Aaron manages to get up from the floor but wobbles on his feet sort of like a spinning top. His red shirt hangs to his body only by threads, and his hair is sticking straight up on his head. The moment Isabella spots him she almost laughs. She can't tell which is more red his face or his shirt. From the looks of Aaron a tornado just blew through town and he was the only person hit. He points a finger in the air the moment he feels Isabella's eyes on him.
"I demand satisfaction!" Aaron shouts stomping a foot.
She wants to laugh at how ridiculous Aaron looks and sounds but the state of the library makes her reconsider. The chairs are broken, the little wooden backs totally separated from the seats. A few of the once proud reading tables lay in a pile without a leg to stand on.
"What the hell were they doing?" Isabella shouts.
She can't control herself, if Miss Pender came back and saw this she would have a total meltdown.
Just try to relax Isabella tells herself. She could try to get Alex and his crew to fix it. She has to pause to retract that statement. Did they really look like the type of guys inclined to help fix anything? They wouldn't have broken everything just to come back and fix it.
"I can't deal with this right now." says Isabella
"What do you mean? You have to fix the library." says Aaron in shock.
Isabella grabs her purse from behind the checkout counter.
Aaron I am going home right now. Fill free to fix the library yourself. In my opinion you're lucky to be alive you should be hightailing it out of here.
Isabella walks to the door.
"You can't be serious. You're just going to lie down and take the abuse! Aaron shouts after her filled with fury.
Aaron was out of his mind if he thought I was staying to try to clean up the mess. If worse came to worse I would just phone the police and say some vandals broke in and wrecked the place. I mean why would Alex do this, why does he do any of the lowdown things he does? He just doesn't care and he probably thinks it's fun. I was on the receiving end for once and I must say it's not fun at all. What was I thinking? Alex is crazy he's like an unstoppable force. Could I ever hope to understand what goes through his mind? I still had his hat though and he would be looking for it that's for sure. I could tell by his visit that he wasn't the type to just give up or forget. I thought about him more on my way home. I wonder what he's like when he wasn't around his crew. Was he a different person all together? No, I was fooling myself if I thought there was a single gentle bone in that boy's body. Still why couldn't I kick the fascination I had with him if he was a loser and nothing more? He did elude a certain strength that I found rather sexy I guess. No, no Alex was nothing but trouble, calling himself a king the nerve of some people. I needed to stop having this fight with myself and just throw the hat away and never see him again. What was this Korvora he spoke about and why was I so intrigued? Maybe I could just drop by and take a little peak throw him his stupid hat and be done. That sounds easy enough, right?
I can't believe it. Here I am at the Korvora, luckily when I stopped for gas the attendant knew the place or else I never would have found it. The building had an odd feel to it yet somehow I felt like I belonged. I had never been to this place before never even heard the name. I wandered inside and found myself in a small room with jet black walls. There was also white lettering on the walls that zigzagged around the room almost like it was covered in graffiti. I couldn't understand any of it, it all looked to be gibberish to me unless it was another language altogether. Seating was all along the walls, as well as statues of naked busty women wearing multicolored wigs. The statue's were set in all types of positions, a few looked like they were doing a crab walk. The fact that they were totally naked, vagina exposed and all made me feel a little uncomfortable. I would think that this was some kind of sleazy hangout for guys but there were women patrons among them. This was rich, meeting Alex in this kind of place. Was this a regular hangout for him? Do I dare even ask? Better yet I have no desire to know. I seated myself in the far corner of the room. I started to feel out of place. This was a big mistake. I stood up to leave passing all the people that seemed to be having a good time. This was not the place for me. I was nearly out the door.
"Ello love!"
I turned around and Alex was standing there with his crew.
"How did you.."
I couldn't even finish. Alex was standing there behind me drinking from a big glass of milk.
"Look, I don't know what the idea is but I am headed home!"
"Lil sister, you haven't gone all Christmas crackered on me have you?" asks Alex.
"I am ready to leave!" I say to Alex.
Alex smiles at me with that evil half smile.
"We haven't even had our rabbit and pork yet lil sister." he says.
"Look, fuck your damn rabbit and pork. I am ready to go! I should have never come here!"
"But you did, itching for a bit of the in out eh?"
Alex licks his lips. The guys in his crew laugh and surround me. Now I know that I am in big trouble.
"Have a seat lil sister." says Alex
He winks at me. I know that I really don't have a choice so I lead the way to a seat in the back of the Korvora.
"Have a drink love." says Dim
He offers me a glass of milk.
"No thanks."
I put up a hand to refuse because I have never been a big fan of drinking milk right out of a glass. To be honest it made me feel sick to my stomach when I wasn't having it with cereal.
"Don't be such a peter crouch." says Dim.
"This is no friendly chat! You destroyed the library."
"Well then, what you suppose we do about that then?" asks Alex.
He laughs as he takes another drink of his milk.
"Nothing obviously, asshole!"
I stand up to leave but Alex jumps up to block me.
"Are you all mom and dad now?" he asks.
"I'm pissed!" I shout.
"Have a seat and cool off a bit." he says.
I rub my hand across my face in frustration.
"How can I put this? I am not interested in your freaky hangout. Here is your hat. I am leaving!"
"Is there nothing he can do to change ya mind?" asks Georgie
"No!"
I head for the door huffing and puffing something fierce.
