Another update, I hope many of you dear readers will read this (o´ω`o)ﾉ
Flavio p.o.v
I came much earlier to the settlement, making sure everything was prepared according to my preferences. My wish was to remodel the tables so we could sit in a group for the start of the date. I made sure that separate tables were also arranged, I assumed most of the pairings would want a private conversation since we only planned to eat for two hours with an additional hour set for the preparation of the food. I was determining whatever to tell the staff how they could sell wine to our guests, except seeing as some of the girls could be easily mistaken for kids with their baby faces if they tried enough I stopped myself. Besides, it would reduce the cost, it would be easier on my pockets. Not like I lacked money in any way. Thanks to this encounter I got Aspen's number, she assured me she gave everyone the address, now it was just the waiting game of who would arrive the fastest. Fifteen minutes before the date began Laura and Catalina were already present, looking flustered at the closed sign, fidgeting whatever it would be okay to waltz inside. Both were dressed in summer dresses, Laura had a bleak shade of blue with a pair of sandals, meanwhile Cat a white one with flats. Finding them cute I walked to the door and opened it for them.
"Please come in." Catalina thanked me in a cheery voice, but I only got a single nod from Laura. Was it my chance to get to know them better? Apparently not, because my brother arrived and the first thing he did was trying to annoy Laura, as I tried to chat up Cat I got distracted by their loudness which brought me to say.
"Just don't choke him, you will scare the people working here." Laura's cheeks flushed pink and she took a seat on the arranged tables that stood in a long line, twenty spaces in total. Of course Luci tried to steal a seat beside her, but I decided that for now we would rearrange seats by gender. Guys on side and girls on the other, that didn't stop him from taking a seat in front of Laura which started a fight however one that involved kicking. More people started to flood in, of course only I and Fantina were excessively overdressed in fancy outfits. Laura managed to switch seats with one of the girls, Luciano didn't have the same luck. We gathered guys items and laid them on the table, I couldn't believe that one of the idiots brought in a condom, was he trying to scare the girls away? The other retard came with weed, thankfully it was legal at this state, but still.
"Let's begin!" the girls looked at each other and a huge fight broke out, who would have thought everyone beside Laura would want this tiny cute key chain in pink.
"Get your hands off this instant, I choose it first!" Undine yelled.
"But I want it too!" at this point I just heard more screaming and debating. I couldn't comprehend what any of them were saying. Laura breathed in some air and let out a terrifying scream, causing some of the guys to cover their ears. Lutz wasn't dazed and since he was sitting beside me I could hear him mutter.
"Powerful voice, I wonder how it sounds in bed." at least the commotion was over and Laura spoke.
"We aren't animals in the zoo, stop fighting and resolve it by some paper rock scissors game." We spent the next five minutes seeing a bunch of girls playing acting like kids, even if Laura chose another item she joined in as well, she won and choose the dog brush all over again. Aspen placed second and choose the item everyone was so desperately fighting for.
"So not cool!" Tabitha muttered pouting like a little kid. Fantina who placed third dived in for the pink ribbon. Erin then grabbed the car keys, Avalyn chose hand cream. Later we saw Cynthia snatching the pen from the table. Undine muttered something under her nose before she took the beer opener, maybe this choice may have been too obvious. Justice carefully reached for the metal flask, who would have thought she would look inside and exclaim.
"It's freaking maple syrup!" all eyes moved to the Canadian who just shrugged his shoulders. Catalina quickly snatched the weed package and Tabitha was left with the condom.
"Just my luck." she rolled her eyes simply keeping it beside her, unlike the others who were holding the items and examining them. Nobody seemed to want to sit at the long table since all the guys stood up and walked to their respective dates. I was matched with Avalyn, Luciano with Erin, Lutz with Undine, Kuro with Cynthia, Matt with Justice, Oliver with Fantina, Allen with Laura, Vlad with Aspen, Jian with Catalina and lastly Vincent with Tabitha.
I walked to a table that was close to the window, perfect placement. I took out the chair for my partner, she nodded and sat down, later thanking me for my consideration. Wooing and understanding women were after all my forte. I called over the waiter with one single hand movement, asked him to take all the other orders after he took ours. She asked for something as simple as carbonara, it seemed like trusting Claudius was my blessing. I realized that both Lutz and Luciano were sitting beside me, with Erin and Undine. I just hoped they would try to proceed with the date rather than seeking information about Laura.
I turned over and smiled at Avalyn.
"Having them as neighbors worries you right?" I was shocked by how easily she saw thru me.
"Don't worry, with me here the girls won't go overboard." I titled my head I thought Laura would be the one most feared around here, was I wrong.
"How come." her confidence in her abilities made me curious of what she could do, even if her facial expression stayed the same her eyes did betray her at times. Was she also nervous about being with me on one and one, leading a conversation?
