So they entered to the restaurant behind Mr. and Mrs. Edelstein. Vash grunted.
Yes, he grunted!
So sweet. Well... when they came in the restaurant, the first to... smell the british aroma, was Gala.
I don't smell like a goat! I am not a goatherd!
Ahm... Vash, BRITISH aroma.
Oh... ugh. Shut up!
Which is some mixture of sweat, tea, alcohol, and broken dreams... Said Scott.
Wallace did not notice them, eating calmly and enjoying the absolutely delicious food that they served here (according to him at least.)
Was he alone? Well... of course he was, forget the question.
He was not alone, he was with his broken dreams. And not less important... with his alcohol.
That was part of him. His only permanent lover. His only lover...
He took his glass and emptied it, just because we are talking about it.
Emptied like his heart and like Scott's head.
Scott, if you want to eat with him, just go! Gala narrating
Scott declines because he was trying to flirt with the head of the secretaries of the University, so he was flitting arround the Offices. (The boss of the secretaries, who bens his age)
I am sorry Wallace, but you will die aloooone!
Well... no, because if she ask him, he will take that place as assistant teacher.
Oh, he should, then they could marry as Gala said.
No! Not them! Stop messing around!
Well... if Gala doesn't say or do anything... Wallace will continue eating and drinking without any notice.
No, Gala just sighed and squeezed stronger his husband's arm.
"Is everything ok?" asked Mr. Edelstein.
"Yes" she kissed him and Mr. Edelstein raised his eyebrows...
"Ehm... "
She smiled and leaded him to a table
"The place is nice. Quite small, though..." Mr. Edelstein looked around, once they were seated at the table.
"Well, anyways" she smiled.
Vash helped (don't ask) Roderich with his chair before sitting himself, looking around.
"Ok... let's see..." Mr. Edelstein reviewed the menu.
"Isn't that..." started Vash pointing towards their british professor...
"Mmm?" Asked Roderich.
"Look there... "
"Oh!" Roderich raised his eyebrows.
"What do you think?"
"We are very lucky"
"It is weird that he's here..."
"Why? He eats like anybody else... and... we want to meet him."
"But this is an expensive restaurant... "
"Maybe is his birthday"
Vash sighed thinking that it would be awful that it were his birthday.
"Hopefully it is not... we should not bother him"
"What you would do?"
"Nothing, sit here and eat and not even say hello."
"Don't be such a social misfit."
"It is not that, he is here, I am sure he does not want us to bother him."
"Maybe he doesn't want to eat alone."
"He would be here with his friend Scott!"
"Maybe Scott has a date with someone else."
Vash sighed looking at his professor.
"Do you really think Scott is his only friend?" he asked worryingly.
"Could be... but what about the other teachers?"
"See? For sure if he is here alone it is because he wants."
"Mmm, well, he can say that to us"
"Us? Are we going to talk with him?"
"Aren't we?"
Vash wasn't sure, to be honest
C
"Dr. Hughes!" Roderich waved his hand to him.
Wallace rolled eyes not recognizing the voice but thinking that, of course, this had to be one of his students... wasn't it supposed that the students were poor and didn't have money to come here for lunch? He didn't want to solve questions today. SO, he didn't turn around as if he hadn't heard Roderich.
"He is not looking us"
"Maybe he didn't hear you, not everyone has such a great ear as you do... Dr. Hughes!" Vash called him again
This time he turned around to see them
"Dr. Hughes Ohhh!"
"Hello!" said Roderich waving again.
Dr. Hughes, blushed ridiculously looking directly to Mrs. Edelstein.
"He-Hello... I... wasn't expecting to see you here..."
"Do you want to join us?" asked Roderich
Gala stared at him for a second, and then looked to his husband.
"I don't want to be a nuisance..." Wallace cleared his throat and stood up anyway.
Mr. Edelstein looked at his wife, sideways
"You aren't" answered Roderich
Dr. Hughes walked to the table.
"Ehm... I just finished my soup" he explained, ignoring for a moment the fact that Gala was sitting there with another man. "I guess I could be moved here. Ehh... Mrs. Edelstein. Good afternoon."
"Allô" said Gala samiling to him. He smiled too, and stared at her a bit longer than he should, blushing again.
"Ehm... I believe we have not been introduced..." pointed out Mr. Edelstein.
"Would you like to meet my father" said Roderich in a question formulation but in an afirmative way.
"Your father" Dr. Hughes' smile froze. Not because he didn't suspected it, but... well... now Roderich had confirmed it. Not that he didn't know about his existence, but his presence here made it clear that whatever stupid illusion he had with Gala, it was indeed... stupid.
Gala smiled to him again, a little forced.
"It's a pleasure, Mr. Edelstein. Your sons and of course your wife have talked a lot about you. I am professor Hughes," Wallace added, politely, offering him his hand.
Roderich stared to his mother, who sighed saddly without looking him at the eye.
"Professor Hughes" now was the turn of Mr. Edelstein to repeat, particularly interested. "You should sit with us, I would like you to tell me how my son is doing... among other things"
"Ehm... thank you" Wallace considered that this was... quite awful to be honest. He still couldn't stop thinking of the kiss and now he had to... sit here. Ugh. Maybe the two whiskeys he had already drunk were not enough.
So, no more than three minutes later, Dr. Hughes was sitting in hell... I mean, in the Edelstein's table, quite nervous because now that he looked Mr. Edelstein closer he was BIG and had this do-not-mess-up-with-my-wife-or-I-will-break-your-teeth look on his face that made Wallace think that coming here to eat was the worst idea ever.
"And... where is Scott?" asked Gala to make conversation.
"He had other plans... I mean, I don't... he... it is not that we eat together daily or anything like that..." Wallace blushed.
"You should..."
