The Adventures of Mikey Way: New Vampire

Mikey was sitting on the couch watching friends reruns when his phone trilled loudly. Mikey sighed and glanced at the caller ID, which indicated that his brother was calling. He decided to ignore it in favour of the TV.

A few minutes later, the phone rang again. Mikey checked the caller ID, again, and this time it displayed the number belonging to his boss. Mikey decided he should probably answer this one.

"Hello?" Mikey spoke into the receiver.
"Is this Michael Way?" Replied the voice of his boss' secretary.
"Yes. Is something the matter?" Mikey was already bored of this interaction.
"Mr Bryar wishes to have a discussion with you. He has decided that this shall take place tonight over dinner", the secretary explained.
MIkey inwardly groaned. A dinner with his boss wasn't his idea of fun on a Friday night. Nonetheless, he agreed and the secretary rattled of a time and place.

*****

Mikey arrived at the Italian restaurant 5 minutes before he was supposed to. Maybe he was just being paranoid, but dinner with your boss on a Friday sounds very ominous and a lot like someone was going to be fired.

He walked through the entrance and looked around. The walls were a deep green with pictures of, what Mikey assumed to be, Italy. The floor was made from light timber floorboards, which matched the colour of the tables. Each table was covered in a plain white cloth and a small vase of colourful flowers.

A small man who was covered in tattoos came over and showed Mikey to his table. Bryar was already sitting at the table when Mikey was brought over. Thank goodness he decided to arrive a little bit early.

"Michael. How good to see you", Bryar greeted in his bellowing voice.
"Good evening Mr Bryar, it has been a while", Mikey replied smoothly.
They shook hands like normal businessmen and sat opposite each other.
Bryar wasn't what people would consider a 'normal' businessman. He was never at the office and never really seemed to know what was going on within his company. Granted, his business was a record company which can be confusing to run at the best of times. Some of the bands can be extremely hard to deal with and often don't show up at all.

Mikey and Bryar sat in silence for a few minutes while they scanned the menu. The waiter, who Mikey now knew was named Frank, came to take their order of spaghetti, risotto and garlic bread. It was after this that Bryar broke the silence.
"So I suppose you would like to know why I asked to see you", he began.
Mikey gulped and nodded, trying to appear casual but only coming off as panicked. Bryar laughed at Mikey's facial expression.
"Don't be so worried I have nothing bad to say", he tried to assure Mikey.

It didn't work.

Frank came back to the table with the garlic bread and placed it in the middle of the table. Each man took a piece and began to eat. It was only when Mikey's throat began to itch and burn that he remembered vampires can't eat garlic.

"I'll be blunt Michael. I'm not very good at running this company, so, I am retiring at the end of the month. And I want you to take over for me", Bryar said.
Mikey stared at Bryar with wide eyes. He couldn't believe this was happening. Even if he had something to say to his now former boss, he wouldn't be able to as the garlic had made it rather difficult to breathe.
"Well, do you want the job?" Bryar asked, amused by Mikey's lack of speech.
Mikey nodded frantically. He opened his mouth to thank the other man, but all that came out was a squeak.

Bryar became concerned at this and asked if Mikey was feeling ill. Mikey shook his head no making his eyes water even worse than they were. He held up his finger to indicate 'one minute please', and ran to the bathroom. Once inside, he ran into one of the cubicles and began coughing. He had to get the garlic out of his throat. He coughed into the toilet until he was able to expel the garlic from his body. He walked out of the cubicle and rinsed his mouth in the sink. Everything still burned a little bit but it was bearable.

Mikey realised he should probably go back to his table, he'd been in the bathroom for a while....

Notes

So this is the first actual chapter.
Thanks to Emma for the idea for this and the next chapter.
Is there enough vampireness? idk maybe I'll put more in the next one or add another vampire

Till next time!