Chapter 0298
ANASTASIA
My mind flashed back to when the preparations were ongoing and each team went back and forth to gather their ingredients.
Though I was deep in thought about what quantity of ingredients I needed to pick up and which, I had heard the fleeting suggestion of one of the members of the team beside mine. “Why don’t we add sesame?”
The teammate gave him a response but I didn’t quite get what the
reponse was.
But later, I heard another member of the same team ask, “How much sesame powder will be enough?” The teammate had replied with a subtle shrug, her attention fixed on the carrots she was carving into a certain shape. “I don’t know. Add enough. We just need the taste there.”
Right then, the thoughts had unconsciously registered but I didn’t think much of it and I simply assumed that it wasn’t my business since everyone would read out their ingredients before the judges would taste each snack. But when they listed their ingredients, either intentionally or unintentionally, they had omitted the sesame powder that was added.
As Aiden was about to eat it, I had suddenly remembered his allergy to the ingredient and I just couldn’t stop myself from stopping him in the way I knew I could. Even if I could stop myself I would have still stopped him.
“No!” I called out like my life depended on it.
What if he isn’t allergic to it anymore? A small voice whispered in my ear and I felt shame wash over me as all eyes settled on me.
Well, it was all in good faith. If he wasn’t allergic to it anymore, cool. But if he still was, it would have been a disaster if he ingested something that contained it because it wasn’t mentioned to be among the ingredients.
I could still feel the curious eyes as the whole place remained bathed in silence.
I felt the itch to offer some explanation. I pointed at him, “he’s allergic to sesame.”
As I said the words, unbidden, a memory of the only incident when he got a bad reaction to the ingredient flooded my mind.
It was one of the scariest moments of my life. After taking something that had sesame powder in it, Aiden had gone on to vomit for days with a severe stomach ache. Throughout the day, his body maintained a high temperature that would not lessen, no matter what medication we used. At some point, I even strongly doubted that it was the allergy.
But after some days of almost vomiting his guts out, he returned to normal. It was then that I learnt of his allergy and it was the last time he ever tasted anything that had sesame in it as I always made a note to carefully research everything he ate beyond the ingredients that were always listed on the food or snack pack.
Aiden briefly glanced over at me before he returned his gaze to the snack in his hand and lowered it back
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to the plate.
He turned his attention to the team members, “Is there really sesame in this?”
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Having realized what they did, they nodded hesitantly. “There’s a little bit of sesame in it but it wasn’t considered the main ingredient.
“It
doesn’t matter,” he retorted calmly. “List all the ingredients used in your snack, that was the instruction.
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