> She smiled apologetically and turned to her, setting her cheek on the seat
> as she met Kat's gaze "Nope but I think I was grumpy with his friend."
>
> "Actually," she admitted in a mock whisper and a 'surprised' expression
> "Derek's never been mean to me."
>
> That's not to say they haven't had their moments of going toe to toe, but
> Julia could honestly say that even then, and in an odd sort of way, they
> actually enjoyed being challenged. But Derek had never been mean.
>
> "The one time he was grumpy with me," Julia told Kat one of the instances
> with a crooked grin as she remembered "I ended up making faces at him
until
> he did this..."
>
> She fixed her expression into one of those that Derek had had in the past
> that just YELLED 'I'm the Precept and you'll do what I say' and spoke
> "Julia, I'm serious.."
>
> Then she broke off enough to whisper to Kat "And I'd make a face at him
> until.."
>
> She went back into serious Derek mode and then sighed expressively and
shook
> her head, imitating his accent "My gott, Julia, what am I going to do with
> you?"
>
> "'Buy pizza and let me eat dinner.'" she voiced her reply from them and
> grinning. Derek had bough pizza and they had ended up talking about the
> reason they were both aggravated in a totally different fashion - over
pizza
> and drink and at ease.
>
Kat:
Kat giggled at this. "I'm glad. He gets kind of scary sometimes and you
looked so funny when you came out of there. I thought he might have let you
have it." She closed her eyes for a moment thinking of Milo. "His
friend's....sorta different," she said diplomatically, but she was
apprehensive about him after the last time he visited. It was hard to trust
him that much.
Kat
