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May 29, 2019 21:11:31 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on May 29, 2019 21:11:31 GMT -7
Brandon didn't mind waiting around for Camila to show up. It was a nice day outside, and he enjoyed the weather while he stood there. Lots of people walked by, the street was actually quite busy today, but maybe that would be a good thing. Maybe it would keep people too focused on where they were going to allow them to really pay attention to who was around. He didn't want to be the reason Camila got mobbed after being here for such a short time. He heard her calling his name and turned to face her. "Hey! I'm doing great, just ready for some ice cream. How about you?" he asked easily. He held the door open so she could walk in first. What? He was just trying to be polite ... and maybe he wanted to get her out of the crowds too. camila calderón
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May 29, 2019 21:59:03 GMT -7
Post by camila calderón on May 29, 2019 21:59:03 GMT -7
“Hey!” (Fortunately, Camila knew instantly by Brandon’s tone that it was a regular, friendly greeting and not an angry, “What the hell were you doing at the recording studio?” type of “Hey!”—the kind she feared that she was going to get in return.) “I'm doing great,” he answered, and he said that he was ready for ice cream. “How about you?”
“I’m good,” Camila answered him, moving inside as he held the door open for her. There were enough people out in Diagon Alley that the chances of her being spotted were decent, and it would be easier if she was inside a shop. If anything got too crazy, which she hoped it wouldn’t, whoever worked at the ice cream parlor would probably be able to intervene.
“Thank you,” she smiled, waiting for Brandon to follow inside behind her. It had been a while since she had had ice cream, not that there weren’t Muggle places all throughout London that she could have gone to for some. The smell of sugar was almost overwhelming, but not quite—like fresh ice cream cones, more precisely.
Camila wasn’t yet sure what flavor she was going to get. She could see the menu overhead, but it was easier to tell which flavor was which from looking at them (relatively speaking), and she moved over to the freezers to see the selection better. There were clearly some standard flavors in there, the usual chocolate and vanilla and strawberry, but also a handful that Camila couldn’t figure out.
She shook her head, laughing at her own confusion. “Brandon,” she began in amusement, “what is… ‘Sticky… Toffee… Pudding’?” Camila read the name of the flavor aloud as best she could, hopefully not mispronouncing it too badly.
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Jun 1, 2019 22:17:59 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2019 22:17:59 GMT -7
Camila said that she was doing good. Brandon was glad to hear that, though there wasn't really much he could say in response to that. he decided to not question her further, instead simply holding the door open for her. He wasn't really sure what they would talk about during this meeting other than their music, but he did want to make sure that the girl felt welcome here and that he helped with that. She thanked him for holding the door and Brandon smiled and nodded back at her. "No problem." He honestly didn't mind. Holding the door for others was one of those things he'd been taught as a child. It was expected back at home. They were both looking at ice cream flavors then, Brandon looking more at the fruity sherbets, which was what he was leaning towards. He turned toward her when she started asking a question about a flavor. He smiled, chuckling a little as he tried to think of how to explain it. "Well, it's ice cream that's flavored like custard, with pieces of cake and toffee mixed throughout. It's really good," he encouraged with a nod. "Any other questions?" He didn't mind helping her out with flavors if she wanted. camila calderón(haha soooo I tried to look that up ... couldn't find any description of the ice cream so I just made it up. Hahaha!)
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Jun 1, 2019 22:33:24 GMT -7
Post by camila calderón on Jun 1, 2019 22:33:24 GMT -7
“Well,” explained Brandon, “it's ice cream that's flavored like custard, with pieces of cake and toffee mixed throughout.” It looked interesting. “It's really good,” he added. “Any other questions?”
“No, no…” Camila shook her head, having no other questions for the moment. Most of the others were recognizable (or at least self-explanatory), yet, every time she would glance over at another flavor, her eyes would wander back to the Sticky Toffee Pudding stuff. Unfortunately, there didn’t seem to be any dulce de leche on offer, though that would have been her choice in Argentina. Ice cream with bits of cake in it, though…? It wasn’t quite as typical, and it sounded good.
“Hmmm… Brandon, what is your favorite ice cream?” she asked him, looking up from the case. It probably wouldn’t help her in narrowing down her choices, but it would be something to consider.
@brandon OOC: What’s sad is that I literally just ripped it off the Universal Orlando site, and I’ve definitely tried the IRL flavor from Florean Fortescue’s but don’t remember how it was structured.
