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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 14:30:47 GMT
"That is good to hear! Sometimes they are the hardest bonds to mend once broken." He states. That phrase sounded familiar to him. Perhaps he heard it in a book, he mused."Are you not? Surely moving to America was an adventure? No matter how small something can be an adventure!" He says as his eyes brighten now the subject has moved on.
Upon seeing Matilda pick up the food menu Jeremy does the same. "Oh food! That is a good idea! I have barely eaten today!"
He looks up from his menu at Matilda. "I can see why!" He responds. "It is delightful! I can imagine seeing this place in winter is something else!"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 14:49:14 GMT
"I moved back to my home country. I would not call that an adventure" she looks at the menu whilst glad that the subject matter had changed.
"I've not eaten today and the food here is pretty good. Might have to get a sandwich or something" she looks at the menu and sees one of her favourite meals a clam chowder. The cake would have to wait a bit longer.
"It is beautiful in the winter. A perfect place to find a good book at just spend the day here drinking tea. I would assume that there are still places like this in some parts of the UK?"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 15:51:35 GMT
Looking at the menu, Jeremy is surprised by the variety of dishes they serve. The Victorian sponge cake is very tempting, I shall have the cheese board first, then ill have cake he thinks to himself with a triumphant tone. "What are you fancying? I think ill order another tea to go with a cheeseboard.....then maybe some cake." He says with a smile, not taking his eyes of the menu.
"Oh absolutely! In fact, the town i went to school in has one! Polly Tea Rooms it is called. Has been there for over a hundred years if im not mistaken!" He raises an eyebrow over his glasses, whilst his eyes look over the menu at Matilda." When i went to uni, in Oxford, there was plenty in the town and in the neighbouring villages. Spent a lot of my time studying my books at them." He says a matter of factly. "What about you? Have you found any like this in your travels? Or through gossip from the students?"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 16:10:56 GMT
Matilda looks at the menu some more. The Chowder is tempting but today she felt like she wanted something different. “I might just go for a tomato soup and crusty bread. The cakes here are very good as well” she says to him.
She listens to him speak about Oxford and the tea rooms there. It sounded like a beautiful place. She had never been there. She did go to a few places in the UK. Oxford wasn't one of them. “When I was in the UK. I didn't really travel much outside of London. Never found anywhere like this. A student librarian told me of a place in Maine that sounded good”
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 18:01:01 GMT
Caleb steered Tess towards Matilda and her friend. He had a big grin on his face and a smoke rolling about his lips.
'Matilda! Hey Matilda hows tings? Who's dis den?' he said with a wicked grin. He pulled chair out for Tess, 'Sit down here darlin''
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 18:16:41 GMT
Tess allows herself to be seated with Matilda and her friend, this was not the man who had given her his business card the other night. The thought ambling across her mind. She felt Calebs hand leave the back of her neck as she sat, how long had he been touching her? She shivered instantly missing the contact.
Hi Matilda how are you? We aren't interrupting are we? Tess smiled to matilda and her companion.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 18:41:00 GMT
Hearing them both and she pulls a face "Oh bugger. They could think this is something that it isn't. They could tell Arthur" she picks up her cup but it's empty "Bugger"
"Oh hello Caleb and Tess. Fancy seeing you both here. This is Jermey, a friend of mine. Jermey this is Caleb and Tess" she says. Feeling very awkward right now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 18:47:35 GMT
Jeremy stands up as he is introduced to the two new people. "Pleasure to meet you both! Jeremy Hickory" He holds a hand out to be shaken by either of them.
Jeremy thinks to himself these two are an interesting couple judging by how they are dressed. " How do you guys know eachother?" He asks the trio.
He sits down and pours himself the dregs of his tea.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 18:55:13 GMT
Tess looked at Matilda she could smell the poor womans discomfort as clear as if it was her own, she looked at the two immaculately dressed people, and wondered what made Matilda so uncomfortable, was it her?
