Eating A Nice Dinner

[Vaan-kun]

Vaan walked into the busy diner, with the hum of conversation from the many surrounding people and that rushing of waiters and waitresses to the table, many of them carrying two or three plates at a time.Vaan scanned the area and found an empty booth table and walked over to it to sit down. A waiter came by and supplied a menu to him. The wwaiter then left in a hurry to serve his other customers.

Vaan looked over the menu, but something else was on his mind at the moment, about how quiet the place truly was, how it seemed that even though it is loud there is an awful silence... "I'm overthinking again... I gotta stop doing that..." Vaan thought to himself and shook it off.

The waiter came by again for his order. "I'd like the fish dinner with fries, hot sauce, and a glass of lemonde with no ice." Vaan stated to him. With a curious eye from the waiter, obviously because he had ordered hot sauce, he left to put in Vaan's order.

It was about twenty minutes before his food arrived, and he happily dug into his food, starting by pouring some of the hot sauce on the fries and taking a bite. It burnt, it made his eyes water, but it was just delicious. He continued to eat as many more people began to pour in.

[Marr-bles™]

"MOm? CAn I have anything I want? Even if it's bananas on eggs?" The youngster pulled on his mothers arm as they walked into the diner. Ria shook her head for the fact that her son's taste in food was really strange but let it go. Putting her hand on his head she lead him to a table and waited for the waiter to come to their table. Rete' looked around and saw Vaan in the booth behind them. He quickly flashed a quick smile in his direction.
"Hey, mommy, why is he alone?"

"I don't know, but remember you manners. It's not nice to stare!" She told him as the waiter finally came by the table with the menu's. "Thank you, sir!"

"Can I get you anything to drink while I wait on your orders?"

Ria looked to her son for a moment and saw him mouth the word orange juice and Ria nodded to him. "Just a small orange juice for him and I'd like a large water please." The waiter nodded to them and left quickly to get the drinks. "So, Rete'.. what do you want to do today?" She asked looking at the menu. "I think I'll be getting just a burger. Do you still want those bananas and eggs?"

"NO! That's gross!"

"Well, that's what you said you would want a minute ago!" She teased him as he stuck out his tongue in disgust with the order he thought he wanted. "So, what do you want?"

"I want... a burger like you mommy... and fren..chee Flys?" He let his words get mixed up as he spoke.

"You mean, FRENCH Fries?... not flies.. who would want to eat Flies?" Making a buzzing noise, she let her finger move around and Rete' laughed at her as the waiter came back with the drinks.

"What will we be having?" He asked taking the notepad out.

"Two burgers.. one of those in a childs plate with fries, and for me just a burger, thank you! Well done on both of those." She state and as soon as she finishe he was off with the orders. Taking a sip of her drink she looked around again, her eye's catching the guy that Rete' turned around and saw a moment ago. She nodded to him with a smile.

[Vaan-kun]

He hadn't realized he'd been stared at by a kid until he heard him talking about him. He looked up to see a little kid and, as anyone would think, the mother sitting across from him. It was really cute how he had tried to say French fries... but really disgusted about bananas and eggs,,, what WAS he thinking? Maybe he was that hungry?

He took a few more bites of his French fries, the hot sauce giving a little flavor for his tongue since he was now getting used to the burning tension, and looked again at the two. He then realized the mother was looking at him as well, and he blushed a bit in embarrassment being caught staring. He mentally shook it off and smiled at the woman as well.

"Someone's a little tongue-tied, huh?" Vaan commented, referring to the little kid's attempt. "Whenever I do tongue twisters, I either can't get done with the first line or I bite my tongue." He finally began to eat some of his fish, just between sentences so he wouldn't rudely stop to put food in his mouth. "And yet talking with tongue twisters in them are no problem... maybe it's because they're funnier?"

Against what he stands for, he gets up, grabs his plate and drink, and walks to their booth table and sits down. "Sorry, it's just not fun to eat alone. Do you mind?" Vaan asked them, mostly the mother, since she obviously has most of the say in it all.

[Marr-bles™]

Rete' shy'd down just a little bit actually hearing the guy comment something on what he said. "Tongue twisters? What's that mean, Mommy?" He asked taking his attention from the guy to Ria. She smiled to him and took of sip of her water.

"It's a game people play, when they try to say a bunch of words that sound alike. Sometimes it gets really funny when they can't say it!" She told him looking at him and then back at her son. Rete' tilted his head alittle as Vaan spoke trying to figure out the words he used. After a few seconds she noticed that he got up and carried his items over to their table. Company, on such short notice? No big deal.

"I don't mind, no! Go ahead, it's alot better with company!" Ria told her and Rete' nodded.

"Ha.. mommy, he gets to sit beside me! That's awsome." Rete sat still for once knowing that hewasn't the only one sitting on that side of the booth and opened his mouth to speak. "So. What's your name, mister? My name is.." He paused a moment to look to his mother for reassurance about telling a stranger his name. With a simple smile and anodd, she agreed and Rete' continued. "Rete'! That's my mommy!"

"Ria... If you please!" She held her hand out for him to meet him properly

[Vaan-kun]

Vaan smiled and took the hand and shook it lightly, though It'd be funnier really hard and wild. "Nice to meet you both. My name is Vaan Kin-Su... vaankinsu... vunkin sue... Vunkin Sue..." Vaan laughed a little bit, just now realizing you can play around with his name. "That'd be an funny name to have, wouldn't it?"

He dipped a little more of his hot sauce on his fries, and took a bite. "I swear, ever since I went to that carnival, hot sauce and fries have become a tasty thing to eat!" Vaan said as he took another bite. "Unless you both have sensitive tongues, would you both like a bite?" Vaan asked them, holding up a fry dipped halfway in hot sauce. "It might not seem tasty, but trust me, it is."

