Oooh boy this could turn south fast. He thought as the waitress politely kicked them out, he partially felt a little responsible for the fact that they where being kicked out, after all it he completely forgot to mention that they might not let mice run around a restaurant but oh well, it would be best not to start something anyway as word may and most likely will reach the mansion. Then he would be in trouble.

"Its alright we'll leave, just give us a sec would ya?" He said to the waitress who after looking at them for a few seconds decided to grant them a little time. Although he could tell she wasn't very happy about it and if they pushed it anymore she would likely get the manager, "I really should have seen this coming, sorry but mice normally aren't aloud in restaurants, well any animal actually. So I suggest we head to the mansion before this all turns ugly, OK?" He said to the girl kindly, after all it would be unfair to make the girl walk to the mansion alone and after meeting her he decided to make sure she got to the mansion safe. And with the day he really started to want to get a cab back, after all he had the money to afford it.

Looking at the remains of his lunch he decided against taking it, it only had the odd bits anyway so there was not much point. He proceeded to stand up and stretch his back out. He had been sat down talking and eating for quite a while so he had a bit of a stiff back, seeing as the chairs in this diner where not the most comfortable of things. After he had gotten rid of the ache in his back he looked at the girl. "Well shall we? if you don't feel like walking I can get us a cab but its your choice." He said, in truth he didn't feel like walking all the way back to the mansion but that would mean that he got more time to speak to the girl and learn about her. But if they got a cab then they would be back faster and easier, so he really was indifferent on the matter.

She was being kicked out!

Even worse, they all were, Leon included. And he hadn't even done anything! Adeline stared glumly at the waitress for a moment, before turning bright red. She had eaten nearly every meal for the past five years with her mice, these three and the ones before. Friends she had made at her old school, when the only ones who noticed her were the mice that creeped from the classrooms. It didn't even occur to her that bringing her mice into a restaurant would be an issue.

Stupid townies!

She nodded as Leon suggested they head to the mansion. Leaving seemed like a wonderful idea all of a sudden. As he stood and stretched, Adeline quickly swiped a handful of leftover fries and stuffed them into her jacket pocket. Reaching her arm out to her mice, she waited for them to climb on-board. "C'mon guys. We gotta go."

"But Adeline..." Speedy whined, before she silenced him with an angry Mom glare. The trio scrambled up her sleeve, and into her pocket, where they jostled for the best share of fries.

Standing up, Adeline reached into her jean pockets to find her money. Pulling a five dollar bill from her pocket, she made her way over to the grumpy waitress and handed it forward. "I'm sorry about my mice. Please, I was going to buy something, so you should have this." The waitress, grumbled like she was debating whether or not to take the money from a poor mutant girl who, in all honesty, hadn't been bothering anyone.

She did.

As she rejoined Leon, Adeline perked up slightly. At least he was still being friendly, even after she had gotten him kicked out. "My Mom gave me money for a taxi, so if you want we can go halvsies!" As she pushed the door open to step outside, her stomach gave a quiet growl. "Although I don't really know how to catch one..."

She assumed you just waved. That was what her Uncle had told her.

After stretching he moved to wait by the door, watching the girl as she went over and gave the waitress some money for kicking them out, he couldn't help but smile at that this girl was by far one of the weirdest people Leon had ever met and even served to calm his normal anger issues. Once the girl had joined him and the went outside she offered to split the cab ride, again this surprised him but not as much as it should have as he was starting to get used to the weird niceness. 

"I really Don't mind paying the cab and getting one is never difficult in NYC." He said when she didn't know how to get a cab, Before waving his hand to the oncoming tide of traffic, it took roughly 30 seconds for a typical yellow cab to come rolling to a stop before them. He preceded to open the door and get in the cab leaving it open for the girl to climb in after him. 

"So where to mate?" Said the cab driver in a heavy accent, the accent was so heavy that it took Leon roughly 3 seconds to register what he had said to him. "Xavier's school, could be called the mansion. for me and the girl there." He said to the cab driver, once he had said that he realized that with all of the recent buzz around mutants asking to go to a mutant school was probably not the best idea.

"All right mate, we'll set off once she gets in alright?" Said the driver, to the genuine shock of Leon who had expected him to be at least reluctant. "Yeah sure, you coming?" He said to the driver, turning to the girl at the end of the sentence.

Turn's out Leon was right. It was easy to catch a cab in this city. All he had to do was wave, like she said. As the cab pulled up, she wheeled her suitcase up to the trunk, which she was please to see was already unlocked. Once the trunk was open, and her case was nestled safely, she opened her jacket pocket to speak to her friends.

"Better stay in there guys. I don't want us to accidentally get kicked out of here too. I'll let you out when we get to the school, I promise!" Squeaks of disappointment answered, but she they knew that now was not the time to push the boundaries. So they settled in with their pilfered fries.

Closing the trunk, Adeline scooted around the cab and slid in after Leon. "I'm here! Hi," Adeline turned to the driver, "thanks for the lift! And opening the trunk for me. I'm Adeline! She smiled brightly at the man, before settling back in her seat and putting her seatbelt on. She glanced over her shoulder, out the window, to where the diner they had just been evicted from sat.

Adeline poked her tongue out at the establishment.

Once they were one the move, she glanced up at the towering buildings of the city. It was so big! She was more used to small towns, small cities. Not behemoth skyscrapers that towered over her, making her feel like one of her own mice. "So how come you came to New York, Leon?" she asked, turning to him. "Do you miss England? Is New York anything like London?"

She wrinkled her nose as she took another glance out of the window, unable to see the sky.

"I feel so...small here."

The questions that Adeline kept asking where part annoying and part calming, which was a weird experience but not an unwelcome one. "Well I didn't really come to New York out of choice but I make do with what happens. It has a really complex and unnecessary story and I'll save you the boredom." He said with a smile. He wasn't lying to her as much as bending the truth, he thought it would be best to not go off on a rant with the cab driver there. 

"In some ways this city is like London, and in some ways it's not, like sure its big and all but its also less confusing. And easier to navigate, but then there are places in London that are more open then New York, then there is the subways that are simple and easy due to the fact that London has them." He said with a sigh, the sigh was largely unintentional and happened on its own but oh well. He was reminiscing about his old home and allowed to have some emotions rise back up.

"Everyone feels like that at first, its worse if you come from a smaller place and then arrive out of the blue. But for me who's lived in the big city's all there life its not bad, you just sorta learn to avoid places and be careful." He said with a smile. He could understand how she felt that way as the buildings passed them on either side, watching them fly past the windows he wondered how far they had come from the diner and how long would be left of the journey.

"Anyway once you get used to the city you will be fine getting around. To be honest I'm still rusty about the city's layout." He said with a little laugh, hoping the laugh would help to break any concern he had placed on her with the way he spoke of the city's.