Perhaps it was. Sure the last time she had seen the woman she was covered in the blood of the man who shot her with that wicked looking blade buried into the man's skull.
We won't stay if you are busy, it's very nice to meet you Jeremy.
Tess looked at Caleb hoping he would also realise they were interrupting the friends lunch . Tess looked down at her muddy clothes and grubby hands.
Irish will you order for me please I'm going to freshen up
Tess got up and walked to the ladys room leaving the trio for now
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 19:27:25 GMT
Still worried that Caleb would tell Arthur that she was having lunch alone with another man. She smiles to them both "Oh yes feel free to stay, that is if Jermey doesn't mind of course". She smiles directly at Jermey.
She is still scared of her possible feelings towards Jermey. She just says "I'm just going to the ladies".
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 19:36:02 GMT
Caleb reached out and shook Jeremy's hand. He smiled, 'Ah me and Matilda go way back. Nice ta meet ye Jeremy. Another Englishman in Arkham!' he winks at Matilda.
'Jeremy you'll excuse me an' Tess's filthy clothes, we had a spot of.... engine trouble! Yea, so we had to walk all de way from my place ta here.' he waves over a waitress and quickly looks through the menu, 'We'll have four big bowls of pasta and meat, now I want BIG bowls you understand? BIG!. I'll have two pints of lager as well.'
He turns back to Jeremy and Matilda. 'So whats dis den? Business lunch?' he sniffs the air again, he we sure he could smell Arthur. He looked around the out door seating to see if he was there.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 19:53:48 GMT
Tess was bent over the sink washing pine needles out of her hair, she watched them float away down the sink, little bits of evidence, she preceeded to dry her hair on the soft plump towel her hands now scrubbed clean, Tess started to wash the mud off her butt and the backs of her legs.
She hears the door open and jumps slightly. Looking up she sees Matilda coming into the room, gosh what must she look like she smiled at the nicely dressed woman walking towards her. Hey Matilda don't mind me I don't always wash up in the toilet, Caleb was teaching me some basic self defense and I ended up getting tossed in a hedge... her voice trails off, we'll most of it was true..
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 19:57:47 GMT
"Pleasure to you meet you sir!" He says to Caleb. "and you to my lady" and he dips his head slighty to Tess.
"Oh not at all! Its a pleasure to meet more people, especially friends of yours Matilda!" He says to Matilda as she and Tess get up and head to the loo.
Turning to the other man sat at the table, Jeremy takes a proper look. This man looks like he could hold himself in a fight. Maybe not a scholar, but in his past Jeremy has found those who lack scholarly hobbies tend to have more common sense. "Oh dont worry about it!" He responds to Calebs remark about engine trouble. "So do you live around here?"
When Caleb asks about a business lunch Jeremy is slightly taken back. "No no. Just friends having a chat after work. You see i have opened up a shop recently, Matilda was a customer. We got chatting and realised it is the start of a good friendship. So we arranged tea and cakes in this delightful cafe! What about you and Tess?" he asks curiously.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 20:02:44 GMT
Matilda makes her way to the ladies room. She didn't need to use the loos. She wanted to freshen up. Once in there she takes out her small make up bag and before she starts doing her hair. She sees Tess and starts to wonder what she's doing.
“Oh hey Tess. I'm certain that you don't and I won't tell anyone” Matilda says as she brushes her hair. Her mind still on Jermey. “nice to see you again, I wasn't sure if I'd see you again considering”
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 20:21:59 GMT
Tess smiled warmly at Matilda, if only she could have been sure the woman wouldn't have sat dribbling at the sight of her in crinos she would have had those men turned into red mist in the blink of an eye, instead of saying what she is thinking she opted for casual conversation and black humour instead.
Well I won't hold random kidnap attempts against you, it's hardly your fault!
