The Child Dreamer

Chapter 7

"Ok we have like half an hour. And the restaurant is a block away.

"Can we go see puppies?" I asked.

"Sure Louis. Just for a little bit." Simon said. I stood up.

"Here Lou put your cars in the bag."

"No! I want to hold them."

"Ok don't drop them."

"I won't." We walked along and stopped at a store. The top said Jack's Pets. We went inside and saw a lot of animals. I set my cars down and ran to see some kitties. "Look Harry! It's kitties!!" I picked one up and rubbed it's ears. It was meowing.

"Ya Lou. Look there's some puppies!" I set the kitten down and ran to see the puppies. There was a small one that had floppy ears. It was brown and black. "That's a German Shepard, Lou."

"Oh."

"Ya." We looked all around at the animals.

"Louis, Harry we need to go." Simon called.

"Oh ok." I walked away.

"Lou Bear we need to wash our hands." Harry said to me.

"Where?"

"Here." He brought me over to a sink. We washed our hands and left.

"Ok. Let's go." We kept going and my feet were getting tired.

"Harry."

"Ya Lou Bear?"

"Can we sit?"

"It's ok Louis. We're about to sit." We walked inside a building. Simon said some things to a man and we walked in further. "Simon can we eat outside?" Harry asked.

"Ya. That's better actually." A man led us to a table outside. There were a lot of seats.

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5. There's 5 seats."

"Good job Lou. There are 5 seats."

"Why are there 5 seats?"

"Cause two other people are going to be eating with us."

"Oh." I sat down and Harry sat next to me. Simon sat down on the other side of Harry. Harry had a menu and so did Simon.

"Here Lou Bear. Here's something to color." Harry handed me crayons and a paper with little characters on it.

"Ooh!" I colored in a head with green and his body was red. "Harry his head is made of boogers. Look."

"Nice Lou." Suddenly Simon stood up. He shook hands with a man and a lady. They sat down in the two seats in front of us. I leaned over to Harry and stared at the people who were smiling at me.

"Harry. Why are they here?"

"Louis these are your parents." Simon said. I opened my eyes. These people were going to steal me and take me away!

"Harry."

"Lou Bear calm down. Be calm."

"Bu-but."

"Hi Louis. I'm Troy."

"H-Hi." I couldn't get the words out.

"Hi Louis. I'm Jay."

"Hi." I looked at the lady and the man. I held onto Harry's hand tightly. He held my hand too. But soft. I held on afraid I was going to go.

"Um. Should we order something?" Simon asked.

"Ya." Jay, I think, said.

"So Louis do you have a job?" The man asked.

"Uh." I said.

"No he doesn't." Harry spoke up.

"Oh why not?"

"I'm not old enough."

"Why you're-"

"Uh." Simon leaned in to talk to the people.

"Lou Bear. Color buddy." Harry said.

"Are you gay Louis?" The man asked.

"What's gay?" I asked Harry.

"Troy stop." Jay touched his arm.

"Lou, Hanson is gay."

"Oh." I went back to coloring.

"Why is this 22 year old boy coloring?!"

"I'm 6! Harry tell him I'm 6!! I'm 6!! Harry." I looked at Harry for help.

"Simon." Harry spoke. I kept holding onto Harry's hand. So Simon stood up and asked for the two people to follow him. I didn't hear what they were saying. But the lady looked a bit sad.

"Harry why is the lady sad?"

"Well. She's. Uh. I'm not too sure."

"Oh. Can we eat? I'm hungry."

"Ya buddy. What do you want to eat?"

"Mac and cheese?"

"You always get mac and cheese."

"Uh."

"Here look at the back. There's the menu." Harry turned over my picture. "Look there's chicken and hamburgers and spaghetti."

"Can I have spaghetti?"

"Ya buddy."

"Ok. I'll have spaghetti." I turned back over my picture. I looked up at Simon and the two people coming back to sit down.

"Jay I told you not to be drinking!!" The man said. Simon started to talk to the people about what he does. Like his job. I just kept coloring. Then it was all colored.

"Harry it's all colored!" I pushed my crayons back.

"Well play with your cars."

"Play with me!" He took out my cars and set them on the table. Then he took one and raced it with me. "Ya! Vroom!!" I looked up and saw the man looking at me. I leaned back to Harry. "Harry he's staring at me make it stop."

"I'm sorry it's just that we have a mentally retarded son!" He leaned back.

"Excuse me. He's not retarded!" Harry looked mad.

"Troy knock it off!!"