273 What Can This Humble One Do For You?

Inside the restaurant beside the window was Ashley who had been crying but no one tried to ask her if she is fine or what was the problem.

Others even look at her as if she was crazy for crying in a restaurant.

Jackson shook his head, 'Could it be that in their place, whenever she cried someone would come and coax her into stopping? Ain't that a bit too much? Just how sheltered was she?'

'Though I am amaze that she knew to get money before running away, at least she was able to rent a small apartment and even come to such a restaurant. But what would she do then? Just cry there all day?'

At some point in time and maybe because of the fact that he was bullied, Jackson ended up having the habit of talking to himself just like Amber.

He once again sighed, 'I'm bored. I just want to return to the restaurant and start cooking.'

For an hour or so now, all he was doing was stand here and look at what she was doing. She would sometimes play with his phone to pass up time and at times he would watch some video regarding cooking.

'Well, look at her cry and cry and cry. Will she be doing that for the rest of the day? If so can she just go home so that I could rest already as well.'

Then Ashley who took the first bite of her order suddenly stood up before sitting down again and calling for a server.

He saw her spoke with the server intently and filled with enthusiast before being dejected when the server shook her head.

'Could she be trying to enter that restaurant? Seriously? She just came and she already wanted to get in a big restaurant. Your age won't give you that much experience for this kind of restaurant. Why not try the smaller ones first?'

He was reprimanding her in his mind as he watch her eat dejectedly.

'There you go again being dejected, were your words never rejected before? How much more of a brat am I baby sitting now? That slave driver is truly a devil, she knew I hated this kind of person yet here I am being made to work for such a person.'

Jackson who watched his family slowly crumble decided to up and go at a very young age. He knew his family will not be able to last long at the same time he hated them, the way they always throw their weight around.

And what they did to his half sister's family. He was born from that so he didn't know how to approach Hayley at first but it seems that she wanted to meet him as well.

That is why he left... no, more like, he runaway. Of course people searched for him but he was used in hiding that no one found him. At times he would wait outside the Snow Fall Hotel in order to speak with Amber.

At first, he was starting to get irritated because of waiting for so long but then he realized what was wrong with him waiting, he also needs to move not just wait for people.

That's right, why would she approach him first? Who was he to her?

That is why slowly, he started approaching her until she finally took him in. She noticed his talent as he became a tester of the new dishes in the menu of their hotel.

Yes, when she took him in, she didn't intend to take him in for free. She asked him what he can do best and of course he answered that he can be a food taster.

That his taste buds were of top notch, that was something he always hear from the people around him every time they brought new food in front of him.

Amber looked at him skeptically before she brought him to the kitchen.

A week or two and she realized that what he was saying was actually true, he indeed has amazing food sense. The dishes he critiqued became one of the best sellers in the hotel.

He then started trying out with cutting some onions, garlics and ginger. Then cutting vegetables and then cutting all the ingredients of a dish.

He didn't instantly started cooking just because he wanted to become a good chef someday, he started off as a small helper in the kitchen.

The staffs even said that Snow Fall Hotel have the cutest helper during preparations.

It took a while before he started helping out little by little in creating those dishes and another year before he was able to start cooking proper meals.

Other than his tongue, he started from scratch when it comes to cooking.

When she acknowledged this, he was smugly standing in front of her and then after another year or so, he was suddenly thrown in a plane going to Achernar Country.

When he started as the youngest student in the university, he was being praised by the teachers because of his tongue but his classmates hated him for having so little capability in cooking.

That's where the bullying started, because he was admitted for his tongue and not truly for his talent in cooking, even burning a few dishes he encountered for the first time.

The school he was enrolled to was after all the most prestigious school where only those with talents could enter.

But he never blamed Amber for suddenly throwing him there, he was still young and could still train in the hotel.

He was not too smart but he was a hard worker that his grades were all high.

He has pride for being a young master but that doesn't mean he was all that, he too was working hard on his own way.

This is also the reason why Amber chose him for Ashley, because he started from scratch and he was a hard worker earning him of what he has today.

Though he has a bit of a cheat because of his tongue.

When Ashley stepped out of the restaurant, he entered and asked the staff what Ashley asked for a while ago after tasting the food served to her.

"What did the crying young miss wanted when she spoke to you?"

The staff stared at him for a bit before answering, she just felt he was familiar, "She asked if she could be a cook assistant here. But the place has a whole lot of applicants and her still on her teens there is no way she would be able to enter."

"Though I told her to come back tomorrow since the head chef would return tomorrow," she added, she couldn't help but to stare at this young man.

Other than being familiar he too was a good looking young man.

Jackson nodded, he then pulled out his phone and dialed a number.

"Oh, you're calling? What can this humble one do for you?" the other side answered.

"I have a favor to ask you," Jackson rolled his eyes and said.

"This is a first, you were asking a favor straightforwardly," he teased.

"I never ask a favor before," Jackson retorted.

"Yes, yes, you never ask one in a straight forward manner, you do it in a round about manner until the other side have finally understood what you wanted."

"Come on now, shall we get straight to the point already?" Jackson didn't bother with his teasing and said in a serious manner.

He heard the other side laughed, "So what is it this time?"

"That is..."

*****

After getting inside the place she rented, she couldn't help but sigh.

When she left Natan a while ago, she went to the hotel where she checked in for two weeks and took all her things.

She knew she will be left alone with what happened a while ago, Russel have told her after all, if everything gets hard then she will have to look out for herself.

She searched and found this apartment but if she don't find a work soon then she will be left with no money after two months of staying here.

She was still feeling hurt with what Amber did a while ago.

"I will make sure to show her, I will become a chef on my own and I will not fall down at all. I will show her that I know what society is."