The way he grins back at her is a relief because it makes her feel a lot better about the confession that she'd approached him specifically for the purpose of finding someone familiar to drag along to these events.
While a pool party is something she wouldn't ever really be all that interested in back in Central City, neither are dance lessons, but she isn't in Central City and if she only lets herself stay in the comfort zone, she'll never stop thinking about Central City, either, which would make this whole attempt to distract herself completely moot. So sure. Pool party with Felicity Smoak's ex-boyfriend. Why not?
"That sounds perfect," she replies with a warm smile. "I was looking at some of the restaurants but I haven't actually been to any of them yet...are there any you've been to that you can recommend or want to avoid...or should we just wing it?" she asks, eyebrows lifted with curiosity. Then, she thinks better of that question. If she's going to try to stick to things she wouldn't normally do in Central City, then making plans ahead too meticulously is out. "Actually, let's just wing it," she says before he can answer. "Dancing, dinner, swimming. Makes for an interesting purely platonic endeavor," she laughs. Because it kind of sounds like a date. ...there's no kind of. It sounds like a date, but she supposes that's the whole point of the things; she and Ray are just circumventing that whole angle, that's all. "Should we go now?"
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While a pool party is something she wouldn't ever really be all that interested in back in Central City, neither are dance lessons, but she isn't in Central City and if she only lets herself stay in the comfort zone, she'll never stop thinking about Central City, either, which would make this whole attempt to distract herself completely moot. So sure. Pool party with Felicity Smoak's ex-boyfriend. Why not?
"That sounds perfect," she replies with a warm smile. "I was looking at some of the restaurants but I haven't actually been to any of them yet...are there any you've been to that you can recommend or want to avoid...or should we just wing it?" she asks, eyebrows lifted with curiosity. Then, she thinks better of that question. If she's going to try to stick to things she wouldn't normally do in Central City, then making plans ahead too meticulously is out. "Actually, let's just wing it," she says before he can answer. "Dancing, dinner, swimming. Makes for an interesting purely platonic endeavor," she laughs. Because it kind of sounds like a date. ...there's no kind of. It sounds like a date, but she supposes that's the whole point of the things; she and Ray are just circumventing that whole angle, that's all. "Should we go now?"