Who: Stephen Cornfoot and Tracey Davis When: August 2nd, Lunch time Where: Stephen's flat and then Brandon Hill in Bristol What: Lunch together Rating: P-For Pasta!
Stephen had gotten up early that morning to get cooking for his and Tracey's lunch date. Okay it wasn't really a date. It was just two friends meeting to eat together at a park. But Stephen told his mother it was a date and she had been in a tizzy ever since. She'd spent the night before making brownies for him to take with him on his 'date', and Stephen was glad for it. He wasn't much of a cook, but his mother had shown him what he needed to know to get by, and a little extra, and Stephen was confident he could pull together a decent meal.
He was glad though, that Mrs Cornfoot had to go to work and she wasn't hanging around when Tracey arrived. She'd have treated Tracey like a queen, so happy that this girl had chosen Stephen to go on a date with (gee thanks mom...) and he didn't want to break her heart and tell her that Tracey's heart was already taken, and that they were merely friends. It was one of the first things that Stephen had done in a long while that was considered to be normal and at the Cornfoots, they were desperate to get back to that very way.
For now though, Stephen waited with a blanket and a traditional picnic basket sitting by the door, all the food inside kept warm with warming charms, and the drinks cool with cooling charms. The brownies were at the bottom in a container so that they wouldn't get squished. He was ready. He'd changed in to a pair of dark jeans (new, his mother had insisted the boy needed new jeans when she saw the holes he'd worn in his old ones) and a simple tee shirt with a sweater over it. There was nothing too fancy about Stephen's clothing, and most of it he'd had since fifth year when he'd had his last growth spurt. His robes had been a splurge for the family and even they were quite simple.
Stephen paced back and forth waiting for Tracey to arrive. He figured they'd apparate together over to the park and then go from there. Stephen was just hoping that the break in the weather would hold out...though he wasn't sure it'd happen...