Getting Better - Haley Open Tags

[Lani Hunter]

Lani looked at her long hair sympathetically, he was really glad he had short hair, this mud would be no problem to get out. Chances were that Shapiro would spend quite a bit of time trying to get it all out. He rolled his head back as he laughed. “You’re a regular gangster,” he teased, “You should start a biker gang.” He chuckled knowing full well that she was about as far as one could get from a gangster. Though given the right circumstances and her personality Lani wouldn’t have been surprised if she did head a gang. She was certainly not the kind of girl to roll over and just do what someone told her.

Lani couldn’t fight back a laugh as she huffed, she was too cute. “’Ey, language,” he scolded lightly, those words had no place coming out of someone her age. The time that his own sister started swearing was the day that Lani just passed out. In retrospect when Lani was her age had been exposed to far worse and unfortunately for his mother no amount of soap was going to clean his mouth, but he had found that he preferred to do without swearing. He raised a finger, “If swearing is the only word you can think of, it’s not worth saying,” he advised curious to see if she would take his words to heart or just blow him off.

He chuckled not losing his smile the whole time he was trying to advise her. She was such a punk. “That’s good to know,” he commented with a grin and reached out to pat her on the head, “One less thing I have to worry about. But just out of curiosity, what were you doing falling off of the second story?”

As mud chipped off of her face he wondered absently what he must look like. He knew his hair was brown at the moment and he was sure he would blend in rather well with the dirt had he laid down. His clothing was going to have to go through the wash, perhaps more than once. Most definitely more than once he thought as he looked down at himself. He looked up at her as she started speaking and a small smile hung on his lips. His eyebrows rose and his eyes went wide and he had a rather classic slack jaw expression on his face. “Wow,” he muttered after a few moments. That was impressive, his power had problems with that, hell, his power could toss cars but he couldn’t even hope to even lift one an inch. This girl could do what his power could do with her own hands.

Lani closed his mouth once he realized it was still hanging open. He gave her a mock glare and put a hand to his chest and fell back in the mud as if struck. “Ouch! I’m only seventeen.” He said still flopped on his back. Yeah he was going to be eighteen soon but she didn’t have to know that. He frowned losing his smile for the first time since they had been mudslinging. He sat back up and drew his knees up and rested his arms on them. “Truthfully,” he said pausing to look at her weighing to options on lying. “I’m no good at this whole powers thing, so since I don’t have the control, I don’t graduate. Simple as that.” Not simple as that, he wasn’t about to be the bad influence on her by telling her he went to class so rarely the teacher mostly didn’t know his face.

[Haley Shapiro]

"You better watch your tongue with me then." She pointed to Lani, holding back a grin. At least the guy was accommodating. Other people would have already flicked her on the head and walked off. Either Lani was really bored or she was actually quite entertaining. Personal bias told her it was the latter but who knows what the truth was.

Haley rolled her eyes at Lani's advice, not really paying attention to his words when she really should be. Unfortunately, his curiosity was sated with her blowing him off. She grew up on swearing, it would take awhile before she learned properly how wrong she was talking. Until that happened, she was going to continue to swear and nobody was going to convince her otherwise.

The look on Lani's face had Haley grinning smugly. She could tell he was impressed by her powers and as well he should be. It wasn't so much bragging as it was...okay maybe it was a little bit of bragging but still, she was pretty proud of what she could do. Sure it was all genetics and nothing she accomplished by herself but she had accomplished control all by herself. And she was still fairly young which made it all the more impressive, if she had to say so herself.

Snorting when he fell backwards, Haley rolled her eyes at how dramatic the older teen was being. He didn't need to worry about being a bad influence on her, truthfully. She was already a bad influence herself. And until someone pointed out that her actions were jeopardising her future, or cared enough to do so, there wasn't much about the world that could surprise her. Or influence her to be any worst.

"You don't have control over what power exactly? Don't you go for training and stuff? It's easier if you know someone who has the same power as you and you train with them. At least that was how I got to get a good grip on mine." She shrugged and stepped out of the mud. "Oh man, if Miss Wilson sees me like this, she'd flip a nugget." Haley laughed, shaking off the still wet mud from her jeans.

"Dude! Lemme hose you down. I know where they put the hose and stuff." Haley enthused.

