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"No" His face was schooled into an innocent expression, but I could see in his eyes that he knew he had overstepped

"If you want theet up and find your own food"

He set his keyboard down and stood up "I brought groceries this ht Then you should knohat to cook"

His eyebrows drew together "Cook?"

"You heat up food in a pot or pan" Ia pot

"I don’t kno to cook" He scratched his neck

"You’re telling me that Mavis leaves you without any way to feed yourself?"

"I can make sandwiches and we have a ed

"If you want to go out in the big bad world, you’ve got to learn how to take care of yourself Mavis spoils you" I turned and headed for the kitchen

"I heard that" Mavis didn’t look up fro to eat" Kenny followed behind me

"No you can’t" Ava piped up from her seat She looked up at us "If you can’t cook, you could end up stuck in a house for days with nothing to eat but canned soup"

"What’s wrong with soup?" The kid opened the tiny refrigerator and poked around inside

"Just say no to soup" Ava s else for a while" I took the lass I looked at Ava and lifted the carton

"Please" She s on She was drawing lines between highlighted lines I handed her a glass and looked over her shoulder

"Have you found so?"

"I’m not sure" She hesitated

"Talk it out"

"It’s probably nothing I worked for aircraft engineers, sotoo hts are on private jets I can tell frons They’re a little more complicated here than in the States, but there are a couple that show up very often"