"About my socks?"

"It's okay to cry, but if you don't want to go out to dinner while you're still feeling fragile we can get something from the konbini, and that's fine."

"Not about the socks.  In the restaurant...  Do even people cry in restaurants?"

"Do even p- oh. It's not usual, no, but I wouldn't expect it to cause a scene if you were quiet about it."

"Can we bring tissues?"

"Yes." Ren collects a few out of the box and folds them up into her purse.

"...........Okay."

And she will put on the socks and then her shoes even though they don't match at all.

And now they can go get kaitenzushi?

Yes.

Ren is playing a little fast and loose with the budget and expects herself and Haru to be eating rice for breakfast and cafeteria food for lunch as soon as school starts up, but kaitenzushi in the heart of Tokyo is not very expensive, especially not per calorie which is what matters when you're feeding kids. Haru and Kennedy can kidnap as many sushis as they want.

He's partial to salmon. He gives something that's too spicy to his mom after he eats the first piece of a plate of it.

Kennedy sips more water when eating spicy things but doesn't otherwise react.  She has a fair few of them and stays pretty quiet throughout the meal.

And when they're all fed they can walk back home. Haru holds Ren's hand and sometimes pulls on her arm kind of hard when he trips but never actually hits the ground with her helping.

Is there also a hand for her to hold?

If she would like one sure! Ren has 2 hands.

She would like to very much, yes.

Ren will hold her hand all the way home ("home"), then, and she will set up for Kennedy to have Haru's bed while Haru joins her in her own.

Haru shoves one yet-unopened box marked ノート from his room into Ren's when she decides on this arrangement.

".....Swan-san, it really does not at all seem time for bed yet?"

"Oh, we can stay up a bit longer, I just want to make sure we all know where we're sleeping when we sleep. I don't have a spare toothbrush for you, so that'll be the konbini... anything else we need so we don't need to make too many trips?"

For some reason this makes her look like she might cry again.  "I don't know, Swan-san."

"Well, the konbini's open around the clock, so it's all right if we don't think of everything till the last minute. The social worker should be here tomorrow and I asked if they could bring some more ladylike clothes for you but I don't know if they'll do that."

"What is a social worker?"  She doesn't quite put the accent on the right syllable.

"Someone who helps people whose usual ways of getting what they need aren't working right."

"Oh."  She pulls on her hair, a little.  "I think maybe your day doesn't have enough hours for me.  But - I haven't learned how to feel time yet, so I - I don't know how different it is."