(ON HOLD) Horns and Shadows // [demon AU]

3) Dinner

Darryl/BadBoyHalo POV

I drive my friends to my favorite restaurant. I hope Vincent likes it. I wonder why he hasn't asked me about where I'm taking us.

I look to my right and see Zak scrolling through Twitter. He surprisingly doesn't do much for how much time he spends on it. I wonder if he looks at his fan art.

I look through the mirror at Vincent. He is sitting looking out the window staring into space. He seems distracted today. I think Zak noticed it too.

I push the thoughts aside so I can focus on the road. The rest of the ride was silent. I pulled into the parking lot and parked the car.

"What is this place?" Vincent asked.

"You'll like it." I answer.

"Is it because it's called "Baked Muffins?"" He says pointing to the restaurant sign.

"Yes and no."

We walk inside and wait for someone to seat us. I hear a familiar voice calling me. A brown haired woman with blue eyes walked up to me.

"Hey, Darryl! I see you brought some friends today." She greeted.

"Hi Emily! Yes, I did. I thought they would like it." I answer.

"Who is Emily? Do you know her?" Vincent asks.

"Yea. I come here a lot so I see her pretty often."

"Wow."

"What?"

"It's just that you come here so often you've made friends with the staff."

"There's nothing wrong with that."

I remember Emily is waiting for us. I will have to tell him having friends is not a bad thing later.

"Anyway, Emily, this is Zak. You've met him before. And this is Vincent. He recently moved here from France."

"Hi." He says awkwardly.

"Hi, Vincent. It's nice to meet you." Emily properly starts the conversation.

"Nice to meet you too."

"Right, umm, how many?" Emily asks, remembering she still had to do her job.

Vincent stepped forward to answer. "Fo-" He cut himself off by stepping on his foot. His eyes flashed with pain for a second.

"Just us 3," he repeated. He seemed to be convincing himself that too.

Emily gave him a quizzical glance before gesturing for us to follow.

"Ok. This way."

What was that all about? Did he mean to say 4? That looked like it hurt. I'll ask him when we sit down.

We walk over to our table and sit down. Zak sits next to me and Vincent sits across from us. Then Emily hands us our menus.