Chuck was gone. Roxas was gone. And Eric...Eric was in the kitchen with Cooking Basics for Dummies open at his side, trying to focus on the recipe for scrambled eggs, the first recipe in the book. He'd been trying to read it from the beginning ever since it appeared two days before, as well as Gourmet Cooking for Dummies and his entire mini-fridge ( Read more... )

Having a new boyfriend didn't mean Eric could spend all of his time with him. He still had a million school subjects (and still had Cassie mocking him on a regular basis for taking too much on) which meant--homework ( Read more... )

Things were back to normal, or at least as close to normal as you could get in this place. For Eric, that meant piles of homework. He was sprawled on his stomach on his bed, working on his Welsh with a stack of books nearby on the floor, representing the assignments he had yet to do.