Tess brushed down her damp trousers content that she looked a little less like a tramp and more than herself she leaned against the warm radiator in part to dry her trousers in part to wait and see if Matilda wanted to talk, that's what humans did wasn't it? Talked through their horrors to each other, Tess imagined telling someone about what had happened between her and Caleb but who would she tell? She already knew the answer.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 20:35:37 GMT
Matilda laughs a little bit at what Tess says. Yes it was a horrible situation but she thought it was better to keep it light “I'll say one thing though. Blood is very difficult to wash off. Had to get Arthur to help me”
She takes out her lip balm and starts to put some on. She wanted to look presentable still, her mind still on Jermey. She wanted to tell someone. She wanted to be told don't be stupid. She looked towards Tess “Tess. If I told you something. You wouldn't tell anyone would you?”
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 20:50:10 GMT
Caleb sits and waits for the two lagers to be served, when they arrive he drains one and sips at the other. He looks up at Jeremy and grins stubbing out his smoke and lighting another. 'Dat's nice, you known Mattie long? Aye I live round here, old house wit an even older lady in!' he laughs.
'Maybe you've met me other friend! He's English jus' like ye are Jeremy, his names Arthur he knows Mattie intimately!' Jeremy wouldn't miss the feral glint in Caleb's ice blue eyes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 20:54:39 GMT
Tess continued to lean on the radiator watching Matilda apply her makeup, she wondered why she didn't wear makeup more often and decided she would. I wouldn't tell a soul Matilda, besides I don't know anyone here really so tell me whatever you need to She smiled reassuringly, who would she tell? Nobody she didn't have anyone here. Maybe her and Matilda would become friends eventually.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 21:03:59 GMT
Watching someone drain a lager and start another isnt new to Jeremy. Ofcourse he had gone to uni. It was a part of becoming a man, or so he was told. "Not long no. Shes the first real person in Arkham i can call a friend!" Catching the eye of a waitress he orders another tea and a cheesboard. "Oh really! Where abouts? Youre from Ireland originally, no?"
Upon hearing (and seeing) Calebs remark about another Englishman, Jeremy is shocked that he hasnt met him yet. "Oh really! Matilda never mentioned him!" He says raising his eyebrows above his glasses. "Id thought she would have.." his voice trails off as he would have thought something like that would have come up.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 21:50:26 GMT
Arthur spies Caleb and Tess. He knows Caleb can smell him a mile off, so any pretence of him not being there is gone, so he gets up and casually approaches the table where Caleb and Jeremy await the return of the ladies.
"Caleb! Hello. Who's your new friend?" He stands between the two men, clapping Caleb on the shoulder in greeting, picking a bit of stick out of his hair.
"Hickory? Is that you? What're you doing outside London town?" he smiles, but it doesn't quite reach his eyes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 23:53:05 GMT
Matilda smiles once she hears that Tess wouldn't say anything and thinks of the best way of saying it. She did hope one day they would be friends but right now she just needed to say this.
“So basically even though I love Arthur who you saw at the party. I think I'm developing feelings for Jeremy. I'm never going to act on it but part of me just thinks what if... Does that make me a bad person”
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 0:10:10 GMT
Tess smiled and then grinned a full warm look. Well I think that, if you like someone that's perfectly normal. If you could see yourself with one over the other than that's OK too, Tess grinned naughtily If you like them both there's no harm in that either, you only live once and life can be cruel and short! How does Jeremy feel about you? Does he feel the same? she smiled and waited for Matilda to answer.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 0:59:48 GMT
Matilda smiles again " I think he would see us as friends more than anything. but I can deal with that. But yeah was just worried that was all" she feels a lot better more than anything else. " Something to think about I have to say Tess. I've not told Jeremy that I'm seeing Arthur. Unless Caleb says something of course"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 1:27:02 GMT
Tess's expression clouded slightly at the mention of Caleb she had no idea what she was going to do about him just yet. Well I'm sure Caleb won't have missed the opportunity to say something about you and Arthur, you must know what Caleb is like? If you truly like Jeremy you should try sounding him out? See what he thinks? Work out who you think would make you most happy? Tess was pleased she was making a friend this is what they do isn't it? She thought.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 1:48:04 GMT
“Hmm plenty to think about Tess. Anyway what is going on with you and Caleb. You both seem close” she says. It was something she noticed at the ball. Things like this were spoken between friends and she still hopeful that they would become that.
