"Really? Brilliant!" He exchanged a glance with Rose, glad that they hadn't been able to get tickets. That would have been embarrassing. "And we can play with your chess set. We'll have to get the pieces used to our playing style." Hugo had his own set, handed down by Ron when he started Hogwarts, but it was always challenging to play with a new one. Or a new antique one, in this case.
The waitress came over, the same one he'd flirted with the last time he and Rose had had dinner with their Mum, and he smiled and flirted with her again. She grinned at him knowingly, and took their orders. He decided on fish and chips, because he never saw a reason to go against tried and true.
After the others had ordered as well, he glanced at Rose and took the present out of his pocket so she could enlarge it.