"You know, I honestly forget," Amelia said.

She didn't have any bags to remind her, and the whole riot thing had pushed whatever she'd been meaning to get out of her mind. It probably wasn't important, whatever it was, if it could get dislodged so easily. Oh wait, there it was! She nearly smacked her forehead, remembering.

"Actually, exercise clothes for my aikido class." She amended. "My old stuff is getting worn out. How about you?"

Serena gave the other girl a charming smile and a light giggle. "Aikido sounds like fun. I personally don't like the concept of hurting anyone so I had always stayed away from martial arts, more recently though, I have been taking self defense classes from one of my teachers due to realising that I needed to actually know how to defend myself."

She smiled and sipped some more tea and then set her cup down and raised the bag from the music shop with a smile. "Came to do some general shopping and found out that the music shop had a sale on, so ended up getting a couple of things."

Serena smiled to her newly discovered friend. "So, Amelia, I don't mind hanging around for a bit if you would like some company for your clothing search." She grinned.

Didn't seem like such a bad thing, having company. The girl seemed nice enough. "Sure," Amelia agreed. "That'd be fun."

The talk at the table faded into girl talk about 'aikido' and cheeseburgers and the weather, and nothing in particular as Amelia worked on finishing her cinnamon hare.

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