After dealing with Bish-O-Man, and the other unconscious peoples, Ryo and Kaiba walked to the busses.
For breakfast, the busses drove the band to JJ North's buffet.
"Carb conscious?" Rachel asked Ari and Candida, "I mean if you go into a buffet, you obviously aren't gunna watch you weight." Ari just shook her head and sat with Rachel, Candie and Chenoa. She loved Ryo and all, but he wasn't going to tie down her social life.
"Hey Ari." Ryo smiled at her across from the pancakes. "Good morning." Ari smiled back as she picked up two pancakes and set them on her plate. They were on the end of the row, so Ari slipped around to his side and gave him a quick kiss when nobody was looking. It even took him by surprise, but he smiled and gave her a one armed hug anyway.
"Morning." Ari said smiling. "Sleep well?"
"Without you next to me? I don't know how I slept at all." Ryo's voice aid he was joking, but his soft brown eyes were as serious as he could make them.
"Ryo, get a move on!" Tristian called across the bar. They had managed to get him and every one knocked out conscious again on the rise up, and now Ari saw his and Ryo's stuff with Jonouchi's and Yugi's.
Ryo sighed giving Ari one last hug and kiss before walking off. Joey followed a little way behind him, his plate loaded with food.
"You gunna finish all that, Jonouchi?" Ari asked, raising an eyebrow as se put a few pieces of bacon on her plate.
"Huh? For the last time, Ari, my name's Joey, not Jonouchi." Joey said, "And yes, I'm gunna finish this. I'm hungry."
Ari smirked as she walked back over to her table. She'd always felt just slightly more comfortable around the kids from Domino, with the exception of just a few. She had great friends who had been part of the original Temecula/ Murrietta area. But there was something about a lot of the people from Domino that made her feel more at ease.
"What kept you?" Candie asked, since Ari was the last one to return with food.
"I was hungry." Ari replied, sitting down.
It didn't take long for everyone to finish, and when the meal was almost over, Katie and Meagan, the clarinet section leaders arrived at the table.
"These are letters to you guys from the vets." Meagan explained as Katie passed out a stack of letters to Ari and Candie. Ari already full, pushed her plate away and started reading her letters, all but a couple praised her on learning the entire show in just one rehearsal. She smiled remembering Valley View. She'd been alerted the previous Friday that she would take Holly's spot, being an alternate since they underwrote. Holly had done the space Saturday, and was absent Monday, so she couldn't teach it to Ari. Rehearsal had been canceled Wednesday because of rain, and then came the day of the show with Ari not knowing the spot. The first three tunes would be relatively the same as the first spot she'd done, but she didn't know the fourth tune at all, except for music. In the rehearsal before they left, Ari had shadowed Holly to learn it and screwed up once during the show.
Ari winced. That screw-up was right in front of a judge, where she'd accidentally gone to her old dot in a block. It still made her stomach hurt to think of that, but otherwise, it really was a pretty impressive achievement. One Katie said, "is going to go down in Clarinet history."
Weirdo: Yay Ari!