Chapter Four: More Meetings

It was finally Friday, and Evy was hoping that this guy would still show up. She had all night because she told Jack that she had to work late again, which wasn't a total lie. She figured that if the guy did show up, that would take up some time, and she also had the books that she had ordered at the beginning of the week to put away. It was already 6:00pm and she had only half of the books put away, and she'd started first thing when she arrived. She had had a lot of people in today though, and if she wasn't busy tonight, then she should be done in a couple of hours.

She was right. After those two hours had gone by, she had all of the books where they belonged. The man still hadn't showed up yet, but she decided to wait for him. She got on her computer, and started playing games to pass the time.

Since it was getting late, she locked the front door, for her own security, but she kept the "open" sign showing. At 9:00 she was about to give up and head home, but she heard a soft knock on the glass of the front door. She walked quickly to the door, knowing that it was the man she had met earlier that week. She looked through the door and saw him standing there with his 4 books in hand. She opened the door for him, and took some of the books so he didn't have to carry so many. "Thanks." he said as he walked into the library. She shut the door, not locking it, but she turned the "open" sign over.

"No problem. I've carried more than this before. Well, you already knew that." She laughed a little, as did he.

"I'm sorry for getting here so late, but I figured that you'd still be here."

"Yeah, I'm usually here until 9:00 every night. It's hard at sometimes, but you get used to it."

"I can't see how you do it. It'd be too tiring for me."

"Well, it's probably more tiring for my fiancé because I'm hardly ever home. Like I said, we get used to it." The man didn't like hearing the word "fiancé".

'Of course,' he thought, 'as soon as I meet a decent woman, she's already taken. Just my damn luck.'

"I'm sure it is." he said. She could tell that he was a little disappointed.

"Um, I was thinking, the other night, and realized that I didn't properly introduce myself, which is really not me, but," she stuck her hand out, "I'm Evelyn. You can call me Evy though." He didn't take her hand.

"Richard. People call me Rick." She still had her hand out, expecting that he would take it after he said who he was. But he didn't. He kissed her straight on the mouth instead. However, she didn't resist. She was in shock at first, but then started kissing him back. 'Wow,' she thought, 'he's a good kisser! Even better than Jack…wait, what am I doing!' She quickly pushed him away.

"I'm so sorry; I don't know what got into me! Really, I'm sorry." Rick had realized what he'd done, and hadn't planned on it. It was one of those things that just happens.

"Um, it's—it's ok." she said, still a little stunned.

"No, it's not ok. I don't know why I did that."

"I think I know why. And I think it's the same reason I kissed you back." There was a long moment of silence. "I'm sorry; I don't know what I'm doing. I'm getting married in two months, I can't do this. I'm the one who should be sorry for even thinking anything could happen. I'm so stupid!"

"No! Don't say that! You are not stupid! Don't think that for a second! It was just a 10 second mistake, and it won't happen again." There was another pause. "Will it?" They stared in each others eyes. And then Rick kissed her again. She kissed him back yet again, and they started stumbling toward her office. They entered it, still kissing, and they shut the door. Since they were too consumed in their kissing, they didn't realize where they were going, and made quite a big mess in her office. The papers on her desk spread all over the floor. They still held the kiss and she accidentally backed into a wall. It was good enough for them. They were breathing heavily, and then he slid his tongue into her mouth.

'He tastes better than Jack too!' she thought as she put her tongue onto his. Just then, they heard the front door close.

"What was that?" Rick asked, quickly.

"Oh no! It's Jack! My fiancé! You have to hide! Follow me." She led him to the bathroom in the back of her office. "There's a window in there, go!" He kissed her quickly once more, and fled. She ran back into her office and quickly opened her window, making sure that Rick got out. She saw him run to his car, which was luckily not where Jack could've seen it, and then he left. Jack walked in as she had her head out the window.

"Uh, Hun?" he said, wondering why she was sticking halfway out the window. She quickly came back in.

"Darling! Hi. What are you doing here?" she asked, acting as if nothing suspicious was going on.

