Friday Evening, Cafe Fina

[heromaniac]

Momoko and her gaggle of guests (being: her mother and father, her sister Kuriko, and her BFFs Miyako and Kaoru) all stepped from the portal and, after much explaining to her parents that, yes, they really were in another world, no matter how normal it looked, handwavily registered and dropped off their luggage at the hotel.

Momoko then decided to kill many birds with one stone and took them all to Cafe Fina for dinner.

Seeing the dancing dinnerware staff did indeed satisfy her parents a bit that they weren't in their world anymore, and the warm greetings and congratulations from the Cheesegrater and the others (in song - she totally loved this place ♥ ♥ ♥ ) totally helped soothed Momoko's nerves about the whole weekend.

Miyako thought the outfits the Spoons were wearing were absolutely adorable and wanted to know who designed them, and the food make Kaoru and Kuriko both stop grumbling about being dragged along on the trip at all.

For a while at least.





[sorry it's up so late; Cafe Fina is open; whether you want to talk to Momoko or her family is totally up to you :)]

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Having received a certain frantic text message (http://blondecanary.livejournal.com/637.html?thread=2722429) while she was unpacking in 'Dite's suite, Dinah headed over to Cafe Fina to watch the carnage.

Fun! Fun. Right.

She grinned as she walked in, and let a salt shaker lead her over to the family. "Hey, graduating girl!"

[heromaniac]

"DINAH!!!!" YAY! SANITY!

... and wasn't it odd that Momoko was thinking that about Dinah?

"You're here! Yay!" Momoko bounced up eagerly and rushed to bring Dinah to the table. "Dinah! Come and meet everyone! This is my family! My mom and dad, Kuriko my sister (who you haven't technically met), and my friends Miyako Gotokuji and Kaoru Matsubara!"

Momoko beamed at them. "This is Dinah Lance! She graduated last year; she's in college now and working in her family business at the same time!"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Kuriko, hi!" Dinah beamed at her and whispered, "Thanks for the photos. I sent them to people who'll appreciate them."

Named Paco and Brenda. Yup.

"It's nice to meet the rest of you. Mr. and Mrs. Akatsutsumi. I've heard a lot about you guys," she said, holding out her hand to Kaoru and nodding to Miyako. "How do you like the place so far?"

The saltshaker asked her if she wanted a dinner, and she told him, "Surprise me with a dessert?"

[tokyocityextras.livejournal.com]

Kaoru raised an eyebrow at the offer of a hand but shook it heartily, obviously gauging the girl's grip while trying to be nothing more than polite.

"It is nice to finally meet you as well. Thank you for being a friend to Momoko-chan." Momoko's mother, however, was now going to go straight for the kill. "So, Lance-chan, are you from this world or another one?"

Momoko facepalmed.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah squeezed Kaoru's hand back, because hello. Only a little competitive here. Her smile widened as she sat down and said cheerfully, "Different one. No Tokyo City there, only Tokyo. Momoko and I visited my city, New Gotham, which doesn't exist in the world across the causeway from here, too. She told you about all that, hunh?"

Poor Momoko.

[tokyocityextras.livejournal.com]

Poor Momoko indeed!

"I told them everything actually, you should be proud," Momoko chuckled. "But the most fascinating thing was the idea of visiting another world."

Momoko's father chuckled too. "Well, it's the first time we've been to another world, Momoko-chan! We've only read about things like this! Or seen them on tv. It's very exciting!"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Yay!" Dinah said, relieved she wasn't going to have to try to cover for her. "And New Gotham isn't all that different, really? Except we don't have the huge monsters that Momoko keeps telling me about. We have semi-psycho criminals who like to dress up in weird colors with superpowers. No idea why."

[tokyocityextras.livejournal.com]

Momoko rolled her eyes. "Totally weird colours. And totally psycho. At least that question mark guy who kidnapped us? He totally made Mojo Jojo look sane."

There was a bit of a silence.

"You were kidnapped?!" Her mother was staring at her, not exactly happy.

Momoko paled. "Uhm, I forgot to tell you, but yes? It happens sometimes. Totally a part of the job! It's fine! Nothing to worry about! Right Dinah?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Nothing! We got her back! And the other students," Dinah protested, then winced. "Umm... well, the police were there, and they did their jobs really well, and... uh. Um?" She looked over at Momoko, eyes wide. "Nobody got hurt?"

[weldedtomyspine]

The Scarab turned out to be super-useful if you wanted to know when your girlfriend got back on the island. So Jaime knew that Momoko was back. With company.

So he gave them a bit, then headed over to Fina. With flowers.

He paused in the doorway simply to watch for a bit.

