CELESTE

“Are you sure you know how to cook and won’t let poison me?”

I close my eyes to calm myself. I didn’t know that Elias Turner could be this annoying.

I still try to work on the art of ignoring and opening my eyes again to continue stirring the mushroom soup I have been cooking.

I moved to the left and opened the lid of the pan to look for the fish that I had been frying and let it flip to the other side.

I heard him chuckle. “Ignoring me—”

“Can you please stay away for a while until I finish cooking? If you don’t trust my cooking...