"Okay. Don't panic. She's just a girl. It's completely fine." Howard thought to himself as he waited for someone to arrive at the counter. While he waited, he eyed the bakery's decor as well as some of the deserts they had on display. Howard even saw a particular piece of carrot cake that looked pretty appetizing. It was around this time that Howard heard the familiar sound of metal clanging against a door frame. Out of instinct he turned to check who it was and was greeted by the image of some form of canine in a leather jacket entering the sweet shop.
"There is a dog with eyeliner behind me. Everything's not fine." Howard was officially freaking out. Sure, Adam told him that there would be some people who wouldn't look completely normal, but how was he supposed to prepare himself for seeing a bipedal dog-thing wearing a leather jacket and eyeliner.
"Hello, welcome to Sasha's Sweets. What would you like?" the woman he followed into the shop broke him from his fearful state for a moment. While he was still panicking, he was trying to suppress it as much as he could. "Are you new in town?" the girl asked after addressing the still growing line as another man had entered recently. At least this one didn't have a squid face.
"That carrot cake looks pretty good and, yeah. That obvious, huh? I'm Howard, by the way." the young man said, placing his hand out forward for a handshake.