"Let me guess you thought Laura was some kind of leader because of her strength?" I nodded, I guess it was time to throw away this idea.
"I would see myself more like the leader of the group since I'm the one keeping them in check." So the real boss was right in front of me.
"But sometimes it's easier to enjoy things unfold than stopping idiots from taking up stupid quests." I saw her glancing at someone. So when the waiter arrived with the food I stole a single peek. There was Vlad with Aspen, what did she do for Avalyn to say this?
"Thankfully I also have a strong ally." Was she by any means talking about Fantina, after all, I heard they were really good friends. According to the knowledge, I gathered Fantina was the least buddy like with the other members beside Avalyn which she adored. As we ate I heard a sudden movement of the chairs, searching for the cause of the sound I found Undine standing behind Lutz and she slapped his butt. I was so shocked I dropped my fork.
"This is so stupid he has a better ass than me." She ran to Erin's table that was fighting with her fork with Luciano, what were they even doing?
"Console me," Undine told her, Erin looked quite troubled so she put her into a hug.
"It's ok you can steal him from Laura and get yourself that good fine ass." Laura seemed to have had seen the commotion and she proudly announced.
"I approve. I prefer this one right here anyway." What did Allen do for her to beam like a ray of sunshine? Was I hallucinating or Luciano gave Al glares, if this escalated any more a fight would break up. Avalyn stood up and sent a glance at Aspen. Aspen sent a glance at Fantina next and she proceeded to tell those three that were the cause of the commotion.
"You wouldn't want to disappoint me would you?" Laura sat back at her table pretending she saw nothing, beginning another discussion with Al. Undine walked back to the table, I could hear her asking Lutz what kind of exercises he did for him to be blessed with such a nice ass. Erin tried to steal some food from Luciano's plate causing him to continue the fork battle.
"Anyway are you here to match someone together? It truly looks like Fantina wants to get herself a new boyfriend so she used this opportunity and brought you all as well, is that's true?" Could it be? She didn't answer at first using food as an excuse, was she hiding something? Once she chewed her food and swallowed it she declared.
"That too, but mostly Aspen just wants to play the cupid." I nodded.
"So there is a possibility one of you is interested in one of us," I asked in a teasing voice. She went for her drink taking her time.
"I guess it could be true." she was now playing with her hair, was she nervous perhaps? I couldn't ask her about it because another incident took place. This time Vincent must have been bored out of his mind since Tabitha got her drink on her shirt.
"What are those guys thinking?" I asked myself, it was a good opportunity to make the girls fall for us and they cause shit like this. I sent a warning glare to Vincent causing him to sigh, picked some napkins and dabbed it on the spillage.
"Oh, good I thought I wouldn't be needing this." Avalyn picked out a shirt from her small bag, making me wonder how she even fit it inside of it. She ran to her friend and asked the personal for directions to the toilet. During the time she was helping her friend out, I wandered to Vincent's table.
"You better not be the cause of this trouble." Vincent just smirked.
"I may have created a little accident by kicking the table." what was he even gaining for acting like a jerk?
"I hope you have a great strategy for a talk, after beginning this." he just told me not to worry. How couldn't I these idiots would probably sooner or later rat out our plan to the girls, how could we romance them if they saw what was coming from a mile away?
I decided to take this time to look around the room. Jian was doing pretty ok with Catalina she was leading the conversation mostly. Oliver was sharing some recipes with Fantina, none of her flirting techniques seemed to work on that fellow. Matt was having a conversation about sports with Justice, some flirting attempts were tried between the two, yet none of them seemed much interested in the other. She did try his maple syrup tho. Kuro and Cynthia hit it off pretty good, they were mostly talking about anime. Cynthia saw me observing them both moreover she waved at me, putting on a nice smile. When she was distracted Kuro gave me a thumbs up which probably meant he was doing an incredible job with gaining her trust. Allen was talking his head out with Laura, their mouths were moving constantly I had a hard time imagining them finishing their meals. They truly looked like two gossiping girls, was it because she was a vegetarian, but how much could they babble about cooking? Vlad's posture looked polite in Aspen's presence, somehow he trusted her enough for him to show her his sister's picture. This worried me, would someone be interested in a siscon? Lutz was giving Undine strange exercise ideas and Luciano was arguing about the right way to eat pasta, which Erin didn't seem to give two shits about.
Avalyn came back and guided me back to my seat, somehow I got to get additional information about how she could speak French, she supposedly lived in both France and England previously. Wouldn't it be perfect if I made Vincent tend to her more, they could have some common interest if what she told me was true, that reminded me how I should revise the whole list and made some adjustments to the previously pairings I created.
Next chapter, the group date continues~