Dinner at Society-Part I
"Thank you for meeting with me." Kyle says as he stands up when Ana comes over to his table.
"Of course. "Ana says as she walks into the dining area of Society. She is dressed in a very pretty dark blue draped dress that compliments her figure.
She makes a motion to sit down, but Kyle quickly gets up and offers to pull her chair out for her. "Allow me." He says pulling it out.
"Thank you." Ana says as she sits down in the pulled out chair. He pushes it in behind her and then walks back over to his side of the table.
"I hope, I'm not overdressed for this meeting." Ana says letting out a laugh as she settles into her seat.
"Why would you be overdressed?" Kyle asks smiling. "You look great by the way." He compliments her looking at her and smiling. She looked very pretty.
"I don't know, I was going to go for something a little more I guess, business casual." Ana sighs and smiles. " It's just whenever I come to this place, I feel like dressing up." She confesses.
"I think that is the point." Kyle says looking around the restaurant and smiling. "According to my cousin, this is the type of restaurant, where they want people to feel like they want to really dress up when they come to it." He looks at Ana and smiles. "You are the type of customer that they want." He pauses and then continues.
"Well, you do look great and you compliment this place very well." He looks at her. "I'm glad you came looking the way you did." He admits frankly.
"Thank you, Kyle". Ana says her face getting a little warm.
"And…" He begins, and then pauses. "I have a confession to make to you."
"What is that?" Ana asks curiously taking a sip of the glass of water that was in front of her.
"I wanted to tell you that this is really less of a meeting and more of thank you dinner." Kyle admits smiling at her sheepishly.
"A thank you, dinner?" Ana asks smiling a bit surprised.
"Yeah, I just wanted to thank you for backing me up at our meeting the other day with Devon and dad, and Billy." He informs her gratefully.
"Ahh." Ana nods understanding. "Well, you didn't have to thank me, Kyle." She smiles brightly. "It was a good idea, and they were going to say yes to it, with or without me."
"Maybe." Kyle speculates leaning back a bit in his chair. "But when you gave them the data about how this could potentially benefit both of our companies, I think that helped really sell the idea." He raises his water glass to her. "You really sold the heck out of that idea Ana."
Ana smiles. "Thank you, Kyle. It really was a good idea." They smile at each other and talk a little more about yesterday's meeting between Hamilton-Winters and Jabot. It had been a week since the discussion group and Kyle had pitched his idea to Jack. Jack had been open minded about it and was willing to consider it. Kyle had called Ana to tell her the news and she had talked with Devon about it. Both companies agreed to meet. After some deep discussion about the possible mutual benefits between both companies and some data provided on Ana's end, the two sides decided to work together.
They were going to have one of Hamilton-Winters artists appear in a commercial to help launch Jabot's new apparel line. Kyle and Ana had been praised for their ideas and had both been assigned to help assist this project between both companies. Kyle had been very grateful to Ana and had invited her to meet with him at Society. When he talked to her on the phone, it had sounded like they would be having more of a meeting, but he mostly wanted to thank her with a dinner. He knew that they would probably meet more often as they worked on this project. He was looking forward to that. Ana was smart, driven, and he liked being around her. It also helped that she had such a lovely presence about her and was very pretty.
"So…" Kyle says looking at the menu. "What would you like to eat?" He asked her.
"I'm not sure." Ana says picking up the menu and looking through it. "This shrimp pasta dish sounds really good. Maybe I'll have that and some salad. The combination of greens in this salad sound like it would be good."
"Cool." Kyle says. "And I might have this spicy Cuban styled Tuna steak."
Ana looks up at him and smiles. "You like Tuna?" She asks.
Kyle leans back a little. "I do, actually." He admits.
"I actually like it too." Ana confesses. She puts the menu down for a moment and laughs. "Now Devon, he doesn't like it so much." She laughs again. "But it's good and something different from time to time."
"Definitely." Kyle agreed. She picks back up the menu and they continue to look over it and and talk while they wait for the waiter to come over.
While they are doing that Lauren and Fen come into Society. Michael was out of town and Lauren had decided to take a night off from cooking and go out to dinner with her son. They were seated at a table in a different section of the restaurant, across the room from Kyle and Ana. As they are seated Fen sits in his chair and notices Ana. Lauren follows his eyes. "Hey, that's Ana." Lauren says recognizing her.
"Yeah it is." Fen says looking at her wistfully. He then cringed when he realized that Kyle was with her. He frowns and looks at his mother. He wasn't one hundred percent sure why Ana was at Society with Kyle, but he knew they had been spending a little more time with each other lately. Ana had told him about Kyle's idea to use an artist in an upcoming commercial to launch Jabot's apparel line. She had seemed really excited about it and what it could mean for Hamilton-Winters.
Fen was happy that she was happy, and making new moves for her family's company, but he couldn't help but feel a bit jealous that her and Kyle were talking more and spending more time together. And now here she was looking great, dressed in a lovely looking dress having dinner with Kyle. Fen wasn't sure if it was another meeting of theirs or a date. He wasn't sure he wanted to know the answer to that question.
Lauren looks at her son and gives him a nudge. "So.., are you just going to stare at her, or are you going to go over there and say Hello?" She asks him.
"She's with Kyle." Fen says wearily. "And maybe it's a date."
"And maybe it's not. Maybe it's just a meeting." Lauren speculates. "I heard about the new project that is happening with Jabot and Hamilton-Winters. Maybe it's related to that." She gives Fen a look. "And regardless of what they are doing together, you can still go over and say hello to her. It's a public place." Lauren reminds him. "Go over there and say Hello, Fen." Lauren advises him.
Fen looks up and rolls his eyes. "Well…"
"Go." Lauren says again. She pats his hand. "Go over there and say hello, and I will order us an appetizer, before we order dinner. And maybe some drinks." She picks up the menu and looks down at it, shaking her head. "I had a long day at the office today and I am famished."
Fen sighs and then makes a decision. He decides to get up and head over to Kyle and Ana's table.
