At the Library Elena attn: anyone

[Elena Hykes]

Elena did not mind the rain she just hated the mess it made the next day. After getting up and having a slow morning she knew she could not say in the house all day. She checked her library account on line and saw four books were due back. She might as well get them back today so they would not be late. She got dressed and decided she would walk to since it was not longer raining. She hurried to the library wanting to get there when they first open up. They were opening just as she reached the doors. She walked in wit ha smile for the older woman behind the counter. "Here you go Alice" she passed her the books.

"Thank you dear"Alice said. "And by the way we just got some new young adult books in. They are about ghost and vampires that you kids like" she said.

"Thank you Alice" she said with a last smile. She turned and headed into the younge adult section and began lookign over the books. She reached for one and her eyes were on the shelf as she moved a bit down and she accidently bumped into someone. "Oh I am so sorry" she said to them. "I was not even paying attention to anything but the books" she admited a light blush staining her cheek.

[Connor Pearce]

A library wasn’t the place Connor would normal associate with a Sunday morning, especially now that he had a boyfriend (something that still made him dance around rather accurately to the High School Musical soundtracks when no one was looking) and he discovered just how fun it was to lie around in bed all morning long. Something that he and Kian would try to cut down on, mainly due to the fact that they didn’t want to infringe on Mike now the boat was his home.

It probably was a good (and maybe healthy) thing to get some time apart, especially as it gave Connor a chance to catch up on things he never got to during the week, such as visiting the library. It was perfect timing now too, a chance to kill two birds with one stone. He wanted to go along with Kian while he filmed his scenes for his show, but the fellow Irishman told him it could get boring, so it wouldn’t hurt to bring a book or two. And add to that his extremely lateness at turning up at Julia’s house the day before, he figured it would be a really good idea to make those books as Tolkien-related as possible, trying to get in some sucking up.

He had no idea where to find them though, so he wandered around the unfamiliar building, slightly distracted as he sent off his friend a quick text. He barely put his phone back into his pocket when someone bumped into him, or he bumped into someone, he couldn’t tell. “It’s alright, I wasn’t paying attention either.” he chuckled, faintly recognising the girl, his mind quickly trying to go through all the possibilities and remember her name. He was usually good with them. “Are you okay? I didn’t bump you too hard, did I?” Grinning, he glanced around where they were, quickly guessing this wasn’t where he wanted to be. “And I’m completely in the wrong section.”

[Elena Hykes]

Elena smiled at the guy. "I am fine no harm no foul" she said. "No bumps and burises so I am good to go. What about you?" she asked him. She took wings off the shelf and tucked it under her arm. "What are you looking for?" she asked him. Sometimes it felt like she could do this job because she knew the library so well. She has been in all sections and taken books from all sections. It was either for reserach for work or just for fun or prepartion for work, or just books that she really wants to read.

"If I know what you are looking for that can help me figure out if you are in the right section" she said to him. Seeing one more book, the latest in the House of Night series. "I have all mine so I am all done" she grinned. "Now lets get you your books" she grinned. She wondered if he was a avid reader and what he was in to. "Other then the books you are looking for what kind of stuff do you like to read?" she asked him curiously. She pushed a piece of her dark hair behind her ears, it kept brushing against her cheek and tickling it.

[Connor Pearce]

“Oh I’m fine. I’m sturdier than I look.” Connor grinned, tugging the scarf wrapped tightly around his neck a little loose. The whole image of a library being stuffy really wasn’t far off the mark. His eyes skirted over the book she grabbed before he met her gaze, grinning brightly. If she was nice enough to offer to help, he certainly wasn’t going to turn her down. Knowing him, it was likely he would get lost somewhere between the children’s books and Shakespeare, and would never emerge again. So in what was likely a very smart move, he nodded at her offer. “That’ll be great, thanks.” he smiled appreciatively.

“Basically, I’ll be happy with anything to do with The Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit, Tolkien. I have a friend really interested in all of that stuff, and I’m trying to get back in her good books, so I figured it couldn’t hurt to do a bit of reading on it.” he admitted with a laugh. “Instead of, you know, just watching the movies.”

He let the girl lead the way, happy to trail behind her. “Well, I’m not usually a big reader.” he confessed. “Though I tend to devour anything on photography, I like to fancy myself a photographer. You’re just lucky I don’t have a camera on me, I usually do, you would have been my next subject.”

He ended up pulling his scarf off, intent to carry it instead, and just when he was about to say something else, a thought popped into his head. “Elena!” He laughed at her confused expression, figuring he owed her an explanation. “I was trying to remember your name. I know I’ve seen you around school, can't remember if we have a class together. I’m Connor, by the way.”

[Elena Hykes]

she nodded appertitvaly when she heard his word. "Those are good books I have read them all" she said. It fit in her to supernatrual fantasy fasincation. "The movies are good to of the Lord Of The Rings" she said. "And you want the fantasy section for them." She began walking knowing excatly where to go. It did not take her long to get to the fantasy section. She headed down near the end of it and as she walked along she ran her finger along the spines. "Here you go all of Tolkins work" she said when she got to the right spot. She moved out of the way so he could get to the books and pick them out.

