Yep they are grinning and staring at each other. That is very much the thing that is happening right now. She is so cute and so happy and it makes him so happy and all the cuteness makes it pretty easy to avoid thinking about things that would make him less happy and her smile is so good and he may be wiggling a little. Because of all the goodness. There is so much.

There is in fact so very much! And his wiggling is cute and now maybe Jenna might be bouncing in her seat just a little bit even though she thought it was a bad idea before because well he's doing it too or at least something like it but then she catches herself and stops and blushes and looks away shyly and how does he manage to keep doing this to her. She had other things she wanted to do tonight besides start at his cute grinning face right? Yes. Yes. Conversation, yes! Now what had they been talking about before they got their menus and started talking and she found out that he knows even less about food than she'd figured which still makes no sense and she's really curious about how any of that came about and...

"So," she starts, and then bites her tongue realizing that maybe after embarrassing him so much asking about food is probably not the best tactic and she should probably ask about something else and now she's already opened her mouth and she has to talk about something and she's not what to talk about drat well she can just keep talking and hope she says something good "besides classes," she continues, "how is college going for you?" There, that should be reasonable. She knows where she would go if asked that question, telling him about her new friends and her clubs (and her new, well, maybe boyfriend was the wrong word but boyfriend-to-be but in any case she could mention him in a sneaky way that would hopefully make him blush this time) but in any case she figures she should let him go where he wants with the topic in case there's anything that might be problematic. She knows she's being a little silly about this perhaps Sean hasn't minded whatever topics she's talked about but she figures making it easier on him will make things brighter and happier and cute and now she's bouncing in her chair again and she should really stop that for goodness sake.

"Well, I met the most adorable girl in the world," he says, grinning across the table at her, "so that's pretty cool. I'm making more friends than I expected in general, actually? I'm not used to getting along with people this well, it's really nice."

Jenna blushes fiercely and sticks out her tongue at him playfully (and then blushes a little more, embarrassed, still, at being that kind of playful when she'd be perfectly fine doing it with one of her friends) when he compliments her. "I meant things besides me," she jokingly admonishes him, ignoring the fact that she'd had a similar idea not seconds ago but it's still clever and still made her blush. "I'm glad you're getting along with people though! I really enjoy people, and friends, a lot!" She continues, launching into a semi-longish description of her new college friends and how she got to know them and the sort of things they've done together. Jenna really enjoys talking about her friends and she's super glad to tell him all about them and what they're like and what they've done and various idiosyncrasies and things that she thinks might be of interest to Sean because maybe some of her friends can be his friends too, right? She'll probably continue doing this for the next 5-10 minutes or so, if not interrupted, though still frequently checking to make sure he's engaged and interested and possibly looking moonily at his cute smile if and when he manages to smile cutely which he probably will because he does it all the time and he's so cute and it fills her with such joy.

He is thrilled to hear about all her friends. He keeps bouncing whenever she mentions something that makes her especially happy. And he likes them, too, seen through a Jenna-shaped lens. They sound like people it would be fun to hang out with.

Jenna spends about ten minutes talking about her friends watching Sean be all excited about her friends and being gleeful right back at him, grinning wider and wider even amidst the occasional blushes that flit across her face. She likes how happy she can make him, she really really enjoys watching him enjoy her and seeing him act all delighted and happy and she really is glad to tell him all about her friends because she really likes her friends too and because she wants her friends to be friends with him because she wants everyone to be friends with each other and even though she knows that might be a little short-sighted and possibly impractical she still thinks it's the sort of thing she should shoot for because people are friendly and good and interesting and fun and it would be really excellent if everyone got to know one another.

But after about a dozen minutes or so she realizes she's been talking about herself and her friends the entire time and even though he looks entirely happy to do so maybe she shouldn't be talking about herself quite so much this sort of thing is supposed to be a conversation and well maybe she should probably not be monopolizing things the entire time. She trails off in the middle of talking about one of her friends and turns a little redder when she realizes just how long she's been talking about herself like this. "But I started off talking about your friends," Jenna says, a little lamely, blushing further at the mistake. "Who are they? Anyone I might like to meet?" Jenna does her best not to bounce in anticipation of the answer, and succeeds. Mostly. Probably. He probably didn't notice at least and that's the most relevant thing here.

"Maybe! I think I mentioned Karen—she's the one who's been teaching me calculus, she's super smart and really nice and I like her a lot. I think sometimes she forgets that not everybody can be a genius, but she's not mean about it or anything. I met her at orientation."

"You did mention her, yeah!" Jenna smiles. "What's she studying? What are your tutoring sessions like?" She suppresses another chair bounce, trying to make it a little less obvious that she's excited to hear about someone who she might want to meet and also befriend because at least from what little she's heard Karen sounds clever and interesting and fun. Admittedly, most people sound fun to Jenna, she admits, but still -- Sean seems to think highly of her and Sean is great and she realizes she might be a teeny bit taken with Sean here and that might be affecting her opinions about his friends but she still fully expects his friends to be great and she should probably meet them at some point and so she's looking forward to hearing more about Karen and any other friends he might have now.