People around them were giving him an odd look after mentioning French fries with hot sauce... with questionable looks, they turned back to their own food. Vaan then took a bite of his fish, apparently still hot. "People need to hold back their curiosity sometimes and go with it. Vaan thought to himself, because in a way, he'd been somewhat insulted. "Well?"

[Marr-bles™]

Ria shook her head to the offer of hot sauce fries but Rete' seemed somewhat curious about the taste after seeing him eat the sauce soaked fries himself. "So.. Momma can I try one? I wanna try one!" He asked his mother taking the bottle of hot sauce that Vaan brought over and carefully poured some of the sauce on a single fry.

"Now.. Rete'.. Son, I'm warning you now.. YOu kow that candy.. Hot tamales that you don't like. It's hotter than..." She didn't get out the rest of the sentence before the child took a huge bit of the fry and he chewed on it slowly.

"It's good, momm...." He stopped midsentence and his eye's started to well up with water. The hot sauce evidently was taking effect on the child as he quickly swallowed the fry and took a drink of his orange juice. He wiped his eye. "That was.. too... hot!" He said as Ria laughed solely at him, tyring to cover her mouth to keep from laughing at her son's mistake.
"Well, Vaan Kin-su.. I must admit, you already got him to something eathing that he knows he don't like." SHe said as she watched as Rete' grabbed her ice cold water glass and take a sip of it.

"There.. That is gooder now. It's not hot anymore." He said putting on a brave face and pushing the bottle of hot sauce away from him. "I can't think that you like that stuff.. It's too hot!"

"So, Vaan? What do you do now? Like.. do you work or anything?"

[Vaan-kun]

Vaan couldn't help but laugh at Rete's face as he took the first bite and then scrambling for his orange juice and some of his mom's water. He collected himself quickly, not trying to make himself look mean. "I think hot sauce was made for people with tongues of bricks... it burns, just not as it would on a regular kind of tongue... see where I'm getting? Vaan asked Rete' with a chuckle.

When Ria asked about what kind of work he did, he tried to put it in a simple way. "I guess you can say I'm somewhat of an author, but when I'm not writing, I'm working in a small shop for a little extra money on the side." Vaan said as he finished off one of the fish on his plate. The waiter came by with the food for Rete' and Ria, and was kind enough to refill Rete's glass. With a confused look on why Vaan was there, he left to attend to other things.

"Why I say I'm somewhat of an author is because this would be my first little project, so I wouldn't really call myself one just yet." Vaan said to them, kind of laughing at the fact. "But, to be something's better to be nothing at all." He then turned to Rete'. "You know what an author is, right? The person who makes those book things?" Vaan said with a smile. He didn't want Rete' to feel so left out of the conversation.

[Marr-bles™]

"I... don't like it at all!" He said yet again to get his point across and took his mothers water yet again taking a few more sips of it, still feeling the effects of the sauce burning on his tongue. "but... Some people have a tongue made of bricks? THat's silly!" He said to Vaans statment and shook his head seeing the Waiter come with their food finally. "Mommy.. the foods here... YAY!" He seemed to say aloud, but Ria didn't do anything about it.

"Here you go Ma'am... and for the little gentleman..." he stated putting the food in front of htem and seeing that Vaan took a seat with them he nodded to him.

"An author.. that's really amazing. I've never had a neck for writing, but my profession is just a home based business. Now, if you ever need some assistance with computers or anyhting, my son Rete'.. is just the guy for you!" She told him as Rete' took a moment away from his burger he dulged into.

"I'm a great fixerer with computers... i love them. Taking them apart... and bringing them back together." Ria knew what he meant when it came to bringing the parts back together, being a technopath, he was able to control technology with his mind and it helped out at the house when it came to fixing her computer when it crashed or anything. "I don't really read alot of books. I would rather play with tools than to read. It's not fun to sit still..."

"That's for sure. Your just a ball of energy if I say so myself!" Ria added and Rete' tossed his head around with a sour attitude about his mother saying that.

"Can we go to the park after this mommy, I wanna play on the swingset?" He added as he yet again took a quick bite of his burger and then stuffed a fry in his mouth. "Vaan, do you wanna come and play with me? I'm sure mommy will let you come?"

[Vaan-kun]

"I know almost nothing about computers... period." Vaan said with a laugh. "Even when I was younger, I'd only been on a computer about two times... at least, as far as I know." Vaan looked a it in thought, then he took one of his fries and popped it in his mouth. "But hey, some luckier than others?"

"I end up reading a lot of books, especially those mystery stories; the wondering of what might happen next is just not something you can just simply ignore..." Vaan said. "But the books and stories I prefer to write are pure fiction, or fantasy, I guess you could say. Everyone likes a story where anything can happen... I loved them since I was... about Rete's age, actually."

Vaan smiled at the thought of coming with them... they seemed like interesting people. "How can I say no? Of course I'll come, as long as your mother is fine with it." Vaan said to him. There was always something about little kids that you couldn't say no to... maybe it was the constant peppiness?

"The most interesting part of my life, so far, at least, was back at the Winchester House in my old home. I went there almost every day to visit the ghosts and spirits that haunted the place... don't worry, though, most of them were actually pretty friendly."

"Sadly, anyone will meet that one oddball... sometimes one goes to sleep one day, and feels like he hadn't woken up in years... I lived that experience..." Vaan said before taking a fry, throwing it up in the air, and catching it in his mouth. "Talk about a circus freak!" Vaan said as he put on a smile. "What do you two do besides tinker with technology?"