Chapter 51. Yvonne Has Nothing on You

"What are you doing skulking around Mom's kitchen, Bernie? I am amazed she allowed you, though," Tomiwa said as she picked up a pancake while avoiding the playful swat of Bernard's hand.

"And how did I learn how to cook then, oh you sage, if she doesn't allow me to enter her kitchen?" Bernard asked as he opened the condiment cabinet to take out his favorite ketchup, which he poured generously over the pancakes on his plate.

"Yuck, how you can bear to take in so much ketchup all in the name of eating pancakes baffles me." Tomiwa wrinkled her nose as she snatched another pancake off the platter.

"My pancakes, Cat. Emphasis on "my". You will have to make yourself a plate if you want, and if you'd rather eat it plain the way you've been doing it for the past few minutes, be my guest. The only person I am pampering today is this guy," he said, pointing to himself. He rubbed his hands together in anticipation as he tucked enthusiastically into his food, the ketchup smeari