Caritas, Saturday Evening

[newroutines]

June had not been a good month for business. For Caritas, sure, probably. But not for Mike Lane's Custom Designs. It felt like he'd been working his ass off - he definitely hadn't been doing much else, all month long - but there'd been some setbacks that meant that he wasn't getting as much money back as he'd hoped. And subsequently wasn't really able to give his only employee everything he deserved when it came to benefits and shit. And in truth, May hadn't been that much better, either.

It was starting to get to him, a little.

So it was a pretty quiet Mike behind the counter tonight. Going over his notes on his business's finances, whenever he had the time. Seeing if he was still doing okay when you looked at the big picture.

[ooc: Open, no OCD. Getting the ball slowly rolling on the canon catch-up, oh em gee!]

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[gobrookeyourself]

It was Saturday, it was way too hot but in more of an uncomfortable way than a sexy way, and why not. So here, have a Brooke.

"SSlow night?" she asked, taking a seat.

[newroutines]

It took Mike a second to snap out of his notebook-related haze.

"Huh?" he asked, intelligently, as he looked up. Still, at least he quirked a smile as his brain caught up with things? "Oh, hey, babe."

[gobrookeyourself]

"You're looking all cute and focused over there," she smiled. "What's up?"

[newroutines]

"Oh, just... boring business stuff," Mike replied, as if she wasn't business-minded and would totally buy into the whole 'boring' thing. He flipped the notebook closed. "It's nothing."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Is that boring like 'this is terrible and I don't want to talk about it' or is it boring like the word 'fiscal' is going to come up?" Brooke asked.

[newroutines]

"That last one."

It was! That just wasn't the entirety of the truth.

He hesitated. "Okay, there's a little of that first one mixed in, but uh, like I said, it's nothing."

[gobrookeyourself]

"So it's no big deal to tell me, then," Brooke reasoned. "Without the word 'fiscal.'"

[newroutines]

"Yeah, but wouldn't you rather hear about something fun instead?"

Because by God, he would probably come up with something like that to avoid talking about the business stuff.

[gobrookeyourself]

"Nope!" Brooke says brightly. "Bore me."