.paper beats kindle

[Vera M. Solway]

For some reason, Vera felt a bit odd being in here. Usually if she wanted to read, she just simply bought a book online and had it downloaded into her Kindle. But she figured since she and Devyn were starting their newly wedded lives together, that maybe it was time to start a collection of books... maybe even have a shelf full of them at their place.

That and she just really wanted her wife to spot the books and get an idea.

The idea was cute but the execution was the problem, because now she was in a bookstore in town, where people she knew could possibly pop up and could make assumptions based on what books she currently had in her arms. Like, The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself from Pre-conception Through Birth or even, The Lesbian Parenting Book, and Vera had currently pulled out another book that caught her eye; She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood.

The funny thing about said books was that her and Devyn weren't full blown lesbians... seeing how they were both Bi-Sexual but in a sense of being married, everyone pretty much assumed they were. In a way they were, but at the same time they still admired the beauty of men... and-and this was exactly why Vera hated labels because they made everything complicated for no reason.

Either way, she was now on the run. Her mission, if she chose to accept it (and she did), was to purchase the books, get them bagged and head straight back home.

The off-duty cop headed to the cashie- "Oh, Casey! Hey... didn't know you were working today." She greeted her friend with a sheepish smile as she fidgeted with her ponytail.

[Casey Pryor]

{Clickey For Pretties

Casey stood from her crouch after re-shelving some books, smoothing down her blue dress. She was so glad she'd put her hair up that day. There was a lot of stocking and re-shelving that day. Casey didn't mind to much, especially because as soon as she was done she'd get to go through the brand new stuff. There was a lot of work to do with that, scanning them into the system and all that fun stuff, but being able to peruse the titles, read a few chapters, it was wonderful. Casey loved it. She didn't do much reading these days but in the past, in her recluse days, books were practically Casey's only friend.

But first a break. She found her way back to the front and sat behind the counter, opening a water bottle and taking a swig from it. She heard someone approaching and looked up, smiling as she recognized the customer, and the customer recognized her. "Hey Vera!" she said happily. "Its nice to see you! And of course I'm working...sometimes it feels like that's all I do," she said jokingly.  Her eyes dropped to the books in Vera's hands, though not catching the titles yet, "And you're buying books! Its nice to see people with real actual books, especially my friends," she grinned, reaching her hands out for them.

[Vera M. Solway]

She managed to crack a smile, "Yeah... always good to see you too, babe." Her eyes narrowed somewhat as her smile turned easy just a bit. Not that she didn't like to see Casey around because that wasn't the case. It was just the fact that she constantly forgot that this town was small and bumping into a friend at their job... was the regular. Great. "Oh yeah, I know how that is. It's like it never ends." Vera chuckled as she glanced around, just to make sure no one was near the two of them just yet.

Her hazel eyes followed Casey's own, causing Vera to slightly cover the titles with a hand as if she was that into buying them. The telekinetic's eyes widened as she smiled brightly, "Yeah, well I usually just buy my books off of my kindle but I thought, why not just go old school and buy a few hard copies. You know?" She nodded, now contemplating if she should turn around and pretend she forgot something, only to put the books back... or if she should go on with this.

Casey had also been close friends with Devyn, which was how Vera first became aware of the gorgeous girl. So she hoped that the moment her friend saw the books, she'd just leave it as it was and Vera could be on her merry little way. Vera quickly put the books on the counter, as she continued to make eye contact with Casey. "So how have your classes and work been? even though I see you're doing just fine." Awesome, small talk... maybe that could distract during this purchase.

[Casey Pryor]

Casey nodded in agreement about the kindle. "At first, I was adamantly against kindles and such because it wasn't a REAL book to me, if that makes sense," she said with a small chuckle. "I've come around though. Plus I can usually find really good deals on the kindle with books that I want. However, if I love love love a book, I'll buy the actual book as well." She said, then added, "My mom was thrilled actually. She convinced me to get rid of a good amount of books that I only read every once in a while because they weren't my favorites and get them on the kindle instead. Apparently it cleared out a "heck of a lot of room", to quote my mother."

As Vera set the books on the counter Casey looked at the register, unlocking it from idle mode and made sure the scanner was on. She grabbed the first book on top of the pile as Vera inquired about how she was doing. The first book she'd grabbed she'd only seen the first part of the title, She Looks Just Like You:..... She wasn't sure what it meant and she hadn't gleaned the rest of the title but she'd done this job long enough she could do it with her eyes closed so she looked up to Vera to answer her question while she scanned. "Yes school and work have been pretty good. Keeping me busy, especially with this pretty much being the last month of the semester. Just a few weeks in December and one of those is finals. It feels like the teachers are just dumping truck loads of homework on us because they can and they're evil."

"What abo..." she stopped mid-sentence as she'd grabbed the last book in the pile and had happened to glance down quickly and saw the title. The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself from Pre-conception Through Birth.  She'd started to gape at the title but habit wore out and she managed to scan the book without stopping and staring at it. She cleared her throat softly and continued her question. "What about you? Anything exciting with work?" Her eyes glanced at the pile of books and she added, "Or home?" Though inwardly she wanted to jump and yell excitedly. Her curiosity was eating her up and the urge to just come out with all the questions was probably obvious in Casey's wide, excited eyes.