Radia was right; his parents were just...normal. They were the kind of parents Zein imagined parents should be. A little bit pushy, a little bit nosy, with extra affection available for anyone related to their son.
"You're getting way better at this than the last time," Calix patted his cooking partner he kidnapped away from the group.
Bassena chuckled proudly while flipping the meat above the grill. "I can cook a lot of things right now," he glanced at the table, where everyone was. "Laurel said another way to take someone's heart is through their stomach."
"Does it work?"
Bassena just answered with a small bashful laugh that got his cheek slightly warm, and he received a ruffle in his platinum hair.
That cordial atmosphere, however, couldn't be seen at the table, where the three waiting for the food drowned in a bleak conversation.
"He came last night," Radia muttered while twirling a bread stick in his fingers.
