She chuckled and ran a hand through his hair "you know i know not one word in french." she smiled it sure did sound pretty though "And of course it's a goo thing."

"Mon amour, my love." Damon smiled, twirling a strand of her hair.

She smiled as she learned the meaning of the phrase "So now i'm your love?" she joked at him as he twirled her hair

"You sound almost surprised," He chuckled, smiling down at her.

"no, im not surprised at all." Cause she was ya know amazing and stuff.

"I just so happen to like being called that i'll have you know." yup she did, it made her tickled pink inside and she just wanted to dance on rainbows

Damon smiled, "Well, guess it's a good thing that you won't have to get used to me calling you it," He chuckled.

Ariana pulled her hair in front of her shoulders and giggled "Good." she leaned over and kissed him softly & quickly before settling back on her chair

This woman seemed as grumpy as the barkeep at the Leaky Cauldron. Only Kurumi knew that Ryoma didn't really liked kids despite having one of his own. He was her god....brother? Was that what he was? His father was her godfather after all.

Not important.

Kurumi dug through her wallet until she found the appropriate amount of money and handed it over to the woman. "Um...I can wait and carry it over myself if you are too busy," Kurumi offered. Which really translated as 'if you are too cranky' since she sort of looked like she wanted to throw it across the shop rather than deliver it.

She couldn't ignore them... they were EVERYWHERE. Except for Kurumi and Tag. But.. other than that.. ew. And Blue and Theo.. she rolled her eyes at Messer. "I'm not staring, I'm eyeing. Big difference." Very big difference. And she definitely was going to keep an eye on those two. They had better not have been doing anything funny, or Alice was going to catch them. NO. It wasn't spying. It was watching out for her ickle Blue. Obviously. Because her ickle blue was not allowed to be with a boy in a couple-y place.

Unacceptable.

Almost as unacceptable as she and Messer being there.

Alice beamed back at Messer. "Ice cream?! They serve ice cream?!" They DID make a good decision coming here. She looked at the menu, her eyes darting fro one item to the next. "I want all of it," she told him, stuck. "There's too many choices." It all looked so pretty. She looked over the menu once more, and then finally narrowed her choices down. "I want an ice cream sundae." YES. Ice cream. Obviously. What else was she, of all people, going to pick? "Where's the shopkeeper?"

Damon smiled at her and kissed her back, "Are you ready to go?" He looked down at their empty table now, everything paid for.

Ari looked down and noticed they were done. "Oh Yeah.. where do you want to go next?"

Damon shrugged, "Anywhere," He looked outside the shop, "I mean, it's up to you, anything sounds fun to me."

"Let's go to Zonko's i havent been there since 2nd year!" and she liked jokes & pranks and so did he.. so this could be a recipe for a disaster or an extremely fun evening

She had been watching his expression from over the top of her menu. She could tell that he didn't like this place and she couldn't blame him. This wasn't exactly her favorite place. She put her menu on the table and smiled at Ed. "Do you want to go somewhere else? This place isn't my favorite place to hang out."

Not to mention that Nell didn't want Edmund to be uncomfortable on their date. She wanted them to have a good time and she knew he wasn't liking the venue. Well, that could be fixed easily.

Damon smiled, "Of course." He lightly took her hand in his and slowly started for the door.

Ariana jumped up out of her chair and took his hand as they headed for the door

Colin sported a grin after Saxon's laughing fit. Adorable. This girl. Adorable.

"I think it's already working." he said the grin still playing on the edges of his lips. Because... giggly was always a good sign.

He gave a light shrug. "I'm sure you could do whatever you want." And he wasn't just saying that. He was honestly intrigued by Blondie. She was definitely something.

"Scotland is nice to visit." He clarified. For the sole purpose of the cobblestone streets and the greenery. He shrugged. "I've got nothing there. I share a flat with my brother." And nearly all of his friends were muggle, so he'd lost touch since moving to London.

Merlin. Ireland. That was somewhere he hadn't been in awhile. Heh. Merlin, if they were to have kids they'd be impossible to understand. Not that he was thinking about that. But seriously. Could you even imagine a child with a mixture of an Irish and Scottish accent?

He raised an eyebrow. "Really?" he asked. "You must have never gotten a proper tour." And he could change that. Unless she was into getting lost. Then he was fine with that as well.

He smiled a little when she mentioned her family. That was nice. He imagined. "You're little brother is here, isn't he?" Not here, here. But Hogwarts.

"Sounds adorable." Unless he was hungry. Then it didn't. But Blondie could probably get away with it.

He waved his hand to get the shopkeeper's attention. "We'll take two apple crisps and two coffees." Because he was hungry too.

