Eastgate Apartments; Jacob and Bella
Jacob wasn't the cook of their impromptu family, not by any means, but Bella and Renee had gone off on some sort of exploratory mission to see if there was still anything good in the nearby bookstores in town, so he figured it'd probably be nice to have dinner ready for them when they got back.
He wasn't nearly the cook Bella was, especially with the limited ingredients they had on hand, but he'd managed to cobble together a pasta dish that seemed passable. Or at least, not stale. He'd have liked to add garlic bread to it but they didn't have any in the freezer and he wasn't nearly good enough to make that kind of thing from scratch. So he'd reluctantly settled for the last package of rolls that you made in the oven. They were garlic-flavored, so did he get partial credit?
He was engrossed in cooking -- well, in making sure everything got taken out on time -- so it wasn't surprising that he didn't hear the girls when they came in.