Sammy was lining the books on the shelves evenly, making sure that they all rested on the very edge of the shelf. She straightened her neck back up and shifted the phone she had been holding to the other shoulder.
"You're leaving for college in two days Sammy, we need to go out and do something." JJ's voice said through the phone.
"I know, I know. My shift ends in a hour, you can pick me up then." Sammy said, picking up several more books off of her black cart.
"What do you want to do?" JJ asked.
"What can we do here after eight on a week night?" Sammy asked back, a small chuckle in her voice.
"True, we have to do things tomorrow. We can get the whole pod and have a big 'Goodbye Sammy' party." JJ suggested.
"I am only moving an hour away, or a half hour with how you speed." Sammy had finished shelving the books and went back to her cart to get the last ones.
"You're still leaving us Sammy, we're not gonna see you every day." JJ protested.
"Yeah, yeah." Sammy grabbed the phone and moved it away from her ear when she heard some boys yelling. "I'll call you right back."
"But-" Sammy closed her phone and tucked it into her pocket, carrying the books with her as she walked over to where the boys were at.
"Fuck this book and fuck this book." One of the boys in the group of three said as he tossed books off of a shelf Sammy had just finished fixing.
"May I help you?" Sammy said through gritted teeth.
"Fuck off girly, go read your books." The largest boy of the group said.
"Get out." Sammy stated.
"Who are you to tell us whether to get out or not? Maybe I like staying here?"
"I work here. Now get out." Sammy took in a deep breath through her nose, knowing that she had to stay calm.
"And I care why?" The boy grabbed one of the books and ripped out a page. Sammy's eye twitched and she walked up to the boy, dropping all of the books in her hands on his foot.
"Get out of my library right now before I call the cops!" She screamed.
"Make me." The boy grabbed Sammy by the shoulders and threw her back into her cart.
"You're going to regret that." Sammy said and launched herself at the boy, fist flying. The boy caught her hand and twisted it around Sammy's body, making her face away from him and gasp in pain when he pulled her arm up.
"What was that again?" The boy chuckled, his voice going lower.
"What's going on? Sam!" One of Sammy's coworkers had walked in after hearing her yell and quickly ran back out. "I'm calling the police!" She called. A different coworker ran into the room.
"Let go of her right now!" She demanded.
"Hi Lauran." Sammy said with a chuckle. "You and Eloise are gonna miss this when I'm gone."
"Let her go." Lauran repeated.
"I got it." Sammy suddenly jerked her body forward, holding onto her arm as she flipped the boy over her. The boy released her as he landed on the ground with a loud 'thump'.
"How did you…"
"I have no idea." Sammy admitted. "It kind of just happened." Sammy looked down and yelped when she saw that he had changed.
"The police are on their-ah!" The first coworker screamed.
"Run!" Sammy yelled at her coworkers before jumping over the deformed boy. The boy had caught her ankle as she was jumping and Sammy slammed into the ground. The two other boys ran past them and after the other woman. "Fuck off!" Sammy kicked the stretched out face of the boy and scrambled away. As she ran by the stairs, not falling for that classic horror movie mistake, she saw that one of the boys was attacking the door that lead to the playroom and the other was blocking the exit with his body, completely calm. Sammy went past the boys and into the children's section of the library. She peeked over the little white door and didn't see her coworkers in the room, the must have either went upstairs or managed to get past the boy blocking the door. Sammy went through the door when she heard the largest boy getting close to the room. She went to the small closet and tried to open it, but found it lock. The closet was never locked. "Oh…fuck." She cursed when the deformed boy kicked open the wooden door, sending it flying across the room.
"I bet your soul is delicious!" The boy said. Sammy swallowed and pressed her back against the door, feeling something knock in it.
"Fuck." Sammy cursed again, having found her coworkers.
"Come here!" The boy dived towards Sammy and she hopped to the side, the stomach of her shirt getting ripped by his sharp hands. Sammy ran out of the room and ended up in the hard-books section of the children's room. She saw that the boy had stopped in front of the closet door and was about to grab the knob.
"Hey, ugly whore!" Sammy screamed, distracting him from the closet. "Sorry." Sammy said to one of the small blue chairs before grabbing it and smashing it across the boy's face when he had reached her. Sammy quickly grabbed another chair and ran away, running past the small shelves and eventually ending up with the taller, non-fiction shelves. Sammy screamed when the shelf next to her was knocked over and she dropped to her knees, hands over her head and ready for the impact. She felt the books fall on top of her and waited for the actual shelf to land. Sammy looked up and saw that the shelf was leaning against the wall, making a triangle shape above around her. "Thank you Lord." She sighed.
