Jake wasn't surprised when Enamie succumbed to Erin's demands that he not live in the house. She was too nice to want to fight, and even though Jake wasn't keen on the idea of travelling an hour's way there and back to the apartment each time he wanted to see Enamie, he didn't comment on it. If anything, he would bring it up to her later on when they were in private. He didn't want to give Erin more of a reason to dislike him. Plus, although Enamie didn't know he had any past relationship with Catarina, he was sort of paranoid that pushing the subject would make her skeptical of why he wanted to stay there so badly.
As Enamie began to cook, Jake took a seat at the kitchen table. She was busy cooking and he was hungry enough where he didn't want to even distract her for a moment with conversation, so he focused his attention to some emails on his phone for a few minutes. When the silence began to feel heavier, he glanced over at Erin and offered her a friendly smile. "So, do you go to school and stuff? What grade are you in?" Although he knew the conversation probably seemed forced and awkward, it would hopefully be less painful than the silence. He agreed with what Enamie had said earlier, that maybe she was just overwhelmed with the stress of losing two parents, and him moving in was just one more thing to add to her already full plate. He guessed that her anger was only directed at him because she had no where else to channel it, and he hoped that if he showed her he wasn't an ass, she would chill out.
A few minutes later, Enamie spoke up and he then realized how good the kitchen had begun to smell. It was a scent that was definitely familiar to him, and he grinned as he spotted her pulling the pan out of the oven and searching for plates. "Smells good," he commented as he took a plate and slid one of the steaming slices onto it. Before returning to the table, he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her gently before pulling away. "Things are going well so far, yeah?" he asked. They had gotten through the first hour or so and at least for Jake, things didn't seem to be too rough. However, he knew that he wasn't the one who had just lost a parent and was now responsible for a kid.