Pandora looked at Jared and Rinatta, nodding. "Good. It's good that you're good." She was babbling slightly. When he asked her again what was wrong she whispered. "D-dora d-died. H-having her b-babies. They're healthy, they're lovely." It probably made very little sense to them, she just had to will Jared to remember that Dora Druery was her best friend. She put one hand on her bump. "Sh-she had a girl and a boy and s-so am I..." She really hoped that she didn't need to say anything else because she couldn't. She just wiped her eyes. When Rinatta asked her to join them, she said "Y-you're on a d-date... You're all dressed up, I-I..." and behind Rinatta, she saw Antigone arriving. Brilliant, that was just who she needed to see right now.

Her eyes narrowed at Antigone, but she didn't say anything. "I sh-should g-go, Ronan will be worried, I sh-should have been h-home ages ago. He was nervous before but now... Well, he's just doing his job I suppose. What else are husband's for? She gave a watery smile. "Besides, I really can't bear to sit in the same room as someone who will lie in such an obvious and shameless way." That was shot at Antigone, in an arctic tone.

"It was lovely to see you both, I hope I'll see you again soon." She turned to leave.

She felt Torio's hand and jumped. She took the money from him without acknowledging his smile and turned to Jared and Rinatta. "I-I-I'm sorry for sp-spoiling your date. Here, have coffee on me." She took Jared's hand and forced the coins into it. "Bye." She made for the door.

The small smile on his face flickered at Antigone's addressment and her muttering. Why she was eyeing him like he had just stabbed her in the back he gathered had something to do with her seeing him with Pandora, and he supposed she had a reason to be suspicious. But this was exactly where his talk with Pandora about assumptions came in, and frankly, he was getting tired of the drama. Fess up, acknowledge mistakes, acknowledge all perceptions and move on.

Forcing the small smile back on his lips he turned to Chloe and gave her a small smile and polite bow of the head. "It's a pleasure to meet you Chloe." He looked back at Antigone, managing to keep his voice level and pleasant. "I apologize. I did not mean to intrude. I'll just...catch you around later." He gave Chloe another small smile and another glance at Antigone before turning to leave, letting out a heavy sigh at Pandora's revisited words towards Antigone. They really had no desire to work things out between each other, and though he didn't like giving up on anyone, he was getting exhausted from trying to soothe both of them.

Antigone gritted her teeth as Pandora snapped out at her for no apparent reason other than that she existed that is. This was more than she cared to deal with anymore. Hopping up from the table, ignoring Torio completely she said to Chloe, "Would you like to accompany me elsewhere? I am not too keen on being belittled in a public place for simply walking in. Not to mention the fact that I could care less about dealing with this after the day I have had."

Turning momentarily to Torio she said, "I love you Torio... but now you see what I meant." With that she turned and walked out the dorr, waiting just outside to see if Chloe joined her.

"Oh." Jared thought for a moment because 'Dora' seemed familiar. "She was your friend, wasn't she? I'm sorry to hear that." He knew Pandora must have heard those words so many times before, but he didn't know what else he could say. He listened when she said about Dora's babies and hers, and though he didn't understand very well, he just nodded. It looked like she wasn't able to talk very much at the moment.

He would've protested when she said she had to leave because they were on a date, but he saw her look at a woman across the room, so he decided to let her leave. She was going to Ronan, wasn't she? Hopefully he could make her feel okay. "Yeah, I'll see you again." Jared said, glancing at Rinatta.

Then Pandora put money in his hand, and was already heading for the door. "Wait, what?" He couldn't take her money. "Pandora?"

Chloe's eyes widened at the exchange going on. She had just walked into some maaaaaajor drama. And when Antigone asked her if she wanted to leave and stood up, Chloe jumped up, still extremely confused, but knew that she was going to stick with her boss. Yes. She had always liked Antigone. Probably more than was appropriate for a boss-employee relationship, but oh well! She gave Torio a bit of a smile, and then hurried after Antigone asking, "Sure! Where would you like to go?"

