Forever Home by Elysia Whisler

Author:Elysia Whisler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 2021-09-22T18:12:39+00:00

fifteen

Sean had never bought tofu in his life. The only vegetarian he had ever known had been a girl in high school named Karen who ate fish but claimed it didn’t count because it “wasn’t meat.” When pressed with how she could be a vegetarian if she ate living creatures, albeit from the sea, she gave a lengthy explanation about grazing cows and methane emissions, plus chickens with shaved beaks crammed into small spaces, versus the freedom of the open ocean.

Even at that age, Sean had a good bullshit detector, which meant he knew that Delaney was probably the first real vegetarian he had known. Despite thinking he knew what a vegetarian was, he still texted her about a dozen times that day, making sure he was on the right track.

Are you vegetarian or vegan?

Vegetarian.

So you don’t eat meat but you’ll eat cheese and eggs?

Correct. Though I do get my cheese and eggs from a local farm, rather than the big chains.

So it’s about the animals for you. You want them to be treated with respect.

I try to treat everyone with respect. We’re all animals. I don’t differentiate.

Sean realized he’d gone down a twisty, turny rabbit hole, one he would not mind spending more time in if Delaney was going to be there, but for now he just needed to know what to fix for dinner. He backpedaled out of the murky ethical swamp.

Ok. So no meat. But eggs, cheese, dairy, honey are all ok?

Honey? Are you using honey in your dish? #impressed

Shit. Not only did Delaney think he was using honey, she’d called tonight’s dinner a dish. A dish implied a whole lot more than the current situation going on in Sean’s kitchen, which involved a block of extra firm tofu, a couple bunches of broccolini—which he guessed was a fancy word for skinny broccoli—and white rice, which any idiot could pull off. He also had some fresh ginger and a couple cans of stir-fry vegetables, which had those baby corns you saw in Chinese takeout. Sean wasn’t sure why he’d bought them, other than the baby corns seemed like the hallmark of stir-fry, which was what he was trying to pull off.

What’s your favorite food?

Sean realized it was probably too late for that question, which should’ve come before the tofu, snobby broccoli and baby corns but it was probably too late for a lot of things, such as cultivating the ability to knock Delaney’s socks off with his cooking skills.

Peanut butter.

“Seriously?” Sean tossed his phone down and glowered at his recipes. Not only could he have made Delaney a peanut butter sandwich without going grocery shopping, he knew exactly how to do it without poring over online videos.

Callie, who’d been prancing around the countertops, hoping Sean would stop what he was doing and feed her, glared at his sudden mood swing.

Sean had no idea how he was going to work peanut butter into his dish. He’d already spent more than an hour today watching the videos. He’d even bought a wok, thinking maybe this would prompt him to cook stir-fry more than just once.

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