Hallo everyone! It's been awhile…a SUPER long while. Anyway, on with the story!
"Business at Rosie's Inn"
Days have passed, and as each day came and went, Sora's arm healed. And not only that, but the relationship between her, Aerrow, Piper, and Rosie grew as well. It was as if the siblings were being adopted into the family.
Sora woke up one morning to find a busy noise downstairs. Aerrow was still sleeping, so she decided to get up and out of her bed to check out the noise. Walking downstairs, she found people. Lots of people. They were enjoying themselves to food and drinks at Rosie's inn. Although they were enjoying themselves, Rosie seemed out of her mind, running back and forth, taking orders, bringing out food and drinks.
After watching this process for about a minute, Sora had an idea. Her arm was better, so why should she stand around? She was going to help Rosie out. Sora jogged into the kitchen to talk with Rosie.
"Morning, Rosie," Sora greeted.
"Oh! Good morning, dear! I'm afraid that my hands are very full right now, so if you could please talk to me later, I'd appreciate that," she said quickly, already running back out to the dining area.
"Well, actually, that's what I wanted to talk about! I can help you out with the inn!" Sora shouted after her.
Rosie stopped in her tracks, with a plate in each hand, she turned around slowly to look at Sora.
"Would you really?"
Sora couldn't believe what she heard. Of course she would! Why would she ask in the first place?
"Of course, Rosie! You can't handle all of this yourself!" Sora pointed out. She walked over to Rosie and grabbed the two plates herself and strutted out the door to the dining room.
Rosie blinked her eyes and shook her head quickly. She never had help with the inn since her husband died.
"What a blessing that child is…"
The morning passed by quickly. Apparently, the guests wanted to try out Rosie's new breakfast dish, and indeed it was very good. All of the guests approved of the dish, and said they would come back for more next time.
After the guests left, it was time for a lunch break for Sora and Rosie. Sora dropped down onto a chair in the guest dining area, looking at all of the dishes there were to clean up.
"Oh boy," she sighed.
Rosie came out from the kitchen.
"Well, girl, I'll be! You did such a great job serving all of those people! Thank you SO much, hon! You've been a great help!"
Sora looked up. "Oh, haha., it was nothing." Nothing? More like a freakin' beehive! "But I'm glad to help."
Rosie smiled. "Really, Sora, it was a great help to me. I haven't gotten any help with the inn since, well…actually, let's go into the private dining room. We can talk in there."
"Okay."
Sora and Rosie stepped into the dining and room and sat down to talk. The kids and Radarr were playing outside.
"Well, anyway, continuing on with what I said before, I haven't had help ever since my husband passed away," Rosie sighed.
Sora knew about her husband already from talking with Piper. "Oh, that's right, he got killed by Talons in a fight or argument."
Rosie nodded her head slowly.
"I'm really sorry about that. It must be really hard."
"Well, not as hard as you, Aerrow, and Radarr losing your whole family and home," she pointed out.
Sora's eyes widened. For the past few weeks she actually didn't feel any pain from missing them. It was as if she forgot all about it.
"I…I..."
Rosie gasped and put a hand to her mouth. "Oh, goodness, dear! I didn't mean to remind you of that! I'm terribly sorry!"
"I…no no…not at all…I was going to say that…I…actually…forgot about them," Sora spoke with pauses. She was surprised. She never thought she'd get over the fact that her family was gone, excluding Aerrow and Radarr.
Rosie bit her lip. "Are you sure you're okay, hon?" She sure seemed like it. I'm quite surprised.
"Yes, I'm fine, Rosie, thank you. But…What this conversation is really about is you and the inn. Like I said before, I'm super glad and happy to help out. Besides, it'll be an exchange for taking care of us, meaning Aerrow, Radarr, and I, letting us stay here, and for taking care of my arm. And…about the whole losing family thing, I feel like you've adopted us into your family, Rosie. And…I really appreciate that."
Rosie had tears well up in her eyes. "Oh, Sora! Come here!" Rosie got out of her chair and embraced Sora.
Sora felt like she had a mom again. It had been awhile since she had that feeling.
Rosie sat back down in her chair, wiping the tears off her face. "Sora, I'm more than glad to have taken you, your brother, and Radarr in. It's been quite lonely with only Piper and I here, and like I've said before, we need the company. Piper needs some friends to play with, and I've just needed someone to talk to. And even if you didn't help out with the inn just now, I've still would have been glad to take care of you."
Sora just smiled. Rosie smiled too. It was a mutual feeling. Both had their gratitude and thankfulness that they had already expressed, but they couldn't express it enough through words. So, they would just express it through silence.
After the silence, Sora spoke. "Thank you, Rosie. For everything."
"And I thank you, too, Sora."
Lunch break was just about over and Sora and Rosie were back to business.
"Alright, so this morning was a bit unorganized since you came to help. I didn't know how to split up the job. So for this evening, I've decided that you can take the orders and serve, while I prepare the food and drinks," Rosie explained.
"Okay, sounds good to me," Sora agreed.