"I think he wanted to be alone with a girl, Mrs. Edelstein" Wallace did not dare to look at her while saying that, but again it was important that she stopped thinking that he and Wallace could be a couple. "Ehm... when did you get here?"
"Not soon enough for what I see..." mumbled Mr. Edelstein quite agressively, frowning.
"He came this norning for a familiar urgency" said Roderich.
"Oh, nothing serious, I hope" Wallace looked at Roderich.
"Well... serious enough to make him come. For something that happened yesterday."
Mr. Edelstein placed an arm on the back of Gala's chair, just to give a stronger message to this man.
"I am sorry, hopefully, Mr. Edelstein, you were able to solve the family urgency" Wallace smiled, aware of the movement and honestly hoping that the family urgency was not Gala kissing him. He looked at her in the eye for a second and she looked away.
Wooonderful. In a way, Wallace was thankful that Scott were not here, he was sure he would be laughing his head of.
"Yes, yes... I solved everything..." Mr. Edelstein nodded. "Why don't you talk to me about the subject we have in common?"
"Ahm... the... subject we have in common..." Wallace cleared his throat not thinking of Roderich, even for a second.
No one is thinking of Roderich except Vash.
Vash is not thinking of Roderich!
Of course he is, everybody knows.
Noooo!
Yes, because he is not paying attention to the conversation. He is paying attention to his beautiful violet eyes.
"Yes, you know what I am talking about" Mr. Edelstein smiled, now moving his hand to his wife's shoulder.
"Ehh... mmm... well, yes, yes... I can guarantee you that this... this is not exactly as you think" Wallace moved on his place, eeeeven more nervous. Gala looked at her husband sideways.
"Isn't it? All of them have told me quite a lot of things about it, even things that are a bit... uncomfortable" continued Mr. Edelstein, kind of talking about his son's work on regards of the sexual arousal. Or his wife.
"O-Oh... W-Well... I don't... ehhhm... know what they told you but..." Wallace was sweating now. Gala caressed her husband's chest.
Movement that, of course, fulfilled its purpose. Mr. Edelstein relaxed almost immediately and looked at her directly.
"Are you Ok?"
Wallace was a lot of things, but he was not precisely brave. Or strong. He stood up and excused himself saying that he needed to go to the toilet.
"I... I am fine" Mr. Edelstein whispered. "I was about to lose my mind, though"
"Why?"
Mr. Edelstein looked at Dr. Hughes as he ran away to the restroom.
"Maybe I would never realize if a woman were interested in me... but I am sure I know when a man is interested in you."
"Do you think it?"
"Don't you? He was looking at you all nervous. I have interrogated enough prisoners in my life to be sure he was thinking perverse things of you... maybe yesterday you gave him a wrong impression."
"I told him about you."
"I know... and actually, I always feel so proud of... knowing that other men envy me" he smiled even more. Your caress was useful Gala.
She kissed him in the lips for a moment.
"Let me go to the toilet"
German licked his own lips, still smiling.
"Alright..." he stood up gallantly.
She went to the bathroom to find Wallace. Who was shaking a bit there, to be honest.
When she opened the door of the men's bathroom and Wallace jumped about two meters.
"Are you Ok?"
"Oh my GOD! I thought you were your husband!"
"I... I'm sorry."
"N-No... No. Don't be sorry. He is just... scary. Are you ok? Please tell me I did not get you into any trouble.."
"I'm OK. I'm sorry you have to... meet him in that circumstances."
"Well.. the truth is that I did not expect to meet him, and if I met him I wanted to tell him that he was stupid for not being good enough for you" he told her, way to sincere. Hello, whiskey is talking.
She squeezed her own eyes shut.
"B-But then... I-I realize now that... he is your husband and I am just the pathetic weird person you met yesterday a-and... he knows that too. He is asking me things with a purpose" he added, whispering this time.
"You could rum away this time if you wanted"
"I... I think I will" he looked at his feet. "Gala... why did you come here to talk to me?"
"Because I was worried for you."
Wallace smiled and sighed.
"I... I wish you have a happy life with him. You should talk with him about your problems..." Wallace started, and then changed his mind about not saying her anything else. "You... will always have a secret admirer in me..."
She raised her eyebrows and smiled a bit
"Your kiss... was sweet and warming. I will always remember it" he took her hand, and kissed it.
"I hope you find somebody to love, she will be the luckiest girl on the world" she caressed his face with her fingers.
"I hope she thinks the same... if I am lucky enough to find her"
"I'm sure she will"
He smiled looking at her in the eye.
"You should return to the table... "
"Yes... I must "
"Until we meet again, then" he did a gesture with his hand to invite her out of the bathroom.
"That sounds sad."
"I am trying to sound mysterious and smart" he smiled just a bit.
"Oh" she smiled again.
"Just so, in a few years, you can talk about me as... "that nice professor of Roderich... what was his name? The one that was cute, mysterious and smart"... instead of "the professor that ran away from my scary husband""
She laughed a little. Wallace laughed softly too and blushed a little.
"That one that I would run with only if he would ask me to"
Wallace squeezed his eyes shut with that.
"Please don't say that..." he almost begged her. "Because a part of my brain, the stupid part, will believe you"
"Fortunately, he didn't do it"
He smiled and laughed again, having almost ran out of air.
"If you do not go in the next five seconds, I will ask you to run away with me, and make a fool of myself expecting you to say yes..."
She sighed.
"Good luck, Wallace" she kissed him on the cheek.
"Thank you, Gala... " he closed his eyes but did not move, just waiting for her to leave and that is what she did
(Could you stop to do this dramatical as hell? You just meet YESTERDAY!)
Wallace sighed and waited just a few seconds before sneaking out of the bathroom... and of the restaurant. Leaving his pride behind.