<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/64/a1/eb/64a1ebbbcf4fdbd74d30ee3e374e3270.jpg)</div>Celline was early, of course, having been trained in the 'on time is late' mindset. And yes, there was an apron for her, so she had a fair bit of time to feel stupid before the class started. Even more so since there were a lot of kitchen tools she didn't even recognize, to say nothing of knowing them by name, or what they were used for.<br/><br/>There was an instruction handout for the evening's project- a Mediterranean omelette- the recipe itself buried behind a self-laudatory bio of the teacher. He didn't seem to have a Michelin star, which was about the only cooking award Cel knew anything about, mostly form watching Gordon Ramsay court death in reruns, but if he were to be believed, he'd copped nearly ever other trophy there was to be had in cooking. Which made her wonder, a bit, why he was teaching a bunch of semi-suburban non-chefs in the evening, rather than snorting coke off a naked waitress, or whatever chefs did on their off hours.<br/><br/>She wasn't one to be intimidated by another person's c.v., and since omelettes, so far as she knew, were basically scrambled eggs, she figured she could handle it without causing an evening news-worthy incident. To distract herself from exactly how stupid she felt in an apron- and fuck you, Renée- she people-watched as the other students drifted in. They were an odd blend of college types, young professionals, and frumpy middle-agers trying to fill the hours. One young man, barely out of his teens, caught her eye, as he was sporting a shockingly bright head of ginger hair. He was quickly engaged in conversation by a somewhat older guy via he ancient convention of bodily collision. One of them caught her eye, and she realized she was rather staring, so she smiled and made a show of reading the chef's bio again.<br/><br/>Renée would laugh herself sick, if she could see Celine acting as if she joined the class to use it as a hookup mechanism. Or, worse, like a silly teener.