Coffee with the sexy ex-y. WHO: Erika & Ben WHERE: Lenore's WHEN: After school/work
The Mudhouse was closer to Seeds of Beauty, but Lenore's was closer to the elementary school and Erika had been feeling rather gracious when it came to choosing a meeting place. Ben, of course, was a thing of her past (and he'd even been seeing someone of late, she was told, even if it didn't exactly work out) but it didn't change the fact that she'd dressed a little more carefully for work today. A fairly silky floral top was not her usual work attire, but she'd decided she wasn't going to be rushing into the greenhouse today. With that, she still looked fairly immaculate at the end of the day, though that didn't stop her from running upstairs and doing her hair and dashing on some lipstick. Of course, when Petunia heard her thoughts about meeting Ben, the goat was impossible to shake. Petunia, as Erika had come to understand, fancied the were-pommy quite a bit. Which was odd, but it was far from the oddest thing that Erika had ever had to put up with as far as Petunia went. She just seemed to be an unusual sort of animal/familiar as those went. At any rate, she let the goat into the back seat of her Prius and drove towards Lenore's to meet Ben.
Once she got there, she turned her car off but waited for Ben in the parking lot, at Petunia's insistence. The goat was going to have to wait in the car (previous experience had shown that Petunia was rather fond of first editions - to eat, that was) but she wanted to say hi to Ben before Erika hoarded him all to herself. Erika patiently reminded the goat that she wasn't hoarding Ben. She and Ben were only friends and the jealous hostility emanating from the goat was not welcome...and also completely unwarranted. Not to mention bordering on strange and creepy. Nevertheless, when Ben showed up, Petunia was practically bouncing in the backseat. 'Do I look okay?' Erika was trying her best not to say something smart to the goat, but Petunia was making it hard for Erika to take her seriously. "Hey, Ben," Erika said, smiling as she got out of the car. 'HEY BEN!' came an overly enthusiastic mental greeting.