"She's in computer science, and we have Writing together. The tutoring is kinda hard but sometimes it's almost fun? It's honestly crazy how for the first time in my life I suddenly have a work ethic. No idea how that happened."

Jenna would like to have a little more detail about Karen if she can but he's not really talking a lot about her but that is how he tends to talk about things a lot and she wishes she could get him to give her more detail because she's looking forward to meeting her now assuming they do get to meet which she hopes they do and she can ask about it later but she can take this for now and ask more about it later or maybe ask to meet her. For now, though, "Well, that's probably good! Maybe it's just that you're doing something you like? I always tended to have more of a work ethic around classes I enjoyed, back in high school. And now I have nothing but things I enjoy! Or nearly, anyways." Jenna frowns a little, remembering her writing class. She still has an essay to write that she's probably not going to get to tonight, at all. Well, she has time tomorrow. And this weekend. It'll probably be fine.

"Oh? Which are the things that still suck? And like, on the one hand that makes a lot of sense but on the other hand it's not that I enjoy calculus, I generally don't, except I guess sometimes when Karen's tutoring me it feels kind of nice to learn things, like, understanding stuff I would've thought I never had a hope of figuring out? But most of it's not fun exactly, most of everything isn't exactly fun, it's just... I know this stuff is gonna be useful if I wanna design buildings and designing buildings is a really cool thing to be able to do. I'm not sure if that made any sense."

Jenna grins a little at his enthusiasm to want to design things. It does make her happy to see him excited about doing something like that, like she's excited about being an incredible actress. She grins, then softens her face to look sympathetic. "It does make sense," she tells him. "Some of the stuff they've been having us do in class, or having us practice, is really exhausting. But know there's something awesome at the other end of it, though, which is what's really been getting me to do it. Even if it's hard sometimes." She frowns a little. "But the writing class we've been doing so far seems much less useful or important to what I'm doing, though. We have an understanding-scripts class already; the writing class just doesn't seem as relevant."

"Yeah, I super don't get what the point of writing class is but I figure there's got to be some kind of a reason so I'm doing my best. I'm gonna be mad if it turns out it was useless after all."

"I think the intended point is that they want us to be able to write essays, and be able to read and understand them? To make sure we're good enough at writing, or at least have some basic level of ability, to make sure we can do classwork that uses it. Your classes might require you to do some, well, academic writing? There's probably something you need to do about the history of architecture over the years, at least at some point. And I suppose I probably need to write about something similar -- different techniques or something like that." It's weird how Jenna is gaining a further appreciation for this idea as she explains it. She wasn't that into the idea a minute ago, but talking about it has made her more open to the idea, "I guess it'll probably make us better at learning and understanding everything we need to understand, when we get to it. It's more of a slog than I'd like, though."

"Okay, yeah, I can see how that'd be a thing," he says. "I maybe still think essays are just kind of dumb as a concept but who knows, they could end up growing on me. Stranger things have happened. And learning about the history of architecture could be pretty cool."

Jenna frowns a little in thought. "Maybe. I don't really enjoy them either, but I guess they're the accepted way to tell people about those sorts of concepts? Or at least check that we understand them, I'm not sure. Understanding them is probably useful, given that that's how people tend to write about topics, but I'm not sure exactly how much I want to write about them. But the teachers need to check that we learned what we were supposed to learn somehow, I think." It doesn't sound like be best argument to her, to be honest, but it's probably possible as well. And maybe this is a bit of a silly topic, and they should talk about something else, possibly school isn't the best topic to talk about on a date even if both people are going on a date together but Jenna isn't exactly sure what else to talk about. Luckily the food looks like it's arriving though, and it looks delicious and smells great too. Jenna grins back at him, motioning with her head to point out the food so that he knows that it's coming and says, to finish off the topic, "yeah, we'll see if they end up growing on me too! Not sure they will, but as long as I'm good enough at them, its probably fine."

The waiter walks the rest of the way to the table, and starts putting out their plates of food while Jenna eyes it hungrily, the unfamiliar dark meat in the browish-orange-colored sauce looks and smells really appetizing and she can't wait to try it. She's not sure what it'll taste like but she'll probably enjoy it and also it might just be the smell of it and the fact that it's in front of her right now or the fact that she normally doesn't get meals nearly as fancy as these normally but she's suddenly a lot hungrier than she thought she was.

"Ooh, food!" He grins at the waiter. "Thanks!"

Jenna is cute and he is on a date with her and now he gets to try new foods and maybe they won't suck. It's possible he might be bouncing a little.

