(Levi woos Petra to start their relationship. Rivetra week day 8 prompt: simple.)

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

Levi sighed, staring out of the window, hoping that his delivery was not bad. He planned of telling Petra this for a week, but he forced his nervous self on this day.

"Is that for me?" Levi recognized the voice and turned with dread. Petra stood there nervously, leaning back slightly, eyes darting about.

"Yes." Levi sighed, hoping that that was a good fact.

Petra ran up to hug him. Levi stepped back to counter the impact. "Thank you so much!"

"You told me how to woo you."

"With good reason."

"You meant to-" Petra nodded, grinning sheepishly. "You mean you liked me since then?"

"Sort of."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Doubt and to get you to appreciate sonnets."

"It is beautiful."

"Did you read many?"

"A few of the publisher's recommendations."

"I see."

"So, will you go out with me?"

"I thought that was assumed."

"Well?"

"Of course, stupid." Petra grabbed his hand, looking like an excited child. "I have something to show you."

"What?"

"The new research room." Petra tugged him along, out of his Shakespearean alcove of books.

The research room constituted all the computers the building had: a unique aspect in 2090. The computers were used for one thing only: promoting the research of books. Books had morphed into relics, things historians discussed and museums collected. The Shinshiga library and printing press was the last place one could see books in the open and read them as ancestors once did. The printing press was the last place to use paper. In fact, they had to make this paper because nobody else did.

Levi and Petra were to inherit the place and the research room was the realization of Petra's dream of a prosperous museum for books.

(I qualify this as simple for two reasons: it was a simple process for Levi and the plot was very simple.

This was supposed to be a continuation of 'United by Books.' It was not essential, but I think that would help explain the ending.

Have fun!)