Akiko was pacing back and forth in the kitchen, clearly agitated.
“She’s awake?” she bellowed at her tablet before throwing it on the counter. “What happens next?”
Yuri carefully walked in, not wanting a tablet thrown at him next, “Everything okay?”
“No!” she continued in the same volume. “I just finished the second book in a series from this author I love, and it just ended on a huge cliffhanger! One of the main characters woke up, but I don’t know what happened to anyone else! Now the next book isn’t coming out until later this year, she says!”
“That’s normal in a continuing series, isn’t it?” Yuri asked as he inched himself further into the kitchen and toward the fridge.
“I know,” Akiko grumbled. “I still want to know.”
“Where are you even reading this at?” Yuri asked.
“Ugh,” A
