We walked into the restaurant and sat down in a booth. A little old woman came over and talked in a Japanese accent. “Hello Flora. Hope you doing we...l? You decide already?”Flora knew what she wanted and ordered for me too. “Yeah, we would like 2 bowls of ramen noodles and 2 little bowls of rice. 2 beers and 2 saké’s!”“Flora, you always order that! You know I make other good food, right?”She laughed “I know. I just love your ramen. Best in town!”“You are crazy woman, Flora. But thanks! I come. He's been acting so weird lately! Peeking inside, she saw something familiar on Todd's bed, and then suddenly she winced in pain as bright, colorful lightspurplepurplepurplepinkpinkpurpleREDREDREDREDdanced in front of her eyes, and throbbed inside her head.The sleepy, dreamy smile on Emily's face abruptly vanished. A stern, icy expression replaced it, and she stormed to her bedroom, her small hands balling tightly into fists. Gone was the blissfully silly, slutty girl who wanted nothing more. I wanna make sure you didn’t add any special ingredients.’ Otis flipped him the bird and handed JB his cup and then took his own to the couch with him. They sat in comfortable silence for a few moments, just watching the tv, when JB spoke. Like Ariel, silence was NOT one of his strong suits. ‘Ok so spill now. No bullshit excuses, I know somethings bugging you cause you ain’t tried to punch me yet. Is it your shitty job? Shitty and may I add smelly, apartment? Makayla coming back around again?. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.But she’s right; we didn’t have the “green thing” back then.We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of.