"I will!" And she's off.

While she's out, Denice discovers algebra.

Julie is gone for four hours. Winona appears to fix dinner (pasta with tomato sauce) - "Flora says you can eat pasta if you kind of drink it, right?"

Denice doesn't notice she's being spoken to.

"Janet?"

- oh! Yes?

"Flora said you can sort of drink pasta, so it's okay if that's for dinner?"

It'll be a little messy if there's sauce, but yeah.

"Lucky for us, we don't have to do any laundry." Winona winks. "What're you all absorbed in?"

It turns out math gets really cool once you're past the super simple stuff!

"- oh! I'm so glad you like it, lots of people don't care for math and it holds them back."

Well that just seems silly.

"No accounting for taste."

Wikipedia is sort of not great for actually learning it, though. She's going to want some books or something maybe.

"I will look into math textbooks for you! How far've you gotten?"

She's read a bunch of articles but she should probably start over at the beginning, wikipedia makes it easy to miss stuff. Also she read the pages on multiplication and division but she's a little shaky on them.

"Okay, I can get a range then."

Thanks!

Winona goes and makes pasta and orders math textbooks. "I'm getting these sent to our house back East in case they're delayed in transit," she says. "So there's some lag."

That's okay. Plenty to read here already.

Julie gets home right before the pasta's done and announces she's starving, and Winona says, "Poor you, let's get some pasta in your face," and then dinner is served.

Cute.

Denice's pasta is in a bowl and it's a relatively drinkable pasta (gnocchi).

It's still kind of messy but she can live with that; she goes to wash up when she's done.

Julie handles the dishes and then tugs Winona up from her chair and twirls her around the kitchen, humming.

"You're trying to be romantic," giggles Winona, "but you don't think I recognize your theme song?"

"Rumor has it you love me so it's totally romantic," replies Julie, grinning at her.