Library, Thursday

[genesishero]

Evan had been on a roll in the library with his usual assistant duties until he'd found himself completely stymied by one of the books he'd been wanting to re-shelve. No matter where he looked, he just couldn't find an author's name on it anywhere. Frowning, he'd taken it back to the desk and started to read it, and had soon found himself sucked into a romance novel, of all things.

The first chapter had started out pretty normally. A guy telling a girl that he loved her with all his heart. Chapter two had been more of the same, some 'always be with you' talk that made Evan wrinkle his nose a little.

... Chapter three had him blushing.

Around the fourth chapter, when the main couple in the story broke up and then got back together in a matter of a few pages, Evan gave up trying to find a clue as to the identity of the mystery author completely.

That was going to bug him, now. He was going to spend the rest of his shift wondering who wrote The Book Of Love.

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Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

Oh, the way Evan's face lit up when she said that. It was a wonder he wasn't actually literally glowing, at this rate.

"It's fine," he said quickly, smiling and barely refraining from bouncing on his toes. "I know your home probably doesn't have Valentine's Day. I just... it was something nice to do, and I've never had someone to give flowers to except maybe my Ma on mother's day, and... and I wanted to."

And now he was blushing. Funny how that worked.

"Happy Valentine's Day, Sholeh."

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[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"Thank you," she said, burying her own burning cheeks in the bouquet of flowers she held. "Happy Valentine's Day to you, too. I, umm, didn't get you a flower--"

As, y'know, she'd said before.

"--But the sorority had us making Valentines of our own, so I'm not completely empty-handed." With another shy smile, she passed him a Valentine (http://listphobia.com/wp-content/uploads/HomemadeValentinesDayCards.jpg)/

Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

Oh, wow. It was handmade and everything? Evan certainly hadn't made a card by hand in his life, though his mother sometimes did, for special occasions. He was a little wide-eyed as he accepted the Valentine, running his fingers over the front of it.

"This is beautiful. You made this?" If he smiled any more than he was, it was entirely possible his face would split along that convenient line that divided it in two. "For me? Thank you!"

He was going to keep it forever and ever. It would last way longer than the rose, after all.

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"You're welcome," Sholeh said, glad that he liked it. "It was the activity in sorority yesterday. I'm so glad it was, because otherwise I wouldn't have anything to offer anyone today. And it would be a poor thank you to you, and Ulrik, and Po, who sent me these flowers. I would have been greatly embarrassed."

Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

"Just knowing you liked the flowers at all would have been good enough for me," Evan replied, with a little scuff of his toe against the floor. "Do you have holidays like this one at all where you're from?"

Maybe with less chocolate?

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[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"Good enough for you, maybe, but I still would have felt bad about it," Sholeh said, before shaking her head at his question. "Oh, no, we haven't anything like this. Well...maybe the vernal equinox? That holiday seems kind of close to this one. It's not a celebration of a particular patron saint of any kind, but it does celebrate, umm, relationships. And fertility. Good crops and all that."

Lambs. Spring plowing. Yearlings. Young people sneaking off to have sex. That kind of thing.

Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

Here was where Evan was going to just pretend that it hadn't even occurred to him that a fertility celebration might involve, you know, sex.

Because he was going to be a virgin forever, dammit. Yes.

"It sounds like an interesting celebration," he offered, and then, because apparently it was the thing to ask, he added, "how do people celebrate it?"