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“Sorry, let me try again. Willa,” she pleaded. “Why did I have to come home for dinner?”
“Better,” I remarked.
“Much better,” Duke agreed. “Let me try on my parenting voice. Go to your room! You’re grounded!”
Waverly and I looked at each other and then burst into laughter.
“What?” Duke demanded.
“You’resonot the hard ass,” Waverly said.
“Right? I was trying to tell him that, but he didn’t believe me. Where’s the dresser?” I asked.
“Storing it in Jess’s garage. Where’s the couch?”
“I accidentally set it on fire,” I lied.
She peered at me. “Methinks you’re lying.”
“Methinks you don’t get to ask any more questions about it,” I said.
“Fine.”
“Didn’t Savage take you to the mall?” Duke asked.
“Yes.”
“Where are your shopping bags?”
“I gave them to Savage. Willa would snoop if I brought her present into the house.”
I gasped. “I do not snoop.”
“No? You’re a first-class snooper! Remember the envelope behind the toilet?”
“I wasn’t snooping. I dropped something and I saw it out the corner of my eye,” I protested.
“If it looks like a snoop…” Waverly shrugged.
“I think this household is suffering from low blood sugar. I’m calling for a pizza,” Duke said, picking up his phone from the kitchen table.
“We really should get in the habit of cooking,” I announced.
Waverly and Duke looked at each other and then burst into laughter.
I sighed. “This parenting thing. I’m pretty sure you have to cook to be a parent.”
“Mom didn’t cook,” Waverly pointed out, taking a seat at the kitchen table.
“Well, I’d like to be the antithesis of Angel in every way. Is it too late to put in a request for a wedding present?”
“Brooklyn already gave us a slow cooker. It even had food in it. Those were the days, huh?”
“Not a slow cooker. Cookbooks.”
Waverly blinked. “Cookbooks? I don’t understand. We have the internet.”
Duke angled my laptop toward him and opened a new browser. His fingers clacked against the keys and then he said,“Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child. French cooking? You think she has a recipe for that French version of beanie weanies?”
