"This is not a date," she had muttered to herself as she was fixing up her eyeliner in the mirror, at the time when she should have been leaving the house. Again, as her flats clicked against the cobblestones of Diagon Alley as she walked towards Carmel Coffee, she reminded herself that it was one hundred percent not a date. Aside from the fact that she had spent the hour between getting off work and meeting him changing both her outfit and make-up, while having long - sometimes heated - rehearsals of conversations they might have. It was coffee. It was coffee with Scorpius Malfoy, and so imagining that there was any sort of romance would be stupid, idiotic and leave her disappointed. "This is not a date," she repeated to herself one last time, before pushing open the coffee shop door.
She spotted him easily enough - thankfully the coffee shop wasn't terribly big or full and she wasn't left standing, peering around at tables. Upon meeting his eye her first instinct was to give a little wave, one that she regretted moments after lowering her hand. Merlin, Lily. Make it as awkward as possible, why don't you?
"Hi." Lily smiled briefly and politely and desperately wished that she had made an entrance that didn't make it so obvious that she was more than a little nervous about having this talk. A hello seemed to be all she could manage to start (that and fidgeting with her hands like a child who wouldn't sit still) and she hoped that Scorpius wasn't expecting her to launch into anything - he was the one who asked to meet her, he was the one who should start talking. And she was the one who should sit still and relax. "So. Talking?" she attempted, and immediately after speaking decided that she should definitely leave it to him for a while. At least until she could form a proper sentence.