Much deserved fun

[a_time_slip]

Instead of popping up in Julian's place uninvited, Janie knocked on his door a few minutes after she got the last note from him.

She knocked, and waited for him to get to the door.

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[lostinthefog]

"Yes, it's great. I'm cold all the time, so I'd really enjoy a place where it's warm, even at night. Maybe even warm enough for a swim in the ocean?"

He took one of the bread-sticks and grinned.
"I can't remember having ordered these."

[a_time_slip]

Janie stopped smiling for a second when Julian mentioned swimming in the ocean, but then remembered that Phoenix helped her with that phobia. "Yes, we'll swim after dinner?"

She hadn't thought to ask for breadsticks, but they were awesome. "I don't mind one bit that you got these. What did you order?"

[lostinthefog]

Julian noticed the brief change in Janie's mood and suddenly remembered. "I'm sorry, I totally forgot ... we don't have to, of course."

He nibbled on his bread-stick and shrugged. "What I tried to order was the reindeer steak and the salad. What I actually did order ... who knows."

[a_time_slip]

"No, Phoenix helped me... I'll be fine." Janie smiled, though she was still a little worried about swimming in the ocean.

"It'll be a surprise!" She really hoped it would be a good surprise.

[lostinthefog]

"Really? Oh, that's good news. You'll see, it's fun." He wondered how Phoenix might have accomplished that, but for now he was glad that it seemed to have worked.

Another waiter came, serving two plates with salad. It wasn't exactly the one Janie had seen before, but in addition to nuts and goat cheese, it at least did contain salad.

[a_time_slip]

"Yes. We- he, um... It's complicated." She wasn't sure how to explain it, what had happened. "He's wonderful."

She looked over the salad, before digging in to it. She was so hungry that she didn't mind that it looked a little unusual.

[lostinthefog]

Julian grinned, content with that explanation. "Yeah, he is."

He eyed and sniffed his own salad suspiciously. Not what he had expected, but it smelled good. "I'm sorry, Janie, I suppose that's not quite what you wanted."

[a_time_slip]

"The greatest." Janie said, smiling and looking a little dreamy.

"No, the salad is fine. It's not bad... Or, I'm really hungry, but it's fine, Julian."

[lostinthefog]

He nodded, fully agreeing with that statement. "Yeah. Maybe he'll join us next time?"

After the first few bites, he realized how hungry he really was. "Good. I just hope the rest of our meal is at least similar to what I ordered. I could eat the whole reindeer."

[a_time_slip]

"Yeah, with candlelight and- no. I mean, no. He's busy." She tried to make it seem like she didn't want Phoenix around. "He's a wanker. Doesn't need to be here at all."

Janie worked on devouring her salad, eating nearly every bite before nodding in agreement. "I think I could too."

[lostinthefog]

"Surely he is not busy all the time?" he wondered, quite sure that he had missed something.

"Then let's hope they have plenty of them ..." His salad was gone, and he used a bread-stick to get the last bit of the dressing off the plate.

[a_time_slip]

"Yes. All the time." Julian certainly had missed something, along with everyone else. "But with you around- yes, you have to be around, that'll make everything okay."

She nibbled on a bread-stick while waiting on the next course. "They should. This place cooks plenty of them, correct?"

[lostinthefog]

The feeling still was there, but he suspected that he'd find out soon enough. "Uhm. Alright, I'll be around, sure. That was the point of it. But be warned, I don't know how I can make anything okay."

It didn't take long until the waiter returned with two large plates which contained plenty of meat, vegetables, potatoes and lingonberry jam. This was much closer to what Julian had expected, and he looked very content. "Yeah, they do. I'm pretty sure this is one of them."

[a_time_slip]

"Just your presence will make things better". Janie said, before digging in to her plate.

It really was good, she just didn't say anything about it because she was too busy eating.

[lostinthefog]

"First time I hear that", Julian answered, grinning, between two bites. "But I'll try my best."

Food obviously could make people happy, judging from his expression.