"Five more minutes, just five more minutes" Layla Stone thought as she waited for the school bell to ring and she could finally go home and enjoy the rest of her Friday after working at the High school library all day. Drumming one of her hands on her desk lightly and her other hand pulling on her very curly neck length brunette hair.
Don't get her wrong she loved her job as one of the librarians at the school, but sometimes it could be very stressful when a student constantly forget a book, or couldn't put a book back on the right shelf. I mean come on. How hard is it to do that?
The school bell let off a ding and the students in the library rushed out so they can leave for the day. Layla picked up her puffy winter coat, zipped it up and grabbed her purse, then proceeded to wave a goodbye at the two remaining librarians.
Stepping out into the chilly December fifth's air was like a slap to the face, snow was lightly sprinkled on the ground giving it a soft look. Hurrying to her silver 2009 Hyundai Accent she quickly got in the car, turned on the ignition, and cranked up the heat.
She pulled down the little sun visor mirror and stared at her reflection. Lightly pushing back the long curls as she inspected her face. Her oval shaped face that matched well with her light Caramel colored skin. She had a wide forehead, round chin and high cheekbones with hazel almond shaped eyes and dark yet slightly bushy eyebrows, and an up-turned nose. She opened her full light pink colored lips and then smiled to reveal a smile that was fairly white but had slightly crooked bottom teeth.
"Guess it's time to get these things threaded again." She said softly with a sigh as she tried to smooth out the eyebrows in an attempt to possibly make them look smaller.
Feeling a little too warm for her liking she unzipped the puffy black winter coat with long fingers and pushed the garment a little past her shoulders while sliding her arms out of its sleeves. Running both hands down her reasonably tall body that stood to about 5'7 she tried to smooth out her long sleeved cotton white shirt that clung a little too much around the slight chubbiness of her stomach and ran her hands over her thick thighs with dark colored jeans.
Making a quick grab to her phone she checked the time which read 2:31 PM then dialed a number that belonged to one of her close friends. All she got was the woman's answering machine.
"Hi, this is Jane Foster. Sorry I can't come to the phone right now, please leave me a message" A beep followed quickly after.
"Hey Jane, I just wanted to thank you for watching my daughter for me while I was at work today... and all the many times before that." She said laughing lightly into her cell phone.
"Anyway, I'll probably be home around 3:00 so I would greatly appreciate it if you could please bring Kya back to my apartment around 3:30. You're the best, bye. "She said and then hit the end button on the phone.
Immediately Layla's background screen popped up to reveal her adorable four year old daughter. The picture was of her standing next to a tree on a bright sunny day, one of her tiny hands pressed against the tall tree making her seem smaller then she really was. The wind was obviously blowing because her chest length blond wavy hair was sticking out in all different directions and her blues eyes were sparkling in pure joy which made her look so cute in her yellow sun dress.
Smiling gently at the picture she hit the lock button on the phone and slid it into her small purse. She carefully pulled out of the school's parking lot and proceeded to make her way back home.
A little bit of time has passed before ended up stuck on one road where she was barely moving down. Groaning loudly she slouched forward in her seat and looked out the slightly fogging passenger window. She was slowly driving next to what was the entrance of a park. She squinted her eyes a little as she could see a figure that was huddled under a tree that was in the middle of the park. Frowning she looked back at the car behind her and then looked at the close entrance of the park. Turning on the right blinker to signal the car behind her that she wanted to turn, and then putting a hand up as a thank you to the person who let her turn she parked into a spot that was somewhat close to the person huddled under a tree.
She turned off her car and picked up her phone to check the time, 2:45, it read.
"I'll just walk over there and see if the person is ok." She thought to herself as she slid her coat back on and put her cell phone and keys into her coat pocket.
Stepping over the curb and onto the snow covered grass she walked cautiously and looked around. Great, no witnesses while thinking "Please don't be some kind of creep." As she stood within a foot of the person that was clearly a man by the shape of the thin body that had on a terrible excuse for winter clothes.
"Um, excuse me sir. Are you ok? Is there someone I can call for you?" She said softly as she poked his shoulder a couple times. No response from the man that was sleeping. Suddenly a chilly gust of wind blew the man's long jet black hair and she got a good look of his face and let out a gasp and took about ten steps back. It was Loki, the same man, she recognized, that tried to destroy New York a year ago.
Oh my gosh, what do I do!" She said quietly as she stared at the unmoving figure.
She thought quickly, wasn't Loki the brother of Thor? And Thor and Jane were obviously very close as Jane described to her all that happened after his trip to Earth, but Thor hadn't returned to Jane yet as she described to her and he probably would come back shortly since Loki appeared to be on earth.
"Ok, maybe I should just take him back to my place and call Jane." She thought as she fidgeted side to side in nervousness, still not quite believing that it was Loki who was actually in front of her. She couldn't just leave him there, could she? No, she had a feeling that wouldn't turn our well considering that the temperature was at around 30 degrees today.
Taking a few slow steps forward she put her arm under his armpit and dragged him a little bit.
"Wow this guy sleeps like the dead." She groaned as the man still hadn't moved. Her mouth dropped open slightly as she thought that he actually might be dead.
Quickly placing two fingers at the man's pulse point on his neck and waiting, she let out a relieved sigh as she felt the strong pulse. The moved her hand to rest on his forehead, then frowning as she could feel that it was very hot. She continued to move the body until it was sitting in her passenger spot in the car. Buckling his seatbelt and closing the door as she moved around the car to her side and took her sear as well.
"I am the biggest idiot in the world." She thought as she grabbed the phone from her pocket and checked the time, which read 2:40.
"Better start driving" she thought as she started the engine and pulled out of the park heading for her apartment. Of course, being extremely tense as she was, Layla kept constantly looking at the body hoping he wouldn't wake up and attack her.