As soon as we walked into my house, I was bombarded by Tulip. "I missed you, Ryder!" she said, then she saw Mae. "Mae! I missed...” She then spotted Jerome. "No. No no no. Get out."

I sighed. "Tulip, I told you that Mae and Jerome are staying until we can move into our apartment. You need to learn to be nice to Jerome."

"Yeah," Jerome said, opening a container he was holding. "Look, I made brownies."

"Did you poison them?" Tulip asked suspiciously.

"No, why would I... Just have one, Tulip," he said. "I made them as a truce."

She glared at him and the brownies before finally taking...