Cassidy follows, sitting beside his brother, giving both ladies their space.

Which leaves the seat beside the nice short brunette for Logan, who is still a little awkward.

"Uh, hi, thanks for that. I'm Cassidy. This is my brother Dick, and his friend Logan."

"Come on Beavs, what have I taught you about introducing yourself to beautiful women. Confidence! My name is Dick Casablancas, yes, my father is 'The' Dick Casablancas. This is my baby bro Beaver. And my best friend in the whole world, Logan Freaking Echolls. And who might you lovely ladies be?" Dick is laying it on thick, and he's clearly more interested in the leather jacket clad blonde than the brunette with her.

"I'm Ariadne, yes like the Cretan princess from the Greek myth about Theseus and the Labyrinth, no I'm not her mother or her sister, just her legal guardian, and before you even try, no, I won't go out with you. I'm 22, and way out of your league." She takes a drink from her cup of tea, clearly having dismissed Dick's flirtation early in the game, and herself from the conversation.

Toni rolls her eyes at the antics of her younger friend.

"Ignore her, she's not pleased that I wanted to move from Sicily to here, she's just been reminded of the sub par coffee standards. I'm Antonietta Salvatore, but you can call me Toni. Do you guys go to Neptune High?" 

She's turned her surly yet approachable rich kid personality on now, she's already angling to use the boys as her introduction to the social scene at the high school.

"Woah. Sicily, that's in, like, Italy right? You were living there? That's like, super cool. Yeah, we're starting our senior year next week. You?" Dick hasn't even been hurt by the brush off by the hot blonde, Ariadne she said her name was, already homing in on the equally hot Toni.

She smiles in what appears to be a genuinely happy way, so Ari is probably the only one at the table who notices the calculated gleam in her eyes.

"Yeah, it's going to be weird learning in English again. My Dad died a few years ago and my brothers aren't really the responsible type so Ari is my legal guardian instead. I felt like I needed some useful family, so I decided to look up some more distant relatives back where my Dad was from."

"Oh... Sorry about your Dad." He genuinely feels sorry for the poor girl, dead parent and useless sibling, he definitely feels that. Wait, what about her mother? "Wait, what about your Mom?"

"Why? I'm not. And, um, she's also dead, when I was really young she got sick, so I never really met her. Just Dad. And now just me and Ari." She regrets the short slip, but what little she can feel tends to bubble up around the subject of Giuseppe Salvatore. That emotion being pure hatred.

Logan, who has been a passive player in this conversation perks a little at the father hate, feeling an immediate sense of kinship with this chick. "I feel that. It's, uh, just me these days."

Toni actually has a moment where she pities the guy, then she remembers how much better her last 140 something years have been without her Dad. "Life is better when you don't have to care about anyone but the people you choose as your family. Bloody of the covenant and all that."

'And Logan already has the girl, just from his gloomy orphan shtick.' Dick thinks, but the chick seems cool, so he guesses friends will do. His thought process is halted by her last sentence.

"Don't you mean that, like, really common saying where 'blood is thicker than water'? And doesn't that mean, like, the complete opposite."

"People get that wrong all the time. It actually got shortened to that from 'blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb' which basically means that the family you choose matters more than the family you were born to." The boys all look at her with varying levels of awe, and possibly being creeped out by her obscure knowledge. "I like English."

"Right, well, since you've got these boys captivated by your beauty and brains kid, hopefully you can convince one of them to drive you home, because me? I'm outta here." With that, Ari saunters her way out, leaving Toni to her devices.

Being who she is as a person, Toni has the good graces to be embarrassed by Ari's antics. "Sorry, she's not really a people person."

"Ah, well, understandable. People are the worst."

A sentiment Toni generally agrees with, so she giggles at the amusing hot guy.

Cassidy notices that Logan and Toni are already vibing quite well, so he nudges his brother for his attention.

"Come on, let's leave these two to it. Maybe she'll get him over Mars." After saying that quietly to his brother to get him on board, he turns to the two who have yet to actually look at Dick and himself since making eye contact. "We should be going, Dad wants us home, apparently we're not making Kendall, our new stepmother, feel at home enough."

As if he's just now catching on, he makes an imbecilic vowel sound and waves a two fingered salute as he follows his brother out the door.

"Well then, it appears we've both been ditched."

"Evidently." Logan pauses for a moment, clearly holding back a question, something he doesn't manage for long. "So, uh, don't answer if you don't want to, but if you have older brothers, why aren't they your guardians? I mean, 'not the responsible type' isn't a real reason."

"I was wondering if anyone would question that excuse. Well, I've got two brothers, Damon, who is... 8 years older than me, and Stefan, who is a year older than me, so it obviously wouldn't be him. Besides that, Damon wasn't really ready to be a real adult at 23, especially not the only person in charge of his 15 year old baby sister. Ariadne was my friend at the time, we met at this obscure little shop and found we had a lot in common. Her being my guardian is mostly just on paper, I'm my own boss, and besides that, I'm the one with the money. She was found by a roadside as a baby, whereas my Dad, jackass that he was, made a lot of money cutting down trees and selling them."

She hopes that she's making the right choice by trusting Logan with the real truth of her abusive father. Obviously, she has to fudge the rest, given she hates Stefan, and has no energy for Damon's childish antics.

"Oh. That... That makes sense. Sorry for asking, I guess. It was just kind of weird. Are your brothers here with you? At least Stefan would be right?"

"Damon is a career military guy, so he's working, I guess is the right way to put it. And Stefan. Well, year older, me in my senior year, one plus one means that he's in College. He's in his first year at Harvard. He's pre-med, and besides that, we haven't gotten along in a... long time." Yet again, a sliver of the truth finds its way in to the conversation, and even though Toni knows she should be worried that this guy is making her verbally vulnerable the first time she's ever met him, mostly she's distracted by the sadness in his eyes. Still, remembering that she hates her brother makes her remember why she hates him, the sadness clearly showing on her face.