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Library; Monday [ 03/02 ].

Feeling pretty grumpy as he clung to his coffee and open the library, Cal was wondering if they could have their vacation back. Please? Pretty please? With a cherry on top.

Sighing, he resolved to try to stave off the back to school blues by doodling a little more in his notebook and trying to make something out of all his little scribbled spurts of inspiration.

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There weren't even any books to organize and put away, because no one had really been around to check them out.

Second period was the potentially working period, so Cal tried to think of something to make himself look busy.

It resulted in him finding a big old picture book with bright colourful photos of tropical island, for him to pine over.

Amber came in and made a beeline for the card catalog, keeping her head ducked. She had to get in some decent studying and she needed certain books to help her achieve what it was she was looking to do.

Cal couldn't help arching an eyebrow at Amber's darting, but he was going to be the last person to say anything, considering they hadn't talked in...oh...about forever ago. And it wasn't good, if he was remembering correctly.

So he'd just let her do her thing and then try to think of something to say that wasn't awkward when she came around to check out whatever she was getting.

Amber spent most of the entire hour searching for books. When she was satisfied with what she had, she tentatively approached the desk to check out her selections, carefully setting (http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Journalism-Newspeople-Should-Public/dp/0609806912/ref=cm_lmf_tit_1) the (http://www.amazon.com/Media-Monopoly-6th-Ben-Bagdikian/dp/0807061794/ref=cm_lmf_tit_7) stack (http://www.amazon.com/Place-News-Kay-Mills/dp/0231074174/ref=cm_lmf_tit_9) on (http://www.amazon.com/Broadcast-Writing-Reporting-Producing-Third/dp/0240804333/ref=cm_lmf_tit_4_rlrsrs0) the counter.

"Hi. I'd like to check these out, please."

It was a stack of books that hit Cal like a sledgehammer to the brain, wondering if there was something important for class he was being a failure about and completely missing.

"For class?" he asked, starting to check the books out for her.

"For myself," she replied.

Cal instantly relaxed, shoulders sagging. "Good," he said. "I thought maybe I was flipping out on some big project for Jameson's class or something."

And then he paused, his eyebrows a second later going up with interest.

"Really just..researching it for yourself?"

"No, you're fine. This is for my benefit alone," she told him, not quite meeting his eyes.

"Journalism school?" Cal asked. He wondered, briefly, if it was too much to presume, but then he realized that he was already on shaky ground with Amber. What harm could it possibly do?

She nodded. "I'm going to try," she said, frowning a little. "No, no, this is what I'm going to do. I'll make it happen." The last she added more quietly, more to herself.

Don't grin, Stephanides. Don't even think about it...

It required a very firmly set jaw and a swallow, but somehow, Cal managed to keep his face mostly impassive.

"Well," he said.

"Good."

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Cal had given up on making something out of his ramblings and was reading an old Herman Melville book (http://www.amazon.com/Typee-Herman-Melville/dp/0543898482/ref=pd_bbs_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235972952&sr=8-4).

"Caaaaal," Ino said, wandering into the library and giving it a dubious look. "It is totally your fault I'm here today, just so you know."

Totally.

Cal glanced up from his book with an arched eyebrow. "Is it?" he asked.

"Uh huh," she said with a firm little nod. "Because otherwise I wouldn't have known about Mount Rushmore, so this is totally your fault."

Even though it was her fault for, well, everything else. Ino was ignoring that. Sort of. Mostly it was fun to come in and accuse him of stuff.

Cal snorted a little. "Are you going to research it, or something?"

"I have to present on it in class this week," she informed him. "For marks."

Never mind that she'd totally agreed of her own volition for this.

"Oh, man," Cal smirked. "I've started a trend. Think you can make it as good as my awesome dictation on Smyrna?"

"Hopefully," she said optimistically. "Though you had the luck of, you know, knowing what you were talking about, so that's not really fair."

"Did you pick Mount Rushmore?" Cal asked. "Or did things end up being oddly fortuitous that Algren or Durden picked something we've talked about?"

"Well," she said slowly, "I had to ask permission to make a diorama of it 'cause it, I guess, made more sense to me than what we'd covered in class. So Algren-sensei said I could do a presentation on it, and the faces on it, and what they did."

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OOC -- 03/02.