What was Cole like besides 'nice'? Rosalie struggled for a second, thinking it best to come up with something besides 'able to get his leg stapled shut without screaming or passing out'. "Smart," she told Stefan eventually, "He's a teacher. Polite."
Having no objection to his choice of wine, Rosalie smiled as the waiter left and he brought up Paris again. "You should definitely visit there at least once," she recommended. "And as for New York...you might have to actually take a tour of the island if you really want to be convinced. By someone who knows what they're doing of course," with a tone that indicated that that someone should be her. Assuming that she could stave off moodiness and that he liked her and even, you know, wanted a second date.
When he told her that he grew up in a traveling circus though, interest sparked in her eyes. Not what she expected, true, but unusual and certainly not even close to what her childhood had been. "What did you do? Where was it?" Ileana must have been his roommate then, because she recognized the name Esme and it replaced the light expression on her face with something a little more serious.