Written by: Sakura_Kinomoto
29. How Sweet It Is
In the Avalon Home, Kero is reading in Sakura's room when he smells something. Downstairs, Sakura and Aiden are baking a cake when they hear a loud tumbling sound. Sakura runs up to see what it was and finds Kero, who fell over, trapped by a pile of books. She tells him after that they were baking cakes in home economics and she was practicing for it. At school the next day, her friends are trying out the cake Sakura and her father made, pronouncing it to be delicious. In class, all the students are in groups, choosing the kind of cake they want to make. Meilin really wanted to make a wedding cake. Nikki, Chelsea, and Rita's group decide on strawberry shortcake and Sakura and Madison are going to make a chocolate cake. Aside from all that, whenever Li sees Miss Mackenzie, he is still suspicious of her.
After school, Sakura and Madison see Li watching chefs making cakes. Their group had decided to make a custard cream cake. They run into Julian, who bought a cake from there and was leaving. When Sakura asks him what kinds of cakes he likes, he names quite a few of them; basically he loves all cakes. A little later, Li arrives home and is greeted by smoke. Meilin, who was trying to make a cake, made a huge mess, and when she became impatient at the length of time it took to bake the cake, she turned up the temperature. She tried to hide the burnt cake from him then rushes off to buy more ingredients for a new cake, leaving Li to clean up the mess she made.
At school the next day, the students are in groups, mixing the batter for their cakes. They all put them in the ovens to bake and leave for lunch. The cakes are decorated after they return and everyone sets in to try their cakes. All the students declare the cakes to be too sweet. Sakura talks to Kero about it later on and how since every one of the cakes turned out that way, all the students had to do it again. Meilin frets about how she can be so perfect at everything and lousy at making cakes when Li tells her it's not her fault the cake was bad. With new determination, she plans to study cake books and make one for Li.
Madison and Sakura are back at the bakery and are looking at different cakes when they find Li watching the bakers again. Sakura mentions how strange that all the cakes were so sweet and Li asks her if she hasn't realized it yet. Miss Mackenzie, happening by, wishes them luck on their second cakes. The next day at school, Chelsea tells everyone that the other home economics class made their cakes too sweet, as well, causing both Sakura and Li to wonder if it really is a Clow card. Li spots Miss Mackenzie watching them from the door but she disappears suddenly. Back at home, Kero, while looking at a cake book, wonders if it could have all been a coincidence.
Before lunch break starts, the students leave the home economics room and only Sakura and Li are left behind. They receive Kero's call, who tells them that it might be the Sweet card. Both cardcaptors can already sense it. Sweet is in an oven, sprinkling something onto a cake. When the cardcaptors give chase, it keep flying away out of their reach, and changes objects into candy and goodies along the way. Li was going to use the cake his group made as bait for the card, but Sakura stops him and throws salt at it instead. Li gets the idea, grabs a bag of salt and dumps its entire contents on Sweet, stopping it in its tracks and alloing Sakura time to seal it. Everything the Sweet has changed returns to normal. When the class returns, the cakes are finished and everyone tries them. For the most part, the cakes were good. The exception was Meilin's cake; she mixed it too much. Sakura and Madison give slices of their cake to Julian and Tori while Li watches longingly from the other side of the fence. When Meilin joins him and they leave, he looks back, not listening to a word she says.