When Matt's coffee arrives, he smiles and lets out a happy sigh. "Ah cheers, love. You're a bloody gem," he laughs, dropping two large cubes of sugar into the cup and stirring it intently. When a person had enjoyed as many crazy nights as he and Kai had in their younger days, tricks to get rid of the cobwebs of tiredness were like second nature. He sits back in his chair eventually and takes a long drink of the coffee, sighing loudly. Matt was such a laid back guy that he didn't see the odd looks his antics drew from the other diners. Quickly sipping down the rest of his coffee to wake him up with a caffeine hit, Matt puts the cup down and rubs his hand over his stomach. It was a welcoming warming feeling from the coffee that seemed to wake him up more than anything. He's just about to order another coffee when he hears someone come in the door and looks up. He smiles immediately when he sees Aubrey. It really had been far too long since she had seen her. She seemed to light up the room with her smile and her beauty, and it was all Matt could do not to stare like a loser at her. Sometimes it was hard to believe someone so truly beautiful was into him. In his eyes she seemed so out of his league.

Standing to greet her, Matt smiles and hugs Aubrey. "Hey. Aye, long time no see," he says, feeling suddenly nervous about their date. Standing back, he grins at her. "You look...wow. Very beautiful," he says honestly. "How have you been?" he asks, holding a seat out for her.

Matt hugs her and sighs happily. Aubrey smelled great, classy as with everything else about her. This was so different for Matt. Most of the girls he had been with were just the typical groupie types that hung around anyone who ever even suggested they were in a band, so actual dates were something relatively new to him, even now. Aubrey was so different too. She was much more mature and classy. It was nice to be around someone so cultured and amazing.

When Aubrey does a little spin, Matt laughs quietly, trying hard not to stare at her legs. He might not have been brought up posh, but he knew his manners, and staring was definitely bad manners. "You're so cute," he smirks. "Handsome? Well there's a first time for owt," he chuckles. "But thank you. I even picked it out meself," he jokes before giving her another hug and sitting down opposite her. "Working hard as always? You lot always seem to be working on your music," he smirks. "Me? Nah, not much like. Oh, aye we did a wee UK tour a few weeks ago. That were nice," he smiles, looking down at the menu. "If I was honest...I'm not normally up this early. When the clock said AM I wondered if that stood for American," he jokes. "But I don't mind getting up so early for someone so special," he smiles, sneaking a glance over at Aubrey.

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Aubrey rests her elbow on the table, setting her face in the palm of her hand as she listens to Matt, grinning at him the whole time. She was trying her best not to look like a teenage girl who was hanging around her crush, but she knew that's exactly how she was coming off. Her never-fading grin said it all. She laughs and flicks a grain of salt that had been left on the table from the previous diners towards Matt, giving him a little wink when he jokingly flutters his eyelashes at her.

"Um, probably never," she says back when Matt asks when he'll be hearing more of Cherry Street's new stuff. She smiles a bit more to show that she's joking before looking down at the table again. "Kidding, but probably not any time soon. We're starting to feel... I don't know, burnt out, I guess. We did too much at one time. So we're taking it easy for now." She shrugs and looks back up at him, biting the side of her lip. "What about you guys? When are we going to hear anything from you?" She winks. Hearing about his tour made her smile, and she nods as if she totally understood how crazy touring could be. All of the tours that she and the group had gone on had all been relatively calm, and if there was any chaos, it had been pretty well-contained. Sometimes she thought she and the girls were a little too mature (or cynical) to be really be having the musician/tour experience. "That's awesome, congrats. Are you going off again any time soon?"

She curls her bottom lip into her mouth and lightly bites down as she and Matt look at each other, feeling that romantic tension between the two of them. Neither one of them would ever be able to deny it - not that Aubrey would anyway. She's reminded that she was supposed to be looking for something to eat when Matt asks what she's having, and averts her eyes back to the menu. "Oh, I don't know... Are you going to think I'm a total fatass if I order, like, five pancakes and eat them all in front of you? Because that's sounding really good right now."

