Thor picked at the lettuce wrap as did everyone else at the table. The appetizer was nearly gone and Thor feared drinking and becoming vulnerable.
As the waitress approached, Evona started ordering to avoid introduction.
"I'll have the Teriyaki chicken with a side of chow mein please." Evona handed the waitress her menu. "What do you want Thor?"
"I wish to eat nothing more."
"Why not? There's no way a man your size is full already." Evona looked at Thor, concerned for his well being.
"You told me to wait until I got home to eat more." Thor whispered to Evona.
"That thing we just ate, that was an appetizer, this is the meal, then we'll have desert, now what do you want?" Evona tried to keep her voice low, after all she didn't want to the Midgardians to think her date was a nut job.
"Oh, in that case I'll have the same." Thor had no idea what to eat, so he trusted Evona's judgement.
Meanwhile: Kai kept her menu in front of her face and Loki did the same with his own.
"I can't believe you talked me into this!"
"I can't believe Thor talked me into this!" The two whispered back and forth.
"You had to say I was dead?" Kai, after noticing that Thor was staring at her awkwardly, lowered her head closer to the table.
"Keep in mind that was one of the suggestions you gave me." Loki reminded her.
"I didn't think you'd use it! Also keep in mind," she mocked. "I suggested you say you were dead, not me."
"Yeah then Evona showed up, she's smarter than Thor on wine." Loki argued.
"Are you going to order Brother?" Thor looked at Loki and then back to the waitress who had her hair pinned up quite nicely in a tight bun.
"Ah yes, one moment, let me just look at my menu."
"You've been looking at your menu for 35 minutes." Everyone was staring at Loki. Even the waitress who technically didn't have a right.
"Yes, yes, I'll have..." he paused and skimmed the menu. Then realizing that nothing sounded familiar he pointed randomly in the meal section. "That."
"You want that? That's unique. Good choice." The waitress looked at him suspiciously then moved on to Kai who ordered sweet and sour chicken with fried rice.
"Do you have any idea what you just ordered?" Kai looked at Loki with a jaw dropping face.
"I haven't the slightest idea, after all it's written in Chinese." Loki looked at Kai who was wide eyed and staring right back at him.
"Yeah but you didn't know that until about 10 seconds ago when you looked at it. Plus the description was in English. This is going to turn out to be a very interesting night after all."
When their food arrived, Thor looked at the serving and his mouth dropped.
"No wonder you are all so small," he began after the waitress walked away.
"Thor," Evona tried to stop him from further speaking.
"You eat the serving of a child!"
"Where as you eat the child itself." Loki said still holding his menu. "Why am I the only one left with a menu?"
"Because you were sitting on it. Remember?" Kai said taking it and putting it on the table next to them where a family sat that had given there menus back a long time ago.
When they began eating, Kai waited for the waitress to come with their drinks. Then she licked her thumb and index finger at the same time, placed them over the stick candle, and put out the flame with a 'TTSSS.'
The waitress patiently relit it and walked away. Kai waited until the waitress could see her again before putting out the candle a second time.
She walked to their table. "Would you like your candle relit?"
"Yes, of course. Please do."The waitress clicked the lighter a few times before it actually decided to work. When it did, Kai blew it out like a birthday candle, even though it was still on the lighter.
"If you don't want it lit, we won't light it." She looked at Kai firmly.
"Oh no, we definitely want it lit." Kai smirked.
The waitress heaved a sigh and relit the candle, then walked away quickly before Kai could repeat the action.
"Are you going to put it out again?" Loki looked at her with one eyebrow raised, waiting for her to stop looking into space and put out the candle. When actually, she was waiting for the waitress to look at her.
"Wait for it." Kai waited until the waitress could see her and the put out the candle again. It gave a weak sizzling noise before dying completely.
The waitress stomped over and pulled out a match. "It appears for some odd reason our lighter has run out of gas." She stared intensely at Kai.
"Hum, I wonder why."
"Oh you blew it out when you turned around!" Kai gave a small immature snicker.
The waitress whipped around and lit the candle again as had been repeated so many times previous.
"I'm going to have to ask you to leave of you do this one more time." The waitress was furious.
"I have no idea what you're talking about. Refusing service for nothing isn't really something that will get the employee if the month award."
The waitress kindly grabbed the candle and took it to the kitchen she was to sweet to kick her out.
Kai waited until the waitress had returned and paid a visit.
"Why'd you take our candle?" Loki asked as if nothing had happened.
"Oh well we ran out of matches so I found it useless to leave it sitting there."
"Out of matches huh? Let's test that theory." Kai stood and walked to the nearest table. It was a cute teenage couple, probably on there first date. Kai put out there candle and walked back to her seat.
"Hey!" The high pitched tone of the girls voice scared Kai.
"What was that for?" The teenage boy had squeaked on the word that.
"Oh crap, looks like they have to go without a candle too."
Only then did they start eating.
"What is this?" Loki pulled a substance out of his soup.
"That would be half of an onion." The waitress said before leaving.
"Chop it up or put the whole thing I there but don't just give me half of it!" Loki said as he put it back in with hopes that it would disintegrate. "What is this?"
"Mine!" Kai leaned over and took the calamari out of his chop sticks and ate it on the spot.
"Do I dare ask what this is?" Loki put it in his mouth. He began to fidget and his left eye twitched.
"That would be sour squid leg." Thor said. Oh yes, because he would know.
Loki trying to keep his manners, so he reached for a napkin and spit into it. So he had eaten nothing yet.
"What it this?" Loki asked sipping his water.
"Snake skin, I think. Or it's the rattle."
"Those are two opposite ends of a snakes body, how can you not tell the difference?" Loki placed the slop under the table on the floor.
"You're one to talk! You have yet to know what a single thing is that's come out of that soup." Kai bragged.
"I'm sorry I gotta go pee. Be right back." Kai licked her fingers before leaving the table and put out every table's candle on her way.
Complaints were heard from every table. Then Kai screamed and was later seen being haled out by security.
Loki cleared his throat to brake the awkward silence of the restaurant. He pulled out a long strand of a thin furry substance. Loki's face became disgusted and his bottom lip quivered. "What. Is. This?"
"That's cow skin." Evona said. "I've seen it before on fear factor."
"I am joining Kai! I will be sitting on the curb!" Loki then reached out and put out a neighboring candle. "Heh, that's kinda fun."
Kai's head popped through the door and the security began to walk over. "I know right!" She then let out a small scream at the sight of the security and rushed back out to the parking lot.
As he sat with Kai a slight breeze blew and Loki offered her his jacket. Since she didn't really say yes or no he just put it around her shoulders and Kai continued to stare off into space.
"You know we could plot revenge against them and plan a horrible date." Loki said as he watched strands of Kai's hair sway gently in the breeze.
"Sh, just look." She continued staring at the sky. "We know so much about the universe, and they now so little. It's beautiful, it really is, and we take it for granted." Her eyes continued to sweep the stars.
Loki was surprised that Kai could have such a tender moment with stars.
"We can see entire nebulas, and they see a few specks of stars. They go star gazing just to look at what little they have, and we just see it as a normal everyday thing."
"Yes, but we admire things like the rainbow bridge, the castle, and things such as Thor's hammer or other useful weapons." Kai waited until Loki had finished talking then without taking her eyes of the stars she smacked him clean across the face. He gave a small grunt. "Yeah stars are beautiful too."