"Well you are doign the smart thing reading it. Who knows you just might love the books yourself then" she grinned. "What do you read when you do want to read?" she asked him. "And I hope that made sense" she said with a laugh and a smile. "I am not a good subject" she said to him right away. "Subject should be be beautiful and well there are so many people much more beautiful then me" she glanced over at him. "I mean if you go into school you see so many people that beat me by ten miles in looks" she said and shrugged. "Which is cool with me" which was honestly true and she gave him a smile.

She nodded when he said her name. It was nice to have people know her name. Just like it is nice she is actually meeting people and not being so shy. "Yep you got the name right" she said. "I am sorry I don't know yours. I have not really wanted to get to know people till now" she admited to him. When he said his name after that she held out her hand for him to shake. "Nice to meet you Connor" she said to him. "I am not sure if we do or not. We will just have to see tommrow if we do have any classes together" she grinned.

[Connor Pearce]

“They are pretty good. But really, really long.” Connor laughed. “Which isn’t so bad the first time around, but you start to notice it just around the time you start to lose track of how many times you’ve actually seen each one. Julia really, really likes them. So I thought watching them would be the easy way out. Maybe not.”

The broad grin that lit his face faded somewhat when Elena moved out of the way, revealing just how many books there was to go through. A closer inspection brought some relief, a lot of the books were the same, just with different covers, probably just to panic and worry guys like him. But still, there were more books than he figured, and something told him they weren’t exactly light and easy reading. Tolkien sure liked to write, it seemed. Connor almost wished that Julia’s fascination had been with something lighter instead, like Garfield. Or Dilbert, he loved Dilbert.

“Thanks.” he smiled, deciding to stick with the basics first, pulling out the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and The Hobbit. He liked The Hobbit already, it wasn’t that big compared to the rest of them. “Yeah, I just might.” he agreed, thinking it would definitely make reading them all easier if he actually liked them. The movies were good after all. And Julia would love that, he knew, if she turned him into a fellow Tolkien fanatic. That would definitely get him back into her good books.

“Well, I read a lot of magazines. I find it hard to get into a book.” Connor told Elena, moving away from the shelves. “Though, this might kick start me into reading a bit more. Something tells me you’re a big reader? Either that, or you like getting to know where everything in the library is.” he teased her lightly.

“Hey, don’t go put yourself down. You’re cute.” he pointed out, meaning that as innocently as possible. “You’re exactly who I like to take pictures of. And you’ve dobbed yourself in now, I’m going to have to track you down at school, jump out at you and start snapping.” he laughed. “But not in a weird, stalkerish way, not at all.”

Moving the books so that he held them in one arm, he held out his free hand, shaking hers. “Nice to meet you too Elena. It would be good. I don’t have enough people to copy answers from in class. Not that I do that, of course.” he grinned. “So what is it that you like to read? And you’re not planning to stay here all day are you, it’s our last day of freedom!”

[Elena Hykes]

"You are such a sweet freind to do this to get back in your friend Julia's good graces. What did you do to make her so mad?" she asked him curiously. She saw the look on his face and felt for him. Some sections can definatly be overwhelming for people that was not use to the libraray. Of course it does not take long to figure things out if you come often enough. And dear sweet Alice if she likes you she saves back new books you might like or points you to them right away. "The books are usually better then the movies when it comes to stuff like that. Sure some movies can't beat the books, and do not make fun of me for this one, Twilight the book is better then the movie" she said.

She laughed at what he said to teaser. "Yes I have always been a big reader, so I am here often and plus I also come here for research for my one job" she said to him. She knows even around the room with the old magazine acrticles and newspaper acrticles, she can really work those machines good. "I even can tell you where the older magazines and newspaper that you have to look at in the machine is" she grinned. "So call me a book geek and I love it" she chuckled and smiled.

"Well I will be prepared for you at anymoment then. I might have to start walking like a movie star and dressing like one" she teases. Of course that would never happen, Elena was just Elena, and she was not popular and she was a ghost hunter and into supernatrual sci-fi fantasy type of stuff more then anything. So she knew that put her in the loser catagory but so far for being a loser she is doing good meeting new people. Elena shook his heand and smiled. "Well I am smart so it is not like you would not get a good score off of me unless I purposely put the wrong answer" she told him teasingly. "I am into all kinds of things" she admited. "When it comes to young adults I like fantasy and sci-fi, so books about vampires, ghost, and faries, and the like. And I do alot of reserach on places or people so I spend a lot of time in that section to. I have to go to work from lunch to closing and then from 11 to 2 I am doing my second job."

[Connor Pearce]

“Well, maybe not so sweet. Considering I did something stupid to get her annoyed in the first place.” Connor happily admitted. Well, he was stupid for forgetting in the first place, especially when he insisted he wouldn’t, so he was more than willing to take all the blame. And then suck up as much as possible so she wouldn’t be annoyed with him anymore. Besides that, he was actually really looking forward to tonight. It had been a while since just he and Julia hung out, and he felt more than a little bad for not having done it nearly as much when he started dating Kian. Especially as he never thought himself to be one of those people who ignored his friends when he started dating someone, even someone as cute as Kian. So he was trying to make up for it now. And hanging out with Julia was always fun and junk food-filled. He couldn’t count the number of cookies he ate since they became friends.

