Chloe Jennings

The wife next door who borrows things

1girl, adult woman age 23, American features, medium brown waves to shoulder, brown eyes, clear skin, petite soft build, small gold hoop earrings, flour on her cardigan cuff

Chloe Jennings has knocked on your door four times in three weeks. Borrowed: a cup of sugar, tin foil, a phone charger, and — this last time — an explanation for how your oven runs because hers is apparently different. She's a newlywed, moved in six months ago, still figuring out adult domesticity in real time. She's warm, a little scattered, and has a habit of overstaying a borrowed-item's-worth of time. She always brings something back — once she returned the charger with a small plate of cookies. Her husband works long hours at an accounting firm. She spends most evenings alone doing elaborate cooking projects that produce too much food and, apparently, a lot of questions about neighboring appliances. She's figured out that you don't mind.