"I want stuffed crust Hawaiian chicken!" Jake said quickly and with excitement before Cin could get in there first.
"Haven't you had dinner?"
Jake shrugged and looked over at her. "Free pizza? Ciiin, I can have it for lunch."
Cin only held back for a few moments and then shrugged. "Fine," she told him, told all of them, and looked over at Archie, looking all wrong in her kitchen. "Give Archie your orders."
Exhausted, Cin sat down heavily at the kitchen table and drank her beer while Ruth, Bailey, and Jake added more and more items they wanted Archie to add. Cin pulled Brody up onto her lap and leaned in to talk to him quietly, somewhere under the chatter of the rest of them.
"You want some pizza?"
Brody shook his head and buried his face against her chest. She sighed, once again realising how much she was coddling him. She kissed the top of his head anyway. (His hair needed a wash, but that could be tomorrow.) "Let's get you into bed," she said, shifting him off her lap.
"I'll be back in a minute," she told Archie. "You okay here?" Jake had taken Archie's phone from him and was scrolling through items with Ruth looking over his shoulder.