Cecilia had some of the soup that was on the Day's Specials and sat down while Tom recounted how she got there to her. "I was jus' strollin' down the street ye' see?" He said, as if telling this grand tale about dragons and so on and so forth. "And I saw ye' just sitting against one of the walls, playing with one of 'em muggle coins. An' I thought, she mus' be lost - cause ya looked a bit dazed, see?" Cecilia nodded - she'd been caught up in all the excitement of escaping her family that she'd forgotten to think about where she was going to go.
"An' so I went over to ya an' offered ye a place at me pub," He continued. "Ye refused at firs' - said there migh' be other Notts in there. But I assured ye that the Notts generally didn't even visi' me pub - so eventually you accepted. An' then ye slept for ages." He eyed her suspiciously, "What's goin' on that ye want to be avoiding the Notts - ye own family?"
Cecilia hesitated, "I ran away last summer, and I didn't want to go back this summer - plus I wanted to see what the muggle world was like."
"Yeah, a lot of wizards and witches are slightly curious - not as curious as that Arthur Weasley though, ain't that righ'?" Tom grinned toothily and turned away to serve another customer.
Cel finished off her soup - the whole holidays to herself. Where would she go?