Aubrey scrunches her eyebrows together and lets out a full laugh, drawing the attention of a couple of people sitting around them. She knew what Matt meant by competition, but the idea of her group and his band being anything like competition for each other was hilarious to her. "Truly. Maybe, finally, when Cherry Street back off, the critics will stop comparing our sound to yours," she jokes, giving him a little wink. Their two bands sounded nothing alike, of course, which was the way Aubrey wanted to keep it. She couldn't imagine what it was like for artist couples who really were in the same genre and had to compete with each other - not that Aubrey and Matt were an official couple, but if they ever were, that would be a hurdle they wouldn't have to worry about. "Awww, thank you," she says with a smile when he tells her that she and the rest of her group deserve a little break. It was nice to hear that somebody appreciated what they were doing. Cherry Street had amassed a fan following, but the indie pop girl group image was one that wasn't well-defined, so it was difficult to appeal to most of the average radio listeners. Aubrey was glad that she seemed at least somewhat appealing to Matt. Seeing him look and sound somewhat nervous about some of his group's music coming out made her giggle a little, simply because she found it cute. She didn't know Kai, but she knew the image that he projected, and she had somewhat assumed that anybody who was friends with him was much of the same. She was happy to find that Matt was much more gentle than that. "Oh, good, so I can keep you in my basement until the summer and nobody will come looking for you. That gives me, what, four months? Plenty of time," Aubrey says back, her voice sounding serious, but the grin on her face giving her away that she was completely kidding. "No, no, nothing planned for us yet. We'll probably start serious work on this second album before we do anymore touring. A couple of the girls have boyfriends that they were missing, or whatever, so we can't plan anymore tours any time soon." She talks about the other girls missing their boyfriends like it was the stupidest thing she'd ever heard, but again that grin on Aubrey's face gave away her real feelings towards the matter - she totally understood. She had been missing Matt, too, and he wasn't even her boyfriend.

Aubrey doesn't notice the way that Matt seems disappointed in himself for ruining the moment between them, as she was too busy wondering how to get another moment like that between them again. "Well, we'll see how you feel about me after you watch me eat all five of them." She giggles, setting her menu down, her choice in food made. "I used to work at a diner in high school, and they called the bacon and egg dish a 'Home Invasion.' Because it's the B&E, get it? I always thought it was kind of cute."

Aubrey laughs still, listening to Matt describe the hypothetical scene of his fans screaming out for Cherry Street, and comparing them to each other. She covers her mouth and looks down at the table, realizing that she's drawing attention to them. Aubrey allows herself to be self-conscious about it for five seconds before pushing the thought out of her brain, smiling her bright smile at Matt again. "In reality, I feel like if you guys really did get up on stage and start playing one of our songs, it would produce terrifying results. I don't think your fans would even know what to do." She giggles. "Nah, you guys aren't lazy. You're probably normal. It's Cherry Street. We act like a bunch of anal retentive, tweaked-out speed queens when we're not writing or working on something. I wish we knew how to take breaks well." She rolls her eyes at the rest of her band and then grins up at Matt again.

"E.L. James? Oh, that's child's play," she says back with a wink, and then sticks her tongue out, showing her disgust for the book and franchise as a whole. "Oh, stop it. They'd totally come looking for you. And then I'd have to lock the rest of your band up in my basement as well, which I'm realizing is just going to cause a lot more work than I was expecting... so you'll probably just have to take me out on more date over the next four months until I'm satisfied enough to let you go on your summer tour." She says it all jokingly, but very much lets it slip out that she thinks of this breakfast meeting as a date - and that she wants more of them. Again, she lets herself be self-conscious for five seconds before pushing the fear out of her mind, flashing him a smile. "What do you think about that?"

"Oh, I can definitely eat all five, that's not a problem," Aubrey says back seriously. Eating wasn't a game with her. She was going to order it all, and she was going to eat it. "Yeah, B&E, like Breaking & Ente-- you get it, I don't know why I'm trying to explain it to you again." She giggles at herself a little and then glances up, seeing their waitress coming towards them for their food orders.

"Oh, perfect!" Aubrey sits up straight, as if she were about to give direct orders to an army general. "Hi, how are you? I'll have..." Aubrey scans the menu again, seeing that the closest thing to a plate of five pancakes was a plate of three. "The three stack? I'll have one and two-thirds of that." She laughs and looks up at the waitress again, who seemed pretty unamused by Aubrey's joke. "That's five pancakes, by the way," she adds before continuing with her order. "And I'll have bacon for my side, and a cup of coffee - black." She hands the menu to the waitress and sits back in her chair, her order complete. "Oh, and a glass of chocolate milk," she suddenly adds afterwards with a grin.

