It's not the heat, it's the humidity Who: BJ and Open! When: 9:30ish in the morning Where: Starbucks
On a normal day, BJ was as sweet as pie to most people. Even if she wanted to call them a useless sack of shit and punch them in the face, she'd smile brightly and pretend to let things go.
Today was not one of those days.
Calling around to magic shops yesterday had been a complete waste of time. When the local ones didn't yield answers, BJ had taken to the internet. Still nothing. She'd gone to bed with no leads as to what was happening to her, but had hardly been able to sleep. What little sleep she did get was plagued by dreams. She wasn't much of a morning person, but finally she gave up and got out of bed. Belatedly discovering the text messages from Maddie had actually made her feel a bit better. If it wasn't just her, then an explanation had to be out there. One girl changing elements overnight was random. Two? Not so much. Maybe there were more! So she'd dressed, woken Endellion, and headed out the door.
And then she had nearly dropped over from the wall of death-weather that assaulted her.
The rain wasn't even the cause of her despair for once - though she certainly didn't care for it. The humidity was just as miserable as ever, but the heat. Dear sweet baby Jesus, the heat. You couldn't breathe out there! BJ had promptly turned around and gone back to her room to change into, well, less clothing. Then she was out again for take number two!
She went to the library first, and found an Ann Arbor area phonebook. She found the pages dedicated to handymen, ripped them out, and headed back out. Not long after she was sitting at the local Starbucks, checking off entries as she called them and got nowhere. "Yeah, hi! Listen, this is strange, and please don't hang up, but do you happen to have any employees that are earth elementals? Yes, yes I'm serious. Yes, I realize that is private information but it's kind of an emergency. An emergency-emergency, okay? Don't hang up. No, no-" Click. BJ cursed loudly as she made a mark, and began dialing the next number. Perhaps she needed to switch tactics? When the next place answered, she raised her voice a good octave or so and used her sweetest voice possible.
"Hi there! Listen, you are gonna think I am just so crazy so please don't laugh, but I think I'm in need of a handyman that's one of those earth thingies. You know, elementals? There is some crazy stuff happening in my backyard and-- No, I'm not joking, it's really scary back there! I-- No-- you're--" This was getting her nowhere. The idiot on the other end kept going on and on about how their guys were the best and didn't need magic to get the job done. "Oh yeah? That's not what your wife said last night, you limpdick piece of shit!" BJ hung up on him and slammed her phone back down onto the table. She then buried her face in her hand. Fuck my life.