Sweet but Psycho

Chapter 26: Memory Lane

Ryan goes to Elena's and Jenna invites her in, Ryan was invited to the barbecue Jenna's barbecue. Ryan goes takes off her shoes at the door and goes to the back yard where the grill is. Alaric is back there working on the ribs and the burgers.

"I'm using the rest of that barbecue sauce you made from the apartment," Alaric states.

"Good," Ryan says and she heads inside. "I want to make some barbecued meatballs, coleslaw, and potato salad. Do you have any potatoes?"

Jenna nods and she walks over to the pantry and grabs them. "A twin who can cook. I can tell a different when you're in the kitchen."

Ryan scoffs and she nods.

"Red or white potatoes?" Jenna asks.

"White," Ryan replies. "I need apple cider, sour cream, mayo, mustard - the yellow kind -, a red onion, celery sticks, dill pickles, some eggs, herds, and salt and some black pepper."

Jenna gets every ingredient Ryan asks for. "Which herb? We have these." Jenna grabs some fresh herbs form the kitchen she keeps for shen Ryan does cook, Alaric told her to.

"I'll use the cilantro," Ryan says.

She boils two pours of cut up potatoes. The recipe for her potato salad has one tablespoon of apple cider, a half a cup of sour cream, a fourth of a cup of mayonnaise, one tablespoon of yellow mustard, a half a cup of finely chopped red onion, some finely chopped dill pickles, two chopped and pealed hard boiled eggs, a fourth of a up of herbs -Ryan choice cilantro -, she adds salt and black pepper to it every time she cooks it. Her grandpa Saltzman taught it to her.

She makes the potato salad and she puts it to the side, Jenna gawks at the while Ryan gets her some ingredients for the meatballs her grandpa Fleming taught her. She needs a pound and a half of ground beef, three fourths of a cup of oaks, a cup of milk, a tablespoon and a half of salt, three tablespoons of finely minced onions, plenty of black pepper for taste, a cup of flour to coat frozen meat balls, canola oil. Ryan cooks and minces away until it's time for the sauce.

For that, the uses a cup of ketchup that Jenna got out for her, two tablespoons of sugar, three tablespoons of vinegar, two tablespoons of Worcestershire, four tablespoons of the minced onions, and a dash of Tabasco.

Jenna watches in awe as Ryan cooks when Mason Lockwood walks in. Mason pauses and he looks back and he looks at Ryan, puzzlement finds his face shine Ryan cooks her barbecue meatballs.

"Am I just seeing things are are there two of your niece, Jenna?" Mason asks.

"You're not seeing things," Jenna says. "Ryan, this is my friend, Mason Lockwood. Mason, this is Elena's long-lost twin sister, Ryan."