Upset that she made her friends mad, she runs back home without telling anyone. Her family greets her happily, not having known that she ran away because she told them that she was on an early Winter break. But, Ichigo quickly tells them the truth after her mom hangs up the phone and tells them her plans to transfer from St. Marie. The next day, Ichigo and her family visit her deceased grandmother's pastry shop, now run by her uncle. Ichigo and her sister help their uncle make sweets. After discovering that Vanilla followed her and remembering the happiness her grandmother's sweets brought her, Ichigo decides to go back to St. Marie. Her uncle gives her grandmother's recipe notebook and she heads back to school, where she finds the Sweets Princes waiting for her to apologize for what they said to her.