[Lani Hunter]

“I will if you will,” he countered with a stern look. Oh Shapiro had no idea that Lani was going to hold her to that. There was language out there that was so much more beautiful than swearing. Lani wasn’t going to tell her that he never swore or that there never was a time for it. Since one had to talk like those they were around. Like around his family Lani’s tongue was clean and his conversations light. But around his boss and ‘co-workers’ he was just as foul tongued as the rest of them.

He grinned up at her as she rolled her eyes at him. “People will take you more seriously if you speak without swearing,” he added nonchalantly. He examined his dirty hands and for a moment considered wiping them on his jeans but that probably wouldn’t make them any cleaner. “Words are everything,” he said with more enthusiasm, “It came make people believe anything about you.” There that was a little piece of advice for her to chew on. Oh wow, he sounded like an English teacher.

Lani didn’t doubt her honesty about her powers. Boasting was only boasting if it wasn’t true. Now Lani would never boast that he could lift a table. “Remind me to stay on your good side,” he said with an impish grin with the implication that he really had some tricks up his sleeves he wasn’t letting on. That was the problem with Lani, he looked like he was keeping a secret even if he wasn’t.

As much as Lani wanted to be a role model he knew he was far from it. Anyone who followed in his footsteps did so because they didn’t want to be killed in the dog eat dog world of thieves. Even then Lani was cold and unsympathetic. He had to be. He hated every minute of it. He was far less harsh than most people when it came to training the kiddies. Mostly he didn’t deal with them and just went along with his job. Anyone looking up to him as a young thief was fascinated by the legend that was Lani Hunter, not the man. No Shapiro would be far better off if Lani lied and acted like a role model instead of showing his true face.

Lani chewed his lip and looked over at her with a sour look. “Telekinesis… eh…” he laughed a little at himself, “I guess you could say it’s my own fault, my trainers seem to think I’m a slacker. So I am inclined to agree; besides they don’t teach me anything useful.” He was complaining now, just as he had to Malcom. “I know a guy with my power and he’s been helping me out a bit but,” he just shook his head indicating his failure.

He stood and followed her mud flaking off of his jeans now and his arms as he rubbed them. He laughed. “I wouldn’t have pegged you as the type that cared what other people thought.” His brows rose at her suggestion and he shook his head at her. “You just want to soak me, don’t you?” He asked putting his hand on his hips and looked down at her critically. “Though, monster, you could use a good hosing down.”

[Haley Shapiro]

Haley snorted when Lani looked serious about his threat. There were a few things that Haley did best, one of them was to appear completely nonchalant about things even when they scared her to death. Of course, she was pretty sure that Lani was also joking around so her nonchalance wasn't fake.

Besides, she didn't hold language in a high regard simply because she didn't know enough of it to put it where it should be. Of course, Lani probably didn't know that part of her just yet. He probably thought she was just being a punk because she chose to be.

And as Mr. Shakespeare spoke again, Haley snorted once more, shaking her head to indicate she was taking none of that with her. But what he said did mean something. "It can make people believe anything about you." Haley believed she was an excellent liar. A lot of times, it was because of her lies that she was able to escape from bullies herself. It held some sort of truth to it, she supposed.

She of course was not about to prove the boy right so she shrugged and mouthed "Whatever."

The mention of his power made her nod appreciatively. "Cool." She actually looked at Lani when he started talking about his 'fault'. She hardly went for her training either but because there was someone who inadvertantly helped her in the wayside, she felt pretty confident with herself. "I know what ye mean by trainers being useless. Pretty sure none of them are gonna actually let me go full Hulk because they're scared I'd get all Gabriel Underwood on them." She rolled her eyes. Oh yes, she heard of the mind puppeteer and his 'contributions' to the meta world and boy was she never going to emulate him.

Snorting at his statement, she shook her head. "Please. I don't. But if Miss Wilson nags on me one more time, I swear, I'm not holding back on my powers man."

Admittedly, when a man puts their hands on their hips, Haley was quick to laugh because...well, she was Haley. And they looked ridiculous. But she nodded and shrugged. "Well duh. And don't tell me that's your nickname for me now. Because...okay fine I kinda like it. Which means I gotta give you a name. Hmm...since you like language so much, Imma call you Shakespeare. Shakes for short. Yeah. Come on Shakes, you need a good hosing down as well."

