Chapter Ten

A Saturday is a perfect choice of a day for Rita and girls alike her to go shopping and well anything to do in a mall or someplace similar. But for people like Eliza it is a day to spend in a library among books, she has got to know the staff of her local library that close that they let her use the archives without question and she knew the codes for the doors, which not even all the staff knew. Frequently she was mistaken for the librarian staff, but helped anyway, the usual people who came to read books knew her by sight and asked the latest favourites, oh and comments on the books.

But on this particular Saturday she was going alongside her sister, ups sorry step-sister, to catch a metro to town and visit some most expensive shops; not the top favourite thing on her list.

Fanny, the latest 'best friend', was bouncing along Rita's side, their heads down whispering the latest gossips, while Eliza was walking behind them in a daydream, thinking of someone certain not even catching herself this time as doing something wrong by her standards.

As they boarded the train the object of her thoughts appeared right in front of her, his head bent down in a newspaper.

"Oh hi Fred," giggled Fanny her flicking her blonde head, but catching herself on the action smiled at Rita, "We are going to town, you?"

"Of course he is, what else is he going there for," interrupted Rita planting herself next to him.

"Well, maybe like, doh, next stop; Anyway Eliza you also interested in newspapers, how come I don't see you with one around?" said Fanny with her characteristically voice feeling the other girl left out standing next to her, Eliza already was in the latest novel.

"Why do you ask her…"

"Well is she?" Fred was curious about the girl with a strange type of personality.

"Oh Fred, of course not, she watches the news but only to find out the headlines, she is a geek, but no way into cool things like newspapers," it never occurred to Rita that what she said made no sense since reading newspapers were nearly the same as reading a novel and Fred was … you can guess the rest.

At that moment there was a flash as Eliza took a photograph of the three.

"What was that for? I had no way to prepare my face," squeaked Fanny.

"Next school paper article – what students in their spare time think geeks do… or something along this lines.

"?"

"No worry dear, just another geeky thing she does."

"No way Eliza can be thought as geeky," said a boy coming between the seats, his hair dyed black in a typically Goth-like manner.

"Yeah, but you wouldn't count yourself a geek either."

"No, Rita, I heard that you usually refer to me as a freak," smiled the guy making a not at all pleasant eye contact with Fred.

"Mike, what with that book I told you about?"

"Loved it, the best I ever set my eyes on," and with that he was gone…