"Oh, I'll get it down by then," Alex retorts, taking that as a challenge. She can definitely conquer scrambled eggs in a week. It might involve buying a lot more eggs to experiment with, but she can do it.

"Next time you can teach me something else." There's a moment where her breath almost catches at the realization that she's making actual plans to see him again, that she's treating it like such an obvious thing that it's not worth even considering that they won't see each other again. But she plows right ahead. "You've got all those cookbooks, we could make something really fancy."