: Identifying specific items she likes to boost her "affection" or "relationship" meter faster. Dependency

One day, you will be thirty. You will have your own apartment, your own job, your own life. And I will still think of you as "my cute teens Veronica." I will still have the photo of you at fourteen, covered in flour from a failed baking experiment, grinning like a maniac.

To watch Veronica exist is to watch someone balance on a skateboard while juggling a hamster, a calculus test, and a secret playlist titled “songs that make me feel like a villain.” She stumbles. She gets back up. She adjusts her crooked ponytail and says, “That was on purpose.”