32 Inferiority (2/2)

After unlocking and entering the driver's seat, Ensen sat there in deep thought before turning the car on. It did not take nearly as long as it did to arrive at his sister's house, mainly because he actually knew how to get back to his apartment. The lack of traffic helped as well.

After taking the elevator towards his floor, he looked in the direction of Kaitlin's door. Noticing that the place where he had previously left the cookies and the note were now empty, Ensen lightly smiled and hoped she liked them.

Entering his apartment, Ensen first put the leftovers from dinner into his fridge before deciding to ask the system something that he had been curious about.

”Do you know what Julia's cooking rank is?” Ensen asked, researching how hard it would be to surpass his sister in the skill.

[Julia Fuentes cooking skill: B+]

”Wait, it's so high? But she used to be horrible at it.” Ensen said with confusion and doubt towards the system.

[Through a mixture of a positive working attitude, perseverance, and a moderate amount of talent in the field, she has managed to develop her cooking skills rapidly. Leaving you behind by miles.]

”That last part was unnecessary,” Ensen said, even though he agreed with the evaluation of the system. Realizing that he would have to elevate his cooking skill to an extraordinary level for him, he decided to put that to the side for the moment.

Turning his attention to another issue that he needed to resolve, he needed furniture for the Academy building when it had been completed. While Ensen could do a… mediocre job at selecting the furniture and laying it out himself, he really needed a professional to make it actually look good.

As such, Ensen knew that he would need somebody to help make the selection for him. Knowing that the process would take rather long, he needed to find a way to get around both the delay it would take to find an agent and the general time the planning would take.

Luckily he had an old friend from his time as a student at SilverLeaf Academy who had been working as an interior designer for the past few years. While they weren't too close anymore, Ensen had no problem in using his connections to get himself fast-tracked.

He worked in a relatively small-sized firm in town as far as Ensen knew. He seemed to be pretty good at his job too which was always a good thing.

Deciding he would call him tomorrow, he first needed to check if he still had his friend's number saved on his phone. Luckily he found it without too much trouble.

Ensen spent the rest of the night reading an online version of Academy managing for beginners that he had managed to find. It had been widely recommended as a good introduction book that focused on the more crucial information every principal needed to know.

After reading for a few hours Ensen decided to go to sleep, although he wouldn't call his old friend until quite later just in case he would be off work or something similar like that, he still didn't want to ruin his sleeping schedule.

Crawling in bed, Ensen thought back towards the delicious dinner and the people he shared it with. Slowly dozing off, Ensen wore a satisfied smile on his face.

Waking up the next morning, Ensen lazily spent the first hour of his day simply laying in bed while continuing to read the online book from the previous night. After an hour his stomach began to cry out for food.

Agreeing with his body that he was hungry, Ensen got out of bed and headed towards the kitchen. After thinking for a bit, he decided to savor his sisters cooking and grabbed the container with the leftovers. Scooping out a little into a bowl he had grabbed, he quickly microwaved it before sitting down and eating.

After he had finished eating, Ensen slowly washed his dishes and walked towards the couch, continuing to read the book.

A while afterward, Ensen looked at the time. Realizing it was around 11 am at this point, he thought it would be a good time to give his friend a call. Slowly opening his contact list, Ensen found a contact named Haris Cleveland.

Clicking on the contact, he was about to click the call icon when he heard a knock at the door. Putting down his phone, he put it in his pocket before slowly getting up from the couch and walking over.

Looking out of the door with the peephole, he didn't manage to see anybody. Not sure what was going on, Ensen opened his door and looked around the hallway to try to find the culprit.

Right as Ensen was about to give up and go back inside he looked down and noticed that the container he had previously taken to Kaitlin was sitting next to the door, similar to what he had done.

In addition, there was also a note laid on top. It had two simple words that put a smile on his face.

In large cursive characters, the word 'Thank you.' was spelled out elegantly.