Robert's kitchen was huge, and its dark wood paneling was sort of foreboding in the middle of the night, but Zoe knew her way around it pretty well. She was over at Robert's house so often that it felt like a second home to her. Zoe certainly liked Robert's mother a lot more than her own.

The freezer had not one, not two, not three, but four kinds of Ben and Jerry's ice cream: Phish Food, Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey, and Karamel Sutra.