The Hidden Luna

Chapter 15 The gym

I woke up from another dreamless night. My alarm was going of loudly and it was doing my head in already. I rolled over and turned it off. I looked at the time, 4:30am, I sighed and pulled myself out of bed. I walked over to my draws and was just about to grab my clothes for the day. As I opened my underwear draw, I caught sight of the letter from Jackson. I did start to want to actually see him and thank him for returning my book.

“Yes please, I want to gawk at him some more.” Star whined. She was a very love struck puppy.

I grabbed all my clothes for today and started to get dressed. My muscles ached really bad for no reason. There was no explanation as I hadn’t been to the gym yet. I hadn’t had any time spare. I headed out to the kitchen. I had promised the Alpha that I would do cinnamon muffins today and was going to try and make some cinnamon swirls too. The recipe looked easy enough.

“Star, hopefully we will make it to the gym tonight. What you think?” I asked her as I walked to the kitchen.

“Really? yeah That sounds good to me Lauren.” She said back half-heartedly.

“Are you ok? You have been really quite for the past few days.” I said honestly. She was normally on point at all time but the past few days she was tired and not really interested in much. I was getting worried about her. I was even considering going to the pack doctor for advise but it would be a big risk.

“I will be fine; I am still recovering from taking over your body I think.” She told me with a big yawn.

Just then I arrived at the kitchen. I told her to rest and I would speak to her later. She nodded slightly and curled back up in the back of my mind.

I got started straight away getting the ingredients out for the muffins and cinnamon swirls. It would take around an hour to make the puff pastry, so I started with that. I was the only one in the kitchen. I got straight on with my work and didn’t even hear Chloe and the others come into the kitchen.

She made me jump when she touched my shoulder and then laughed at me. That started me laughing too. We all got on with our jobs and we talked about random stuff. Chloe couldn’t wait to try the cinnamon swirls.

I put the pastry into the fridge to rest while I started on the first batch of muffins. Within minutes the kitchen smelled like Christmas. I put the first batch of muffins into the oven and while the second batch were mixing, I took the pastry out the fridge.

“Well it looks like pastry.” Chloe said optimistic.

“We won’t know if it has worked until I cook them. I took the mixture of muffins out of the mixer and put them into the cases. I checked on the first batch as I put the second batch in. They needed a little longer at the moment.

I placed the pastry onto my counter and split it into 6. I then rolled the first one out as thin as I dare and sprinkled the cinnamon powder over the top with sugar, then rolled it up tightly and cut it into 12 single swirls. I took out the first muffins and replaced them with the first swirls.

“Fingers crossed this works.” I said as I closed the oven door.

“How long will they take?” Chloe asked me.

“About 8 minutes.” I replied. I had never made puff pastry before so was hoping they worked.

“Are you going to prepare the rest while you wait?” One of the other girls asked me, her name was Sarah.

“Not until I know it will work.” I told her. “I don’t want to waste the pastry if it doesn’t work, I can use it for something else.” I added.

I put the muffins onto one of the trays and took them out to the dining room. I came back into the kitchen and Chloe had a huge smile on her face.

“Look through the Glass Lauren.” She said all exited.

“Ok, ok, I am doing.” I told her. I walked towards the oven and bent to look through the glass. All 12 of the swirls were looking puffed up big style. They had another few moments in there before I was going to take them out. The second batch of muffins should be finished at same time. I got the trays ready to put them onto.

After waiting for a few minutes, I took the muffins out and then the swirls. They were triple the size than when I put them in. I took them off the cooking tray and put them on a wire rack to cool. I rolled out the remaking pastry and did the same until I had 72 swirls made and I put them in the oven, once I had a cooled one, I asked Chloe to try it.

“Omg, I have died n gone to heaven.” She said moaning while chewing the swirl.

“Are they ok?” I asked her giggling. She nodded furiously and took another big bite. I placed the cooled swirls on the waiting tray and took them out to the dining room. When I got back to the kitchen, I noticed the time. 6.45am. Chloe looked as if she was a little behind, so I went straight to help her while I cooked the swirls in two batches. After we completed everything, we cleared all the stations, and I pulled out the ingredients for the cakes I had planned to do in preparation for lunch.

“Let me help you now!” Chloe said.

“Ok I will, but only for today. You have enough work to do...” I told her sternly.

Chloe made the Victoria sponge cakes and I did two massive chocolate cakes. With two of us on it we had spare time so I did some chocolate fudge cake. I made a bit extra on purpose so the kitchen staff could all have some.

I finished all the cleaning and tidying up at just past 12, I put the cakes to be taken out at lunch and the fudge cakes went in a storage container ready for supper. Chloe was just doing lunch time bits, but I left a note on top of the fudge cake saying it was for the staff.

I went up to my room and changed into clean clothes and headed down to the gym. There were changing rooms and showers there. I had taken everything I would need, hopefully. I got changed into the gym clothes and put all my other bits in my locker.

I saw myself in a mirror before I went into the actual gym.

“Dam we look good!” star declared.

“A bit too revealing for me Star.” I told her. I was not one to show much skin, so this was all new. I walked into the actual gym and looked around. My hopes were that 99% of people would be at lunch and I was actually right.

“This place is huge.” I said, looking around the room.

“This place is awesome.” Was Star’s reply. She was happy to be in here.