Fly Away to a Cafe

[halfbread]

Who: Everyone who wants in!
What: The V-Day Café! (Yes, that's what we're going with, no, you can't make WWII jokes.)
Where: The Big House
When: Valentine's Day, mostly evening but various times
Warnings: I have no freakin' clue, it's probably going to depend on individual threads

At 6:00 sharp, the doors are officially open on the first ever Camp Half-Blood Valentine's Day Café. The two biggest rooms on the first floor of the Big House have been turned into dining rooms, one decorated in a much more traditionally "romantic" oeuvre for couples and the second into a relaxing place to hang out just among friends. Both rooms are serving the same menu, and both have a good number of tables set up to accomodate visitors. As people finish eating, the waiters and waitresses will roll around a dessert cart for people to make selections from. Enjolras will be incredibly reluctantly providing serenades in the romantic dining room with some assistance from Cosette, while Chiron's boombox has been borrowed and tuned to the local pop station for the casual dining room. Have fun, everyone!

Comments

[againstallodds]

"As long as it's not one of those really cheap Chinese places." Hey, even he has to draw the line somewhere, and the line is apparently food poisoning. He might be invulnerable, but that doesn't fall under the definition of "invulnerability."

"Yeah... yeah, I think so. The chicken sounds good, and the potatoes. And you're gonna make me get a vegetable, aren't you?" As in a green vegetable.

[allnerves]

Annabeth just looks at him as if to ask, 'What do you think?' He might be invincible, but he's a growing boy, okay. Here at camp, the heroes need to stay healthy.

'I'm interested in the salmon and the rice pilaf," Annabeth decides after another quick glance at their choices." She folds her hands over the menu again, drumming her fingers to a distant beat. "It looks like we still have the table to ourselves even if we picked the group room."

[againstallodds]

"Maybe that'll change, we're kind of early. Probably a lot of the girls are still doing their hair or makeup or painting their shoes or whatever girls do before something like this." Another reason Percy likes Annabeth - she's beautiful, totally, but she doesn't put serious effort into it and she doesn't need to. She's completely stunning just being herself.

One of the waiters drops by and takes their order (and yes, Annabeth, he gets the green beans) and the menus and leaves them with some water, and Percy can't help but smile at her. "It's kind of nice, I guess - we get to pretend we're just regular teenagers for awhile."