The restaurant 8/10 Story #4

This family lives next door to a restaurant, and the restaurant is always empty except for people coming in for around 5 minutes in the morning. The daughter of the family grows up next to the restaurant and, being a precocious child, starts to visit. She finds that the family that operates the restaurant seems to live there, as even in the middle of the night there is always a light on and someone in the back working. When she goes into the restaurant they are friendly but don't seem desperate, which is what she assumed. They make great food but refuse to take her money. She is a year older than the youngest son of the restaurant. They go to school together and become great friends. He always has really nice clothes and gets picked up in a really nice car from school, but never by anyone in his family, because they are always at the restaurant. She tries to ask her friend what is the secret, but her friend, whose first language is not English, seemed to not understand the question One night when she is in her room at her house, her parents have people over and she overhears her dad talking about the restaurant. The adults come to the conclusion that they have to be gangsters or drug dealers. She thinks this must be right, but it doesn't seem to fit her friend, who is so kind and moral. The truth is actually much scarier, because it is not drugs they are selling but rather they are making food all the time and sending it through a portal. Where the portal goes....