Fancy meeting you here.

[Mia]

"Mommy can we go see the lions? Pwease?" Ryder asked as he hung onto his mom's hand, his four year old eyes pleading up at her.
"Okay Ryder. We can go see the tigers." Rayne smiled as her son cheered, clapping his little hands before slipping his hand into hers again, leading her towards where the sign pointed to the lions. Once there, Ryder immediately let go of his mothers hand to run and press himself to the case. "Mommy! Is Simba!" He giggled, pointing to a lion cub.
"Yes, it is." Rayne shook her head. "Can you find his mommy and daddy?"
Ryder nodded, focused now on finding the other lions hiding in the cage.

[Leonora]

Toby pushed Carmel's pram round the corner near where the lions where. ''Cats'' Carmel squeaked. ''Cats toby'' she pointed towards them. "Yes Carmel they are a type of cat. But theses ones are called Lions." he said as she moved closers to the glass front so Carmel could see the lions better. ''Meaow Meaow" Carmel shouting, Toby couldn't help but giggled. "Lion don't meaow sweetie. They roar like this ROOOOAR" Toby said as he bent down to Carmel's level. "There's a baby cub and his mummy and daddy can you see them?" Toby asked, as Carmel nodded her head.

[Mia]

"I find them mommy!" Ryder squealed, pointing out the two lions sleeping under a shady rockk.
"Good job Ryder!" Rayne cheered, smiling down at her son.
"I gonna find his fwiends now." He moved down a bit, his face still otherwise attached to the glass.
"Don't go to far Ryder." Rayne called. She glanced around, there weren't too many people out today. She glanced at her other side, her eyes falling on a familiar looking figure. She squinted her eyes, and when she was sure she recognized him, quickly looked away. Rayne was sure that was the Toby boy from MABTown. She hadn't seem him since the hurrican, and she wasn't sure if he remembered her or not.

[Leonora]

Toby stood in complete silence as Carmel ooo'ed and ahhh'ed at the lions getting really excited as one came very close to the glass right in front of her. "Wow" she gusted letting out a massive sigh in the process.
"Do you want to go see some more animals or stay here and watch the lions a little longer?" "Stay Toby stay"
"Okay sweetie we can stay a little longer since its really not that busy here just yet okay?"
Nothing getting an answer out of Carmel he guess she must have understood him. Her vocab was really progress for a 2 year old but then his sister was studying to be a lawyer, her mum. And one of her other uncles was practically a genius. So it was no surprise she was clever. Taking a quick look to his right then too his left he noticed a familiar face but was that really her? He hadn't seen or heard from her since the time they met on campus and shared a coffee together. "Rayne" toby called out.
"Its not raining toby" Carmel shouted, "I know Car uncle toby thinks he just saw his friend. She called Rayne. That's her name"
"Otay" Carmel said before turning her attention back to the lions.

[Mia]

Having heard her named, Rayne glanced back at Toby, silently cursing her luck. She offered a quick wave before turning back to Ryder. "Ryder, baby c'mon. Let's go look at some other animals. Maybe we can find Timon and Pumba?"
"Otay!" Ryder skipped over to his mother and happily slid his hand in hers. Rayne began walking over to Toby and stopped a little ways from him. "Hey Toby." She started, biting her lip. "It's been a while, huh?"

[Leonora]

Toby watched the girl he thought was Rayne to see if it actually was her. After a while of her not responding he gathered it wasn't her and started to walk off to another area of the zoo. "Say goodbye to the lion's Car" toby said rufferling the hairs on the top of Carmel's head. "Barrrrrrr" Carmel shouted. Just as he was about to turn and leave he heard his name.

"Hey it is you" Toby grinned like a total idiot. "And yeah its been a while. How have you been" Toby said, not quite sure what else he should say. He didn't really know ranye should he ask if she wanted to join him and Carmel or should he just keep their meeting short and sweet and arrange to meet up with her later? Or just go with the flow.

[Mia]

"Yeah, it's me..." To be honest, Rayne felt a bit uncomfortable, considering the last time she'd seen him was mainly her having a breakdown. "I've been okay. As much I can be considering all thats happened." She managed a tiny smile, keeping a tight grip on Ryder's hand, who was currently trying to pull away. "How about you?"

