Re: LIVING ROOM (Near the fireplace): Hugh C./Rafe J.
Hugh offered a quick grin, and took a quick drink from the glass before he responded. It was an easy question to resopnd to Zee was an old friend, and now that she was back in his life, it was difficult to imagine why he'd taken so long to reach out to her. Fear, perhaps, or shame maybe. Whatever the reason, it hadn't been the smartest thing he'd ever done.
"We met at UW," he told the other man. "We were both students at the same time, and I was a theatre major working on a production and she joined the set design team, and we kind of hit it off. We've been friends... pretty much ever since. She travels a lot, she knows... a lot of languages, and she did a lot of traveling and translating, and we'd kind of lost touch for a while," Hugh decided not to go into the trial and all of the reasons why. "She found me again, and came by, and I'm hoping to talk her into staying for a while," he shrugged. "Thus party, and friends, and getting to know people," he grinned quickly.
"Honestly it was ridiculous that we lost contact. I'm not always the best at things that aren't directly in front of me, and I should probably work on that," he admitted. "Have you had the chance to meet her yet?" He glanced around, not seeing her immediately.