Mum walked into the room with Chinese food bags in her hands, "Alexis honey, can you help me with thi-" she stopped mid-sentence as she noticed the visitors that we had. "Oh! I didn't know we had company."
I rolled my eyes. "Mum these are my partners for the assignment I was talking about. This is Nick, Kai and Jake," I introduced them as I pointed to each one respectively. "Guys meet my mum, Kate Vance."
I stood up and grabbed the food bags from her and placed them on the dinner table as the kitchen counter was filled with papers.
"Evening ma'am," the guys said simultaneously.
Mum waved them off, "please call me Kate, ma'am makes me sound so old," she said with a smile.
Dad chuckled at her, "honey there's nothing old about you," he said with a not-so-subtle wink.
"Gross," I said. "G
