A/N On a rooll. Its like a roll but faster because its way rounder because of the excess 'o'.
Lucas was sitting outside the library waiting for her in regular clothes too. "So what are we doing?" Josie said rubbing her arms. Dang it, it was snowing and it was cold out and she was not happy.
"I told you, there's lots of stuff about Blake Holsey in the library," Lucas explained as the two walked into the library, "You just have to know where to look and who to ask."As the entered, they saw an old woman, maybe 60 or 70, dressed in standard old librarian clothes ( black lace-up boots, ugly dress ect.) "Why hellooo Lucas," she greeted, " Its been a long while. And who is this young lady?"
"Mrs. Moneghan , this is Josie, Josie, Mrs. Moneghan."
"Nice to meet you," Josie said in a cute voice that was reserved for adults and little kids, taking the old woman's hand and shaking it.
"Well what can an old bird like me do for you two kids?" She said, a smile stretching across her crinkly face.
"We're looking for some information on the history of Blake Holsey," Lucas said.
"I'm sure I can help you both," she said pulling herself up onto one of the ladders that were propped up against the bookshelves, " May I ask what its for?""Oh just for a history project we're working on," Lucas lied, shooting a look at Josie where they stood uncomfortably in the middle of the room."Shouldn't we help her?" Josie whispered, looking nervously at the elderly woman who was scaling the library shelves like a seasoned sherpa."Here we go!" the librarian sang, her arms stacked with several volumes of thick, leather bound books,
"You can't take them out, but your welcome to stay in here and read them till you find what you need.""Thank you," the pair said, taking the books from her."Lieing to an old woman, Lucas," Josie gasped, "Tsk, tsk.""Shut it up and look," he shot back, handing her one of the heavy volumes. She groaned and started searching.
"There is officially nothing in here!" Josie sighed, slamming her book closed, "I've looked through every page and at every picture and looked through the index, glossary and a livestock report. Which shouldn't even be in there, it was like a cut out from somewher, but I looked anyway." They had been searching for hours.
"Try this one. We might get a little more," Lucas said, handing her another book. She scowled and started flipping through it.
"Kids," Mrs. Moneghan called from behind her desk, " I'm going to leave soon. I'm sorry but you'll have to look more tomorrow."
"Thank you for the help," Josie said as she helped the librarian put away the books.
" Oh your very welcome!" she said smiling kindly at Josie, "I'm just glad a good kid like Lucas found a new friend around this place." She winked and went out the back door where her car was obviously parked.
"Ready?" Lucas said gathering his stuff.
"Yeah, lets go," Josie sighed, switching the lights off. She looked around the library one last time. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a floating white mist, which seemed to form into a woman. She turned, looking Josie straight in the eye and lifted a finger to her lips. In a second, she was gone.
"Jos? You look like you just saw a ghost," Lucas said as Josie walked back towards him.
"I'm.. fine. Lets go."
Josie slumped again her door and slowly pushed into open, and then promptly closed again. She and Corrine need some sort of "Do Not Disturb" signal now that Corrine and Marshall had started going out. It was gross and taxing on Josie's mental health. Whatever, guess I'll study later, she thought heading back down the hall.
"Come in!" called Lucas, still typing on his lap top, "What Marsh? Back so soo- Hey…Josie."
"Mind if I hang out here? My room has become official Love Den to Marshall and Corrine," she said pulling up a chair next to him.
"Can't be helped," Lucas laughed, exiting the computer window and saving his paper, "So what else is up."
"Huh," Josie asked, spinning around in her chair, stopping herself with her hand on the desk.
"I dunno, what happened today?" He began playing with the desktop, idly changing the background. A California sunset, to a picture taken of him in Marshall when they were younger, a lighting storm, a baby chimpanzee. You get the picture.
"Well.. I was called an ugly, angry leprechaun." She leaned over, grabbing the mouse from him and started changing his screen saver too.
"Your not ugly," Lucas said glancing at her, "Your angry, but not ugly."
"Aww, thanks that was almost sweet," Josie said rustling his hair. She got up and walked around the room, "Is this your side?"
"Yeah how'd you know?" he got up and plopped down onto his bed, folding his arms behind his head.
"Wild guess," Josie laughed. The room was just like all the others at Blake Holsey. Same color walls, although the bathroom was on the other side than in her and Corrine's room. Marshall's side was neat, well, boy neat. The walls on his side was plastered with posters of various bands, pictures and the occasional ticket stub. Lucas' side on the other hand, was just straight up messy. Books, magazines, clothes and pieces of lined and graph paper carpeted the ground. The walls were simply covered in articles, pictures and clippings. All of them had headlines or captions like "Bigfoot Beats Lochness Monster In Government Organized Death Match" or " Baby Alien Steals Milk Truck!". The top of the dresser was cluttered with coins, miniature action figures, a can of Axe and a couple of old yearbooks. Also on his dresser were two framed photos, one was of the science club, which Josie recognized as the one taken right after they had won the 'Science-Off' ( basically a lame spelling bee with science). The other was of a Lucas and someone who looked almost exactly like him, but balder and taller.
"My dad," Lucas said, breaking the silence.
"I could tell!" Josie sat down on the bed next to him. She picked up one of the sheets on the ground. It looked like a plan of some sort, for an invention. It was a box with two mechanical arms coming out of it drawn in pencil with about a million illegible notes surrounding it. She held it up to him, as if to ask WTF?.
" One of my inventions," he said sitting up, he reached around her and pointed at the box, "This is like a little super computer. Well, two actually. One calculates what speed it would need to break the difference between the light barrier and the 4th dimension, which we cant actually see. The other one uses GPS to find its exact location and records it. The first computer sends the information to the arms." He circled the box with his fingers "And the arms spin at that speed."
( Author's note: I just pulled all that out of my ass. Just so you know. I have no idea if any of its true or makes sense. But for writing purposes, pretend it does, m'kay?)
"That's great !Uh….What's that supposed to do?" Josie asked staring at the piece of paper in confusion.
" Its supposed to make a worm whole. I figure if we can make one, we can figure out how to manipulate one, and if we can manipulate them.. maybe we can get rid of them too."
"Has it worked?" she looked at him in amazement. Dang he was smart!
"Well, the all the prototypes I've made," he sighed, taking the paper from Josie, "Have basically become really fancy lighters."
"You're a funny boy Lucas Randall," Josie laughed.
"Thank you kindly, Josie Trent," Lucas said. The sunset filtered through the window, bouncing off the snow and making everything pink. Elsewhere in the school, the heat kicked on with a deep CLONK.The sudden sound made the pair jump, and Lucas' hand slid unintentionally onto Josie's waist. It might be very romantic, if…..
"LUCAS! Have you seen a….." Professor Z burst into the room wearing a football helmet and brandishing a pool net, "Nevermind." And again he left, muttering under his breath.
" Proffesor Z is getting weird," Marshall greeted, coming in seconds after Z, "I think he needs a girlfriend." He turned, putting he books down and Josie and Lucas hopped up.
"So...um…," Josie stuttered, still feeling the heat of Lucas' hand on her waist, "We'll go back to look again tomorrow?"
"Yeah, I'll pass in the project to Z later and I'll ask around about…. You know."
"Mkaybye." Josie whirled out of the room, closing the door behind her. Crappity, crap, crap, crap, she thought as she ran back to her room.
So I was bored and lonely and I wanted to write a new chapter.