[CLOSED] First Date

[blondferret]

WHO: Derek Matthews and Lillain Aust
WHERE: Various Places in Recolle
WHEN: March 16, 2018
WHAT: It's their first date!
WARNINGS: none






Once the clock hits 5:00pm, Derek is out of the lab and in his car heading home to take a shower and get ready for his date with Lillian. He gets home, showers, gels his hair, and changes into presentable date clothing. Once satisfied with his appearence, he grabs his jacket and drives to Sweet Stems and picks up the dozen yellow daffodils he ordered for the day. Bouquet in the front passenger seat Derek pulls out his phone and texts Lillian.

So, I'm on my way. I'll be there in 30 minutes.

Pushing "send" he starts his car and starts driving over in the direction of the university.

Comments

[blondferret]

[Derek chuckles at Lillian's last comment.]

Yes I suppose so papers can be boring. I certainly find my paperwork boring at times.

In response to the cooking and watching T.V. at the same time, sort of? Like, I can have the T.V. going but I only watch when I'm waiting for something to boil, or at a moment when you don't need to be constantly watching it. I can't see the T.V. from my stove, there's a wall in the way. I usually have to take a step or two back from the stove to even see the screen.

[Derek turns on his blinker to signal to merge and carefully get into the correct lane so he can take the exit loop that that he knows is in a mile.]

[aintjustaweapon]

[Lillian shrugged.]

Hey, if you can concentrate, you can concentrate! I'm a little jealous, really. [A small smile as she looked over at him.] But I ain't really the type to manage it. I used to get scolded all the time for readin' or drawin' in class back in high school.

[...And college...]

Man, anyway, ice skatin'. This is gonna be great, huh?

[She was getting more excited as they almost arrived.]

[blondferret]

[Derek grins.]

That's the general idea.

[They arrive at the ice rink a few minutes later and enter the rink.]

I'm pretty sure the skate rentals are over here.

[Derek points to the left.]

What's you size?

[aintjustaweapon]

[Lillian immediately moved towards the edge of the rink to look out over the ice, a big grin on her face.]

Huh? Oh...uh. I'm an eight. Narrow if they got 'em, but it's cool if they don't.

[She turned to look at the ice for a few long seconds before she finally made to follow after him.]

[blondferret]

[Derek walks over to the rental counter and asks for the skates. He then pays and then turns to Lillian, handing her set of skates over to her.]

Here you go, size eight in narrow.

[Derek finds a place on a bench for both of them to sit and start lacing up their skates. He kicks off his shoes and shoves them under the bench, sits, and starts to stick if foot inside the first skate.]

I'm glad I brought you here, you looked excited a moment ago.

[aintjustaweapon]

I am! [She admitted as she sat down to tug her own shoes off and pull the skates on, tapping the blades against the rubber floor to make sure they were tight.]

I love skating. I ain't great at it, Angela got all the talent there, but there's a lot to be said for just having fun an' fallin' on my ass a few times.

[blondferret]

[Derek finishes lacing up his skates and stands.]

Well, let see who is going to fall first.

[Derek makes is way over to the entrance of the rink. With a hand on either side of the opening, Derek uses the walls to push him self off and glide onto the rink. He turns around to Lillian and calls out to her.]

So far so good. [Referring to the fact that he hasn't fallen yet.] You coming?

[aintjustaweapon]

[She wobbled a bit as she tested the skates, plodding over to the wall finally and then stepping out onto it.]

Yeah, yeah, hold your horses!

[She said, laughing, as she pushed out onto the rink, sliding towards him...and then clealry not remembering how to stop.]

Uh oh!

[Grabbing at him to keep from falling. Hopefully he was steadier than her.]

[blondferret]

[Derek grins when Lillian gets onto the ice and starts sliding towards him. Though his smiles soon goes slack and his eyebrows raise a bit in surprise when it it obvious that she isn't going to stop. Derek reaches out to grab Lillian's upper arms.]

Don't worry I got you.

[Derek digs the sides of his skates into the ice to keep him in place and holds Lillian steady. Derek lets out a chuckle once they are both still.]

Are you really going to fall for me that quickly? The date has barely started.