Will we meet for dinner in elysium, my dear(Ami and Natsume)

[Anastasia]

Reading it over, she nods. "Yeah...that's Natsume's place, isn't it? I had to take her home after the blizzard," she explains. With that, it's going...going...ahhhhhhh!

If nothing else, she must've tweaked the engine, and it's lucky that she's such a talented driver. Reaaaaally lucky, you think.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami covers her eyes, resisting the urge to whimper. "My respect for the skill required to manage a car at these speeds grows with every ride I take with you, Eudial."

The coment was meant to be delivered dryly, but the best Ami can manage is a panicked squeak.

[Anastasia]

"It's not so hard," she grins as you race along. "Hell, I'll teach you if you have the time!"

[Bean Bandit]

"At this point, that's directly dependent on your talent..." Ami replies, peeking out from between her fingers and yelping in dismay, squeezing her eyes shut again.

"But, if you're serious, I may take you up on that. At leasy I have firsthand proof you're good at it..." Ami manages, trying not to hyperventilate.

[Anastasia]

Ami succeeds, if just barely.

"I'll hold you to that sometime," Eudial nods, as you race on!

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Well. Having to take a pan out to pour the grease outside, Natsume could grumble. It's really not what she expected to do on coming downstairs, but them's the breaks. Nor did she expect a familiar station wagon to come to an almost light speed stop on the other side of the street - or for Ami to come out of it a few moments later, looking a bit peaked.

[Bean Bandit]

"Araaa...." Ami mumbles to herself after thanking her ride. "Who needs a teleporter? We can have Eudial drive us to the moon...She can't be far from escape velocity..."

[Midnight Sun]

'AAAH! SHE'S HERE ALREADY?!' thought wildly as she scrambles back into the house, hoping she had not been seen. "I...I didn't expect her for another hour!Is the dinner ready?I need to get to dressed!But she's right outside my door!Why is she so early?!Why didn't she calll?!"

Natsume's brain runs a mile a minute, as does she, as she scrambles to get everything prepared within a span of a few seconds.

[Anastasia]

Ami clears her eyes as Eudial drives off. Turning to Natsume's house, she sees a flash dart inside. Who was that...?

Ah well, it's the right number, anyway.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami sighs. "Well, I made good time, anyway..." she murmurs, checking her watch. "Eep!" she begins to blush. "A little too good..."

She looks up nervously at the home and figets, debating whether she should stall a bit or not. After spending five or ten minutes in a debate with herself, Ami nervously enters the yard, and walks up to the doorstep, preparing herself to ring the bell. Eudial... She grumbles inwardly, Thanks....I think. Please let this go well...Please?

Taking a deep breath, Ami rings the doorbell...

[Midnight Sun]

"She'shereshe'shereshe'shereshe'shereshe'shereshe'shereshe'shere!!!" she recursed as she finished setting out the table. "I still need to get dressed! SOMEONE STALL HER!"

With that she charges up the stairs as if the devil were at her heels. Well...it is  said love is the root of all evil....

[Anastasia]

"Um..." Kurumi says eloquently at Natsume's panic, watching as she races upstairs.

"I swear, you'd think her fiancee was coming over, if she had one," she says in mystification, before shrugging it off and going to answer the door.

Ami sees a cute girl in an apron answer the door, bowing. "Ah, Ami. You're Natsume's guest tonight," she asks, smiling.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami smiles back, nodding and bowing politely, blushing and figeting a bit nervously. Uhm...what to I say? What do I call her?

"Un...I hope I'm not putting you and your family to too much trouble, Kusanagi-san." Ami offers shyly.

[Anastasia]

"It's not a problem," she smiles demurely, moving aside. "Please, come in."

"Natsume spoke highly of you today," she goes on, nodding at the little nook where you can put your shoes and get slippers. "You're her friend, yes? Did you meet at one of her kendo competitions?"

[Bean Bandit]

Ami wishes suddenly, intensely, that Natsume had told her what she was going to tell her family. She blushes as Kurumi mentions Natsume  speaking of her, resisting the urge to inquire further on that point.

Slipping off her boots and stepping inside, Ami tucks them away and retrieves the guest slippers, pulling them on. "Uhm...Actually, I only really talked to her for the first time at my school." Ami replies. "Before that it was just a chance meeting where we met..."

I'm not used to keeping it a secret anymore. Still, that's the truth, and it doesn't contradict what Natsume-chan said in the hospital...

[Anastasia]

"Oh, what school is that," she asks politely, nodding as you are lead past a nice living room. Natsume's grandfather is there, who turns and nods once, gravely to you, before turning back and letting Kurumi lead you on.  Past this are a few more rooms, then the sitting meal room. Very traditional style, down to the low table. "If you'll just sit here, Natsume will be down soon and I'll have dinner out. There are pickled plums there," she gestures at a small bowl, "If you're hungry now."