Nathaniel sighed a bit at the reply from the smart-ass computer.  He just kept cutting the vegetables and the chicken as the two pans on the stove began heating.  He was sure this would be enough for everyone with the rice as well.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Then it sounds like we really will be having a lot of Pizza delivery out here.  I am not cooking every night.  They would get bored with the same thing every night.”</span>He grumbled a bit.  ISIS seemed very useful For some things, but she was obviously refusing to be as useful as she could be.  This was probably going to end up with them eating unhealthy, or just going out to get food even if the kitchen was fully stocked.<br/><br/>Instead of commenting though he continued going through the prep, looking for some cooking oil before pouring a bit into both pans and coating the insides of the pans with it.  It was a little after that that he heard someone come into the kitchen, and he knew who it was when she spoke.  He looked over and just chuckled a little bit, though blushed a bit.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Living alone does help with some cooking if you want to eat anything more than pizza or microwave meals.  I still preferred ordering take out though.”</span>Though the skill really helped when wanting to make a good impression with a date.  And immediately after thinking that, he remembered their conversation, and the look that Jenny had at that time and blushed again.<br/><br/>To distract himself from that he picked up the cutting board and dumped half of the cut up chicken into each pan where the meat started to sizzle.  He wandered how long until the others would start to smell it.  While he started to work on cooking the chicken, and adding some spice to them, he heard Jenny’s offer and replied with a little smile.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Thanks, I would love some help.  Isis refuses to be of any help here.  Think you could start getting the rice cooking?”</span>he asked before sprinkling some cayenne pepper onto the chicken.  Not very much, but enough to give it a little heat.  Other spices would come later when he added all the multiple vegetables he was cutting and had a few more to finish.<br/><br/>At about that time he heard someone else enter, though he wasn’t sure who until she spoke.  He looked at Sarah for a moment before guessing that she wasn’t going to help either.  Though the make out comment he tried to ignore seeing as she had been the one to give Jenny the little kick earlier.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“We are cooking some chicken stir-fry and steamed rice.”</span>He answered a bit as he put the pepper away to stir the chicken around a bit.  He moved back to finish cutting the vegetables when he replied to the next question.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“And we are doing this because ISIS refuses to even though she has the ability to cook…”</span>Nate didn’t want to think about the second half of her statement.  He hoped there was no suck mind-control drugs.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>