It was official. This book was truly brilliant.
And Darcy could barely put it down.
"Are you still reading that?" Jane asked with surprise evident in her tone as she cleaned up around the flat they lived in, putting their dirty dishes into the sink and flipping on the faucet. It was rare Darcy finished a book, she had the attention span of a fish, unless it had something to do with bands, guys, or bars. The mocha-haired girl had been reading the book for the past few days and gushing about how brilliant the words and writing were. But Jane could understand, hell, she had a whole bookshelf in her room. Darcy tore her eyes away from the intriguing pages of the book she held in her hands, giving her brunette friend a glare.
"Yes I'm still reading this. I'm not completely helpless with books, you know."
"Darcy, what about that time we had to study for that test yesterday and by starting you threw your textbook into the near-by trash can?"
The short girl chewed on the inside of her cheek at Jane's very accurate words. But could you really blame her? Who really studies for any tests?
"Well, it offended me by weighing down my bag and causing it to wrinkle. I need to actually Iron my bag now!"
Jane rolled her eyes playfully before going over, lifting Darcy's feet and grabbing a couple of stacked, small journals and set them down. It had been apparent that her friend was back to being engross in the pages once more.
"What's it called?" She decided to ask finally, going into her room and opening the drawer, putting her astronomy journals neatly on the side before returning to the living room area.
"The nine tricks. By supposedly Loki Laufeyson himself." Darcy answered distractedly, lifting her book higher so her face was hidden. Jane raised her brow at the word 'supposedly'.
"Loki Laufeyson? You mean the famous author? And guitarist?"
"Oh yeah! Him. Though no one see's him out much, which is a bummer, I want to meet him."
"Maybe he want's to stay out of the spotlight."
Darcy made a small 'hm' sound under her breath in response to that. Perhaps Jane was right, but her curiosity was peaked, fully. God, she even felt bad for wanting to find the guy. Jane blew a piece of hair out of her face from the exerted energy of running about the flat and neating things up before she noticed a certain look on her best friends face, one where some kind of trouble was brewing.
"I know that look...Darcy, please don't go and stalk him." She practically groaned. Darcy immediately let out a laugh at how quickly Jane caught onto her plan.
"But Jane! Aren't you curious yourself? Someone's got to know something about where he is...Laptop time!" The once engrossing book was now forgotten, tossed onto the sofa where the intern once sat. Seeing no use in trying to stop her, Jane sighed and picked up the book, her eyes skimming over the pages as well and reading to herself.
"Darcy...These are just tips on how to.." Her eyes squinted. "Turn someone into a smoothie!?"
"I know! Brilliant stuff there...But that's not all it says..." She trailed off as her fingers maneuvered over the keyboards, then her hand on the mouse, clicking on links and immediately clicking the back button when it was something she wasnt looking for.
Jane set down the book, putting in a bookmark so Darcy wouldn't lose her spot before she decided to text Erik on details of his trip to Egypt to see how the stars looked over there. In his response he texted that he was freezing his ass off.
"Aha! Jackpot! He's living at this apartment building he shares with his older brother, Thor." Darcy pointed to the screen of a fairly nice-looking, brick apartment complex with a large lawn and two cars: One white and the other a shiny, deep emerald color.
"I say we head down there tonight."
"Oh no no no. And what if we get caught?"
Darcy waved a dismissive hand.
"Psh! We won't. Beside's you didn't notice I borrowed your toothbrush to.."
I have no idea where this idea came from, honestly. XP I just decided to write it at 3 in the morning, sigh, haha.