[Ethan] it's totally not a date.

[Natalia Anne Richmond]

Natalia got into Claire's car and immediately started singing along. Why wouldn't she? It was Hannah Montana. Just then they pulled into an Olive Garden. Natalia watched as her best friend went inside and just laughed to herself. "She didn't have anything planned." she laughed once more and leaned back in the seat and closed her eyes. She was so nervous, but she had to keep her nerves contained. What if she made herself look like an idiot in front of Ethan, that would not be good.

Natalia walked into Claire's house and took a deep breath trying to calm the nerves. She was really good at hiding her nerves. She went into the kitchen and leaned against a counter as Claire ran all around the kitchen getting the food ready and trying to make it look like she cooked it herself. Natalia just smiled. She was doing so much for Anthony. He better appreciate it. Just then Ethan walked into the kitchen and started taking some food. She laughed as Claire hit him with a towel. Natalia stood straight up and looked over at Ethan as Claire shoved his car keys into his chest.

Natalia hugged Claire and gave her a kiss on the cheek and then headed towards the door. "Come on Ethan, let's let her have her time to freak out by herself before Anthony shows up." Natalia smiled and headed out to Ethan's car.


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[Ethan John Fox]

Ethan frowned at Claire as she smacked a towel against him while he was just innocently trying to have some chicken from the pasta she had bought. “ Ow!” he yelled back at her as she attacked him, shoving him out of the kitchen with all what.. hundred pounds, that she weighed. He shook his head before he watched Natalia say goodbye to Claire and nodded in response to her saying that they should head out to leave Claire alone. He headed towards the door, pointing pointlessly at Claire while trying to have an authoritative tone, “ Hey no drinking tonight, alright?”. He opened the door for Natalia before he followed her out to his Escalade. Once they reached his car, he opened up the passenger door for her, again, before closing it carefully once she was inside. Ethan twirled the car keys in his hand as he walked around the front of the car before sliding into the drivers seat himself.

“ You look really nice, by the way” he said casually as he started the car and looked back over at her with a smile. She’d been looking nice a lot lately. In fact, it seemed like she was getting prettier and prettier every time he saw her. Ethan put the car in drive and turned up the volume of his stereo, letting the Red Hot Chili Peppers music flow through his car. Loud enough that they could hear it, but not too loud that it would disrupt any conversation. ” So since you’re doing me a favor, I figure I should let you choose the movie,” he said as he smiled over at her, “And I don’t know about you, but I could eat something too.. So your choice. Food and movie… Unless you planned on ditching me pretty quickly after you got your fix of popcorn and sticky movie theater seats,”. Ethan smiled as he adjusted his arm against the armrest and tapped his thumb quietly against the steering wheel in beat with the music.

[Natalia Anne Richmond]

Natalia smiled when Ethan opened the front door for her and then smiled again when he opened the car door for her and closed it after. He was so sweet. Natalia's eyes followed him as he walked in front of the car and then she looked out her window as he got in, she didn't want him to know that she was totally checking him out. Natalia smiled to herself and then looked over at Ethan when he had said she looked nice. Gosh his smile was a killer. "Why thank you. You don't look too bad yourself." she said with a smile as she turned back to her window.

Just then Ethan turned on the radio. Natalia kept looking out the window until Ethan started talking again. She smiled when he said she was doing him a favor. See no date, just a favor, she thought. Natalia laughed, "Actually that was my plan, but since you brought food into this picture, I guess i could stick around you during the movie." she smiled at him. Natalia bit her lip when she realized she was still looking at him. It wasn't out of flirtatiousness of in a seductive way, it was just one of her quirks. She wasn't really in the mood for a big dinner, but she was hungry. She looked over at Ethan, "Okay. I'll pick the movie and you pick the food place. I'm a terrible desicion maker." she said with a small laugh. It was the truth, she couldn't decide on anything to save her life. "Um, I really wanna see Fast Five, that cool?"


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[Ethan John Fox]

Ethan grinned as Natalia said that he didn’t look too bad himself , “ Product of too much pizza and beer. I’m glad it’s working for you,” he grinned as he tried to focus back on the road and not on the beautiful girl in his passenger seat. “ A compromise…. I like it,” he said as she decided that he would pick the restaurant and she would pick the movie. He laughed quietly when she picked FastFive, not expecting her to pick an action movie at all. “ You surprise me sometimes, Natalia’ he said with a shake of his head. “But it’s a good thing, even if I wanted to see Something Borrowed,” he added on sarcastically. He ran through the choices of restaurants in his head before ultimately decided on Joe’s Crabshack. It wasn’t fancy, but it was still a fun environment and he’d be able to have a good time over dinner with Natalia. Hell, he’d probably be able to have a good time with Natalia no matter what.

Ethan pulled into the parking lot for the restaurant before he flashed another smile at Natalia. ”Don’t regret letting me make the decision, right?”. He shut off his car and got out before making his way over to the passenger door to open it before she could. Once they were inside he looked over the menu for a few moments before he was distracted by the plastic bibs laid out on the table. He grinned as he picked one up and stood up from the table. Walking over to Natalia, he couldn’t help but smile as he stood behind her and tied the plastic bib around her neck, moving her hair off of her neck so that he could place it over the ties of the bib. He placed his hands back on the table as he slid back into his seat and laughed while looking at her. “ I think it really pulls your outfit together,”he winked at her playfully before he looked down at his menu to decide what he wanted to get.

[Natalia Anne Richmond]

Natalia laughed when Ethan said she surprised him sometimes, "Well I sure hope that's a good thing.", his next comment made her smile, "Oh, I'm sure you really want to see that movie, but I think you'll be able to handle this one." Natalia sat there listening to the music and looking out her window as they drove along. She told Ethan he could pick the place they went to eat. It didn't really matter to her, as long as she was able to get some real food to eat before the popcorn.

