Blind Dates A Tables

[headmasterhand]

What: BLIND DATES!
Who: Anyone who was sent a note with A table number.
Where: Off-campus restaurant. AND BEYOND!
When: September 30th, 2011
Warnings: Who knows depending who is here.

[The first group's restaurant is invited to last year's Asian Fusion Dinning, considering nothing blew up and they didn't mind playing host again. The rooms looks fancy

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TABLE A9

[headmasterhand]

[Person whose name starts with the letter H goes first]

[black_hawke]

So, here he was again.

By this point, Hawke was beyond caring. It was a hundred bucks, money that he could certainly use, and all he had to do was pretend to be interested in a conversation for like an hour. Not really a terrible way to spend the evening.

Arriving just on time, he easily found his table and promptly ordered a cup of coffee, which he nursed while awaiting his MYSTERIOUS DATE.

[things_go_boom]

Lash had mixed feelings on this blind date thing. On one had, she already had a guy. On the other hand, a hundred bucks. And last time had ended up with her turning someone's boat oar into a weapon. And then before that...Apple Kid.

She decided to arrive first so she could spy who it was and make a run for it if she didn't want to deal with them, but when a call for nature meant she had to go to the bathroom, Lash only returned to see a familiar someone sitting to the table she had been a few minutes later.

The wunderkind let out an undignified "aaa!" before she coughed, stratching the back of her head. "Birdy?...this is table A9...right?"

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[black_hawke]

Hawke looked up, and instantly grabbed the card on the table JUST TO MAKE SURE THIS WAS RIGHT.

And it was. This was right.

They were dates.

He wasn't entirely sure what to think about this new development, but he pushed the empty chair out from the table with his foot, inviting Lash to sit down.

"I suppose it is."

I kinda wanted to reroll for them tbh considering but random had spoken.

[things_go_boom]

"Oh. Well uh...okay then."

Well at least he wasn't Apple Kid. That's what she told herself as she took the seat (THANKS FOR BEING SO GENTLEMANLY) and shifted uncomfortably before looking at the menu. This was certainly. A thing.

"This is kinda weird. We talk to each other all the time anyway." SO SMOOTH.

YOU'RE STUCK HERE

[black_hawke]

Nope, not Apple Kid in the slightest.

Hawke began to peruse the menu, not necessarily because he was hungry, but for lack of anything else to occupy his hands.

"This would incidentally be the first time I found myself with a member of the opposite sex," he remarked. "On one of these blind dates, I mean."

[things_go_boom]

"Oh well uh, I had Orange Kid the first year. You probably remember that." It was a pretty explosive time for all of those involved. "Last year was Vinnie so I guess I'm lucky in that...then again there aren't that many females as men in the school." She was taking so fast, she just covered her face with her menu.

MUCH BETTER.

"Who did you get the second year?"

[black_hawke]

"I do. I was having a rather bearable conversation with Weavile when you blew up the restaurant."

Good times.

Now that he thought about it, however, Hawke had rather lucked out when it came to these dates. No crazies, no children. Just polite, civil company and acceptable conversation. "One of the gym leaders. Falkner, I believe his name was."

[things_go_boom]

Yeah just wait until next year.

"Oh yeah! He was pretty...uh okay I guess." Couldn't really say nice when your name was Lash, after all. Or not as much, anyway. she looked down on the menu again.

"You really wanna ear here, or should we go somewhere else and just pocket the money?"

[black_hawke]

Hawke shrugged. He didn't have particularly strong feelings for the guy one way or another, but the "date" hadn't been disastrous, so that was good enough for him. And Falkner had left the school anyway, making everything even more of a moot point.

"That's up to you. I'm not terribly hungry."

Hawke you were never hungry.

[things_go_boom]

"Birdy you're never hungry anyway!" So yeah, moot point. But that did it. She got up just as the server came to their table and gave them a hard glare...at least until Lash looked right back at him.

"Please come again," he quickly muttered, walking away as fast as he could.

"Let's go somewhere with less people and much cheaper chow to eat."

[black_hawke]

He shrugged. That sounded just fine to him, and he knew that he didn't have to say anything to get the message across.

With the server out of the way, Hawke stood and put on his coat, making his way towards the door.

"How do you feel about the coffee shop down the street?"

Because it would always be coffee shops.

[things_go_boom]

"I'd say it sounds a lot better than here." Lash was, unsurprised about his choice of place to go. in fact, she was about to suggest it, if he hadn't. Hawke was a bit too easy to get, in that retrospect.

[black_hawke]

At this point, anything would be better than a stuffy awkward restaurant with weird fusion food.

AND LO, they were off to the neighboring coffee shop, despite the fact that it was clearly past time for coffee.

But with Hawke, any time was the time for coffee.