52 - I get so emotional, baby~

[seeya_next_life]

[The handwriting is recognizable as Axel's, but it's smaller and a little spikier than usual.]

I just don't think I can handle this kind of pressure. This is why I don't like being in charge! It wasn't my fault!

I'm taking the rest of the day off. Kage, if you need me, I'll be in the back.

[So. Have a completely dramatically overemotional

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[weaver_girl]

[... Have a surprised ink drip that smudges as the journal is closed.]

[And later, a trifle, here's a concerned sister, one, peering into the back room at the bar.]

Um, did I miss something? What was that all about on the journal just now?

sure why not

[seeya_next_life]

[He lifts his head from the table where there's a beer sitting beside his hand. It's unopened and mostly there for show. His face draws up into a grim mask of exaggerated displeasure and he makes a grand gesture toward the doorway she's standing in.]

You mean you didn't even see what that guy did? He said with people like me pouring drinks this place wouldn't last a month! It's not my fault we ran out of dry vermouth--we're a staff of like three right now; when did we have time to go get more? I should'a smacked him right upside the head!

[He pauses then, his eyes sort of sliding unfocused for a moment, and then he shakes his head as if to clear it and meets Kagerou's eye, looking terribly confused. He lifts a hand to touch his brow and then looks at the beer on the table like he has no idea how it got there.]

Okay wow, what the hell is wrong with me today? I sound like a cranky four-year-old.

...solate

[weaver_girl]

Well, I did hear loud and clear. And I promise I'm keeping an eye on the Adventurers' reports. The day we've got a Wilderness we can use to restock, I...

[She cants her head. Pauses, as if only now hearing the run of the conversation.]

Are you all right? Um, I mean, really? I just... It's not like you to let such a thing get to you.

[seeya_next_life]

[He folds his arms and harrumphs.] I think maybe we should just stop stocking vermouth--maybe that jackass won't come back.

[A beat of silence and he frowns at his journal, then frowns at the beer, then he scratches his head.] I have no idea. [This is said with bewildered but obvious honesty.] Usually I would just tell that guy to make like a card shark and deal, but for some reason... [He absently rubs at the ridge of his collarbone, then lays his palm flat against the top of his sternum.] For some reason that got right under my skin.

[One hand moves quickly to his forehead, and then the other presses comically against his cheek, sort of mashing half his face.] I wonder if I'm coming down with something. That would suck--that would suck! Maybe I should just go home and sleep or something. [He looks at her then.] But I can't just leave you here by yourself--the next shift hasn't come in yet. [And now he just looks downright stricken by this pickle, one hand still on his brow and the other smashing his cheek.]

[spandexisyouth]

Axel. Calm down.

[Someone's very worried about the whole 'in charge' mention.]

[seeya_next_life]

Don't tell me to calm down, Gai. I am offended and I'm not going to just keep quiet about it, either.

[LOL, thankfully it's nothing to worry about. XD]

[spandexisyouth]

Perhaps this should not be written. I do not know how you were offended but this is not the place.

[Aye, hee, but he has no idea.]

[seeya_next_life]

You wanna know how I was offended? I'll tell you how I was offended--I don't really care if that jerk sees it, either! He can take his dry vermouth and shove it right up hi

[Have a smear of ink here where if you were there in the back room you would see Axel literally throw the journal off the table and peer alarmedly at his hand like it betrayed him. What the hell--why does this bother him so much? This sort of stuff NEVER bothers him.

After a moment, he retrieves the journal, and the next few lines look more like his usual handwriting.]

I really don't know what the hell is wrong with me today. [And after reading through the conversation again, he realizes why Gai was so adamant.] It's fine, just some jackass at the bar got under my skin. Which is weird, but it's nothing to worry about.

Have they met yet at this point? I assume they have, she started work on 2/13 or something.

[viva_la_materia]

Uhhh...you okay, Red?