Butter

Chapter 26

He held his hand out and gestured for me to walk in front of him. I turned to the right and went down the stairs. At the bottom of the steps Sissi and Victoria stood there waiting for us. Sissi wore a pretty shirt with a Chinese symbol on the front. She also had on black pants. Victoria wore a white lacey shirt and nice blue jeans. We all headed over to the restaurant. I sat down next to Lars, and Sissi and Victoria sat across from me. A young boy came over to our table and asked us what we wanted to order. Sissi and Victoria got appetizers for the whole table. I stared down at my lap. "Butter?" Lars nudged me in the shoulder. "Yeah?" I mumbled. My eyes scanned upward. Sissi was staring at me. "Sorry guys, just tired." I let out a yawn. "So how did you guys hear about Cococraft?" started Lars. I looked over at Victoria. "We just came across it. We were testing out servers and we liked this one." Sissi nodded in agreement. "So Sissi, where are you from?" He asked. Sissi took a second to answer. "I am from a Chinese server. I joined this one quickly after Victoria and I met." Victoria now was the one to nod. "So anime?" I said. They both turned to me and then Victoria burst out into laughter. "Yes yes. I love the beautiful Japanese music and anime. Hetalia especially." I could feel her energy for the subject as she spoke. She then started on a long list of why she loved Hetalia so much and Sissi slyly pulled out a book. I half droned out Victoria, and then something caught my attention. A teenager in a bathrobe and slippers was sulking down into the restaurant. He had brown hair that looked like a tornado. He plopped himself down in a booth and then proceeded to pull out a laptop which had been stashed under his robe. "Butter!" Lars startled me. I snapped into attention. My food lay steaming in front of me. It was a small pork chop and baked potatoes. "So? How did you like my talk about Hetalia?" asked Victoria. I nodded, "Very good." I mumbled through a forkful of food. "Slow down!" Lars exclaimed. He placed his hand on my wrist. The pork chop chunk fell onto my plate. "Sorry" I said. My mind was flooded with thoughts of the mysterious robed figure. "Lars?" I whispered in his ear. Sissi glanced at me. "See that boy in the robe, who is he?" Lars looked over at the boy who was helping himself to a large pumpkin pie. Clumps of pumpkin filling dropped to the floor. "Not sure." He whispered back. I adjusted my dress and looked over at Victoria. "Sorry, owner stuff." I clarified, even though they didn't ask a question. We are in silence. The only sound in the restaurant was the clinking of silverware on the ceramic.

When I brought my last bite of pork to my mouth I, once again, glanced over at the boy. The pumpkin pie tin was fully empty and he had gone back to playing around on his laptop. "I'm going to investigate." I whispered to Lars. I excused myself from the table to walked over to the boys table, avoiding the giant globs of pumpkin filling all over the floor. "Hello." I said sternly. I placed my hands on my hips and tried to act authoritative. He looked up at me and then back at the computer. "Excuse me?" I said. I, almost hesitantly, slammed the computer shut. He jumped and pulled his fingers from the keyboard. "Hey!" He yelped, rubbing his now red hand. "I'm Butter." I said and held out my hand for a handshake. He looked me up and down. "You're the owner, I know." Then something clicked in my mind. "Wait a second..." I paused. My head swarmed with ideas. "You're Ken." He nodded at me and tried to open his laptop. I slammed my hand down. "I remember you. You and I played on that Opticraft server." He stared at me. "Correct." I looked down at him. "Why don't you tidy up and then we can catch up?" I produced a nice shirt, shorts and some soap. "Will do." He said.