She takes out some body spray and sprayed it on her.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 5:27:54 GMT
"Arthur! Arthur Waterford!" He exclaims in complete surprisal. "I could say the same for you! Last i saw you had an antiques store in London! What brings you to Arkham!" He stands up and offers his hand in a handshake.
"Oh a number of things really. I have a large client base here in the states so opening up a small shop here made sense. And a friend of mine ended up in the local psychiatric hospital and ive taken it as my duty to look after him." At this point the waitress brings over his tea and cheeseboard. "Please sit down! I haven't seen you in.....god knows how many years!" He says as he pours himself a tea." Your more than welcome to join us. A new friend of mine and I were just having a spot of tea and cakes with eachother when Caleb" And he motions at Caleb. "....and Tess...was it?.....Joined us!" A moment of speculation hits Jeremy. Didnt Caleb say Matilda was intimate with an Arthur......I wonder if this Arthur is one and the same.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 6:40:15 GMT
"Book store. Antiques is your thing, old man, I do books ... though admittedly, some of them are very old and rare. I came to America for my health."
He shakes Jeremy's hand, smiling, and pulls up another chair.
"So, you made the move, too. It was only a few months ago that I realised Caleb here had already crossed the ditch. And now here you are, too. Small world, isn't it!" He laughs a little, flags down the waitress to order coffee.
"Where'd Tess vanish to, Caleb? I wanted to say hello. Saw you both come in so followed." He winks to Caleb, sits back, resting his cane against his chair.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 7:11:47 GMT
Caleb laughs as Arthur comes over, 'Talk of the Devil!' he murmurs to himself. Both surprised and not really surprised these two knew each other, they both had that similar old, musty smell about them. 'Must come with collecting aul'tings!' he thought to himself as he ordered more lager.
'Aye it was Tess, Jeremy. She went to powder her nose Arthur, she went with Matilda. I'm surprised you didn't see her!' Caleb returned a not so subtle wink of his own and grinned. This was wonderfully funny, Caleb had caught his best buddy stalking his girlfirend and poor old Jeremy was none the wiser
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 7:42:00 GMT
"Oh ofcourse! My apologies. Have you set up shop here as well? A young lady I met the other night told me of a similar shop to mine being in the area. It did not even occur to me it could be yours!" He says as he smiles. 'A familiar face! Whod have thought it.' He thinks to himself.
Spreading some brie onto a cracker, and then opening a jar of chutney Jeremy responds to Arthurs question glancing up to make eye contact. "Yes I did. A week or so ago now." He watches carefully as he pours some tea,, making sure not to spill any. "It is a small world!" He emphasising the word 'is' and smiling a warm smile that reflect in his eyes. "Hows business around here?"
He sits back in his chair. "This is a lovely little cafe isnt it? A gem in the middle of Arkham" I thought as much. This is one and the same Arthur. Well at I least I cannot promise as much. Tho the likely hood of there being two English men called Arthur in Arkham is small. Which means...."Caleb was telling me you and Matilda are an item!"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 7:46:31 GMT
"I have a little shop not too far away, yes. Claw Marks, it's named. Caleb here is my partner, of sorts." He smiles at his friend. "Business is mostly slow. So I'm looking into other areas for activity. Definitely a small world. You wouldn't believe who you can bump into around here!"
He looks at Caleb, laughs, smiles.
"So he spilled our secret, eh? I'd like to say yes, but of course it's always up to the lady. Though we did recently decide to buy a house together. So I guess that makes things reasonably formal. Do you know her?"
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