[center][b][h1][color=red]Ethan Aster[/color][/h1][/b][/center]
[h2][center]Location: Saturday; Hephaestus Manor[/center][/h2][hr][center][h3] Interaction: Victoria; Marinalia [@PrinceAlexus]; Xia [@King Tai] Marcus [@Zaxter996]; Reya & Ryan [@Majoras End][/h3][/center][hr][center][h3] Mentions: Maria [@PrinceAlexus]; Milo [@RoccanIronclad] & Siobhan [@Almalthia][/h3][/center][hr]Ethan was caught up in the chatter and after a while was pulled to the side by Drew. As Drew told him he needed to call Nikki Ethan apologized to Victoria, Marinalia, Xia, Marcus, Reya and Ryan. Maria had not come back yet and he had no idea where she was. Their table was placed farther away from Siobhan’s table. You could hear laughter, musical and enchanting in its tone, that rose above the crowd but that was it.

Ethan moved through the rooms to the top of the stairs. This was a good a place as any he pulled out his phone and dialed the number. It rang once and was answered.[color=red] “You requested I call?”[/color] Ethan was silent for a moment.[color=red] “Yes. Can I ask a favor? Yes that can be arranged. No Shannon hasn’t been here, or at least who you described as Shannon, which is odd this is her kind of thing. No, no Sammy either. Yes I’ll keep looking. Will you look into my parents will again? Yes specifically about the painting. Thank you. Sure I can hold.”[/color]

He leans against the wall knowing he’s going to be there a while but also knowing that it will be worth it later. Hopefully it was only a few minutes. He thought about how Victoria didn’t tell him she had an ex till earlier today. About how Milo looked at her the couple of times he’d seen him staring at Victoria. He trusted Victoria enough that she wasn’t going to do something stupid. Dumping him for Milo would be stupid. Especially if she was pregnant. His son or daughter would not be raised around such a flighty female and not amount of lawyers would stop him from having his rights with his child. But it wasn’t going to be like that. Victoria would make the right decision.

Ethan was snapped out of his thoughts and back to the present as the person on the other end of the phone went over that section in his parents will.[color=red] “Thank you. No. I just met the artist and was wondering about it. Thank you no need, thank you. Bye.”[/color] As he hung up the phone he looked to see how long he’d been gone. Twenty-five minutes. Well that was longer than expected. He headed back in and sat down. Victoria was gone but he figured that she had gone to the restroom or since he hadn’t been there then she got herself a drink.