Jory was enjoying the cold weather. As a matter of fact, he was enjoying it more than ever. Everything seemed a million times more wonderful now. And he owed it all to Ari.Words could not express all the happiness he was feeling. He looked over at her and smiled. "Any reason why you've been smiling non stop today?'' he asked teasingly as the wind blew a tendril of her hair onto her face. He loved the way she had it today. "You look beautiful,'' he told her again.

"Good,'' said Jory. "I'm glad to hear you say that you'll have time for her too, not that I'll take you away from her but I don't want her to hate me or anything.'' The poor boy was hoping Gwen would get used to him and Ari being together as fast as possible. Then there would be less time for her to develop any ill feeling towards him for falling for her best friend. But he was amused at what Ari said next. "That would be fun, wouldn't it? Imagine Gwen getting all lovey.'' It was funny to picture it since Gwen was more of the serious type.

Jory followed Ari towards the back of the tea shop. He was quite glad for the quiet. He just wanted to spend some uninterrupted time with her. Before he took his seat, the boy held out a chair so she could sit first. "First things first,'' he told her, looking around at all the other couples which crowded up the shop. "What would you like to eat and drink?'' Or if she wasn't ready to order as yet, he didn't mind.

When Ari wasn't looking, Jory slipped a long stemmed red rose he had hidden in his pocket and placed it on the table in front of her. At least he hadn't squished it or anything.

Her question encouraged a guilty smile from him. He hadn't meant for her to see his uncomfortable-ness about this icky place, though he was really glad she'd offered to go somewhere else. "It isn't? Can't think why." It couldn't be the hearts, flowers and sickeningly sweet atmosphere, surely. "Where would you like to go?" He gazed at her, expecting an answer that could quite easily have come out of his own mouth - Nell was just a mind reader awesome like that.

Huh? There's a different between eyeing and staring? He always thought that eyeing and staring are the same thing but he wasn't going to argue with Alice not today. She's not in the good mood since she entered the shop. "Maybe they're just eating like us." Who knows.

He couldn't help to chuckle when he saw Alice reaction after he said ice cream. "Of course they're." Who doesn't serve ice cream? Its like a MUST have menu. "All of it? Are you sure your stomach can handle it?" Well, at least she likes the menu that's good, right? "Okay then ice cream sundae it is." Now should he waves to get the shopkeeper attention or should he just go to her? Messer decided to wave his hand to get the shopkeeper attention. It seems easier.

If she was too busy. Well yes, actually, she was. The cafe was full to the brim with mostly moon-eyed blushing children and she was busy trying not to throw up at the sight of them. As for serving busy, not so much right now. "I can do it, but if you want to wait be my guest. Won't be a minute."

Having put the money away Sapph went out to the kitchens and began preparing what the girl had asked for. Mind you she never mentioned if she wanted them hot or cold, so cold it was. Apart from the custard. Placing it all on a tray a few minutes later, she went back out to the counter and put it down. "There we go..... Enjoy." Yeah, be nice. She really needed to work on that.

That was the one thing she really hated about working in the cafe - being waved at to get her attention. Biting her tongue, Sapphira walked over to the table with a purposeful look on her face, and her pad and quill in hand.

Apple crisps? He meant pie right? Because that's all she had. Unless some kid had written something else on her menu board when she hadn't been looking. Whatever. "That'll be twelve sickles please, and I'll be right back."

And off she went to get their order.

A few minutes later, well nearly ten because she was accosted by another child on her way to the kitchen, Sapph came back with a tray, placed the contents down on their table and waited to be paid.

Again with the waving. What was wrong with 'excuse me?'

Okay, happy face.

"What can I get you?"

Why was he being all quiet-like? And making a face. BOYS. She wasn't even gonna PRETEND to understand that...species. But, to lighten the mood or moment or whatever, "Your face looks funnyyyyyyy." More weird than funny but she wasn't about to say that. Might sour his mood even further. She pulled her own face. Hehehehe. Yep. You were allowed laugh at her Theo. She wasn't about to tell him off for it. Nope.

"NUUUH." She would've stomped her foot if she wasn't sitting down cause she was a little brat. "I can't do that to him. He's actually a SWEETHEART once you get over the whole," EVIL thing. But if she said that Theo would KNOW he was right. "um...temper problem. He's a very loveable, fat creature." Eh...kinda. "Anyways, if I got rid of him, Alice would be SO upset. She says I'm it's mommy." She was it's adoptive mommy anyway. And she was kind of an expert in being adopted. So she knew what the kitty was going through.

"Don't LAUGH at his name!" And she gave him a not fake GLARE, crossing her arms. "I think it was a BRILLIANT name. He totally deserved it. It's just unfortunate that he got eaten when his back was turned." So there. Now shut up, Theo!