"Come here!" Sammy's heart skipped when the boy screamed and started crawling after her from the other end of the triangular tunnel.
"Fuck you and everything you stand for!" Sammy yelled and scrambled out of the tunnel, dragging the small chair with her. Sammy was about to run out of the room when she saw the door blocker boy standing in her way again. Sammy ended up having to go right back into the playroom.
"What do you think you're doing?" Sammy's boss' voice said from the other end of the door the second boy was scratching on.
"John! Get away from him!" Sammy shouted and threw her body against the door, twisting the knob so it would open and throw the second boy back and away from her boss.
"What's going on Samantha?" John asked.
"I have no idea!" Sammy admitted. "Just run!" Sammy pushed her boss back into the librarian's side office and closed the door, turning back around in time to throw up a leg and kick the deformed boy away from her. "How long does it take for cops to arrive!?" She snapped before jumping on top of the large boy, hoping she could hold him down for at least a little bit. Sammy looked up and saw that the second boy was about to attack her.
"Nope!" Lauran shouted before smashing the chair Sammy had dropped across the boy's head. "My library, bitch!" Lauran pumped her chest out and moved her arms back.
"I would hate to ruin your moment, but can you please help." Sammy said as she struggled to hold the deformed boy down. Both women flinched when they heard the front door of the library being kicked open and the boy at the door was tackled by several officers. "Took you fuckers long enough!" Sammy snapped.
"Alright ladies, we can handle this." One of the male officers said as he and two other officers walked over to Sammy and Lauran.
"I think I handled this quite well on my own." Sammy scoffed, but got off of the boy anyways.
"Don't even think about it." The officer pointed a gun at the boy when he tried to get up.
"I'll get Eloise out of the closet while you get John out of the office." Lauran said. "My husband is so not going to believe this." She added as she walked away. Sammy opened the office door and John casually walked out.
"Okay…I have no idea what just happened." He admitted.
"Welcome to the club." Sammy sighed.
x~x~x
Sammy was sitting outside of the library on a small swinging bench, a blanket wrapped around her shoulders and her face flashing red and blue from the police lights. She was about to remove the 'shock' blanket, not thinking that she needed it since she felt perfectly fine, when a young officer walked up to her with a steaming mug.
"They said that you didn't like coffee, so I made you some hot coco." The man said as he handed Sammy the mug.
"Thanks." Sammy said softly, getting a better look at the officer. She knew him, not by name though, but he was one of the cops that would walk around the high school during classes to make sure that everything was okay. She never really understood why there had to be cops in her school, maybe it was because of all of the mayhem happening in Europe, but she had just accepted it during her senior year and let the officers be.
Sammy thoughts were interrupted when she heard a loud screech of a tan van taking a turn much faster than it should.
"There they are." She chuckled to herself, adjusting her hands on the mug so they wouldn't burn as much. "My parents." Sammy added when she saw the confused look on the officer's face.
"Oh my God! Samantha! Are you okay!?" Sammy watched as he mother ran out of the car and up to her, her face red with worry and anger. Sammy looked a lot like her mother, but her curls were looser and she was a little smaller than the older woman.
"I'm fine mama." Sammy muttered as her head was turned side to side by her mother.
"She's not injured ma'am." The officer added.
"What the hell happened!?" Sammy's mother demanded, her voice raising over the sound of the police sirens.
"Just come with me ma'am and I'll explain everything." The officer said calmly.
"We can't just leave Sam here." Sammy's father said.
"She's fine, I promise. Pus I think she needs a minute to fully accept what just happened." The officer turned around and started walking, gesturing for Sammy's parents to follow. Sammy let out a sigh of relief when her parent were gone, not ready to tell the whole story all over again since she's told everyone at least five time in the past ten minutes. Her sigh soon became a groan when she saw two more cars pull into the already crowded parking lot.
"Oh fuc-"
"Sammy!" JJ cut off Sammy's curse as he, Haley and Rob ran up to her.
"What happened?" Haley asked.
"Did you set something on fire?" Rob pointed at the firetruck.
"What are you guys doing here?" Sammy asked, ignoring her friends' questions. "I thought only you were coming." Sammy said to JJ as she shrugged off the blanket and sat the mug on the ground.
"We're kidnapping you for a 'good-bye Sammy' party." JJ stated.
"Well, I can't go with you guys now. My parents-"
"We're taking your daughter!" Haley called after JJ and Rob grabbed Sammy by the wrists and dragged her to JJ's car.
"What!?"
"I'll text you!" Sammy called as JJ drove away, not waiting for her to put on her seat-belt.
"Sorry!" Rob added before he and Haley drove off as well.