The reaction to his 'present' wasn't exactly affirming. "Fine," Micah sighed again - still no breath - and his eyes darted everywhere except directly at the girl. "My mom might have picked up on the fact that I was nominated for...for...homecoming and with her...um...persistent denial that I'm now a...you know...she thought if I made nice with the other...you know...at school, that's you, I'd somehow...it'd somehow be better. Somehow." That was probably the most Micah had ever said to a girl he wasn't related to since the preschool days when he'd teased them right along with the other boys. And then sometime during elementary school, he'd developed an irrational fear of the other gender. It was probably the fact that there was never a correct answer. Ever. It was all traps and tricks and..."Heh, if your sire killed two of your family members before turning you...and then ran away never to be seen or heard from again, raise your hand," Micah responded shakily at her speculation that their turnings had been different. He lifted his hand slowly. "If your sire also happens to be your only sibling, lower your hand now." And then Micah put his hand down.
Shrugging at her attempt (if it could be counted as one) at an apology for not knowing how to be sympathetic, Micah didn't really care. Apparently, half of the school already knew he wasn't the same. Oz had pointed out that weres knew and then there were the telepaths that could read his mind and know what he was talking about. "At least we didn't have to write a paper about our summers for English," Micah laughed weakly again. It was easier to talk to her if he just pretended she was gender-less. Not a girl, not even a guy, but just some sort of androgynous vampire thing. He kept his eyes everywhere but her. "Though maybe I'd have gotten a sympathy A." He'd heard the did that in colleges. If your dorm roommate died, you got all As for the semester. Did dying yourself count? Maybe. "I don't...talk to girls," Micah said by way of explanation at her observation that he was petrified by her. Acknowledging she was female broke the illusion that she was gender-less, however, and Micah's voice froze his in throat. He managed a choking noise, but that was about it.