Ezra and I step further inside the pub and memories rush back, filling me with happiness and concern. I'm afraid that being back here, where Ezra and I met, with my mother will cause chaos. I walk closer to the bar and let my fingertips slide across the stools, and then I notice it; the missing poster of Alison hanging on the bulletin board. All of a sudden I remember that day like it was yesterday. That song is playing and I hear Ezra's sweet voice ask 'you all right down there?' and picture him sitting just a stool away reading Ulysses with a scotch in his hand. I smile and look to my right and Ezra's in front of me touching the bar stool my hand is on and says with his boyish smile "you all right down there?" I smile and kind of shake my head remembering who else we're here with, "yeah."

Ezra leads me to the booth my mother is sitting at and we sit down across from her. Ella reaches across the table to grab my hand and says "I'm sorry, I didn't realize" then tilts her head to look across the room, "you know someone really should take those down by know." I shake my head, "no, no it's fine, seeing that made me glad, it made me remember something." My mom smiles, "happy I hope." I look over to Ezra, "very." Ella looks down at her menu then back up at Ezra to say "I didn't realize how close this is to you, have you been here before?" Ezra nods, "yeah, once or twice. Last time was my favorite though." Ella smiles up at him, "why?" He takes a sip of his scotch then reaches under the table to grab my hand and looks at Ella, "good music." "Oh, that's right!" Ella exclaims while reaching into her pocket and pulls out a quarter, "why don't you go pick a song" and hands me the quarter.

I come back and the menus are gone. Ezra slides out of the booth so I can sit down and says, "I ordered you a cheese burger…vegetarian of course." I smile, he knows me so well. Several minutes later the song I picked comes on. I look up a bit listening to the song. "God, I love this song." Ezra shyly smiles, "B-26." "Isn't that the title for that poem you wrote?" We look over at her with quizzical expressions on our face. "I… found a big poetry book with it turned to that page. I was in your room about a year ago while putting some of your clothes on your bed. It was very lovely, obviously about someone special." Ezra opens his mouth to speak but air gets stuck, he is at a loss for words. "Oh look, the foods here." I say, glad for the sudden distraction. The guy from behind the bar sets our food down and any mention of the poem was forgotten.

We are just about done eating when the guy from the bar came over with our check. "Uh, I'm going to go pee real quick." Ezra scoots out of the booth so I can get out and I grab my bag headed to the bathroom. I come back a few minutes later and find my mom outside. "Hey, where's Mr. Fitz?" "Uh, inside, going to the bathroom I think. I'm going to walk over to that little shop over there." "Ok I'll come with…damn it, I left my bag in the bathroom. I'll be right back and meet over at that shop." She nods then practically jogs over to the 'soaps and goodies' store.

I walk in the ladies room when all of a sudden I feel a pair of hands around my waist. "I was wondering if you caught on" I cock my head to the side a bit and Ezra says "I'm just a hopeless romantic. I thought we could… recreate the date." His hands slide up from my hands to my neck and I place my arms around his waist. "Did you really think you'd like to teach or were you hitting on me?" I scrunch my nose. "Did you really play B-26 or were you just hitting on me? And I wouldn't exactly call it a date. We ended the night in the bathroom." He smiles, "I remember. I think it went something like this" he says lifting me on to the counter. "And I did something like this" I say wrapping my legs around his waist drawing him closer to me as his hands find my face. He pulls my face to his and kisses me. *ring, ring.* Ezra pulls away from the kiss to look down at my bag on the counter. Ezra says "Must be mommy dearest calling." I pull out my phone and answer, "Hey how are the soaps and goodies?" "Good. Where are you two? Did he drowned or something?" I laugh, "No we're just looking at the jut-box." Ezra looks at me and I shrug my shoulders. "Good then I'll just come back." "Great!" I shut my phone and look at Ezra once he says "Hmm, that was shorter then I remember." I raise my eyebrows at him. "Well maybe we can finish it later tonight, somewhere else." He coyly smiles. "Like…my bedroom?" I smile back and lean towards his ear, "you'd like that wouldn't you?" He laughs a bit, "Would your mom be there?" I laugh, "Ezra! God you're so childish!" He tilts his head a bit, "coming from you." I hit his chest a bit, "that was low." "Yeah, I'm…I'm sorry. It was pretty low, I mean not as short as you, but it was low." He grabs my waist and sets me on the floor. I grab my bag from the counter and head to the door. "Oh, well now guess who's not getting any tonight?"