With a small wave Alicia let Adrian know that he should just go do what he needed to do, and she would wait right here. As she waited, she once again dug into her purse, this time digging out her lip-gloss – the item she had initially been looking for – and quickly touched up the make-up she had applied before leaving home this morning. Maybe it was ‘just’ Adrian she was having lunch with, she had just always preferred for any make-up she wore to not have worn off completely before she was back home again. “Pizza sounds good,” she agreed when he came back out and she snapped her mirror closed and dropped it back into her purse.
Unconsciously, she stood a little straighter at the praise of her son she detected in Adrian’s voice. Back in school, she hadn’t really had an opinion about Adrian, at least not off the Pitch, and after the first time they had met here in Monument Alley ‘child friendly’ hadn’t been a word she’d use about him. But as their friendship had begun growing and Isla and Liam had met him, she had been pleasantly surprised to see that they had simply accepted him as he was, and it appeared to have gone the other way too. “He’s already taller than Isla, so hopefully he won’t have the Spinnet gene when it comes to height. And Isla’s been… terrorising the nanny with her toybroom and making plans upon plans for their birthday.”
“December?” Alicia shook her head with a rather impressed sigh as she followed Adrian to the door. “I can’t imagine being that pregnant while it’s as hot as it is there. Not all that long until you’re Unca Adrian, yeah?”