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The Library; Monday [ 09/22 ]

When considering the possible things that he could do when he opened the library to keep himself from getting bored, Cal considered three different things. The first was the obligatory studying for school. The second consisted of studying for the play. The third, which would be more time consuming and therefor what he would likely pursue, was to track down some titles he remembered from Dr. Luce's office, especially vivid in his head after telling Amber about him on Friday, and see if they existed in the library.

However, once he did, in fact, open, and saw the residual results of all that research done over the weekend because of that island, Cal realized that cleaning up after the fact was going to keep him plenty busy enough.

[[ also? My computer is jacked up and marking everything as October, apparently. XD ]]

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Amber giggled. "I wasn't going to ask, sweetheart," she said, her eyes bright. "A library always manages to affect me the same way."

"It's not so bad for the first, you know, gazillion hours," Cal shrugged, leaning forward on the desk with his chin cradled in his palm as he looked up over at Amber, "but that last gazillion and oneth hour is a killer..."

"I imagine," she said, still smiling, though she did glance around with arched brows. "You know, I think I've been in here maybe twice since I've lived here? I suck."

"There's a whole section of smutty romance down that way, too," Cal said, pointing over to the right somewhere, and doing his best to maintain the most innocent of expressions.

"Seriously? Cool..." Amber commented as she glanced down that way. "Uh. But you know, I think I might be reconsidering the whole smutty novel industry. Once you've read one? You've basically read them all. I'm getting tired of pirates and kilts and the secretary hiding under the managers office desk." Reno's magazines just had to go back.

Cal had to arch an eyebrow at that last one. "Secretary under the manager's office desk?" he asked. "I don't think I remember you mentioning that one before..."

And, hey, he had a desk right now...

Cal shook his head slightly. Bad thoughts, Stephanides, bad!

"Oh, it was a new one," she waved her hand dismissively with an air of nonchalance. "Really, it was kind of boring and... " Actually, it had been rather exciting.

"You like working in here, Cal?"

Yeah, Cal wasn't going to believe for a second that it would have been boring, but he'd let Amber have that one, if only to prevent his thoughts from dwelling below the front desk. He gave her a faint smile. "I do," he said. "It's a lot quieter than the diner and I don't leave smelling like burgers. A little boring, but there's never a shortage of anything to read, and that's all I do at the diner, anyway, sit and read when there aren't customers."

"What's your current read?" she asked, curious.

Cal shrugged. "I've been working through some classics. Melville. That book about a whale? God, that's boring, but, you know, it's one of those things you try to get through, anyway, just to say you have."

Then he took a moment, glancing around although he knew they were alone, and lowered his voice, leaning slightly forward and shifting in the chair. "I also went and checked to see if we had some of those books from Dr. Luce's office here, you know, the ones I mentioned? Talking about it reminded me and, yup, sure enough, they do..."

"Yah, I never read that book. I kind of don't plan on it either. It's too damn long," she replied with a little nod of her head.

Oh, but this was interesting, however. "Will you show me?"

Cal blanhed slightly at the request. "You...really?"

"Yes... unless you don't want me to see these books?"

"Uh, no," Cal frowned a little, rubbing a hand at the back of his neck. "It's not that. It's just...I never thought you'd be that interested in erotosexual pair bondings."

Amber felt her cheeks turn warm. "Well, you know me - never afraid to broaden my mind..."

Grinning slightly, although not without a little flush of his own, Cal cocked his head toward one of the shelves and got up, to start moving toward it. "Let's go, then."

Biting her lip, Amber followed him. "How many books can I check out at one time?"

"You actually want to check them out?" Cal asked, his brow creasing a little, but unabashedly since she was behind him. "You know, a lot of the ones I'm talking about don't even really deal with my...um...

Amber was totally checking out his backside. "Then help me out here," she suggested quietly. "Show me what I need to help better understand your condition."

If Cal knew that Amber was doing that, he would have been required to ask 'What backside?'

Even though he knew he chose the word first, his nose wrinkled a little to hear Amber call it a condition, and he stopped a bit, biting his lip thoughtfully.

"Well," he said, reluctantly. "There is one thing..."

A skinny ass didn't mean she wouldn't look.

"What?" she asked.

"It's...really outdated by now, I'm sure," Cal continued, both in his idea and in walking, "but there was a book. I'm, uh, well...I was actually one of the case studies, for the chapter on my...you know."

"Oh my god, really?" Amber followed closer, intrigued by the idea of getting to read about him. "Is it by this Dr. Luce?"

"And some of his associates," Cal added, with a slight nod, as he dully kept his eyes on the numbers on the shelves to locate the right area. He thought about Amber reading through it, all those technical terms, but mostly, the diagrams, the charts, the photograph with the black-barred eyes to keep his identity safe.

Amber was looking at the shelves too, having no idea what she was looking for but whatever, she was searching. "You wouldn't mind, Cal, seriously, if I read this book?"

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