“My boyfriend Kian and I were meant to go to her place yesterday, to play around with this new Lord Of The Ring computer game. She’s really a fan.” he chuckled. “I kinda got distracted and it slipped my mind, so I ended up coming late. Really late. Can’t blame her for being annoyed. Hence, trying to make it up to her.” he explained, holding up the books in his hand.

“Don’t worry, I won’t tease you.” Connor grinned. “At least, not to your face anyway.” Laughing, he glanced around and seeing a small table behind him, put the books and his scarf down on it as he leant against it. “Well, I’m a photo geek, so I can’t comment on you being a book geek. We can just revel in our cool geekness together.” he suggested, smirking just a little.

He pulled a puppy dog look at her then, looking at Elena wide-eyed. “See this adorable face? Why would you lie to me, to this face, give me the wrong answer?” he teased. “If we do have any classes together, I’ve gotta sit with you now.” Maybe she was another way to get in good with Julia, a girl who she could talk to for....girl talk, and whatever it was girls did together. “So, a bit of a fantasy buff too then. Something tells me you and Julia would get along really well. If this plan doesn’t work, maybe you could defend me to her.” he laughed.

He couldn’t imagine having a job himself, he felt so busy lately, he couldn’t imagine having time for working. Luckily his family was so well off, he didn’t need to at the moment. He certainly couldn’t imagine working as much as Elena seemed to. “What do you research? What are your jobs? It must be busy, having two.”

[Elena Hykes]

"Well I can see why she is perturbed at you then forgetting. You are a bad bad boy" she tsked him in a fake stern voice. "On the other hand though it does happen so I am sure it won't take much for you to get back in your good graces. I am sure she can not resist that cute face of yours" she smiled at him. She thought he was a great guy because he wanted to do that with a friend, a nice guy like that any girl would be lucky to have as a friend. "I am sure it will work out perfectly for you."

She laughed at what he said and sat down her books next to his. "Well we can be geek together then very happy in our geekness. We geeks could start a club called Geeks United" she grinned and joked and laughed. She was glad that he was comfortable with himself the same way that she was. "What got you into photography in the first place?" she asked him curioiusly. "I love looking at pictures and stuff but I have never gotten into photography big time." She did take photos for the ghost hunting and she looked at those photos very closely to see if anything shows up.

"I would be happy to defend you to her. I can let her know that you worked really hard to find the books and read them. I mean another girl believes another girl easily, you men we just don't know about" she laughed and said teasingly to him. "You can sit with me anytime" she said. "I might actually get into trouble the first time in class since we might get a bit like chatty Cathy's" she grinned. "Of course I have been good all year I can afford to get in trouble." She has a bad girl side that comes out in the colors that she wears, the darker colors she favors more over pastel girly colors. "I would love to meet you friend I have a feeling I will like her to."

"Well I work as a waitress for job one. That is the boring perdicatable one. You have the older people that come around and the families. The young and old perverted men. So that way it is a job you can handle easily" she smiled. She bit her lip before saying her second job not sure how he will react. "Well I work for the local ghost hunting society. So I work in all departments learning the ropes and we go to places all over california and come summer a few trips out of state to. So call me a book geek ghost hunter" she said with a smile. She was sure her passion for ghost hunting was going to come through she could never hide it when she talked about it.

[Connor Pearce]

“Let’s hope so.” Connor grinned, thinking that if anything could get him back in Julia’s good books, it would be developing a love of all things Tolkien. He could just see the two of them, travelling round the country for Lord Of The Rings conventions, dressed up in cloaks and pointy ears. He wasn’t too keen on that thought, computer games, fine, reading, fine, dressing up, maybe not. “Good idea, I’ll use my looks to make her forgive me.” he laughed.

“Not too sure.” he shrugged, considering it. “When I was young, my parents gave me my first camera, it was just an old one of theirs, and ever since then, I’ve been hooked. Barely a day goes by without me taking a picture of something. My parents even caved in and let me have my own dark room, that’s how addicted I am to it.” Connor laughed. “It probably started because when I was younger, I hated being photos being taken of me. So if I was the one doing the snapping, I wouldn’t have to worry about it.”

Smirking, he was glad he had someone on his side, at least. “Hey, us guys are the easy ones.” he defended, “It’s you girls who are really confusing. With your ability to, you know, do more than one thing at once. It’s really not impressive, so you know.” he teased. “It’s okay, I prefer talking in class than actually paying attention anyway. A bit of trouble doesn’t bother me. I’ll just do what you said anyway. I’ll use my pretty looks to get us both out of it. I’m sure that’ll work.”

A waitress seemed a typical job for someone in school, but ghost hunting, well, that was new. “Really? A geek ghost hunter? Well, I have to admit, now that is impressive.” he laughed. “To be honest, I didn’t realise we had a local ghost hunting society. But that’s really cool. I’ve never met a ghost hunter before. So, what does it actually involve, what do you have to do? And have you ever seen a ghost before?”