"I didn't want you to be here by yourself. I heard on the news that three women were killed tonight, by the same guy, and they don't know who he is, but it was around here."

"Oh my God! Are you serious!" she asked, not expecting to hear something that terrible was going on in London. Nothing like that had happened there in 34 years, before she was ever thought of, let alone alive!

"Yes. So I figured that I'd come over here and stay with ya until you came home."

"Thank you! I'm glad you did! If he would've come here, I wouldn't have had a clue." She was still a little shocked, for she was talking a lot faster than she normally did. Plus, Jack almost caught her and Rick.

"How come all your papers are on the floor?" he asked, just noticing that the floor was covered with papers.

"Oh, I opened my window to get some air as I was doing some paperwork. I should've known better because I gust of wind came in and destroyed everything. I was so mad! I should've known better, but you know me, always doing something stupid."

"Well, that's one thing I like about you." She chuckled, and then started picking up papers and stacking them back on her desk. He bent down to help her. "Is there any specific way these papers have to be stacked?"

"No. I'll just re-organize them tomorrow. It's getting too late and I'm getting tired." she said, giving herself another excuse to stay late tomorrow night, hoping that Rick would show up again.

They finally got all the papers back on her desk and headed home. When they got there the TV was still on because Jack left in a hurry to find his fiancé when he found out about the killer around her area. The show that was currently on was interrupted by the news casters saying that the killer had been found and was in jail. Jack had no reason to worry about Evy anymore, which was an advantage to her so he wouldn't come walking in on her and Rick again. They turned the TV off and headed to bed.

The next day went by slow for Evy. She was very anxious to see Rick again, although she wasn't even sure if he would show up again. At about 6:00pm her phone in her office rang. She was looking at some books and barely heard the phone. She ran to it, hoping whoever it was wouldn't hang up before she could get there. She quickly picked it up. "Hello?" she asked, a little out of breath.

"Hi, sweetheart." It was Jack.

"Hello Honey. What did you need?"

"I just wanted to ask if you were going to work late because if you're going to, then I can because my boss asked me to cover for someone tonight."

"Yeah, I'm going to work late. How long is the shift you'll have to work?"

"It lasts until 10:00 tonight."

"Ok. I can work until then. I still have all those papers to organize, and I have to do my book check tonight." It was only half of a lie. She did have the papers to organize, but she didn't have to do a book check.

Jack, not knowing that it was a lie, knew that the book check would take a long time because she had to go through and make sure all the books that were supposed to be in the library, were. And that meant she had to check every, single book on every, single shelf. "Ok, so, we should be home at the same time. Well, I might get home before you, depending on how many books you have to go through."

"A lot!"

"Ok. Well, I hate to, but I gotta get back to work. Bye Hon!"

"Bye love." Evy hung up last, and as soon as she did, her phone rang almost immediately after she walked out of her office. She ran back in and picked it up, thinking it was Jack again. "Yes?"

"Evy?" This time, it was Rick.

"Rick, oh. I thought it was Jack again. Sorry."

"That's ok. Speaking of him though, I was wondering if he was going to be around tonight."

"No, he just called saying that he had to cover for someone until 10:00 tonight, and then he's going to meet me at home, so he won't be here all night."

"Ok. Do you want me to come tonight?"

"Yes! You can come right now if you like."

"Ok. I'll be there in an hour. I have to finish up cleaning and then I'll be there."

"Ok. See you then!" When she hung up, she was so excited! She couldn't wait! Someone came in the door, and she heard them walking towards her office. She went to meet them at the door so they didn't come all the way into her office. "Jack! What are you doing here? I thought you were working!" 'This is not good!' she thought.

"I'm just here for a little bit, I wanted to see you while I can tonight because I'll probably be asleep before you get home. I've worked a long day today and I'm already tired."

