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FH Library, Thursday

Angela believed it was very important she familiarize herself with the contents of the library before any new librarian was hired.

For example, she hadn't spent much time in the A/V room during the school year. And the second season of Vanessa Saturn had just come in on DVD, and Angela really wanted to find out who sank the yacht for the class trip.

So until someone came in to interrupt, Angela was watching a teen-chick-detective marathon on the computer at the counter.

[OOC: Summer = no OCD. SP from me after 12:30 p.m. EDT, gone entirely after 9 p.m.]

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Marty looked around the library as if somebody was watching them. "The library police won't bust out and arrest me for stepping behind the counter will they?"

"I don't think so?," Angela said. "And if they show up, I'll pretend to be Parker and just glare until they go away."

"Oh yeah? I'd like to see that," Marty replied. "Let me see your glare and see if it is worthy of Parker's."

Angela imagined Marty was Danielle.

And that she had just read Angela's 9th-grade diary over the loudspeaker while making editorial comments. She was also eating a gloppy chili dog and wearing Angela's favorite dress.

Her eyes narrowed. "How's this?"

The look was enough for Marty to take two steps back. "I'd say that's a pretty effective glare. Thank God I haven't annoyed you lately."

"Lately," Angela said, holding the glare for a moment longer. Then she started to laugh. "I pretended you were my sister."

"What was she doing? Talking on the phone all the time with her boyfriend or just pestering you to get a reaction," Marty said with a laugh.

"It was a little more elaborate than that," Angela admitted though a giggle. "The 'get off the phone now glare is more like this."

She demonstrated a slightly softened look.

"You have your glares down," Marty said looking impressed. "Do you have any more in your repetoire?"

Angela thought about it, and shook her head. "Two's usually enough," she said. "Why, do yoou have more?"

"Just the one," Marty said demonstrating. "I don't use it much anymore now that Bel seems to be on the straight and narrow. So to speak."

Angela shivered. "Yeah, that'd work," she said. "So I saw merPhoebe yesterday."

"Merwhat?"

"Phoebe-the-mermaid?" Angela tried again. "At the beach. She was in this reallly good mood, she just had a tail. And she said Bel was mad at her."

Marty continued the buh moment for a moment or two longer. "Oh. That's weird. Was there a little crab singing about life under the sea as well?"

Angela snickered at that. "Not that I saw, but I might have missed it."

"I brought her a hamburger. She said she was okay but a little sick of seafood."

"Well when your only choice is sushi? Yeah, I can see that," Marty slipping behind the counter. "That was pretty nice of you though. Any idea if she's going to be regular Phoebe again?"

Angela shrugged. "She said Piper was looking for a spell, so it shouldn't take too long."

She turned, indicating the space behind the counter. "So does the world look all different from back here?"

"Well I suddenly feel very powerful," Marty joked. "Like I can give late fees to random people who bother me."

"Just don't sign anything," Angela advised. "Zero's cute, but we don't need more mallet trauma."

"What would I be signing exactly?" Marty asked raising an eyebrow. "And why would it involve her mallet?"

"A contract with the library," Angela reminded him. "Remember, the library used to talk to her and tell her to chase people with the mallet for overdue books? We had to tear the contract up so she could quit."

"Ah. That's right," Marty said smacking his head. "I totally forgot about that. Remind me never to sign a contract here in FH. I might end up the Janitor for the rest of my life here."

"Fate worse than death," Angela said. Then, reflectively, "Though staying here more than a year might be nice."

"What? You mean like after college?" Marty asked.

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