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"Salomé!" The person who swung the door open was no other than Arthur Shelby. "What brings ya to our side so late?" Arthur greeted Salomé with a tight brotherly hug.
Salomé looked over at Tommy for help since she also didn't know why she was there at his house. Instead of Tommy just giving out his motive right then and there, he just grabbed her hand and pushed pass a confused Arthur.
Taking full view of the home, Salomé could see the whole Shelby family was here tonight. All of Tommy's brothers, John's wife, and his aunt Polly & her son Michael. This wasn't the type of dinner night Salomé had envisioned with Tommy.

"Did yer aunt send ya?" Arthur was the most curious on why Salomé was at their doorstep with Tommy this late.
"No she didn't..." Salomé looked over at Tommy who stood beside her, she needed him to speak up now.
"Salomé has come for supper." That's was all Tommy said before he began leading her to the dinner table. A confused Arthur following close behind them.
"Salomé is that you?" John also didn't expect to be seeing Salomé there. Surprised that she was standing there in  the Shelby house with his big brother late at night.
Salomé eyes looked over at the woman beside John.
"Esme Shelby, John's wife." Esme introduced herself to Salomé, to Salomé's surprise Esme had pulled her into a warm embrace. Something she didn't know that the people of Small Heath actually did. Her minor interactions with the residents of Small Heath was very cordial and somewhat cold at times, some weren't as welcoming to a foreigner.

"Come sit, food gettin' cold." Polly said as she sat the last dish on the table. Salomé stared in wonder as she took her seat next to Tommy, seeing the food laid out for them and how it seemed as if she was invited to a family dinner. She had no idea this is what Tommy meant by having a night out.
Salomé didn't even know they were revealing their relationship to his family so soon. She thought that since everything was going well between them, they would keep quiet until they both came to agreement on telling everyone.
Different dishes were passed around the table as everyone fixed their plates, light chatter amongst them.
"Tommy yer lucky to have a woman fixing yer plate, I just gotta do it myself." Arthur's words had caught Salomé attention.
Looking down she saw how Arthur's words were true, out of reflex she was fixing Tommy's plate for him.
"Well I always saw my mama fixing my papa's plate, so this is normal to me." Salomé carefully sat Tommy's plate in front of him. "Didn't even know my hands got to fixing it." Salomé awkwardly laughed as she started to fix her own plate of food.
"See brother you need to settle down and get yourself a woman to take care of ya, follow in me and Tommy's path." John boosted to his big brother, earning a chuckle from Finn.
"It takes a special woman to put up with these Shelby boys and our family." Polly was telling the truth, not everyone was fit to handle what the Shelby family had to offer.
"If he waits forever to find someone to put up with him then Michael will be married before him." John joked making Michael chuckle.