After about one final week of working on the project, Stori and Seto were finally done. And before they knew it, it was time to present the project. Stori had been the one to read the document to the class while Seto just set the things up for Stori to point out. Of course they had gotten an 'A', like Seto always does on his projects; and of course Seto believed that all of the credit would have gone to him…and partially to Stori cause she had written the report. At the end of class Stori spoke briefly to him about it.
"Nice work on the project," she said, and then she turned and left. Seto stood there, sinking in what she had said. He had gotten compliments like that from teachers and from his little fan group every now and then, but never the way she had said it. Feeling a slight bit proud of himself, Seto pushed the matter out of his mind and he left for the next class. Today just might be a good day.
When the end of the day came trudging along, everyone wiggled and twitched in their seats, eager to be rid of the day. Everyone…but Stori. When the bell rang, Stori sat in her seat for a while before sighing and getting up, grabbing her stuff as she did so.
She was one of the last people to leave the school, a 'deep-in-thought' look on her face as she faced the ground and headed home…sort of.
As Seto was exiting the school he noticed that Stori was walking in the absolutely opposite direction of her house. Not thinking much on it, he shook it out of his thoughts and went on towards Kaiba Corp.; there was a lot he had to get done there today.
Stori sighed as she slowly walked down the street. She didn't want to go, but she knew she had to; no matter how much her school and parents protested. She needed money.
"Hello?" Joey heard someone ask on the other line
"Hey Yug," he said happily into the phone.
"Oh, hey Joey. What did you need?"
"Well, I was wondering if you picked up the book I asked you to get from the library yet? I really need it for something,"
"What so important about that book Joey? You've been asking me for the past week for it, and the projects are already due, so I know it's not about that. So what is it about?"
"Nothing! Just tell me if you picked it up yet?"
"No, I forgot, I had to come help Grandpa,"
"Fine, I'll go pick it up myself then," Joey sighed into the phone.
"Okay, later Joey."
"Bye Yug."
They both hung up. Joey stared blankly at the phone for a while before he finally got his coat and headed out the door towards Domino Public Library.
When Joey finally got there, he sighed in confusion. Now where do I go? He thought as he looked around. He let his eyes glaze over and he randomly walked into an isle of books.
The books where piled high on 7 shelves that looked as though they'd go all the way to the ceiling if you looked straight up from the bottom. But Joey had been so used to the place that it didn't really interest him when it came to trying to see just exactly how far the book shelves went up, so he didn't bother to look up and just started looking for the book.
As he continued to walk down random isles and occasionally stopping to check out books that looked interesting, something stopped his search. As he was looking down some isle towards the back, a ladder came in the way of him and a shelf of books that he had wanted to look at. He let his gaze follow up the ladder and up the slender figure of a local librarian trying to put a few books away on the top shelf. He decided since she was just standing there he could ask her for help.
"Excuse me," he said tapping on the ladder. The young lad twitched and quickly put the rest of the books away that she had in hand before rushing down the ladder. When she was down Joey noticed that she came down not letting him see her face. He cocked an eyebrow at her.
"Hey, can you help me? You see I've been looking for this book-," he stopped his sentence at the sight of the girl zipping away down the hall.
"Hey! Aren't you suppose to help us?" he called after her but she had already turned the corner. He ran after her.
"Hey! Hey wait," he shouted as he chased her down random isles. Eventually he lost her.
"That was weird," he said turning around and looking at his environment. Just then he noticed that she had led him into the isle that he had never noticed before…one that he had missed.
As he skimmed the shelves, surprisingly, he found the book he had been looking for. She hadn't been running away from him, only leading him to the right bookshelves. But the question was simple: how did she know this had been the book he was looking for?
Before Joey left, he walked towards the check out line to check out the book. While doing so, though, he had to go through a maze of isles and turns. And since a Library is so quiet, you never know what is behind every corner…
"Uff!" Joey had bumped into someone while trying to turn the corner. The person had obviously been trying to deliver books somewhere, cause a book almost landed on his head; luckily he moved out of the way just in time.
"Hey, sorry about that," he said as he tried to clean up the mess for them.
"Ow…dang that hurt," he heard a female voice speak. Just then Joey recognized that voice. No way…it couldn't be…it was.
"Stori!" he said looking shocked at the dressed up Stori lying in front of him. She was wearing a Ladies Librarian uniform, with her hair put up into a small bun. (A/N: which is kind of hard I guess, since her hair is about as short as mine and mine is shoulder lengthened.)
"Jo! What are you…" she stuttered as she got to her feet.
"What am I doing here! What are you doing here? And why are you…" just then it hit him.
"No way!" he said, getting a sly look on his face. "You're a librarian?"
"Yeah! It's my part time job; you got a problem with that?" she said, looking away.
Joey smiled.
"So how long have you been working as a librarian, Stori?" Joey asked as he sat down across from her. After Joey had found out he had dragged her along with him and they where now in the local Café that wasn't too far from the Library.
"Not long, I just applied not two days ago. Mom doesn't agree with me working at my age, but…" Stori trailed off. She stared out the window that she sat beside.
I need that money, she thought. Other wise…I can't-
"Why a Librarian though?" Joey interrupted her thoughts.
"Cause I like books," she said shrugging the question off.
"I see," Joey said taking a sip of his coffee.
"Joey…" Stori looked over at Joey with seriousness.
"Yeah?"
"Can you do me a favor?"
"Err…sure, what?"
"Don't tell anyone!" And with that, Stori got up and left.
END! I can't really do my Muhahahaha's today, it wasn't that interesting of an ending if you ask me, but then again, I'm not you so I have no clue on what you think. TTYL!