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Jun 4, 2019 20:34:25 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2019 20:34:25 GMT -7
She insisted that she didn't have any other questions and Brandon smiled and nodded as he went back to looking at flavors. He was only waiting now to be nice to her. He didn't want her to feel bad about not choosing a flavor yet. He would wait for her to choose something. At her next question, Brandon looked over with a smile. "Ummm I love sherbet, any flavor ... and sorbet's are really good." Brandon preferred more fruity flavors when it came to ice cream, but he knew lots of people preferred other things. "Chocolate is always a good route too," he suggested. "Ummmm lots of people like mint or cookie dough." Wow, he probably wasn't being a help at all. Brandon chuckled for a moment. camila calderón
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Jun 4, 2019 21:39:35 GMT -7
Post by camila calderón on Jun 4, 2019 21:39:35 GMT -7
Brandon didn't sound as though he was too decisive about what ice cream was good, either. First he mentioned sorbet, and then chocolate, and then mint or cookie dough. Unfortunately, Camila wasn't sure that a sorbet would pair too well with the Sticky Toffee Pudding flavor that Brandon had clarified for her. She thought it over for another moment. Maybe she should do a scoop of chocolate and a scoop of the Sticky Toffee Pudding, she thought. That way, if it turned out that she didn't like it, she would have a scoop of chocolate ice cream to fall back on without seeming rude.
That would be a safe approach, and the chocolate ice cream looked good. It all looked good, which was almost frustrating. Her team probably didn't want her going and getting ice cream constantly, since she would be likely to ruin her figure that way. When she started working on choreography again for her tour, she thought, then she would be back to the ice cream parlor as much as she reasonably could. (Besides, that would be her reward to herself for getting through the part of performing that frustrated her the most.)
"Chocolate… and the Sticky Toffee Pudding," Camila decided with a smile, the name of the latter flavor still puzzling to her. Hopefully the combination wouldn't be too sweet, though she would find out when she actually ordered it. "And you will have the sorbet?"
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Jun 6, 2019 13:51:09 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2019 13:51:09 GMT -7
Apparently she had a big decision to make. It was kind of cute how seriously she was taking this decision. Maybe he hadn't been too helpful, telling her about several different good flavors. The thing was, Brandon wasn't very good at having favorites. He had a tendency to be in the mood for something one day and tehn something completely different the next. So he couldn't really give a "favorite". Even so, Camila decided that she wanted chocolate along with the sticky toffee pudding and Brandon smiled and nodded. Then he shook his head, "Naaw, I think I'm more in the mood for sherbet today." He stepped up to the counter, giving his order and then gesturing for her to do the same. He paid for both of them, not really giving her the chance to say otherwise. It only took a moment for the worker to get their ice cream, then Brandon gestured to a booth. "Do you want to sit down for a bit?" he asked. Why not? They could talk while they ate their ice cream. camila calderón
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Jun 6, 2019 14:59:35 GMT -7
Post by camila calderón on Jun 6, 2019 14:59:35 GMT -7
Brandon said no; he was going to have "sherbet". Camila was slightly confused. Wasn't that the same thing as what she had just said? In any case, he ordered, and she followed him in ordering her scoops of chocolate and sticky toffee pudding ice cream in a cup.
He paid for the both of them, even though Camila would have happily paid for herself, at least, if not for Brandon, as well. They waited for a few moments, then they were given their ice creams. She wasn't sure if it was just because she hadn't had ice cream in a while, but it looked really good.
"Do you want to sit down for a bit?" Brandon asked.
"Okay." Camila nodded and grabbed spoons for the both of them, handing one to Brandon as she found a table for them away from the window so that their presence wouldn't be noticed too much.
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OOC: Sorry it's short. Will fix coding when not in class.
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Jun 10, 2019 18:40:41 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2019 18:40:41 GMT -7
She agreed to sit, grabbing a spoon for Brandon. He smiled to thank her as he accepted it, letting her lead the way to a table. He figured she'd choose a place that people wouldn't pay a lot of attention to and he was right. Brandon sat across from her, taking a bite of his ice cream and smiling. He loved this stuff. "So how long have you been here?" He asked. When he ran into her the other day, it kind of seemed like she knew where she was going. Maybe she'd been at the studio longer than he was. "Have you seen any of the tourist things in London?" Really, Brandon was just trying to start some kind of a conversation. He didn't want to just sit here with her. That would be awkward. camila calderón
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Jun 10, 2019 19:10:04 GMT -7
Post by camila calderón on Jun 10, 2019 19:10:04 GMT -7
“So how long have you been here?” Brandon asked her once they had gotten themselves seated. “Have you seen any of the tourist things in London?”
“I have been here since September,” she noted. It really didn’t feel as though it had been that long, but here she was in the process of recording the songs that she had been working on for all of those months. “And yes,” she nodded. “Some. The palace, Big Ben, the”—Camila made a spinning motion with her hand—“London Eye…” It was easier for her to avoid recognition among non-magical people. There were supposedly tourist attractions elsewhere—like some magical museum of Merlin or something—but she hadn’t yet been to it. It had been when she had first arrived that she had done the tourist attractions; after that, it was down to business.