[heromaniac]

Momoko didn't have a Scarab, which was something she was NOT AT ALL JEALOUS OF really. But what she did have was a 'Jaime sense'...

Okay, not really. It was just that she was still a bit nervous about having told her family about Blossom, having her family at Fandom, about graduation, and about, well, everything after graduation, so Momoko's attention was totally wandering and she caught sight of him hiding in the door.

She made a pouty face at him. He was so far awaaaaay and there was a chair right beside her!

[weldedtomyspine]

He just grinned unrepentantly at her. It was fun watching her with her friends and family. And that pout was waaaaay too cute.

[kurikocyberpink.livejournal.com]

Momoko's pout became a bit more frowny and drew the attention of Kuriko, who had tired of listening to the Spoons talking with Miyako about the need for lacey stockings when wearing layered skirts.

Kuriko turned around to see what had her sister making that face and snickered. She elbowed Miyako. "Look, look! That's Nee-chan's booooyfriend!"

Which of course, had Miyako blinking and looking very confusedly at Kuriko. "Her what?"

Kuriko hooked a thumb in Jaime's direction. "I know, right? But they're totally dating! She even brought him home."

Miyako took a moment to take in Momoko's blushing face, then turned and tapped Kaoru. "Momoko-san is dating someone!"

Kaoru raised an eyebrow. "What?"

Kuriko threw her hands up in the air. "I KNOW, RIGHT?! It's like, totally the end of the world! Nee-chan! Tell them!"

"Tell who what?" And now her father was involved in the conversation! He glanced around and, spotting Jaime, waved. "Ah! It's that young man who visited... Ray-kun! Come visit again."

"'Reyes'" Momoko corrected him as she blushed. It was going to be a long weekend.

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime's grin widened, and he took that as his cue to actually approach, flowers held behind his back. That left him with one hand free to wave jauntily.

[tokyocityextras.livejournal.com]

"Hello again! How have you been? Have you studied hard?" Momoko's mother waved back, smiling. She'd liked the boy; he was so polite for an American teenager!

[weldedtomyspine]

He managed an easy smile. "I managed to pass all my classes."

With A's, actually.

[heromaniac]

"I'm sure you're being modest; Momoko assures us that you're a smart young man. That's..."

Momoko's mother turned, suddenly confused, to her daughter. "I can understand him!"

"The island does something that means you can understand people. And he'd totally have whined at told me if he'd gotten anything but all A's." Momoko smiled proudly and stood up to take Jaime's free hand and drag him closer to the table. "I'm home, Jaime! Come meet everyone!"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah hummed "Pomp & Circumstance" when Jaime arrived, and grinned. "Hey, Graduate."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin's parents didn't often leave the swamp. But of course there was no way they were going to miss one of their children's High School Graduation.

Kermit had brought them, and they were staying in the swamp in the preserve. But Robin and his uncle had insisted they come out to dinner. And they figured the place with the dancing silverware would be the most comfortable for them.

Yes. For Muppets, dancing silverware is normal.

"Momoko!" Robin waved when he spotted his friend. It was only after he'd done that that it occured to him that she might not be ready to introduce her family to a talking frog.

[heromaniac]

Momoko was totally not even thinking about that, and she turned at the voice to wave happily back. "Robin! Hi! Ah! You have family here too?! And your Uncle! Awesome!"

[inthefelt.livejournal.com]

"Hi Momoko." Kermit greeted the girl happily. He introduced his sister and her husband to Momoko, beating Robin to the punch. Their names were Tom and Mary.

[tokyocityextras.livejournal.com]

"It's totally awesome to see you again, Mister Kermit! And It's very nice to meet you!" She bowed lightly to Robin's parents. "Robin's been a wonderful friend and it's totally awesome knowing someone as talented as he is! Ah! May I introduce my family?"

She turned and waved towards the table behind her. "These are my parents, and that's my little sister Kuriko. Next is my friend Miyako, and then my friend Kaoru. Everyone? This is my friend Robin, his uncle and his parents!"

Momoko was excited to discover that none of her guests made comments about them being frogs and instead smiled and said hello.

"Thank you for being a friend to our daughter," added Momoko's father with a slight bow of his own.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Kermit had actually been to Tokyo, so he was ready with a bow of greeting of his own. Robin's parents followed his lead after a moment's confusion. They weren't quite as worldly.

"Momoko's been a wonderful friend to me too Sir." Robin assured Momoko's father. "It's very nice to meet you all."

[kurikocyberpink.livejournal.com]

"Hi! Remember me?" Kuriko leaned forward and gave Robin a small wave.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Of course I remember you Kuriko!" Robin giggled. "How have you been?"