Oh, my head just won't stop aching Who: Micah and Salvatrix When: Mid-morning Where: Lenore's Bookstore and Cafe What: Mini-headache; otherwise, business as usual
His mother wanted him to try and act as if he was normal. She thought that would probably make him feel a lot more normal. Micah highly doubted that. After all, he really wasn't normal. In fact, the pink-and-purple umbrella he'd hidden underneath the counter made him feel even less normal than he did on a normal day. Naturally, Micah didn't own an umbrella. He'd had to scour the house for one and the only one he could find was one of Rebecca's that was most emphatically not gender-neutral. He'd tried to avoid anyone he knew as he walked through Scarlet Oak. His mother had insisted he drive Rebecca's car but he couldn't. He just couldn't. So the only other option was to endure the embarassment of running through town with an ultra-feminine umbrella. Good thing he ran faster than most people nowadays.
He'd opened the store like normal, hiding the umbrella away, and gone on to stock shelves and help customers. Most of them ignored the fangs, while others stopped to stare for a while, as if to consider Had those always been there? and it made Micah very uncomfortable. Though as much as he'd have liked to take the time to bemoan his fate (again), he really didn't have the time today. As the morning wore on, Micah started to get a dull pain in his head. Downside of being a vampire was that medicines didn't work on him the way it should. And ever since he'd been turned, he'd been getting these headaches fairly frequently. It wasn't incapacitating, necessarily, just annoying enough that he couldn't keep working. Noting that not a whole lot of people were in the store, Micah sat down on one of the boxes of books he'd been shelving and rubbed his temples.