Camila paused to try a bite of her ice cream, going for the sticky toffee pudding scoop first. “I like the city,” she told Brandon. “And the ice cream.” Really, though, London wasn’t bad. She was busy most of the time and usually going back and forth to the WWN or various other offices during the day, but that was sort of her job.
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Jun 22, 2019 21:46:27 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2019 21:46:27 GMT -7
Brandon nodded when Camila explained that she'd been here since September. That was a decent amount of time, but it was no surprise he hadn't known she was here for so long. He only started going to the studio in January. She started to explain more about some of the sites she'd seen and Brandon smiled as she listed off some of the more popular ones. "Did you like them? Which one was your favorite?" he asked curiously. Brandon might not have a lot to talk about, but he liked getting other people to talk to him. Basically, he just enjoyed learning more about people and Camila didn't seem to mind talking to him while they ate, so it was fine. He laughed, "Ice cream is one of my favorite things," he admitted, lifting his spoonful before plopping it in his mouth. Brandon generally got ice cream at least every couple of weeks, if not more often. He just liked the stuff, which was why he suggested coming here in the first place. camila calderón
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Jun 23, 2019 5:14:09 GMT -7
Post by camila calderón on Jun 23, 2019 5:14:09 GMT -7
Brandon asked her which she had liked the most, of the tourist attractions she had visited in London so far. She thought about it, and she had to go with the London Eye. "The London Eye," she said, not fully certain why it was called an "eye" to begin with. "London is very big," she laughed. She had been able to see it all from up there; at least, it felt like it. It had also felt as though most of the tourists in London had been waiting for the same attraction when she had gone to visit it, though it seemed like there had been a lot to do in the area. "You have seen it?" she asked Brandon, wondering if he had ever been there to take in the view.
As Camila took another bite of her own ice cream, Brandon mentioned that one of his favorite things was ice cream. She could understand why; the ice cream parlor they were at made excellent flavors. She'd have to be more adventurous with them in the future, she thought, since she hadn't quite been able to understand what all of them were. It would be worth it, though, she considered, if she managed to learn some more English through it. "I will make a song about ice cream," she laughed, actually sort of entertaining the idea if it meant having to come back for "research"… At least she would have a better vocabulary from it.
"Chocolate, strawberry…" she hummed, trying to test it out but not really sure of much more than that when it came to English.
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Jun 29, 2019 12:50:02 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 12:50:02 GMT -7
She was thoughtful for a bit after Brandon asked his question, but he figured she was trying to decide how to answer. There were some pretty amazing sites here in London and it sounded like she'd seen quite a few of them. He smiled and nodded in answer to her response. "I've heard the London Eye is really cool, but no I haven't had the chance to take it." You'd think that living so close he'd be able to, but Brandon never really made the time. Maybe he should. Brandon laughed when Camila brought up the idea of making a song about ice cream. "Ice cream places would love it. They'd probably play your song on a loop," he teased. He nodded his head along as she started making up a little tune with a few flavors, smiling. It was nice to see someone doing the kinds of things he did. Brandon was almost always in the process of creating a new song, or messing around with tunes and lyrics. It was cool to see Camila, a famous singer, doing the same thing. camila calderón
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Jun 30, 2019 7:35:21 GMT -7
Post by camila calderón on Jun 30, 2019 7:35:21 GMT -7
Their conversation continued, and Brandon said that he had heard that the London Eye was cool. He also said that he had not been on it. Camila nodded. It didn't seem as though the non-magical world was popular among wizards in Britain; then again, her father wasn't magical. "Yes," she encouraged him; it was worth braving the crowds.
At her (joking) suggestion that maybe she should write a song about ice cream, Brandon laughed. "Ice cream places would love it. They'd probably play your song on a loop."
"I do not know words!" she laughed. She didn't have a vocabulary large enough in English to express herself the same way as she could in Spanish or even Portuguese, even about something like ice cream. Nobody bothered to teach that kind of thing, and somehow the words "ice cream" alone took precedence over having to know, say, what kind of ice cream she might want… especially in a shop such as the one that they were in.
She fiddled with her spoon, continuing to hum the same tune. Maybe she could make something out of it, she mused; she'd just have to play with words some more to get something that felt—and sounded—right to her.
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Jul 2, 2019 20:01:34 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2019 20:01:34 GMT -7
She complained about struggling with the words, after trying a few and Brandon chuckled. "If you want, we could work on it together," he suggested after a moment. Brandon used to work on songs with Zander all the time, not because of any language barrier, just for fun. Maybe if she wanted they could do this together. He watched her play with her spoon a little, obviously trying to figure things out. Brandon didn't want to overstep his bounds, but he was more than willing to help her out. camila calderón
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