Jenna looks up from her food to see him bouncing and enthusiastic and happy and happy with her and she grins and blushes at his smile and his happiness and how happy it makes her too and he's such a cute delightful interesting (and hot, probably shouldn't forget hot) boy with such a happy smile and she can't but be so happy too and now she's blushing even more just from looking at him and being happy back and she might be bouncing a little bit with glee herself and then she blushes even more and maybe she should be looking at something else right now even with just how delightful it is to see him happy. Yes. Like the food in front of her which is making her stomach rumble and is a kind of meat she's never even had before that looks almost but not quite like steak or maybe pork with the dark and pinkish inside of the sliced meat though the skin it has on it looks nothing like she's seen before, bubbly and crackly and almost falling off. And the dark brown orange-smelling sauce it's covered with smells sweet and orangey and rich and delicious and instead of looking at it maybe she should try a bite. 

She looks back up at Sean and blushes again to see him so smiling and giddy and tells him "well, let's try it!" as fast as she can so she doesn't turn even redder and looks down again at the delicious looking food takes the knife and fork to cut off a piece and lifts it to put it in her mouth. It's delicious. She chews slowly, savoring the rich meaty taste and the surprisingly crispy skin, it's like nothing she's ever had but she likes it and she wants more. The sauce itself doesn't seem that interesting even though the flavor of it does seem to go well with the duck but it's the duck that's the delicious part here, rich and buttery and crackly and more.

She looks up from the food, still chewing, to look at Sean trying a bite of his own food, blushing a little once again having realized she's just been paying attention to her food and herself and not him at all but he doesn't seem to mind. His own food looks pretty tasty as well, a pile of juicy-looking beef chunks, mushrooms, tiny onions and carrots, covered and soaked in thick rich brown broth all sitting atop a pile off wiggly noodles and the whole thing covered in green bits to make it look more delicious which it certainly is succeeding at doing because Jenna is also looking forward to eating some of that now even with the rich bite of food in her mouth that she's still chewing and probably should swallow. She swallows it, looking at Sean and smiling to see if he's enjoying his food as well. 

As fancy food goes, this stuff's all right. Better than a lot of things, even. Does food taste better if you eat it on a date with a cute girl? Needs further investigation. He should get Jenna to suggest more restaurants.

He smiles across the table at her and bounces a little more. "Well, mine's great so far, how's yours?"

Jenna grins and blushes and does her best to hold back some giddy bouncing of her own and probably does not succeed but that doesn't matter too much if he's doing it too but it still makes her blush even harder and look back down to cut off another piece of food for her to put into her mouth and deliciously eat. Which she should probably not do before she answers his question for goodness sake and not make him wait or talk with her mouth full even if she does want to try a delicious bite. "It's delicious," she tells him, grinning all the while. "I've never had it before but duck is great! I'm was almost considering keeping it all to myself instead of switching but yours looks pretty great too and I can't wait to try it either!" Jenna blushes fiercely at that remark realizing how forward she's being with a boy even if this is normally what she might do with a friend of hers and quickly puts the bite of food in her mouth to cover for herself. She knows there's nothing wrong with being playful but she still feels a little silly and self-conscious when she does it. 

"You're so cute. We could trade bites now if you want!"

Jenna blushes a little more when he calls her cute and how does he keep doing that to her like this he's just so wonderful and cute and hot and keeps making her turn red and feel all fluttery and light and wonderful. She nods at his suggestion and takes her fork and spears one of the slices of meat to pick up and put on his plate so he can have some. It's a bit more than a bite but that's probably ok given that they're planning to trade plates later and it is a lot of food and she doesn't need to be exact. She chews and swallows and grins back at him sheepishly. 

He trades her some beef and tries the duck. Wow, that's pretty delicious. He thinks he might even like it better, but he doesn't want to say so until he's heard Jenna's commentary on how the two dishes compare. If she likes one better than the other, he'd rather she get more of that one, and that might be hard to arrange if he admits to his preference first.

The beef is good, though it's nothing quite all that special. Or at least, it's nothing new, not like the duck is to her, the sauce is different than anything she's had before but it it's most just really good beef stew though. Really really good beef stew. Maybe some of it is the novelty, but she does like her choice better, but it's important that they both get a chance to eat half of it as suggested and besides she hasn't managed to try any of the veggies that came along with it yet and those are probably pretty good too especially soaked in this delicious sauce. 

Jenna chews and swallows and smiles back at him. "It's pretty good!" she tells him, and then frowns a little. "Maybe not as good as the duck," she admits (feeling a little bad about saying such things about his choice but it was her idea), "but still really delicious! I bet the carrots and mushrooms and such in there are good too." But wait, if it was her idea doesn't that mean she's at fault here. No, that doesn't matter he's still enjoying it and she had no way of knowing and they're going to switch anyways even if she'll be sad to bid her delicious duck adeiu. (Adieu is French right?) Regardless they're going to swap and then everything will be fine and they're both really good so she has nothing to worry about. Probably. Almost certainly. 

"The duck is pretty great," he agrees. "I like 'em both, though. You can steal some more of mine if you wanna try the rest, but if you like the duck better we don't have to swap if you don't wanna."