of course! We worked hard to cook this!" Shoko exclaimed with a giggle.

The others agreed and looked at Theo.

They were waiting for him to say something before they started eating.

Theo smiled and immediately understood the meaning of their stares, "Let's eat, shall we? I'm famished!"

"Let's do this!"

"I'm so hungry!"

"Me too! I only ate some potato chips at home before I came."

"At least you ate! I had to work for hours cooking food and not being able to eat!"

"How can you lie so blatantly!? You told me yourself that you often tasted the food you cook!"

"Ops, I guess I forgot I told you that."

Theo and the rest of them had a lively dinner full of waves of laughter and warmth.

They were between friends.

While a lively and enjoyable dinner was happening on the third floor of the restaurant, in the main hall of the place, six girls stood up from their seats as they walked toward the exit of the restaurant.

They had just paid their bill, but that was not their focus.

Their focus was on the scene they had just witnessed.

"Oh my god! You girls saw what I saw!?" Brianna exclaimed in bewilderment.

"Of course we did! But I still can't believe it!" Araya replied with an equally shocked voice.

"The boss! That was the boss, right?" Mitsue asked in wonder as she remembered the scene that happened a few minutes ago.

"It was definitely the boss. But what was he doing here?" Zofia asked in puzzlement.

"Wait a minute. You are telling me that godly handsome man that I just saw is the boss of the studio. THE boss, the owner?" Kanai asked with widened eyes and blushed cheeks.

"I think I understand why you talk about him so much." Emina commented with blushed cheeks.

Kanai and Emina felt their hearts beating faster just by remembering the silver-haired man's features.

"Of course! I guess... But there is a way to confirm if it is indeed the boss." Brianna said with a thoughtful face as they arrived at the entrance hall.0

The girls did not understand what Brianna meant, but when the blonde girl walked toward the reception counter, they followed behind her curiously.

"Excuse me? Would you mind telling me who is the silver-haired man wearing black clothes that we just saw leaving the kitchen?" Brianna asked the greeter.

The greeter was taken by surprise by the sudden question, but when he heard Brianna's description, he knew exactly who she was talking about.

"That was our Head Chef." The greeter replied with a smile.

"What's his name?" She asked with a voice filled with curiosity.

"Theodore Gray, he is our Head Chef." The greeter replied with a professional and calm smile.

But as soon as the girls heard the name, their bewilderment only intensified.

"Thank you!" Brianna managed to say as she asked the other employee for her coat.

Even though she seemed calm, her heart was nothing like that.

Theo's image in her heart only became more shining.

The girls also followed Brianna's example and also got their coats as they talked about the exciting subject.

"Oh my god! That was indeed the boss!" Zofia exclaimed.

"Yes, the boss' name is Theodore Gray. There was no way that there are two godly handsome silver-haired men with the same name." Mitsue commented with a dreamy voice.

"Are you telling me that besides being a genius animator, he's also a genius chef?" Araya asked in disbelief.

"The delicious food we just ate was made by him?" Brianna asked in a low voice.

"Remember what the waiter said? Most of the original dishes we ate were created by the head chef, the boss!" Kanai commented in wonder.

Only when they heard Kanai's words that they remembered what the waiter said.

And they became even more shocked by this realization.

How could someone be so talented?

A while later, the girls left the restaurant after ordering a car service.

But throughout the whole journey back to the dorms, they talked in excited voices about the boss.

The night ended with the girls dreaming about their handsome boss.

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