Dean chuckled as she mentioned cooking. "I'm trying to learn to cook too. Well, I seem to be fine if I follow a recipe, but I like to experiment, which tends to go very wrong," he explained.
"But you're on your own with the reading and the puzzles, although if I do manage to get into an apprenticeship I might have to find myself a new hobby," he said, considering it slightly.
He did have a feeling there were things Mandy wasn't saying but he didn't want to push her, has he was pretty sure he knew what those things were.