"Well, if we didn't have beaters, bludgers would just being whizzing around..." But there probably wouldn't be bludgers without beaters so she trailed off awkwardly when this realization hit. Ahem. "Oh. I suppose. But I doubt she meant to tell you. Or wanted you to tell me..." But Blue was definitely glad he did. She wanted to be IN THE KNOW. Wasn't that what her and West had decided when they first met? That they'd be the first years (or second years now) that knew all? "But she DIDN'T commit murder. You're still here!" BEAM.

Oooooops. He was giggling now. Which got Blue laughing some MOAR. Dammit. And they're plan was FOOLPROOF. She kept giggling, looking around and her giggling stopped abruptly. Alice. And Messer. Staring. At her and Theo. In a lovey-dovey-grossy shop. Aw crap. O___O And from the looks of things, their plan and acting, hadn't worked on her sister. Wide-eyed, the twelve-year-old looked down, ASHAMED (of something she hadn't done, mind you!), and sipped her apple juice, not meeting the blond and the meanie chocolate frog eater's gaze.

OH THE HORROR.




Jeez.

What a gentleman. Paying for her food. Who would've thought? *sarcasm* Narrowing her eyes at Theo, in a mini!Glare and she gave an annoyed nod at the waitress person. But the woman seemed just as angry at Theo as Blue was. Frustrating kid, wasn't he? Yeah. Now TheoDORE, stop upsetting the lady and let her go serve other tables before she SPITS IN OUR FOOD.

Blue pulled out six knuts and dropped them on the table. Just as she was about to decide NOT TO TALK to her bestie for the rest of their meal, she realized something. It'd probably just reinforce the idea that they were a couple if he paid for her. Which was NOT what she wanted right now, especially when Alice was eyeing her like a hawk.

So....

Nice one Theo.

*BEAM*

Deciding to just wait for the order - it would make Tag squirm a little more in the process as well, Kurumi stood by the counter and was...taken aback a bit when she saw the ice cream just sitting there on top of the pie and cobbler...not melting like she had expected it to be. See, the WOMAN hadn't asked if Kurumi had wanted it hot or cold - weren't these things usually served hot when order with ice cream anyway? Still, Kurumi wasn't going to give the grumpy woman something to be grumpy at her about, so she simply took the two dishes and bowed politely to the woman before heading back over to Tag.

"Here you go," Kurumi said as she slid the plate towards him, fingers still on the edge of the plate so she could retract it if needed. "So...about what we were discussing earlier..."

Finally. Kurumi came back with the pie with the ice cream and the orange juice. He stared at the food for a little bit. Whether to prepare himself for gobbling it down soon enough or because he was having second thoughts about having food with this conversation. After a swallow he grabbed his fork and neatly cut off a piece of the pie, mixed in some ice cream and stuffed it into his mouth. With a few more bits of the pie and ice cream, and a large gulp of orange juice Tag slowly started.

"Right. Me not being fair to the girl.. Umm" He stared at his fork for far too long, almost examining it. "It's Anya. An, as you probably know she's taken, and she's my best friend. And it'd be weird if anything were to happen."

It'd be less weird to think about it if she weren't his best friend and just a friend. Easier to think about all this if they weren't so complicated and attached and afraid of losing each other.

Right. He went back to eating to distract himself from probably rambling. An maybe this would be a good time for Kurumi to tell him what she thought all about this. Maybe she'd been in this position before and had a lot to offer on the situation. Tag would take any help, ideas, advice he got from anyone.

He had noticed she couldn't stop smiling, apparently. 'I have my reasons.' she replied, looking sideways, but continuing to grin. This time she almost didn't blush when Jory called her beautiful. Almost. Compliments started to feel natural. They were getting there.

'I just said it as a joke, but it WOULD be entertaining.' Finding Gwen a boyfriend-tremendous fun! 'I'm seriously starting to consider it. Then we could double-date!'. One step at a time, Ari, one step at a time.

He was being such a gentleman! Gallantry wasn't dead, after all. Some boys still held their girlfriends' chairs for them. Luckily, Jory was one of them. 'Thank you.' Ariadne said and sat down, glancing at the menu. 'How about a couple of cream teas?' Yes, it was the most expensive thing on the menu, but it included scones, jam, cream, and most importantly for a Brit, tea. If they bought a cake and a beverage separately, the total amount would probably be higher. Ari was a practical girl.

When she finally looked up from behind the menu, she noticed the exquisite flower in front of her. 'It's beautiful!' she gushed. 'How did you know roses were my favourite flowers?' She was really impressed. This was SO romantic! 'I'm so lucky to call myself your girlfriend.' That she was well aware of.

'I want to know as much as possible about you, so tell me something I don't know yet.' the Gryffindor encouraged Jory, prepared to spill some of her own secrets if asked.