Chapter 33: U my weakness
Meera

"I know batter when I see one and that does not look like something that could bake. Let alone, be edible."

Dino tossed Meera a 'oh really' look before stepping aside. "You wanna take it from here?" "After all the hard effort you put into it, no thanks Dino." It was fun being the teaser for once in her life.

The weekend was over and it was the start of a new week with no fights as yet. As a matter of fact, Meera and Dino were actually getting along. Yesterday he'd tried cleaning up this dump, managed to open up most of the windows and he'd gotten the power box working. It was progress.

But today, Dino might have overcrossed his skills. Meera was a baker-sort of-and she could tell that Dino had absolutely no idea of how to make...she didn't even know what he was trying to make.

Meera sighed heavily, holding back all forms of laughter arising. "Why don't you start by telling me what it is that you baking?"

Dino threw down the mixing spoon on the table. "Carrot cake. The recipe looked simple." "Recipes always look simple," Meera laughed, "Carrot cake is actually one of the most difficult things to bake. You gotta grate the carrots, you need those thingies from the orange, sesame seeds." And since there were no electrical appliances around, they'd had to do all of that by hand.

"Alright fine, so now what do we do?" Dino asked, looking drained. "How about you just stick to the things you do best and let me take it from here. What you do say?"

She headed to the half-broken cabinets to look for more dishes to use. Meera hadn't really questioned Dino as to how he had managed to get all of these groceries in a matter of two days; he probably made a plan like he usually did. She didn't want to know those plans.


Closing the empty cupboard, she jumped at the feel of Dino's warm breath on her neck. She should have known guys like him never gave up.



"And what is it that I do best princess...?"

Deep breaths. Meera calmed herself before turning around. "I think you know exactly what it is that you do best," she rolled her eyes pretending as if his closeness didn't affect her. She pushed him back lightly. As expected, he didn't move.

"Yeah you right, I do know. Maybe if you give me a chance to show you how good I am, you might-" "Just move. Move!" she repeated, putting on a casual expression on her face like she was some sort of expert in these type of situations.

"So you don't want me to show you my other talents." He leaned in closer still, Meera took a step back. "No I do not. Now can you move, I have a lot of things to do and one of them includes cleaning up this mess that you caused."

"Hmm, we'll see Meera." Dino touched the tip of her nose and disappeared into the living room. "See what?" she called after him but didn't get a reply.

Whatever. Now back to this huge mess.

In less than thirty minutes, Meera managed to get all of the ingredients together and set the timer on the small tiny three-plate stove.

Now curiosity got the better of her. Rinsing off the flour from her hand, Meera found Dino in the living room couch facing his...