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The Emporium -- Monday Morning

Michael flipped the sign from "closed" to "open" and settled behind the counter. He was still tired from the weekend away he and Ben had taken, but he was very, very happy. He started to make a list of what they'd need for Hunter's impending visit, putting his head down on the counter next to the notepad. He'd just close his eyes for a minute...

((ooc: Michael will be tough to awaken as Mikey-mun has jury duty. Chihaya will be available to help customers, however, if you want to come in.))

ETA:((ooc: Am done w/JD *dances madly* so Mikey will be mobile now. :P))

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Seeing the 'open' sign, Shane smiled to herself as she approached the shop, pulled open the door and stepped inside. Her smile turned into a grin as she saw Michael dozing on the counter and she paused for a moment, looking around. She had checked her messages but there hadn't been any from him about the stuff for her skateboard that he'd ordered for her the previous week.

Biting her bottom lip, she considers waking him, but hesitates as she looks around. Maybe there was someone else who could help her.

Chihaya trots out of the back room and sees someone there. He grins and puts his armload of boxes down. "Hi!" he says cheerfully and ducks when he sees Michael has fallen asleep.

Walking closer to her, he bites his lip and tries again. "Hi!" he says in a lowered voice. "Can I help you?"

Shoulders shaking with silent laughter, Shane smiles. "Hi," she whispers, recognizing the other angel from zombie weekend who'd flown over and helped keep watch of them as they'd made their way to the high school. "I didn't know you worked here."

"Yeah. I suck actually and need to try to make it in more often but I work here," he says with pink cheeks. "Hey, I remember you from Zombie Weekend! I'm really glad you're ok!"

"Yeah, you too," Shane says, nodding as she smiles. "I never got a chance to thank you for your help. It was awesome, what you did." She holds out her hand. "I'm Shane."

"Aw. I didn't do anything that awesome. Just knocking zombies on the head like everyone else." Grinning, he shakes her hand. "Pleasure to meet you, Shane. I'm Chihaya!"

"Nice to meet you," she says as she shakes with him. "Um, but yeah, I was just wondering... I placed an order with Michael last week for some skateboard stuff. He said it'd probably be here by Thursday or Friday and said he'd give me a call, but... I never heard back." She bites her lip. "Do you know if it ever came in? I already paid for it and everything."

"Let me go see!" He skipped off back into the storeroom again and rummaged around. A few boxes slide around and the sounds of metal shelving thumping on the wall. Chihaya came back out and shook his head. "I didn't see anything back there on the special orders shelf."

He peeked under the counter, still shaking his head. "I don't see anything back here either." Popping back up and grins. "But UPS hasn't delivered yet today so it might be in that shipment."

((ooc: meep! sorry!))

"Oh, no problem," Shane says, shaking her head. "Just, uhh... just tell Mike I stopped by? When he wakes up, I mean. And have him call me if the stuff comes?"

Chihaya giggles and wrinkles his nose. "I guess this weekend of rest and relaxation wasn't so restful." He nods at Shane and makes a note on a notepad. "I'll make sure he knows."

Shane smiles broadly as she nods. "Thanks for the help," she says as she starts for the door. "I'll see you later."

"See you later!" He waves to Shane and gathers his boxes to finish his task of restocking.

Mac walks into the emporium and approaches the counter.

"Hi... I need to get a vast amount of pumpkins together for a class project. I don't suppose I could get them here? I'm going to need at least fifty pumpkins."

Chihaya blinks rapidly and gives him an uncertain smile. "Uh...50?" He looks around at the store, not seeing a pumpkin in sight. "When do you need them by?"

Mac shrugs. "Oh, I need them by Thursday. I realize you may have to order them. Is that not going to be enough time? I was hoping you had stock leftover from Halloween."

