Library (12/14/05)

[janet_fraiser]

After Classics--and a quick trip to visit Daniel--Janet opened up the library, dropped her backpack in a corner, and started finding excuses not to work.

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[janet_fraiser]

"Oh?" asked Janet. "I think there's a class on it. That they're offering again. Next term?" She started talking a mile a minute. Why had she come out from behind the Collections Desk again? "Chemistry's fascinating. There are all kinds of new discoveries. For example, did you know that they're studying the uses that pheromones--"

Janet stopped, blushed, and took a step to the side. Unfortunately, she caught her foot on a hole in the carpeting and dropped all her books. Crap.

"Like perfume." She bent down to pick up the stack of books. "Or, um--" She blushed again, and tried not to think about some of the more speculative scientific papers she'd read on the subject.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Angel bent down to help her pick up the dropped books. "I get that. You know vampires have a better sense of smell than humans do. The right perfume, the right mood... it gets to us." He handed a book over to her. "In a good way."

[janet_fraiser]

Janet took the book Angel handed over and froze. "Idon'twearperfume," she said. "Um. I have allergies. To pollen. And artificial scents. And just about everything, actually."

She gulped. "Oh. Really?"

She'd tried obliviousness. She'd tried denial. She'd even tried playing the geek card. Oh, God. Sometimes it was hell being small, mostly innocent-looking, and cute.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Really," Angel smiled. "But that's okay. Natural's nice too."

[janet_fraiser]

Janet's jaw dropped, and then she recovered. Mostly. "Um." She shut her mouth, then opened it again to say something else. "You do realize I have a boyfriend, right?"

She really, really hated using that one, even if it wasn't a lie. Especially given the fact that she was dating a teacher.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Huh?" Angel blinked in confusion. "Weren't we talking about books?"

[janet_fraiser]

Janet rolled her eyes, grabbed the rest of her books, and stalked off in a quick wrap-up that she forgot to post last night, muttering something about hating the entire y-chromosome dependent half of the human species right now.