Most people would find intimidating the idea of suddenly moving away and start a new life at a new High School. But Temperance took it as just an opportunity to enjoy new things, make new friends, and go new places. And it was so nice that she met Gabriel and Erin. They are very friendly, and allegedly "The Work Juice Café" is everyone's favorite meetup place for all kind activities, including this tutoring program that pair up students across the different high schools, which is a neat idea. Especially, Even if Temperance haven't done any official tutoring before. But Erin thinks her grades are good, and the tutoring program's organizer is rather friendly.
And The Work Juice Café is its quaint and hospitable little self, a two store brick and mortar building with stripped awnings and a large sign depicting its name, its mascot (The King of Coffee) and the line "home to the most caffeine dense coffee legally available in the U.S." There are tables on the outside, where two older women play chess while feeding crumbs to birds.
The inside is very cozy, a nice mixture of the traditional café experience but with paintings and decorations showing the tired working class drinking coffee and gaining the boost to go to work.
"Huh, I am neutral about meeting him? I mean, I got around to properly talk to Aaron and Francine, before the stressing." She is serious, but then she perks up. "Hey, they wanted to introduce me to you because of the tutoring program? I could replace her while she gets better? I mean, we did have a lot of in common, on top of some genes. Or maybe we had a lot of in common, because of our genes."
"Oo- could you get me a chocolate chip muffin? And the salted caramel tea, it's my favourite right now." He bounces over to hug Felix, and also Temperance if she's willing, "Thank youu! I actually do want to get out of this stuff, though, gimme a sec." He heads for the back to do that.
She leads her over to the table in the corner while Gabriel waits for his own order.
"Hey, you two. Temperance, this is Henry and Gabe," she sets one of the coffees in front of Henry and settles into the chair beside him, setting to work dissecting her muffin with the dull butter knife that came with it and its butter. "Henry and Gabe, Temperance," she adds, "She just moved here at the start of term."
She shoves her plate away with the muffin bottom still on it and takes a bite of the fluffy top. "Mm..." she swallows it down and turns to look up at Temps, "That was pretty quick work! Like Gabriel said, there's more tutees than tutors in the program, but I still didn't expect you to pick one up right away." She frowns, "I hope Francine is recovering alright."
Erin does not smile at Henry - let the illusion stay in place until he's more comfortable letting her feed him, if that ever happens. She smiles at Gabe instead, "Some of us are in it just to help, more than for the extra credit." She looks over at Gabriel, making his way through the tables towards them with a tray, "And some of us are in it for those and- other reasons," she stifles a giggle as he nearly runs into another patron, distracted by watching the triplets' table across the room.
Gabriel sets the tray down on the table and gives her a questioning look in response to her stare. She just smiles at him, so he shakes his head and sits, "I picked up your order too, Temperance," he tells her, nudging the tray over to her as he removes the two drinks and plate of scones he'd ordered himself. "J should be out any moment," he adds.
Fenris is watching a video that Trevor is showing him. He snorts before resuming whatever work he is doing at his laptop.
J, meanwhile, leads Temps out of the shop, slipping past a trio of students in Academy uniforms on their way through the door. He hangs a right outside the shop and leads a her down the side street there, eyeing her own uniform consideringly.
"You okay going up while wearing a skirt? Most people don't look up, but..."
"I know. Adam is a good kid." Ezra says mostly to fill the conversation lull with something that wasn't addressing Robin neon-sign obvious crush on that half-sister.
It's pretty obvious that Adam would be the source of the information, instead of Meghan. Ezra wasn't sure what Meghan thought of that crush, but it was probably too intimidating for Robin's constitution.
"Back to your assignment." Ezra says looking down.
He giggles, "Nothing spooky back here except the basement windows over there," he motions to the greasy, almost blacked-out windows of one of the nearby buildings, as he heads over to a fire escape on another building. He jumps up and catches the bottom of it and climbs up over the railing. Then he lowers the ladder attached to it so she can climb up without having to jump, "Climbing, as promised."
He turns around to point at her as he starts making his way up the stairs (thus going up them backwards), "I think I'm going to like you," he laughs.
"Right, if you're not a novice at this, I won't give you the easy mode." And he turns back around to lead her the rest of the way up the stairs and out onto the roof. "Though, I was just gonna set up here, so maybe we can do the challenge run next time," he adds, motioning to the picnic table set up in a sheltered corner.
"Sure! She's great about this sort of thing - and she can keep up, too. She does cheer, you know, the training that goes into that makes you fitter than most people probably think." He hops up to sit on the table, setting his bag beside him so he can unzip it and pull out his muffin. Nom.
"I have a system to write them, ask if any of it is confusing." The notes themselves are color-coded. "But most of it is matching the colors with the numbers, or the colored numbers."
He writes two sticky notes on, lending the notes to Caine, and puts one where the notes were in the folder and the other in another folder - for sticky note reminders. Then he packs the folders back.