[Lani Hunter]

A smile crossed Lani’s face as she blew him off. It wasn’t anything he hadn’t expected but he knew that this was going to be interesting. She was so unlike his sister or even Cassie, who had left months ago. She was around the same age, perhaps a little older, based on her language. But she was so different, where Caroline was soft spoken and innocent, Lani had a feeling that this girl was far from innocent and she certainly wasn’t soft spoken. She wasn’t fooled by outward images he could tell, she had been disillusioned a long time ago, he could see it in her eyes. That was the same look he had when he had been disillusioned. He didn’t pity her but rather empathized. The world was a dark place without innocence.

He smiled inwardly at the fact that they were arguing about language. That old English teacher had certainly left more than just an impression on Lani’s life. Before he probably would have seen this as an excuse to swear like a sailor considering she was already speaking as she was. But old Dalton. Curse that man, he was making Lani think. Words had power, they had to be used carefully and delicately. If anything Lani had become a better liar from this. Though Odion could still give him a run for his money. He had always been one to spin tails and perhaps he could so the same for her. Maybe Shapiro could learn from his mistakes. Maybe he could help her by being an example of what happened to people like him. Lani rolled his eyes at her but his expression was one of humor.

Lani nodded and smiled weakly, that was generally the reaction. Telekinesis wasn’t common. Lani looked up and his smile grew as she shared his opinion on trainers. They really weren’t much help, at least to Lani, he was much better searching for his own answers as was Shaprio. “You’ve gotta go crazy sometimes, to learn your limits,” Lani agreed but then his brows came together. “Who?” Lani was clueless, he really hadn’t noticed anyone named Gabriel around, perhaps he had been before his time, or perhaps he wasn’t a student at all. Lani had had no connections with anyone outside besides his family and his boss. He had been completely clueless while this Underwood was trying to make war with Hammel and humanity.

A laugh bubbled out of Lani’s throat and he shook his head at her. “I take it she likes to think of you as the perfect little girl, huh? Sundresses and all?” He asked with a grin knowing that was exactly how his mother was raising his sister. There were such differences. When his sister got hurt she was coddled and they all protected her. When Lani got hurt he was told to dry his eyes and man up. “Well, I’m sure you’ll hear and earful about it anyways. Don’t hurt her too bad, I’m sure she just means well.”

“Of course, Monster,” he said giving her a wink and a sly smile. He couldn’t help it when she laughed at him and he dropped his hands. “It’s a term of endearment,” he teased but his eyebrows shot toward his hairline as she gave him that nickname. He guffawed and was unable to stop. He held his sides as he was consumed by laughter. “Shakes?” He burst out between laughs and shook his head. “Geez! That… That sounds like I have a disease!” He said between laughs and shook his whole body. He shook his head his laughter dying down and his eyes were bright with humor. “I’m sure Shakespeare is turning in his grave at that. Oh well, come on Monster,” he said gesturing her to lead the way, “I’ll hose you down before this Miss Wilson can nag you, and I suppose I could use a hosing down too.” He looked down at himself and shook his head again.

[Haley Shapiro]

It would have freaked her out how Lani could read her like a book. She supposed she didn't take pains in hiding anything so it was easy. But it would still leave her shaken had Lani said anything about her personality to her.

"Yeah! Exactly! Because if you don't, you might just blow a fuse one day just because and suddenly boom, the world explodes. No amount of control would be able to help then!" Haley exclaimed. "Who who? Gabriel Underwood? Have you been living under a rock? Didn't you notice the staff coming back to school all bruised up?" Haley shook her head. "It was his evil plans that got everyone so freaked."

Haley gave a full one minute laugh when Lani gave the wrong assumption of Miss Wilson's impression of her. "She probably would like to think that," she replied after sobering up. "Yeah, her well-meaning face should meet my well-meaning fists." She raised one balled up hand and snorted.

When Lani laughed, Haley laughed with him, realising it did sound ridiculous on him. "Yeah, I got the shakes." Haley chuckled and started to shake her whole body. Her laughter doubled.

"Okay!" She grabbed his hand before pulling him across the yard to where she knew the hose was. She quickly switched it on and sprayed it at Lani without warning.

[Lani Hunter]

Reading people just came as a job requirement for Lani’s line of work. They had to be able to look at someone and tell if they were suspicious or not. Or if they would make a good target or not. Lani certainly couldn’t boast the best skill, but he wasn’t bad either. But Lani stilled his tongue and didn’t voice his observations. Instead he smiled warmly at her because really the two were cut from the same cloth. Rebellious, can’t tell them anything attitudes. She obviously had the same sentiments about authority as he did. Better off without them. He hadn’t learned anything from authority figures or if he did it was that when he did something be more sneaky about it.