"I'm sure with your artistic abilities, you guys could make screamed vocals work with our lyrics," Aubrey says back, although the look on her face is openly apprehensive about the whole hypothetical idea. She was sure that it would sound as bad as if Cherry Street tried to take some of Kai's lyrics and make it sound like it was made for a indie pop girl group - disappointing for everybody involved. "Yeah, but you guys are memorable and cute, so you can get away with doing something only once every few years." She sticks her tongue out at him and winks. She giggles at first when Matt calls himself the Kit Kat Kid, but lets out another burst of full laughter when he apologizes for the bad joke. The aftermath of the joke was better than the joke itself.

Aubrey reaches into her purse and pulls out a pack of cigarettes, placing one between her lips and lightening it as she listens to Matt speak, giggling a little. She wasn't sure if she was allowed to smoke in here anymore, but she was going to go for it until she was told she couldn't. "I read somewhere that it's healthier for your brain to experience porn in different ways," she tells him, appreciating the fact that there were very few people she could comfortably have a conversation about porn with in the early morning hours, and Matt was one of them. "Like, just audio? Or reading it? You're supposed to switch it up sometimes, to keep your brain engaged." She shrugs, giving that 'just something to think about' look to him. She can't help but blush - just the tiniest bit - when Matt tells her that he thinks he could be persuaded into taking her out a few more times. His little laugh is what makes her blush the most, finding him adorable. "Good. Then I can put all those whips and chains back in storage until then," she says back with a small laugh.

"Fine, you heard the man. Six pancakes it is then," Aubrey corrects herself to the waitress when Matt tells her that he'd be even more impressed if she could eat six pancakes. She was a sucker for dares, and always took them - and that sounded like a dare to her. The waitress takes down both of their orders and then brings them back their coffee, not saying a word about Aubrey's cigarette. Aubrey ashes on the side of the saucer that her coffee cup was served on, taking another long drag. "Oh, I understand that. I'm still a caffeine addict, even though I know that's not the fad addiction now." She winks.

Aubrey laughs and nods when Matt says that Kai would probably just scream whatever he wanted. She wouldn't openly admit it, at the risk of possibly offending Matt, but she thought he was absolutely right when he said that nobody would probably know the difference anyway. She, personally, could never understand what they were saying anyway. "Oh, that's all I have to do to sing with you guys? Yeah, I'll get right on that," she says with a joking tone to her voice when Matt tells her that if she gets tattooed up, she get sing with Kai at the next show. She couldn't imagine what her fans would think if she went in that direction with her style - but she definitely couldn't imagine what Kai's fans would think if she jumped on stage with him, looking the way she did now. It seemed like touring with them wasn't in her future any time soon. "I more meant you as the cute one. But I'll make sure to keep all cute comments to myself when Kai is around, just in case," Aubrey says back with a wink.

She can't help but laugh at Matt's reaction to her lighting a cigarette inside. Aubrey had assumed that a guy like him probably saw people do much crazier things on a weekly basis, and that this would be par for the course, so it was a little fun for Aubrey to be able to shock him. "Oh, no, I understand. I've Cromecast-ed porn from my phone onto the television before because I was too lazy to move," Aubrey admits, her cheeks turning a soft shade of pink the moment after the sentence comes out of her mouth. She had a tendency to admit things she would normally never admit after she became comfortable with people - but once the sentence was out, she couldn't take it back. She focuses her eyes on her cigarette in her hand, giggling nervously. "Um... I think audio porn is kind of like phone sex? I guess? I don't know, I've never had phone sex before, but I assume that's how it is." Aubrey looks up at Matt and giggles again, shrugging. "What about next time, I'll fly out to see you instead of you coming to Baltimore to see me? And then you can take me anywhere you want to go. And I won't complain if you make me get up super early for a breakfast date." She winks.

Aubrey laughs at his 'caffeine is cheaper than heroin' joke, nodding. As a girl who had never done anything harder than weed - except for that one time at a party when she did shrooms with the guy she had a crush on, but she didn't really feel anything from them - she somewhat assumed that Matt probably had some sort of extensive history with drugs. She wouldn't pry, but the idea of dating a guy who might have a drug dependency was a scary idea for her. "Kale is actually not as good as they thought it was before," she tells him with a grin. "But white people love it, so whatever." The waitress comes by with her glass of chocolate milk, setting it in front of her. "Hooray!"

