Who: Maria DeLuca and Alex Manes What: Karaoke! Where: Local karaoke bar When: Recently Rating: PG-13 to be safe Status: In Progress
When Alex let it slip that he was joining a band just shortly after arriving back in California Maria knew that they had to go out and celebrate. Living together in New York had been a lot of fun, but Maria had been gone a lot in the last couple years thanks to travelling with her band, so she was looking forward to making up for some lost time with Alex now back in the OC and living with her and Mimi. It also drove her to start looking into places that the two of them could move to so that they wouldn't have to bother her mother forever, although Mimi seemed happier than usual to have Alex under their roof, which Maria was thrilled about.
There had been a couple instances of some memory loss the last few weeks, but nothing too alarming although Maria's heart dropped every time they happened. She was advised by the doctors to keep an eye on things between visits, which Maria was doing by taking copious notes anytime something happened, and she was toying with the idea of starting to look at places that could take in her mother if things kept declining. However, that wasn't a step she was quite ready to make yet and the thought of it sent her anxiety through the roof. So tonight was just going to be a fun night out with Alex since he wasn't around for the big group hang earlier in the month.
Karaoke was obviously the first idea that came to mind and Maria knew that Alex needed to get the nerves out before he started performing with this new band of his and luckily Maria had lost all sense of stage fright a long time ago. She found the place on Yelp and they were currently standing around a small table with their drinks looking over the song lost, "Okay, so do we need to flip a coin to see who goes first or do we want to do a duet?" The karaoke was set to start in a few minutes and Maria was definitely not having either of them go first because she needed to feel out the rest of the patrons first.