Lani couldn’t help but laugh at her end of the world scenario. “And then where would we be? Better we know when to stop out power then not known and hurt ourselves or other people.” He nodded a little wincing at the thought. His trainers had warned him what could happen if he overextended and it hadn’t sounded pleasant at all. Lani shrugged and jumped to defend himself. “I’m not into all the stuff that goes on around here, besides I think that was when I was new here when that was going down.” Now that she had said something he remembered being confused about the staff here. “So lemme guess, he’s the reason we have walls rivaling China and they blow a gasket every time you sneak out?”

His brows shot toward his hairline when she started to laugh. “Ok, maybe not,” he commented dryly and let her finish her laughing fit. Lani snickered, he was really starting to like this little girl, she was so much like a bulldozer he couldn’t have helped it. He put a hand on her fist and lowered it. “Just don’t send her through any walls,” he advised doing nothing to discourage her because he highly doubted she would ever actually punch this woman.

Shapiro was quite the interesting character. When she also shook her whole body Lani couldn’t help but laugh. He wrapped his arms around his stomach when he doubled over his sides arching. They certainly weren’t the average Hammel students standing around covered in mud and laughing hysterically. One would think that they had escaped from the men in the white coats and belonged in straitjackets.

He stumbled a little as she pulled him unexpectedly. She was a strong thing, he probably wouldn’t have been able to resist so he just went along with it. Lani yelped and sputtered as freezing water hit him in the face. “That’s freezing!” He exclaimed trying to shield himself with his hands. He grabbed the hose with his power and twisted it slightly surprised he couldn’t get it out of her grip but he was able to turn it back enough to spray Shapiro in the face as well. He started wiping his head with his shirt but realized it was useless considering that was also now soaked.

[Haley Shapiro]

"You know it." Haley pointed to the temple of her head nd jabbed the same finger towards Lani, agreeing with his statement. "I mean, shit could hit the fan if other people find out about our powers before we do, ya know?" She replied, not at all aware of the s-bomb she just dropped. "Ah...so you have been living under a rock. Purposely!" She laughed, shrugging to show she didn't much care. She didn't know half the things that went on around school. Most of what she knew were assumptions anyway.

She nodded at his question slowly. "Yeup." She elongated the syllable to drive the point home. "Although I'm also still trying to convince everyone that that's why the canteen food is getting more horrible but no go." She shrugged.

"Try really not." She drew her tongue out at him and rolled her eyes at his 'advice'. "Yeah, yeah." She waved a dismissive hand. Obviously she wouldn't be hurting the woman. She may think it but she wouldn't do it. Miss Wilson...meant well.

Haley chuckled at Lani's clumsiness [caused by her ability, that was] and once she got the hose going, the look on the boy's face made her double over with laughter. It only grew when the cold water was on her. She just recovered from her cold so in retrospect, she should actually be stepping out of the cold water and getting warm. But she started to dance in the water, splashing bits of it in Lani's direction.

"Well, at least we're clean now!" Haley laughed, scrubbing the back of her head. She watched as her shirt turned back to the original green it was before. Her teeth were chattering from the cold water as she reached out to switch off the hose. "Holy crap, I need to warm up. Where...where can I warm up!!" She demanded, looking around with a laugh.

[Lani Hunter]

Lani bit his tongue and decided to only react to the swear word with a roll of his eyes. But he nodded his face going slightly solemn. “That’s too true. People are afraid of people like us more often than not. And often frightened people do frightening things. If we don’t know how to control our power if that happens then we are just proving their point for them.” He didn’t even realize that his voice had become hard and serious. One thing they as metas couldn’t do was prove to the rest of the world that they were what the ignorant people thought. Monsters. A smile twitched back on his face at Shapiro’s laugh. He nodded. “Yep, I’m very good at that.”

In fact one could say Lani had a skill for ignoring things that didn’t particularly interest him. He hadn’t really heard about this fellow and so he really didn’t care. It was just like how school didn’t really matter. It didn’t interest him and so he skipped class. Lani now laughed and bobbed his head in good humor. “Oh yes, I would believe that. You’d think they were trying to poison us!”