"Oh! I don't think Thursday's a problem. We don't have that many left over from Halloween but I bet Bert's Pumpkin Farm in Bellulahville will have them!" Chihaya gets out a pad and pencil to give to the man. "If you could write down your contact information, I'll see that Michael orders them for you when he's..." he looks at the sleeping man, "...available. He'll call you with the total."

Mac smiles and writes down his phone number (http://www.livejournal.com/~manofthemullet/1932.html). Great! Oh... And I'm probably going to need a lot of cleaning supplies. Mops, buckets, paper towels, cleaning products, etc. What aisle would that be in?"

"Down aisle 7. And we got some really cool cleaning spray in. Smells like oranges," Chihaya says, trying to be helpful. "Oh, and paper towels are on the otherside. Aisle 6."

Mac wanders off into the aisles and returns with a bunch of cleaning supplies mentioned above and several boxes of heavy duty trash bags and puts them on the counter.

"Here we go. What's the damage on my wallet?"

Chihaya rings everything up and puts them in bags stuffing some of it into the buckets to minimize the load. "The total is $38.87, there was a special on the trash bags."

Mac hands over his credit card (Which has "Phoenix Foundation" written on it) for payment.

"Thanks! I'll be by on Thursday morning to pick up the pumpkins!"

Running the card through, Chihaya presents the receipt for signature. "You'll need a truck or something for 50 pumpkins. Maybe Michael can arrange for delivery straight to you?"

"That'd be great if he can arrange delivery. Thank you."

((OOC:Will just assume pumpkins will be there for class period. Thanks!))

"Have a nice day!"

((ooc: ok!))

*snort* *snorfle* Huh? *picks head up off counter, rubs face* Did I fall asleep?

((ooc: Whee! Done! Nice to see you guys had fun while Mikey was asleep. *snerk*))

"Afternoon, sleepyhead," Chihaya chirped from aisle 3. "Must have been some weekend."

*blushes* *adds in teasing voice with a smile* You shouldn't be talking to your boss like that.

"Ok, boss." Chihaya giggles and walks to the counter. "One of the professors came in and wanted 50 pumpkins." He points to the notepad with all the details. "I didn't order them, thinking you should do that. Oh and Shane came by looking for an order? I didn't find anything but that doesn't mean it's not there, just that I didn't find it."

*nods* We've got Shane's stuff upstairs. I forgot all about it. *makes appropriate calls* Been pretty slow otherwise?

And yes, because I know you want to know, the rest and relaxation didn't include much actual sleep. *grins* Some things are more important.

Chihaha puts his fingers in his ears. "LaLaLaLaaaaaa, I do not want to hear about my boss having sex. Some things are just better left to the imagination thank YOU!"

Ben comes downstairs just in time to hear the last statement. He walks up behind Michael, wrapping his arms around his husband and kissing him on the cheek. With a grin, he says, "Are you discussing our sex life with other people? Shame on you."

Turning to Chihaya, he adds, "How did your journalism project go? Did you get an interview with Red?"

"Hi, Ben! Yes I did. He's really nice!" Chihaya digs around in his bookbag and pulls out the current student newspaper edition (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fhightimes/6909.html) and opens it to the interview, pointing proudly.

Ben takes the paper and reads the article. When he's done, he hands it to Michael to read. "That's great! Congratulations. I'm glad it worked out for you."

"No idea what I'm going to do next week." He looks at the paper and loses his smile a little. "Not even sure if what I did was good for them." Looking at his watch, he squeaks. "Now that Michael is rested from his weekend," he grins mischievously, "I should duck out to class."

*blushes* Skedaddle. Thanks for filling in for me today. And thanks for not doing something embarrassing to me while I was asleep.

Chihaya grabs his pack and races out the door with a wave.

((ooc: Michael's too cute to do anything embarrassing to! I thought about having Chihaya try to carry him to the back room but he was too big for Chihaya to move.))

((ooc: OMG *dies* The comedic potential in that... *dies again* Ah well. Thanks again for filling in!))

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