"You're late, as always," Beatrice Lee, known to the locals as simply Miss Lee, said as Marianne and Sunny arrived in the office. "Looks like you didn't help," she said to Sunny, Marianne's Great Pyrenees.<br/><br/>"Be nice, Bo," Theodore said with a fifty-pound sack of dog food over his shoulder. "She still hasn't gotten used to the time here. Cut her some slack."<br/><br/>"It's always you who cuts her too much slack, Teddy," Beatrice shot back. She disappeared into a storage closet, leaving Teddy with Marianne and Sunny.<br/><br/><em>*"Don't worry, Mari, you're mother's not have a good day today,"*</em>Teddy said in Korean.<em>*"Do you miss home?"*</em><br/><br/><em>*"A bit, but there's nothing for me there. I found my mom and Sunny seems to like the weather here. I wouldn't wish for anything else,"*</em>Marianne said with a smile, but the smile died down as her mother reappeared from the closet.<br/><br/>"Can you stop speaking like that in the office? It's not good when the customers are around. Mari, I need you to go to the Animal Hospital, bring them the files for Milo and Tiffany and the required medications for them, please," Beatrice said, handing her daughter the files for two canine clients.<br/><br/><em>*"See you later, Mari,"*</em>Teddy said, bidding her farewell. Marianne's smiled reappeared and stayed even as Teddy received a smack to the back of his head, the assailant none other than her mother. She liked Teddy because he never passed up a chance to talk in her native tongue and that he loved dogs as much as she and her mother did. He always had a way to make Marianne laugh and in the last year, they became as close as family.<br/><br/>Marianne turned on her heel and walked back out the door, holding it so that Sunny could exit the office as well. She walked down the dirt driveway back to the street and made her way to the Animal Hospital.