They got to the bar in a matter of minutes. Ariel swung the door of the bar open and let Killian pass before her. William Smee, her bartender had opened the bar today since she was busy at the church.
The bar was called Pixie Dust, but it looked nothing like the name suggested. Inside it was very dark and noisy. Loud rock music was playing from the stereo. There were plenty of tables everywhere, as well as stools at the actual bar counter. Smee was serving an apple martini to one of the customers. It was pretty crowed for a Monday night. It almost seemed like everyone who was of age was here tonight. Aria greeted Smee and then headed to a table towards the back.
They sat down, menus already on the table waiting for them. Killian took the menu and glanced through. They actually had some good food here, better than he expected.
"What would you like to drink?" said Aria, smiling at Killian from behind the menu.
"I'll just have some water" he said.
"Really? Just water?" she said, arching her eyebrow. "I know you said you don't drink but…."
"Water is fine" he said uneasily. Aria turned around in her chair and shouted to Smee "Smee I'll have a margarita and water please."
"So, Pixie Dust huh?" asked Killian. "I'm sorry?" asked Aria turning back around to face Killian.
"It's the name of your bar, Pixie Dust. Curious name, how did you pick it?" he asked.
"Oh" she said, chuckling. "Well, Peter Pan has always been my favorite Disney movie and I am actually a fan of Tinkerbell so I just thought I'd call it Pixie Dust. I thought it was cute and different, plus my daughter really liked it so."
"Here you Margarita for you and a water for you" said Smee, placing the drinks down on the table.
"Thank you Smee" she said, smiling at him. "So Killian do you know what you want to order?"
"Ah yes I'll have the alfredo pasta with shrimp please" he said, handing the menu to Smee.
"I'll have a bacon ranch chicken sandwich, with French fries" she said. "Thank you Smee."
"Ok thank you those will be right up" he said, taking the menus and heading back to the bar.
"So he is your bartender and your waitor?" asked Killian.
"Yes well, were a bit short tonight and its my day off so" she said.
Killian nodded, looking down at the table.
Just as Ariel was about to say something her phone rang. "Excuse me I really need to take this, I'll be right back" she said, getting up and walking towards the bar.
Killian looked at her as she walked away, staring at her back. She actually had a very curvy body for someone so skinny. He quickly shook his head, trying to get rid of the inappropriate thoughts running through his head. You can't Killian, he told himself, and you know that. He noticed that Ariel had a big smile on her face as she was talking, but he also noticed a small tear running down her cheek. She was crying a little bit it seemed. After a few minutes she hung up and came back to the table, just as Smee was coming with their food.
"Here you go" said Smee, placing the food on the table.
"Thank you Smee" said Ariel wiping the tears from her face.
"Are you all right?" asked Killian.
"yeah I'm fine" she said, sitting down. "It was just my daughter."
"Ah" said Killian. He knew that Ariel had recently gotten divorced, actually the whole town knew. It was quite scandalous. But no one really knew why they got divorced, or what Ariel did to get her children taken away from her. It must have been hard, he thought to himself, not that he would ever know.
"Aria I hope I am not being too forward but ummm…. What happened with you and your husband?" he asked.
Aria quickly shot him a look, and he could see the anger forming in her eyes, like a storm forming in the ocean. "I don't want to talk about it" she said hastily, taking a bite of her sandwich.
Killian decided to drop the subject; he didn't want to piss her off. For the rest of the evening they just talked about work and other small things.
Killian wanted to get to know Aria but he could quickly see that wasn't going to be easy. She wasn't very talkative and every time he asked her something personal she would either give him a quick, brief answer, or she would just ignore him and change the subject. What was she was hiding, he thought. Why was she so guarded?
Once they were done with dinner, Killian offered to walk Aria home but she told him that she was going to stay until they closed.
He bid her goodnight and headed home.