Becoming The Rich Heroine

CHAPTER 15 : ALGAZ

"Argh! f**k, it's really hurt…" Bella was moaning in pain. She was actually still hurting, but the rage earlier made her not feel anything.

"The bruise isn't fully healed yet, but that Rasoline b***h slapped me instead. Dammit!" Bella angrily lamented while looking at herself in the mirror. She was in the lavatory with Sherla.

Bella immediately left for the lavatory instead of the infirmary with an excuse that she was sick, with Sherla following her.

"By the way, let's go to the cafeteria, I'm hungry," Bella asked.

"Moron! You hurt! You should stay in the infirmary, not in here, let alone in the cafeteria! How's your wound?" Sherla asked cautiously as she was concerned with Bella's face.

"Relax, it's just a bruise. Unless my arm is broken, you could be more concerned," Bella casually replied.

"Well… Uhh… Wait for a second, I'm gonna pee."

"Yeah yeah…" Bella felt annoyed to see her best friend's attitude. They were in the lavatory for quite a long time but she just peed right now.

"Sigh… why did I transmigrate to a character who has so many enemies? If I can choose, I wish I could transmigrate to be a Korean girl who is in the drama. Maybe I can date the Korean oppas too! Hahaha!" Bella giggled to herself.

"Hey! Whom are you talking to?" Sherla who heard Bella talk to herself spontaneously asked.

"I was talking to myself!"

"You're crazy!" Sherla mocked Bella.

……

Now, both of them were sitting in the cafeteria. Bella ordered a plate of pasta and orange juice, while Sherla ordered a sandwich and strawberry juice.

"If there's any teacher who passes by and sees us, we'll surely get punished because we're skipping a class," Sherla worriedly said while looking around, scared if there's a teacher nearby.

"Just relax. At least, since we both will get punished, I ain't alone," Bella replied casually.

"Crap!"

When they enjoyed eating their food, suddenly a boy sat down beside Sherla. Sherla turned to the side in reflex.

"Algaz? What the hell are you doing here?" Sherla asked and Bella turned her attention to him.

"Why? It's not only your privilege to skip a class," said Algaz.

"Get away!" cast Bella as she had enough to see Vacolnoes boys.

"Is the cafeteria your dad's?" Algaz wouldn't budge.

"It's hard to deal with you, isn't it?" Sherla protested.

"If you don't wanna get away, we'll do," Bella said, preparing to move away to another seat.

"Hey, calm down. There's something I wanna discuss with you," Algaz explained.

"Now what?"

"Just sit down already…"

Bella and Sherla were forced back to their own seat.

"What happened to you earlier?" Algaz asked softly.

"Don't pretend you care about me because I don't need it!" Bella said angrily.

"Cut the bullshit, Algaz. What do you want from us?" asked Sherla.

"Like I asked, what the hell happened earlier? I don't want to misunderstand things, especially to both of you, so please let me see things clearly from your point of view too. To be honest, I still care about you, Bella. Whatever you feel and say, you're still a part of the Vacolnoes, really," Algaz explained sincerely.

"Nope, I AIN'T a part of you anymore, mind you!" said Bella, emphasizing the ‘ain't’ in her sentence.

"Okay, let me explain…" Sherla wanted to make everything clear.

"No, no!" Bella interrupted, "Let me."

Bella explained the incident from the beginning such as when Rasoline said harsh words to her, to when Rasoline slapped her in the cheek. After Bella got slapped, she started to retaliate as Bella thought that physical assault should be retaliated by the same assault as a form of defensive mechanism. But when the Vacolnoes came, Rasoline pretended to be a kind and soft girl all of a sudden.

"And you boys immediately helped Isha like lame heroes without knowing the real problem there," mocked Bella.

Among the Vacolnoes boys, Algaz was the one who still cared for Bella. He also wondered why the other Vacolnoes members so hated her. They only saw from Isha's point of view, but they didn't see the same thing from Bella's.

"Well… what can we do, anyway? Isha's their queen," said Sherla.

