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Aslinn saw cody smile and she listened to him. When he talked about hanging out she grabbed a scrap of paper from her bag and wrote her cell number down. "Well if you want we can go out to eat later; or do something. I'm gonna go home but message me if you want to hang out; or just hop in and find me at work." Aslinn stood up slowly and stretched her arms smiling at Cody not wanting to walk around his book store by herself since he was the one who would lock it up. She slid her bag onto her shoulders while she thought about what she was gonna do when she got home.

Aslinn smiled when Cody told her he'd be glad to hang out later. She walked with him down stairs "well like i said text me if it's something big; or stop by the shop if your just interested in lunch." When Cody checked to make sure it was clear she smiled before exiting the shop "i'll see you around" she said as she waived before she began walking off to her apartment. ((if you want we can now time skip to the next morning or a few days up to you))

Aslinn had gotten home perfectly fine and passed out not long afterwards. It was two days later and she had just gotten settled in at her new office. Her new employees were more than skeptical at first but after she' had a nice long chat they'd more than tolerated her. Thus far she'd been examining the companies finances and sales; she hadn't done much else.

She was sitting in her office currently updating the sales log making sure everything was current. Her father had kept such horrible records it wasn't even funny. She set up a contact list as well as a services list while she set up a spread sheet listing what the clients had purchased and follow up services. From time to time she thought about Cody and wondered how things were going at his shop; she had been to wrapped up in work she hadn't had time to try getting over there.

((ok i skipped two days))

Aslinn had almost finished the spread sheet when someone came in and told her the book store boy was here. Aslinn stood up and carefully dusted her blouse off. She'd gotten only four hours of sleep the night before and had been sitting at the computer desk all morning. She'd gone to bed at ten and woken up at two to be here by three. She wanted to fix all of the record keeping as fast as possible so she could move onto more important tasks.

She had an exhausted look as she grabbed her cup of coffee and chugged the rest of it before poring herself another glass and going to find Cody. Even with the human guise her body would still show any problems. She exited her office and walked towards Cody; setting her mug down she smile. "how's it going Cody?" As she spoke she stretched lightly and smiled softly at him before she took her mug and began sipping on the beverage again.

As Cody asked how she was doing she laughed slightly before she spoke "nahhh; i'll be fine. I've gone over finances already; i'm finishing up the client contact list and past purchases and repairs. Then i'm gonna inventory everything and see who's doing what. Afterwards i can start tracking sales and work on promotions durring the slow months." From the way she sounded it was clear she intended to pull as long a shift as she could manage. Over the past two days coffee had become her crack; it was wht currently was giving her energy. That first night she'd gotten five hours of sleep so she'd tried the beverage at the staffs urging. "if you want we can go get something to eat." Aslinn said softly in between sipping on the coffee.

Aslinn looked at Cody as he drew closer she noticed how strong this strange scent got and it confused her. Cody wasn't wearing any charms to hide his anthro side or so she thought. She could however smell that he was part anthro. As soon as he asked if she was crashing from the coffee she snapped out of it and looked at him. "hunh nooo i'm just fine." she said rather quickly trying to convince him she was alright; admittedly the coffee was starting to wear off but it was his scent driving her mad. She didn't dare ask him outright because she was worried that he might have ulterior motives.

"trust me i'm fine" she said softly as they continued walking. When they got to the diner Aslinn sat down across from him and ordered. As he asked her about the books she sighed and said "i've started on one of the gemology books but admittedly haven't gotten very far." After She said that she she looked at Cody and decided to take a stab in the dark and ask him something. "So Cody, has your family always lived here or did they move here." It wasn't uncommon for people to spend time away from their tribe; however to completely live away from the tribe was unheard of unless they committed some horrible crime.