Ethan pulled into Joe's Crabshack and Natalia smiled. Seafood, definitely not the best choice for dinner for a date, so now Natalia was convinced that this wasn't a date. Why would he want to kiss her after she had seafood taste in her mouth. Of course she had gum, mints and a small bottle of mouthwash, but still. Natalia smiled as Ethan came over and opened her door for her, "Thank you." She walked into the restaurant with Ethan behind her. They quickly got a table and Natalia ordered a water, for now, and looked through the menu. Natalia looked up at Ethan with a puzzled look when he got up and grabbed the bib. She bit her lip and smiled when he tired it around her neck. Natalia looked down at it and then looked up at Ethan again, "Thanks, now it's your turn." Natalia grabbed the other one, got up, walked over to Ethan and tied his around his neck and then sat back down, "There, much better."

She looked down at her menu again when the waiter came over with her water, "Thank you." she smiled and took a sip. "Are you guys ready to order?" Natalia nodded, she figured Ethan was ready too, if he wasn't, then oops. "I'd like the Grilled Malibu Shrimp and can i have extra butter?" she smiled and closed her menu and then waited for Ethan to order. "Of course." the waiter looked over at Ethan.


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[Ethan John Fox]

Ethan nodded as he thought back through the times that Natalia had surprised him. “ I would say it’s a good thing. I don’t get surprised very often,”. He smiled as he looked over his menu when she said that it was turn. He watched her move as she got up and walked over to him. Her legs really did look good in those shorts. Ethan shook his head with a grin settled upon his lips as he ran his hand over the bib. “Oh, good.I was worried I wasn’t going to fit in,”. He watched her as she spoke to the waiter. When had she stopped being Claire’s best friend and started being..what..beautiful? Yeah, she was definitely beautiful. He smiled slowly as she ordered. She didn’t order a salad. That was a definite plus. He was so caught up in watching her that when the waiter turned to him for his order he was caught slightly off guard. “ Uh.. yeah” he said, looking back at the menu to try and remember what he was going to order. “ We’ll start off with the calamari, and then I’ll have that Lobster Daddy Feast, and..simply steamed,” Ethan set his menu down on the edge of the table. “ Thanks, appreciate it,” he said as he moved his attention back to Natalia.

Ethan picked up his root beer and took a drink before he ran his hand over his face tiredly. The soccer season didn’t start until September, but they were already having practices to get the new players up to speed. “ So what’s going on in your music world lately?” he asked with genuine curiosity. Claire walked around their house singing Hannah Montana music all the time, but Ethan always sort of figured that Natalia’s talent would exceed that someday and that she would want to expand it. “You’ll have to get me backstage passes or VIP or something…or maybe you’ll be far too famous to be seen around Ethan Fox,” he smiled as he rested his elbows against the table and looked over at her again. She was always pretty, but with her hair down he felt like he couldn’t stop staring at her.

[Natalia Anne Richmond]

Natalia smiled when Ethan ordered his food. She watched his lips as he talked, they looked so soft, so yummy, like the rest of him. Wait a a minute, was she really checking out his mouth right now? Natalia looked away from him and over at another table as the waiter took their menus and walked away. She sipped on her water and then swirled the straw around inside the glass. There were so many people here, so many couples. Who knew that this was a good date place. Natalia smiled at a little girl who waved and she did a small wave back.

Ethan was the first to break the silence and Natalia looked over at him. He asked her how the music world was. "Well, we're going to be starting the final season of Hannah Montana so I have some writing to do for the show. And I am planning on a new album. Totally excited for that." she smiled and sipped her water again. She almost spit it out when she heard his next comment. She let out a small laugh, " I will never be too famous to be seen with you. Besides, you'll be too busy with soccer to even have time for me." she smiled. The waiter came over with the Calamari, "Can I have an Iced Tea, please?" "Of course." Natalia smiled again and then looked back over to Ethan, "How is soccer anyways?"


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[Ethan John Fox]

Ethan adjusted the way the plastic bib fit around his neck before he rested his elbows against the table and listened as Natalia talked about the fourth season of Hannah Montana. ”Are you sad to leave it behind, or just too excited for the next step?” he picked up his root beer and took a quick drink, ”What sort of music are you working on for the new album? I’m going to guess it’s not the kind of stuff I’m going to want to blast through my iPod in the middle of the weight room at Columbia” he said with a small smile as he looked at her, obviously trying to tease her. He laughed as she said that she wouldn’t be too famous to be seen with him,” You say that now, next thing you know I’m just the brother of that girl that you used to know,”. He leaned back as the calamari was set down and gave a small smile as Natalia ordered an iced tea. He waited for the waiter to walk away before he turned his attention back to Natalia.

“ If we’re both going to have such busy schedules we’ll just have to figure something out. Come to a taping of your show, come to my games. I mean… Cause Claire will want to see you, I’m sure” he said, giving a quick nod. He wondered how that would effect Natalia and Claire’s friendship, for her to be gone for work. He figured that they would make it work, at least they seemed to care about each other a hell of a lot. It would be a shame to see that friendship end, but he also had a feeling that the likelihood of that was probably nonexistent. “ Soccer’s good.. I mean some of the new guys need some serious work, but that’s why we start early, right?” he said as a smile passed easily across his lips. He reached his hand forward to pick up some of the calamari and dipped it into the marinara sauce. “ You know my sister. You know Anthony. Tell me I’m going to go home without turning into an Uncle,” he said with a quiet laugh under his breath as he looked over at Natalia.