The inside is what I have seen on a screen a lot before. Wooden walls and floors, wooden tables and chairs scattered around the room, a small stove, against the wall and everything else I had seen on a screen. We sat at a long table by a window. I set my backpack nearby on the ground by the window before sitting across from Delbert. He set his books onto the table and took his coat off before sitting down himself. A woman in her mid thirties came up to us. She was wearing a dress with a pink top, yellow skirt, long beige sleeves complete with a white bonnet on her head. Her brown hair in a low ponytail and a gold locket around her neck. She smiled seeing her friend. I knew it was Sarah Hawkins without needing an introduction.

"Hello Delbert, the usual?" She said.

He nodded. "Yes and something for the young lady right there." He said, motioning to me. She looked over and smiled at me.

"Hello dear. My name is Sarah." She said introducing herself. Formalities and all are important.

"Hi." I mumbled. "I'm Emma. It's nice to meet you."

"It's nice to meet you too. Is there anything in particular you would like?"

I shook my head. I couldn't think of what I wanted. All I ever had to eat was a loaf of bread for every meal as long as I could remember. Real food was only for Mistress. It ached my stomach to see what she had to eat and leaving us with so little. I glanced at my hands. My gaze had followed the hand to my arm. I looked like I was anorexic but I'm not. If Sarah noticed she didn't say anything. She nodded. "Oh I have a son a little older than you. His name's Jim and I think you two might get along. Maybe when he gets back I could introduce you to him?" She said.

"Yes ma'am." I said. She smiled and left, to get our food. She was only one woman and had a full house this morning. While we waited, Delbert started reading one of his books and I looked around the tavern and out the window. I don't really speak much unless spoken too. Apparently I zoned out while looking outside and jumped hearing someone's voice.

"Mrs. Hawkins." An alien with tentacles for legs and feet, brown curls, one eye, red lipstick and blue-purple eyeshadow and mascara in a blue dress and bonnet. One of her arm tentacles was holding an empty glass while the other pointed at it. Sarah had finished loading the tray and was about to start walking around to hand out orders.

"I know, refill on the purp juice. Coming right up Mrs. Dunwiddie." She said before delivering some food to a family of frog like aliens. The remaining plate, glass of water, and two dog like bowls were all that's left before she came to our table. "Sorry guys, it's been a madhouse here all morning." She said setting the dog like bowls by Delbert and the plate and glass by me. I could see a couple of chocolate chip pancakes, a couple of powdered spheroids, and a lunar eclipse. The last two being a pink and white donut like food and an egg with blue yolk.

"It's okay, thank you." I said. I took my fork and decided to eat the egg first. My eyes widened at the taste. It was good! I continued to stab my fork into the egg and picking up the pieces it grabbed into my mouth. This is definitely better than bread.

"No problem, Sarah." Delbert said, closing his book and setting it on top of the small pile he brought. "Ah, my alpolian chowder with the extra solaris seed. Yum." He took a napkin and tucked it into his vest before sniffing the aroma. A small frog like alien girl, in a pink dress and blonde hair in pigtails shyly peaked up at him. "Um hello. What brings you here, curious little one?"

The child blinked at him and he took a spoonful of his food. The girl still stared at him as he about to eat it and he didn't appreciate the audience. "Go away." He said waving his hand like swatting away a bug. He looked around for her parents. "Are your parents around?" He smiled softly with an elbow on the table looking at her. "What's the matter? Cat got your— AHH!"

The girl opened her mouth and her tongue shot out of her mouth. It grabbed the food on his spoon and then swallowed when her tongue returned. Delbert flinched as he let out that scream. I bit my lip to keep from giggling. The girl skipped away from us to her family as Sarah came to us.

"Oh, they're so adorable at that age." She said.

"Oh yes, deplorable eh adorable." He said setting his spoon down. He hummed as he pondered saying deplorable instead of adorable. He took his napkin off and set it by his spoon. "Speaking of which, how's Jim doing?"

"Much better. I know he had some rough spots earlier this year but, I really think that he's starting to turn a corner." She set the tray with a small pile of dirty dishes on the counter before grabbing a bigger pile of dishes.

The door slammed open with two robot cops at the doorway, in between them is a teen boy. He had dark brown hair in a rattail and short bangs, blue eyes, a small gold hoop earring on one of his ears, wearing a black jacket over a black shirt, olive green pants held up by a maroon belt and black boots on his feet with red straps and a gold buckle on them. "Mrs. Hawkins." The cop on the right said.

"JIM!" Sarah said, dropping the dishes in shock. The clanged as they broke into hundreds of shards.

Delbert held a hand to the side of his face, not wanting to see the scene. "Ooh, wrong turn." He mumbled.