I have been very fuzzy on an idea for this chapter for a long time, same thing for chapter 10 of The Bleak Future. I finally have this chapter finished. So enjoy.

After more boring lessons about the geography of Brooklyn and miscellaneous areas of New York City, I decided to run off to the public library. I didn't even bother to ask Mr. Peabody for permission, since he didn't seem to care about anything I did here. Plus Penny ran up to me complaining about the blank pages in the books this morning. She could have been lying (and she probably was), but I needed an excuse to get some time to myself.

I didn't see any more coloured objects on my way to the library. The interior was still black and white as well. Because of that, it was a pain to look at the cover of the books. A lot of them looked very familiar, and some of them were books I had read in the past.

I was in the library earlier, and there were a bunch of books I recognized! I looked in them, and all the pages were blank!

Penny's voice continued to ring in my head. Before I knew it, I was holding a black and white copy of 'Divergent' in my hands. All I needed to do was open the book and I would finally find out if Penny was actually telling the truth or not. It seemed like she was telling the truth this morning, but then again she's been calling me a 'dog' a lot and harassing me. She could just be a good liar.

Taking deep breaths, I slowly turned the cover and exposed the pages of the book, only to get a shocking surprise. The pages were not filled with text. They were just... white.

Penny was actually telling the truth.

In some ways, it was really creepy to flip through all the pages when they didn't have anything written on them. But what shocked me even more was the fact that Penny actually told me the truth, even when she was constantly pestering me and calling me a 'dog'.

"It's a shame, isn't it?" said a voice.

I turned towards the source of the mysterious voice to find a random man with a rather glum look on his face. "What's a shame?" I asked.

"The books. They're being tainted," the man grumbled.

"Tainted? But they're blank."

"They normally are. But I looked in this one book this morning, and there was a taint on it."

"What?" I questioned. A taint. What exactly was a 'taint'?

The man sighed and grabbed a random book from the shelf and slowly handed it to me. "Here. See for yourself. Flip to the very first page."

I did as the man told me, and the first page was mostly white, except for one lone letter in the middle of the page. "What's this letter doing here in the middle of a blank page?" I questioned.

"I know, right?" the man said. "Something has happened to the book!"

"I really should go now. I need to be home," I blurted randomly, shoving the book back onto the shelf and making a mad dash for the doors. But not before running into a rather unwelcome presence. The same one that made be miserable at school.

"Fancy seeing you here," Penny grumbled.

"What do you want this time, Penny?" I scoffed.

"Why would I want anything from you?" Penny sneered. "What I want is to be away from you."

"Well go away! Far, far away!"

"But harassing you is a lot more fun!" said Penny.

A small groan escaped from my mouth.

"Why did these people let you into the library, anyways?" Penny asked.

Here it comes, I thought.

"I thought dogs weren't allowed in the library!"

Come to think of it, maybe dogs didn't exist in this universe. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary here and dogs would certainly be out of the ordinary here. I'm guessing that Mr. Peabody was the only dog in this universe.

"Hello? Are you listening?" Penny hissed.

"No," I said, walking away.

"Hey! Don't walk away from me. Where are you going?"

"To a place," I said.

"Ha ha ha, so funny. No really. Where are you going?" Penny demanded.

"To the landfill," I joked.

Unfortunately, Penny didn't seem to get the joke and she began to snort and chuckle at me. "The landfill? Well, have fun! I'm assuming you'll go and dig trash and eat it?"

"Why would I do that?" I asked, disgusted.

"Because you're a dog," Penny teased.

Now I had to change the subject before I suffered a repeat of the awful incident from day one of school. "I'm going!" I yelled.

"Okay! Have fun!" Penny teased again.

"I will," I grumbled.

"At a landfill? How does someone have fun at a landfill?"

"But only dogs have fun at landfills!" said Penny.

"I'm going!" I screamed one final time, running off into the darkening skies.

New chapter for The Bleak Future should be out in the next couple days. Other than that, I have nothing to say.