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Teresa seemed totally content with her trains and the door was locked with the top chain on

I slipped into the kitchen where all the action was taking place “Can I help?”

Jah a cake decorating tutorial “Do you have any experience ine cake? It says we need dowels Anyone have dowels?”

Leo patted hi, “Damn, I left them in my other pants”

The sink was already overfloith dishes, abandoned batter in bowls, and utensils, even though fro had made it into the oven

Everest followed ht confusion with the salt and the sugar on the last batch of batter”

So The Neood baker

“Twice” Jaers “Two times”

“What? No culinary expertise fro?” Leo boith a flourish

“F—” Everest peered out the open kitchen doorway, substituting the words for a double barrel single finger salute

“I’ ladened hand, I broke into the volley of barbs and banter They were all so coh to insult and tease I’d never had a group of friends like this before Growing up had all been about keepingattention to myself

There had been no sleepovers or nights out on the town In college, everyone seeain, I was focused on doinght about what I’dout with a total of three people ever meant I’d missed a lot

“Sold to the lady who doesn’t want to be responsible for crushing a five-year-old’s drea day”

The four of the the video, andthe cake pans into various shapes before Leo shoved them out of the nest