……

After a long yet tiring day, let alone there was a drama that happened as well, Bella went home eventually. She threw herself onto the bed. But shortly after, she felt her stomach growling. Before going downstairs to look for meals, she changed her uniform and wore a pink pajama.

Bella went to the ground floor and headed to the kitchen to find meals. She looked in the refrigerator which was full of ingredients and fruits.

"Wow, I can cook something today!" she said gladly.

She ran fast to her bedroom to take a laptop and headed back to the kitchen. She wanted to do a cooking experiment and looked for the recipe on YouTube. Her eyes lit up when she found a certain soup recipe on YouTube as the ingredients were sufficient to cook the said dish. She chopped the vegetables while watching the video tutorial on her laptop. Not only soup, but Bella also tried to cook a medium-well salmon.

"Hehe, I'm so cool! I feel just like a chef in the five stars' restaurants," Bella giggled.

She put all the prepared ingredients into the pot with boiled water inside. She also put the seasonings into the pot and stirred it well.

While waiting for the soup, she prepared an anti-stick frying pan to cook the salmon. Bella was happy to be able to eat a salmon since in the real world she rarely ate one because salmon was an expensive fish. After the oil was hot, she started to put the sliced salmon into the frying pan. The fish was then poured with certain oil while flipping it side to side. She did the same thing to the other sliced fish on the frying pan.

When the salmon were done, at the same time, so was the soup. Bella carried the pot and moved the soup into a large bowl. Bella didn't realize that people were watching her cooking from the beginning. They were her maids, who were astonished to see Bella cut and sliced the ingredient skillfully. To them, seeing Bella cooking was like a wonderful scene that was rare to happen. Initially, they wanted to get into the kitchen to help her, but they didn't do so. They were afraid that their appearance would bother Bella instead.

Alvin entered the house and headed to the kitchen to take a beverage. He was surprised to see the maids watching something in the kitchen. Alvin approached them and asked, "What's going on?"

Bella was surprised to hear Alvin's voice and turned her head to the kitchen door. She saw the maids and her brother watching her from the door, but Bella continued her doings by arranging the food on the table.

Alvin was originally shocked to see Bella cooking, but he hid his feelings under the stoic expression. He continued his walk and took a beverage from the refrigerator while glancing at Bella's dishes.

"What are you cooking?" Alvin asked.

"Can't you see? I'm cooking salmon and soup," Bella peevishly answered.

"What an indignation. I think your cooking will taste bad, haha!" he mocked Bella.

"You wish! My cooking will taste good for sure. If you don't believe it, why don't you try it yourself?" Bella offered cockily.

"No, thanks. It scares me to be poisoned."

"Poison my ass! How come I want to poison my own brother? Even though you're sometimes meany to me, I won't do the same to you," said Bella.

"Well… who knows?"

"Cut the craps and eat while it's still hot. I'm cooking a lot of dishes today and I can't finish them all by myself," Bella demanded.

"Okay, okay. I'll eat it because it's your cooking," Alvin pretended to eat the dish forcefully, even though he really wanted to eat the dish wholeheartedly.

Alvin took the first taste, ‘Damn! It's f*****g delicious!’ he thought.

After he tasted the dish, Bella asked him enthusiastically, "How's it?"

"Hmmm… it's just fine," Alvin replied casually despite his thoughts.

"How come? I think it's the best dish I've ever cooked, though…" Bella frowned and was a bit sad to hear her brother's opinion.

Bella took a whole soup in the bowl and a salmon and headed to her bedroom to eat while doing her homework. After she finished eating and returned to the kitchen, her eyes widened to see the bowl was empty and the salmon was only one slice remained.

"Huh? Who ate these all?!" Bella was shocked to see a lot of food now was almost empty.

Meanwhile, Alvin, in his bedroom…

"Sigh… I'm so stuffed! Surprisingly, Bella's cooking is terrific!"

Alvin was the one who ate almost all of Bella's dishes, but he was too proud to admit that the dish was so delicious. As matter of fact, after Bella headed to her bedroom, he quickly ate almost all the dishes unbeknownst to Bella.