Who: Madeleine Stump & Chris Hooper Where: Community Centre --> Roof of apartment building When: Thursday evening What: A date or something with date-like components Warnings/Notes:
Despite not being very good at dancing at all, Madeleine had greatly enjoyed her first dance lesson. After a short while, despite having demanded Saoirse sign up and attend, Mads had forgotten almost all about her. Part of that she owed Chris who was nicely distracting and an unfortunate part of it was due to nerves. Having to focus on dancing properly had helped, as well as the tips she'd been given from the instructor.
But the dance lesson was ending, and people had started getting ready to go. Saoirse, bless her common sense, had stayed away from them. Madeleine really hoped her friend had found a boy of interest or something, but the more pressing matter was that as lovely as the evening had been, she didn't want it to end. And Mads wanted it to be clear it was a date or at least had serious serious date-like components to encourage, at the least so that the next week's lesson was a date. But...she worked with blood and guts on a regular basis. Something like asking Chris to a beer or bottle of wine wasn't that - okay, nerves were there - well, she hadn't managed to do it over the journals ahead of time.
"Chris," Madeleine bit the bullet, "Would you be interested, well, like to share a beer? The stars look lovely from the roof of either one of our buildings..." Why was she talking about the stars? It was true, but anyway, she had asked and looked over at him, trying not to do anything silly with her hands. After all, her dress was only tied on in one place.