"So...peppers, cheese, umm...crap. Hyne, what am I forgetting?" Rinoa placed her hands on either side of the counter, looking over all the food she had on the counter. Her mind was racing back and forth. Now why did she decide to do this entire discussion in the first place?
Oh, yes, to just put everything out of the table and try to get rid of this awkward tension around them. It was already bad enough that just talking about the other around Pearl made things awkward. This had to be resolved soon, and hopefully tod—
"No, no, no, no over-thinking this, Heartilly," she said to herself out loud. "Oh, even better I'm talking to mys—" She was interrupted by a woof, and looked over the counter at Angelo and Vesna. She couldn't help but smile and shake her head, "Oh, you guys, your owner is crazy." She walked around and picked up two rolls of sushi, giving one to each of them while also checking the time on her phone. Less than several minutes to noon before he showed up.
"All right, time to get serious." She scratched both dogs behind the ears, sighing. "I hope this goes well. Be good luck charms for me, yes?
"...I should also get out of these sloppy clothes. Ugh..." She put the strips of steak on the grill and raced into her room to change. Out of sweatpants and a big shirt, and into a belted shirt dress. Brush through hair, clip in hair, clean, fresh apron back on to go and get the strips off of the grill so they could rest.