Who: Audrey and Rob Where: Baxter Bakery When: Saturday morning What: Old friends bumping in to one another + Rob is hatching a plan to profess his love. With baked goods.
With all the negativity and depression he had been feeling in the band lately, Rob needed to do something. After fixing Stephen and Megan up, and then Lilah leaving the band because of their relationship, Rob felt he had to prove that love always conquered. That through no matter what -- over years, through galaxies, in the darkest of places -- love would come out on top. Or something poetic like that.
So, in the early hours of the morning, he had decided he was going to tell Verity he still had feelings for her.
Eight years after the fact, a famous Quidditch star as a boyfriend...he didn't care. He knew it might come out awkward, and that was the last thing he wanted her to feel. But after he had seen how happy Stephen and Megan were, and then Lilah leaving almost ripped them apart, he was afraid to leave things to the supposed. He didn't want to wonder what could have happened the rest of his life. He had no expectations of what would happen, but he could try. He was just going to tell her.
He had planned a picnic that he was going to owl her to come on the following afternoon. He decided to head to the bakery in Diagon Alley to put an order in for some goods, perhaps some cupcakes or small shortcakes. Entering the shop, it suddenly hit him that he knew the owner. It had been years, he hoped she still remembered.
Standing at the counter as he waited to be helped, he couldn't stop smiling. It was a first in weeks.