Once Chloe got to her she said, "The restaurant down the block sounds grand... or the Leaky have a spot of tea or sommat. THat was a mess back there, I do apologize. Come on let's go before anything else is said to me simply for being in a room." SHe smiled at Chloe, actually keeping the tears in for once today. Chloe was a breah of fresh air actually. She took off across the street toward the restaurant deciding the Wizarding World wasn't where she wanted to be.

Watching both Antigone and Pandora leave, Torio couldn't force any other words out of his mouth. Yes, he understood what Antigone meant, but he also understood where Pandora was coming from and as such he couldn't give either one of them a straight answer. A normal person would have been able to take sides, but he found reason to sit on the sideline, to see both perspectives. Something that caused more trouble than it solved.

Letting out a heavy breath he dropped into a chair and folded his arms on the table, dropping his head on them. Reunions were such sweet sorrow.

Rinatta gave a small ,embarrased nod and a slight smile as she noticed Torio. As Rinatta heard Pandora speak, in a broken tone and pieced together what she had said, Rinatta felt her happiness sink from her. She was happy that Pandora was pregnant, but she could tell by her pain and Jared's words that the women had meant alot to her. It was a heartbreaking to think of that happening. Rin could relate to Pandora's pain and her smiled had faded to a soft calmness. When she started to speak of them being on a date she was going to object, but noticed another woman that entered had her attention. She still wanted to speak to Pandora though after not seeing her for months. At first she took Pandora's comment to mean herself, but then realised that she was speaking about the woman who had entered, she breathed a sigh of relief to herself. She really did hope that was past them. Ronan, oh yes that was her husband....so much had happened in such a short time. She felt Pandora's sorrow , but wanted to speak to her of her happiness. As she spoke of spoiling their date and pushed coins into Jared's hand Rin shook her head. Pandora made for the door and Rin gave a nod to Jared and followed her. "Pandora." she said catching up with her and walking beside her. "Dear you haven't ruined our date. Honestly ,though I wish you were not in pain, I am glad to have seen you again." she spoke calmly and honestly. "Please, I understand your wanting to leave now, but lets make a day to meet?..the three or four of us?" she added uncertain how Pandora would feel just around her or if she would want to bring her husband. She hoped that Pandora no longer bore her so much enemity and would at least have a day in a group to see each other. "I don't want to butt into your life...I just missed you..." she added. Pandora had seemed to change a bit, but she was still uncertain of where she stood.

Pandora heard Jared but kept walking. She was forced to stop when Rinatta caught up with her, mainly because she didn't want the young woman to think that she bore her any grudge. She blinked rapidly, causing more tears to fall. "You missed me? Why? I was horrible to you. For no good reason." She dried her tears again. "I'm so s-sorry, I shouldn't have said those things... I was wrong." This came out as a strangulated whisper, mostly because she was really upset but partly because Pandora almost never admitted that she was wrong.

Gulping, she looked at Rinatta. "How about we go out? Just you and me? I can't have coffee, but you can. Or we could have ice-cream?" she rubbed her hand over her face. "Look, I need to go and see Dora's husband and the babies before I go home, I really need to get going. Jared knows where to send an owl to. Take care." With one last watery smile she turned and walked out of the cafe.

Ahhhh! Don't look at the cute dogggg! Eugine was a complete sucker for big puppy dog eyes...She grapped her coffee and sipped it, to distract herself. It burned her throat, and she had to put it down.

Eugine sighed and looked at Jesper. It looked like her was trying to read her...But! Like he must be trying to read her.

Eugine smiled even wider at Jesper. He had a sweet smile.

Grimace. "Beauxbatons is beautiful! Not grimy. Though, I do like London. It's petite!" she lied, sipping some more coffee. Her left eye twitched slightly, like it always did when she lied.

"I LOVE dogs!" she sighed, scratching the dog's ear under the table. "Not a fan of cats really..." her nose scrunched up. They were TOO snotty and posh.

Warren looked at his watch and sat down carefully in a chair with a sigh, for some reason he seemed larger down here in these flimsy chairs of the cafe. He looked around at all the people feeling rather uncomfortable seeing as his normal place was the Leaky, it felt more...comfortable there. Leaning back carefully against the chair he waited for Alexa and a small smile came to his lips. Alexa...his beautiful fiancee, finally.