[Leonora]

"The same really, considering everything that's happened really. Are you back at college? I haven't had change to re-enroll yet. We got stuck in England over the holidays and then everything happened in MAB town so I'm going to wait until fall to apply and go back to college. Which is good since my aunt is fine with that" toby said.
"Toby go" Carmel asked, "in a minute Car. Uncle Toby is talking to his friend. Then we will go see the birds or maybe the penguins" Toby said grabbing carmel juice cup from the bag on the pram and handing it to her. Maybe that would take her mind off siTting still for a while longer.

[Mia]

"Not yet. We were in Michigan when everything happened to MABTown so I haven't really gotten a chance to apply. Plus I still need to get Ryder enrolled into preschool." She motioned towards Ryder, not sure if Toby had noticed him. "I'm not sure if I will go back though, honestly. Too much stress." She wouldn't mention she'd dropped out shortly before the hurricane had hit. "Plus, I want to be there for Ryder." She stopped talking then, biting her lip. She wasn't sure why she was talking so much, but it was the same like when they were getting coffee.

[Leonora]

''oh'' Toby said, when she said she wasn't thinking about going back to college. But she must have her reason and he wasn't one to prey. It wasn't like they where best of friends or anything they had shared a coffee once. ''Is that Ryder'' Toby said with a motion of his head towards Rayne's son. He had noticed him when he saw Rayne out of the corner of his eye moments before she came over. ''This is Carmel my niece she made me bring her here today, but at least I bumped into you in the process'' Toby said a slight blush appearing on his cheeks.

[Mia]

"Yeah..." Rayne bit her lip, looking down at Ryder. "This is Ryder." She glanced at the little girl in the stroller before averting her gaze. "I wanted to spend a little time with Ryder, and he really likes animals." She gave a small shrug. "I didn't think I would see you again." She admitted, having noticed the blush on his cheeks, she was glad she was a bit too dark for her blush to be noticable, though she could still feel her cheeks heat up.

[Leonora]

"Yeah Carmel's the same. She thought the lions where cats. But normally she gets the animal's right and she's starting to learn what noises they make." Toby said not quite sure why he was wittering on about Carmel. ''Hi ryder. I'm toby" Toby said as he extended his hand towards the little boy not sure if he knew how to shake hands. "And I know I didn't think I would see you again. Not after everything that happened" he didn't want to dwell on the hurricane to much not in front of the kids as well. "So where are you heading next?" Toby asked as Carmel starting shouting that she wanted to go. And if he didn't start moving soon she would have a huge paddy.

[Mia]

"I Ryder!" Ryder stuck his hand out and took hold of one of Toby's fingers. He grinned and held up four fingers. "I dis many!"
"We were gonna go find Timon and Pumba." Rayne said, and then realized what she sat and shook her head, running a hand through her hair. "I...I mean meerkats and warthogs. Ryder likes to think they're the animals from Lion King. It's, ahh, his favorite movie."
"Mommy." Ryder tugged on the edge of her hoodie. "We go see Timon now?"
"Yes sweetheart. We can go."
"Toby go too?" He asked, looking up at the older boy.

[Leonora]

Smiling down at Ryder as he held one of his fingers to shake it, it was true children do do some of the cutest things. He couldn't wait for his niece to grow up and do cute things like Ryder had just done Toby thought to himself. "Oh the Lion king is an awesome movie. I think it might have been one of my favourites when I was growing up." Toby said, talking down to ryder. "Tomon and pumba where my favourites aswell as simba. But I guess you've spotted Simba alright" Toby said, since they where stood infront of the lion cages.

Looking over to rayne when ryder asked if he would be joining them on the tour of the zoo, nothing wanting to impose any longer on Rayne day out with her son toby said "well that depends if your mummy doesn't mind me and Car tagging along with you"

[Mia]

"Uh huh!" Ryder bobbed his head, grinning. "Lion King is my favortist movie!" "Can he mommy?" Ryder asked, looking up at his mom.
"I suppose so." Rayne said. Ryder would only throw a fit if she said no, and she didn't want to deal with that in public. He was a good kid and all but, he had his moments just like every kid when he didn't get his way.
"Yay~" Ryder cheered, causing Rayne to smile.
"So, where to?" She asked.
"Timon! Timon!" Ryder chanted. Rayne simply looked up at Toby to see what he wanted.