Well, they may not have meat, but at least they serve eggs. Eggs and that essential life-giving elixir: coffee. Sweet, sweet coffee. I found everyone sitting at the same table, except for Hopper, who was still in the field hospital. I sat down as well, carrying with me a tray with a cheese and tomato omelet and a cup of coffee.
"Not hungry?" Bucky asked, looking at my plate.
"Starving, why?"
"You barely got anything…"
"Are you kidding me? This is almost too much!"
"Wait, aren't you supposed to eat more than us? Cause you're, y'know…bigger?"
"Foxes eat a lot less than us due to a slower metabolism." Charlie joined in, as chipper as ever.
"That's…neat, I guess?" I replied.
"You still owe me a round of questions, by the way."
"What?"
"Yesterday, I asked you some things and you told me you'd get back to me later."
"Oh, right…that."
"Can you guys keep it down, please?" Marty very groggily asked, briefly lifting his head from the table.
"Someone's hungover…" I proceeded to point out the obvious.
"Yeah, Marty and booze don't go well together." Charlie explained. "Speaking of booze, where's Eddie?"
I didn't even notice he wasn't here.
"Without Hopper to wake him up? Most likely still trying to sleep off the hangover." Bucky answered. "He'll probably show up at around noon."
"Yeah, probably." Charlie said, taking a sip of coffee. "So, what will we do today? We got the day off, don't we?"
"Get a jeep, drive to Bunny Burrow, meet some girls and get some drinks." Marty mumbled, face still glued to the table.
"I don't think it's wise to let either you or Eddie near alcohol anytime soon…Y'know, hangovers usually make people want to stay away from drinking, not drink more…" Bucky explained.
"You know a better way of curing a hangover than getting drunk?"
"Coffee usually helps…"
"Nah, I like my idea better. But if you insist, we can skip the drinks and just find some girls."
"I have a girl and we're quite happy, thank you very much."
"The rest of us don't."
"Hopper's married."
"Well he's not here, is he? Besides, that still leaves me, Eddie, Andy, Charlie and foxy over here."
"I don't know, I think Jimmy found himself a girl last night."
"Is that so? Foxy found himself a vixen?"
"No, but he did leave with Andy's sister."
"Yeah, right, good one, Bucky." Andy finally joined the conversation. "My sister's not a preddo."
"I didn't say they hooked up, now did I? I just said they left together."
Mart burst out laughing not a second later, so loud it almost hurt my ears. He barely even looked awake a second ago, what the hell just happened?
"That's just sheer what-do-you-call-it!" He managed to say after finally calming down a little bit.
"Sophistry." Charlie offered.
"Right, sophistry. You're learning, Bucky…I'm so proud." He said, wiping a nonexistent tear from his eye. "They grow up so fast…"
