<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;">Irene kept her mind busy singing a song inwardly to herself, over and over again as it was a short song. She would have usually sung it out loud when she was cooking anything. It was her mother’s pretty little melody but she dared to borrow it. No way was she going to hum it to draw attention to her. </span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;">Another voice brought her from her thoughts, hearing Luke’s voice asking to help. She realized she had been preoccupied waiting for the new guest to arrive at some point to introduce his or her self to the gang. But before that she distinctly heard another vehicle and grinned about just how many people had Ashlyn invited. Well until the other guest to make themselves known to the rest of them, she continued with the task at hand. Over the space of a few heart beats she had seasoned the meat a little more and pushed it around the pan preventing any of it from over cooking or burning; watching the pink of the meat slowly disappearing. </span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;">She grinned, hearing him repeating a phrase of too many cooks in the pot can spoil the meal. Irene shook her head, but Luke only offered to clean up. That was good; as she was not into the aftermath of cooking. Emiko gave her a little praise over her doing a good job and accepted it for what it was. “Thank you Emiko, it’s nice to be appreciated for the hard work.” She was being dramatic when she held the back of her hand over her brow. She looked quite dramatic doing so achieving the effect she desired.  </span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;">She was just trying to goof around it was only the first day and felt she pretty much eased into knowing everyone so far. It mattered little a few more showed up, as she will eventually get to know them as well. But for now she looked at Wade attending to the garlic bread. “Hey, no skimping on the butter you.” She teased him as he tried to work as professionally as he could on the task. </span>