"Oh, ok. Well, I'm glad you came." It wasn't a lie, she just hoped that he would be gone within the hour. They visited, and they both lost track of time. It had been an hour and they were still in her office talking. When Evy heard the door open, she realized she was in trouble. "I'll be right back, I just heard someone come in, I'm going to go see if I can help them and get them out of here so we can keep visiting." Evy said, hoping that it wasn't Rick. 'Even if it is,' she thought, 'I'll just tell him to hide out here until I can get Jack out of here.'

"Ok. I'll be waiting." he said. She walked into the library, seeing Rick walking towards her.

"Can I help you, sir?" she said, knowing that Jack could still hear them, although he couldn't see them, so she waved at Rick, showing him that they needed to move farther away if they wanted to talk.

"Yeah, I was wondering if you could find me some books on World War I." he said, quickly covering.

"Ok, right this way." Luckily, he had chosen a subject that was on the opposite side of the library from her office.

"What's going on?" he asked quietly, wondering why she was acting so weird.

"Jack's here! He wasn't supposed to show up but he did. He's going to leave soon though, he has to get back to work for the cover shift." She remained quiet so Jack didn't hear whispers and suspect something.

"Do you want me to come back in a few minutes?"

"No, just um…look around until he leaves. If it takes too long, start getting my attention every time I try to talk to him and he'll figure out that I'm busy and hopefully leave."

"Ok. See you soon." Evy walked back into her office, finding Jack standing in the corner looking at the wall, and he was reaching back from touching it.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Oh, I was just looking at the wall. It looked like you had a leak, but I guess it was just the glare from the window or something."

"Oh, ok."

"Well, I'm gonna head back to work. The shift starts in 10 minutes."

"Ok. Love you. Bye."

"Bye." He kissed her on his way out. She followed him to the door, watching as he pulled out, and headed down the road. She quickly went back to Rick, and as soon as she found him, they broke into a passionate kiss. Again, they headed to her office, this time, they were a little more careful. They didn't happen to destroy anything this time. Although, Evy had her desk totally cleaned off, besides the computer, of course. They entered the office and Rick led Evy to her desk and laid her down on it, then he lay over her. They still kissed and Rick's hand started exploring. Evy broke the kiss.

"Wait, wait. I'm not sure if this is a good idea." she said. He could tell she was a little nervous.

"I don't want to freak you out or anything but, why isn't a good idea?"

"Because I'm getting married remember?"

"I know, I know. But I don't think that's all that's bothering you. What else is on your mind?" he asked, knowing something else was going on.

"Nothing." she quickly lied.

"Come on, Evy. I know you're thinking something. Please tell me." She just laid there for a moment, thinking. And then decided to tell him.

"I was raised never to 'get close to a man', in a manner of speaking, until I was married."

"So you've never…?"

"No."

"Not even with your fiancé…ever?"

"No."

'Wow,' Rick thought, 'this is good, and this is bad. It's good because she hasn't gotten close to her fiancé yet. And not any other man. But it's bad because she's never done this, and was raised not to. And I don't think we're gonna get married. She's already getting married to someone else. Now what!' He couldn't think of anything to do. He wanted to be with her, but didn't want to if she didn't think it was ok. He began to stand up off of her, but she pulled him back.

"It's ok. This is something that I want." she said, still showing a little nervousness in her voice.

"But, your fiancé. What about him?" he asked.

"He'll never have to know. I won't tell him, if you don't tell him. Deal?"

"Deal." he closed the deal, with a kiss. Rick knew that since this was her first time ever, he would probably hurt her a little. He hoped that it wasn't going to be that bad.

When they became one, he could see that indeed, it was very painful for her. He was easy and they finally warmed up to each other. And before the night was over, they ended up making love 3 times.

At 11:30, Evy went home, to find Jack already asleep. She didn't wake him as she slid into bed next to him.

Rick coming in to Evy got to be an every night thing. Evy knew that Jack didn't know anything, so she never worried about it. This went on for 2 weeks, every single night they met and made love at least once. Evy still didn't forget about Jack. She acted as if everything was the same old, same old, so he wouldn't expect anything.

On the 16th day that Rick and Evy met at her library, for the first time, they made love totally in the nude.