Were they late? Barty looked up from the tiny mountain of torn napkin pieces he'd been picking at since they had sat down and glanced nervously at the clock at the far end of the room. He and his husband had put an ad in, both online and in the paper, that they were searching for someone to join their rather special lifestyle and they were meant to be meeting them for the first time for dinner. 'Special lifestyle' was a good way of phrasing it, right? The less they put down about the magic and aliens and werewolves and continuous dangerous threats to their lives, the better. It was one less thing their potential partner would up and run away from them for. Knowing they'd be joining an already married couple with a small army of children at home was enough of a shock, but then they should already know what they were getting into.. right? They hadn't quite figured out just how they would break all the rest of it to them - and there certainly was a lot to break to them. Slowly and over time seemed their best bet.
When the bell at the entrance door rang and he recognised the face of their date from the photos they had previously exchanged by e-mail, Barty moved to stand up and greet them properly. But his nerves got the better of him and in his haste he knocked into the table and spilled one of the water glasses that the waiter had set out for them. "I.. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry!"