"And when time passes, you can begin to cook and I'll take the orders and serve. We can switch it up," Rosie added.
Sora nodded her head.
Rosie gave a big sigh. It seemed like she had tons of things on her shoulders.
"And…there were a few more things…oh yes! That's right! You, young lady, need a uniform!" Rosie ran off somewhere to retrieve the "uniform".
Sora stood there with big eyes. Uniform? She slapped herself on the forehead. DUR! You gotta wear uniforms at where you work!
So why was she so dazed?
Thing was, Sora hadn't worn any uniforms before. Since she hadn't been officially a Storm Hawk, she didn't wear a uniform while training with Tanner or anything like that. The school she went to didn't have a uniform either. "Just wear something that you're comfortable in and something that you can move around easily in," the teacher said.
So in the end, it added up that Sora didn't DO uniforms.
This time, was a big exception though. She was working at Rosie's inn, and she couldn't be seen in what she was wearing, except for the morning. A t-shirt and pants wouldn't cut it.
Flashback.
Hmmm, today feels different, so I guess I'll wear something different. I normally just wear a shirt with pants…pretty tom-boyish…so…I guess I'll be a little girly today. I picked out a white shirt and deep blue tank top to wear over it and green, blue, and yellow Bermuda shorts. Awesome colors. Not too girly though...screw it.
The morning of her birthday, and the morning when she hit Tanner with a hairbrush and they embraced each other. The hug.
Sora sighed. She had to get over him. Him and the rest of the family.
Rosie came running back with what seemed like to be a bundle of clothes.
Sora scratched the back of her neck. "Umm, Rosie, not to be rude or anything, but I hope I'm not wearing everything in that bundle. It's…hot when it's busy," she pointed out.
Rosie had already opened the bundle and hung some of the clothes on the backs of the chairs and on the table. She gave a big laugh.
"Of course not, Sora! These are just your choices, which by the way you'll go over with me, and you're not going to wear everything," she smiled.
"Oh…okay," Sora said.
Well, the bundle sure seemed big for only a few articles of clothes. There was a black skirt and pants, a dark blue skirt, a white long sleeve and short sleeve, and a pink long sleeve. Okay, it was a lot of clothes.
Sora thought that she would just pick out the black pants and the long sleeve. She could roll up the long sleeve and button it halfway. She didn't want anything too fancy. Skirts might attract people she didn't want, and short sleeve…well the shirt actually was too small for her. And the pink long sleeve…hell she didn't do pink.
"Okay, Rosie, how about the white long sleeve and black pants?"
Rosie frowned. "Sora, hon, you have way too nice of a figure to just wear pants and a long sleeve shirt."
Sora made an excuse. "But…I don't want to wear anything too fancy. It might…uh…I might get unwanted attention?"
"Then it's unwanted attention you'll get!"
Rosie picked up the dark blue skirt and white long sleeve.
"I'll let you wear the long sleeve, but you're going to wear this skirt.
She pushed the clothes into Sora's arms and ran off into the kitchen. "Go and change, Sora! People will be coming soon!"
"Oh boy," she sighed.
"Oooh, Sora's lookin' fancy," Piper commented.
"How come you never wore skirts before, sis? You look really good in that one!" Aerrow added.
Sora tried to pull down the skirt below her knees. Although it was only a like an inch above her knees, she still didn't like it.
"Very funny, Aerrow."
"No, I'm serious!"
Sora glared at him. He could be the sweetest brother, but you can't expect every brother to be sweet all the time.
Sora sighed. "Okay, whatever."
She walked out to the kitchen where Rosie was busily preparing dishes.
"Oh, Sora! You look just wonderful!" Rosie exclaimed, while sautéing veggies in one hand, and stirring soup in another.
"Thanks," Sora mumbled.
"You can go out and change the sign to "open" now. I'm sure there'll be tons of guests waiting outside."
Sora was surprised when she walked out to the door. There were tons of people waiting outside. It was as if there was a grand opening to something.
But the inn has been here for years…it must be really famous and have good food then.
Sora flipped the sign and opened the door, and the crowd came rushing in. Everyone took their seats quickly. Amazingly, there were still some left! The inn looked smaller than it really was. It probably could have held more people then you can imagine.
Singles, couples, triples, quadruples, and so on and so forth, and families occupied the inn. It was actually quite lively. Rosie would make a lot of money for sure. This was good business.
Sora walked over to her own podium with a cash register and her notepad for ordering. She looked out at the crowd, then looked at her notepad and flipped through the blank pages.
I wonder if there is enough space for everyone's order?
Sora began her job (officially) with a very strange incident. Sure, everyone must have known that Rosie's inn on Terra Klias provided the best food and service, but she never would have thought that a certain type of people would come here.
Sora made fists with her hands and grinded her teeth.
At one table, sitting all by himself, was…
AHHHHH!! WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?? Hee hee! I made a cliff hanger just to kill ya guys! Stay tuned and you shall see!
Sorry I haven't updated for awhile, just haven't had the time. I'm going to move soon, sooo…yea. Next chapter might be up today. I'm working on it right now!