Alexa hadn't been to muggle London in a while. Well, no actually. She hadn't been down here for several months. Pushing open the door to a small cafe she vaguely remembered seeing opening before she left, she smiled as she spotted Warren reclining in a table near the wall.
"Hello there," She murmured, kissing his cheek as she sat down. Flicking through the menue, she smiled at the considerably more tame choices. The attendant came over and Alexa ordered a coffee, glancing at Warren. Twisting the engagement band around her finger, she turned the menue. Lunch?

Warren sat waiting feeling more awkward by the minute. He hadn't been around this many muggles in a long time. Sitting quietly, his eyes scanning the crowd as usual, he waved off the waiter a few times before seeing Alexa heading toward him. "Hello dear," he said as she sat down. His eyes fell on Alexa's ring as she twisted it around before he noticed the waiter, "I'll have one as well and..." He glanced at the menu in her hand, "The soup of the day with a side salad. Thanks." His eyes fell on Alexa again and he watched her curiously, "Alright love?"

Alexa smiled in reply and sat down. It was a small cafe - quaint. Watching the waiter she flicked through the options and shrugged, "I'll just have a salad, thank-you." As Warren looked at her curiosly, Alexa frowned at his question, "Yeah, I'm fine.. why?"
Glancing at the ring, she looked up at him, "I just remembered, the uh.. what do you call it? The food person - ah! Caterer called today. She wanted to know what date.."

Warren watched as the waiter left and looked back at Alexa, "You seem..anxious. That's all." Seeing her look down at the twirling ring he laughed, "Anxious because the caterer called...or that we have to chose a date?" he asked with a smirk. "The option to just run away is still on the table you know," he said cheekily knowing she'd never go for that.

Alexa groaned, "I am. No wonder I put this off for so long. Argh. I despite weddings." She wasn't getting married to Warren for a massive poofy dress but for love. Why did nobody but herself and her fiancee get that?
She rolled her eyes, "Apparently she needs to know or something. I wasn't really paying attention when she came around." She smiled weakly, "But we do have to chose a date.. sometime soon, I just wanted to get it over and done with Warren."

Warren smirked and grabbed Alexa's hands on the table to stop her from fidgeting. "Let's see...soon...how about tomorrow?" he said with a playful smirk. He ran his thumb over the back of Alexa's hand softly, "Let's make Egypt chose the date since she wants to run it," he said cheekily and looked up as the waiter came back. "Thanks," he said as he placed the food on the table.

Alexa smiled as he took her hands in his own. "Tomorrow!?" She asked aghast and then sighed when she realised he was joking. "Not funny," She told him but laughed at herself. "Yes. Can I just hand it over to Egypt? And just say - do whatever you'd like. That'd be fantastic." And also a little frightening..
Eyeing hte salad in front of her she smirked, "Although, she did like the idea of having it at the house.." Strangely.

Jesper watched as Eugine tried to distract herself from looking at the dog, and happily followed her example. It was the safest thing to do at the moment.

Jesper felt like she was now trying to read him... Jesper usually read all the people he met, to make sure they weren't plain or boringggg. Usually if someone Jesper met was boring, he'd walk away.

To be honest, Jesper had forgotten what the word 'petite' meant. Or wait, didn't it mean small? Was London small? Whatever the word meant, Jesper felt that Eugine wasn't being completely truthfull. Anyway, it was probably out of kindness, and Jesper did that pretty often too... "From what I've heard, Beauxbatons is supposed to be veryy grand," But Jesper felt it was a little too much about impression.

"So how long have you been here in England?"

"Yeah, I'm no fan of cats." Jesper said. "A friend of mine is allergic and hates them," Maybe that was why he didn't like them?

