lockon2urheart

Well, that was the most embarrassed I've ever been buying a book. The clerk looked like he wasn't sure whether to call the police or just throw me out of the store. I doubt I could have looked more shifty if I'd tried. Next time, someone remind me that the truth - "my co-worker's 12-year-old daughter" is probably still less shady than the 'unconvincing "my niece"' approach.

Exactly when did buying a present for a teenage girl become an ordeal? Probably when I started getting old, huh. Might explain why I felt so out of touch, looking at the blurbs. Has the teen section always been full of vampire romance?

At any rate, at least I got something hopefully not too trashy. Then again, I can't help but think Mileina'd be quite happy with something cliche, anyway... The fact that I can probably never show my face in that bookstore again is a small sacrifice.

...Now I just have to hope that the book offsets the slightly misshapen nature of the tennis-ball plush Haros I tried to sew. It's a sorry state of affairs when Tieria's better at craftsmanship than I am, but I'm pretty sure that the scarf he made was more successful than these things.

[fzzt of a connection, broadcasting on all channels]

"Lockon, Lockon! Lockon, Lockon! Lockon, Lockon! Lockon, Lockon! Lockon, Lockon!"

[still sounds like he's been saying this for a while, and is showing no signs of stopping.]

I think that that conversation pretty much confirmed what I've been thinking for a while now. I wonder if I should be more surprised than I am, but...well. It does make sense. It explains some things, too. Heck, I don't know why he was so surprised that I'd worked it out, or at least some of it. It's one of those things that seems really obvious, when you think about it.

...What gets me is that he thinks it matters. He's still Tieria, regardless. I'm not going to change anything because of this, but from his face you'd think I'd uncovered something terrible. Why should it even matter?

...Wonder if anyone else has worked it out? Not that I'd ask - how would you work that into conversation without giving it away if they didn't - but still, I can't imagine I'm the only one to even guess at it.