"Well...Pepper is Pepper, after all." She hadn't cottoned on to the fact that Gene wasn't what he'd seemed, not entirely.

Though he's not sure how he feels about Skul calling Pepper his 'friend'. Not with how she's been acting around him lately, not with the persistent vibe of awkwardness that hangs around their house half the time like a burnt cooking smell that just won't leave. "Really? Did she call me that?"