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Renee hummed to herself as she finished off her cookies and lemonade and glanced at Nyx "My name is Renee...I probably should have told you that before hand" she said thinking about it. Before she looked at the owner of the lemonade "thank you for the lemonade and cookies" she told him.

Taking note of the size difference between Mei's small stature and the lemons that had been sliced and placed carefully into the bucket sitting next to Brenny's stool behind the stand, Connie could easily see the problems that the small mienfoo must have been facing. This knowledge was intensified when he spotted the knife that must have been used, which would have easily have caused some difficult for the celebi-child, if he had been allowed to use it. Connie frowned, "Yeah... I'd imagine. Well, try to take it a little easier. It looks like there are plenty of people around here that would be willing to help out, if you need. Even I can help out until I have to go!" He grinned, thinking it might even be fun to do something like that; he'd never actually tried before, after all. Turning attention to the facet attached to the outside wall of the apartment complex, the teen indicated it to Mei, "If the stickiness gets too annoying for you, you could use the water out here in the meantime. I don't think it would be a problem, since management doesn't seem to be using it today. You're welcome to a shower after, though, by all means!"

He was surprised when Urban and Cameron came over, though this was merely because he wasn't used to others pitching in to help so readily. However, Connie also didn't know how long Brenny actually knew them, which would have been a contributor to the offer. After the momentary stun, he gave a slightly apologetic smile; he didn't want to be putting others on the spot like this. "Thanks, I really appreciate it, as I'm sure Brenny and Mei do," he conceded, taking the offered hand in greeting, "I'm Connie. It's a pleasure to meet you both!"

Turning attention back to Brenny, understanding what he meant by now with everyone working to help Brenny out, "I see, I see! And the teamwork really shows, it looks like it's turned out great!" He snickered at the scolding that the child celebi gave him, musing at the take-action stance Brenny had developed over the short course of time he had come to the city. "It's a treat by itself to get to come home to you guys, silly," the teen reminded, "but thank you, that means a lot."

Brenny's stubborn stance on the break length being unfair knocked a snicker out of the tauros, "I told you it was just a lunch break. At least I was able to stop by today! But yes, I will try to get home early. It's a slow day today, at work, so there's a good possibility." Such a sensitive kid, it was sometimes difficult to soften bad news. Or tentative good news, even. He carried the small celebi back over to the counter, to make sure he didn't leave his post for too long, before the child hopped back down to show the boxes he had been explaining. "I see! Did you thank her for those? And everyone else for helping?" Connie asked. He was fairly certain Brenny had, but he wanted to be positive about it, for such random generosity was not something he had found to be all that commonplace. There was a sharp nod offered at the question of whether he was going to eat anything or not, but really, there wasn't much harm. Other than taking away from what monetary value the snack would have brought in, but chances were that they were going to have leftovers anyway, so why let it go to waste? "Thank you, Brenny," he commented, taking the offered cookie and cup of lemonade.

"Don't be too much like me!" Connie warned; he honestly couldn't see the celebi as growing older, let alone to Connie's own build. That was actually kind of a disturbing image... Before he had time to elaborate, however, the child had bolted off after someone, causing the tauros to nearly choke on the cookie, "B-Brenny, where are you going?" And abandoning his post... well that was inconvenient. Connie moved closer to the stand so he could take any orders that happened to file through in the meantime, but luckily it didn't seem as though anyone were trying to buy anything at the moment.


It took a moment or two to realize that the sound that Cupcake emitted was to get the scientist's attention, and even longer before Grayson caught on to the possibility of who this teenaged eevee might be. It didn't, however, register until after the man asked, "Yes? Can I help you?" There was really only two eevees he'd come into much contact with, but last he had seen Cupcake was when he was still confined to a pokémon's body. Karma quickly busied zhimself in a vain attempt to locate any notes on this boy, but the notebook had only been utilized since the ditto had transformed and therefore lacked any notes beyond that time.

Grayson was about to ask, with a scrutinizing look, if he really was speaking to Cupcake... that is, until he was tackled by the celebi-child. Taken off-guard, the man stiffened before realizing who it was that had latched onto his waist. "Ah... h-hi, Brenny. You startled me!" he heaved a sigh, trying to get his heart to stop racing.

Karma closed the notebook slowly, coming up empty. Well this wasn't going too well, zhe hoped Grayson wasn't getting too overwhelmed and cranky again! "Brenny! Yeah, I was just about to go get some lemonade. The Doctor needs to cool off, I think the sun's affected his niceness gauge," the ditto huffed with a dismissive wave of the hand, "But maybe we can play afterwards?" Though... it did look like Brenny had his hands full playing the role of clerk...

Eilam had been about to offer Cupcake could come home to him, but smiled when he revealed he had a place to stay. He had gently returned the hug, then looked to where Cupcake was pointing to see Grayson standing there. He watched the younger Pokemon boy head over to him and he knew this would be hard on him. He walked back over to Dea, but would keep an eye on Cupcake and Grayson, in case he was needed.

"Welcome back, Eilam. We are headed over to the counter to get some cookies. Well, that and Ismire wants to offer them some of her special ice, you know, the one that never melts,"Lucy explained.

"Alright, sounds good to me. Though, we may need to be prepared to help Dea in a bit here,"Eilam explained in a whisper.

"What's the matter? Does Dea need help carrying something? Do you think she will relapse with her illness?"Fluff asked in worry, having heard what Eilam told Lucy.

"No, she won't need help with carrying anything for now. And I am sure the illness will be quiet for awhile, so don't worry about that. I will tell you guys later, let's just enjoy the moment,"Eilam replied, patting Fluff's shoulder gently. He followed behind Dea as she was led over to the counter.

"Hello Connie, it is nice to see you again. Connie, this is my adopted daughter, Ismire. She makes some really good Nevermeltice, so I am sure it would be wonderful on a warm day like this to cool drinks. Ismire, this is a good friend of the family's, Connie, he is also Brenny's adopted dad,"Dea introduced with a gentle smile.