Lani’s grin didn’t vanish when she blew him off because as he looked at her expression and her mannerisms he knew she was all talk. Now if someone like Lani were to start fussing over her and suck she would probably sock him pretty good but not this woman. There was at least a little bit of an understanding between this mystery woman and Shapiro. He didn’t voice his thoughts but rather let it rest in his eyes.

Yeah, they both should be in a mad house for how they were laughing and playing in the water. Lani shielded his face with his arms as she sent water his way. Soaked through Lani felt as if he had been walking in the rain. He was soaked to the bone and he shivered as the cold water was hit by a passing breeze. Oh yes, they were brilliant, spraying each other with water when it was still chilly enough for them to catch cold. Oh well, Lani was certainly unconcerned about that. He laughed as she splashed about and just shook his head at their foolishness. “You’re going to freeze to death,” he told her and bent the hose so it was going wild for a moment.

Lani’s shirt was not quite so lucky. The brown seemed pretty well set into the gray and he knew it was going to take quite a bit of washing to get it clean again. Good thing his mother had equipped him with stain fighters. He smiled as she shut off the water and he shook his head like a dog dispelling whatever water and mud was left in it. Lani laughed and walked over rubbing her arms with his hand to warm her a little. “Come on, Monster let’s get you inside before you get sick and this Miss Wilson comes seeking my skin!” With that he led her into the nearest building which happened to be the kitchen door. Without waiting to ask permission he went to the nearest oven and opened it holding his hands out to the warmth and gesturing with a jerk of his head for the girl to join him.

[Haley Shapiro]

Haley agreed wholeheartedly with what Lani said. Of course, she didn't actually know much about that personally since she didn't know anybody who reacted aversely towards her powers. She hadn't used them on anybody outside of school yet. But she figured, agreeing with Lani made her seem more worldly knowledgeable. Which in some ways she was but not on the subject at hand, maybe.

She beamed when he went along with her joke. And had she known what he was thinking before, she would have agreed with him one hundred percent. As it was, she was already playing truant frequently; she might as well not have been in the school in the first place.

When they started playing with the water, Haley laughed at his statement, rolling her eyes and laughing. "Whatever! Don't tell me you're not having fun!" She shouted over the din of the rushing water.

With her teetch chattering, Haley let Lani rub her arms. She gladly followed after him when he gestured for her. The oven was so warm, she could feel her face drying quickly and she sighed in relief. "Warm." She mumbled, holding her hands out to the oven. "Spend time here often, do you?" Haley asked, looking up at Lani with a smirk.

[Lani Hunter]

It was interesting now for Lani to separate how he used to think with how he was now thinking. There was a lot of change that had happened within him. Partially from the growth he had made on his own but others from the people he had met who had been both friend and foe. It was strange thinking now while he was looking down at Shapiro who was cut from the same cloth as he was. A few months ago if given the change to be forever gone from this place he would have taken it in a heartbeat. Now he was reluctant. He liked the people he had met here, more than anyone else he had known, and besides these people wanted to help him. True they had been doing a bad job but they were trying.

Lani let his stresses slip over his shoulders like he was talking off a jacket. He had been having so much fun he wasn’t quite willing to let his thoughts start invading his mood again. He had been a grumpy mess and looking back at the past few weeks he was embarrassed. As much as he had gone through he couldn’t believe that he had let himself fall into that self pitying hole that had swallowed him. He had always found a solution, and even now he had one but he just needed to find the courage to do so.

“I’ll admit nothing of the sort!” Lani cried back dramatically running with a joke. Being here was so relieving and Shapiro was such a wonderful young woman. She wasn’t poised or delicate or tactful. But that was what made her wonderful. She was blunt and very much a punk in the light sense of the word.

He smiled down at the girl as she joined him by the oven. Kitchens were really the best of places. One could meet the nicest of people in the kitchen. The kitchen staff knew him relatively well. He grinned at her and held out his finger bidding her to listen to some advice. “The kitchen is one of the best places,” he said reaching out with his power to grab a pair of rolls from the counter. “The best of people work here and if you play your cards right they’ll take care of you.” He took a bite of the roll shooting his point home. The kitchen was mostly empty save a few cleaners laboring over dishes in the corner with their arms buried in soapy water.