Rinatta was relieved when Pandora stopped, she really did want to know that she was well. She could feel how much pain she was in though, which greatly saddened her. As Pandora spoke, she asked why Rin had missed her and then apologized for what she had said against her. Rin gave her a smile ,with tears threatening to emerge. Rin completely melted at what she had to say, she had never expected that from the young woman. "I missed you, because I have always seen a kindred spirit in you." she said warmly. "I knew, how you had felt about me, but I always felt friendship for you. You were forgiven long ago, I bear you no ill will for the past, I never have.....but.....that means alot to me. Thank you Pandora." she said with serenity in her voice and a kind smile.

At Pandora's next words , Rin was in even more disbelief. Pandora had changed ,indeed. Her walls had begun to come down. That man, must be wonderful indeed. It takes a strong man, to comfort and ease a strong woman like that. She smiled at Pandora with a radiant warmth as she answered."Ice cream, would be lovely." When Pandora stated that she must go and why Rin nodded and returned her smile. "Fare thee well, I shall send you one before the week is out." she replied and watched her leave. Rin now felt quite emotional and walked back to Jared.

So much had seemed to happen in the last few months...and so suddenly. It threw Rin for a loop. She still had a lingering saddness for Pandora's pain and yet joy for her as well. A good husband and twins, a boy and a girl, she felt such joy for her, but it was a painful reminder to herself. It was what Rinatta had longed for, but it seemed she could never have. The combination of feeling Pandora's pain and her own, made Rin's heart feel heavy. As she reached Jared ,she gave him a soft ,sad smile and took ahold of his hand.

Warren laughed at Alexa's reaction toward his suggestion. "Well it is a suggestion. Because...technically to be married all we need to do is fill out the paperwork." He looked up at her and smiled, "Then just have a really big, really expensive party." He let go of her hand long enough to take a sip of his drink and smiled, "Well aren't you doing that anyway? Well she should...it's a brilliant idea. What's the point in having a house that large if we never use it."

Jared watched Rinatta go over to Pandora and those he couldn't hear what they were saying, despite everything, he was sort of glad that there didn't seem to be that animosity from Pandora anymore. She'd changed a lot, but Jared still like being around her as a friend. He did want to see her again.

He watched Pandora leave and Rinatta come back over to him, and he smiled at her. She took his hand and he noticed the sad smile on her face. He leant in and gave her a small kiss on her lips. He pulled away, and looked at her. "Are you okay, Rin?" He asked, knowing that she wasn't.

When Jared kissed her Rinatta's spirit picked up a little. When he asked if she was ok, she felt a small lump form in her throat. She really wasn't ok, she was uncertain as to many of her feelings ,sadness was the one that was winning out though. She was overwhelmed with how quickly things had been moving...how quickly time seemed to fly by. The happiness she was finding was either accompanied with or overshadowed by sadness or uncertainty. She hated to feel how she did right now, and she was supposed to be just happy right now wasn't she? She was on a date with a good man, who seemed to be very caring. She couldn't seem to shake her sadness ,so she denied it and pretended to be ok. "I will be fine, just a bit surprised thats all. I didn't expect to see Pandora like that...or have her apologize to me." she said and brushed her hair back with a small smile. The change in Pandora really had surprised her. "If its alright I would like to send her an owl later, she said that you would know where to." she added softly. "Umm....would you like to order now?" she asked still a little shaken.

Asher stepped into the cafe on the corner, not far from the muggle bookstore (his new favorite place for literature and a good laugh). Asher looked around, taking in the place. He was getting awful adventurous for someone who liked to keep in the magical world and not try new things (especiallly in the muggle part of the world) by himself. He gave an undecided sigh and sat down at a table for two and flipped through the menu. He couldn't decide on what he wanted, so he opted for closing his eyes and running his finger down the menu. He counted softly outloud to fifteen and then stopped, opening his eyes he decided that he was ordering what his finger landed on.

Chloe was passing the cafe and happened to glance in the window, seeing her favorite person in the world. She walked in quietly, walking on the balls of her feet, and silently sat down at the table. It looked like he was playing eeny meeny miney moe or something... when he opened his eyes, she whispered, "I have something for you that's better than anything on that menu, mister!" Chloe gave him a playful wink and a cute little giggle.