Aubrey continues her nervously giggles as Matt talks about wanting to get Cromecast for porn. It wasn't that she was uncomfortable - she just knew herself, and she knew that if she continued talking about porn with Matt, it wouldn't be long before she was opening up about her sex life in general, and that might be going a bit too far for her. She wasn't a prude by any means, but her sex life was private, and she wanted to keep it that way for herself and all those involved. "Yeah, sometimes it's like that. I think you'll just have to check it out, I'm bad at explaining things like this," Aubrey says back when he asks about the audio porn, giving a little shrug. She laughs when he says that he wouldn't know what to say during phone sex. "Right? I feel like I'd just get really flustered and hang up on them, and then pretend it was an accident if they ask about it." She ashes her cigarette on the side of the coffee saucer again, grinning when Matt tells her that he'd be okay with her coming to him next time. "Where do you come from?" she asks, realizing that she wasn't sure. They may have talked about it before when they first met, but that seemed so long ago.

She lets out a small sigh of relief when Matt tells her that he's never done heroin. Although she was sure that even if he were a heroin addict, he probably wouldn't admit to her that he was, she trusted him and thought that he was telling the truth. "No, I definitely have never tried heroin before. I don't think I've ever even been offered heroin before," Aubrey says back with a laugh. It was very reassuring to know that the hardest thing Matt had ever done was coke, and that he didn't like it. Coke still seemed scary to her, but at least she knew that he would never try it again. "I'm so boring. I think I did shrooms, like, once at a party one time because this guy that I had a crush on had them. And I didn't really feel anything anyway, so it was a total bust. I spent the next six months worried about whether or not shrooms would show up on a drug test if I happened to get chosen for one - this was back when I was still in college on my tennis scholarship - but I never got tested, so I never found out." She laughs a bit at herself, realizing that that was the lamest drug story ever. "I'm usually pretty healthy with how I eat and everything," she tells him and then looks down, realizing that she had a large glass of chocolate milk in front of her, a cigarette in her hand, and six pancakes on the way. "I know it doesn't seem like it," she continues, laughing through her words. "But I usually do. I mean, that doesn't mean I won't eat hamburgers, like, any time they're in front of me. But still." She grins.

Aubrey laughs at Matt's imitation of how he would sound during phone sex. "Right? It's actually amazing that there are women who make a living off of being phone sex operators... Even more amazing, that men pay to have that awkward situation happen to them." She giggles, and then pushes her pack of cigarettes towards Matt, motioning to them. "If you want one, you can have one. I feel shitty that I didn't offer before." She listens to Matt as he describes his hometown. He was right, she had never heard of it before, but the more he talked about it, the more interested in it she became. "Oh, I'm sure it's not that bad," she says back with a smile. "What places are around it that we could go, though?" Aubrey wouldn't pressure him into taking her to his hometown if he didn't want to take her there. Going to somebody's hometown for a date was kind of like going to meet somebody's family, and she wasn't going to force Matt to take her there if he didn't want to.

"Yeah, wouldn't that just be the worst thing in the world if I cared about you?" Aubrey asks with a smirk when he teases her about looking relieved that he wasn't a heroin junkie. She recognized that they had a tendency to dance around the idea of the two of them liking each other rather than just saying it - and this was another moment where Aubrey was using comedy to cover up the fact that she really actually liked Matt a lot. She giggles and shrugs when he asks if her crush was really giving her psychedelic mushrooms. "The more I think about it, the more I start to think that they were just normal mushrooms, but I didn't know anything about drugs then, so I just... you know, went with it." She laughs and nods, listening to his story about him being scared that smoking would show up when you got immunized. All the false information that her and her friends used to take as fact when they were kids all seemed really stupid now, looking back.

Aubrey watches Matt's eyes as they stare at the amount of her body that he could see from across the table, making her giggle a little bit. If he were any other guy, she would start making a point to cover herself more in front of him, but with him, she didn't mind. She wanted to seem attractive to Matt. Her eyes light up when the food comes, each of them getting huge plates set in front of them. She laughs at Matt's reaction to all of the food he got as she grabs the small container of syrup and drizzles it onto her pancakes. "Oh, don't be a pussy," she jokes at him, taking a bite of her first of six pancakes. She smiles as she thinks about going to England to eat burgers with Matt. It may not seem overly romantic to anybody else, but to her, it sounded perfect. "I'm looking forever to it," she tells him with a smile.