[Haley Shapiro]

It had been awhile since she first got to Hammel and Haley had gone through some drastic changes in her behaviour. Okay...maybe she was still the devious prankster with no mercy for anyone but she still made changes. She wasn't as angry as before, perhaps a tad wiser and less likely to escape from Hammel voluntarily. Which is probably a good thing for Lani. He probably wouldn't have been able to handle a souped up Haley. This tamer version of her was probably a mercy to anyone who's ever encountered her.

She definitely didn't need to revert to her old self and Lani was as good a distraction as any, really. Right now, he was being somebody she definitely liked hanging out with. He easily rolled with her jokes and was willing to put up with her insanity. Like right then as he yelled back at her for spraying him with cold water.

As they warmed up, Haley looked around to see two pieces of rolls floating towards them. She shamelessly grabbed one and bit into it. "You mean I'd get better stuff than the slop they serve up front?" Haley asked, looking up and up to Lani. He wasn't as tall as Henry, to be sure, but he was tall enough for her to have to crane her neck to properly look at him. "That would be cool. Getting food that tasted like food."

[Lani Hunter]

As a devious prankster perhaps Shapiro and Lani could learn from each other. He was older but that didn’t mean he was better at pulling pranks. After all as sad as it was the older and more serious he had gotten due to his circumstances the less he had been pulling pranks for the fun of it. Sure the cafeteria staff if asked would beg to differ but that was beside the point. He was finding himself growing very fond of the little girl, she was the polar opposite of his sister but he was still seeing bits a pieces of who Caroline could be. If he hadn’t sheltered her so much and coddled her perhaps she would have a back bone like Shapiro, though he doubted that.

He was going to have to remember her and try to seek her out in the future when they parted ways. But he wasn’t looking to leave quite yet Shapiro was a good distraction and a good person, deep down. Everyone needed a little insanity in their lives and if he wasn’t the one who was insane then better be a friend of his, though there would be several who would argue against this and claim that Lani should be the first one in the padded room.

Chewing on his roll he bit back a chuckle as she snatched the other roll. At least if anyone showed up they would probably love Shapiro just because she was small. Nothing Lani could say would warn them that she could probably toss them across a room but none the less she had a personality that he had seen in a lot of young thieves he was just glad she wasn’t headed in that direction. He laughed and nodded, “Of course, you’d be surprised how good the cook is when she doesn’t have to cook for mass numbers. She’s a really creative woman.” Lani smiled down at her and shivered away the last of his chill and shifted so his back was to the oven. “It’s also a wonderful place to hide,” he gave her a wink. Oh yes he had done just that more than once. No one ever thought to look in the kitchen, perhaps because there were so many hiding places but no, it was just too easy and that was where the advantage was.

[Haley Shapiro]

Her size was something Haley could live without. Sure, it helped her tuck into corners and shadows so much easier. And ducking under swings from bullies was a hell of a lot easier if you were more than half their size. But it also came with it a set of problems she did not like. Like the giant neon board everyone but her can see that said: "I am small! Pinch me!"

That happened a little too often for Haley's liking. Although it did offer the assumption that she was innocent and sweet, it seriously bugs the crap out of her and she would very much like it to stop right the hell now. And if anybody came in to see them and pinch her, she would not hesitate to put a hole through the ovens.

"I can see that." She looked around, chewing on her bread thoughtfully as she noted how a lot of the equipment in the kitchen was big enough to hide a kid in. If they weren't switched on that is. "You speaking from experience?" She smirked at Lani.

[Lani Hunter]

Lani had no doubt that Shapiro when she got older would be a force to be reckoned with. No doubt she would only get stronger and as an adult she would know how to use her power without hurting herself or someone else. He just hoped she never lost her punky attitude. She was really a personality aglow in a sea of dull people. Not all of them dull. Here there tended to certainly be more people glowing but out in the real world it was like looking at a crowd of carbon copies and people like Shapiro and Odion radiated energy and shone like the sun.

One advantage that she had was that she could look like the little girl. She could look innocent and completely helpless. Then she could turn the tide and pull wool over whomever she was trickling. Lani couldn't play innocent. He had one of those face and it simply wasn't done.

Lani grinned and nodded. "It's great, and the cook is a really nice guy." He added with a grin toward the door to the office where most of the workers sat between meals in their down time. Lani laughed as a voice came from the office told him not to forget it. A grin filled Lani face. "I have to say I have used it's services in the past. Besides the trainers probably don't even know where the kitchen is." He nodded at her. "Besides, you really never know what one of them might be a good person to know in the future."