You decide to grab a piece of paperwork and take it to the growing maze in the library. You liked to idea of adding to that thing because it was a creative way to remind a certain someone that they had been away for too long.

You take one of the papers and you walk over to the Library. The maze in it was coming along nicely. There seemed to only be a few walls left to build before the thing looked complete. As Lavinia said, there was a half done wall that looked like where you needed to put what you had.

You started walking over to it, but you accidentally walked into a pillar that you swore was too soft to be a pillar on the way over to it and stumbled back a bit. To your surprise, the pillar made a small noise and stumbled back as well.

"I didn't expect someone to just...walk into me."

The pillar sighed and then shook off it's illusion. Where the pillar was, there was now a man standing there with brown hair and a blue cloak wrapped around himself. You couldn't help snickering a little at the fact that he was literally pretending to be a pillar.

"I didn't expect someone to be pretending to be a pillar. Why were you doing that anyway?"

"I was trying to avoid being seen by someone. Please, don't tell anyone you found me here."

You shrug a little bit "I won't, but who are you hiding from? Are you hiding from the guildpact? I heard he spends a lot of time in here when there isn't paperwork, but with all of this piled up you should be pretty safe."

The man gave you a confused and slightly surprised look.

"Are you new here?"

"Well yeah. I only started a few days ago. I don't know very many people here but I can listen to some of them talk."

"I'm Barrim. I work in the library. It's a pleasure to meet you."

You didn't think anyone worked in the library that wasn't just one of the general staff. Weird.

Almost as if he knew what you were going to say, he responded before you could ask a question.

"People don't usually talk about me. I guess I just don't stand out."

Don't stand out? He was wearing a blue cloak and had several belts wrapped around his body. That wasn't what you considered 'not standing out'. But you decided to let it go because you knew it was possible for people to forget others when you had so many co-workers.

"Are you going to tell me who you were hiding from now?"

"I was hiding from Lavinia. I...did something to get on her bad side."

"Well luckily for you she asked me to put more paperwork on the pile instead. She's tied up right now and I wouldn't be surprised if she's busy for the rest of the day. You're probably safe."

Berrim sighed in relief. "That's good. Now I just have to worry about leaving to get coffee without being noticed. I don't think I've had enough to hide here comfortably."

"If you need coffee," you offered "I could go get you some. I'm sure I'm going to be back with more paperwork soon anyway and the kitchen is on the way."

His blue eyes seemed to light up at your offer.

"Really? Thanks. Just make sure you get the sweet kind. I hate bitter coffee."

He reminded you a little bit of a puppy that knew it was going to be fed. It was cute in a strange way.

"It's no problem. If you like sweet things I can grab some cake for you while I'm at it too. I think there's some leftover."

He looked like he could almost hug you. "Please do. Cake is amazing."

You laughed and nodded. "Well, I'll be back in a bit then."

You walked out of the library, smiling a bit. It looked like you finally met someone at work that you might be able to get along with.

You grabbed some papers, a playe of cake, and some coffee and walked back to the library. You couldn't see Berrim, but you could see the extra pillar in the room again.

"I got the cake and the coffee." You called out to the pillar.

Berrim threw off his illusion again and ran over to you, obviously more than happy and what you brought him.

"Thanks. I thought I was going to fall over without the coffee."

He snatched the coffee and the cake out of your hands immediately and started chugging the coffee.

You smiled at how happy he was. "Cute." You muttered under your breath.

You didn't think he could hear anything you were saying, but you saw his cheeks turn a little bit red as he set the coffee down to breath.

"Cute...?" He sounded like he had never heard the word before of had at least never heard anyone use it on him,

You almost smacked yourself. Why did you say that put loud?! You probably just ruined any chance of being friends that you might have had.

"Yeah I just uh...pretend you didn't hear me say that ok?"

"I..." He looked like he was at a loss for words.

You didn't know how to respond to that, but you didn't have to. Luckily, the door slammed open and Lavinia stormed through it.

"Guildpact!"

You saw Berrim's face go from flustered to pale.

"I was just about to start on the paperwork!"

Lavinia walked over and picked him up by the scruff of his cloak, dragging him over to a desk and plopping him down on it.

"I'll believe it when I see you working."

You were very confused about the whole situation.

"Wait...he's the guildpact?" You just realized that the guy you had just called cute was actually your boss.

"Yes. He's been hiding from me all day."

"Then he lied to me...?"

The guildpact looked over at you looking more than a little bit guilty.

"I did. I'm sorry about that but I really didn't want to have to start on this."

"Is Berrim even your real name...?"

"No, I thought you might recognize me if I told you my real name."

Lavinia rolled her eyes at the whole situation.

"His real name is Jace. And he should know better than to take advantage of new staff members. You can keep bringing in paperwork for him _. There's plenty more."

You could see Jace gulp at the mention of more paperwork.

You came into work the next day. The rest of the previous day had been less eventful because Jace was too busy to talk to you. He looked over at you every now and then, but he didn't say anything.

You walked into the kitchen to see if there was any cake leftover. To you're surprise, you found a piece laying out already with a note attached to the plate.

The note read:

"Dear _,

If you think I'm cute, we can go get coffee somewhere without paperwork. Don't worry about getting fired for leaving work, I'll make sure you won't.

-Jace"

You blushed a little bit. It looked like Jace thought someone else was cute too.