Shawn left her in the restroom and hurried to the kitchen. He lit the lantern in there and then looked around with a critical eye. It was clean, but very bare. They did not have much. The refrigerator was a really old model. It had gone yellow with age and was cracked in many places. It still kept things cold, so he did not mind much. The appearance was rather ugly though. The stove was much the same, old model, color quite off from the way it had originally looked. One of the back burners no longer worked. He was just said that they did not have a microwave. They were nifty little machines that could reheat food in mere minutes. A few years back, it had been in all the newspapers, but the darn things were still not commercially purchasable. 

So he had to get creative to reheat the hamburgers for his sister and guest. It took longer, but the end results were the same. He just hoped reheating the meat on the stove would in turn make the buns feel hot. He smiled at his handy work, putting the hamburgers on their best plates. Despite them being his best plates, they were still chipped in several places.

Shawn grabbed three glasses and filled them with cold water from the fridge. He made the table and then went to the living room, waiting for Lucinda and Robin to join him. Lucinda was soon bounding out of her bedroom, her long black braids up in a ponytail. She ran to her brother and gave him a big hug. Shawn hugged her back, giving her a good spin.

"Be on your best behavior, we have a guest."